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D. H. LANE was born at Ashburnham, Mass., coming at an early age to Kenosha, Wis., where he was engaged in flour milling and real estate. When the Civil War broke out he organized a company at Kenosha, which became a part of the First Wisconsin Regiment. Mr. Lane was made Lieutenant Colonel, and was in command of the regiment during the greater part of the war. After the war he came to Anoka and was interested with A. P. Lane in the flour mill at Champlin which was washed into the river. In association with a Mr. Underwood he was the inventor of the first rotary plow. Mr. Lane died about 1880.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

REV. FREDERICK R. LEACH, pastor of the First Baptist Church, was born Feb. 14, 1864, at Hamburg, N. Y. At about twenty years of age he entered Hamilton (now Colgate) University where he remained four years, after which he attended the Rochester Theological Seminary, graduating therefrom in 1891. He was married in 1803 to Mary Gaylord. Children: Gaylord, Harold and Donald.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

CHARLES H. LEATHERS was born in Maine in 1836, and in 1854 came to Minneapolis and later located in Oak Grove. In 1861 he enlisted and served in Co. H, First Minnesota Regiment, participating in various engagements and being wounded at Bristow. At the close of his three years term of‘ service he was mustered out with the regiment. In 1871 he was married to Ouisa Barrett. Children: Alonzo C. (died 1895), John W. (died 1893), George F. (deceased), Lucinda (deceased), Charles (de ceased).
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

GILBERT H. LEATHERS was born in New Hampshire, Dec. 12, 1824, in the town of Nottingham. At two years of age his parents removed to Maine. In 1854 he came to Oak Grove township, later removing to Anoka.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

HENRY G. LEATHERS was born in Oak Grove, Anoka county, Dec. 11, 1858. He was educated in the Anoka high school and at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. The first business which he took up was farming. In 1883 he started a general store at St. Francis.  Mr. Leathers has held various town offices and was appointed postmaster at St. Francis Sept. 1, 1904. He was married to Rose Harden Sept 19, 1888. Children: Robert E. and Blanche L.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

LUTHER H. LENNON (deceased) was born in Knox, Maine, August 9, 1814. He was reared in his native state and learned the trade of a carpenter and millwright, which he followed the greater part of his life. In 1854 he came to St. Anthony and in 1862 to Anoka. He served several terms as supervisor, assessor and member of the school board. He was married in 1837 to Diana C. Strout. Children: Priscilla N., Isaac P. (Minneapolis), Flora E. (Mrs. L. W. Gerrish), and Emma H. (Mrs. F. H. Tilden).
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

HENRY E. LEPPER (deceased) was born in Watertown, New York, April 19, 1835. He lived when a boy in Ohio, coming to Minnesota in 1857, but removing two years later to Missouri, and afterward to Kansas, where he was a salesman in a lumber yard. He came to Anoka in 1867, and conducted a dry goods store three years. He was county commissioner 1875 to 1877 and county auditor in 1879-80. He was married April 24, 1859, to Emily Getchell. Children: Ella G., Cora E. (Mrs. C. J. Edgarton. deceased), Homer L., Alice C. (Mrs. Frauman), and William H.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

RICHARD M. LOWELL was born in Abbott, Piscataquis county, Maine, Dec. 2, 1828. He came to Minnesota in 1851, and on the day of his arrival went with a batteau containing provisions from St. Anthony to meet the log drivers on Rum river. He was married Sept. 26, 1853 to Sophronia M. Smith, and the next spring took up his residence upon a farm in what is now the town of Champlin. where he lived eight years. He then moved to Anoka, where he engaged in lumbering and carpenter work until 1897, when he returned to Champlin, where he lived until his death May 9, 1901. Of three children only one daughter, Mary, is still living. For the past twelve years Mrs. Lowell has been engaged in lecturing for Spiritualist organizations in several western states, and her local work for the past four years has been for the Band of Peace, Minneapolis. (See portrait, page 171.)
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

HENRY C. LOEHL was born in Chicago May 25, 1855. In 1867 his parents removed to St. Peter, Minn. Before leaving school he had made considerable progress in learning carriage painting and frescoing. He was obliged to leave this business, however, upon medical advice. He then learned the tinner’s trade, coming in 1875 to Anoka, where he has since lived. The firm of Loehl & Karker began business in the hardware line on Jackson street in March, 1898, and moved to their present location in 1901. They carry a general stock of hardware and stoves. They also do plumbing and steam fitting and all kinds of tin and sheet iron work. Mr. Loehl was married August 30, 1879, to Alice C. Phillips.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

PATRICK LYONS was born in Balarat gold fields, near Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 22, 1856; went with his parents to Ireland in 1864, thence to America three months later, coming to Minnesota in 1856, settling in St. Anthony, and later at Fridley. In the fall of 1867 he moved to the town of St. Francis, where his father took a homestead. On March 4, 1868, his father was killed on the railroad near what is now Northtown, and the family lived in Fridley and later in Blaine, of which town Mr. Lyons is still a resident. Feb. 23, 1886, he was married to Celia Matushak. They have two children, James Vincent and Ella May. Mr. Lyons served as assessor of the town of Blaine twenty years beginning in 1878. Served on the school board several years. Mrs. Lyons has also served as treasurer of school district No. 47 for ten years. Mr. Lyons has owned the farm where he now lives in section 29 since 1881.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905