Eli Pettijohn purchases the land-grant patent for a portion of the area that is now St. Paul's Hamline Midway neighborhood. Pettijohn farmed near Fort Snelling and later settled in Minneapolis. This plat of land was sold over time to other speculators and developers, including Horace S. Thompson, Amherst Wilder, and Henry H. Sibley. Part of it became Hamline University in 1874 and Newell Park in 1908 and then was subdivided for private homes.