View of Anoka's Pillsbury Lincoln Mill after it was destroyed by fire, c.1884, reprint.

Oliver Kelley house, restored, 1979.

Oliver Kelley home marker, Sherburne County, 1937. Photograph by Everett E. Edwards.

Oliver H. Kelley, c.1900.

Fabric button commemorating the founders of the National Grange, including Minnesota farmer Oliver H. Kelley, created 1875–1899.

Oliver Kelley farmhouse, Sherburne County, c.1865.

Temperance Baldwin Lane Kelley (Mrs. Oliver H. Kelley), c.1860.

Oliver H. Kelley, c.1875.

When Oliver Kelley began farming in Minnesota during the mid-1850s, he was frustrated by the low status of farmers and the isolation of rural life. So along with six others, he started an organization called the Grange, which as MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel explains, changed agrarian life in America by bringing farmers together to socialize and advocate for themselves. Includes an interview with Bob Quist of Oliver Kelley Farm.