Samuel Lonard Tifft^[1]

1824 - 1902  (78 years)

• Name	Samuel Lonard Tifft  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	15 Mar 1824	Grafton Co., New Hampshire   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Nov 1902	Hutchinson, Mcleod Co., Minnesota   [1]
  Person ID	I10922	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family	Charloette Abigail Selts,   b. 23 Jun 1834, Orleans Co., New York d. 8 Nov 1908, Hutchinson, Mcleod Co., Minnesota (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	26 Sep 1850	Mayfield, DE Kalb Co., Illinois   [1, 5]
  Children	1. John Selts Tifft,   b. 11 Jun 1852, Mayfield, DE Kalb Co., Illinois d. 19 Nov 1910, Hutchinson, Mcleod Co., Minnesota (Age 58 years)   2. Mary Elizabeth ( Libbie ) Tifft,   b. 19 May 1854, Illinois, USA d. 1 Jan 1899, Hutchinson, Mcleod Co., Minnesota (Age 44 years)   3. Alberto Pitcher Tifft,   b. 2 Sep 1858, Illinois, USA d. Y   4. Harriet Maria Tifft,   b. 27 Apr 1861, Minnesota, USA d. 25 Nov 1954, Albany, California (Age 93 years)   5. Merrill C ( Sr ) Tifft,   b. Apr 1865, Illinois, USA d. Y   6. Cyril M Tifft,   b. 23 Apr 1865, Mayfield, DE Kalb Co., Illinois d. 18 Jun 1937, Glencoe, Mcleod Co., Minnesota (Age 72 years)   7. Marcia Lee Tifft,   b. 13 Sep 1869, Illinois, USA d. 9 Jun 1899 (Age 29 years)   8. Wallace Lonard Tifft,   b. 4 Jun 1873, Illinois, USA d. Y
  Family ID	F4133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

• Notes

  [niswender.ged] In 1880 census he was a Hotel Keeper. PIONEER OF ILLINOIS, MINNESOTA AND NORTH DAKOTA Samuel's father died when he was 7. When he was 18, in 1842 , he moved west to Chicago, IL, a small village at the time . He had only $3 in his pocket--all his worldly possessions . Sixty miles west of Chicago, in the town of Mayfield, h e procureda piece of government land and started a farm. When Samuel and Charlotte began married life together, thei r furniture consisted of one chair. In 1857, Samuel first ventured to Minnesota and took a piec e of land near the town of Acoma. Indian troubles forced hi m to return to Illinois, where he stayed until 1879, his bu siness being the shipment of horses from Illinois to Minnes ota wherethey were sold to the pioneer farmers. In 1879, he moved back to Minnesota with his family and ra n a hotel known as the "Railroad House'" (later the Merchan ts Hotel). After a year of this, he traded the hotel fo r a farm in the town of Lynn and then later moved to Hutchi nson, MN. A few months before his death, at the age of 78, Samuel aga in became a pioneer establishing a homestead in North Dakot a, which was, at the time, the frontier of the Northwest. H e returned to Hutchinson for a time and died there. By the time of his death, he owned 200 acres in Dekalb Coun ty, IL, 600 acres in McLeod County, MN and 160 acres in Nor th Dakota. "His one purpose in later years of his life wa s to provide well for his children and no family could hav e had a morethoughtful or indulgent father...His influenc e in the church and in the community has always been for ho nesty, temperance, industry, and a consistent religious lif e." --Obituary, Hutchinson Leader, Fri. Nov. 7, 1902, p.4.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2645] niswender.ged. [S970] 1850 census, Mayfield township, De Kalb Co., Illinois, Roll: M432_104 Page: 304 (Reliability: 3). [S1030] 1880 census for, Hutchinson township, Mcleod Co., Minnesota, NA Film Number T9-0625 Page Number 26D (Reliability: 3). [S1031] 1870 census for, Glendale township, Mcleod Co., Minnesota, Series: M593 Roll: 2007 Part: 1 Page: 160 (Reliability: 3). [S2678] Illinois State Marriage Index, Volume A (Reliability: 3).