Sylvanus Trask
Sylvanus Trask | |
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| Member of the Minnesota Territorial House of Representatives | |
| In office September 3, 1849 – January 6, 1852 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1811 Otsego County, New York |
| Died | 1897 (aged 85–86) Stillwater, Minnesota |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Occupation | Schoolteacher |
Sylvanus Trask (1811–1897) was an American schoolteacher and politician who served in the Minnesota Territorial House of Representatives from 1849 to 1852.
Biography
[edit]Trask was born in Otsego County, New York, in 1811. He arrived in Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1848 and served as a schoolteacher.[1] He served in the Territorial House for the first two sessions as member of the Democratic Party.[2] On January 20, 1852, he was appointed as the secretary of the 3rd Minnesota Territorial Legislature.[3] Following his political career, he was a surveyor in the lumber industry. He died in Stillwater in April 1897.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hubbard, Lucius Frederick (1908). Minnesota in Three Centuries, 1655-1908. Publishing Society of Minnesota.
- ^ Neill, Edward Duffield (1873). The History of Minnesota: From the Earliest French Explorations to the Present Time. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott & Co. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
- ^ Goodhue, James M. (1852). Journal of the Council During the Third Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota (PDF). Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Legislative Assembly. Retrieved December 17, 2024.