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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
In St. Peter, Methodist minister Edward Eggleston marries Lizzie Snider. Eggleston is best remembered for his novel The Hoosier School-Master, set in Indiana, but a less popular novel, The Mystery of Metropolisville, deals with land speculation in Minnesota in the 1850s.
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