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Frank Valesh (husband of Eva McDonald Valesh)

Frank Valesh (husband of Eva McDonald Valesh), c.1900.

Franklin J. Covell by the Split Rock Lighthouse lens

Photograph of first assistant (and eventual head light keeper) Franklin J. Covell standing next to the Split Rock Lighthouse lens c.1920.

Franklin School, Crookston, Minnesota

Postcard featuring Franklin Elementary School, designed by Keck in 1908. The school was located at 517 South Ash Street in the Woods Addition (a neighborhood inside Crookston).

Franklin Steele was Fort Snelling's sutler, and made a fortune by staking claim to the eastern side of St. Anthony's Falls and building sawmills and a toll-bridge on the site of what would soon be Minneapolis. With the help of Congressman Henry Rice, his former assistant sutler, he purchased the 8,000 acres of land surrounding the recently decommissioned Fort Snelling from the federal government for $90,000 in 1857, hoping to make a profit selling prime land situated between Minneapolis and St. Paul. While the Panic of 1857 put these hopes on hold, he made more than $100,000 by renting the property back to the government during the Civil War.

Fred and Mary Price in their Cadillac

Fred and Mary Price in their Cadillac, 1913–1914. Mary holds her dog, Chum. From "Etchison's Story is Unshaken Under Severe Grilling," Minneapolis Journal, January 11, 1916, 1. Mary and Chum exited the same car on the night of November 28, 1914, and fell to their deaths from a cliff. Image reproduced from microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society with permission from the Minneapolis Journal.