Excerpt from Biographic Memorial of Frederick Driscoll He arrived in Minnesota in October, 1857, and, after a short stay in St. Paul, located at Belle Plaine in Scott county as book keeper for the land company which exploited the townsite. He came, an ambitious, industrious, level-headed youngman, to the Minnesota of the eventful decade preceding the Civil War, to breathe her invigorating air, to drink of her crystal waters, and bathe in her glorious sunshine. He came to share her affluent but undeveloped resources, the age-fattened fertil ity Of her shoreless prairies, her immeasurable storage vaults of mineral wealth, and her forests Of lofty pines. 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.