Oliver H. Kelly grew up in Boston came "west" as he was 18 years old. His first stop was Chicago where he worked in a drugstore and he moonlighted as a reporter for a Chicago Newspaper. He then moved to Iowa, on the Mississippi River, where he learned the trade of a telegraph operator. I heard he married Lucy Earle. And they arrived in Saint Paul in June of 1849 by steamboat and settled near the current day city of Elk died the following spring during childbirth. Oliver H. Kelly was a book farmer, he learned the latest farming techniques from journals and correspondence with other farmer's. I thought he did so great. He became an expert on farming in Minnesota. I learned he used a scientific approach to understand how drought, weather insects and crop failures made life difficult for farmers in the 1850. He built one of the first frame barns in the area. He experimented with buckwheat, apples, melons and asparagus. He later became the founder of the Grange movement, an association of farmers worked together similar to the current day co-op. i did not know that. Oliver Kelly was known as a subsistence farmer. He grew only enough needed for his family or for the animals on the farm. He raised only the animals needed for food or to help grow the food needed for his family. I thought that is so difficult. At the farm we saw plants to what Kelly grew over 130 years ago, much like it grew when Oliver Kelly was farming there. We could see animals typical of the time and people working in the farmhouse using the utensils of the day. We saw plowing with oxen, horse powered threshing, haymaking and other activities. Be prepared to join in and help with the farm chores today.
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