Edwin Trask \u2013 Early pioneer of Bemidji. His land was later occupied by the Chicago Box & Crating Company and Crookston Lumber Co. Mill No.2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"