This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vandervort, Webb Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/1284 Message Board Post: The citation for the book is: Title: History of the Upper Mississippi Valley Publisher: Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Company, 1881 Contents: The Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys by N.H. Winchell; Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota by Edward D. Neill; Outlines of the History of Minnesota by J. Fletcher Williams; State Education by Charles A. Bryant Page: 416 Fair Haven Township RICHARD M. VANDERVORT, a native of Ohio, was born in the year 1842. He came to Fair Haven, Minnesota, in the spring of 1861; farmed one year, then worked at the carpenter business for two years, and the next two years, drove stock to Bismark; he then engaged in the merchandise business, which he has followed to the present time, being now in the employ of Grinols & Cooper. He married Miss Alma C. Webb, daughter of O.D. Webb, on the 24th of May, 1866. Their children are, Homer W. and Charles H.