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James Steele was inspector general of the Pennsylvania militia dur ing the War of 1812, and at various times he was a member of the legislature of that commonwealth. Franklin, his youngest son, was born in 1813. Little is known about Franklin Steele's boyhood, edu cation, and training, but the fact that his penmanship was fair and
1. Franklin Steele Marker. Inscription. A young Pennsylvanian won the race to grab land at the Falls of St. Anthony after the area was opened to settlement in 1838. Franklin Steele, the sutler (civilian storekeeper) at Fort Snelling, staked his claim in a moonlight caper that beat out the fort's commander. Handicapped by lack of capital, he was ...
frontier Minnesota was Franklin Steele, the entrepreneur who founded MinneapoUs and, in the period from 1837 to i860, helped to open the Northwest to settlement. The Steele family was of mixed Scottish and Welsh stock; it played a role of some importance in the political and military affairs of Pennsylvania during and after the American Revolution.
The Army sold Fort Snelling, including 8000 acres later annexed into south Minneapolis, to Franklin Steele in 1858 for $90,000. During the Civil War, Franklin Steele leased Fort Snelling to the War Department for an induction station. More than 24,000 recruits from Minnesota were trained here.
Apr 23, 2018 · Franklin Steele has been publishing hockey columns online since 2011 and has been watching and playing since the age of six. More than six million people have read his work, and he has more...
Oct 2, 2013 · Franklin Steele has been in the NHL writing game for 13 years and has written for various websites, including Bleacher Report, FanSided, The Hockey Writers and The Nation Network. An avid Red...
Dec 13, 2016 · This chair was used by Franklin Steele (1813-1880), a founder of Minneapolis and prominent in the lumber industry. Stylistically, this a bentwood chair with a cane bottom. Manufactured by the Thonet company in Germany, this chair is signed with the original Thonet company mark.
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