Millerville History
Millerville Township, Douglas County, Minnesota, USA
Millerville Township
from
"History of Douglas and Grant Counties
Minnesota
Their People, Industries and Institutions
Constant Larson - Editor-in-Chief
with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens
and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families
Volume 1
Illustrated"
©1916
B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Pages 182-183
Millerville township was established on November 23, 1867,
by the board of county commissioners, in answer to a petition
signed by sixteen legal voters from congressional township
130, range 39. The first meeting was to be held at the house
of John Miller, one of the early and prominent settlers, for
whom the township was named.
Some of the first settlers on each section in Millerville
township, with the year about when they located, are mentioned
in the following list. Nicholas Langshausen took land on
section 1 in 1869, August Keplien on section 2 in 1870,
Rolden M. Finch on section 4 in 1871, Ignatz Kroll on section 6
in 1876, John Schwartz on section 7 in 1871, Andrew Bader on
section 8 in 1872, Aaron Dewey on section 9 in 1871, John
Engler on section 10 in 1873, Bernhard Nuss on section 11 in
1873, John Woyda on section 12 in 1873, Anton R. Cicky on section
13 in 1872, Mathias Portz on section 14 in 1872, Mathias Wunch
on section 15 in 1871, John F. Busse on section
17 in 1875, Hans G. von Stackhausen on section 18 in 1870,
Olof Landin on section 20 in 1873, John Schafer on section 22
in 1868, John Flesch on section 23 in 1873, John N. Peck on
section 24 in 1871, Joseph Goetz on section 25 in 1872,
George Wagner on section 26 in 1873, William W. Arness on section
27 in 1873, Andrew J. Arness on section 28 in 1871, Magnus
Johnson on section 29 in 1871, Edward Uhde on section 30 in
1872, Thomas Lauder on section 32 in 1876, Andrew J. Goodwin
on section 33 in 1872, and Henry McKibbcn on section 34 in 1873.
Charles Debetzan, who died at St. Cloud in 1906, was one of
the early settlers in Millerville township. He and his family
moved to this state from Pennsylvania in 1688, settling in
Douglas county. At the time of his death Mr. Debetzan had
twenty-nine grandchildren and fifty-two great-grandchildren.
The present officers of Millerville township are as follow:
John M. Prazak, clerk; Henry Meissner, treasurer; Albin
Beckman, assessor; John Bitzan, Peter Renkes and Frank
Lederman, supervisors.
E-mail: dwagner2@isd.net
©2003 DJW
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December 6, 2003