This Day in Minnesota History

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Today's Date: January 26

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1836

Lucius F. Hubbard is born in Troy, New York. After arriving in Minnesota in 1857, he would establish and edit the newspaper Red Wing Republican and would serve as a general in the Civil War and in the Spanish-American War. He would be ninth governor of the state, serving from 1882 to 1887; his second term lasted three years to cover the legislature's change to biennial sessions. During his tenure the Railroad and Warehouse Commission would be established. He died February 5, 1913. Hubbard County is named in his honor.
1861

Frank O. Lowden is born near Sunrise City (later Sunrise) and later moves to Illinois, where he becomes a lawyer and marries Florence, daughter of George M. Pullman, the wealthy inventor of the railway sleeping car. After Pullman's death, Lowden would manage some of the Car King's enterprises, serve in Congress, become governor of Illinois, lose a nomination for president, and decline a vice-presidential nomination.
1924

Minneapolis policeman George Kraemer fatally shoots Peter C. Johnson with a sawed-off shotgun in a dark basement. Johnson had been attempting to crack open a safe he and his "assistant," William Carson, stole during a robbery.
1942

Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson, serving with the American Expeditionary Force, is the first enlisted man deployed to Europe in World War II.
1949

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) announces the invention of a machine for the mass recording of magnetic audio tape.