At the age of 21, Glenn Dyson (1862-1965) came to Dakota Territory from his family's farm near Urbana, Illinois. Glenn's father, Henry Dyson, had come there with a group of relatives by covered wagon from Ohio in 1850. One of Glenn's earliest memories was the day his father came walking up the road, returning home from the Civil War; having served in many of the major battles of the war with the 72nd Illinois Infantry, Company G. Also a memory of that period was the excitement when it was known that Abraham Lincoln would be on a train passing through the town on his way to or from Springfield, Illinois.
Glenn arrived by train in Hope, North Dakota March 1883 together with his sister, Alice and her husband, Westley W. Newell (Uncle to Dr. Andrew Newell, Cooperstown Dentist in 1920's). He worked for Bonanza farms and others, buying up relinquishments, and in this manner he acquired a half Section of land in what later became Riverside Township. His first sod shanty was very near the trail between Hope and Cooperstown and he admitted to being a close "observer only" of the exciting and much publicized escapades which took place during the county seat struggle between these two towns in the early '80s. One winter he taught school near the Sheyenne River in what was the Opheim School.
As time went on he acquired farmland adjoining Cooperstown on the east, in fact the spot where he later built his house was once the city dump. He built up a set of buildings and in 1898 married May E. Johnson of Cooperstown. He later built a set of buildings on Section 29, Washburn Township. On all of his holdings he planted groves of trees, which gave him much pleasure all of his life and each year found him planting more trees.
Three children grew to adulthood on the family farm:
Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 Page 477