When Alfretta May Hoffstatter was born on 9 August 1871, in Cannon Falls, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States, her father, John W. Hoffstater, was 30 and her mother, Emma Leavitt, was 24. She lived in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota, United States for about 15 years and Seattle, King, Washington, United States for about 28 years.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand. German Otto.
German (mainly Saarland): variant of Hofstetter . This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
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