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Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: “100 Years of Helping People: Family Service and Its Legacy of Leadership”
Tom Kelley100 Years of Helping People: Family Service and Its Legacy of Leadership Author: Tom Kelley Family Service, Inc., a social service agency, began in St. Paul in 1892 and has lasted one hundred years. Beginning as Associated Charities, an information clearinghouse for the coordination of private charity for…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: “What’s Historic About This Site? St. Paul’s Union Depot”
Ramsey County Historical SocietyWhat’s Historic About This Site? St. Paul’s Union Depot The Union Depot opened in 1923, after the railroad age had peaked. The last passenger train stopped there in 1970. It has been searching for a purpose ever since. It is very fine nevertheless; “a simple, rather severe example of the…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyAnne Bosanko Green, One Woman’s War: Letters Home from the Women’s Army Corps (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1989). Jody Barret Litoff, David C. Smith, Barbara Woodall Taylor, and Charles E. Taylor, eds., Miss You: The World War II Letters of Barbara Woodall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia…
Ramsey County History – Winter 1991: Letters to the Editor
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Ramsey County History – Fall 1991: “The 150th Anniversary of the Naming of the City: St. Paul and the Rush to Settlement—1840 to 1880
Virginia Brainard KunzThe 150th Anniversary of the Naming of the City: St. Paul and the Rush to Settlement—1840 to 1880 Author: Virginia Brainard Kunz St. Paul’s earliest years recounted by the dean of Ramsey County historians. The essential information and vital characters are all here: Father Galtier, the chapel and the name,…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1991: “Who WAS Pigs Eye Parrant, Anyway?”
Ronald M. HubbsWho WAS Pigs Eye Parrant, Anyway? Author: Ronald M. Hubbs Everything that is known about St. Paul’s first settler, in less than two full pages. He was an illiterate, intemperate, ill-mannered and itinerant fur trader and whiskey seller who hung around Fort Snelling for a few years in the mid-…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1991: “Forgotten Pioneer: Abraham Perry and the Story of His Flock”
Patrick R. MartinForgotten Pioneer: Abraham Perry and the Story of His Flock Author: Patrick R. Martin The story of early settler Abraham Perry, written by a great-great-great-great grandson. Perry (born Perret) was lured from Switzerland to the Selkirk Colony in Manitoba in 1820. When that failed, he and family came to Fort…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1991: “What’s Historic About This Site? Highland Park’s Reminder of Its Past: The Davern and Colvin Homes”
Robert J. HouserWhat’s Historic About This Site? Highland Park’s Reminder of Its Past: The Davern and Colvin Homes Author: Robert J. Couser A profile of neighboring houses in Highland Park built by distinguished St. Paul families. William Davern came to St. Paul from Ireland in 1849. He farmed, became a citizen, served…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1991: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyNoah Adams, Saint Croix Notes: River Mornings, Radio Nights (New York: Norton, 1990). John R. Borchert, America’s Northern Heartland: An Economic and Historical Geography of the Upper Midwest (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987). Monica Rangitsch, Good Living Among Good People: A History of North St. Paul (North St. Paul, Minn.: North St. Paul Historical Society, 1991).