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I googled to get a phone number and I could scarcely believe whose name I found still working at 345 Kellogg Boulevard West in St. Paul, Minnesota, home of the Minnesota Historical Society! None other than Charles L. Rodgers, the very same person who had responded to my friend's request for city minutes 20 years ago. The online information included both his phone number and email address at the Historical Society. I promptly used both, leaving a message on his voice mail and a more detailed email message. Within an hour, Mr. Rodgers called me. It was, indeed, a beautiful day in the neighborhood. I said I could come the very next day to look through the box of old city minutes. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. It was Friday, May 1st, when I arrived at the Minnesota Historical Museum. As promised, Mr. Rodgers had a big box waiting for me with my name on it since he would be arriving later. I immediately jumped to the task, and I couldn't believe what I found -- the original minutes of all the old Victoria City Council meetings dating back a hundred years, many of them handwritten -- by Clerk E. B. Plocher and by Clerk Kenneth Wellens and others. I bet Whitey transferred them there. They are contained in two large leather bound books, one of the covers rather tattered but the pages are perfect. It was an amazing trip into the past. Not only did I get an answer to all of my questions about 1936, 1950 to 1954, and 1966, I had to change at least a half dozen other dates because I also found two more Victoria mayors. I tried to be quiet in this large quiet historical library, but it wasn't easy. First I discovered that E. B. Plocher was Victoria's second mayor, and that he served four years before J. A. Diethelm returned to be Victoria's third mayor. Apparently no city ordinances were passed under President Plocher, and when President Diethelm returned to office he kept signing ordinances, chronologically of course, and I couldn't tell that his term had been uninterrupted. And no wonder 1966 was giving me trouble. Lloyd Braunworth was elected to begin that year as mayor, then got sick in April, was absent in May, returned in July, and resigned in September. It's all in the minutes. No wonder two ordinances were signed that year by "Acting Mayor Dave Kocka." Case solved. *** As informative as ordinances and minutes are, they do not tell us about the people who were elected to serve. Ordinances and minutes tell us what they did but not who they are. The Victoria Gazette does that. The following brief paragraphs about each of Victoria's 20 mayors were gleaned from various sources, mostly from the archives of the Victoria Gazette located in the office of the editor of the Victoria Gazette.
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The Victoria Mayors Continued |
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