1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

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662 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
extent is one congressional township, that of township sixty-one
north, range nineteen west.
Elias Matson was the man most active in prosecuting the matter
of organization. He took oath, when presenting petition to county
officials that the legal voters in the township at the time petition was
signed did not exceed thirty-five.
Commissioners at their February, 1910, session granted the petition,
and to bring the new township into organization and operation,
election was held at No. 3 schoolhouse, in the township on Saturday,
February 26, 1910.
In 1910 the assessed valuation of Alango was $16,709. Total
tax levy was $800.36. In 1919, the township valuation was $25,081,
and the total tax levy $2,021.53.
The population of the township in 1910 was 335 persons, according
to federal statistics; and in 1920 the census showed 511 residents.
The township is gradually becoming a well developed agricultural
section.
Alango and Angora townships were served by School District
No. 42.
The township officials are : E. Mattson, chairman ; F. Leinonen
and J. Kustor, supervisors; F. Saari, clerk; R. F. Saari, assessor; Nels
Nukala, treasurer.
Alborn.—On August 1, 1900, S. G. Johnson and twenty-six others
signed a petition, praying the county commissioners to organize congressional
township 52 north, range 18 west, under chapter 10,
Statutes of Minnesota, 1894, as a township to be known as Burg,
This was a shortening of the name first written into the petition,
Gothenburg having been first proposed.
The commissioners, in session at Duluth on August 10, 1900, considered
the petition, and granted same ordering election to be held
at the schoolhouse situated in section 12 of township 52-18, on Fridav,
August 30, 1900.
Election was accordingly held, and the first officers elected to
serve the township were : F, A. Trolander, chairman ; Matt Perry
and Alfred Nordling, supervisors; G. W. Mell, clerk; L. B. Ashjornson,
treasurer; S. G. Johnson, assessor; John Mell and Gust
Benson, justices; Otto Dahl, constable.
At the first township meeting it was decided to plan the levy
for the first year
Road and Bridge Fund $200.00
General Fund 150.00
It was also resolved to seek to change the name of the township
to "Alborn," such being the name of the postoffice within the
township. Authority to change name was given by county commissioners
on September 5, 1900.
The assessed valuation of real and personal property of Alborn
Township in 1919 was $75,614. Tax levy, $6,593.54. The population
of the township in 1900 was 62 persons; in 1910, 266; in 1920, 257.
The township officers in
Hoiem and Sivert Holten,
1920 were :
supervisors ;
H.
G.
Blom, chairman ; A.
A. Truman, clerk
S. Holten, assessor ; F. A. Trolander, treasurer.
Alborn township is served by School District No. 33, which embraces
townships 52, 18 and 19. There are three frame schoolhouses
in the district, the three valued at $10,000. The enrollment for the
school year 1919-20 was 98, and staff of four female teachers, who
received an average pay of $77.00 monthly. School Board : L. B.
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