Anoka County, Minnesota - Biographical sketches, 1905 (part 1 of 3)

Biographical sketches

W. D. Washburn & Co. - In anj- enumeration of those to whom the industrial interests of Anoka stand most largely indebted first place must be given to Hon. William D. Washburn of Minneapolis, and his business associate, Major William D. Hale of the same city. Under the firm name of W. D Washl>urn & Co. they began the erection of a large and thoroughly equipped saw mill at Anoka in 1872. (See illustration, page 125.) This mill had an annual capacity of sixteen million feet of lumber, and, with its complement of planing mills, dry kilns, etc., furnislu'd employment to about 125 men. For seventeei; years logs from the head waters of Rum river and its trilmtaries were floated down to this mill, and the product manufactured therefrom was shipped far and wide throughout the Northwest. About 1875 the company was organized as a corporation under the name of the Washburn Mill Company, with substantially the same ownership, and in 1880 the Lincoln Flour Mill was constructed, with a capacity of 600 to 700 barrels of flour per day. In the great fire of August 16, 1884, the Lincoln mill w^as destroyed, but owing to the elaborate precautions of F. L. Pinney, its superintendent, the saw mill and lumber yards were saved. A new Lincoln mill quickly rose from the ashes of the old mill, equipped with the latest improved machinery, which still continues to furnish employment to many residents of Anoka. The new mill has a capacity of 1600 barrels of flour per day. (See illustration page 126.)

Hon. Willi \m Drew W.asiiburn is a native of Maine, and the youngest of eleven children, two of whom became governors of states and members of congress, and two others became United States ministers to foreign countries. Mr. Washburn graduated from Bowdoin college in 1854. and after taking a law course came to St. Anthony in 1857. Soon after his arrival he became agent for the Minneapolis Mill Company, which owned the water power on the west side of the falls. The energy and business acumen with which he guided the company's business through the financial depression following the panic of 1857 won the confidence of men of means and no doubt in large measure laid the foundation for the immense enterprises, involving millions of dollars of capital, in which he afterward engaged. The projection and building of the Minneapolis &

Hon. Wii.Ltam D. Washburn

St. Louis Railroad and in later years of the MinneapoliL, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic, better known as the "Soo" Railway, were in large measure his work. Anoka county citizens have numerous reasons for remembering the aid given by him to worthy enterprises in their midst, and his kindly advice has been frequently sought by her business men in cases of emergency. In addition to his milling interests, Mr. Washburn was the founder of the Anoka National Bank, and also built an opera house at Anoka, which was destroyed in the fire of 1884. With all the pressure of private business, Mr. Washburn has found time to devote to public affairs. He was twice elected to a seat in the Minnesota legislature, and in 1878 became i member of congress from the district embracing Anoka county, serving three terms in the national House of Representatives. In 1889 he was elected United Statc> Senator from Minnesota in which capacity he served six years. As a director of the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company Senator Washburn still retains an interest in the Lincoln mill.

William Dinsmore Hale was born at Norridgewock, Maine, Aug. 16, 1836. He came to Minnesota in 1856. locating first in Goodhue county. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted as a private in Co. E, Third Minnesota Regiment In July. 1862, he was captured and parolled, returning to Minnesota and taking part in Colonel Sibley's campaign against the Sioux. Having been exchanged, he was again ordered south, and participated in the capture of Vicksburg and Little Rock. Later he became major of the Fourth Regiment of Colored U. S. Artillery, and served in that capacity until the close of the v^rar. After the war he came to Minneapolis and entered the employ of W. D. Washburn & Co., and in 1876 became a partner in the company and manager of its growing business. Here his extraordinary talent for details found an abundant field for development. Every part of the Lincoln mill at Anoka, from the piling under the foundation wall to the weather vane on the pinnacle of the flagstaff was the product of his care and forethought, and his ability in the selection of fit assistants reduced the complicated combination of manufacturing and marketing both lumber and flour to a system which ran as smoothly as one of their own Corliss engines. Miajor Hale's connection with Anoka business affairs terminated with the transfer of the Lincoln mill to the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Co., but he still holds a high place in the respect and esteem of her citizens. Major Hale has held various official positions of trust, and at the present time is postmaster of Minneapolis.

Thomas J. Abbett, head packer in the Lincoln mill since 1892, was born June 10, 1867, in Dakota county. His early schooling was in Hastings, but at the age of twelve his parents removed to Minneapolis, where he finished his education. He was later employed in the Pillsbury and Washburn mills until 1892. He then came to Anoka, and has filled the position of head packer at the flour mill in Anoka ever since. He was married in 1892, on the 20th of September, to Vernie D. Byers, of Minneapolis. He has occupied the position of president of the Anoka Street Fair Association since its inception some five years ago, and is affiliated with the Maccabees, K. P. and R. A. fraternities, while Mrs. Abbett is treasurer of the Anoka school district, having been chosen in 1902. Children, Gladys and Ruth.

Alanson George Aldrich, M. D., was born in Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, the son of John Rexford and Lois A. Randall Aldrich, and is the grandson of David Aldrich, a well known New England Quaker preacher. He was educated

Dr. Aldrich began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. H. M. Holmes of Adams, and attended his first course of lectures at the medical department of the University of Vermont. He later entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, receiving his degree therefrom in

1879. He practiced medicine in Massachusetts for three years, when he married Flora L. Southard of Westford, New York. In a trip to the Northwest a few months later, when visiting friends in this locality he decided to remain here for a few years. The few years have merged into many, and Dr. Aldrich is still an enthusiastic admirer of the North Star state, making Anoka his home with offices in Minneapolis and Anoka.

Dr. Aldrich devotes his practice exclusively to the specialt}' of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and is ably assisted by his wife. Dr. F. L. S. Aldrich. His preparation for this work has been extensive and thorough. In 1887 he took special instructions under Dr. F. C. Hotz at the Chicago Eye and Ear Infirmary, and in a few months thereafter another course in the same city. In 1888-9 he took the best courses obtainable in this country at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, also special work at the New York Post Graduate Hospital. In 1896 he was appointed clinical assistant to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, Eng., and to the Royal Ear Hospital, and the Central London Throat Hospital under the renowned Lennox Browne. This was followed by advanced private courses in the hospitals of Paris, Vienna, and other European cities.

Dr. Aldrich is a member of the Hennepin county Medical Society, the State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is a frequent contributor to journals of Ophthmology. He is a thirty-two degree Mason and a Shriner. He is an enthusiastic lover of field sports and of country life. His home, "Colonial Hall," at Anoka is largely maintained in order to bring him nearer the pleasures he so much enjoys. His private kennel always contains the finest breeds of hunting dogs, all well trained. Both he and his wife are advocates of the simple life ; both are enthusiastic students of natural sciences, and their home life is ideal. Dr. Aldrich politically is a radical Democrat and an independent thinker. Among his friends he is known as "a royal good fellow at all times."

Flora L. S. Aldrich, M. D., was bom in Westford, Otsego county, New York. Her ancestors were of the class known as the old Knickerbockers, residents of the Hudson river valley, and the Sutherlands of Otsego county. Her mother was the daughter of Isaac Sutherland, a gentleman of wealth who bestowed upon his daughter the best education procurable in those days, and their home, "Sutherland Place," was throughout her life a favorite visiting place for the educated and distinguished of the times. Here Doctor Aldrich and hef only brother were born, and three generations previous in which were only one son and one daughter in the same family.

On the eve of young womanhood Dr. Aldrich was bereft by death of this estimable mother's love and care, and her education which had been largely looked after by her mother, became academic and was procured at the local academies. Her collegiate training was largely private, taken almost entirely under men and women who were specialists in each department. Such careful training, together with the associations of her childhood and young womanhood, has developed a quality of mind and heart which every one of "Mrs. Dr. Aldrich's" acquaintances can testify to as standing for the highest ideals in everything.

In 1883 she was married to Dr. A. G. Aldrich of Adams, Berkshire Co., Mass., and immediately took up the study of medicine. In the autumn of that year they visited the Northwest, and through the influence of friends decided to locate in Anoka. She at once went on with her medical studies with her husband, and within three years received her degree from what is now the medical department of the State University. This was followed by two complete courses in the New York nospitals and in the Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital of New York city. In 1896, she together with her husband, spent nearly one year in the hospitals of Europe. From the beginning of her practice she has not only had a large clientelle in Anoka and vicinity, _ but great numbers from other Northwestern localities. She is a successful physician and a highly respected woman. For the last two years she has been an able assistant to her husband in the special work of eye, ear, nose and throat, and has become very proficient in this line of professional work.

She is a writer of beginning note in medical literature. She is a contributor to various medical journals, and has written a book for mothers, "My Child and I," which has a steady subscription sale by a Philadelphia publishing hou&e. She is a member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. She is a member of the Episcopalian church.

In her domestic life she is fortunate and happy, the wife of an able physician who is her co-worker and constant companion. Their home, "Colonial Hall" at Anoka, is one of unusual comfort and elegance.

William J. Annon was born in Ireland Jan. 7. 1867. He came to America at the age of thirteen. He received his education partly in Ireland and partly in New York city. He came west in 1893 and to Anoka in August of that year, as business manager of the Anoka Water Works, Electric Light and Power - Co., which position he still holds. Mr. Annon was married Jan. 2, 1850, to Jennie Shortt. Children: Walter T. and Charlotte Isabel.

Anoka. He worked as a clerk in various stores and about 1884, engaged with H. A. Harrington in the hnie and coal business, which continued for several years. He was then engaged in the breaking and sale of western horses at New Brighton for a few years. About 1895 he purchased his present farm in section 25, town of Burns. He has 85 acres of land, about 35 of which are under cultivation. He was married in March, 1883, to Edith Sanger. They have three children : Florence E., Earl and Donald.

John R. Be.\n was born April 25, 1830. in Enfield, Maine. Attended common schools in Oldtown and Bangor. When still a boy he went on a whaling voyage to the Pacific ocean, which took him around Cape Horn and back to New Bedford, Mass., consuming three years and three months in the cruise. He made two shorter sea voyages and then found employment in a cotton factory at Salmon Falls, New Hampshire. He came to St. Anthony, Minn., in September, 1848, and w^orked about the saw mills there until the fall of 1849, when in company with John Simpson he made a camp on the island in the Mississippi now called Cloutier's island about opposite the farm of C. G. Richardson in the town of Ramsey. At this camp a lively trade was carried on with the Winnebago Indians, who had not kept very closely upon their reservation at Long Prairie and were scattered all along the Mississippi above Itaska, and even as far south as the present site of Champlin. In the spring Mr. Bean built a log house on the main land on the present Richardson farm. 1853 Bean and Simpson made a trading trip to Pembina, where they remained one year. On one occasion Mr. Bean got across the British boundary and was captured by agents of the Hudson Bay Company, but luckily escaped without having his furs confiscated, being put back across the boundary with a warning to trade only south of the forty-ninth parallel. Mr. Bean then lived several years in St. Anthony, working in the saw mills. In 1855 he built a permanent dwelling on the present Richardson farm, where he lived continuously with the exception. of eighteen months, until 1870, when he purchased his present home in Anoka, where he has since lived.

Martin V. Bean was born in Dexter, Maine, Jan. 14, 1831. He engaged in farming until 1855, when he came to Anoka and worked at lumbering until 1862. In that year he enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment, serving as first sergeant and afterward as second lieutenant of that company until the close of the war. In 1872 he formed a partnership with C. S. Guderian and engaged in the hardware business. Some years later he purchased Mr. Guderian's interest, and has now associated with him his son, W. M. Bean. M. V. Bean was married in 1862 to Louisa McFarlan. Their daughter. Miss Edna Bean, is engaged in newspaper work, principally for Chicago papers.

John T. Benson was born at Sarpsborg, in the southern part of Norway, Jan. 24, 1849. At the age of eleven he went on a sea voyage, and followed a sailor's life for some ten years, visiting England, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Argentine Republic, Japan, China and Egypt, in which last named country he enjoyed a bath in the Nile river. He came to America in 1870, and at Buffalo, shipped for a lake voyage to Chicago. He served as first mate on lake vessels for five years. About 1871 he purchased 80 acres in section 11. town of Burns, Anoka Co., but did not take up a permanent residence here until 1882. He was married in Chicago Dec. 18, 1879, to Clara M. Mattson. Children : Jennie T., Theodore C, Frederick J., Walter, Lydia, Leonard and Hazel P.

Frederick A. Blanchard was born at Charlotte, Washington Co., Maine, Dec. 8, 1840. June 14, 1861, he enlisted in the Sixth Maine Regiment, which was attached to the Army of tho Potomac. He was with McClellan in his seven days' fight beginning with the battle of Mechanicsville and closing with the battle of Malvern Hill. Mr. Blanchard was soon after transfered to the Veteran's Reserve Corps, and was quartermaster sergeant and did clerical work in the War Department. He came to Minnesota in 1870, and settled in Ham Lake. About 1873 he took a homestead in section 34, town of Ham Lake, where he has since lived. At the age of sixteen he made his first political speech, which was for Fremont in 1856 at Charlotte, Me. He served three years as chairman of the board of supervisors of

Ham Lake ; was also town clerk three years and clerk of the school district about thirty years. For nine years he has been secretary of the Anoka County Sunday School Association. Mr. Blanchard was married March 19, 1870, to Bessie R. Hill. Children: Hill (died in infancy). Maud L. (Mrs. C. R. Skillings, Bay Lake, Crow Wing Co.), Henry A. (Minneapolis), Charles E. (died about 1899), Frederick W. (with Wyman, Part-

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John C. Bowers was a native of Blair Co., Penn., obtaining his education at the Academy of Harrisburg, Penn. In 1850 he came to Minnesota and in 1851 to Itaska, Anoka Co., where he kept a hotel from 1853 to 1855. He held variouj town offices and was postmaster for twenty-five years, having served previously as postoffice clerk at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. During the years 1851-2 he was messenger in the Territorial Legislature. He also served for twelve years following the fall of 1864 as station agent at Itaska. His wife's maiden name was Isabel Trapierre. Children: Cecelia (Mrs. W. D. Brimmer), and Charles E.

Scipio Bond, D. D. S., was born April 28, 1859, in Dayton, Hennepin county, Minn. His ancestors on both sides were Quakers. He attended the common schools of Hennepin county, and graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Denta' Surgery at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1889. In 1892 he took a post graduate course in the dental department of Northwestern University at Chicago. He has been engaged in the practice of dentistry at Anoka some twenty years. He is a member of the State Dental Society, and is at the present time (October, 1904) the presiding officer of the Anoka lodge of Knights of Pythias. Dr. Bond was married in December. 1886, to Laura A. Burrill, of Minneapolis. Tliey have one daughter, Dorothy.

Ch.\rles E. Bowers (son of John C. Bowers) was born at Williamsburg. Blair Co., Penn., July 4. 1844. At the age of nine his parents came to Minnesota, settling at Itaska, Anoka Co., June 8, 1853. For the first few years his playmates were Winnebago Indian boys, members of that tnbe being encamped at Itaska and vicinity. After obtaining a common school education, he took up farming. In Septeml>er, 1862. he enlisted in Minnesota Mounted Rangers, Company C, serving for thirteen months. For fifteen years he served as town treasurer of Ramsey. ' April 29, 1896, he was married to Lucy E. Faherty. Children : C. Warren. Walter Donald, and Frederick J.

Howard H. Bradeen was born at Biddeford, Maine, June ig, 1867. The family removed to Minnesota and to Anoka in May, 1877. After leaving school Mr. Bradeen took up the work of an accountant, and is now employed in that capacity at the Lincoln mill. In April, 1902, he was elected city treasurer, re-elected in 1903 and again in 1904, and is still serving in that position. Mr. Bradeen was married Feb. 20, 1889, to Belle C Stone. They have one son, Leon E.

I, 1837. He came to Champlin in February, 1863, where he engaged in blacksmithing. In 1866 he was married to Almiri Parker. They have one daughter, Ella F. (Mrs. James Leach).

Sanford Broaddent (son of Thomas Broadl)ent) was born in South Walpole, Mass., April 18, 1835. He first worked in a sash and door factory in Southbri&ge, Mass. He enlisted July

II. 1862. in the Thirty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. Ha was severely wounded at the battle of Newmarket, Va. He was taken prisoner and was confined in Andersonvillc for a number of months. After the war he lived in Jefferson county, New York, until 1869. when he came to Anoka Co.. and purchased his faim in the town of Lin wood a vear later.

Thomas Broadbent (deceased) was born at Saddleworth, Lincolnshire, England, Oct. 2, 1810. After coming to America he worked in the woollen mills in Massachusetts. In 1872 he came to Minnesota and to Anoka county, and purchased a farm in the town of Grow. He was married to Esther P. Carroll. Children: Julius (deceased), Sanford (Linwood), John (deceased), Julius (kilkd at battle of Antietam), Emily T., and Sarah A.

Louis H. Bruns was born in Chicago Nov. 28, 1852. He learned the trade of a watchmaker and jeweler, and in 1872, came to Anoka. Here he worked at his trade for a short time and then engaged in the jewelry business on his own account, in which business he is still engaged. He is also a skilled optician. Mr. Bruns was married April 15, 1875, to Lizzie A. Leeman.

in 1845 went to Ohio, finally settling at Dayton, where he lived until i860. He worked first as a shoemaker, bnt afterward studied law and was acjmitted to the bar in 1853. He came to Anoka in i860, and in 1862, enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment. Upon the death of Captain Cady he became captain of the company, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. He was county attorney of Anoka county several terms, and mayor of the City of Anoka in 1880 and 1881. He was married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth McKechnie, to whom he was married in 1845, and who died in 1852. In 1856 he was married to Lucy Beal, who died in 1868. In 1876 he was married to Mrs. Amanda Johnson. Mr. Butterfield died Dec. 15. 1886.

Arthur Tubal Caine, M. D., graduated from both the old and new courses of the Medical Department of the Minnesota State University, and soon after was chosen interne at the St. Paul City and County Hospital ('98-99). After practicing at Lake Preston for a couple of years, he came to Anoka in March, 1901. He received his earlier training in the schools of Stillwater, Minn., and graduated from the high school of that city in 1892, and later entered the academic department of the Minnsota State L^niversity, where he spent two years. Dr. Caine was appointed health officer in March. 1904, and later in the same year, coroner of Anoka Co., and is surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railway. During the Spanish-American war Dr. Caine enlisted in the Red Cross work and was sent to Cuba. He is a member of the Masonic order. Woodmen, Yeomen, Hibernians, Royal Neighbors and Maccabees. Dr. Caine was born in St. Paul, Minn., May 24, 1875.

Cyrus W. Campbell (deceased) was born at Bedford, N. H., Mar. 23, 1828, and came to Anoka just before the Civil War, where he engaged in the sash and door business and later farmed. He was married in 1851 to Julia Emery. Children: Ella, John W., Charles, C. Newton (Boston, Mass.), and Arthur (died 1884). Mr. Campbell died Dec. 17, 1903.

Fred A. Campbell was born Dec. 14, 1859, at Dow^agiac, Michigan. After a short residence in Chicago he came to Anoka in the early seventies, and soon commenced the printer's trade in his father's printing office - the Republican office. At the present time he is employed in the Union office. He was married Apr. 30, 1881, to Ida Guderian, and there have been born: Hazel, Frank, Phoebe (died Mch. i, 1903), Mona Alan, Meryl, Donald, Mildred and Kenneth.

John T. Campbell was born in New Lenox, Will Co., Ill, Oct. 27, 1866. From the age of sixteen he worked in a general store in his native town. Four years later he bought the business and conducted the same until 1892. He afterward ^vorked for the Rock Island Railway Co. and as superintendent of Shawneetown Electric Light Co., Shawneetown, 111. In 1859 he was married to Anna Grace Gillett. He came to Anoka Co. in September, 1902, and in August of the following year assumed charge of the exchange of the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co. at Anoka. Children : Anna Grace, Marie, Harold, L'aisy and John.

Charles H. Card was born at Woodstock, N. B., August 25. 1859. Came to Minnesota with his parents in 1866. He has lived in Anoka most of the time since. Received a common school education and learned the trade of a blacksmith, and later practiced as a veterinary surgeon. Served in the fire department for twenty-one years, part of the time as captain of the engine company. May 11, 1882, he was married to Augusta L. Molloy of Anoka. Children : Ethel, George, Susan, Arthur, Charles, Esther and Rebecca Bernice.

Stephen A. Carlisle was born at Calais, Maine, Mar. 15, 1866. At the age of fourteen his parents removed to Minneapolis, Minn., where he attended the public schools. After leaving school he went into the fish and oyster business, which he continued some ten years. In 1897 he purchased considerable tracts of land in the town of Linwood and actively entered the business of dealing in Anoka county lands. He has undoubtedly been the means of bringing more people into Anoka county than any other man during the past eight years. Mr. Carlisle has been quite active in politics, and in 1900 he was chairman of the Republican county committee. He has served two terms as member of the school board, and was postmaster at Linwood from 1898 to 1904, when a rural delivery route was established and the office discontinued. Mr. Carlisle has two land offices.

one at Wyoming, Chisago county, and the other at 654 Temple Court, Minneapolis. He was married Nov. 19, 1887, to Nettie L. Johnson, of Brooklyn, Hennepin Co. They have two children, Clifford A. and Fisher A.

high .school in 1896, and for a time was eng iged in farming and teaching school. In 1900 he graduated from the denta' department of the University of Minnesota, and July 9th of thai year, came to Anoka, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Dr. Carlson was married June 26, 1901. to Grace Williams. They have one daughter, Harriet Elizabeth.

Daniel P. Carlstedt was born at Orstad, Wermland, Sweden, Dec. 12, 1844. He engaged in farming and mining, coming to America and to Minnesota in 1872. He worked in Minneapolis at bricklaying. Dec. 22, 1888, he settled on his farm in siection 2, town of Burns, where he has since lived. He was town supervisor one year and a member of the school board from 1891 to 1897. He was married Dec. 3, 1887, to Mrs. Paulina Moline. They have three living children : Martin Hjalmar, Helga v., and Arthur. Mrs. Carlstedt has two living children by a former marriage : Amy N. R. C. Moline and Andros R. A'loline. Mrs. Carlstedt's father, Andros J. Joiinson, represented Kalmar in the Swedish Rigsdag for sixteen years.

Lewis J. Carpenter was born in Chautauqua Co., New York, Jan 28, 1836. His father removed to Michigan in 1844, where he attended the common schools and worked at farming. He came to Anoka Co., Apr. i, 1861, settling in section 28, town of Ramsey. He has held various town offices. He enlisted in 1864 in Hatch's Independent Battalion of Cavalry and served until mustered out in August, 1865. He was married Feb. 14, i860, to Ann Prankish. Children: Elmer E. (died 1896), Frank S., Herbert (died 1897), Albert (Missoula, Mont.), Clinton C. (now a physician at Bird Island, Minn.), and Annette (Mrs. A. W. Gardner).

Albert J. Caswell was born in Brompton. Canada, Jan. 15, 1835. At the age of 16 his father removed to Vermont, where he remained! until 1856, when he came west and located at Mannannah, Meeker Co. In 1859 he went overland to California, where he remained three jears. He then returned to Mannannah, and after one year removed to Coon creek, town of Anoka, where he resided up to the time of his death Feb. 29, 1892. In 1864 he was married to Martha Hayden. Children : Arthur A., Irving A., and Herbert.

Alonzo M. Caswell was born in Melbourne, Lower Canada, Oct. 2, 1833. Came to Minnesota in 1854, and to Anoka Co. in 1863. Died at Minneapolis, May 6, 1902.

Arthur A. Caswell was born at Coon creek in the town of Anoka, Sept. 30, 1867. He "attended first the school in district 15, and graduated from the Anoka high school in 1886.

While attending the high school he learned the printer's trade. In 1889 in partnership with his brother, I. A. Caswell, he leased and later purchased the Anoka Herald, which he edited for two years, selling his interest to his brother in 1892. He published a paper at Excelsior, Hennepin Co.,* two years, and then became editor of the Princeton Union, which position he held six years. In 1898 at the time of the Spanish war he enlisted in Co. M, Fourteenth Minnesota Regiment, and served with that company as first lieutenant until the regiment was mustered out at the close of the war. In 1901 he returned to Anoka, where he has since resided. In 1904 he was elected county auditor. In 1891 he was married to Alice M. McLeod. They have six children : Alice M., Keith P., Robert K., .Arthur D., Leigh. Beth.

Irving A. Caswell was born* in the town of Anoka, Feb. 25, 1870. He received his education at the Anoka high school and the University of Minnesota. In 1892 he purchased the .Ailoka Herald and was its owner for some ten years, and during the greater part of the time its editor. He was postmaster at Anoka from 1901 to 1505. Mr. Caswell was married June 3, 1899. to Mary D. Woodbury. They have one son, Dwight Woodbury Caswell.

Roe Giddings Chase was born at Anoka, Jan. 16, 1878, where he attended the high school. He entered the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1897, graduating with the class of 1901. After leaving college Mr. Chase devoted himself to illustrating for newspapers and magazines, his work takmg him into nearly every state in the Union in the search for articles and pictures of interest. After a year spent in this work his ambitions outran his physical strength and his sight began to fail. He was compelled to give up this line of work and recuperate among the trout streams and the deer licks of the far west. Returning to Anoka in 1902, he purchased the Anoka Herald, and has since edited the paper. Personally Mr. Chase is fond of outdoor sports - fishing, hunting and yachting. He owns a fine summer cottage at Lake George, where he spends the summer. His sail boat is the largest and fastest on the lake, and has frequently vanquished the lesser craft in sailing matches. He is an active member of the Methodist church and a member of fraternal lodges, notably the Knights of Pythias and the Masons.

Ch.\rles E. Chase was born in Lincoln county, Maine, May 14, 1846. He was engaged in mercantile business at an early age, and came to Anoka about 1871, where he was engaged in the grocery business until 1877. Later he had charge of the shingle mill of W. D. Washburn & Co., and is now manager for the Reed & Sherwood Company at Anoka. Mr. Chase was married May 27, 1876 to Lina M. Giddings. They have two sons^ Roe G. and Raymond P.

Ch.vrles B. Church was born at Lebanon, Xew York, March 24, 1838, where he received his education. He lived ip Wayne Co., N. Y., several years, and then engaged in the meat business at Tecumseh, Mich., where he remained from 1856 t') 1866. Li 1867 he came to .-\.noka. where he has since resided. He has always, taken an interest in musical matters, and in the later seventies was president of the Anoka Musical Association and also leader of the cornet band. He was mnrried in i860 to Mary A. Ayer. They have had one child, Hattie B., who died May 11, 1866.

Jo.^EPH C. Clark was born in Perry. Washing Ion Co.. Me., Nov. 28, 1836, where he learned the trade of a shoemaker. His health failing, he came west, first to Illinois for a year and then to Minnesota, where he arrived in 1870, and bought a farm in section 3, town of Grow, where he lived up to the time of his death, July 6, 1897. He was married Nov. 28, 1861, to Mary E. Anderson, who died in 1886. He was again married Feb. 11. 1888, to Esther J. Hunter. Children: Mary, Joseph C, Clyde W. and Eleanor.

Wilbur F. Chase was born in Lincoln, Maine, June 6, 1842. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Second Maine Regiment, but was discharged for disability after nine months' service. He afterward served in the Sixteenth Maine Regiment, and was taken prisoner June 6, 1864, and confined in Libby prison, and transferred thence to Andersonville, and remained a prisoner until the close of the war. After the war Mr. Chase came to Minnesota, and to Anoka about 1872. Mr. Chase has been engaged in the lumber business during the greater part of his residence here, and has served several terms as county commissioner.

Francis T. Clark (son of Josiah F. Clark) was born June 14, 1851, at Brooks, Waldo Co., Maine. He came to Anoka with his parents when a small child and received his education in tlie Anoka schools. He served a few months as deputy county auditor under L. C. Bixby. He afterward removed to a farm in section 13, town of Burns, where he lived until the time of his death, March 25, 1898. He was married Sept. 25, 1875, to Ada F. Norris. Children : Cecil L., Effie A., Thomas Alonzo, and Ada May.

JosiAH F. Cl.\kk was the first probate judge of Anoka county after the organization of the state. This was in 1858. His official career thereafter was considerable. In the fall of 1866 he was elected county treasurer, taking charge the following March. He continued in this capacity for four years. He held several other important offices, among which were justice of the peace, and clerk of the school board for four years. Mr. Clark was born in China, Kennebec Co., Maine, Mar. 9, i82j, where he completed his education in the China Academy. He came to Anoka county April 18, 1854, 'ind pre-empted a claim two miles above Champlin. Two years thereafter, having proved up on his farm, he moved to Anoka and worked at hia trade, carpentering, but many years after returned to farming. In 1902, however, he removed again to Anoka, where he still lives. He taught a singing school at Anoka in the winters of 1855-6 and 1856-7. He was the first teacher of vocal music north of St. Anthony. He enlisted in 1862 in Co. A, Eighth Minn. Regiment, and was made chief musician, serving until the war closed. Judge Clark was married July 2, 1842, to Louisi Brown. Children: Augusta (died 1865), Georgiana (Mrs. Norris, Anoka), Francis T. (died 1891), and Josiah W. (See portrait, page 118.)

John F. Clements was born at Monroe, Maine, Apr. 10, 1826. Worked at farming and lumbering until his removal to Minnesota in the spring of 1855, landing in St. Paul May ist of that year. Worked in St. Anthony one year and in the spring of 1856 took up a claim in section 18, town of Oak Grove, where he has since resided. He was married May 3, 1849, to Margaret Davis, who died Jan. 28, 1903. Children: Silas W. (Hibbard, Fremont Co., Idaho), Eugene P. (Hibbard. Idaho). Margaret W. (Mrs. Frank Moulton, Anoka), Flora J. (Mrs. H. S. Miller).

in the saw mills about four years. Since then he has worked in the pineries. Has been foreman of logging crews for several Minneapolis firms. Kept a hotel at Milaca, Minn., two years. Bought his present home in section 14, town of Ramsey in 1897. Mr. Clinch was married Sept. 24, 1895, to Scleda B. Sproul.

Edward S. Clinch was born in St. George, N. B., July 4, 1828. Came to St. Anthony about 1857, lived there about a year, then came to Anoka Co., and took up a claim on Crooked brook in the town of Grow. Lived there until he enlisted in 1862 in Co. A, Eighth Minn. Regiment. Was \\ith Captai.i Cady wdien he was killed and with the assistance of Elias W. Pratt brought Cady's body to Anoka. Was manied in 1850 to Anna Brockway. Children: James, (died 1877), Anthony B. (Rush City, Minn. J, Maria (Mrs. A. C. Hay, Oaksdale, Wash.), Augusta J. (Mrs. Joseph Dye, Duluth, Mum.), Nellie May (Mrs. Joseph Thayer, died Jan., 1900), Alice (Mrs. Alexander Frazer, Drinkwater, Assiniboia), Edgar S., Fred G. (died Dec. 1903), Bessie (Mrs. Frank Webster, River Falls, Wis.), Jennie (Mrs. Harry Wheeler, Duluth, Minn.), Carleton W. (Courtney, N. D.).

Guilford D. Coleman was born at Vasselboro, Maine, Feb. 22, 1832. In 1855 he was married to Ellen C. Webber, and the following year he located at Anoka, where he conducted a blacksmith shop almost continuously until his death Nov. 30, 1903. Mrs. Coleman died in October, 1881. leaving six children: Dana S. (Hankinson, N. D.), Esther F. (Mrs. Fit/., Monterey, Minn.), Eleanor J. (Mrs. King. Bozeman, Mont.), Ammi C. (Great Falls. Mont.), Lucy E. (Mrs. Russell. Lewiston, Mont.), and Nellie W. (Kendall, Mont.). Mr. Coleman's second wife was Mary J. Woods.

Ammi Cutter Coleman was born in Anoka, Minn., June 16, 1867, and was educated in the common schools and high school of Anoka. After leaving school he took up telegraphy and bookkeeping. Feb. 15, 1890, he went to Great Falls, Montana, wher^ he has been registrar of water works for fifteen years. He is unmarried.

in 1849 he went there as a miner. In 1855 he came to Minnesota and in 1884 to Champlin, where he worked at lumliering. He was married in 1841 to Hannah Corson. Children : James. A., Clarence (deceased), Grace (Mrs. W. H. Gay), Ida (Mr«. W. H. Miars).

Albert D. Cook (son of Alonzo Cook) was born at Manatinah. Meeker Co., Minn., Jan. 21, 1862. In August of the same year the family left Mannannah on account of the Sioux Indian massacre, and settled at Coon creek in the town of Anoka. The father died in 1863, and the family moved to Aiioka in 1867. Albert received his education in the Anoka schools. He worked at logging and lumbering, chieHy for the Washburn Mill Co. until August, 1887, since which time he has been employed in the office of the Surveyor General of Logs and L-imber for the Second District of Minnesota, and has lived in Miiuicapolis.

Alonzo Cook was born in Milan. New Hampshire, Oct. 16, 1831. Came to Minnesota in 1856, settling at Mannannah, Meeker Co. In .August of that year he came to Anoka county and settled on a farm at Coon creek in the town of Anoka, where he died Apr. 27, 1863. His wife was Alma J. Caswell, daughter of Moody Caswell. One son is living, Albert D. Cook (Minneapolis).

Ch.-\rles I. Cook was born at Anoka, Jan. 17, 1865. After leaving school he engaged in printing and publishing, and for a few years was half owner and editor of the Anoka Herald. Ho served as alderman from the Second ward from 1S99 to 1901, when he resigned. Joined Company B, Third Regt. Inf. N. G. S. M. in 1887; was elected second lieutenant in 1890, first lieutenant in 1894, and regimental quartermaster in 1895. Was back in Co. B as first lieutenant in 1897, and at the call for troops for the Spanish-American war, was with Co. B, mustered into the U. S. service as a part of the Fourteenth Minn., Vols., April 8, 1898. Was honorably discharged from the U. S. service Nov. 18, 1898, and from the state service in 1900. Mr". Cook was married Aug. 16, 1884, to Harriette May Stewart. They have three daughters: Florence Emma, B. Frances and Cecil I flour mill, and remained in Anoka until the fall of 1862, when he enlisted in Co. A of the Eighth Minnesota Regiment and served until the war closed. After the war he re<^urned to Anoka, whero he was employed in the flour mill manj' years. He was married in 1861 to Margaret Van Nes-s. Children : Mrs. A. D. Howard, Mrs. Wesley Field, Juha Cook and George Cook.

James Cooper was born near Belfast, Ireland, June 24, 1805. He came to America about 1834, locating at Quebec, where he worked at shipbuilding about three years, removing thence to Philadelphia, where he lived some four years. Aljout 1841 he established a colony of residents of Philadelphia in what was then a wilderness in Bradford county, Pennsylvan'a, where he built a saw mill to manufacture the lumber for the houses of the colonists. There he lived some fifteen years. In October, 1856, he came to Minnesota, and took a pre-emption claim in sections 29 and 32 in what is now the town of Bethel. The next spring he brought his family to their new home, which they reached June 24, 1857. About 1863 he was appointed postmaster at Bethel, which office he held some fifteen years. About 1876 Hugh Spence started a store near Mr. Cooper's nouse and the place began to be known as Cooper's Corners. The store afterward passed into Mr. Coopers hands and he conducted it until his death, April 2, 1893. He was married in 1831 to Isabel Neill, who died in 1849. Children: Rachel (died at two years of age), Sarah (Mrs. William Tennison, died 1883), John (St. Cloud, Minn.), William (died 1882), Isabel (Mrs. Benjamin Grinnols, Fairhaven, Stearns Co.), Elizabeth (Mrs. George Secoy, died about 1868), Margaret A. (Mrs. T. C. Hyatt, Fairhaven), and James H. Mr. Cooper's second wife was Nancy Minard, who died in 1865, leaving two children, Roxie (Mrs. Stephen Dyer), and Samuel F. His thi.-d wife was Rebecca P. Milligan, who died in June, 1900, leaving three children: Evaline

Bradford Co., Pa., Aug. i, 1847. When ten years of age his father came to Minnesota and settled in sections 29 and 32 town of Bethel, where Mr. Cooper still lives. In January, 1882, he was appointed postmaster at Bethel, which office he retained until 1893, during which time he also kept a generul store. Mr. Cooper still owns the original pre-emption claim of 160 acres which his father took up in 1856, and still lives in the house which his father built in 1859 with lumber sawed by hand. Mr. Cooper was married in August, 1869, to Rebecca P. Dyer, who died Feb. 18, 1883, leaving four children: Leland J., Levina J. (Mrs. John Dawson, Jr., Fridley), William Guy, and Stephen J. Mr. Cooper was married, second, Dec. 29, 1886, to Sarah L. Mitchell. Children : Elizabeth R., Beatrice L., Olive E., Leah Isabel, Charles H. and Gordon A.

John Cundy was born at St. George, New Brunswick, Jan. 14, 1814. He had a good common school education, acquired in his. native province, and took up the business of lumbering, which he followed throughout his life. He came to Anoka, Minn., in 1853, just as the town was being started, and lived there until the time of his death. Mr. Cundy was married Nov. 16, 1837, to Mary E. Gilmor. Children : Wiliam E., Sarah M., Mary E. (Mrs. .-Alexander Graiiam, Spokane, Wash.), O'ive L., and Frederick G.

William E. Cundy (son of John Cundy) was lorn at Charlotte, New Brunswick, Aug. 13, 1838. He attended the schools at Baring, Maine, where he also got his first insight into the lumber .business. In 1854 he came with his parents to Minnesota, arriving at Anoka October 12th of that year. The family lived at the Fairbanks boarding house until a house could be constructed. Mr. Cundy first went to work at the saw mill of Dunn & Farnham, and worked successively for A. P. Lane, James McCann, Ammi Cutter, W. D. Washburn & Co. and Reed & Sherwood. He enlisted in April 1861, at St. Anthony in Company E, First Minnesota Regiment, and was discharged with his regiment at the close of the three years term. Mr. Cundy participated in the battle of Bull Run, and at Antietam, where he was wounded and captured. He was afterwards exchanged and took part in both battles of Fredericksburg and the battle of Gettysburg. Mr. Cundy was married Sept. 22, 1864, to Alice D. Frost. Children: Ernest W., .\lice S. (Mrs. Frederick Godecke), Narcissa L., George B. and John G.

May, 1845. Children : Mary J., John W., Nancy A., and Esther. Came to N. Y. fall of 1845, living at Dansville, N. Y., where all the children were born. Moved to Minnesota in 1856, settling on a farm in section 24, town of Grow. He died July 2j, 188.3. He was a Mason of high standing in the old country.

John W. Curry was born May 26, 1849, in Dansville, Livingstone Co., N. Y. Came to Minnesota with his parents and family in June, 1856, and lived on the farm in sec. 24, town ot Grow, until about 1903. Married Sarah E. Sheppard Feb. I. 1880. Children: Clara E., (died July 25, 1884), Ada J. Mr. Curry served on the town board almost continuously after 1880.

Ammi Cutter (deceased) was born at Westbrook, Maine, May 23, 1819. At the age of twenty he went to Lovell, Maine, where he became sherifif of the county and also a member of the governor's council. In September, 1857, he came to Anoka, where he engaged in dry goods, grocery and lumber business, afterward adding the manufacture of flour and pork barrels and pails and tubs. In 1862 he enlisted in the Seventh Minnesota Regiment, and was, afterward captain and assistant quartermaster in the United States Volunteers. After the war he went through a series of disasters. His saw mill, sash and door and tub and pail factories, upon which there was iiO insurance, were burned, and his grist mill was swept away by a flood. He continued in the grocery business and later in the dry goods business, for some years. In 1879 he purchased the Sun and Republican,- and changed the name to Herald, which he sold after a few years to Alvah Eastman. Later he developed great talent as a megnetic physician, and opened an office in St. Paul, where he was very successful until his de?1:h, July 24, 1896. At the age of twenty-one he was married to Olive C. Eastman, who died in 1902. Children: Jennie R. (Mrs. A. Ross, Glen Ellen, Cal.), Henry H. (Palocedro, Cal). Mary S. (Mrs. O. L. Cutter), and Charles H. (Oakland, Cal.). (See portrait, page 85.)

Oscar L. Cutter (deceased) was born in Westbrook, Me., in 1846. He came to Anoka in 1865. He was a man of ex traordinary popularity, and served in some public capacity almost his whole life. He was county auditor several terms, judge of probate, deputy county treasurer, city clerk, alderman, mayor, city assessor, treasurer of school board, chief of fire department,.

and secretary of the state senate in 1887 ^nd 1880. For some yenrs previous to his death he was cashier of Anoka State Bank. Mr. Cutler was married about 1868 to Ella Butterfield, who died as the result of an accident, leaving one son, Marcus C. (St. Paul). His second wife was Mary S. Cutter, to whom he was married Jan. i, 1878. Children; Carl (died Oct. 30, 1885), Harlan (died May 20. 1889), Edward B. and Ross. Mr. Cutter died Sept 4. 1898. Mrs. Cutter is at the present time clerk of the Board of Education. (See portrait, page 122.)

Az.\Ri.\H D.wis was born in Butli.T county, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1819. He was reared on a farm and continued to follow farming until he came to Anoka in 1870. Here he was engaged chiefly in real estate and brokerage business, until the time of his death, Dec. 8, 1893. He was married Oct. 3, 1842, to Caroline Monday. They had one daughter. Mrs. B. D. Woodmansee.

GusT.WE H. DoMNiNG was born in East Prussia, Germany, Sept. 3, 1850. He came to America and to Minneapolis in i86y. He worked at dairying two years, and afterward at inason work. He also worked two years in the North Star Woollen Mills. In 1889 he purchased forty acres in section :i6, town of Blain°, where he still resides. He was married Dec. 14, 1874, to Caroline M. Hohler. Children: George (New Brighton, Ramsey Co.). Carrie M., Josephine (Mrs. Russell Austin), Julia (Mrs. Albert Hughes, New Brighton P. O.), Edward J. (First Ave. Hotel, Seattle, Wash.), Jacob O.. Louisa A., Laura J.. Frederick R.

.\LnEKT DooiES was born in Cronnan, Holland, Sept. 25, 1866. He came to St. Anthony with his parents in 1869, and moved in 1884 to the farm in the town of Fridley, where he engaged in farming and dairying and where he now resides. He was married Jan II. 1894, to Imma Algauer.

J.\MES M. Douglas w^as born at Riveirc du Loup (now Louisville), about three miles from the St. Lawrence river, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, Jan. 17. 1828. About 1850 he went to Lowell, Mass., where he worked in the wood working department of a large cotton mill. In 1855 he came to Minnesota, and located first at Winona, and a year later moved to Minneiska. in Wabasha countv. where he made his home until 1869. He enlisted early in February, 1864, in the Tenth Minnesota Regiment, and a few days' later was detailed for office work at Fort Snelling. He was in charge of the office during the summer. In Sep'tember he was assigned to Company F of the Fourth Minnesota Regiment, which he reached in time to take part in the battle of Altoona Pass, and was with Sherman in his march to the sea. He was mustered out with his regiment July 19, 1865. In 1869 he came to Anoka and opened a furniture and undertaking establishment, which business he continued until he sold it in June, 1903. He was a member of the city council one year and was elected mayor of Anoka in 1884. He was married Dec. 27, 1852, to Minerva J. Simpson. There are three living children : Frederick H. (Auburn, Placer Co., Cal.), James E. (1814 Reid St., Los Angeles, Cal.), Kenneth V. (216 Winsted St., Los Angeles, Cal.).

William Morrill Dowlin was born at Bradford, New Hampshire, April 24, 1838. He received his education in the schools at Bradford, the high school at Lowell, Mass., and Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. He came to Minnesota in the spring of 1866, arriving at Champlin in April, where he has been employed as bookkeeper and time keeper. He has been supervisor and was constable from 1874 to 1877. Mr. Dowlin was married July 2, 1870, to Louisa C. Kimball. Children: Winnie 'E., Susan (Mrs. Arthur J. Miller), Albert U., Charles M. and Floyd E.

Arthur Z. Downs was born at Champlin, Nov. 30, 1858. Received his education in the schools of Champlin and Dayton. About 1871 his father purchased a farm in section 16, town of Dayton, where he resided until 1900, since which time he has been a resident of Minneapolis. Mr. Downs has been twice married. His first wife was Cora Fullerton, to whom he was married Nov. 14, 1883, and who died Oct. 2, 1887, leaving one son, Joseph. His second wife was Helen R. Laflin, to whom he was married in 1891. They have two children : Clifford R. and Anna E.

Joseph Downs (deceased) was born at Orland, Maine, Jan. 15, 1823. He lived in Maine until 1853, removing in that year to Evans Center, New York, and came to Minnesota m 1854. He located upon a farm in the town of Dayton near Diamond lake, where he lived two winters. In the spring of 1857 he opened a hotel at Champlin, which he conducted for two years, and then lived on farms in Champlin and Dayton until the beginning of the Rebellion. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment, and remained with that regiment until the close of the war. After the war he returned to farming in the town of Dayton, and died there about 1878. He was married at Albion, Maine, to Anne Wiggins. Children: Octavia J. (Mrs. Stockton, died in June, 1885), Walter T. (Minneapolis), Nancy J. (Mrs. N. Colburn. Champlin), Arthur Z. (Minneapolis), and Ellen M. (Mrs. Walter Green, now living in Maine).

RuFUS T. Downs (deceased) was a native of Maine. He came to Minnesota in 1854, and purchased a fine farm on the bank of the Mississippi river in the town of Ramsey, where he lived during the remainder of his life. He serA-ed several terms as county commissioner, and during a portion of the - time was chairman of the board.

Zelotes Downs (deceased) was born at Orland, Maine, June 15, 1814. He attended the academy at Bucksport, Maine, and on leaving school engaged first in lumbering. He camo to Minnesota April 19. 1854, and lived for some years on a farm in the town of Brooklyn, Hennepin Co., whence he moved to .A.noka in May, 1870. He was for a time in the hardware business at Anoka, and later purchased the old Trott iavm in the town of Ramsey. He served ns justice cf the peace and clerk of the school board. Mr. Downs was twice marrie'l. His first wife was E. A. Burrill, to nhom he was married Dec. 9, 1838, and who died in Maine. His second wife was Catherine Farnham, to whom he was married Aug. 31, 1852. Children: Carrie (deceased), Mary (Mrs. Livingston L. Este.", Brooklyn, Hennepin Co.), George (died in the army), and Flora (deceased).

Job E.\stm.\n was one of the earliest settlers of Anoka county, having arrived at Rice creek from his native town, Lovell. Maine, in the fifties. He was in the lumbering business until the late si.xties, later conducted the old Kimb?.ll House at Anoka, and was after that in various enterprises. He was married .-Kug. 14, 1857, to Kate M. Kimball, at Cnnwny. N. H.

Alvah Eastman

the academies at Fryeburg and North Bridgton, Maine. Came to Anoka in 1880, where he owned and edited the Anoka Herald until 1891. He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1888, member of the Minnesota legislature in 1889, and U. S. internal revenue agent three years. In 1892 he purchased the St. Cloud Journal-Press and established the daily edition. Mr. Eastman is receiver of the U. S. land office at St. Cloud and president of the Minnesota State Normal Board. He

Charles J. Edgarton (son of Festus A. Edgarton) wis born at Oriskey Falls, New York, May 11, i860. He attended the graded schools in Chicago two years and later the schools in Ramsey, Anoka Co. He came to Anoka Co. with his parents Apr. 9, 1874, settling in the town of Ramsey, and worked at farming from that date until 1886. After one year in a saw mill and one year in the Pillsbury-Vvashburn flour mill, he worked five years in the grocery of George Wethern. In the spring of 1893 he started in the grocerv business on his own account in which business he is still rrgaged. He served as city treasurer from 1899 to 1901. " He w:is married June 8, 1884, to Cora E. Lepper. Children: Ralph F.. Karl O., Ruth (died Oct. 13, 1894), and Faith. Mrs. Cora Edgarton was born at St. Joseph. Mo.. Sept. 25. 1862. Came to Anoka in 1867. where she lived for thirty j'ears. She graduated from the Anoka high school and taught school in the county three years. She worked in the grocery store with her husband eight years, and stayed and helped all the time she could outside of her housekeeping until her death Feb. ii, 1903. She died very suddenly, having been sick only seven Jays.

Festus a. Edgarton (deceased) was born at Oriskey Falls, Oneida Co., New York, Jan 27, 1828. He received his education in the days when schoolmasters believed in whipping. He worked sixteen years for the state on the canal, repairing boats and building stone locks in the winters. He came to Minnesota and to Anoka county Apr. 3, 1874, purchasing a farm in the town of Ramsey, where he lived until 1900, when he moved to Anoka. He died at Anoka in 1904. He was town clerk f Ramsey eight years. His wife was Rebecca M. Smith, a native of Vermont. Children: Parker L., Frances E. (Mrs. Henry E. Storrs, Cleveland, O.), Franklin A. (Indianapolis, Ind.;, Ida M. (Mrs. J. W. Wilson) and Charles T.

William Eberley, manager for the Minnesota Potato Starch Co. at Anoka, was born June li, i860, at Audeh, Switzerland, where he received his school training. He was a farmer in his native country, but in 1882 came to Anoka, where he worked in the saw mills several years. In 1889 he took charge of the starch factory on the west side of Rum river, which position he still holds. Mr. Eberley was married in Switzerland in 1882 to Rochelle Jenning, who died Aug. 2, 1898. The children born to them are William T., Eugene E., and May M.

J. C. Heraian Engel was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Dec. 30, 1864. His education was received in the public schools at Anoka, to which place he came August 25, 1873. From 1879 to 1883 he was a clerk in a grocery ctore. and afterward engaged in the grocery business at Anoka on his own account as a member of the firm of H. Gaslin & Co., in which business he remained until 1888. In 1888 and 1889 he read law in the office of Hammons & Hammons and was admitted to the bar in September of the latter year. He has been engaged in the practice of law at Anoka since January, 1890. Mr. Engel was court commissioner in 1890, and the next year was appointed judge of probate by Governor Merriam ; in 1894 he was elected judge of probate and served three terms until 1901. lie has been a member of the board of education since 1897. was treasurer of the board three years, and has been its president since September, 1902. Judge Engel was married June 29, 1898, to Maud Thompson of Minneapolis. Children: Dorothea Maud and John Herman.

James T. Elvvell was born July 2, 1855. in Ramsey county, Minn., on a farm adjoining Hennepin county. When an infant his father removed to Morrison county, where he platted a townsite. There the family remained until the Indian outbreak in 1862, soon after which they removed to Cottage Grove, Washington Co., where Mr. El well grew tD manhood. After at- tending the common schools he took a course at Carlton college at Northfield. About 1871 he invented a spring bed, and going to [Minneapolis, began its manutacture on the present site of the Windom block. The business soon grew to large proportions, and extensive buildings were erected in East Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Furniture Co., now owned by George H. Elwell, and the Mineapolis Bedding Co., owned by C. M. Way, the largest concerns in their lines in the West, were the outgrowth of that business. In 1882 Mr. Elwell platted Elwell's Addition to Minneapolis, consisting of 240 lots, and later platted some 500 lots in subsequent aditions besides building some fifty or sixty houses thereon within a short time. A few years later he purchased immense tracts of marshy land in the eastern part of Anoka county. The wonderful transformation which took place in this region after Mr. Elwell had demonstrated the possibilities of drainage on a large scale is described elsewhere. Mr. Elwell was married in 1882 to Lizzie A. Alden. They have nine children: James T., Margaret, Edwin S., Alden, Elizabeth, Ruth, Mary, Lawrence and Watson. (See portrait, page iii.)

Merton A. Elsmore was born Apr. 5, 1871, at Machiao, Maine, and at five years old was brought by his parents to Anoka. When seven years old he went to live with Azaria'i Davis, with whom he made his home until the latter's death in 1893. He has conducted a barber shop at Anoka since 1892. Mr. Elsmore was married in August, 1894, to Sarah Adams.

George B. Epps was born April 13, 1S63, in St. George, New Brunswick. Attended common school in St. George. Learned the trade of a stone polisher. There are very extensive quarries of red granite at St. George, and the polishing of this stone furnishes employment for the inhabitants. When about twelve years of age he shipped for 1 coasting voyage, and spent a year in seaman's work. Came to Minnesota about 1879. Followed logging and lumbering for about twelve years. Th>;n worked in Reed & Sherwood's sash and door factory until 1901. In the latter year he purchased his farm in section 3, town of Ramsej', where he has since lived. Mr. Epps was married Sept. 25, 1886, to .\deline Cook. They have one adopted son, Harry.

Nicholas Fader was born at Befort, Luxemburg, Maj' 24, 1840. In August, 1852, lie came to Minnesota. He enlisted April 19, 1861, in Co. A Pioneer Co. Mo. Vols.; was mustered out in St. Louis, Sept. i, 1861. He reenlisted in August, 1862, and served in Co. B, New York Massive Artillery ; was taken prisoner near Kingston, North Carolina, in DecemlKr. 1863, and was taken to Libby prison in Richmond, where lie remained a number of months. After the war he came to Champlin, arriving there in 1866. He conducted a general store at Champlin for many years and was postmaster eighteen years. He also served two terms on the school board. Mr. Fabcr was married July 24, 1862, to Catherine Jane Kinser. Children: Harry F., Frederick N.. John P. (deceased), Adonis J., Minn'e C. (Mrs. James H. MilhoUin).

Henry E. Fahertv was horn April i. 1863, in the town of Grow. Anoka county. He still lives on the farm in section 6 which his father purchased in i8Cx), and wiiere ho was born. Mr. Fahertv was married June 15. 1892. to Mary C. Murphy. Children : James P., Joseph L., Susan ^\., Eugene R., and Lucy A.

Joiix W. Fai!ertv was born in Newburyport, Mass.. Sept. 22, 1855. Attended district school in Grow and Anoka high school. He was engaged in logging for W. D. Washburn Sc Co. and others up to 1892, when he moved upon his present farm in section 25, town of Burns. He has Uxd acres, about 40 of which are under cultivation. He was nicirried June 20, 1892. to Christina Daly. Mrs. Faherty is the earliest contiiuious resident of the town of Burns.

Patrick Faherty was born in .\rraii. GalwaN- Co.. Ireland, in April, 1819. He came to America about 1839, and located first at Newburyport, Mass.. where he worked in ship yards. He came to Minnesota and to Anoka in the spring of 1856, and took a claim the same year in section 8. town of Grow, where he lived about five years, and then bought a farm on the west side of the river in section 6 of the same town, where he lived until his death. Oct. 29. 1894. He was married al^out 1849 to ^Lary Faherty. Children: John \\'.. .\nn:i M. (died March, 1863). Joseph F. (Anoka). Lucintla (Mr-. Chas. Rowers). Eliza

Frakk L. Folsom was born in Danville, Maine, March 13, 1858. Until the age of nineteen he lived en a farm, after which he went to Boston and worked in a furniture factory eight years. He came to Minnesota in 1884, and worked in Smith & Wy- man's sash and door factory two years. About 1897 he entered the employ of the Cable Piano Company at Minneapolis, and in 1901 opened a branch store of the Cable Company at Anoki, which business he still conducts. Mr. Folsom was married March 10, 1886, to Addie R. Moses. Children : Lester M. and Florence A.

Simeon P. Folsom was born in Lower Canada near Quebec, Dec. 27, 1819. His father was a native of New Hampshire. S. P. Folsom came west in 1839, and settled first at Prairie du Chien. Not long afterward he was engaged as clerk for Henry M. Rice at Fort Atkinson. In 1841 he returned to Prairie du Chien and for several years acted as surveyor of county lands. In 1846 he volunteered as a soldier in the Mexican War, but instead of being sent to the front, was ordered to Fort Crawford for garrison duty in order to relieve the regulars, who were sent to Mexico. On July 25, 1847, he landed in St. Paul, and during the following winter purchased a half interest in the Rum river trading post from Patrick Caine and removed here with his wife about the middle of February, 1848. The following spring he bought a barrel of potatoes at Fort Snelling for four dollars. He pared them rather thick, and having eaten the potatoes, planted the parings on a little patch of ground near his dwelling and raised forty bushels of potatoes. This was the first crop of potatoes raised in what is now Anoka county. In the fall he removed to Elk River, taking the potatoes with him for his winter's supply. Mr. Folsom surveyed the original site of St. Paul and also of St. Anthony. At the latter place he was given permission to use iiis own discretion to a considerable extent, and it is largely to his foresight that Minneapolis owes her wide streets. Mr. Folsom is the oldest railroad man in the state, both in years and time of service, having begun his career with Edmund Rice in 1854, some four years before the first track was laid. When James J. Hill secured possession of the old St. Paul and Pacific railroad Mr. Folsom was displaced for a time, but after a few years Mr. Hill sent for him, and he has been in the employ of the great railroad manager through all the mutations and changes which have sin:e occurred. Mr. Folsom at the age of eighty-five is still one of the attorneys for the Great N,orthern Railroad. (See portrait, page 33-)

Simeon A. F.\rrington was born Sept. 28, 1825, at Stowe, Maine. He made his home there until the fifties, but traveled considerably from city to city as a musician. In the early fifties he came to Coon creek, where his wife's parents had located, his wife and two children following a year later. He had been married Jan. 28, 1848, to Mary Kimball, and the two children born in Maine were Florence (Mrs. Frank Herrick, Bayfield, Wis., died Sept. i, 1903), and Carrie (Mrs. A. I. Pitman). Those born since are: May (Mrs. Wm. King, Skagway, Alaska), Alice (Mrs. Chas. Merrill, Burns), Simeon (died Aug. 2, 1863). The first year in Minnesota Mr. Farrington in connection with a partner, engaged in lumbering on the west branch of Rum river and was quite successful. He then went to Maine and returned with his family. He located at St. Anthony, and followed the profession of musician, playing much in theaters throughout the country in after years. In 1862 Mr. Farrington enlisted in Capt. Merriman's company, in the Sixth Minnesota Regiment, and was appointed principal musician b}' Colonel Crooks. He was with Col. Sibley in the Indian campaign, afterwards going to the south. After the war he was stationed in Kansas.. In 1867 he purchased a farm in Ramsey, where he lived until 1807, when he moved to Anoka.

Wii'.TAM W.\i LACi: Frn II was born in Mahoniing county, Ohio. May 29. 1832. He was married in 1857 to Lucy J. Greenough. In 1866 he moved to Anoka, wiicre he resided up to the time of his death. April ig, igoo. He was judge of the Anoka municipal court for a nuni])cr of years. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted in the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. Children: Orlo H. (died 1884). Caroline E. (Mrs. Frank Gordon. Blaine. Anoka Co.), Ora A. (Mrs. D. B. Allen, 2g30 Tyler St., X. E.. Minneapolis).

J.\MES W. FoKD, Ph. 1)., WIS burn at Lowell, Mass., Dec. 20, 1S46, and was fitted for college in the Lowell high school, graduating in 1869. His course of study at this school, which usually covered four years in the e.xperience of other graduates, was completed by Mr. Ford in .just half the time. He was valedictorian of his class. He later attended Hamilton University (New York), now Colgate University, and graduated in the course of theology in 1873, taking the three degrees, A. P).. -A.. M. and Ph. D., in two years' time. He taught Latin and sciences in the New London (N. H.) Literary and Scientific Institution one year, and Latin in the Cook Academy. Havana,

X. Y., one yonr. He then returned to tlte preparatory department of Colgate as teacher, and for six years was principal of this department up to 1889. For one year thereafter he was treasurer of all aepariments of Colgate Academy. Later in that year he was chosen principal of Pillshury Academy. Owatonna, Minn., which position he occupied until June, 1904. During the summer of 1904 Dr. Ford became a resident of Anoka, having purchased a half interest in tiie Pratt green-liouses. Dr. Ford was married June 28, 1876, to Catherine E. Jone.-^. Children: Elizabeth K. (Mrs. \Vm. A. Slu-dd. Belmont. Cal. ). Jamc^ W.. Jr.. Grace G.. Pmu! P... Hugh P. and Neal K.

GF.ORfiF. Alfred Fo.stkk was born at Fairtirld. Maine, July 30, 1835. He attended the schools in bis mti\c town and came 10 Anoka Co., Mini;., Xovcmbor 16, i85(\ where be has ever since been engaged in farming in tlie town n\ Ramsey. He has served as town tresaurer and is still a member of the town board. He was married Feb. 10, 1861 to Lucindi Jane Sluunway. Children: Mary E. (Mrs. Jedlika), ]\Iinnij Jeanctte (Mrs. Raymond Goodrich. Champlin). Helen B. (Mrs. Frank Johnson, Champlin), Alice Maud (deceased).

J.VME.s H. Fr.wk. "SI. D., was born in Lev.is Co.. New York, Tan. I, 1853. He attended Fairfield Seminary, and graduated in medicine at the ^finneapolis College Hospital in 1881-2, and at the Americ:ui Medical College at St. Louis. 1882-3. He practiced medicine first in Carver county, and afterward in Minneapolis, and again in Carver county until 1894. when he came to .Anoka. He served as health officer six years, coroner two years, county physician several y.-ars. on tlu- board of pension examiners, and i> physician to the .Stale Insane Asylum at Anoka. He is also :i member of the .\noka Liiirary Board.

.\xTunx C. FR\i>r.\x was born in Germany December 2^, 1837. He came to America in 1863. and three years later tc Minnesota, Plating at Anoka, where he opened a small tailoring establishment. The business prospered, and in 1871 he added furnishing goods and ready made clothing. For many years he was one of the leading business men of the place. He was married in 1872 tn ^[aggie Sanger. Childron : Charles and George.

Andrew Freef-orn was born in Jonkoping, Sweden, March 6, 1837; came to .America in 1869. Married in 1883 to Christine Swanson, and two years later settled on the farm in section 7, town of H'am Lake, where he still lives. Children : Hannah Elfie (deceased), Ada and Una.

The late Abkaiiaji McCormick Fridley was born May i, 1817, at Corning, Steuben county, New York. His parents were Pennsylvanians of German descent. After leaving school he was appointed at the age of twenty-one deputy sberifif of Steuben county, and was afterward collector of tolls at Corning. In April, 185 1, he was appointed by President Fillmore agent for the Winnebago Indians, then at Long Prairie, Minn., with the rank of major. This appointment, as Major Fridley was always proud to explain, came not through a congressman or any political influence, but was the result of a personal summons to Washington, by President Fillmore, who tendered him the position. In 1853 he removed to St. Paul and was elected sheriff of Ramsey county, in which capacity he performed the first legal execution in the territory, the hanging of an Indian convicted of murder. A little later he removed to Manomin (now Fridley), and was elected a representative in the territorial legislature of 1855 and also of the state legislatures of 1869- 70-71 and 1879, serving also four years as regent of the University of Minnesota. For many years he was land agent for the great Northern Railroad Company. He was a personal friend of James J. Hill, and was frequently consulted upon matters of importance. Major Fridley was in many respects a remarkable man. He was a courageous and aggressive pioneer in the early days of Minnesota, and was very active in public life, and did a great deal for the development of the state. In politics Major Fridley had been a Whig, and later acted with the Democracy. In i860 he was a delegate from Minnesota to the national Democratic conventions at Charleston and Baltimore, and was always an influential man in the party. His son, Henry C. Fridley, still lives in the well built house constructed in territorial days on the old homestead in the town of Fridley. (See portrait, page 163.)

denlislry with Dr. J. A. Bowman of ^Minneapolis, and later took a dental course at the College of Pennsylvania. Sept. 22, 1880, he came to x\noka, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Dr. Fridley was married Nov. 27, 1S84, to Ella M. Morton, who died Feb. 9, 1904.

James C. Frost (deceased) was born at Rumford, Maine, Nov. II, 1816. He came to St. Anthony in 1852 and to Anoka Sept. 4. 185.3, whcrt he resided up to the time of his death. He was first employed on the dam, and then engaged in lumbering, leaving that_to enter the employ of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Co. as land commissioner, which position he held until 1873. He was a member of the territorial legislature, and upon the organization of Anoka county was appointed as its first sheriff. He was elected and re-elected sheriflf so many times that he came to be looked upon as a permanent fixture in the office. He served four years as postmaster during the later eighties, and was then elected judge of probate, which office he filled until [a-i. i, 1895. His official career was the more remarkable from the fact that he was a lifelong Democrat, while Anoka county hr.s always been a Republican county.

Mr. Frost was married three times. His first wife was Sarah Dearmon, who died leaving one child, Alice (Mrs. Wni. E. Cundy). Hi: second wife was Mary Arety, who died leaving five children: Abigail (Mrs. C. H. Norton, Sioux Falls, S. D.), Belle (]\[rs. Clark. Milbnnk. S. D.). Ada (Mrs. John Munson, Madison, S. D.), Ida (Mrs. Frank Whitten, Anoka), and Maud (Mrs. Harry Parmelcy, Sioux Falls, S. D.). Mr. Frost's third was Sarali Slcanc, who still makes Anoka her home. Children: Lena S. (Mrs. L. J. Greenwald), and May (Mrs. S. Webber, Minneapolis). Mr. Frost died May 24, 1896. (See portrait, page 59.)

JosF.rii L. G.-^SLm was born at Livcnnorc, Androscoggin county, Maine, Nov. 27, 1836. At the age of two his parents removed to Reedfield, same state and in 1854 he went to Nelson county, Kentucky, wliere he joined two brothers in railroad contracting. In 1855 he came to Anoka county and purchased 400 acres of lalid in sections 6 and 7. Oak Grove township. He was married Nov. 14. 1859, to Celestia Jane Stevens, a teacher.

who came from Danville, N. H., to conduct one of the neighborhood schools, and the family resided on the farm until 1894, when a home was purchased at Anoka. In 1902. however, they returned tc the farm for a year. In the fall of 1904 they purchased a pUce in Champlin. on which they anticipate spending the remainder of their days. Children: Isabella (Mrs. Henry Bogett), William Elmer (died June 10, 1885), George A., Charles H. (died Oct. i.s, 1866), Nettie (died Mch. 17, 1870), Ella

Thomas Timothy Geooes was born at Frankfort. 111., Sept. 9, 1S60. In November, 1869, his parents removed to Anoka, where he received his education at the Anoka high school. After leaving school he wss engaged as a clerk for H. S. rhnnincr and others. He has for many years been one of the leading clothing merchants of Anoka. He was married Aug. 25, 1886, to Emma Louise Dick. They have one son, Donald Dick Geddes.

Geopge Geddes, Tr. (deceased), was born at Albany, New York, Oct. 5, 1836. Tlve -first business he engaged in was farming. In November, 1869, he cime to Anoka, where he conducted a grocery for .some years, and later was elected county auditor. He was married to Sarah D. Shaffer. Children : John B., Thomas T., Florence A., George E.

Aurora W. Gidl-ings, M. D., was born at Williamsfield, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. He attended the high school and Allegheny College and the Buffalo Medical School, and graduated at the Albany (N. Y.) Medical School in 1854. The same year he came to ^Minnesota and to Anoka, where he has for fifty years been actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. He has served as coroner and for nine years as chairman of the city board of health. He has also been chairman of the board of education at different times. Dr. Giddings was married Sept. 28, 1856, to Mary Ellen Simons. Children: Lena May (Mrs. Chas. E. Chase), George J., W. Augustus (died Feb. 5, 1865), Jesse G., Arthur E., Thaddeus P. and Paul. (See portrait page 61.)

Aranda Giddings was born Aug. 29. 182S, in .\shtabula Co., Ohio. He came to Anoka in 1865, and purchased a farm in the town of Anoka, where he has ever since resided. He was married in 1854 to Eleanor Sterling. Children: William A.. Ella (Mrs. Gilbert, Becker, Minn.), Harriet, Laura (Seattle, Wash.), Hugh A. (Beardslee, Minn.), Louisa (Mrs. J. E. Purmort, Cedar, Minn.), Joshua R. (Startup, Wash.), Grotius and Guida.

Hon. Arthur E. Giddings was born at Anoka Oct. 2, 1867. After graduating from the Anoka high school he entered the University of Minnesota graduating in 1889, and from the University Law School in 1892. Pie was city attorney of Anoka two terms, and county attorney of Anoka county two terms. In 1898 he was eiected judge of the district court of the Eighteenth Judicial District and re-elected in 1904. Judge Giddings was

Gkokge C. Gilif.spie was born in the county Armagh, Ireland, April 8, 1825. He came to America in 1845. He lived on a farm near St. Paul for several years, and about 1861 he bougiht 80 acres of land in section 19, town of Oak Grove, where he still lives. He was married Mar. 15. 1849, to Margaret Henry, who died Apr. 17, 1902. Children: Margaret A. (deceased), Frank (died about 1863), Hugh (died about 1863), James H., George I. (Anoka), Eben (Cambridge, Minn.).

James H. Gili.espte was born in St. Paul, Minn., July 31, 1850 When about two years old his parents removed to section 19, town of Oak Grove, where he has since lived. He now owns 200 acres in section 19. He was married May 29, 1900 to Bessie Livingston. Children. Eben S. and Harold L. -

Michael Golden, Sr., was born in Ireland. He came to America in 1S52, and lived two years in Providence, Rhode Island. He lived three years at Woonsocket and one year at Blackstone, Mass. He came to Minnesota in 1856 and bought 160 acres in section 18, town of Centreville, where he lived almost continuously until his death in October, 1896. He was married in Ireland to Bessie Quinn. Children: Agnes (Mrs. Wm. Defoe, Everett. Wash.), John W. (Anoka), Rose (Mrs. Baptiste Cardinal, St. Paul), Patrick, Anna (Mrs. Vernon Parks),* Theresa (Mrs. James O'Brien, California), Michael, Jr.

Michael GoLnsN, Jr., was born in Ireland, Oct. 28, 1849. Came to America to Providence, R. I., in 1852. Was there two two years and three years at Woonsocket. He came to Minnesota in 1856, and bought 160 acres in section 18, town of Centreville, in 1873, where he has since resided. He now has 320 acres, about 65 of which are under cultivation. He was married Aug. ."5, 1873, to Ida Scott. Children: Harry M., Anna (Mrs. Edward Lentz, Oklahoma), George W., John J., Belle C, William, Rose L., Julia F., Bryan J.

Edwin S. Goeldner was born in Keokuk county, Iowa, Jan. 23, 1867. He came to Anoka Dec. 25, 1872, where he attended the public schools. For ten years he was employed in the saw mills and then spent eight years at the cooper's trade. Seven years ago he engaged in tlie confectionery and news business at Anoka, which lie still continues. He was city assessor for six terms, and in if;oo was United States census enumerator. Mr. Goeldner was married July 3, 1888, to Etta M. Simerson. Children: Harold (deceased), Garth and Gazelle.

George Herbert Goodrich was born at Platteville, Wisconsin, July 8th, 1800. He received the finishing touches of his education at the Normal school at Platteville, and for some time taugiht school. He came to Minnesota in 1884, and two years later to Anoka, where as a member of the firm of Goodrich & Jennings he opened a drug store in the Bee Hive block. Two years later the firm purchased the stock of A. L. Peters and moved into rhe Norell block. In 1902 they bought the stock of H. L. Ticknor & Co., and moved into the Ticknor block on Main street. Mr. Goodrich is the manufacturer of the famous Hoff's German Liniment, which is now made in large quantities at .\noka and shippdl to nearly every state in the Union. For a nnmber of years the firm of Goodrich & Jennings has also owned and conducted a drng store at the corner of Nicollet avenue and Lake street, Minneapolis.. Mr. Goodrich has been twice elected mayor of Anoka, and for many years has been a member of the Library Board and is now its president. He was a member of the State Board of Pharmacy from 1895 to 190^, and served for four years as president of the board. Mr. Goodrich was married Aug. 22, 1888, to Mary A. Funk. Children : Herbert F., Edith, Edgar J. and Helen.

Rev. Moses Goodrich was born Oct. 24, 1817, in the city of New York. His father died when he was nine years old and he went to live with his uncle at Stockbridge, Mass., where he .-.tlended the common schools. In 1834 he returned to New- York and two years later obtained employment in the dry goods store of A. T. Stewart & Co. Li 1846 he graduated from New York LTniversity, and then spent two years in the study of theology at Clinton Liberal Institute, in Oneida Co., N. Y. He was pastor of the Universalist church at Concord, Mass., two years, and afterward of churches at Eddington and Kenduskeag, Maine. In 1856 he removed to Minnesota, and took a claim at Silver Creek, now in Wright Co. In 1864 he came to Anoka Co., and three years later became pastor of the newly organized Universalist church at Anoka, which position he retained until 1875. About 1870 he was elected county superintendent of schools of Anoka county, and served almost continuously in that capacity until his death in 1880. He was married Sept. 19, 1851, to Nancj' Downs. Children: George D., Nellie M. (Mrs. E. O. McGlauflin, Hoquiam, Wash.), Albert M. (Minneapolis), Rufus L. (died 1877). (See portrait, page 115.)

George D. Goodrich was born Nov. 4, 1852, in the town of Eddington, Msine. Came to Minnesota with his parents in October, 1856, the family settling about one .vear later in the town of Silver Creek, Wright county, where they remained until the Sioux outbreak in 1862. In 1864 the family moved to a farm in the town of Ramsey, Anoka county and three years later to Anoka, where Mr. Goodrich has ever since lived. Mr. Goodrich attended the Ancka high school and graduated from the American In=;titute cf Phrenology. N. Y. chy. He owns a farm in

Anoka county, and his work has been that of a farmer and educator, he having taught in common and graded schools and served as county superintendent of schools of Anoka county for sixteen years. On May ist, 1879, lie married Mary E. Molloy of Anoka. They have three children, Herbert, Mabel and Theodora.

brothers ship yard, afterward taking up lumbering, which he followed up to recent yenrs. He lived in St. George, N. B., some fifteen years, coming in 1880 to Anoka, where he has since resided. Mr. Gow was married Oct. 26, 1854, to Mary Stewart. Cliildrcn : D. S. Gow, Mrs. G. D. Hilliard, Mrs. Ward McCann, Mrs. H. L. Russell. Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. Gertrude Greenwald, Mrs. James Grant, Boone, Iowa, Wallace S. Gow, Mr;. Louis Smith, Watortown. S. D.

John Goss was born April 8, 1836, in Charlotte county, New Brunswick. After leaving school he worked as a lumberman and has followed that occupation continuously until the present time, having had logging crews in the Minnesota pineries for many years. He came to Minnesota in 1852, and to Anoka county in October of that year. He has served as alderman of the city of Anoka six years, and is president of the State Bank of Anoka. Mr. Goss was married June 22, 1851, to Irena Davis.

John Goss

Clarence D. Green (son of D. W. Green) was born Feb. 27, 1853, at Bernardston, Franklin Co., Mass. In 1857 his father moved to Dane county, and in October, i860, to Minnesota and to Anoka coiiiiiy, settling on a farm in section 28, in what is now tlie town of Linwood. Mr. Green lived in Linwood until 1874, when he moved to Anoka, which has since been his home. He was register of deeds five years from 1883 to 1888. Since that time he has been engaged in the real estate business. Mr. Green was married Nov. 20. 1876, to Sadie J. Doe, who died Nov. 12, 1894, leaving two children, Ethel M. and George D. Mr. Green's second wife was Mrs. Eudora De Lue, to whom he was married in 180O.

D. W. Gref.x (deceased) was a son of Benjamin Green, and his grandfather, Samuel Green, was a Revolutionary soldier, who was with Ethan Allen and the American force which captured Ticonderoga and Crown Point. His forefathers were among the early settlers in the colony of Massachusetts Bay. D. W. Green was born !May 14, 1824, in Franklin coimty, Mass. He lived on the old homestead where his grandfather v.'as reared and his father born until the age of twenty-one. In 1856 he came to Dane county. Wis., wliere he was engaged four years in farming. He then removed to Minnesota, settling in what is now Linwood. Mr. Green was the first town clerk of Linwood, and held various town offices. He was married ^^Fay 13, 1S51, to Miss C. M. Stewart.

Frank X. Gkef.:; was born June 5, 1874, in the town of Grow. Attended school in district 19 and followed farming, settling on section 33, Oak Grove, in the spring of 1809. He was married in April, 1897, to Grace E. Perkins. Children: Thomas Fremont, Lon Vincent, Nathan Francis and Ralph William.

J.vMiiS V. (.inr.EX was born Jan 22, 1865, in the town of Oak Grove. Attended school in district 19. Followed the business of farming to date, settling in section 34, Ook Grove, in 1894, and in March, 1903, began driving rural delivery route No. i from Cedar. Lierved as supervisor in the town of Oak Grove three years and on the school board in district 19 continuously since 1897. Mr. Green was married Oct. 16. '1895 to Mary E. Hunt of Dayton, Hennepin Co. Children : James Edward, Joseph, Mary Ir-me, Gertrude, Agnes Lucile, Rosemary. Joseph, Mary Irene and Agnes Lucile are living.

T. G. Greex (deceased") was born in Beniardston, Franklin Co., Mass. May ii. 1819. His ancestry is noted in the sketch of his brother, D. W. Green. He worked on his father's farm until of age, after which he was employed as farmer, carpenter and school teacher for a number of years. He came to Anoka county in 1863 and purchased a farm in the town of Linwood. Mr. Green served three years as county commissioner and was also postmaster and chairman (if the board of supervisors for

Charlks E. Green

Charles E. Green (son of Thomas Green) was born in the town of Oak Grove, Anoka Co., Dec. 13, 1862. He was first engaged in farming and afterward taught school. He was register of deeds of Anoka county from 1893 to 1899 and judge of probate from Jan. i, 1901, to the present time (1905), He

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THOiiAs Grekx fdecca.sed) was born at St. George, New Brunswick. Oct. 30, 1830. where he worked at lumbering and farming. He came to Mimiesota in 1855. About 1857 he took up i(V) acres in section 24. town of Oak Grove. In 1861 he bought iCo acres in .section 3, town of Grow, where he lived until his death, March 25, 1899. He w.is married Nov. 30, i860, to IMar.v Gilligan. The following children are still living: Charles E., James \'., John L.. Thomas, Francis X., Emily G. (Mrs. Frank Murphy, Gateway. Mont.). William A.. Alice (Mrs. Henry Stack).

W'li.T.is J. Gkkex was born at Jolict. III., in 1857. March 21, 1801, he loft his associations in Joliet and Chicago, where he had been railror.ding and conducting a railway contracting business and came to ^.liimcipolis. and is now a traveling man for the International Stock l-"ood Company. His family reside in the old Cnpt. C.uly house near the foot of Third avenue. Anoka. Mr. Green was married in 1S91 to Mrs. Clara Smith (nee Bacon) A[rs. Green has one daughter. Grace, now ^Irs. J. C. Watson, Hobart, Indiana. ^Fr. and Mrs. Green have one adopted son, Harry A. Airs. Alary G. Sanders, mother of Mrs. Green, is also a member of the family.

.\ ARoy Grekxwalp was born Dec. 6, 1832, in Berks Co.. Pennsylvania. He came to Minnesota about 1854 and a year Liter 10 Anoka, where he found employment in the flouring mill. So far as known he was the first man in the country to tender his services as a volunteer under President Lincoln's first call for troops. This was done on the sanx^ day the call was issued and before it became generally known. On April 26, 1861, he was mustered in as a member of Co. C. I'irst Alinncsota Regiment. He was killed at Gettysburg. Air. Greenwald was married Sept. 15, 1837, to .\nna Sweeney. He left two sons, William A. (died A;)ril 22, 1804) and Louis J.

Started in the dour and feed 1ni?iness on his own account, and was burned out in 'the great fire of 1884. Early in i88g he entered the employ of the First National Bank at Anoka. A few. months later the cashier fled with the bank's money and the hank faile-l. Mr. Greenwald remained with the bank during the receivership, and assisted in straightening out the tangled accounts. He was then employed by the Anoka National Bank, and in 1895, upon the resignation of C. S. Guderian he became cashier, which position he still holds. Mr. Greenwald was married No\-. 28, 1S91., to Lena Frost.

William A. GRr.EXWALn (son of Aaron Greenwald) was born at Anoka Aug. 8, 1859. He received his education in the Anoka high school and took a course in pharmacy. He then entered the drug store of his step-father, H. L. Ticknor, as a clerk, and later became a partner in the busmess. He was married Sept. 25, 1889, to Gertrude Gow. Children : Erma I.ou and !\Icrry Gertrude. Mr. Greenwald died April 22, 1894.

H.\NNiEAL G. Groat (son of James W. Groat) was born at Anoka Jan. 3, 1855. He worked in the saw mills at Anoka until about 1879 and then worked five years as a millwright, after which he took up gardening and growing small fruits, which vocation he stil! follows. He was married Oct. 17, 1885, to Stella Ives. Children : James J., Harry G.. Stella and Irma. (See group picture,, page 77.)

Jamks \V. Gpoat (deceased) was born at Copake. Columbia Co., New Yori:, May 25, 1824. He came to [Minnesota in 1854, arriving at Anok:i October i8th, and was employed in building the first hotel, which had been begun by George W. Branch and had been sold to Silas C. Faniham in an unfinished condition. He afterward work'L-d as a carpenter and millwright, and built the first ferry boat which ran across the Missussippi river at this place. So far as known he was the second man in America to formally offer his services for the suppression of the Rebellion, Aaron Grenwald being the first. He was mustered in as a member of Co. C, first ^Minnesota Regiment, and was transferred to U. S. Cavalry Oct. 24, 1862. He was also a member of the first school l)oar<I of Anoka. He was married to Rebecca G. Willis. Children: Cad.nus J. (Ponland. Ore.). William H. (The Dalles,

Christophku S. Gudicri.kn (deceased) was born April 7, 1833, in Prussia, and came to America in the fall of 1854. He spent four years in California and came to Anoka county in i860. In the fall of 1862 he CJilisted in Company A of the Eighth Mnnesota Regiment, and afterward served as commissary sergeant of the Seventh Regiment and first lieutenant of the Eighth United States Heavy Artillery. After the war he took a farm in 0]mstead county, but returned to Anoka in 1870 and two years later formed a partnership with M. V. Bean in the hardware business. He held the office of county treasurer several terms, and was also cashier (>f the .A.noka National Bank for some years. He was married Aug. 24. 1862, to Phebe A. McFarlan, a native of New Brunswick, and there were born: Ida (Mrs. F. A. Campbell), Mary A. (died Jan., 1872), John C. (died 1874), Hiram A. (died Jan.. 1872), Roscoe (died Jan., 1872), Henry Edward (Farmdale, Florida), Paul G., Fred A. (Cambridge, Minn.), Phoebe A. (Cambridge, Minn.), and John O. (died Aug., 1884). .