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History of Anoka County
And the Towns of Champlin and Dayton
In Hennepin County, Minnesota
by Albert M. Goodrich
pub. 1905 - Hennepin Publishing Co., Minneapolis


              page 206-207
              
                JOSEPH DOWNS (deceased) was born at Orland, Maine, Jan.
              15, 1823. He lived in Maine until 1853, removing in that
              year to Evan Center, New York, and came to Minnesota in
              1854. He located upon a farm in the town of Dayton near
              Diamond lake, where he lived two winters. In the spring
              of 1857 he opened a hotel at Champlin, which he conduted
              for two years, and then lived on farms in Champlin and
              Dayton until the beginning of the Rebellion. In 1862 he
              enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment, and remained
              with that regiment until the close of the war. After the
              war he returned to farming in the town of Dayton, and died
              there about 1878. He was married at Albion, Maine, to
              ANNE WIGGINS. Children: Octavia J. (Mrs. STOCKTON, died
              in June, 1885), WALTER J. (Minneapolis), and ELLEN M.
              (Mrs. WALTER GREEN, now living in Maine.)
              
  (Transcriber's Note: His headstone, in Chamlin Cemetery, carries the
                       death date of 18 March 1879.)
              
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