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25 Cards in this Set

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Discovered athe source of the MIssissippi river
Henry Schoolcraft
Opened the largest flour mill in the world in 1881
Charles Pillsbury
Pioneered principals of muscle rehabilitation that became the foundation of physical therapy [polio]
Sister Elizabeth Kenny
An aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist, nicknamed the Lone Eagle
Charles Lindberg
Minnesota's first public school teacher
Harriet Bishop
Established Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota
Theodore Roosevelt
Soviet leader who visited Minnesota in 1990
Mikhail Gorbachev
Known as the ''Empire Builder''
James J. Hill
First president of the Minnesota university
William Watts Folwell
Established Fort St. Charles on Lake of The Woods on 1732
Sieur De La Verendrye
Started the gray hound bus service in 1914
Carl Wickman
Astronaut who served as pilot on NASA in 2002
Duane D. Carry aka "digger"
Willmar MN resident selected as an astronaut canidate by NASA in January 1978
George Nelson
Ojibwa civil rights activist
Dennis Banks
First territorial governor
Alexander Ramsey
Early Two Harbors attorney who started 3M
John Dawn
Lost the presdent election to Richard Nelson
Hubert H. Humphrey
The first European to record the existence of St. Anthony Falls
Father Hennepin
Explored the Upper Mississippi River
Zebulon PPike
Published Minnesota's first newspaper in St. Paul
James Goodhue
Woman spokesperson for General Mills consumer product
Betty Crocker
American Oil Executive
J. Paul Getty
U.S businessman who formed american fur company in 1808
John Jacob Aster
Served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986
Warren E. Burger
1970 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Norman Earnest Borlaug