Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908 . ed by President Lincoln surveyor general of thatTerritory. He presided over the convention that framed a con-stitution for the State of Nevada. He subsequently removed toCalifornia, was United States Judge in that State, and died atOleander, California, February 22, 1890. His colleague, Ed-ward Patch, was also a native of New York and came to in 1847. He was a contractor and builder. The Sixth District, which comprised the territory west ofthe Mississippi and north of the Osakis River to the Britishboundary line, had four Representatives. (1
Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908 . ed by President Lincoln surveyor general of thatTerritory. He presided over the convention that framed a con-stitution for the State of Nevada. He subsequently removed toCalifornia, was United States Judge in that State, and died atOleander, California, February 22, 1890. His colleague, Ed-ward Patch, was also a native of New York and came to in 1847. He was a contractor and builder. The Sixth District, which comprised the territory west ofthe Mississippi and north of the Osakis River to the Britishboundary line, had four Representatives. (1) David Gilman, ofWatab, of whom mention is made elsewhere. (2) S. BaldwinOlmstead, born in Otsego County, New York. In his early man-hood he emigrated to the Northwest and resided in Iowa andMinnesota. He became interested in Government contracts aboutFort Ripley, but afterwards engaged in farming at Belle the close of the Civil War he moved to Texas and settled ona farm in Burnett County, in that State, where he died January. ALEXANDER FARIBAULT. MINNESOTA AS A TERRITORY. 453 27, 1878. (3) William W. Warren was born at La Pointe,Wisconsin, and was a mixed-blood Chippewa Indian. His fatherwas descended from the Plymouth Pilgrims. His mother was ofthree-fourths Chippewa blood. He attended Reverend Boutwellsschool at La Pointe, and afterwards the mission school at Mack-inaw. At the age of eleven he visited his grandfather in NewYork, and attended the Oneida Institute, at Whitesboro, in thatState. Here he remained until he was sixteen years of age,acquiring a good, scholastic training. When he was seventeenyears of age he was Indian interpreter at La Pointe, and in1845 came to Minnesota, first living at Crow Wing and GullLake, being engaged in farming and serving as interpreter. Hedied at St. Paul, June 1, 1853. (4) D. T. Sloan was aboutthirty-six years of age, a native of New York, residing at LittleRock. The two members from the Seventh District were Benja-min H. Ran
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