Township Land Patents

These early patent lists were obtained from the Index to Deeds in the office of the Register of Deeds. Those receiving patents early being at the head of the list. The first patents are dated 1872; the others extend from that date up to 1911. The figure in parentheses following each name is the number of the Section on which the land was located.
Source: An Illustrated History of the Counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota
Chapter III, County & Township Organization, 1870-1878
By Arthur P. Rose, 1911
 

Luverne Twp

Edward McKenzie (13-14)
Elizabeth Gittens (12)
John Jones (12)
Henry Sawyer (14)
Lewis T. Cooley (4)
Jonathan C. Phelps (35-34)
James Ryan (4)
Leonard A. Daniels (28-1)
James Preston (18)
Joseph Jones (10)
Charles F. Crosby (24)
Christopher H. Spaulding (26-20)
Miranda Skinner (25-36)
Robert Donaldson (24)
Charles M. Ellithorpe (6)
Horace Plum (28)
Samuel Spaulding (20)
Philo Hawes (11)
Gahr Anenson (24)
Jacob Anenson (12)
Perrin O. Needham (18)
Horace A. Gregory (2)
Joseph A. Forbes (22)
George W. Daniels (22)
Pierce J. Kniss (10)
Levi Whitsell (22)
S. D. Gregory (22)
Martin Ryan (4)
Jasper C. Gregory (26)
Charles O. Hawes (10)
Stephen Wilcox (26)
Colin J. Etsey (34)
Herman Ohs (30)
George W. Kniss (10)
Catherina Weber (8)
Anton Reder (2)
Edwin Gillham (10)
Nathan Benedict (28)
James Wright (8)
David Powell (6)
Ann M. Loose (30)
Henry Carner (18)
Erastus G. Blodgett (8)
Sears H. Scott (6)
Thomas J. Bailey (26)
Frank Loose ( 30)
George S. Adron (8)
Alfred S. Marsh (4)
Charles Benedict (28)
James H. Lyttle (6)
Caleb W. Matthews (34)
James Sorenson (20)
George W. Blasdell (12)
Henry J. Putney (34)
Willherm Nurnberg (32)
Pauline H. A. Michelson (32)
Mitchell J. Parker (14)

 

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