Agenda - Public Works Committee - 03/20/2018

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Information on one of the early pioneers of Ramsey, JAMES F. QUIMBY taken from a letter written by his daughter, Julia R. Rand "My father, James F. Quimby was born Feb. 1, 1833 in Phillips, Franklin Co., Maine. He with his mother, brothers, Wm and Lyman and sister, Susan (Mrs. S. R. Jones) came to Minn. in 1855, arrived in Stillwater where they had old friends, November 17, and came to Anoka county the following year. They took claims near Round Lake, They followed lumbering in the pineries and in the saw mills at Anoka. My father worked in the Woodbury mill six or seven years. He also "teamed" to St. Paul and Minneapolis for Putnam and Stowell, making three trips a week, a day each way. While in Anoka he boarded with Job Eastman. He hauled the flour barrels to hold all the flour made in Minneapolis, then St. Anthony. In 1862 he came to Ramsey where he lived until his death, Feb. 3, 1914. William went to Oregon in 1873, the rest lived and died in Ramsey. My mother, Charlotte Rogers was born May 9th, 1841 at Brownsville, Maine, the oldest daughter of Eli and Catherine (Heath) Rogers. They moved to Minnesota when she was 12 and settled at Round Lake. She attended school in Anoka and taught several years, "boarding around". She married James F. Quimby, October 4, 1872. There were only two children, myself and sister Susan, who died February 2, 1914. Uncle Lyman died March 25, 1925 and Aunt Susie Jones the following August. My mother died, December 19, 1931, the last of the Rogers family of her generation. Williard Littlefield is the only other person in the neighborhood who was born here and stayed and Mrs. Mary Hunt who was here before 1885, 1882, I think."