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This Day in Minnesota History

January 29, 1823

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William G. LeDuc is born in Wilkesville, Ohio. After moving to St. Paul in 1850, he would open a law office and bookstore and publish three yearbooks publicizing the territory. In 1857 he would move to Hastings, where his mill was the first to offer spring wheat flour. He would also become a general in the Civil War, serve as US commissioner of agriculture, and help develop the Remington typewriter. LeDuc died in 1917.

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