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In the spring of 1865, he was licensed to preach, by the presbytery of Dakota, at Mankato, Minnesota, and ordained in the following autumn.
After a series of sittings, lasting from the 30th of September to the 5th of November, 321 of the fiends were found guilty of the offenses charged, 303 of whom were sentenced to death and the rest condemned to various terms of imprisonment according to their crimes. All of the condemned prisoners were taken to Mankato and were confined in a large jail constructed for the purpose.
We all supposed that he had shared the fate of those who were executed at Mankato, Minnesota. Now the savage philosophers looked upon vengeance in the field of battle as a lofty virtue. To avenge the death of a relative or of a dear friend was considered a great deed.
The Sioux war in Minnesota, in 1862, was remarkable for the sufferings endured and the bravery displayed by women whose husbands had left them to join the army. A notable instance of this description was that of two married sisters who lived in one house on the Minnesota River, some eighty miles above Mankato.
Why, I have seen him start to say something to my engineer pulling out of Mankato, and he would finish it just as the caboose went by, and we had some forty cars in the train at that." At this a smile broke over De Armand's face, and he grasped my hand and said, "Excuse m-m-m-e k-k-id; but y-y-you k-k-know how it is y-y-yourself." You may well believe that I did know.
Some "big fish." White Bear Lake. The Minnesota Valley. Le Sueur. St. Peter's and Mankato. Minneopa Falls. Southwestern Minnesota. Its agricultural wealth and capabilities. Northern Pacific Railroad and its branches. The Red River country. Trade with Manitoba. Western life and habits.
My service at Herron was not very profitable, the road being in the hands of receivers, and for four months none of us received a cent of wages. The road was called the "International & Great Northern," but we facetiously dubbed it the "Independent & Got Nothing." Some months after this I was transferred down to the southern division, and made night operator at Mankato.
Fifty years since the coming of the Pond brothers to Fort Snelling twenty-one years since the organization of the church in the prison-pen at Mankato. One bright September day, from the heights of Sisseton, South Dakota, a strangely beautiful scene was spread out before the eye. At our feet were prairies rich as the garden of the Lord. The spot was Iyakaptapte, that is the Ascension.
" 15 *Honesdale, Pa. " 31 Mankato, Kan. " 16 Carbondale, Pa. En route to next date on " 17 Montrose, Pa. circuit. " 18 Tunkhannock, Pa. Aug. 3 Westfield, Pa. " 19 Nanticoke, Pa. " 4 Galston, Pa. " 20 Stroudsburg, Pa. " 5 Port Alleghany, Pa. " 21 Newton, N. J. " 6 Wellsville, N. Y. " 22 *Newton, N. J. " 7 Bath, N. Y. " 23 Hackettstown, N. J. " 8 *Bath, N. Y. " 24 New Hope, Pa.
Kennicott?" "W-why, I went to Congregational, as a girl in Mankato, but my college was Universalist."
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