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This Day in Minnesota History

February 29, 1844

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Al Sieber is born in Germany. Sieber moved to Minneapolis in 1856, joined the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment in 1862, and after the Civil War become an army scout in the American West. Wounded twenty-nine times in combat, he was killed during construction of the Roosevelt Dam in 1907.

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