Mower County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,029. The county seat is Austin. Mower County comprises the Austin Micropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Rochester-Austin Combined Statistical Area. Lake Louise State Park is in southeastern Mower County, near Le Roy.
Lyle is a city in Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The city lies on the north side of the Iowa border. The population was 522 at the 2020 census.
Lyle Township is a township in Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 402 at the 2000 census. The largest city contained within the township is Lyle with 566 people. All other areas of the township are unincorporated. The township was named for Robert Lyle, an early settler from Ohio who later went on to become judge of probate and an elected representative of the region in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Willis Arnold Gorman was an American lawyer, soldier, politician, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Norman S. Eddy was an American politician and military officer. He served as a member of the Indiana State Senate from 1850 to 1853 and a U.S. Representative of Indiana from 1853 to 1855. He then served as U.S. Attorney for the Territory of Minnesota from 1855 to 1861 and as Secretary of State of Indiana from 1870 to 1872.
Mark Hill Dunnell was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota from 1871 to 1883 and from 1889 to 1891.
Henry Poehler, was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota. Born in Hiddesen, Lippe-Detmold, Germany, he attended his father’s academy and immigrated to the United States in April 1848, settling in Burlington, Iowa, where he attended the public schools. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1853 and later on to Henderson, Sibley County, Minnesota, in 1854. He engaged in general merchandising and as a grain merchant and was appointed postmaster at Henderson, Minnesota on February 25, 1856, serving until April 12, 1861. He served in the state house of representatives in 1857, 1858, and 1865, and served as county commissioner of Sibley County and chairman of the board from January 1865 to January 1868. He was member of the state senate in 1872 and 1873 and again in 1876 and 1877. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress and an unsuccessful candidate for Minnesota State Treasurer. He served as mayor of Henderson for several terms, later on moving to Minneapolis in 1889 and engaged in the general merchandise and grain business. He moved again to Los Angeles, California, in 1895. He died in Henderson, Minnesota, while on a visit to an interment in Major Joseph R. Brown Cemetery.
Andrew Robert Kiefer was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born at Marienborn, Grand Duchy of Hesse; he attended school in Mainz; immigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1855; inspector and collector of the wharf in 1857; engaged in mercantile pursuits; enrolling clerk of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1859 and 1860; entered the Union Army as captain of the Second Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, on July 8, 1861, and served until July 18, 1863, when he was compelled to resign on account of ill health; commissioned by Governor Swift colonel of the Thirty-first Regiment of State militia in 1863; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1864; was engaged in the wholesale mercantile business 1865 – 1878 and in 1880 became interested in real estate; clerk of the district courts of Ramsey County 1878 – 1883; unsuccessful Republican candidate for mayor of St. Paul in 1890; elected as a Republican to the 53rd and 54th congresses, ; was not a candidate for reelection in 1896; mayor of St. Paul in 1898; at the time of his death was the Republican candidate for city controller; died in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota; interment in Oakland Cemetery.
Jacob Henry Stewart was a Representative for the U.S. state of Minnesota.
William Wallace Kingsbury was a Delegate from the Territory of Minnesota.
Robert Lyle is a jazz pianist/organist and educator.
Lawrence Robert Yetka was an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
James S. Norris was a Democratic politician from Minnesota Territory. Born in Monmouth, Maine, Norris moved to St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin in 1839. He later moved to Minnesota, settling on a farm in Cottage Grove, Minnesota in 1842. He was elected to the first Minnesota Territorial Legislature in 1849 and re-elected in 1854. In 1855, he served as the Speaker of the Minnesota Territory House of Representatives. He attended the state's Democratic Constitutional Convention in 1857. In 1870 he was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives. He died in Cottage Grove in 1874.
George Washington Armstrong was an American politician and businessman who served as the first Minnesota State Treasurer from 1858 to 1860. He previously served as the fourth and final Minnesota Territorial Treasurer from 1857 to 1858.
Francis Baasen was an American Democratic politician and the first Secretary of State of Minnesota, from 1858 to 1860.
The Appeal was a weekly newspaper published from 1885 to 1923. It was one of the most successful African American newspapers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Founded in St. Paul, Minnesota, it was published in six separate editions in cities across the United States at the height of its popularity. In 1889 the newspaper changed its name to The Appeal to reflect its expanded geographic scope.
Alfred Elisha Ames was an American physician and politician.
Daniel Buck was an American attorney, politician, and jurist.
John McDonogh Berry was an American politician and jurist.
Albert Schaller was an American jurist, politician, and businessman.
