- LANSING township [Mower County, Minnesota], organized May
11, 1858, received this name
- from the capital of Michigan, in compliment to Alanson B.
VAUGHAN, a pioneer settler, on account of its similarity in sound
with his first name. Lansing village, of which he was the first
proprietor, was also platted in 1858. He was born in Clinton
county, N.Y., June 6, 1806; removed to Rock county, Wisconsin,
in 1843; came to Minnesota in 1854, and settled in this township,
with his five sons, in 1855; was the first merchant and first
post master in the adjoining village of Austin; was a member
of the state constitutional convention in 1857, and the first
judge of probate in this county; died October 3, 1876.
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- [Taken from "Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin
& Historic Significance - Collections of Minnesota Historical
Society, Vol. XVII" by Warren Upham; (c)1920 Minnesota Historical
Society, St. Paul, MN, p. 360]
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