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I would think this has to be one of the earliest surviving brick homes in the metro area. (Probably Red Wing, Hastings, or Stillwater has older ones.) Does anyone know of an older one in the TC?-- Appraiser 13:07, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
An IP editor made this following comment in the references section, but this belongs on the talk page:
His fellow missionary Samuel Pond needs to be inserted into the story also. (Name does not come up when searching, because article only says _Samuel_ is his brother) After Lake Calhoun, he was a missionary at Lac Qui Parle and then at Shakopee, both upriver on the Minnesota River at Dakota villages. I suggest that you put both men on the Wikipedia entry. Perhaps you will want to call the page Rev. Gideon Pond, Rev. Samuel Pond, and the Gideon H. Pond House.
The brothers came to Minnesota as independents but became affiliated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions shortly thereafter.
The Pond Dakota House historic site, sponsored by the City of Bloomingon, Minnesota, has a chronology online: http://www.ci.bloomington.mn.us/main_top/2_facilities/rec_facility/pond/signs/timeline/timeline.htm
Samuel was the better linguist of the two men and he is the one most credited with work on translating Dakota and rendering it on the page, although other missionary names are also associated: Riggs, Williamson, and trader Joseph Renville.
-- Elkman (Elkspeak) 17:46, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
98.240.171.24 ( talk) 18:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)This message was sent to me: "I saw your comment at Gideon H. Pond House. I moved your comment to the talk page, at Talk:Gideon H. Pond House, because comments on articles generally belong on the talk pages and not in the articles themselves. You have a valid point -- both Gideon and Samuel Pond are important in local Native American history. I'll look into researching Samuel some more. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 17:48, 9 June 2009 (UTC)"
I don't understand this procedure. How can a lay reader make a suggestion for editorial content change if the suggestion is moved to an obscure part of the Wikipedia?
Also, I should rather have written in the above that "Rev. Stephen Riggs and Dr. Thomas Williamson, also of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, a number of wives, children, and support staff, and fur trader Joseph Renville who, although Roman Catholic, worked with the missionaries on translation and on missionary activities"--July 28, 2009 LBryan, St. Paul
It was confusing to see the picture labeled Gideon and Agnes, and text said his wife was Sarah. This Minnnesota Historical society document cleared up the mystery. So the picture must be for his second marriage. I added an external link but I'll let someone else edit it. Tom Ruen ( talk) 23:24, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
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