Bicentennial Story #32-Gladstone planners-1882

Bicentennial Story #32-Gladstone planners-1882

Account of the creation of Gladstone, ND by settlers from Ripon, WI.

6/13/1975

3/11/1976

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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English

BS-032

Gladstone, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

At the end of April, 1882, representatives of the Christian Colony of Ripon, Wisconsin, came to Gladstone, then called Green River Station. On May 3 they held a meeting in the crowded Immigrant House, near the box-car depot, to choose lots in town and lands in the country. Some built shacks an their claims, plowed and sowed a few acres, then returned to Wisconsin to get their families. These were some of the earliest settlers in Stark County, and included surnames like Cryne, Kitell, Bissell, Birdsall, Scoffield, Jopp, Letts, Little, Kono and Turner. And they named the town after the famous English statesman, William Gladstone.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 32, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller, for the Stark County Historical Society, Jack Hjorte at the piano

Material provided by Anders Hagburg, Gladston, from writings of Gilbert S. Cryne. Also, The Gladstone Farmers Union Leader, Mar. 29, 1937.

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Bicentennial tape #3, Bicentennial stories 23-45