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He then became manager of the Fergus Falls Manufacturing company, later returning to the office of Mr. Dunnell, but soon afterward opened an office of his own. From 1902 to 1911 he was in partnership with Victor Cordelia. Many monuments to the enterprise, superior skill and ability of Boehme & Cordelia are standing in Minneapolis and other places in the Northwest, including the residence of Swan J. Turnblad on Park avenue; the residence of Charles Gluek on Mount Curve avenue; the residence of R. A. Jacobson; the operating wing of St. Mary's Hospital at Rochester; St. Francis' Hospital at Brcckenridge, and a number of churches in St. Paul and other cities in the state, the firm attaining a wide reputation for excellent work.

Mr. Boehme is a member and a Vice President of the North Side Commercial club, and an enthusiastic member of the St. Anthony Turn Verein. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arcanum. He wa« married May 21, 1891, to Miss Martha Oeschger of La Crosse, Wisconsin. They have three children, Merceline, Sidonia and Lubue, and reside at 2215 Lyndale avenue north.

Since 1911 Mr. Boehme has prepared many important plana, the claims on his professional skill constantly increasing. He has taken part in everything designed to promote the welfare of his home city, and in all public affairs within the purview of good citizenship. He has never been an active partisan in local matters of government, and has never sought or desired a political office.

John Crosby

Men like nations build their monuments of different materials and in various forms, according to their bent and the conditions of their environment. Literature in all its forms - - history, poetry, fiction, criticism, scientific elucidations, and all the rest - has its votaries; art in all its phases of expression commands its devotees and rhapsodists; military and naval glory - scenes of blood and battle - win many and present to them always a persuasive smile; political eminence, the power "the applause of listening senates to command," is all there is of life to some. The late John Crosby of Minneapolis would have none of these. His inclination and his opportunities led him into the field of peaceful and productive industry, and he passed his life in that. His acliievenient's in it remain in the piiblic mind, and their outward expression in the public view as his monument, and every inscription on it, is true to his worth and usefulness.

Mr. Crosby was born at Hampden, Penobscot county, Maine, on November 1, 1829. He died in Minneapolis on December 29, 1888, at the untimely age of fifty-nine years, at the full maturity of his powers, the height of his usefulness, and when it was to be supposed he had many years of activity yet in |)rospect. But he had so well developed his plans and built up his industry that the removal of even his strong hand had no I'ffect to stop or stay the productive machinery he had set in Tiuition. At tlie time of his death lie had been a resident of Xlinneapolis eleven years.

Mr. Crosby's father and grandfather bore the name of John, also, and his son, the John Crosby of the present day, is theref(irc the fourth member of the family in direct descent to dignify and adorn it. The first of the name here alluded to, the groat-grandfather of the prominent resident of Minneapolis who now bears it, represented a family that had lived on the coast of New Hampshire from early Colonial times. He moved from there to Hampden, Maine, then a remote settlement in a new country, but full of promise. His ancestry was Scotch, and he had the salient chai'acteristics of the frugal, self-reliant and resourceful Scotch people. He made them tell to his advantage in his new field of endeavor, and they liave distinguished the members of the family ever since.

His son .lohn was a manufacturer of paper and had interests in several mills devoted to that industry. He had a family (if ten children, of whoin .John, the immediate subject of this sketch, was the second in the order of birth. The latter obtained a preparatory academic education in his native town, and was about to enter college for more advanced instruction. Milt the business instinct within him was too strong for him to combat, and he abandoned his purpose and began his business career in connection with the management of his father's ])uper mills. Some time afterward he became connected with an iron foundry and machine shop at Bangor, He secured a Ikiiiic ill tliat city and thereafter made it and Hampden alteriiiiti- places of lesideiu-i'. In Bangor he was united in marriage with Miss Olive Muzzy, a daughter of Hon, Franklin Muzzy, an extensive manufacturer in that city, and by this marriage became the fatlier of three children, John, Caroline M, and Franklin M., all of whom are now residents of Minneapolis. Their mother died before the family left her native state of Maine,

Mr, Crosby came to Minneapolis to live in 1877, He was tlien forty-eight years of age and had been engaged in manufacturing for almost a generation of human life. He tlierefore brought with him ripe experience in industrial enterprise, and here he found a fruitful field for its use. Soon after hisarrival he purchased an interest in the business of the Washburn B flouring mill and assumed its management. Later he became interested in all the mills built by Governor Washburn, the style of the firm becoming Washburn, Crosby & Company. It was while Mr, Crosby was principally in chargeof the interests of the firm that the chief improvements which liave revolutionized the process of making flour were evolved and adopted by the mills under his control, and he showed his breadth of view and progressiveness in the prom])tness with which he accepted and the completeness with which he installed them in his operations.

What the Washburn-Crosby mills have become since is largelj' the result of evolution on the broad basis laid for their progress by this far-seeing and enterprising man. He met all the requirements of his day in his industry in a masterly manner. But he also built for the future with a keen and clear apprehension of its needs, making his the largest manufactory of flour in the world, unless that of the Pillsbury company exceeded it, and that seems to be an open question. At any rate, Mr. Crosby's plant was easily the second, if it was not the first, in magnitude and importance.

In 1879 Mr. Crosby was married to Miss Emma Gilson of ilinueapolis, a daughter of the late V. A. Gilson, As a temple lor his domestic shrine he erected a fine brick mansion on Tenth street, and in a short time this became a center of refined and generous hospitality and a popular resort for the friends of the family, who were numbered in hosts. There the head of the house passed the remainder of his days, high in the regard of the community as one of its most useful and representative citizens and enjoying, in a marked degree, an almost worldwide reputation as a manufacturer and business man of great sweep of vision, far-reaching enterprise and the strictest integrity in every particular.

Mr. Crosby devoted himself wholly to his business. While he was intelligent beyond most men in reference to public att'airs, and highly qualilied in other respects for public life and official station, the contentions of politics never had any attraction for him, and he never entered them in his own behalf. He saw far and he saw clearly in matters of government, and his convictions on public questions, which were positive, were based on intimate knowledge of them of the most practical kind. But he always preferred to serve the state from the honorable post of private life, enforcing his opinions as far as he could in his own way, but leaving to (itlicrs the administration of affairs. In his intercourse witli 111(11 he was very infiuential, for his personality was strong, but his manner was always courteous, and in the circle of his iiitiiiiate friendships he was genial and companionable in an iimisual degree. No man in Minneapolis ever stood higher in -_'(iicial esteem, and none ever deserved to stand higher.

Dan C. Brown

Dan C. Brown was born at St. Anthony March 12, 1861, and was one of the first students to enter the Central High School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1881. His parents, Charles D. and Henrietta S. (Murphie) Brown, who are still living, are natives of Maine, the former of Edgecomb, Lincoln count}', and the latter of Aroostook county. They both came to St. Antliony in 1857. the mother accompanying her parents, Edward D. W. Murphie and wife. Her father was an e.xpert timber scaler, and died highly esteemed at an advanced age.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown were married in St. Anthony in 1860. He was a fine mechanic and conducted a carriage factory, blacksmith and paint shops, on Main St. S. E. and employed twenty-five to thirty-five men.

He is now seventy-eight years old, and he and wife in the summer of 1913, celebrated the fifty-third anniversary of their marriage. Mr. Brown responded to the first call for volunteers serving nine months and took part in the battle of Shiloh. He is a member of Downs Post Grand Army of the Republic, and is an uncompromising Republican of the old school, adhering to the Taft wing of the party with unyielding tenacity. He and his wife became the parents of four children. One son died in 1880, aged seventeen years. Dan C. ; Alice, the wife of Walter Scott of Minneapolis, and Irwin M., a farmer.

Dan C. Brown began to learn the woodworking part of carriage making in his father's factory, but in a few months, in March, 1882, entered the employ of the city as a clerk in the water department. He was cashier in the water department fourteen years, then for two and one-half years deputy County Auditor under Hugh R. Scott. In 1903, City Comptroller Joshua Rogers appointed him to a clerkship in his office, and in 1905 he became comptroller, Mr. Rogers declining to be his own successor.

A new system of accounts, checks and balances had been adopted by the city, and for one year, while assistant comptroller, Mr. Brown worked under the experts who were installing this system. Mr. Rogers urged him to become a candidate for comptroller, as he was really the only man in the city capable of conducting the new system in its inchoate stage. Some friction between the different branches of the city government necessarily arose before the new plan was fully understood. But it was adhered to, and now all see its advantages. All the business is carried on systematically, the records of each department being kept in strict conformity and tallying exactly with those of the comptroller. There are fifteen employes in the office and its accounts cover millions of dollars annually, the sum in 1913 exceeding twenty-two millions.

Mr. Brown was married August 1, 1889, to Miss Grace N. Newland of New York. Their only daughter. Gladys N.. was graduated from the East High School in 1909, and died forty days after graduation, from an attack of pneumonia. She was an accomplished and popular young lady, of high attainments and hosts of friends. Her talent and education in music were of a high order, and she was selected as organist of St, Matthew's Episcopal church. During the exercises of lier graduation she presided at the piano, which was the last service she rendered her class. Mr. Brown is a vestryman of St. Matthew's church. He was made a Freemason in Cataract Lodge. He is Past W. M. of Arcana lodge, is also Past Eminent

Commander of Darius Commandery, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of the Athletic club. He and his wife stand high socially, and he is widely and well esteemed for the uprightness, progressiveness and serviceable character of his citizenship, and his cordial practical interest in everything that embodies the substantial and enduring welfare of his community.

William Butters

Mr. Butters lived an honorable and useful life in Minneapolia for 36 years. The men and women who knew him in life esteemed him highly for his genuine worth and manhood, and his memory is still cherished by them. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 21, 1850, the son of Isaac Hill and Angeline S. (Mott) Butters, who were also natives of New England and pioneers in Minneapolis. The father's life began in New Hampshire, in 1825, but during his childhood he moved with his parents to Boston, and there he grew to manhood. In 1849 he married Miss Angeline S. Mott, of that city, and the next year their only child, William Butters, the principal subject hereof, was born. The father was engaged in business in Boston until 1860, when he moved to Chicago and entered into partnership with his brother, William A. Butters. After a few years of business activity in Chicago, he came to Minnesota in 1865, hoping to improve his health and located first at St. Paul. One year was passed ' in the Capital Cit}', and the next the Butters family came to Minneapolis.

He purchased a home at the corner of Seventh Street and Ninth Avenue South, the latter being then called Rice Street. With the exception of a few years passed on a small farm at what is now the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Twentysecond Street, he lived in his Seventh Street home until his death, in January, 1886, and his widow continued to occupy it until her death, in 1898; it is still in the possession of the family. By 1867 his health had improved so that he was able to enter the oliice of Dorilus Morrison as bookkeeper, a position which he retained until his death in spite of continued precarious health and frequently recurring illnesses. When they first located in Minneapolis he and his wife joined the Universalist Church of the Redeemer, and they weri' always zealous for its welfare.

William Butters began his business career in 1871 as an employe in the lumber office of Dorilus Morrison, under the immediate supervision of his father, and he remained in the employ of the Morrison family, father and sons, almost without a break or an interruption until his death, serving for many years of his later life as private secretary to Clinton Morrison. At the same time, however, he carried on a real estate business on his own account, and took part in a number of profit able enterprises. He was interested in the North American Telegraph Company and the Northwestern Knitting Work>. and was for many years a director of the National Bank of Commerce. He was a Republican in politics, but not an aggressive partisan. In fact, he withdrew from the Cnion League in 1898, after having long been a member, because he found its prevailing political opinions too radical for him.

In religious affiliation Mr. Butters was a Universalist and a member of the Church of the Redeemer. He was a regular attendant at the services in tliis chnrcli. and for ni'iiv \('nrs.

before his death served as its treasurer. He was married in 1874 to Miss Ella S. King, a daughter of Edward King, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. They had two sons, one of whom died in infancy. The other, Frederick K. Butters, is now an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota. Mr. Butters died suddenly September 15, 1902. His widow and son are still living in the family residence, at 815 South Seventh Street, on the lot adjoining the home purchased by Isaac H. Butters, in 1867.

George K. Belden

Mr. Belden was born at Lyndon, Vermont, in 1870 and is a son of Judge Henry C. Belden, one of the pioneer attorneys of Minneapolis. Mr. Belden received his early education in the schools of his native state, attending school at St. Johnsbury.

In 1884 the family removed to Minneapolis and soon after he entered the State University from which he received the degrees of bachelor of science in 1893; and also graduated from the law department in 1897.

He was at once admitted to practice before the courts of the State, and for a number of years was associated with Thomas F. Wallace, in the bonding and liability business, under the firm name of Belden, Wallace & Co.

Later he became interested in electrical contracting as a member of the firm of W. I. Gray Company with whom he is still associated. Mr. Belden is cordial and democratic in his social inclinations and holds memberships in several organization of the city, including the Minneapolis, Minikahda, University Minnetonka Yacht and Minneapolis Athletic clubs; and, for a number of years he was captain of Company M, Fourth Regiment of Minnesota National Guards. He also served as Sergeant Major and first lieutenant of Battery B. In politics he has always been an active worker in the Republican party, particularly so in the early days of the Roosevelt club.

Heredity and the environment of his boyhood combined with the natural industry of a lifetime to make a great miller of James Stroud Bell. For he grew up in the flour business, and he entered it at the bottom of the ladder. That he is at the top of the longest ladder of its kind in the world is due to the fact that, while being the son of his father may have started him on the lowest rung, natural aptitude sent him upward. And he is today president of the largest Hour mills corporation in the world, in point of output and fame.

James S. Bell is not one of the milling pioneers of Minneapolis. The foundations of Minneapolis' supremacy as the flour capital of the world were laid many years before Mr. Bell became directly identified with the city's chief interests. But the connection of the Bell family with the flour market began before there was a flour mill in Minneapolis, or even a Minneapolis. And it is from this family of flour merchants that there arose forceful elements which have figured prominently in the growth of one of the largest and most complex enterprises in the world of barter and sale.

As early as the 1830's the name of Bell figured in the Hour markets of the East. Samuel Bell of Philadelphia was a miller, and in 1837 he became a flour commission merchant as well as a miller. Down through the nineteenth century the name endured in the business; indeed, it endures today, in the Eastern markets. For awhile there was the firm of W. and S. Bell; again it was known as Samuel Bell, and later as Samuel Bell and Son. The "Son" was James Stroud Bell. Ten years after Samuel Bell had gone into business as a commission merchant, a son was born to Samuel and Elizabeth (Faust) Bell. That was on June 30, 1847, in Philadelphia. The family came of Irish stock, and its affiliations were with the Quakers who made Philadelphia. And the boy, James Stroud Bell, had the advantages of schooling which gave Pliiladelphians a leadership in the world of business and society. His education was that of the public schools and of the Central High school of Philadelphia. And it was directly from the high school, after two years of the course, that the boy passed, when he was sixteen years old, to the office of his father's firm.

It is tradition in the business world that the men who have won their way must have started as office boys. So Mr. Bell holds fast to tradition in this particular. He began as office boy - and he worked in every place in the business. So that when the time came, in 1868, for the father to say to his son that the time had come for the two to establish a partnership, James S. Bell had become conversant with the ins and outs of the flour market from personal contact.

For twenty years James S. Bell continued a member of the firm of Samuel Bell and Son. The firm was one of the foremost in the business; and it happened that it was Pennsylvania sales agent for one of the big milling companies of Minneapolis, Washburn, Martin & Company, an outgrowth of Gen. C. C. Washburn's connection with the industry. So it naturally came about that when that company became the firm of Washburn, Crosby and Company, and a reorganization was effected following the retirement of some of its members, Mr. Bell entered the firm and moved to Minneapolis. That was in 1888.

A year later the firm was incorporated as the Washburn- Crosby company, and Mr. Bell was elected its president. He has held the same office ever since. And in this capacity he has directed the largest flour milling concern in the world, for the Washburn-Crosby company has mills in Minneapolis alone which have a total daily capacity of about 30,000 barrels of flour, and in addition the concern owns and operates huge mills in Buffalo, N. Y., in Louisville, Ky., and in Great Falls and Kalispell, Montana. Men who know the flour market say it was due in part to Mr. Bell's insight into the peculiar demands of the flour business, its strategy and its vantage points of competition that the mills in the East, South and West were added to the plants of the Washburn- Crosby Company.

For a quarter of a century James S. Bell, president of the company, has been at the helm. That he is a leader as a chief executive of the company is shown by the fact that he has surrounded himself with experts in the cumplex ramifications of the milling and grain business. For the Washburn-

Crosby Company is not only a flour milling concern; it is a commanding figure in the grain trade, and points the way of big traders in the Chamber of Commerce. In this connection it is that Mr. Bell heads not only the milling company but its closely allied concerns, the St. Anthony & Dakota Elevator Company, and the Frontier Elevator Company. And as he has a guiding hand on the affairs of the milling and elevator companies, so also he figures in the councils within the companies, when matters which have to do with utilizing the by-products of the business come up.

A successful miller, in Minneapolis, must likewise be a successful financier as well. Business contacts are with men big in the banking world, just as business deals in the grain and flour markets are of such a nature that it is initiative and boldness of operation which rule. So Mr. Bell is perhaps as well known as a banker as he is as a miller. For many years he has been a director of the Northwestern National Bank or predecessors which have become part of that financial institution. And he has been looked to for advice, when matters affecting the credit of the city were uppermost. Mr. Bell is also vice president of the Minneapolis Trust Company.

Of late years, though Mr. Bell has continued to be a living and active proof of the theory that a man is at his best when he is past fifty years of age, he has given more of his time to social enjoyment than had been his wont in the beginning of his business career. He is a member of the leading clubs of the city, the Minneapolis, the Minikahda, and the La- Fayette, and he is prominent in the affairs of the Presbyterian church. In politics he is a stalwart Republican.

Mr. Bell has been married twice. His first wife was Sallie Montgomery Ford, wliom he married in Philadelphia .Jan. 8, 1873. To them w;is born one son, .James Ford Bell, who is associated with his father in business. The first Mrs. Bell died on June 19, 1905.

Lewis Cass Barnett

Lewis Cass Barnett was born January 13, 1848, at Greensburg, Kentucky, the seventh of eight sons of William and Lucy Reed (Cable) Barnett. The Barnett ancestors were Scotch Presbyterians who migrated to this country to secure religious freedom, William Barnett. the paternal great-grandfather of Lewis C, coming to America in 1750, and, settling in South Carolina, his sons espoused the cause of Independence, and served with distinction throughout the war. William, gnuiilfather of Lewis, choosing Kentucky, "the dark and bloody ground," for his future home, there prospered and became the owner of a large plantation.

The third William Barnett's second wife was Lucy Reed Cable, another historic Ohio family. Lewis C. Barnett attended the public school until the age of fourteen. In 1864 the family moved to Rock Island, Illinois, and he became a student in Davenport, Iowa, and then took a four years' course in the University of Iowa. His first occupation was farming, where he learned the possibilities of the grain trade, and soon afterward began operations in the building of grain elevators.

Mr. Barnett became a elevator building contractor in 1880, in 1892 becoming president of the Barnett & Record company. F. R. McQueen soon after was made general manager; and in 1895, when the Canadian Northwest showed signs of great

The companies are using, in their operations, numerous patents on grain elevators and grain handling devices devised by J. L. Record, C. V. Johnson and Mr. McQueen. Some of the elevators erected by them are: The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's fireproof elevator in Kansas City, with a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels; the P. V. elevator in Duluth of fireproof tile with a capacity of 650,000 bushels; the steel elevator at Fort William, Ontario, fireproofed with tile and built for the Canadian Pacific Railway, with a capacity of 1,700,000 bushels, and the Canadian Northern Railroad company's elevator at Port Arthur, Ontario, the largest in the world, having a storage capacity of 7,000,000 bushels.

The type of elevator put up by these companies is the result of many years' study, observation and experimenting to meet the demand for absolutely fireproof construction. These companies have designed and built over 1,100 elevators of the first class. They have also erected a large number of iron ore, coal and dry docks.

November 16, 1893, Mr. Barnett was united in marriage with Miss Laura A. Tombler. They have one child, Lucy Cable. He is a member of the Minneapolis club, the Iroquois club of Chicago, and the Kitchi Gammi club of Duluth. He and wife are presbyterians. He is regarded as one of the farseeing, enterprising, and public-spirited citizens.

William Burns

Mr. Burns was born in Natick, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, on November 37, 1868, and when he was between fifteen and sixteen years old came to Chicago, where he began to acquire a thorough practical knowledge of the manufacture of ornamental iron work. He started his work in this industry as helper to a shipping clerk at a compensation of .$6 a week. But he soon made his merit known and was rapidly advanced by the firm which employed him, becoming in turn checker, keeper of the tool room, purchasing agent, cost clerk and city salesman for Chicago.

His deep interest in his work and his siiperior qualifications for it attracted the attention of other firms in the industry, and in the course of a few years he was elevated to the post of assistant superintendent of the Winslow Brothers company in Chicago. A few years later, in company with two other men, he organized a small company and began doing business on his own account. In 1906 he came to Minneapolis to accept the office of vice president' and sales manager which he now holds in connection with the Flour City Ornamental Iron Works, and in this position the greatest work of his life in the ornamental iron industry has been done.

When Mr. Burns began his connection with this company it employed about 160 persons and sought only comparatively small contracts, one for $30,000 being the largest it had ever secured.

This contract was carried out completely, promptly and to the entire satisfaction of the company, and the success opened the eyes of the men with whom Mr. Bums was connected to the larger possibilities of their business and their ability to meet all the requirements involved therein.

At the time of this writing (June, 1914) the company has on file contracts aggregating more than one and one-half million dollars in value, and additions to the works are in course of erection which will practically double their capacity, although about 1,000 high-grade workmen, are regularly employed in them now, and are kept busy to the full limit of their working time.

Deeply interested in the enduring welfare, wholesome progress and artistic adornment of his home city, Mr. Burns takes an active part in everything that ministers to its betterment. The social amenities of life engage his attention and he contributes to them by active membership in the New Athletic, the Elks and Rotary clubs and other social organizations. In the Civic Commerce association he serves on the committee on track elevation, and he is also zealously interested in the new Art building.

Mr. Biirns was married in Chicago in 1893 to Miss Mary Kelley. They have one child, their son William V.. who is a salesman for the company.

Georgk M. Bleecker

Mr. Bleecker was born in the village of Whippany, Morris county. New Jersey, on November 19th, 1861, and is a descendant of one of the early Knickerbocker families of New York city. His early education was received at a local academy. In 1883, he came to Minneapolis, and during the next two years pursued a course of special instruction in the University of Minnesota. He then entered the law department of the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1887, and was admitted to practice in Minnesota in December following. During the next two years he was employed as law clerk with the firm of Smith and Reed, Judge Seagrave Smith of that firm being then City Attorney of Minneapolis. In December, 1890. he was appointed clerk of the Probate court of Hennepin County, and served as such until January, 1893, and since tliat date he has been in active general practice.

He was a member of the legislature during the years 1893 and 1894. He is now one of the members of the Minneapolis Civil Service Commission.

Mr. Bleecker also takes an active part in organized social life as a member of several clubs and other organizations devoted to physical, intellectual and social betterment.

On October 22nd. 1888, Mr. Bleecker was united in marriage with Miss Mary Frances Martin, a native of Illinois. They have four children, two sons and two daughters. They attend the Episcopal church.

Joseph Dean

Mr. Dean was born on Jamiary 10. 1826. near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. Ireland, where his forefathers lived, labored and were laid to rest in the soil that was hallowed by their labors for many generations. He died on May 23, 1890, at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in the 'sixty-fifth year of his age. leaving a record of initiative and accomplishment that would have been creditable to any man in any age or country.

WTiile he was yet but a lad he was brought to Canada by his parents, who located near Sherbrooke, in the province of Quebec, but moved to the neighborhood of Belviderc. Boone county, Illinois, when he was twelve years old.

The father of the family died about this time, and the mother, who survived him, devoted her energies to complete the rearing and education of her children. She passed her last years at the home of one of her daughters at Baileyville, Illinois. George Dean, the oldest son of the household, remained in Belvidere, and died there well advanced in years.

Joseph Dean learned the carpenter trade in Belvidere after obtaining a limited common school education, and was married there in 1849 to Miss Nancy Harvey Stanley, of near Dunkirk, Cliautauqua county. New York, where her girlhood was passed. After their marriage they moved to Chicago, and there Mr. Dean worked at his trade until 1850, when he brought his family to St. Anthony. He did not remain in that village, however, but soon after his arrival there pre-empted a claim near Bloomington, on the Minnesota river, fifteen miles southwest of Minneapolis, where the dwelling house he built is still standing. He and Thomas Chambers operated a ferry over the river there, and Mr. Dean also engaged in farming and was postmaster at the neighboring village of Bloomington.

About 1856 Mr. Dean moved to Minneapolis and conducted the principal building activities of Colonel Franklin Steele, who was then the most prominent man in this locality. After working for Colonel Steele tliree or four years Mr. Dean, in I860, purchased of a Mr. Morey a sash and door factory at the Falls, which he sold to J. G. Smith and L. D. Parker after running it for a few years. The factory then became the nucleus of the large plant of the Smith & Wyman company of the present day.

When he sold his factory Mr. Dean formed a partnership with William M.. Thomas A. and Hugh G. Harrison, and they engaged in lumbering under the name of .Joseph Dean & Company. They manufactured and sold lumber, their principal mill, the Pacific, being on the bank of the river above where the Union Depot now stands, and their second mill, the Atlantic, at the mouth of Bassett's creek. The Atlantic mill was destroyed by fire two or three years after they became possessed of it. But this disaster did not lessen their business. The Harrisons were the strongest men financially in the community at the time, and the firm had, therefore, plenty of capital and credit, and was able to carry on its business on a very extensive scale.

The Harrisons limited themselves to an advisory capacity in the trade and left the management entirely to Mr. Dean. The wisdom of this course is shown by the fact that the firm became the most extensive manufacturer of lumber in Minneapolis, employing regularly in the sawing season 250 to 300 men and producing about 30.000,000 feet of lumber per annum for many years. In 1877 Mr. Dean quit the lumber trade and turned liis attention to banking. In .luly of that year he consented to take the cashiership of the old State National Bank of Minneapolis, of which Thomas A. Harrison was presilieiit. and which was not doing as well as it could have been in a business way.

This move on the part of Mr. Dean led to the founding of the Security National Bank, which was opened for business on .Tanuary 1, 1878, with Thomas A. Harrison as president, Hugh G. Harrison as vice president and Mr. Dean as cashier. The old State Bank was liquidated, its depositors were paid off. :iM(l the institution was closed. Alfred J. Dean, the oldest living son of Joseph, who liail been employed in the old Inink for seven years, was made assistant cashier of the Security ;ind opened it for business. His father was the lirst cashier (if the new bank, and served it in that capacity until 1881, when failing health caused him to retire. Then Alfred was made cashier. In 1887, the father's health having greatly improved, he was chosen general manager of the bank, the i)(i.sition having been especially created for him. and from then until his death he continued to hold this relation to the institution, and under his management it became the leading bank in the city. Thomas A. Harrison was presi<lent until his death, when he was succeeded in the office by his brother Hugh.

Mr. Dean's excellent judgment led him to invest largely in centrally located property, such as would be needed in time for business purposes. But his faith in the future of the city then, and his judgment in relying on it, have been fully justilied by subsequent events and conditions. He owned the site on which the Guaranty Loan building, now the Metropolitan Life building, was erected and the site on which the public library stands. After the purchase of this site by the city he donated the sum of $5,000 to the library building fund. He also owned the site on which the Security National Bank was built and a large amount of land around the Lake of the Isles. He laid out the Dean Addition to Minneapolis at the intersection of Lake street and Hennepin avenue, and owned a tract at the corner of Third avenue and Fourth street south. His firet home in the city was at Sixth avenue south and Washington avenue and later built a home at First avenue and Ninth street. When he decided to move in 1878, he sold the house on this lot and leased the land.

For many years Mr. Dean was an active working Freemason and a leader in the fraternity. He was a Republican in polities, and as such was once elected treasurer of Hennepin county. But he was averse to official life and never accepted another office. In religious faith he was a Methodist, and for years was active in the First Methodist Episcopal church, which later became the Centenary church. He was Superintendent of the Sunday school in the old church on Third avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets, and remained in the congregation until 1874, when he left it to assist in founding the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. But after he moved to Franklin and Fifth avenues south, he became a member of the Franklin Avenue church of the same denomination.

Close and constant attention to business finally broke down tliis energetic gentleman's health, and for ten years he was almost a nervous wreck. His first wife died in 1874, and two years later he married Miss Elizabeth Stevens, of Ogle county, Illinois, who is still living. His offspring numbered seven, all the children of his first marriage. The first born, Harvey Stanley, died in infancy. Alfred .1. is now the secretary and treasurer of the Thorpe Brothers company. William E. lives in Los Angeles, California. .John Henry died in 1881. and Mary E. in 1874. Frederick W. is a prominent and successful business man of Minneapolis, a sketch of whom will be found in this work. George F. is also a resident of this city.

ALFRED J. DEAN. The oldest living child of Joseph and Nancy Harvey (Stanley) Dean, was born in Minneapolis on May 30, 1853, and grew to manhood in this city. He was employed for seven years in the old State National Bank of Minneapolis, and then became assistant cashier and later cashier of the Security National Bank, which he served in the capacity last named until 1883. In that year he resigned and made a trip to California and a tour of Europe which consumed a year. In 1888 he again went to California, and he remained in that state two years, but returned to Minneapolis in 1890 to aid in settling up his father's estate as one of the executors of his will, and in 1897 was chosen secretary and treasurer of the Thorjie Brothers company, which relation he still holds to that enterprising, progressive and resourceful business corporation.

On October 6, 1880, Mr. Dean was married to Miss Carrie Chamberlain, a sister of F. A. Chamberlain, president of the Security National Bank, and a half-sister of S. S. Thorpe. The}' have four children : Agnes L., who was graduated from Smith College in 1904; Helen M., who is also a graduate of that institution, of the class of 1907, and is now the wife of Dr. Fred M. Bogan, a surgeon in the United States navy and in charge of the hospital at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Harold F., a graduate of Princeton University, and Carolyn E., who is also a graduate of Smith College.

William Arthur Durst

The Minnesota Loan and Trust Company, one of the colossal financial institutions of the country, owes its success largely to the enterprising, progressive and prudent men who have managed its affairs. Among the gentlemen who compose the official staff is William A. Durst, the first vice president, who has been connected with the company for a full quarter of a century. Mr. Durst was born in Monroe, Green county, Wisconsin, in 1870, being a son of Henry and Louisa (Jackson) Durst, the former a native of Switzerland and the latter of New York. His father was a prosperous merchant in Wisconsin, where both he and the mother died. William after attendance at the local schools early became interested in mercantile life and general business operations. He came to Minneapolis in 1887, soon securing employment in the Minnesota Loan Trust company. His early training proved of great advantage and manifesting a warm and helpful interest in the details of the company, his advance was assured, rising from post to post until he attained the official relationship he now occupies. Politically Mr. Durst is a Republican, fraternally is a Freemason, and in social relations he is an active member of the Minneapolis. Minikahda and Interlacken clubs. He is affiliated with Plymouth Congregational church. He was married in 1893 to Miss Clara J. West, of his own native town. They have one child, Burdette H.

George W. Cooley

(ieorge W. Cooley, who drove the first survey stake west of the Mississippi as assistant engineer for the St. Paul and Pacific Railway, now the Great Northern, came to Minneapolis in 1864. He was also the first locating and con.sti-uction engineer on the eastern end of the Northern Pacific Railway, commencing work February 15, 1870. In this work he was succeeded by General Rosser while he was given charge of the preliminary surveys.

For a decade Mr. Cooley haa been state engineer and Secretary of the Minnesota state highway commission; thus making him the largest factor in the development of "good roads" in Minnesota for which he, for years, has been known as a most indefatigable promoter. With the rapid increase in the use of the automobile his year.s of advocacy of good roads began to bear fi-uit, and at the same time problems of roadmaking and maintenance multiplied. His associations with the fellowship of engineers through road associations brought him recognition as one of the most practical authorities on highway construction. For some years the planning of a great state system of trunk and lateral highways has largely engaged his attention, his suggestions being recognized in recent legislation.

He has long been intimately connected with affairs of city, county and state, taking a deep interest in civic life, and when elected alderman from the Eighth ward in 1884 he stood for betterments and advancing ideas that have since become generally adopted. He pointed out the need for establishing a system of underground conduits for the wires of the telegfraph, telephone and electric servite companies, originated the plan and secured the passage of the ordinance. He was one of the promoters of the patrol limits system, recognized as an advanced method in restricting the liquor traffic. He worked steadily for measures which meant better streets and desirable solutions of engineering problems.

Mr. Cooley in 1898 was elected county surveyor and under his administration the office acquired a well-arranged system of records, indeed the only records of importance dating from that time. He was re-elected in 1900, 1902 and 1904. When he became state highway engineer.

Mr. Cooley was married in 1872 to a daughter of the late R. E. Grimshaw, and they have six children. He is a member of the Masonic order and also of various civic, commercial and professional organizations.

Frank R. Chase

Mr. Chase was born at Concord, Essex county, Vermont, about 1868. He resided eight or ten years in Lowell, Massachusetts, attending school and employed as a salesman of dry goods. In 1882 he moved to Georgetown, Colorado, whither he was sent as agent of the Boston & Colorado Smelting company. He remained in the employ of this company as assayer and purchasing agent seven years, then, in 1889, came to Minneapolis with the Western Guarantee Loan company. He attended to the renting of its building and looked after its property generally. The company failed and the building in which its offices were located passed into the hands of Thomas Lowry, but Mr. Chase continued to handle it as agent, as he had done from the time it was opened for business in 1890.

In August, 1904, the Metropolitan Life Insurance company bought this building, but there was no change then and has since been none in the agency. Mr. Chase has been very successful in his work of supervision over this building, but his energies have by no means been confined to the duties involved in that work. He has been in the insurance and loan business since 1893 on his own account, and has been successful in that too. He is head of the firm of Chase & Schaufield, operating in these lines, and also agent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company in its Minneapolis real estate transactions. He is one of the directors of the Metropolitan Bank and the Minneapolis Savings and Loan Association, both of which are tenants of the building of which he is custodian.

In religious faith Mr. Chase is a Universalist, holding his membership in the Church of the Redeemer of that sect, of which he had been treasurer since the death of the late William Butters. He was married in Massachusetts in 1886 to Miss Laura B. Clough. They have three children, Marjorie, who is a graduate of the State University, and Stillman and Frank R., Jr., who are students in the high school. Mr. Chase belongs to the Commercial and Minneapolis clubs, but he is not a devotee of club life, has no sporting tendencies, has never been active in politics as a partisan, and pays but little attention to any of the fraternal orders. His business and the ordinary duties of good citizenship absorb his time and attention to the exclusion of almost everything else.

Hugh Galbraith Harrison

Many men of unusual ability, large caliber, great force of character and far-reaching sweep of vision have written their names in bold and enduring phrase in the chronicles of Minneapolis, short as its history is, and have left lasting monuments of their unusual capacity and great usefulness to the community. Among the number none is entitled to higher regard, closer study or more admiring remembrance than the late Hugh Galbraith Harrison, for many years one of the leading lumbermen and afterward, until his death, one of the most prominent and influential bankers of the municipality, which he found a straggling hamlet when he came to it an aspiring young man of thirty-seven, and a mighty mart of industry and commerce when he left it on August 12, 1891, in obedience to nature's last call, on the verge of the limit of human life as suggested by the psalmist.

Mr. Harrison was a scion of old Scotch-Irish ancestry, and in his career he exhibited many of the salient and masterful attributes characteristic of his lineage. He was born at Belleville, Illinois, on April 23. 1822, a son of Rev. Thomas H. and Margaret (Galbraith) Harrison, the former a native of Georgia and the latter of North Carolina. The father was a lay preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church and for many years preached twice a week, his voice being literally "one crying in the wilderness" after his removal to Illinois in 1803, when the southern part of the state was an almost unbroken forest. He and his wife were strong in their repugnance to the institution of human slavery, especially the mother, and they left their native section of the country to escape the reproach they suffered for not sharing the views of the people there on this subject.

After their arrival in the distant West, as it was in that day, the father became a pioneer farmer and miller in the new region in which he had located, but continued his pastoral work with fervency and zeal. He farmed only for a number of years, then, in 1826, bought a $300 ox mill, and his enterprise in this act proved to be a great boon and benefaction to the neighborhood. Meanwhile the family was required to undergo all the privations and hardships and risk all the perils incident to pioneer life. But the parents were made of sterling metal and met their responsibilities and the requirements of their remote location not only with fortitude but with commendable cheerfulness also.

The father prospered in his milling operations and established a reputation for their products that became very extensive. In 1831 he installed a steam engine in his mill for motive power which was the first one so used in the state. This enabled him to greatly enlarge his output and get much nearer to supplying the vastly extended demands for his flour. A writer well informed on the subject has recorded that "for manj' years the product of the Harrison mills at Belleville, Illinois, wa^ the standard of excellence throughout the commercial world. The sales of flour and purchases of wheat ran into millions of dollars. Until the introduction of a new process of milling by which the superior qualities of spring wlieat were developed Belleville flour was the best in the country."

When the mill was ready to begin work the two oldest sons of the family quit farming and took charge of the new enterprise. In 1836 a new and larger mill was built, and this was destroyed by fire, with 5.000 bushels of wheat and 500 barrels of flour, in 1843. As soon as he was sufficiently advanced in physical development for the purpose Hugh G. Harrison began working on his father's farm and assisting his brothers in the mill. He obtained a good education for his time and surroundings, however, at a private school in Belleville and McKendree College at Lebanon, Illinois. But he was associated with his brothers in the milling business at Belleville until 1859, when he and his brothers, Thomas A. and William, moved to Minneapolis, then growing into notice as a milling center of great promise. Each of the brothers built a fine residence for that period, Hugh's being at what is now the intersection of Nicollet avenue and Eleventh street, which was then far outside of the building section. This became the family home, and it is still standing and still much admired.

For a number of years the brothers made their investments and carried on their business in common. But in the course of time the abundant opportunities of this region, and perhaps some diversity of tastes, led them to separate and pursue different lines of endeavor. They were all original stockholders in the First National Bank of St. Paul and largely interested in the St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad. In 1862 they built, at the junction of Washington and Nicollet avenues, the stone building which is still standing, and was. at the time of its erection the most massive and imposing structure in the town. It contained a hall which for years furnished the audience room for public meetings and entertainments.

Hugh G. Harrison was one of the directors of the First National Bank of St. Paul and the railroad mentioned above from the beginning of his connection with them. He studied their operations and acquired a familiarity with the banking business especially that was of great service to him and the community in later years. In 1863 he became associated with Joseph Dean in the lumber business under the firm name of J. Dean & Company. During the next fifteen years this company was the leader in the lumber trade of the city. The company purchased richly timbered lands, bought and rebuilt a large sawmill at the mouth of Bassett's creek and started a number of lumber yards. Subsequently it built the Pacific mill on the river bank just above the suspension bridge, which was for a long time the largest and best equipped saw mill in Minneapolis, if not in the Northwest.

In 1877 the firm of J. Dean & Company retired from the lumber business, and its members, with other enterprising men, founded the Security National Bank. The new financial institution was organized on a basis commensurate with the then exacting needs of the community and its impressive promise of fast-coming greatness as an industrial and commercial center. The bank began business with a larger capital than any other in the city at the time, and its affairs were placed under the control of men who knew how to manage them to advantage. Mr. Harrison was made vice president, his brother Thomas president, and Mr. Dean cashier. The bank has flourished and grown from the start. Its capital has been enlarged as needs have required until it has been made $1,000,000, and its deposits are now far beyond $35,000,000. When Tlioraas A. Harrison died, on October 37, 1887, Hugh G. was elected president of the bank, and from that time to the end of his life he gave its affairs his most careful and constant personal attention.

Mr. Harrison took a very active and serviceable part in public affairs, particularly in connection with the intellectual and moral welfare of the community in which he lived. He was a member of the city school board for many years, and it is largely due to his far-sighted and progressive policy that the city now owns so much valuable school property. He was also administrator of the Spencer estate, which became the foundation of the public library, and in 1868 was elected mayor of Minneapolis. In the administration of this office he applied to the business of the city the vigorous and systematic methods which he used in his own. and gave the people excellent service, which is still remembered with high approval and cordial admiration and commendation.

Mr. Harrison's business ability and enterprise led him into other lines of trade besides the lumber and banking industries. He founded the wholesale grocery house of B. S. Bull & Company in the seventies, and later that of Newell & Harrison. He was one of the most liberal subscribers to the Minneapolis Exposition and its first treasurer and a member of it first board of directors. At the time of his death he was vice president of the Minneapolis trust company, and for many years took a hearty practical interest in Hamline University, to which he gave large sums of money from time to time. His benefactions to churches and benevolent institutions were numerous and large, and his private bounty to needy men of worth must have been considerable, but he never made mention of it. He was the first president of the Chamber of Commerce.

It was written of Mr. Harrison, when he died, by one who knew him well, that "he was always foremost in every enterprise relating to the growth and well being of Minneapolis, and a correct student of political questions, though not a politician. Always a student and an omniverous reader of the best literature, besides being an extensive traveler in this country and abroad, his fund of general information was large and serviceable, his views were comprehensive and his convictions were well settled. There was nothing narrow in either his disposition or his attainments. One of the greatest sources of enjoyment to him was good music, and all the refinements of life were parts of his being by nature and culture."

Mr. Harrison was married twice. His first wife, whose maiden name was Irene A. Robinson, died on August 13, 1876, leaving five sons: Edwin, George, Lewis, Hugh and Perry. All but Hugh are living and engaged in business. The father's second marriage took place on October 25, 1877, and united him with Mrs, Elizabeth (Wood) Hunt, of AUcntown. Pennsylvania. She and her daughter, Helen Louise, are also living.

In the latter part of July. 1891, Mr. Harrison made a business trip to the East, and on his return seemed in perfect health. On Monday, August 13, he was at his desk in the bank, but on going home wa-s obliged to go to bed, and on Wednesday night following he died of heart failure, which was the result of a severe cold. The whole city paid tribute to his elevated citizenship, exemplary manhood, great business ability and extensive but unostentatious usefulness after his death, and his name is still living fragrantly in the memory of all who knew him, a watchword to the faithful and a fruitful incentive to generous endeavor. "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

he is connected with Minneapolis Lodge No. 19, Ancient. Free and Accepted Masons, and has served as its Worshipful Master. He is also a member of a Royal Arch Chapter and a Council of Royal and Select Masters in the Masonic fraternity. His religious affiliation is with tlie Fifth Avenue Congregational church.

On April 35, 1875, Mr. Condit was united in marriage with Miss Anna L. Pinkham. They have three children: .Tessie F., who is the wife of .John Baird, of Eugene, Oregon; Edith, who is now Mrs. Charles 0. Ellsworth, of Minneapolis, and Irving, who is a physician and surgeon and on the medical staff of the Northern Pacific hospital in Missoula, Montana.

Henry A. Crow

Mr.' Condit is a native of Adrian, Michigan, where his life began on March 17, 1849, his father being Benjamin F. Condit. After due preparation in public and select schools, the latter entered the University of Michigan, and there pursued an academic course of instruction for a time. But his inclination was to commercial pursuits, and he left the University to take a course of special training in the Mayhew Business College, where he was a student under the celebrated Professor Ira Mayhew, the author of a popular system of bookkeeping and the text book in which it was taught.

On August 31, 1873, Mr. Condit entered the fur manufactory of Barnard Bros. & Cope, Minneapolis, as a clerk, and during the next two years he rendered that firm excellent and appreciated service. In 1877 he was appointed to a clerkshiji in the office of the county auditor of Hennepin county. He was soon advanced to tlie position of fiist deputy auditor. and he remained in that position nine years, serving under Auditors C. J. Minor and Hugh R. Scott. In 1887 he was elected county auditor, and this office he filled with great acceptability until 1890.

At the end of his term as county auditor Mr. Condit was chosen secretary and manager of the Moore Carving Machine company, which he served in that capacity until 1898, wlien he again became deputy county auditor. In 1905 he was also asked to accept the secretaryship of the Municipal Buildinf; Commission when a vacancy in that office was created by the death of Charles P. Preston. Mr. Condit accepted the ofier and his official relation to the commission continued most pleasantly until the completion and dedication of the new court house and city hall in 1908. His post as secretary was one of great labor and responsibility, demanding detailed records of every transaction connected with the construction of the mammoth building, which involved an expenditure of more than three million and a half dollars in an immense multitude of accounts.

When the Municipal Building Commission' was discharged Mr. Condit was appointed first assistant city comptroller, receiving his appointment to the place from Dan C Brown, the present efficient and popular city comptroller. His selection for the place met with universal approval in the community.

In his political faith and allegiance Mr. Condit has always been an unwavering Republican of the stalwart stripe, but he has never been considered a politician. In fraternal life

Was born at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, August 16, 1852. the son of George and Clarinda .Jane (Ellsworth) Crow, the former an engineer on the old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the latter a cousin of the Colonel Ellswortli of the Union army who was killed in Alexandria, Virginia, at the beginning of the Civil war. In 1856 they came from Ohio to St. Anthony, induced to make the change of residence by members of Anthony Northrop's family; also relatives of Mrs. Crow, who were already here. George Crow secured a farm on Eden Prairie, but in 1856 and 1857 the grasshoppers ate all his crops, and he then moved to Winnebago Prairie, near St. Cloud, where he lived until the outbreak of the Indians just after the Civil war began.

At the time of the Indian u|uising Mr. Crow enlisted in the Seventh Minnesota Regiment, and all the families on Winnebago Prairie were forced to take refuge in the stockade at St. Cloud, or seek some other place of safety. Mr. Crow's family moved to St. Anthony, and in the winter of 1862 he went South with his regiment, never seeing his wife and children again. He died at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri, December 14, 1864, after two years of active service against the Confederacy in the South.

His widow survived liim twenty years, dying in December. 1884, at the age of fifty-two. By his death she was left with four small children to rear and with veiy slender means for the duty. The children were: William Albert, who was a fuel dealer in Minneapolis, and died here in June, 1913, in the sixty-fifth year of his age; Henry A.; Fred, who kept a hotel at Bena, Minnesota, and died .Tuly 5, 1910; and Lo\iisa .Jane, who is the wife of John H. Hasty and lives in Miles City, Montana.

Henry A. Crow, as a boy, accompanied George Brackett when he was hauling government supplies to Fort Ridgeley, Buford and other places. One of his brothers was a cook at one of the forts they visited. In this experience he saw a great deal of Indian life and sufTerod a great many hardships in storms and from exposure. Early in his youth he was in the employ of Captain Byrnes while the latter was in the war. He worked in the woods in winter and at sawmills in summer, and did cooking, as did also his two brothers, for lumbering camps, he continuing at this work until 1877.

On October 36, 1873, Mr. Crow was married to Miss Nellie Callahan, a daughter of John and Eliza (Smith) Callahan, the father a native of Dublin, Ireland, and the mother of the Hudson river region in New York. The father was a sailor and also worked in iron mills as a young man. and expert- enced severe hardships in botli occupations. Early in the Civil war he enlisted in the Union army in New York, and on his retirement from military service they moved to Minneapolis, a sister of Jlrs. Callahan being already a resident of Hennepin county, and persuading them to come to this locality.

Here they lived neighbors to William Eastman, near where the big mills now stand. Mr. Callahan worked in the North Star Woolen Mills and also pumped water by hand for the roundhouse of the Milwaukee railroad in 1866. The roundhouse stood at Eighth and Washington avenues south, and from it all the engines on the Minnesota Valley road, about half a dozen in all, were supplied with water through Mr. Callahan's industry. His wife died in 1875 and he returned to Ohio and died at the Soldiers' Home in Dayton, that state, four or five years after the demise of his wife. He was a veteran from continuous service throughout the war.

Henry A. Crow was employed for a time in the grocery store of Charles Lumbeg. and afterward, in company with one of his brothers, opened a similar establishment on the East Side. In 1898 he went to Alaska, remaining three years. Later he made another trip to that country, but his health was broken by his residence there and he secured no satisfactory financial returns from it. During his absence his wife kept a store at Third street and Twentieth avenue south, and after his final return from Alaska he again engaged in the grocery and meat trade. In later j'ears his wife became possessed of several apartment houses on Sixth avenue south, from which they now have a liberal income, and in one of which they have their home.

Mr. Crow is an Odd Fellow, holding his membership in Flour City Lodge of the order. He also belongs to the Woodmen and the Royal Neighbors. Mrs. Crow is a member of the Territorial Society, in which she has many old friends, and also belongs to the Degree of Honor. They have had four children. George Henry was born in 1875 and died at the age of twenty-four. Frank Percival was born in 1877 and died at the age of fifteen. Grace E. is the wife of E. E. Smock, who is in the employ of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad. Florence May is employed in the office of the Cedar Lake Ice company.

Joseph Chapman

Although he has been connected with the banking business in this city, and continuously with the same bank since he was seventeen years of age, Joseph Cliapman, one of the best known and most esteemed business men of Minneapolis, and a potential influence in the social life of the community, is also a lawyer by careful study and graduation from the law department of the University of Minnesota. He has never practiced his profession, and really studied law only as a means of service in his other business relations and of broadening mental culture. But that he took the pains to go through a course of professional preparation at the University, although at the time busily occupied with other duties, shows his zeal and determination in striving to make the most of his faculties and opportunities, no matter how great the personal sacrifice, effort and inconvenience might be. It also shows that he has the proper view of what a man's education ought to be, especially in this country, where the conditions of life are constantly changing, a state of aflairs that makes it desirable for every man to be prepared for whatever may turn up in his course through life.

Mr. Chapman was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on October 17, 1871. and is a son of Joseph and Catherine C. (Cassiday) Chapman, the former a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and the latter of Baltimore, Md. The father has been for many years connected with the railroad service, and at the time of his son Joseph's birth was division freight agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, with headquarters at Dubuque. He was afterward located at Fairport, Ohio, as manager of the terminals of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He died at Painesville, Ohio, August 17, 1912.

Joseph Chapman began his education in the public schools of Dubuque, where the family remained until 1887, when its residence was changed to Minneapolis. As soon as the household was settled in this city he entered the Central high school to complete his preparatory course, and from that school he was graduated the following year. Soon after his graduation he secured a position in the Northwestern National Bank, and he has been connected with that great financial institution ever Since.

He entered the service of the bank in the humble capacity of messenger as a youth of seventeen. He is now its vice president and has an influential voice in the management of its afl'airs. The distance between the two stations was covered by him with faithful and devoted service and the strict performance of his duty in every way, and at every stage of his progress from one to the other he Showed unusual capacity for the banking business, the warmest and most helpful interest in the affairs of the bank, and a sweep of vision and grasp of aflfairs that made him ready for any duty that might fall to his lot at any time. In consequen'ce of these attributes and his unwavering integrity and high character, his promotion was rapid, and there was always a landing above him to aspire to until he reached the altitude in the work of the institution which he now occupies. On the way up he filled the position of cashier for a number of years with great acceptability to the authorities and patrons of the bank.

Mr. Chapman was not satisfied, however, to be merely a banker. He took a broader view of life and determined to prepare himself for a more comprehensive mastery of business in a general way. With this object in view he attended the niglit school of the law department of the University until he completed the course and was graduated in 1897. He had a special object in this enterprise, too, and that was to make his knowledge of law useful as a means of mental training and serviceable in his regular business.

Mr. Chapman has always been deeply interested and intelligently helpful in the further development and improvement of Minneapolis and Hennepin county, and has allowed no worthy undertaking to go without his active and practical aid when the general welfare of the community has been involved in it. Whether the project has been social, industrial, commercial or educational, it has always been able to command his earnest supjiort, and in connection with all he has at all times borne his full share of the burden of work and material assistance required. He is a member of the Phi Delta Phi college fraternity, and the Minneapolis, Minikahda and Six O'clock clubs, and was president of the last-named in 1906-7. He is also a valued member of the Agricultural. Development and Edu'cational Committee of the state Bankers' Association and its president; one of the executive committee of the American Bankers' Association, and chairman of its committee on agricultural development; a member of the Minnesota Bankers' Association, which he served from 1899 to 1906 as secretary, and of which he was president in 1908-9. He is also a member of the American Institute of Bank Clerks, and was the organizer and President of its first Chapter.

In none of these organizations is Mr. Chapman merely one of the silent units. He is a clear, inspiring and forceful speaker, and is in frequent demand for talks in public on topics of finance and business, as well as one of the spokesmen for any association of men to which he belongs, and a guide and always warmly welcome speaker in the discussions which take place in them all. He is always master of his theme, and never talks on any subject without illuminating it and making it interesting. For he is always earnest in his purpose and has some useful end in view, and never talks simply for the purpose of hearing himself.

On December 26, 1896, Mr. Chapman was married at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to Miss Elizabeth G. Mahew. They have two children, their daughters Katherine and Elizabeth. All the members of the family attend the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, and the father is also a member of the Masoni'c Order, in which he has climbed the mystic ladder to the thirty-second degree in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He takes an earnest and serviceable interest in the affairs of his church, and in those of all branches of his fraternity through which he has ascended to his present exalted place in it. He hearkens readily and responds cheerfully to every claim of citizenship, is ever obedient to the call of duty in helping to promote the best interests of his community. The residents of Minneapolis of all classes and conditions esteem him highly, and from every point of view is altogether worthy of the high place he holds in public regard.

Hon. Edwin Smith Jones

"Here 'was a ricli man whom the struggle of making his own fortune did not harden, and the possession of wealth did not injure. Here was a man of the people who lived the common life and knew it all, with its anxieties, sorrows, pains, toils and tears, and remained a plain man with his heart close to the common heart to tlje end. Here was a successful man, to whom no one grudged his success. Here was a fortune for which no one clutched. He delighted to make all about him happy, while his own personal tastes and habits remained the simplest. So long as we have rich men like the late Edwin S. Jones, class will not be widely separated from class, and anarchism is not much to be feared."

So spoke an admiring and judicious friend of Edwin Smith Jones, for thirty-six years a resident, and during a large portion of that time one of the leading citizens of Minneapolis, at the time of his death, on January 36, 1890, at the age of nearly sixty-two years. The justness of the tribute was fully acknowledged at the period when it was uttered, .and the cordial and general regard in which the memory of the subject of it is still held in all parts of the community he did so much to build up and improve, and in other sections of the country in which he was well known, show that it has stood the test of time and is still considered right and true.

Edwin Smith Jones was born in Chaplin, Windom county, Connecticut, on June 3, 1828, the son of David and Percy (Russ) Jones. The father owned and cultivated a farm among the hills of Eastern Connecticut, and on that farm the son grew to manhood, obtaining his academic education at the neighboring country school and at Munson Academy. His opportunities for mental development and training in the schools were meager, but they were well improved, and at the age of sixteen he was a school teacher himself in the vicinity of his home. It was necessary for him to make the most of every opportunity and means he found for advancement, for when he was but seven years of age his mother died, and three years later his father also passed away, leaving him' and an older brother to carry on the farm and provide for their own maintenance.

When Mr. Jones was twenty he made a trip to Indiana in the interest of a publishing house, and had a number of other young men under his supervision in the busines,s. Before the dawn of his manhood he decided to study law, and as soon as he was able he entered upon the work of preparing for his profession. He was first married in 1854, and that year came to Minneapolis to live, bringing his young bride with him. Before leaving Connecticut he had commenced reading law in the office of Hon. J. H. Carpenter, at Willimantic. After his arrival in this city he continued his legal studies in the office of Judge Isaac Atwater, and in April, 1855, he was admitted to the bar, being the first law student to whom that distinction was accorded in Hennepin county.

In 1857 he was elected probate judge of the county, and in 1858 he was re-elected, serving three years in all in the office, and receiving from it the title of judge, which he afterward carried through life. From the beginning of his residence in this city he was in touch with all the public movements of his time, in both business and moral circles, and soon became a leader in philanthropic work. During the progress of the Civil war he was commissioned commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain, and was assigned to duty in the Department of the Gulf. His services were so efficient in the army that he was brevetted major.

Before the war Judge Jones gave great attention to the organization of the Atheneum Library association, and was one of its incorporators and its first president. And while in the South with the army, even amid the brutality and inhumanity of a great war, his sympathetic heart overflowed with sorrow over the impoverished and suffering condition of the people of that section of the country. His sympathy for them found expression in later years by his establishing and conducting at his own expense a school for young ladies known as the "Jones Seminary," at All Healing Springs, near King's Mountain in North Carolina. The purpose of this school was to give education to the white girls of the mountains in the usual text books and also in the practical and serviceable domain of sewing, cooking and domestic economy. In addition to this he contributed liberally in both money and counsel to a free kindergarten for colored children in Atlanta, Georgia, and in consequence of his liberality to it this institution was named in his honor "The Jones Kindergarten."

After the war the judge returned to Minneapolis, and in 1866 was elected one of the supervisors of the town and president of the board, and in 1873, after the organization of the city government, he was elected alderman from the Eighth ward. In 1870, in connection with other gentlemen, he organized the Hennepin County Savings Bank, and was chosen its president, with J. E. Bell as cashier. He remained at the head of this institution until his death and gave it a large part of his time and attention. It has been one of the most successful banking institutions in the city, and was during his tenure of its presidency.

The foundation of Judge Jones' fortune was land which be acquired in and near Minneapolis in the early years of his residence in the city. The continued increase in the value of this land gave him large profits, and he also engaged in loaning money on his own account and as the agent of investors in the East. He was a good business man, industrious and careful in all his undertakings, and frugal in his style of living. He acquired a considerable amount of wealth for his day, but he left only a moderate estate. For the glory and excellence of his character was his benevolence.

The objects of his public bounty were many and all designed for large and general usefulness. Among them were the Western Minnesota Academy, now Windom Institute, at Montevideo, of which he was a trustee; Carleton College at Northfleld, to which he bore the same relation; The Chicago Theological Seminaiy, of which he was also a trustee, and the Ameiican Board of Foreign Missions, of which he was a corporate (voting) member. These were all under the patronage of the Congregational church, of which he was long a devout and consistent member, attending service at Plymouth church.

Judge Jones also gave the site for the Jones-Harrison Home for Aged Women on the shores of Cedar Lake in the suburbs of Minneapolis, a beautiful tract of eighty acres, and was most liberal in general benefactions and church activities. The aggregate of his benevolent and charitable gifts was never known to any one but himself, and it is doubtful if he could have given more than a guess at it, as he kept no account of such expenditures. He was generous too with the knowledge he acquired by diligent reading and frequent and extensive journeys, both in his own country and in Europe, but he was never obtrusive with any form of his benefactions.

The judge was married three times, and by these unions became the father of nine children. Only two of these are living, Mrs. Frank H. Carleton and Hon. David Percy Jones, for several years mayor of Minneapolis, a sketch of whom will be found in this volume. Mrs. Susan C. Jones, the last wife and companion of her husband's declining years, is still a resident of this city. She is the daughter of Captain Charles C. Stinson of Gofi'stown, New Hampshire, and was married tci .fudge .Jones in May, 1877.

at the time of the historic mill explosion. Frederick W. Currier as a boy entered the employ of Brown & Haywood, which was succeeded by the Pittsburg Plate Glass company. He was advanced from one position to another, becoming thoroughly familiar with all the details of the business. During this time he found opportunity to gratify his ambition for a more complete equipment and became a student in the night classes of the state university, where he completed the law course. The business with which he has been identified throughout his career was established in 1883 by Captain Charles W. Brown and Wm. Haywood and sold by them in 1900 to the Pittsburg Plate Glass company, becoming one of the twenty-eight warehouse points for this company. Captain Brown is a native of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and as a youth went to sea with his father who was captain of an East Indian trading vessel. Here he won rapid advancement and at twenty-one became the master of a merchant marine trading between New York and Australia. He continued in this position until his marriage when he left the sea and came to Minneapolis, where he formed a partnership with Mr. Haywood, who was a native of Englaml and an artist and designer of stained glass for windows and decorative purposes. They established their enterprise in a single room on the third floor of the building occupied by the Bishop Paper company, with a capital of about $4,000. After several years of prosperous trade they disposed of the business to the Pittsburg company and Captain Brown was retained as manager. At the end of two years he went to Pittsburg to accept the office of secretary of the company, and later became vice president and the most influential factor in the Pittsburg Plate Glass company, known among the world's great business organizations as the largest corporation in the glass industry. Something of the remarkable growth of this immense enterprise may be glimpsed, in the comparison of its business of twenty years ago with that of today, where the transactions of a year are more than doubled in one month. During the time of his residency in Minneapolis, Captain Brown won the esteem and good will of his fellow citizens, which he has continued to hold, with his own interest in the city, through the years when his successful career has widened the scene of his activities. When his successor to the position of manager of the Minneapolis offices was sought, the choice fell naturally on the man who through training and natural ability was fitted for positions of trust and responsibility and Mr. Currier received the position in which he has given his able services for the past twelve years. The firm occupies the Morrison building on Fifth avenue and Third street and employ a force of 180 workmen, si.xty of whom are engaged in the manufacture of mirrors and art glass. The local trade requires the services of eight salesmen and thirteen men cover the northwest territory to the coast.

Frederick W. Currier

Frederick W. Currier, manager of the northwestern territory of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company, was boni at Dorchester, near Boston, Mass. He came to Minneapolis as a lad with his father, Frank .J. Currier, who was employed as manager of the cotton textile mills until their destruction

Harry B. Cramer, business man and member of the Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners, was born in Troy, New York, July 28, 1851. As a youth he apprenticed himself to the trade of house decorator and painter and after becoming a proficient workman he, in company with three other young men of his native city, spent, some time in journeying, work- ing for a time in Buffalo and Guelph, Ontario. Then he and a companion, Mr. Dick Wager, went to Chicago, and in the fall of 1871 they reached St. Paul. Here they found no demand for workmen of their trade and employed themselves in various occupations. The following spring they came to Minneapolis, where they found employment and where they remained until in 1876. when tliey spent some months in Philadelphia and assisted in decorating and painting the buildings of the Centennial Exposition. In Minneapolis they were first em])loyed by various firms; their earliest employers were Qiarles Metzger and John Horton, and then, in partnership with George and William Blewitt, they established an independent business. A few months later Mr. Cramer formed a partnership witli Daniel O'Rourke, on Third street; and, some time afterwards his former companion and partner of many years, Dick Wager, returned to the East. During Mr. Cramer's early struggles, he married Miss Marie Jones and their home was established at first, in three cheap rooms with extremely modest furnishings. He soon was in a position to embark independently and opened a store on the present site <jf Browning, King & Company, on Sixth street, where he remained until his removal to 215 South Sixth, where he was located for about 18 years, and then moved to his present attractive quarters, in the Leighton block, on Tenth street. Mr. Leighton gave him much valuable assistance and necessary backing in the days of his early operations. His first large contract, the Guaranty Loan building, now the Metropolitan Life building, proved a financial loss to him. but witli the aid of Mr. Leighton he was able to successfully withstand this disaster and rapidly attained a prosperous business. He decorated several structures of the World's Fair of 1893 at Chicago, including the Minnesota and the North Dakota State buildings, the Mechanical and Mining building, and the White House Inn. He also finished the Park hotel and Hotel Eastman at Hot Springs, Arkansais. Mr. Cramer is a Republican and although he has never held a purely political office, he has given his fellow citizens valuable service for ten years as a member of the Board of Park Commissioners. He has devoted particular attention and effort to the development of the child life of the city, the establishment and maintenance of playgrounds, etc.

Mr. Cramer is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Elks. He has always taken an interest in sports and outdoor recreation, and is an enthusiastic fisherman and horseman. Mrs. Cramer is popular in the social circles of Minneapolis and the family home on Park avenue is well known for its hospitality and attractiveness. Mr. and Mrs. Cramer have one daughter. Madge, the wife of Mr. H. D. Lyon.

Dr. Herbert (). Collins, Superintendent of the City Hospital who has attained a reputation as a promoter and builder of hospital improvements and in the application of the most modern and approved methods in all hospital work.

school. He received his professional instruction at the University Medical College in New York City, graduating in 188S, and coming to Minneapolis in 1908 to become Superintendent of the City Hospital, his extensive previous experience giving him special fitness for such responsibility.

He keeps in touch with the living, Mowing currents of knowledge and inspiration in the profession through membership in its organization, such as The Hennepin County Medical, The Minnesota Pathological. The Minnesota State Medical Societies, The American Hospital, and The American Medical Associations.

Dr. Collins' chief worth has been in connection with hospitals especially in securing enlarged accommodations and improved facilities. The balance of the block where the city hospital is located has recently been purchased for the hospital. The service building has been remodeled. The New Hospital for Contagious diseases is well under way and Lymanhurst for children has recently been acquired, through \ the generosity of the Lyman Brothers, who contributed their old homestead comprising half a block. The west wing of the City Hospital and the West Wing of the Nurses House with greatly increased facilities have been completed. About 350 employes are now required, the increased facilities demanding about 100 more, then about 900 patients may receive accommodation.

In fraternal and social life Dr. Collins is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the New Athletic club and Civic and Commerce club. He was married in 1891 to Miss Jessie Oram. They have three children, Helen Louise, Herbert 0., Jr., and Richard Louis. The family attend Westminster Presbyterian church.

Robert Bruce Langdon

"lie was one of the noblest of God's creation - an honest man in every sense. His word was always as good as his bond, whether in business, friendship or politics. He was a man who delighted in serving his friends, who never lost an o]>portunity to reciprocate the slightest favors or courtesies, and his loyalty to friendships and business associates was a matter of universal comment among all who knew him."

So spoke a close personal and political friend of many years standing of the late Robert Bruce Langdon. This is high praise, but Mr. Langdon's lirm i)laee in the regard of many persons in many states during his life and the cordiality and warmth with which lie is remembered and his name and achievements since his death are revered show that he must have deserved it all. and that the estimate of his character and ])ersonality embodied in the description was based on genuine merit and a truly lofty, pleasing and serviceable manhood.

Mr. Langdon was born on a farm near New Haven. Vermont, on November 24, 1826. His ancestry on both sides of the house was English, but the progenitors of the American branch of the family were early arrivals in this country, for his great-grandfather was captain of a Massachusetts regiment during the Revolutionary war. At the close of that momentous contest for independence and freedom the captain located in Connecticut, but later moved to Vermont, becoming one of the pioneers of that state, or at least of the portion of it in which he settled, which was the neighborhood of the town of Xew Havpii. in Addison county, where his grandson, Seth Langdon, the father of Robert Bruce, was born and reared. The mother was a Miss Squires, and a descendant also of families loiig resident in this country.

Mr. Langdon's father was a farmer and he was himself reared on the farm and at an early age began to take part in the work of cultivating it. He began his academic education in the district schools and completed it by a short course in a good academy. He was of a constructive nature, however, and eager from his youth to be doing something tangible and material. On this account his school days were limited, except what followed in the rugged but thorough school of experience.

In 1848 he yielded to his great ambition and began his business career as foreman of a construction company engaged in building the Rutland & Burlington Railroad in Vermont, A short time afterward he left his native state and came West in the employ of Selah Chamberlain, a railroad contractor, for whom he worked a number of years in Ohio and Wisconsin, In the course of time, however, he felt strong enough in the business to take a contract on his own account, and secured one to fence the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad from Fond du Lac. Wisconsin, to Minnesota .Junction.

Mr. Langdon was successful in this undertaking, carrying out his contract in every particular and doing well through it. He was now fairly launched on the broad sea of railroad constiuction work, and followed his first contract with others as rapidly as he could. In 1853 he had charge of the construction of a section of seventy-five miles of the Illinois Central road extending from Kankakee, Illinois, to Urbana. Ohio, and later was engaged on contracts for the Milwaukee & La Crosse and the Milwaukee & Prairie du Chien roads in the order named.

His work was bringing him to his destined permanent home. In 1858 the first ground broken for a railroad in Minnesota was turned up under his direction. Soon after this performance he went South to build the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, a piece of work he was obliged to abandon, after spending two years on it, because of the outbreak of the Civil war. But this did not stay his hand in this department of productive labor or abate his energy. He at once returned to the North and began new lines wherever the time was ripe for them. During his active career as a railroad contractor he was associated at different times with D. M. Carpenter. D. C. Shepard, A, H, Linton and other gentlemen, and in association with them built more than 7,000 miles of railroad in the states of Vermont. Ohio, Wisconsin. Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Tennessee, Mississippi. Iowa, the Dakotas, Montana, and the Northwest Territory in Canada,

Mr, Langdon was not, however, only a railroad contractor, although one of the foremost in the country. He acquired interests in some of the roads he built and became a stockholder and director in some of the most important lines in the Northwest, He was vice president and a director of the Minneapolis & St, Louis Railroad, and for a number of years a vice )>re9ident of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. He also turned his attention to other enterprises besides that of railroad building. In 1866 he built the canal of the Minneapolis Milling company. He was also president of the company which built the Syndicate Block and the Masonic Temple in Minneapolis; a director of the Twin City Stock Yards at New Brighton and of the City Bank of Minneapolis; a partner in the wholesale grocery firm of George R. Newell & Company, and interested in the Terminal Elevator

Mr, Langdon was a gentleman whose counsel was eagerly sought by various corporations and large institutions, not only in Minnesota, but throughout the Northwest, his reputation as a financier and a man of fine business Capacity being high and widespread. And his sterling traits of character made him a strong man in every field of endeavor with which he was ever connected. But his numerous and very exacting business undertakings did not wean him from the studious habits formed in his boyhood and youth, and he possessed a vast fund of general information gathered by reading, observation and reflection. Few men were equal to him as a conversationalist on so many and such varied topics of human interest and discussion.

No man in his community ever took a more active, intelligent and serviceable interest in the affairs of his locality than did Mr, Langdon, In the molding of the destinies of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota during the active years of his life his influence was widespread and potential. He also had an extensive acquaintance with men of national reputation and influence throughout the countr}', and this he made serviceable to his city and state whenever he could do so. It was largely through his persuasive power and country-wide acquaintance with the leaders of political thought in his party that Minneapolis was selected as the meeting place of the Republican national convention in 1892, and he was a member of the general committee on arrangements for it and chairman of two of its most important sub-committees, chosen because of his great business ability and personal strength in his community and elsewhere.