Selby Gilpin

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• Residence: 1880, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1895, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1900, Sumner township Osseo village, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States
• Residence: 1905, Osseo, Trempealeau, Wisconsin
• Residence: 1910, Sumner, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States
• Residence: 1920, Sumner, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States
• Residence: 1930, Osseo, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States

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William married Evelyn Mildred Abbott. Evelyn was born on 18 Jan 1877 in Eagle Bend, Todd, Minnesota, United States; died on 7 Jul 1987 in Minnesota, United States; was buried on 11 Jul 1927 in Wadena, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1895, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1900, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1900, Sumner township Osseo village, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States
• Residence: 1910, Alexandria Ward 5, Douglas, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1920, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States

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Died:
A pioneer newspaper man of Minnesota, one of the few remaining Civil War veterans, and one of the first settlers of Alexandria, is gone with the passing of Joe Gilpin, who died at his home in this city on Monday of this week, aged almost 85 years.
An old time printer, very few of whom are left today, Joe Gilpin learned the trade back in New York state in the shop of the Franklin Printing Company at Buffalo. He worked at the printing trade at Rochester and at Boston, too. And served in the 74th New York and 60th Massachusetts regiments during the Civil War and in 1867, like many other veterans of that war, he came West. He first took up a homestead north of what was then little more than the trading post of Alexandria. Farming didn't appeal to him, though, and three years later, on December, 1870, he bought that pioneer newspaper of the village, the Post. For five years he conducted that paper and then decided to go East again. He returned to Buffalo and engaged in the electrotyping business. But a couple of years later the call of the West lured him back to Alexandria, to spend the remaining half century of his life here. He founded the Douglas County News and ran it for sixteen years until in 1894 when he sold the News to Charley Mitchell of St. Cloud, who consolidated it with the Post into the Post-News. Mr. Gilpin then retired from the newspaper business.
Joseph Gilpin was born at Lockport, New York, on October 4, 1842, and was thus 84 years, nine months and nine days old at the time of his death. He spent most of his boyhood at Buffalo, New York. In 1869 he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Walker, who survived him, together with two daughters and a son: Mrs. Nellie B. Fredenberg of Minneapolis, Mary T. Gilpin, principal of the grade school at Hopkins, and William Selby Gilpin, editor of the Osseo News, at Osseo, Minnesota. A sister, Mrs. Johnston of Thorold, Ontario, is living and another sister, Mrs. N. J. Jenkins, died May 20th this year.
In the early days of the village, Mr. Gilpin held several responsible positions. He was for a number of years town supervisor and a member of the village board of education. He was also active in Masonic lodge circles and in the G. A. R.
The Masonic lodge will have charge of the funeral which will be held from the home this (Thursday) afternoon. Rev. Harry Blunt will preach the funeral sermon. The six surviving members of the G. A. R. will act as honorary pallbearers: Thomas Cooper, F. J. Stevens, T. W. Critchette, Luther South, Frank Guiles and G. J. Strang.
(Park Region Echo, 15 July 1926)

Joseph married Sarah Walker in 1869. Sarah (daughter of Daniel Walker and Sarah Baird) was born on 23 Apr 1853 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 4 Mar 1933 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States; was buried in Kinkead Cemetery, Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1895, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1900, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1910, Alexandria Ward 5, Douglas, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1920, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States

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Mrs. Joseph Gilpin, wife of the late Joseph Gilpin, editor and publisher, one of the oldest residents of Alexandria, passed away quietly at the home of her daughter, Nellie (Mrs. W. B. Fredenberg), Minneapolis, March 4, 1933.
Sarah Walker was born in Lanark, Ontario, Canada, April 23, 1853. She came to Minnesota with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Walker, Sr., in 1863, moving to Alexandria in 1878, thus having lived here more than fifty years. Since the death of her husband in 1926, she has been dividing her time between her daughter's home in Minneapolis and her old home in Alexandria, usually spending the summer here when her daughter, Mary, could be with her and her winters in Minneapolis with her daughter, Nellie. Mrs. Gilpin was a faithful member of the Congregational church for fifty three years. She had a wide circle of friends who will miss her.
Funeral services were held at the Anderson Funeral Home, Monday, Rev. Harry Blunt had charge of the service.
Besides the daughter from Minneapolis, Mrs. Fredenberg, Mrs. Gilpin leaves another daughter, Mary T. Gilpin, principal of the school at Hopkins, and a son, William Salby Gilpin, of Osseo, Wis.
(Park Region Echo, 9 March 1923)

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Thomas married Elizabeth Featherstone. Elizabeth was born in New York, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 779DEC0E49DA4CDEA38717E674526300AB2E
• Immigration: Between 1842 and 1844, to Lanark, Ontario, Canada West, British colonial America
• Occupation: 1851, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Blacksmith
• Residence: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
• Census: 1852, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1868, to Douglas County, Minnesota, United States
• Residence: 1875, Hudson, Douglas, Minnesota, UnitedStates
• Residence: 1880, Alexandria Twp, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States

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Died:
ANOTHER OLD SETTLER GONE.
Daniel Walker died in Alexandria at the residence of his son, James Walker, on Sunday morning last, aged 67 years, 4 months and 11 days. Deceased was born in Dunbarton, Scotland, near the famous Dunbarton Castle. Moved to Glasgow when eighteen years old and married there at the age of twenty-six. In 1843 he moved to Lanark county, Ontario, and there carried on blacksmithing till the spring of 1868, when he came to Minnesota locating in Hudson, this county, where he has ever since lived excepting the last year and a half, which he has spent in town. He had eight children, six of whom survive him.
He had passed the spot where the tide of so many lives sinks into the eternal sands, and while enjoying the calm evening of a well spent life was carried away by heart disease which had afflicted him for many years. He rests in Kinkead cemetery to which last abode he was carried from his son's residence last Monday afternoon, Rev. W. W. Norton conducting the services.
(Douglas County News, Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota, April 21, 1881)

Daniel married Sarah Baird on 11 Nov 1838 in Barony Parish, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Sarah (daughter of John Baird and Lucretia Gardiner, daughter of James Baird and Lucretia Gardiner) was born on 31 Dec 1819 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 5 Nov 1879 in Douglas County, Minnesota, United States; was buried in Kinkead Cemetery, Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census-Household Member: 1852, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1875, Hudson, Douglas, Minnesota

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Died:
DIED.?Wednesday morning, November 5th, 1879, Mrs. Sarah Walker, wife of Daniel Walker, in her 59th year.
Her death although a matter of sad surprise to her friends at large was not wholly unexpected by her children and near relatives, who with untiring faithfulness, did everything in their power to alleviate and comfort. Mrs. Walker has been a well-known and respected resident of this county for eleven years, and for her loving kindness and admirable qualities she was beloved by all who knew her. The last sad rites will be performed to-day at the family residence in Alexandria, Rev. Q. L. Dowd officiating. The remains will be conveyed to Kinkead Cemetery for interment.
(Douglas Co. News, Alexandria, MN., Nov. 6, 1879)