This Day in Minnesota History

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Today's Date: April 4

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1888

Abram Elfelt, one of the first Jewish people to make a permanent home in Minnesota, dies.
1893

The Minnesota state flag is adopted, just in time to appear in a state-sponsored exhibit at the World's Fair in Chicago. Designed by Amelia H. Center of Minneapolis, the flag depicts the state seal ringed by a wreath of white lady slippers and surrounded by nineteen stars, representing Minnesota as the nineteenth state (after the original thirteen) to be admitted to the Union. The flag would be modified on March 18, 1957, when the white flowers were replaced with pink-and-white lady slippers.
1914

Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, founder of the timber dynasty, dies in California. At one time he owned two million acres of forestland in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Pacific Northwest.