| Summary: | T H K F I R S T SI X Y I? A R S O F G It AND F O R. K S 73 and Sarah J'. Fadden, who were married at Grand Forks September 29, 1871, by John E. Harrison, a justice of tlie peace. Miss Fadden was a daughter of John Fadden. Sr., who came with his family from McLeod county, Minn. The marriage of M. L. McCormack to Miss Jennie Strong, a sister of Mrs. Alex. Grigirs, was the next ceremony of the kind to occur in tlie community. There were then no newspapers in all of what is now tlie state of North Dakota to make mention of social happenings of this kind. George 15. Winship and William Budge are men both of whom have become prominently identified with tlie later history of tlie Red River Valley and the state. We first find them together at Pembina and in the same year that Grand Forks got its first start they are also found located upon the soil of this county. Mr. Winship was bom at Saco, Maine, in 1847. In 1851 his parents emigrated to the west and located at LaCrosse, Wis., the place then being little more than a settlement. Six years later they moved across the river to La Crescent, Minn., which place was started about that time. It was here that Winship learned something about tlie printer's trade in the office of the local paper, a fact that determined his future career as a publisher. In 1863 he entered the army as a member of the 2d Minnesota Cavalry and served until the end of the war. In 1867 he came into the country as a member of Davy's overland expedition to Idaho which became stranded at Fort Abercrombie. He then put in a year at teaming and in the spring of 1868 went to Fort Garry where he worked on Dr. Schultz's paper, the Norwester — afterward published by Riel as "Tlie New Nation"—and printed $50,000 of Hudson Bay company money used to pay Riel's soldiers. Winship came to Pembina about the first of May, 1870. Here, about a-month later, he first met Win. Budge. Both were then young men. Winship was stopping at Peter liayden's, and the two camped there about a month, or until the work of building Fort Pembina began, Nathan My rick and W. C. Nash having the contract for construction. About the first of July, Winship was offered a position in A. W. Stiles' sutler store at the fort and accordingly entered his employment as clerk. Wm. Budge is a native of the island of South Ronaldsha, the southernmost of the Orkneys, Scotland, and came across the ocean to this country in the year 1869. He came in by way of Hudson bay and states that the method of f ravel at that time between York Factory and Fort Garry washy the Hudson Bay company's Mackinaw boats and Indian canoes. He remained in Manitoba for awhile, traveled west as far as the Rockies, which in those days was no railroad journey, and soon afterward he came to Pembina. About the first week of May, 1871, Budge and Winship left Pembina and located claims at Turtle river, building a log cabin Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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