- The First Seventy-five Years in the Sanborn Community (1878-1953) -

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Table of Contents

• Dedication; The Pioneer of O'Brien County
• Town of Sanborn Started 1878
• Various Sanborn “Firsts”
• The Churches of Sanborn
• Early Pioneer Items
• School Started as a Township School
• School for Christian Instruction
• Twentieth Century Club Starts Library
• Town’s Oldest Business, The Pioneer
• Banks Help Develop Community
• Business Firms of 1882 and 1953
• Numerous Fine Hotels in 1890
• The Opera House
• Clyde Powell Tells of Early Sanborn
• Business Firms in 1881
• The Big Ball Game
• First Settlers in Franklin Township
• School Days Franklin No. 9
• Community Early Settlers
• Sanborn’s Oldest Store Still in Operation
• The Invasion of the Iron Horse
• On the Old I & D
• Paving Laid in 1919
• A Few of the Bigger Storms Experienced
• U.S. Weather Observation Station
• Sanborn Has a Good Fire Department
• The Flour Mill
• Sanborn Organizations
  • James P. Martin Relief Corps
  • Masonic Lodge
  • Order of Eastern Star
  • American Legion & Auxilliary
  • Odd Fellows
  • Rebekah Lodge
  • Modern Woodman
  • Royal Neighbors
  • Lions Club
  • Twentieth Century Club
  • Milwaukee Railroad Women’s Club
  • Girl Scouts
• Sanborn Cooperatives
  • O’Brien County Co-operative Creamery
  • Sanborn Co-operative Grain Company
  • Farmers Co-op. Oil
  • Farmers Mutual Insurance
  • Burial Association
• Municipal Utilities
• Memoirs of Early Sanborn
• List of Sanborn Mayors
• A Fine Race Track
• Ringling Bros. Start Here
• Miscellaneous items - D.M. Norton and Ira Soop; Mrs. Anna Magee; the W.P. Luke family
  

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  Transcription by Krysta Wright