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 xiv CONTENTS CHAPTER XXL SWEDISH SETTLEMENT. page Early Colonies — Coming to Minnesota — Mattson, Willard and Norelius — Story of the Early Swedes Told by Dr. Norelius — The Churches at Eed Wing and Yasa — Keminiscences by Early Settlers — Character- istics of the Swedes 340 CHAPTER XXII. THE GERMANS. Origin of Race — Colonial Germans — Prominent Teutons — Germans in Good- hue County — Early Settlers in Various Townships — German Soldiers — German Officeholders — St. John's Hospital and Training School — German Industries — German Churches — Written by Prof. P. W. Kalf ahs 365 CHAPTER XXIII. LAND OFFICE RECORDS. Government Records of Those Who Took Claims in Goodhue County Be- fore 1858 — A List of Hardy Pioneers, Nearly All of Whom Are Now Dead — The Year and Month in Which They Came and the Section, Township and Range in Which They Settled — Many of Their Claims Still in the Possession of Their Families 384 CHAPTER XXIV. GOODHUE COUNTY CHURCHES. Religious Influence — Norwegian Lutheran — Norwegian Methodist — Swedish Lutheran — English Lutheran — Swedish Mission — German Churches — German Methodism — Swedish Methodists — Roman Catholic — Congregational — Presbyterian — Episcopal Baptis; — Swedish Baptist. 404 CHAPTER XXV. ANECDOTES AND ADVENTURES. Address by Judge Wilder — Office Experiences — A New Setting to an Old Tale— Pleasures of the Early Days— On Thin Ice— C. J. F. Smith's Adventures — His Arrival — An Early Journey — Writings of the Rev. J. W. Hancock — Indians and Whisky — Difficulties of Travel — A Canoe Trip on Land — The Mysterious Wild Girl— Oil Wells in Red Wing — Coal and Gold Also Found 458 CHAPTER XXVI. OFFICERS AND POPULATION. List of Men Who Have Represented Goodhue County at St. Paul Since Territorial Days — List of County Officers — Men From This County Who Have Occupied Positions, of Higher Trust and Honor — Popula- tion of the County by Nationality and Occupation, With List of Growth Since the Earliest Census 478 CHAPTER XXVII. CALAMITIES. Terrible Cyclone — Vnsa the Greatest Sufferer—" Sea Wing" Disaster — Lis* of Those Who Perished — The Survivors — Terrible Blow to the Whole Countv — ' ' Galena ' ' Burned at the Levee in Red Wing — Shooting of Chief Daily and Officer Peterson — Red Wing Fires in By- gone Days 490