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   Franklin Steele (c. 1813 – September 10, 1880) was an early settler of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, of Scottish descent, Steele worked in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, post office as a young man, where he once met President James Buchanan.

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3. discoverthecities.com › who-founded-minneapolisThe crazy, true story about the men who founded Minneapolis ...

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   Nov 11, 2020 · Enter Franklin Steele. Franklin Steele was a shop keeper at Fort Snelling who got wind of the commander’s plan to grab the land. Before anyone knew what happened, Steele rushed to the vacant land, allegedly building a cabin via moonlight, and officially claimed the land as his own.

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   Franklin Steele was Fort Snelling's sutler, and made a fortune by staking claim to the eastern side of St. Anthony's Falls and building sawmills and a toll-bridge on the site of what would soon be Minneapolis.

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   Franklin Steele Square Park Green Space. One of Minneapolis' oldest parks, the land for Franklin Steele Square was donated in 1882.

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7. www.joyinminnesota.com › home › why-nobody-wants-toJun 1 Why Nobody Wants to Talk About Franklin Steele

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   Jun 1, 2021 · Franklin Steele came to the Minnesota territory in the 1830s and was soon nicknamed “the Father of Minneapolis”, but have you heard of him? Pull up a chair and let me tell you why not. In 1834, Steele arrived in St. Croix in search of lumber.

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   Who was Frederick Steele?

   • Frederick Steele was born on January 14, 1819, in Delhi, New York, the son of Nathaniel Steele III and his second wife, Dameras Johnson. Frederick Steele never married or had children. Little is known of Steele’s early years. He entered West Point in 1839.

   Steele, Frederick - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

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   Who is Frankie steel?

   • Frank "Frankie Steel" Pontillo made the statements at a sentencing in Brooklyn federal court -- before the same judge he asked leniency of because the FBI traumatized his Yorkie puppy during a January 2010 raid. The Daily News reported the Wednesday exchange between Pontillo and Judge I. Leo Glasser:

   Hulking gangster Frank "Frankie Steel" Pontillo complains

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   Why did Franklin Steele buy the fort?

   • By 1858, Franklin Steele bought the fort and 8,000 acres (3,200 hectares) surrounding it for $90,000, as the government no longer needed a frontier outpost at that location. But during the Civil War, he leased it back to the government for use as an induction station.

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   Who was the military commander of Fort Snelling?

   • Those squatters weren’t the only people interested in grabbing some of land around the fort. The Military Commander of Fort Snelling was a guy named Joseph Plympton. He too was eying the undeveloped land around Fort Snelling, and in a fantastic conflict of interest, he was also responsible for drawing the official boundaries of the fort.

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9. www.jstor.org › stable › pdfFranklin Steele, Frontier Businessman - JSTOR

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   frontier Minnesota was Franklin Steele, the entrepreneur who founded Minneapolis and, in the period from 1837 to i860, helped to open the Northwest to settlement.