Topic: People of Minnesota / Physical Format: Memoirs / Subject Headings: Frontier and Pioneer Life

Creator:: Merritt, Alfred, 1847-1926
Date Created:: 1915
Description:: This typescript was copied in November 1926 from Alfred Merritt's original 1915 manuscript. The author described his family's experience on the north shore of Lake Superior from the time of their arrival via steamboat in 1856 until the year 1894, including accounts of pioneers, settlers and land claims, and the discovery of iron ore on the Mesaba Range. Merritt also addressed the creation and demise of the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railroad.
Contributing Institution:: Duluth Public Library
Type:: Text
Format:: Memoirs

Creator:: Richard Coxe (1817-1898)
Date Created:: 1880?
Description:: A handwritten manuscript written by Richard Coxe (1817-1898) chronicling the journey of Edward and Mary Coxe, parents of Richard Coxe and Robert Coxe, from Waterford, Ireland, first to Boston, Massachusetts, and then New York, New York, where Edward died. Mary remarried and died shortly thereafter leaving her sons in the care of her new husband. The manuscript depicts the conditions and circumstances that separated the brothers, Robert and Richard, until their reunion as adults and ultimately brought Richard north to White Bear, Minnesota, where he died in 1898. The manuscript was written circa 1880.
Contributing Institution:: White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
Type:: Text
Format:: Memoirs

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