Mike Hanson

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On April 11, 1905, Samuel Plummer met his wife Nellie and son James at the Emo Railroad Depot.

Many settlers arrived with what they could carry with shelter and sustenance the big need.

The Influenza of 1918 that took thousands of lives around the world didn’t skip northern Minnesota.

More Johnson/Palm news dated Oct.

Note from the author: The Historical information received required some degree of inference, but the narrative has a major degree of accuracy – the jewels which will follow in the coming weeks are the letters dated late summer into the fall of 1918, a time that saw the end of WW I and the great influenza epidemic that struck the world and killed thousands.This is a trail of two families’ immigration adventure; how they responded to the times and how their fortunes and destiny ended up in Loman, Minn.Lars Johnson was born in Sweden in June of 1819, his bride Merit (Maria) Christopherson was also born in Sweden, in 1846.

Mame self-declared that after moving to her homestead she had a lot to learn: How to get along without many things she felt were necessities, how to share with neighbors and tired travelers.

More about Mary (Mame) Earley and her adventures south of Frontier as a teacher at the Paul School:She described that during school vacation she could travel by riverboat or cross the river into Ontario and take the Muskeg Limited to visit relatives or to attend “teacher meetings” in the Falls.

Four of the Earley sisters became educators to serve the growing number of homesteaders who flocked to the northern border.

Paul Earley did business with Chief Horton across the river and occasionally joined him just to visit and sometimes let daughters Margaret and Isabelle, “Isy,” tag along.