Miscellaneous Dakota, MInnesota, Pictures

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Minneiska Country School Room

Theresa Kohn originally thought that this was a picture of a school room in Dakota because she had attended the one in Minneiska and it was not the one she remembered. She has uncovered new information that the original one in Minneiska was built in 1866 but it was replaced around 1906 with a larger, two-story school.

Theresa thinks that this is a picture that her grandma Gustie (Swanson) Wilson had in her possession and not from John Wilson's childhood. Gustie had a brother that married but never had children. The boy seated in the second row in from the right, second child from the rear, is probably Gustie's brother, Oscar Swanson. Besides George Washington's picture on the wall, there is Millard Fillmore's picture over a U.S. flag of 45 stars. Utah became a state in 1896 and Fillmore was president in 1897 so it was probably taken in 1897.

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