Business View Magazine | March 2020

262 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 U.S. Navy Commodore Stephen Champlin, who was active in the War of 1812, and in the establishment of the Canadian–United States boundary. In 1947, part of the former Champlin Township was incorporated to form the village of Champlin, and on January 2, 1971, as the result of a petitioned order from the Minnesota Municipal Commission, Champlin Township and the village of Champlin consolidated to form the city of Champlin. C hamplin, Minnesota, population 25,000, is a city in Hennepin County that lies along the Mississippi River some 18 miles northwest of Minneapolis. The Champlin area was first settled by Father Louis Hennepin, a Franciscan priest, from whom Hennepin County gets its name, after which an Indian trading post was established in the area. Charles Miles created the first permanent settlement in what came to be named Marshall Township, which was split into two towns, Champlin and Dayton, in 1859. Champlin’s name came from