Edwin Trask – Early pioneer of Bemidji. His land was later occupied by the Chicago Box & Crating Company and Crookston Lumber Co. Mill No.2.
Stillman Edwin Trask, an old gentleman 70 years old, died at his home across the bridge of typhoid fever, Oct. 23, 1901. He was a soldier of the Civil War, and the local G. A. R. post took charge of the obsequies, Rev. Higgins preaching the sermon. He left a wife, Mary Elizabeth (Wadsworth) Trask and several children, his son Harry being well known here from having conducted a bakery in Bemidji. The family came originally from Otter Tail county. Mrs. Trask later married another G.A.R. veteran. Theodore Leonard “Dode” Dickinson, father of Ralph Dickinson, and lived until 1937.