Color image of a painting of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, c.1905. Oil painting by Francis Davis Millet.

Painting of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux

Painting of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, c.1905. Oil painting by Francis Davis Millet.

Black and white photograph of Joseph Renshaw Brown, c.1863. Photograph by Hirsch Brothers.

Joseph Renshaw Brown

Joseph Renshaw Brown, c.1863. Photograph by Hirsch Brothers.

John Keller’s Room, 1905

Photograph of John Keller’s room by St. Paul Dispatch photographer, published on April 13, 1905. This is where William Williams shot and killed Keller and his mother on April 12. Image reproduced from microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society with permission from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

William Williams in the county jail, 1905

William Williams

Photograph of William Williams. Photo taken by a St. Paul Dispatch photographer in the county jail on April 13, 1905. Image reproduced from microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society with permission from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Frank B. Kellogg being sworn in as Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.

Frank B. Kellogg being sworn in as Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.

Kellogg being sworn in as Secretary of State, 1925.

Frank B. Kellogg posed by the ruins of his old home in Olmsted County

Frank B. Kellogg posed by the ruins of his old home in Olmsted County

Kellogg posed next to the ruins of his former home in Olmsted County, c. 1922

Frank B. Kellogg

Frank B. Kellogg

Frank B. Kellogg, c.1931.

Kellogg, Frank Billings (1856–1937)

A trustbuster, senator, secretary of state, Nobel laureate, and World Court judge, Frank Kellogg rose from a small farm in Olmsted County to being the highest-ranking diplomat in the United States. He is remembered as one of the authors of the 1928 Pact of Paris, a multi-lateral treaty that renounced aggressive war as a matter of national policy.

Women suffrage meeting at Rice Park in St. Paul

Women's suffrage meeting at Rice Park in St. Paul

Women's suffrage meeting in Rice Park in St. Paul, 1914.

Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association

From 1881 to 1920, the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA) struggled to secure women's right to vote. Its members organized marches, wrote petitions and letters, gathered signatures, gave speeches, and published pamphlets and broadsheets to force the Minnesota Legislature to recognize their right to vote. Due in part to its efforts, the legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919.

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