WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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Biography transcribed & donated to Wabasha County, MN Bios by
Barbara Koska Timm.  For more information, please check
out her site "Biographies and Historical Sketches of Wabasha County,
Minnesota" at <http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio>.
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


            TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL MATTER, STATISTICS, ETC.
                   GATHERED FROM MATTER FURNISHED BY 
                       INTERVIEWS WITH OLD SETTLERS,
        COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND OTHER RECORDS, AND EXTRACTS FROM 
                FILES OF PAPERS, PAMPHLETS, AND SUCH OTHER 
                     SOURCES AS HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE. 

                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884


  *The sketch below appears on a different page and appears to be the same person even  though some dates are different.

 Ira W. Belden, a son of Erastus Belden, a physician of Fillmore county, Minnesota, was born in 1837. 
 He received a common school education, after which he learned his trade of blacksmithing. In the fall 
 of 1862 he enlisted in the war against the Indians, and served fourteen months as farrier in his 
 regiment. He then enlisted in the war of the rebellion and served one year, when, his health failing, he 
 returned to make his home on the banks of the Zumbro. He is a resident of Zumbro Falls, living on the 
 sourth side of the river, but his shop is situated on the north side. Mr. Belden was married in 1860, to 
 Amanda Raymond. Their family consists of seven children. The eldest son, aged nineteen, holds a 
 good position on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad.