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Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA

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Fergus Falls is a city in and the county seat of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 13,138 at the 2010 census.

History:

The falls from which the city gets part of its name were discovered by Joe Whitford (a Scottish trapper) in 1856 and was promptly named in honor of his employer, James Fergus. It is not known whether James Fergus ever visited the city, but Joe Whitford did not live to see the city develop, as he became one of the many victims of the 1862 Sioux uprising in western Minnesota. In 1867, George B. Wright was at the land office at St. Cloud and found Whitford's lapsed claim, purchased the land, and built what is now the Central Dam in downtown Fergus Falls around 1871. After Wright died in 1882, his son Vernon would move from Boston to Minnesota and take over his father's interests in the town. Vern Wright would also be one of the two people who established the Otter Tail Power Company in 1907. The city was incorporated in the late 1870s and is situated along the dividing line between the former great deciduous forest of the Northwest Territories to the East, and the great plains to the West, in a region of gentle hills, where the recent geological history is dominated by the recession of the glaciers from the last great Ice Age, with numerous lakes and small rivers about.

Two major tornadoes hit Fergus Falls during the early 20th century, the second, the 1919 Fergus Falls tornado, being the greater. The only church edifice left standing after the great cyclone was the predominantly-black Baptist church.

Geburt

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Geburt		Personen-Kennung
1	Hesse, Marjorie Lujean	16 Apr 1927	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I10450
2	Naegeli, June Kathryn	1917	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I159285
3	Zimmerman, Duane Arthur	23 Mai 1927	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I159296

Tod

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
1	Auch, Rudolph	5 Sep 2013	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I163008
2	Bader, Sophia	28 Jan 2011	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I113113
3	Doepke, Donald Oscar	10 Jan 2014	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I157120
4	Ebel, Oliva	15 Aug 2010	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I118422
5	Layon, Hilda Carolina	27 Mai 1900	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I87421
6	Mauch, Richard Leon	19 Jun 2014	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I38281
7	Schacher, Violet Virginia	6 Feb 2000	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I157119
8	Schock, Elisabeth Dorothea	12 Jul 1955	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I239513
9	Wasmuth, Katharina Sofia	20 Okt 1956	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, USA	I159293