Excerpt from A Random Historical Sketch of Meeker County, Minnesota: From Its First Settlement, to July 4th, 1876 The Centennial year of our great Republic seems to open up an opportunity, Which the Pres ident of the United States recommended to our people to improve and place in permanent shape for preservation, the historical data of the various counties and towns of the Republic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.