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 HISTORY OF COODHUE COUNTS 391 do all their housework, cooking, baking, laundry work, etc., and the entire institution is a marvel of neatness. The school main- tains a carpenter shop, shoe shop, tailor shop, printing office and other establishments. A small paper, the Riverside, is printed by the boys, who also supply the material for its contents. An- other enjoyable attraction of school life is a well trained brass band. The boys and girls are sentenced under sixteen years of age, and can be kept, the boys until they are twenty-one and the girls until they are eighteen, but they may be paroled on their good behavior during that time. There are no statistics available on which to base a percentage of those redeemed by the good influence of the school, but it is believed that the results rank well with the results obtained by other state institutions of sim- ilar character. Religion is made a part of the ever-day life, with special services Sunday. Red Wing Collegiate Institute. — This institute was organized and incorporated August 28, 1870, with the following board of officers : president, Lucius F. Hubbard ; secretary, Charles C. Webster; treasurer, F. A. Cole. Directors: James Lawther, Peter Daniels, Lucius F. Hubbard, Charles C. AVebster, F. A. Cole and W. P. AVood. The grounds were donated by Edward Murphy, of Minneapolis, and funds raised for building purposes by issu-' ing stock certificates to the amount of $12,500. Daniels & Sim- mons took the contract for a consideration of $14,800, and to complete it a mortgage was given to Joseph Averill, of Danvers, Alassachusetts, who advanced $5,000. The institute was success- ful for about three years, when, for want of funds it was sold to Joseph Averill, to satisfy the above noted mortgage. January 8, 1878, it Avas purchased by Hans Marcuson, in trust for the Hauges Norwegian Evangelical Synod, and afterwards deeded to a board of" directors, viz.: Hans Marcuson, Gunelf Tollefson.. Knut John Stangeland, and Andrew Ellingson, with the design of making it a Lutheran Theological Seminary. Frank A. Whittier, whose efficient management of the State Training School has won praise from far beyond the borders of the state, is a native of this state, born June 22, 1860. His par- ents, Albert and Lucy A. (Wellington) Whittier, both natives of New Hampshire, were descended from old Granite State families. They ventured in the early days into what was then the new country of Ohio. Imbued with the pioneer spirit, they found that the rich valleys of Ohio Avere fast passing the stages of early settlement, and consequently determined to try their fortunes still further to the westAvard. Consequently the year of 1856 saw them located in Minneapolis, where young Frank A. ivas born. In the summer of 1860, they settled in Empire township,