Charles Dwight McEwen (June 20, 1822 – July 26, 1901) was an American politician who served in the
Minnesota House of Representatives from 1893 to 1895.
[Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, ''History of Renville County Minnesota, Vol. 1''. H. C. Cooper Jr, & Co., Chicago (1916).] A
Republican, he represented District 42.
Born in
Hinesburg
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,
Vermont
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,
McEwen lived in
New York
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and
Wisconsin
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before settling with his family in Minnesota in 1857.
The family lived first in
Hutchinson, where they owned a cheese factory and Charles McEwen held local office in
McLeod County
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, and later in
Boon Lake, where they set up the first cheese factory in
Renville County.
An
abolitionist and a member of the
Home Guard,
McEwen was elected to the House of Representatives in 1892.
Following his death, his son Bowman maintained the family farm, and served on the Renville County Commission.
In 1906, Bowman's daughter
Sarah
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moved with her husband
Max Ramsland to
Canora,
Saskatchewan
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.
Max was elected to the
Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 1917, but died after less than a year in office during the
1918 flu pandemic
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; Sarah was then elected to the legislature as his successor, becoming the first woman ever to serve in Saskatchewan's provincial legislature.
Ramsland, Sarah Katherine (1882– 1964)
. Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan.
References
External links
McEwen, Charles D.
at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
1822 births
1901 deaths
Republican Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives
People from Hinesburg, Vermont
People from Renville County, Minnesota
People from Hutchinson, Minnesota
19th-century American legislators
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