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Litchfield, Meeker County, Minnesota. Litchfield, is named after another unfortunate stockholder of the Railroad company, who, it appears, resides in the -rural village of London, England.
Peter Stoos came to Rollingstone, Winona County, Minnesota, directly from Luxembourg, to farm the ten acres of land he had bought from the United States government. Other Luxembourgers joined him in the 1850s. A Catholic mass was celebrated in Stoos' log cabin in 1857 by a Benedictine priest.