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Ramsey County History – Spring 2004: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews Stephen J. Keillor, Grand Excursion: Antebellum America Discovers the Upper Mississippi (Afton, Minn.: Afton Historical Society Press, 2004). John D. Besler, Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). PDF of Book Reviews…
Ramsey County History – Spring 2004: Letters to the Editor
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Letters to the Editor…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2004: “‘He Loved a Tall Story’ The Life and Times of I.A. O’Shaughnessy, the Man Who Happily Gave His Money Away”
John M. Lindley and Virginia Brainard Kunz‘He Loved a Tall Story’ The Life and Times of I.A. O’Shaughnessy, the Man Who Happily Gave His Money Away Authors: John M. Lindley and Virginia Brainard Kunz Born in 1885, Ignatius Aloysius O’Shaughnessy was an oilman and philanthropist. His parents, who were of Irish decent, moved to Minnesota…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2004: “A Century Ago: Hundreds of Thousands Greet the Liberty Bell the Day It Came to Town”
Susan C. DowdA Century Ago: Hundreds of Thousands Greet the Liberty Bell the Day It Came to Town Author: Susan C. Dowd The Liberty Bell, with its twenty-four-inch-long crack, came to St. Paul on June 6, 1904. The nation’s “most cherished relic” was on its way from Philadelphia to St. Louis…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2004: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Reviews Georgia Ray, ed., Memoirs of Grace Flandrau (St. Paul: Knochaloe Beg Press, 2003). Moira F. Harris, Fire & Ice: The History of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival (St. Paul: Pogo Press, 2003).
Ramsey County History – Winter 2004: RCHS Donors
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of RCHS Donors…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2004: Letters to the Editor
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“Bought 2 Horses & a Wagon:” The Story of the Murphy Companies
Virginia Brainard KunzThis is the story of how E. L. Murphy Sr. established his business, gradually converted it from horses to trucks, suffered through the takeover of Murphy Transfer and Storage Company and Murphy Motor Freight Lines by a St. Paul bank in the midst of the Great Depression, and how brothers…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2003: “St. Paul Underground: The University Farm Experimental Cave and How St. Paul Became the Blue Cheese Capital of the World”
Greg A. BrickSt. Paul Underground: The University Farm Experimental Cave and How St. Paul Became the Blue Cheese Capital of the World Author: Greg A. Brick Willes Combs, a professor of Dairy Industry at the University of Minnesota, was buying mushrooms at a West Side cave and saw that the humidity…