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Nov 2, 2020 · A small village grew up in and around Davison Station as it came to be called, with Misters Dunn & Darling establishing the first sawmill in its boundary. With the mill came the town’s first doctor, D. W. L. Hanson, first merchant, Damon Stewart, and E. W. Rising, the first tavern keeper.
Her accomplishments included the use of her inheritance to endow the Bethesda Hospital for unfortunates in 1899, the founding of the Emmaus Home for the young women who came to work at the St Louis World’s Fair, the cofounding of the city’s YWCA, and the support of her own missionary work in China.
Richfield didn't stay big for long. In 1886 St. Louis Park became a separate village, and in 1889 what was called "west Richfield" became Edina.
Richfield Township experienced a great expression of historical interest in August of 1996 as it celebrated its sesquicentennial year. The township supported a private group of individuals in publishing a 500-page book, Richfield Remembers the Past, about the community’s 19th century heritage.
Despite residents agreeing to incorporate, it took 16 more years before Richfield became a village. The next move to annex land to Minneapolis came from the citizens of north Richfield...
Feb 22, 2014 · It could be he is related to Doctor William B. McLean whose estate was listed for sale near Smithland in a January 24, 1846 edition of the Boon's Lick Times, a paper out of Fayette, Missouri. A Mary McLean according to the 1876 plat map of Randolph County Missouri owned land adjacent to Joel's Smith's property.
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John S. Sappington was a frontier physician in Tennessee and Missouri who became wealthy and famous as the creator and dispenser of “Sappington’s Anti-Fever Pills,” a quinine-based patent medicine for malaria and for fevers in general.
