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Charles A. Lindbergh Sr.

Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. ca. 1918, the year in which he ran for governor as the Nonpartisan League's nominee.

Lindbergh, Charles A., Sr. (1859–1924)

Charles August (C. A.) Lindbergh, father of the aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was a Little Falls lawyer who represented Minnesota’s Sixth District in the United States Congress for five terms. He was a leader of the progressive wing of the Republican Party and opposed the United States’ entry into World War I. As the nominee of the Nonpartisan League, he waged an unsuccessful campaign to unseat Governor Joseph Burnquist in the bitterly fought 1918 gubernatorial Republican primary.

Painting of Randolph Probstfield

Painting of Randolph Probstfield during his term in the Minnesota State Senate, 1891. Probstfield family photographs (Box 3), Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead.

Randolph and Catherine Sidonia Probstfield

Randolph Probstfield and his wife, Catherine Sidonia Probstfield, 1861. Probstfield family photographs (Box 3), Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead.

Probstfield, Randolph M. (1832–1911)

Randolph M. Probstfield is commonly considered Clay County’s first European settler-colonist. A farmer in the Red River Valley, he was a local leader in politics, education, and agricultural development from his arrival in Minnesota in 1859 until his death in 1911.

Rensselaer Nelson

Rensselaer Nelson near the end of his career, ca. 1890s.

St. Paul Customs House

St. Paul Customs House, ca. 1870s. Photograph by William Henry Illingworth. This was the only St. Paul federal courthouse during Rensselaer Nelson's time on the bench.

St. Paul Customs House

Drawing of the St. Paul Customs House, site of the federal district court, 1876. This was the only St. Paul federal courthouse during Rensselaer Nelson’s time on the bench.