In 1854, Matthew Taylor, Daniel Lavalle, Anthony Gelinas, Louis Bebault, Michael Dubay, Moses
and Joel DeJarlais, A. C. Kimball and others made their claims.... took up land around French Lake.
They built their log houses and moved their families here the following spring. Also 1854 saw Francis
Thorndyke, R.H. Miller and John Shumway settled in Dayton near the Champlin line.
SOURCE: History of Hennepin County, Dayton, C.E. Evans (Hennepin County Hstorical
Society), and various other resource materials.
Steve Shumway - shumways@@petershumway.org
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