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Trails to the Past would appreciate any genealogy information that you may have such as news items, wills, deaths, births, biographies etc. if you have any of these items they can be emailed to Marie Miller the state of Minnesota Adminstrator
Its county
seat is Breckenridge. The county is named for
Colonel Alexander Wilkin, a lawyer who served as
Minnesota’s U.S. marshal and was later killed in
the Civil War.
Wilkin County was
originally established as Toombs County on March
8, 1858, named after Robert Toombs (1810–85) of
Georgia, who had been a member of Congress,
1845–53, and was U.S. senator, 1853-61. Mr.
Toombs became a leading disunionist, then a
Confederate secretary of state in 1861, and
later was a Confederate general. In 1863, the
county was renamed Andy Johnson County after
President Andrew Johnson and to disassociate
with Mr. Toombs. The county again changed its
name to Wilkin County on March 6, 1868.
Toombs County was formed
in 1858 from Pembina County. It is the parental
county for Traverse County, and now are parts of
Clay, Otter Tail, Grant, Stevens, Douglas and
Pope counties.
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Breckenridge
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Campbell
Doran
Foxhome
Kent
Nashua
Rothsay
Wolverton
Unincorporated
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Brushvale
Childs
Everdell
Lawndale
McCauleyville
Tenney |
Townships
Akron
Andrea
Atherton
Bradford
Brandrup
Breckenridge
Campbell
Champion
Connelly
Deerhorn
Foxhome
Manston
McCauleyville
Meadows
Mitchell
Nilsen
Nordick
Prairie
View
Roberts
Sunnyside
Tanberg
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