Blue Earth County Historical Society
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Jan 3rd, 2009 (Sat)
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  Discovery Days
Rose's Journeys
1:00 pm
(Laura Ingalls Wilders Daughter)
Presented by Amy Lauters, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at MSUM
Jan 6th, 2009 (Tue)
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  Footnotes and Fingerprints
Land Records Research BECHS Heritage Center
Jan 20th, 2009 (Tue)
  20 January 1885
Were you aware that a former Vice President of the United Stats died here in Blue Earth County?

Schuyler Colfax, Ulysses S. Grant's vice president, was traveling through Mankato by train and arrived at the Omaha depot. He walked from there to the Milwaukee depot through snow drifts in bitter cold so severe that even weather acclimated residents were taking pains to stay inside. He arrived at the Milwaukee Depot, sat on a bench, and slumped to the floor. A doctor arrived and declared him dead at the scene. The city sent a delegation of men with the body, and they were met by a delegacies in Chicago who took his body the rest of the way home to South Bend, Indiana. Colfax, a die-hard Odd Fellow, had been traveling in South Dakota in an attempt to found new lodges for that order.
Jan 24th, 2009 (Sat)
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  Genealogy Day
Free Admissions,
BECHS Research Center
 
Blue Earth County Historical Society
415 Cherry Street, Mankato MN, 56001
Phone: 507-345-5566 Email: bechs@hickorytech.net 501(c)3 Non-profit Organization