Minneapolis City (part 59 of 80)

When Mr, Comstock first came to Minneapolis he engaged in the lumber business. For nearly half a century of residence in the Flour City he divided his time between the lumber business and railroad contracting. During his long residence here he had the spirit of good citizenship always as his guide and was always generous with the time he devoted to public affairs and with his services to the municipality and to the state. He served in many capacities. He was the first republi'can ever elected to the city council from the First Ward of Minneapolis. In his responsibility as alderman he was always zealous and served on a number of important committees. He was at different times chairman of the committee on roads and bridges, and ex-olFieio member of the park board. Through his efforts the patrol limits were established and he was influential in placing Minneapolis under high license.

Mr. Comstock was placed upon the Minneapolis Court Hotise and City Hall commission in 1889 and was chairman of the construction committee until the building was completed in 1909, June 16. In 1886 he began a long service to the state. It was in this year that he was first elected to the legislature. He served for three terms in the lower house and in 1903 he was elected state senator, in which capacity he served four years.

The people of Northeast Minneapolis looked to Edgar F. Comstock as the source of all the good things that coula come to them as a community. He was the father of Logan Park and was instrumental in getting sewers, good roads and everything that made for. the good of that section of the city.

Mr. Comstock's father was a Maine lumberman. He. like his son. served his city and his state, as town officer and in the state legislature. He was .lames Madison Comstock and his mother was Louisa M. (Gillman) Comstock. Mr. Comstock married on January 28, 1867, Miss Mary Hacking, a native of England, who came to this country as a 'child to live in Greenbush, Maine. Three sons were born to them, Robert M., Edger F.. .Jr., and James M. They all live in Minneajjolis. He was a member of Chase Post, G. A. R.. of the Masons, and of the St. Anthony Commercial Club.

Mr. Comstock died December 15, 1912. He is survived by his wife and three sons, the wife Still residing at the old homestead. No. 750 Madison St., N. E. Minneapolis.

went to California where he worked in large granite quarries. In 1904 he accepted a position as Chicago representative of large Eastern marble company and during this period visited Minneapolis and the northwest. In January, 1910, he removed to Minneapolis and since that time has been identified with Northwestern Marble & Tile company where liis able services as manager have contributed to the marked success and rapid extension of the trade of that industry. Within the last two years the plant has been more than doubled in size in order to properly execute their contracts thereby making the Northwestern Marble & Tile company the largest manufacturers of interior marble work west of New York, estimating their annual output at $600,000. They originally engaged in the construction of wood mantels and contracting in floor and wall tiling but these lines were gradually supei-seded by the marble work and they now handle some of the largest contracts in United States and Canada for interior marble, etc., ninety percent of their business being outside of Minneapolis. Among their more important contracts are the Wisconsin state capitol building at Madison, Wisconsin, and the union station at Detroit, Michigan, each of these contracts approximating one- ()uarter million dollars. The manufacturing plant and yards are located at Twenty-seventh avenue and Twenty-seventh street south on the C. M. & St. P. main line. Branch oflices are operated at Chicago and Winnipeg but the headquarters for the entire sales force is maintained at the Minneapolis office. All details of the management and business transactions are under the direct supervision and administration of Mr. Dapjirich. The company is incorporated with a cajdtal of $300,000 with Mr. Eugene Tetzlaff, president, Mr. L. H. Dapprich, vice president and general manager, Mr. E. D. Spencer, secretary, and Mr. Charles N. Gramling, treasurer. Mr. Dapprich is a member of the New Athletic club and the Rotary club and in Masonic circles has attained the rank of Master Mason. He was married at Pontiac, Illinois, to Miss Cliarlotte Boman. MR. CHARLES N. GRAMLING, treasurer of the Northwestern Marble & Tile company and assistant treasurer of the Flour City Ornamental Iron Works, was born in Minneapolis, July 31, 1885, the son of Elias H. and Mary (Dittman) Gramling. He attended the city schools, graduating from the high school in 1900 and then completing a commcreial course of study. Since that time he has won a prominent position among the younger business men of his native city and is identified with the interests of important industries in Minneapolis. He has held the position of assistant treasurer of the Flour City Ornamental Iron Works for ten years and two years ago became treasurer of the Northwestern Marble & Tile company. He was married January 3, 1912, to Miss Marie Catharene Brombach.

William P. Cleator

L. H. Dapprich, vice president and general manager of the Northwestern Marble & Tile company, was born in Belleville. Illinois, Sept. 6, 1876. In 1894 he entered the marble business in Baltimore and after eight years of practical training there

A native of Minneapolis, where he was reared and educated and connected with its business life from youth, and one of the founders and incorporators of the Sawyer-Cleator Lumber company, of 1400 Washington avenue north, William P, Cleator has been a factor of importance and usefulness.

Mr. Cleator was born on Fourth avenue north May 22, 1860, and is the only child of William and .Ivilia (Stanley) Cleator, the former a native of the Isle of Man. and the latter of New York, she being a sister of Mrs. Joseph Dean. The father came to New York in 1854, two years later joining the colony of hopeful and daring pioneers in St. Anthony, and soon formed a partnership with Anton Knobloch in the boot and shoe trade. Mr. Cleator later operated a similar store on the site of the old Pence Opera House, which he conducted for a number of years.

In 1865 he moved to Owatonna, conducting a grocery store for four years. On his return in 1869 he again went into business, and continued active for many years, although he is now retired, aged 88. The mother died nine years ago, well advanced in age and with a long record of usefulness, upright living and fidelity to duty.

William P. Cleator obtained a high school education and, at eighteen, began his business career as a clerk in a grocery store. He then put in two years as bookkeeper in the old CSty Bank, and three in the German-American Bank, of which he Is now a director. He next became a member of the firm of Dean Brothers & Co., handling commercial paper, stocks, bonds and similar securities until 1906, when he united in founding the Sawyer-Cleator Lumber company with C. W. Sawyer, who has been connected with the lumber business in Minneapolis in various capacities since 1880, and for several years was the manager and part owner of the Park Rapids Lumber company.

The motto of the Sawyer-Cleator Lumber company is "A square deal for everybody," and by strict adherence to this rule it has built up a large and active trade and risen to the front rank in the lumber industry. The men at the head of it know their business thoroughly, and exert their knowledge in service for the benefit of their customers. The consequence is that they are highly esteemed in business circles and have a large body of personal admirers and friends.

In politics Mr. Cleator in a Republican, but he is never an active partisan. His religious affiliation is with the Fourth Baptist church. In October, 1865, he was united in marriage with Miss Jennie V. Weld, a daughter of James 0. Weld, for many years a foreman in sawmills and manager of lumber yards, and who is now living retired at Lake Minnetonka; afterward organized with his brother the firm of Weld Brothers in the grocery business. Mr. and Mrs. Cleator have three sons: Fred W., who is a department superintendent in the United States Forestry service at Republic, Washington; Horace A., at home; and Ralph A., who is employed in a Minneapolis bank.

Hon. Henry Poehler

For fifty-nine years the late Hon. Henry Poehler was active in the mercantile life of Minnesota, and for nearly half of that period in that department of activity and usefulness in Minneapolis. During his residence in this state of over a half century he was always a very busy man, and for a large portion of it one of the leaders in every line of effort to which he pave his attention. Although not a native of this country, he dignified and adorned American citizenship in many ways, and when he died left a record of achievements of which any man might well and justly be proud.

Mr. Poeliler was born at the village of Hiddcscn near Detmold in the province of Lippe, Germany, on August 22, 1833. The place of his nativity was not far from the Teuteburger

Wald, a mountain on the verge of the Black Forest, on the top of which stands the celebrated monument to Hermann, or Arminius, the deliverer of the Germans from the galling yoke of Rome in the year 9 A. D. The interesting subject of this brief review therefore grew to manhood amid scenes of historic interest, and they made a deep impression on him. He was the son of Frederick and Wilhelmina (Keiser) Poehler, who were of the same nativity as himself. The mother passed the whole of her life in her native region, and died there. The father, w-ho was, during the boyhood and youth of his son Henry, principal of the school at Hidesen, came to this country late in life, and died at Henderson, Minnesota, at an advanced age in 1876.

His son Henry was educated in the state schools of his native land, and in spring of 1848, when he was fourteen years of age, came to the United States with one of his uncles. They landed at New Orleans, and moved up the river to Burlington, Iowa, where Henry lived several years. He was married at Bridgeton, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, to Miss Elizabeth Frankenfield on September 14, 1861. Slie is Still living, as are four of their six children: Alvin H., and Walter C, who are residents of this state; and Irene and Augusta, who reside in Los Angeles, California, where their father had his winter home for a number of years prior to his death.

Mr. Poehler was one of the pioneers of Minnesota. He came to St. Paul from Burlington, Iowa, in 1853, and from St. Paul proceeded up the valley of the Minnesota river to Henderson. During the first year of his residence in this state he and his older brother Frederick built two of tlie first log 'cabins near where Mankato now stands, intending to take up claims in that locality. He changed his mind, however, when by chance he entered the employ of Major Joseph R. Brown to assist in the transportation of goods from Henderson to Fort Ridgeley, all transportation up and down the Minnesota valley being then by boats and teams.

Ill 1855 Mr. Poehler bought the mercantile commission and freight transportation business of Major Brown at Henderson, founding the firm of H. Poehler &, Bro., and during the next seven years he lived the life of a quiet merchant in a small town. But when the Indians rose and took the war path in 1S62, he was among the state's defenders against the fury of the savages, and he rendered valuable service in helping to quell the outbreak and reduce the wild men to subjection. In his store at Henderson he handled machinery and' grain along with other general merchandise, and thereby became enamored with the grain trade especially, and to such an extent that in 1881 he organized the Pacific Elevator company for the purpose of engaging in it on a larger scale.

In 1887 this enterprising merchant, accompanied by his son Alvin H.. moved to Minneapolis, where he became a member of the Chamber of Commerce and continued the firm of H. Poehler Company, which engaged extensively in the graintrade and which has ever since kept its business growing in volume and value. The company was incorporated in 1893 with Mr. Poehler as president and George A. Duvigneaud as vice president. Mr. Pochler's other sons were taken intobusiness with him at the time of their respective graduations from college. Charles from the Shattuck School at Faribault, and Walter C. from the University of Minnesota. This company has been in continuous existence since it was founded. And on May 1, 1905, its founder. Mr. Poehler, celebrated th& golden anniversary or semi-centennial of his Connection the grain trade. He remained at the head of the company which bears his name until his death on July 18, 1912, which removed the last of the male generation of the family, his three brothers who also came to this country, having passed away previous to his own demise, which was deeply lamented although he was on the verge of eighty years of age at the time.

Mr. Poehler was as prominent in politics in Minnesota as he was in business. He was a firm and loyal member of the Democratic party and for many 3'ears very active in its service. His force as a party worker was recognized locally and at Washington, and both the national administration and the people of the state were always eager to show their appreciation of him in this respect. He was postmaster of Henderson from 1855 to 1861; a member of the last territorial legislature in 1857 and of the first state legislature in 1857 and 1858; a member of the legislature again in 1865; state senator in 1872-3 and again in 1876-7; and in the fall of 1879 was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the Second of the three congressional districts in the state at that time, being the first Democratic congressman from this state after 1859 except Hon. Eugene M. Wilson. After his retirement from congress in 1881, he abated his activity in politics to a considerable extent, but his interest in the welfare of the state induced him to serve on several state boards, including the commission which located the State reformatory at St. Cloud and the board of directors which governed it afterward, on the latter of which he was associated with Governor Pillsbury.

For many years Mr. Poehler was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade as well as the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce. In religious affiliation he was connected with the German Reformed church and in fraternal life with the Masonic order, in the latter having risen to the Royal Arch degree. He always took a warm interest in his church and his lodge, and made his membership highly valuable to both. He was also, at all times, earnestly, intelligently and practically interested in the welfare of his home community, and made his interest manifest in cordial support of all deserving agencies at work for its welfare and all undertakings for public improvements, never withholding his aid from any worthy effort for advancement and being among the first and most potent in promoting many. His attention to the duties of citizenship was always zealous and straightforward, and he never considered the time given to them as a sacrifice. His devotion to American institutions was genuine, heartfelt and effective in good work for the benefit of the people, locally and generally. He was everywhere esteemed as one of Minnesota's most useful and representative 'citizens while he lived, and he is universally regarded as such since his death. The business he started and built up to such large proportions stands as a visible proof of his enterprise and capacity, and his record as a true and upright man is enshrined in the memory of the people among and for whom he lived and labored as a perpetual benefaction and an unfading example of genuine worth.

Thomas Edward Cootey

in his childhood by his parents, and in that city grew to manhood. His opportunities for obtaining an education were meager, as the circumstances of his family forced him to begin the battle of life for himself at a very early age. Even in his boyhood he became a messenger and errand boy in his father's store, and was kept employed there at various lines of work until he left the parental fireside to make his own way in the world. Before this, however, he embraced an opportunity to pursue a course of special training for business in a commercial school, which he attended as regularly as his circumstances would allow.

In the course of a short time he rose to the position of manager of the lithographic department of the old Culver, Page & Hoyne Publishing company's establishment in Chicago, and from there came to St. Paul to start and manage a lithographic department in the establishment of the Brown- Treacy company, now the Brown-Treacy-Sperry company, of that city. The general management of the retail department in books and stationery of this progressive company was assigned to him and he made a great success of it, meanwhile working up the lithographic line of the business with commendable enterprise and gratifying progress, attended by ever-widening popular approval.

About 1894 Mr. Cootey moved to Minneapolis to engage in the printing and lithographing business on his own account. He bought out an old establishment in the business and transferred it and its work to the Northwestern Lithograph and Printing company which he organized; and when the plant was located in the Flour Exchange building the name was changed to the Cootey Lithographing company. Mr. Cootey was president, general manager and controlling spirit in the company, and gave it the full benefit of his great energy, fine talents and superior business capacity.

The company specialized in high grade lithographic work and catered to the most refined and exacting taste. Its efforts were directed particularly to securing orders from banks and other large business institutions for their work of the first class, and it made preparations, or rather, kept itself always in a state of readiness to meet all demands of this kind. Mr. Cootey was an artist of rare attainments, as has been noted, and was able to produce the most attractive and striking designs for this grade of work, and he had the practical faculty of security the reproduction of his most impressive features and most delicate shades of thought in the products his company turned out. His judgment was critical and nothing short of the best results would satisfy him at any time. The company is still in business and continues to bear the name he gave it.

Mr. Cootey took an active part in the civic, social and artistic life of his community. He was often solicited to allow the use of his name as a candidate for public office, but steadfastly refused all such overtures. But he was a zealous member of the Minneapolis, Commercial and Lafayette clubs, and his influence in the management of their affairs was stimulating, healthful and uplifting. His religious affiliation was with the Catholic church of the Immaculate Conception in this city, and he was attentive and faithful in the performance of his duties as one of its members, always willing and ready to aid in promoting any undertaking for its benefit, and helping sedulously to keep up its discipline and progress by both his example of upright living and his influence on others.

to Mis8 Cora M. Hamen of that city, wlio is still living in the elegant home her husband built before his death, and whirh he had only half furnished when that sad event occurred. They had no children. The head of the house was very attentive to his business, and spared no etlort to give it the highest rank in its line. Even when he sought pleasure and relief in travel, which was his principal recreation, his mind was ever alert for new suggestions in his art, and so his mind was a living and freely flowing stream of active and fruitful usefulness. Minneapolis mourns him as one of the best, most inspiring and most representative of her departed citizens. He was a member of the National Association of Employing Lithographers of the United States, and a beautifully engraved booklet issued at the time of his death in his memory was presented the widow.

George H. Dow

John Wesley Dow was born at \'ienna, Kennebec county, Maine, in 1823, and there learned his trade as a sawyer of timber. He came to Minnesota a single man, reaching Stillwater in May, 1849, and St. Anthony one month later. Here he secured employment from the federal government and was sent to Fort Ripley, on Lake Mille Lac, to saw the lumber to be used in the erection of the fort. He was the head sawyer in the ten-horse mill used in sawing this lumber, horses being the only motive power tlien available in that region for the purpose. He operated the mill two years, until the fort was completed, living in tents in tlie summe: until quarters were built for the soldiers. He also had and operated a shingle machine, which was probably the first one ever used in Minnesota.

At the end of the two years mentioned Mr. Dow returned to St. Anthony. In the meantime, in 1851, his father and mother, John Ware Dow and wife, had come to St. Anthony. The father, who was a retired Methodist Episcopal minister, took a claim on Nicollet avenue that later became the John Blaisdell claim. He s'ettlcd. however, on the north side of Forty-fourth avenue north, between what are now Humlioldt and Penn avenues, and there he continued to reside for a number of years. The place finally became the home of his son, Jiistin Dow, who moved to California in 1875. .John Ware Dow died at Delano. Minnesota, in 1876.

When John Wesley Dow returned to St. Anthony in July, 1852, by paying .$100 for a squatter's right he secured the present home of his son George H., and on this farm he lived until his death on .June 10, 1902, lacking but twenty-five days of fifty years' occupancy of the land. The farm embraced 160 acres and lies between Fortieth and Forty-fourth avenues north and extends from Penn avenue north to the city limits. The southeast forty acres of it have been platted and are now included in tlic William Penn Addition.

In October, 1854, he married Elizabetli (handler, who lived with her parents, Timothy Cliandler and wife, on the claim adjoining his on the south. He bnnight his bride to a log shanty, sixteen b}- fo\irtcen feet in size, near the present dwelling house on the farm, and in this shanty his son George H. was born on March 16, 1857. George's mother died in

The father was lame and his health was uncertain. When his wife died he was left with two small children to care for. But he stuck to his farm and made it productive and valuable. His deed for it was made in 1855 and came in the form of a patent from the government signed by the President at that time, Franklin Pierce. For thirty years the elder Mr. Dow was clerk of the school district, and, under the instruction of Colonel Stevens, then county auditor, he organized what was said to be the largest school district in the state. It included all the land west of the Mississippi river and north of what is now Twenty-sixth avenue north He was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal church and an original member of the first church class meeting in Northern Minneapolis, which was started by his father in the old log cabin on the farm and is now a vigorous means of grace in the North Minneapolis church at Washington and Forty-fourth avenues north.

John Wesley Dow had two children by his first marriage, his sons George H. and Ware S. The latter is now living in Alaska. His second wife, who was Mrs. Mary A. Wales, of Indiana, survived him but fifteen days, dying on .June 25, 1902. They had no children, but she had two daughters and one son by her former marriage, all of whom were reared in tlie Dow family. Nancj' died at the age of twenty. Mary A. is a widow, and is living near the old home. Perry Wales, tlie son. is a farmer near Brooklyn Center.

George H. Dow has passed the whole of his life to this time (1914) on the old homestead, of which he inherited twenty-five acres, including the family residence. He is extensively and successfully engaged in market gardening. In October, 1880, he was married to Miss Ella Smith, a daughter of C. A. Smith, a florist on Portland avenue. She died in August, 1887, leaving no children. In March, 1901, Mr. Dow married as his second wife Miss Emma B. Mills of Jlinneapolis, a native of Southern Minnesota. They have two children, Irene, aged eleven, and Wesley, aged seven. The father is a steward in the North Minneapolis Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has been an active worker since he was seventeen years old. He has been a Sunday school teacher and superintendent and the leader of the Bible class. In politics he is a Prohibitionist, but in local elections votes independently, always sup])orting the men he believes best qualified for the offices sought and most likely to render the best service to the public.

Dr. Frederick Alansox Dunsmoor

So much splendid material for professional eminence as well as good citizenship has come from good old Maine ancestry, and been developed by the hardship and struggle of pioneer dnys in Minnesota that, colonial patriot, revolutionary hero, Maine settler, Minnesota jiioneer. eminent citizen, seems almost like a stamlaiil foniiula for the successful Minneapolis man. Dr. Frederick Alaiisiin Diinsiiiiiur belongs to this large and ])roiiiinent circle of honoii'd Miiineapolitans. He, more than many others, iliiineapolis may claim as her own, for he was born in the little settlement of Harmony, Richfield township, which is now within the city limiti!. His father. James A. Dunsmoor, came to St. Anthony in 1852, from Farmington,

Maine. He was in very feeble health when he niaile the change and settled on a farm, that he niiglit have every opportunity to grow strong and well again. He had been a fone in his old JIaine home and he lost none of his executive ability when he came to Minnesota. He was a man of unusual enterprise and high standing in the community so long as he nuide Minneapolis his home. In lST:i he went to California again in search of liealth, but he died there soon afterward. The mother of Dr. Dunsmoor was Almira Moslier, of Temple, Maine, and she was the mother of eight children, si.x sons growing to manhood. She was a woman of splendid talents and mental equipment. Frederick Alanson was the youngest but one of her children. He was born on May 28, 1853, and received his earlj- education in the schools of Richfield and Minneapolis, and later in the University of Minnesota. When he was but sixteen years of age he showed the bent of his inclination, for he went into the ofSce of Drs. Goodrich and Kimball to study medicine. He then went to New York, where he took a full course in the Bellevue Hospital iledical College. While in New York he was a private student of Fred H. Hamilton and privileged to come under the instruction of such eminent specialists as Alfred G. Loomis, Austin Flint. Sr., E. G. Janeway and R. Ogden Doremus. After he graduated from medical college and received his degree he went to California to visit his parents, and every inducement was offered him to remain and practice there. However, he preferred his boyhood home, and So came back to Minneapolis and went into partnership with Dr. H. H. Kimball. This partnership was dissolved in 1877 and Dr. Dunsmoor established himself independently. About this time he accepted a position as professor of surgery in the St. Paul Medical College and taught there until 1879. For the year 1879 he was county physician for Hennepin county. Dr. Dunsmoor then accepted the chair of surgery in the medical department of Hamlin University, but resigned two years later to devote himself to the organization of the Minnesota College Hospital. This he organized as a demonstration of his theory of the importance of giving prominence of clinical over didactic instruction. He bought fhe old Winslow house, which had been occupied by Macalester College, and with the co-operation of others the Minnesota College Hospital was organized. Associated with him in this work was Thomas Lowry, who was made president of the board of directors; Dr. Geoi-ge F. French, Dr. A. W. Abbott and Dr. C. H. Hunter. Dr. Dunsmoor was made vice president of the board of directors and dean of the college. For years he gave the best of his enthusiasm and energy to this institution, serving as dean, vice president. Professor of Surgery, and surgeon to the dispensary, as well as attending physician. This he did until the Minnesota College Hospital was merged into the State Univei'Sity when he transferred his enthusiasm and energetic spirit as an organizer to the new organization. Even then, however, he felt the need of a fully equipped hos|)ital for clinical purposes, and he threw himself heart and soul into plans and arrangements for Asbury Methodist Hospital. For a time this organization occupied the building of the old Minnesota College Hospital. Dr. Dunsmoor held the chair of clinical and operative surgery in the medical dejiartment of the University of Minnesota, resigning in 1913.

Other hospitals to which Dr. Dunsmoor has lent his skill and ability at dilTerent times are St. Mary's Hospital and St. Barnabas Hospital. In lIiKi .St. Baniabas Hospital eipiipped a suite of riKinis especially for the use of Dr. Dunsmoor in surgical operations, the only pliysician having such in the City Hospital and the Asbury Free Dispensary. He has also been the surgeon for a number of different railroad lines, including the Cliicago. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, the Northern Pacific, the Kansas City, the St. Paul and Duluth, and the Chicago, Burlington and Northern.

Like nearly all of the modern physicians. Dr. Dunsmoor has devoted himself to specialties. He has made an especial and extensive study of gynecology and surgery. Nearly every year he spends a short vacation from his practice in study in the great hospitals, colleges and scientific centers, in both this country and the old world. His fame has gone abroad and he is hailed as a leader in all the scientific centers of the world. He kee|)S his library well stocked with all the latest and best books, not only on the subjects dearest to his heart, but along all scientific lines. This much for his scientific side - but he is many sided, for he finds time to indulge his love of music and art. He is an active worker in a number of musical organizations and his collection of etchings and art treasures is the fad which gives him the most pleasure.

Socially he is a warm-hearted, companionable man, very democratic in his tastes and ever mindful of the need of those who are less fortunate than he. He is a member of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church, where he has served in an official capacity for a great manj' years. He is a Mason, a Druid, and a Good Templar. He is also a member of nearly all the principal clubs of the city, being a charter member of both the Minneapolis and Commercial clubs. He is a member of the International Medical Congress, the National Association of Railway Surgeons, the American Medical Association, the Minnesota Academy of Medicine, the Western Surgical and Gynecological Association, the Tri-State Medical Association, the Crow River Medical Association, the Society of Physicians and Surgeons of Minneapolis, and the county and state medical societies,

Dr, Dunsmoor is also a writer of note, his name being seen frequently in the pages of many of the leading medical journals, his articles on the subjects of his specialties always carrying authority. As a musician he ranks very high in the city and also as an art critic.

On September 5, 1876, Miss Elizabeth Kmma Billings Turner became the wife of Dr. Dunsmoor. She is the daughter of Surgeon George F. Turner, who was stationed at Fort Snelling in 1846. and was the contemporary and familiar friend of such pioneers as Gov. H. H. Siblej^, Gen, R, W, .Johnson, Franklin Steele, Father Geer, Rev, Dr, Williamson and others, Mrs, Dunsmooi-'s lineage is traced directly from Miles Standish, Seven children were born to them and three lived to come of age, Dr, and Mrs, Dunsmoor have been saddened in the past year by the death of their only son, Frederick Laton Dunsmoor. Their daughter Marjorie became the w-ife of Fred McCartney and lives in Colorado; the other daughter, Elizabeth, nuirried Homer Clark, of St. Paul, and lives in that city.

Dr. Dunsmoor built a beautiful home on Tenth Street in the eighties, and it was the show place of the cit.v for a great many years, but w'ith the encroachment of the business district upon the one-time beautiful residence street Dr, Dunsmoor sold this home and has since then mnde his permanent home at Lake Minnetonka,

Time has dealt lightly with Dr, Dunsmoor, and although he is sixty years old he is still in his |)rime and as active and enthusiastic as ever. His social instincts are still active

Benjamin Franklin Nelson

The lumber industry early became and has ever since remained one of the leading lines of business in Minnesota, and the reasons for this are strong and manifest. The bounty of nature in providing the material for the industry was almost unlimited, and the quality of that material was superior in some respects to that of what was to be found in many other heavily timbered regions. The men who started the industry were men of broad views, fine business capacity, resolute spirit and all-daring courage; and those who have followed them have shown the utmost capability for developing the industry to its full limit and handling it with the utmost wisdom and success. Here was raw material in lavish bounty ready and waiting for the commanding might of mind to come and convert it into marketable form for the service of mankind. The lord of the heritage came, and his presence has ever since been manifest in the magnitude, value and far-reaching results of his work.

As a representative of both the earlier and the present-day magnates in that industry in this section of the country, Benjamin F. Nelson of Minneapolis stands in the front rank. His operations have been and are still very extensive. His foresight and sweep of vision are great. His knowledge of the business has from the first been comprehensive and accurate; and his daring and business acumen are of the first class. Whether measured by the scope and extent of his undertakings, or the skill with which they have been managed, he is easily one of the forfmost men in the industry in this country.

Mr. Nelson was born in Greenup county, Kentucky, on May 4, 1843, and is a son of William and Emeline (Benson) Nelson, who were natives of Maryland and emigrated to Kentucky in early life. The family was in moderate circumstances, and the opportunities of the children for schooling were limited. Benjamin attended public schools in Greenup and Lewis counties for brief periods at intervals, and, when his father's health failed while he was still a youth, he assisted his brothers in taking care of the household. At the age of seventeen he began cutting logs and rafting them down the Ohio. This gave liim his first experience in the lumber trade, and the fiber and activity of his mind was such that he made it tell greatly to his advantage then and subsequently.

But he was not allowed to pursue this industry long undisturbed. The mighty war cloud that had been hovering over the country for some years burst at length in a deluge of death and disaster, and he felt called by duty to take part in the sectional conflict in defense of the political views and theories of government to which he had been educated. In 1863, when he was but nineteen years of age, he enlisted in the Second Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate army, and during the progress of the war served successively under Generals Morgan, Forrest and Wheeler of the Southern forces. Although the commands in which he served were engaged in the most hazardous duties and were always performing them, he escaped without disaster, except that he was taken prisoner, and at the close of the momentous struggle was in confinement at Camp Douglas near Chicago.

When Mr. Nelson was released he returned to Kentucky. But the trail of the war was still on the state, and after remaining in it for a few months he determined to seek his fortune in what was, at that time a more promising region. In September, 1865, he came to Minnesota and located in Minneapolis, at that period called St. Anthony. His experience in lumbering secured immediate employment for him in that business, and he has been connected with it ever since.

Mr. Nelson passed his first year in Minnesota as a laborer in the woods and mills and on the river. But such a post in the great industry in which he was intensely interested did not satisfy his ambition or meet the requirements of his faculties, although he manfully accepted it as a steppingstone to the realization of his high hopes, and faithfully and laboriously performed its duties. In his second winter here he secured a contract to haul logs, and some little time afterward another to manufacture shingles. Even this advance he looked upon as but a means, for he had his vision fixed on loftier heights.

In 1872 our aspiring lumberman formed a partnership with others in the planing mill business, and this led directly to the manufacture of lumber. In 1881 the firm of Nelson, Tenney & Co., consisting of Mr. Nelson and W. M. Tenney, bought a sawmill. Mr. Nelson was now in a position entirely suited to his taste and his abilities. He gave his whole attention to the business of the firm, and as the city and the country around it advanced in development and improvement, the firm's trade rapidly expanded, and before the expiration of ten years it became one of the heaviest operators in Minneapolis. Later W. F. Brooks held an interest in the firm for a number of years.

For over forty years Mr. Nelson was engaged directly, and most of the time very extensively, in manufacturing lumber. But his energies in this work were not confined to the company of which he was the head, nor were they wholly absorbed in this line of effort. He acquired interests in many other companies in the trade and affiliated with it, and also took part in additional kinds of manufacturing and in the financial and public affairs of the city and county of his residence, in which he is still deeply and helpfully interested.

He is president of the Leech Lake Lumber Co., the Hennepin Paper Co., the B. P. Nelson Manufacturing Co., B. F. Nelson & Sons Co., and the Leech Lake Land Co. He is also one of the directors of the Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis and others in Minnesota. Director Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. In addition he has extensive holdings in mineral lands in Northern Minnesota.

This is a record of long continued, extensive, very exacting and highly successful business operations, but it shows only a part of Mr. Nelson's activity and achievements. He has been as zealous in philanthropic, educational and religious work as he has been in business, and for years took a prominent part in public affairs in his home city. He served in the city council from 1879 to 1885, and was made chairman of the ways and means and railroad committees, at which time he made the acquaintance of Mr. J. J. Hill, as he fully believed that Minneapolis, just getting out of her swaddling clothes as a city, could afford to be liberal with railroads and on account of such views was able to assist railroads in getting such rights as was necessary to operate economically and at that time a close friendship was made with Mr. Hill, which has existed to the present time. Mr. Nelson was a member of the first board of park commissioners, rendering wise and appreciated service in laying the foundation of the Minneapolis park system. He was also for manj- years a member of the old Board of Trade, and its president in 1890 and 1891, and one of the directors and the treasurer of the Business Men's Union in 1890.

From 1884 to 1891 he was a member of the school board. During this period the increase in the school population of the community was phenomenal and the necessity of providing for it taxed the ability of those in charge of them to the utmost. 'In this pressing time Mr. Nelson's special fitness for the position he held was amply demonstrated, and he won high credit for his resourcefulness, readiness and adaptability to requirements in the discharge of his duties as a member of the board. The experience in educational matters he gained in this position, and his recognized business capacity led to his appointment as a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota in 1905, and is now (1914) President of the board, and since then he has rendered the state service of the highest character and most productive kind in this department of its interests, showing both breadth of view and facility of resources in meeting requirements, and always a keen insight into the future and wisdom in providing for its needs. For thirty years Mr. Nelson has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Hamline University.

The material interests of the state have also had Mr. Nelson's intelligent and fruitful attention. He was chosen a member of the board of directors of the State Agricultural Society in 1902, and after several years of valued service on the board, was made its president in 1907 and again in 1908. Mr. Nelson was a member of the board of managers of the State Prison and was its president for several years.

Another line of local enterprise which engaged his attention actively and helpfully was that which is in charge of the Commercial Club. In 1904 he became one of the directors of the club and chairman of its public affairs committee. During the next two years he worked out conspicuous commercial development under the auspices of the club, and wrote his name in large and enduring phrases on the pages of its history. In 1907 he was elected president of the club, and this office he held until 1909. He is also a valued member of the Minnesota State Historical Society, and in the social and fraternal life of the community is connected with the Minneapolis Club, Commercial Club. Lafayette and Minikahda, Minnesota and Automobile Clubs, and is prominent in the Masonic order, holding the rank of Knight Templar in the York rite and that of a thirty-second degree Mason in the Scottish rite. In this fraternity he is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.

Mr. Nelson was married in 1869 to Miss Martha Ross, who died in 1874. leaving two sons, William Edwin and Guy H., who are now associated with their father in business. In 1875 he contracted a second marriage which united him with Miss Mary Fredenberg of Northfield, Minnesota. They have one child, their daughter Bessie E.

From the dawn of his manhood Mr. Nelson has given his political allegiance and services to the Democratic party, but he has never sought an office or been chosen to one by a partisan election. Those he has held have been either by non-partisan or conferred upon him by appointment and in recognition of his special fitness for them rather than on account of political services or party considerations. In addition, he has frequently been urged to become a candidate for high elective offices, but has always steadfastly refused.

How like a thread of gold the splendid record of this excellent business man and superior citizen runs through the history of Minneapolis! and what a credit it is, not only to the community in which he has expended his activities, but to the whole range of American citizenship.

Hon. William Stanley Dwinnell

Tracing his ancestry back in direct lines to early Colonial times in New England, yet himself born, reared and educated in the West, Hon. William S. Dwinnell, state senator from the Fortieth senatorial district, combines in his make-up the resourcefulness of the New Englander and the enterprise, broad vision and hustling progressiveness of the Westener. These characteristics have been made manifest in his business and political career, and have won him the admiration of all classes of the people and the cordial regard of those who know him intimately.

Senator Dwinnell was born at Lodi, Wisconsin, on Christmas day, 1863, and is a son of John Bliss and Maria C. (Stanley) Dwinnell. The progenitors of the American branch of his family came to this country from England and settled at Topsfield, Massachusetts, in 1660. His mother's side of the house includes many distinguished people of Connecticut, including the first Governor of Connecticut colony, and the Day and Dwight families both of whom liave furnished presidents of Y'ale College.

The senator's father was a merchant in his early manhood, but later turned his attention to farming, and passed the remaining years of his life in that occupation. The son grew to manhood in his native place and began his academic education in its public schools. Afterward he pursued the undergraduate course in the academic department of the University of Wisconsin, and later entered the law department of that institution, from which he was graduated in 1886. After his graduation he took up the work of preparing opinions of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, for publication, having been appointed to this position by Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk who for many years was his warm friend and adviser.

In 1888 and 1889 Mr. Dwinnell served as district attorney of Jackson county, Wisconsin, and at the close of his term in that otiice came to Minneapolis, under contract, as attorney for a large building and loan association. There proved to be a radical difference in opijiion as to policy between Mr. Dwinnell and his associates, and he resigned from the service of the association and began the practice of law, devoting his efforts in the main to matters affecting corporations.

By the year 1900 he found that close confinement and constant business activity were telling on his health, and he then determined to give more attention to outside affairs. He began dealing in real estate in Minneapolis and St. Paul and the Canadian Northwest and soon enlarged his operations to include timber lands in California, Oregon, and British Columbia. He organized and became president of the Eraser River Tannery, located in the Eraser river region of British Columbia and an institution of magnitude and great activity. He also beeamo treasurer of the Urlian Investment company of St. Paul, and interested in a number of other enterprises of importance and usefulness to the communities in which they operate.

ami exacting, but they have never been allowed to obscure the public welfare in his mind, and he has taken an earnest interest and an active part in public afl'airs from the dawn of his manhood. The interest he manifested in the well being of Wisconsin while residing in tliat state has been duplicated in liis fidelity to the substantial good of Minnesota since he began to live here. No line of advancement for the city in which he has his home or the state of which it is the metropolis has been overlooked or neglected by him, and his support of all undertakings to promote it has always been zealous and energetic, but has been guided by intelligence and good judgment.

Senator Dwinnell has been especially cordial and active in his interest in good government and his ell'orts to aid in securing it. He exerted himself with animation and force in behalf of the direct primary law of 1899, and also in behalf of the anti-trust law enacted the same year. His wisdom and zeal in connection with civic affairs so impressed the people of his neighborhood that in the fall of 1910 he was elected to the state senate from his district, the Fortieth, and in the three sessions of the legislature which have been held since his election he has fully justified the public confidence expressed in his election and rendered his district and the whole state good service by the broad view he has taken of public questions and the enterpri.se and intelligence with which he has striven to make the legislation of the sessions progressive and ministrant to the welfare of all classes of citizens and all public agencies for good.

Prior to his election to the senate, however, he served the Commercial club for a number of years as a member of its committee on public affairs, of which he was vice chairman in 1906. He belongs also to the Minneapolis, Minikahda, La Fayette and Six O'clock clubs, the American and Minnesota State Bar associations, and the American Economic association. On April 34, 1889, he was married to Miss Virginia Ingman. They have four children, and all the members of the family attend St. Mark's Episcopal church, of which the senator is one of the vestrymen, and in the work of which he is active.

Edward Williams Decker

Edward W. Decker, pi'esident of the Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis, furnishes in his career a striking illustration. He inherited strong and useful traits of character from his ancestors, but he has been strong in himself independent of those traits, and his environment has had no other efl'ect on his course than to give him the opportunity to show his native powers and make his surroundings subservient to them. His scholastic education never went beyond a high school course, and that. has had only a general bearing on his business career. The forces that have made that career possible and wrought it out were of him and witliin liim. and no outside influence is entitled to credit for them.

Mr. Decker is a native son of Minnesota, and has never wandered far from his native heath. He was born at Austin, this state, on August 24, 1869, a son of .lacob S. and JIary Ann H. (Smith) Decker, both of sturdy Holland Dutch ancestry. The progenitors of the American branch of the family came to this country early in its colonial history and located on the Hudson river in New York where the picturesque village of

Esopus now stands. About 1720 the representatives of the house living at that time moved to the New Jersey side of the Delaware, and at Flatbrookville on that historic river Edward W. Decker's parents were born, and there they grew to maturity and were married.

Soon after their marriage they came to Miimesota and took up their residence on a farm near Austin in Jlower county. On this farm their son Edward passed his boyhood and youth, attending the district school in the winter and working on the farm in the summer. Later he entered the high scliool at Austin, from which he was graduated in 1887. Directly after leaving the high school he sought the largfr opportunities offered for his talents in Minneapolis, and began his business career as messenger in the Northwestern National Bank of this city.

He showed such unusual ajititude for the banking business, that lie was rapidly promoted to higher positions of trust and responsibility, and on September 13, 1895, was elected assistant cashier of the Metropolitan Bank, and the next year waa chosen its cashier. He was still demonstrating his ability, and on December 8, 1900, was called back to the Northwestern National Bank to serve it as cashier.

While his position after the change was in the same class as before, it was nevertheless a promotion, for the Northwestern was a larger institution than the Metropolitan, and its cashiership carried weightier duties and responsibilities than the same position in the latter. On .luly 1, 1903, he was elected vice president and general manager of the Northwestern National Bank, one of the most responsible banking positions in the city, and also rendered the bank excellent service as one of its directors.

Besides giving close and careful attention to his duties in the Northwestern National Bank, as he has always done in every line of endeavor and every business connection, he was prudent in the management of his private affairs, and soon acquired interests in other institutions. On May 10. 1910, he was elected president of the Minnesota Loan and Trust company of Minneapolis, an offshoot of the Northwestern National Bank, and on January 1, 1912, was made president of the bank, a position he has filled with marked ability and general approval ever since.

Mr. Decker is also vice president of the ilinnoapolis Clearing House Association, and a director of the Northwestern National Life Insurance company of Minneapolis, and has long been a leading member of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, a director of tlie Young Men's Christian Association and a member of the Twin City Bankers' Club, of which he was president for a time. And is also a director of the Twin City Rapid Transit Co.

For a number of years Mr. Decker has held valued and serviceable membership in the Minneapolis club, the Commercial club and the Minikahda club of his home city, and through them has contributed directly and materially to enlarging and enlivening the social life of his community. He has been warmly ami helpfully interested in fraternal aetiv'- ities too as a Freemason of the Thirty-second degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and has taken an active part in the doings of the order in all its branches and organizations from the foot of the mystic ladder to the great height to which he has ascended in it.

In these lines of association with his fellow men he has also found pleasure and profit in active membership in the Automobile club of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Society of

Fine Arts, tlic Miiinesuta Society of New York, tlie Cliicago, Heron Lake Lodge and Six O'clock clubs, the National Geographical Society and .John A. Rawlins Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in the last of which he is on the Citizens StaflT. In fact, no phase of usefulness in the life of his home community has been without his active aid and inspiring encouragement, and in matters of ]niblic improvement and general welfare he has always been zealous, energetic and of great service.

On February 24, 1892, Jlr. Decker was united in marriage with Miss Susie May Spaulding, a daughter of \V. A, Spaulding, one of the old settlers of Minneapolis, a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Rep\iblic and distinguished for his military service in the Second Battalion, Light Artillery. Five children have been born of the union, all of whom are living. They are: Edward Spaulding, Margaret, Katharine, Susan and Elizabeth. The parents are Congregationalists and enrolled in the Plymouth Church congregation of that sect.

.Tolin \\"iIlLam Dreger is one of the most solid of the citizens of Minneapolis who mark with pride their descent from ancestors of good old German birth. Possessing all this loyalty to family traditions, Mr. Dreger is distinguished by that other characteristic of the Teutonic stock - love of country and interest in the duties of citizenship, and therefore has been among the foremost residents of the city in seeking realization of high ideals.

Bergholtz, Niagara County, New York, was the birthplace of ,T. W. Dreger. He was born March 23, 1846. the son of .John W. and Louisa Dregev. His father was a farmer who had come, with the good wife, from Pasewald, near Stettin, I'omerania, Germany, in 1843. was in a settlement of men and women of his c^vn nationality that the migrating farmer in seai'ch of the better things a free country oflfered made his home.

And it was in the German Lutheran schools wliicli the neighborhood established that the son obtained the foundation for his education. Until he was fourteen years old young Dreger divided his time between the school and the farm life which was part of the education of all farmers' sons in those earlier days. Then for thi-ee years the boy, given the best that the ambitious father could provide for him, and which lie himself could gain, had the good fortune to be enrolled as a Student in Martin Luther College, in Buflalo, New York. In 1863 young Dreger taught a (Jerman school in Walmore, in the county of his birth, aiul some of his most interesting reminiscences are of his life as a teacher.

From the School Jlr. Dreger went into commercial pursuits. His first experience was as a salesman in a retail lumlier yard in Buffalo, work to which he turned when the school year ended. And there he continued in the work of a lumber salesman until the late sixties, when, like many another young man in tlie East, he began to look toward the West. Finally he came to Minnesota and became at once a resident of Minneapolis.

In this city lumber then vied with flour milling as one of the chief industries. And Mr. Dreger's experience in the lumber business in Buffalo stood him in good stead. For two

F'rom 1S87 to 1902 Mr. Dreger was a member of the iirni of E. Eichhorn and Sons. And he was as one of the sons, for he married a daughter of Mr. Eichhorn on May 4, 1887.

All this time Mr. Dreger was taking part, as a citizen, in the civic and political allairs of the city. He held membership in many civic organizations, and he took a deep interest in the cause of good government. In 1900 and 1901 he served as president of the Board of Arbitration and Conciliation and made a line record.

Thus it came about tliat in tlie spring of I'.lOli. wlien a sheriff of Hennepin 'county was to be appointed to till a vacancy caused by a resignation, and when the affairs of the office were in critical condition, the people of Minneapolis who were taking the most interest in the matter of good government selected Mr. Dreger as the man who in their opinion was best fitted, by reason of his integrity and honesty of purpose, to carry on that important ollicc. And so he was appointed on March 10, 1902. So when the election came that fall and people had come to know their trust had been justified, Mr. Dreger was nominated and elected sheriff of the county. He was re-elected in 1904 and again in 1906, and there is little doubt that he might have continued in the office had he so desired.

An important change in the conduct of the office was made in 1902 when Mr. Dreger was appointed to the office. The old ' and iniquitous fee system was abolished and the office was placed firmly on a salary basis. This fixed salary system made many changes necessary under the law, and upon iSIr. Dreger fell the duty of making the changes. That he carried them out satisfactorily is shown in his re-election to the office.

It was in 1908 that Mr. Dreger began to long for the more peaceful ways of private life, undisturbed by any of the strenuous demands of the sheriff's office. And he finally retired from office, against the pleadings of a great number of friends who had come to value highl.y his services and his unquestioned probity. He resumed his interest in the firm of Eichhorn, and gave over his whole attention to business matters. He found time, shortly, however, to journey to the land of his father's birth in 1908 and again in 1912. and to visit many Scenes made familiar to him in fancy by the tales of his mother and father in his childhood.

Mr. Dreger is a man of essentially sociable tastes. In response to such calls he is a member of a large number of organizations which have varied purposes, along with their social phases. Among these are the Liedeikrantz Singing Society, Apollo Club, the Gymnastic I'ninn, the 'I'eutonia Kegel Club, the German Society of Minneapolis and the American Branch of St. Paul, the (ierman Home School Society and other similar organizations. In addition, he is a nuMuher of the Masonic order.

Mr. Dreger's wife, who was Miss Ottilie .1. Eichhorn before her marriage, and wlu) was a devoted heljinuite to him in the social and civic life in wliicli he participated and was a member of the German Deutsch, Damen \'erein Charitable Society and other charitable associations, died in .June, 190.").

Mr. Dregen took a Special interest in the criminal work while serving as sheritF of Hennepin county. He was a member of the National Prison Association during tlie incumbency of his office six years and was at the head of the State, the Interstate and National Sheriffs' Associations, serving as fVesident in each of the named associations.

Since his retirement from office the ex-sheriff lias been honored by the appointment to the place of vice president for the State of Minnesota each year, and is known among the sheriffs in the United States and Canada as the Father of the Association, for it was through his consistent and energetic work that the formerly Interstate Sheriffs' Association, comprising only twelve of the Xorthwestern States in the year 1902 took in each state in the Union and the Dominion of Canada, and was proclaimed in 1912 as the International Sheriffs' Association. Mr. Dreger attends the conventions regularly each year and enjoys meeting sheriffs, ex-sheriffs and friends.

Oliver Cromwell Wyjiax

Oliver C. Wyman, who has been one of the leading business men of Minneapolis during all of the last forty years, was born at Anderson, Indiana, in January, 1837. His parents were Henry and Prudence (Berry) Wyman, the former a native of New York state who located at Anderson when Indiana was but sparsely settled. The mother also belonged to a family of pioneers in that region. She died only a few months after her son Oliver was born.

When the son was but seven years old he was taken by his maternal grandmother to what was then the territory of Iowa. There he was sent to a country school and from that obtained such an education as it could give him. He did not seek advanced scholastic training, for he had the mercantile Spirit strong within him at an early age, and manifested an ardent desire to begin a business career. This he was allowed to do at Marion. Iowa, where he remained in business until 1874. That year he disposed of his interests there and came to Minneapolis.

Immediately after his arrival in this city Mr. Wyman formed a partnership with Z. T. Mullin, now a resident of Washington, D. C, with whom he had previously been associated in business, and under the firm name of Wyman & Mullin they founded a wholesale dry goods house with which Mr. Wyman has ever since been connected. Mr. Mullin left the firm in 1890, and at that time George H. Partridge, who had been in charge of the credit department of the establishment, was taken in as a member and Samuel D. Coykendall as a special partner, the firm name being changed to Wyman, Partridge & Company. When the present corporation was formed some years afterward Mr. Wyman was made president of the new organization and Mr. Partridge at first secretary, and later vice president. These offices the gentlemen named are still holding. The firm has its principal business location, which it owns, at the corner of Fourth street and First avenue north. In addition to its commodious and splendidly appointed building at that location, which it uses for salesrooms, it occupies another for warehouse purposes, and also operates a large manufacturing plant. The business is very active and extensive, its sales territory reaching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast.

In 1880 W. J. Van Dyke was admitted to partnership in the first named firm, wliich then became Wyman. Mullin & Van Dyke; and when Mr. Coykendall became interested in the house the name was changed to Wyman, Mullin & Company, Mr. Van Dyke retiring. But through all the changes in its name Mr. Wyman has been at the head of the firm, and his has been the directing and controlling spirit in it. He is also interested in the Minnesota Loan and Trust company, a director of the Northwestern National Bank and a trustee and the vice president of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank.

While deeply interested in the welfare of his home city and state, Mr. WVman has never taken an active part in political contentions. He gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, but has never desired to hold a public office. He has, however, been active to some extent in the social life of the city as a member of the Athletic, ilinneapolis, Minikahda and Lafayette clubs. He also belongs to the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, and takes an active and helpful interest in it.

Sir. Wyman's first marriage was with Jliss Charlotte E. Mullin and took place at Lowden, Iowa, in 1858. Four children were born of this union, two of whom are living: Sarah A., who is the wife of George H. Partridge, and Prudence M., who is the wife of C. C. Ladd. Their mother died in 1880, and eight years later Mr. Wyman was married at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Miss Bella M. Ristine. They have one child, their daughter, Katherine R. The only son of the household, Henry M. Wyman, died in Spokane, Washington, in 1901. He was a physician and surgeon, a gi'aduate of the University of Michigan, Detroit College of Medicine and the University of Berlin, Germany. For some years he was engaged in hospital work in London, England, and held a high rank in his profession there, as he did in all other places in which he was engaged in- practice.

The progenitors of the American branch of the Wyman family emigrated from England to this country in 1636. Mr. Wyman's grandparents on his mother's side were John and Sarah Berry. His mother's father. Captain John Berry, served under General William Henry Harrison in his brilliant campaigns in what was then the Northwest Territory of this country, taking part in the battle of Tippecanoe and other decisive engagements won by General Harrison's army. Captain Berry made an excellent record in his military service, and other members of the Berry and Wyman families have, in various parts of the country, dignified and adorned many elevated waUcs of life and shown high and serviceable attributes of patriotic American citizenship of the most admirable quality.

John F. Dahl

Was l)orn in Bergen. Nomay, .January 22, 1870, and was brought by his parents to Minneapolis when he was a child in arms. His father was Andrew Dahl and his mother Wilhelmina (Cedergren) Dahl. They are of the intellectual type of Norwegians who were dissatisfied with the opportunities in their native land, and had the courage and aggressive spirit which has brought So many valuable citizens to Minneapolis. The boy caught from the spirit and pi-ogress of the fast growing city, the impulse for Self development, and In the i)ublic schools his mind received its first impetus to efficient attainment. The only outside credit which must be given for his all-round development is to Gustavus Adolphua College at St. Peter, where he took a full fcourse and graduated with honors.

He then entered the University and taking the academic and, later, the law course, graduated in 1892. He immediately began the practice of his profession and developing a taste for polities his forensic ability became conspicuous. He has always been an ardent Republican, local politics first engaging his attention and stirring his activities. He was elected to the legislature in 1894, and although the youngest member in the House, his gift of eloquence soon made him a prominent figure. In 1896 he was re-elected, being a colleague of such men as Judge Henry G. Hicks, Judge Willard R. Uray and Hans Simonson.

In 1905, when Al J. Smith was first elected County Attorney, Mr. Dahl was appointed assistant, being his own successor in 1907. As assistant attorney he has displayed sterling qualities and unswerving fidelity to tlie public interest. He has conducted many important prosecutions, among them being the proceedings against the officers of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company. He has ever been capable, efficient and trustworthy and has won for himself an enviable reputation.

Mr. Dahl is of a congenial temperament and those who are closest to him are tlie most enthusiastic in attesting to the splendid qualities of his personality. He is a member of a number of the principal clubs including the Odin and the Apollo. His musical talents find outlet in the last named club, and besides this he is director of music in St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. Miss Sophia Skjerdingstad became the wife of Mr. Dahl and they have one child, Theodore.

Charles Albert Davis

Mr. Davi.i was bom m the state oi New York on March 24, 1853. and was rearea ana eaucated in that state. After attaining manhood he was employed for a number of years by the New York State Forest commission in looking after the Adirondack park region. In 1888 he came to Northfield, Minnesota, to visit an uncle from Holland Patent, New Y'ork. In the fall of the year mentioned he located in Minneapolis and here he secured employment as a bookkeeper and collector for J. W. Day. He remained in the employ of Mr. Day until the latter wished to retire from business, and then bought the entire outfit, including a plant at 212 Fourth street northeast, one at Tenth and Como avenues southeast and a third at 25 Jackson street, all of which were operated under the name of the East Side Ice company, and were doing a large and active business.

Mr. Davis devoted all his time and attention to this business for five years, then sold it to the Cedar Lake Ice company, which now owns it and carries it on.

After disposing of his ice business Mr. Davis became interested in zinc and lead mines at Webb City, Missouri. He acquired the ownership of producing mines there, and, while returning from thera to Minneapolis on a Rock Island train running over the track of the Great Western road, was so seriously injured in a railroad accident at Green Mountain, near Marshalltown. Iowa, that he died two days later in a hospital in Marshalltown, March 23, 1910.

During his attendance as a student at Whitesboro Academy, where he prepared for Hamilton College, he made a high and widespread reputation for his oratorical ability. As a zealous and energetic working Democrat, however, he did make numerous political addresses both in New Y'ork and this state, and at one time was the nominee of his party for the office of county commissioner of Hennepin county, as he was in

1908 for that of representative from his district in tlie state legislature. The adverse majority was heavy and he was defeated in both campaigns, but he made an excellent impression by his effective and captivating oratory in each.

Mr. Davis was reared a I're-sbyterian and remained loyal to that chui'ch through life. He belonged to all branches of the Masonic fraternity, but was never an active working member of any. He took a cordial interest in the welfare of the fraternity and did what he could in a quiet way to promote its advancement, but he never became an enthusiast in reference to it. He was married at Northfield. Minnesota, on .January 16. 1891, to Miss Elizabeth Lockerby, a native of that city. Two children were born of the union, Gennette C. and Charles H. Both are still living with their mother at 410 Univereity avenue southeast, and both are high school graduates. The daughter is now a junior at Carleton College and the son is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota.

Frederick A. Dickey

Born and reared in Minneapolis, and whose parents were pioneers, Frederick A. Dickey, state manager of the Security Mutual Life Insurance company of Bingliamton, New Y'ork, has an intense interest in the progress, expansion, improvement and general welfare, and has helped to augment its industrial and commercial importance.

Mr. Dickey was born in iiast Minneapolis October 8, 1872, his parents being Benjamin T. and Margaret A. (Creelman) Dickey, the former a native of Maine and the latter of Nova Scotia. July 4, 1850, the father accompanied by his sister Hannah and her husband, Luther Munson, reached St. Anthony from Maine, after a varied trip overland and over the Great Lakes. One of the incidents of the voyage was that their vessel towed to shore near Cleveland, Ohio, the burning ship "OriflSth," whose fate was one of the historic disasters of the Lakes, and in which some 300 persons lost their lives.

Mrs. Munson is Still living in East Minneapolis, and recalls many interesting facts and incidents of the early days, having a scrap book which furnished many valuable incidents of pioneer history. Benjamin T. Dickey went to work in a saw- .mill at St. Anthony in 1857. and in which line of effort he engaged, either as employe or operator, for many years. He soon formed a partnership with .James McMuUen, which lasted until their mill was destroyed by fire in 1878.

Mr. Dickey then operated a Hour mill at Redwood, which was also burned, incurring heavy loss. He was afterwards connected with a number of enterprises. He died as the result of a fall March 19, 1913. He was early made a Mason in Cataract Lodge, and was therefore one of the oldest men in the fraternity in this state. A short time after becoming established here he returned to the East, was married and then brought his young bride, who survives, to his Western home. They have two sons living, Frederick A. and Dr. Robert Dickey, of South Minneapolis. Minnie, their only daughter, married Charles H. Cross, and died in Chicago in 1910, aged thirty-six.

Frederick A. Dickey was educated at Bishop Whipple College in Moorhead, began as a solicitor of life insurance, representing the National Life Insurance company at St. Louis, Mo. June 1, 1908, he returned to Minneapolis as state man- ager for the Security Mutual Life of Binghamton, New York, his success being such that his company now carries risks in Minnesota amounting to over three million dollars. He has organized an efficient corps of agents, and the business done from year to year furnishes an increasing evidence of intelligent administration.

Mr. Dickey became a Mason in Missouri, having now received the thirty-second degree, arid is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He was married August 15, 1894, to Miss Elizabeth Grorham, a daughter of David and Marion Gorham. Her father came to St. Anthony in 1847 in company with the venerable Caleb D. Dorr, and died in Minneapolis some twenty-two years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Dickey have one child, Margaret A., a student at St. Margaret's convent.

Henry Hill

Henry Hill was born in Devonshire, England, on May 19, 1828, and when he was but four years old was brought to the United States by his father, Jolm Hill, who was an architect and master mechanic. On his arrival in this country the father first located at Philadelphia; from there he went to St. Louis and later to a farm near Warsaw, 111.

The elder Mr. Hill took up his residence on a farm near Warsaw, Illinois, and later built a large saw mill there. His son, Henry, managed the farm work, and the father operated the mill. When he was fifteen Henry also took part in running the mill, and the next year he was placed in charge of the machinery in the flour mill, the saw mill having been converted into a flour mill. In 1846 he started to learn the blacksmith trade under the direction of J. H. Wood, a mechanic of extensive local renown, but soon afterward joined two of his brothers on the "Prairie Bird," a passenger steamboat built on the Illinois river.

About this time Henry Hill was united in marriage with Miss Ann Eliza Smith, a daughter of Dr. William Smith of Laharpe. 111. He continued to operate saw and flour mills from 1850 to 1856 in Illinois, but in 1862 visited St. Anthony's Falls in company with Judge Orendorf of Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1854 united with his brothers and some other persons in organizing the Northern Line Packet company and putting on the Mississippi a number of boats to ply between St. Louis and St. Paul. One of his brothers was a captain on one of the boats.

In 1855 or 1856 Mr. Hill, as a member of the firm of Hill, Knox & Company, started a distillery at Warsaw. 111. This met with disaster in the financial panic of 1857, but through his personal efforts and well known probity, the company secured indulgences, and in the end was able to meet all its financial obligations in full. It continued in operation steadily and built up a very large and profitable business, its internal revenue tax paid to the government during the Civil war amounting to an average of some $96,000 a month. Many of its employes, however, enlisted in the service of the Union, thereby crippling its force, and in 1864 the plant was destroyed and a large woolen mill was erected in its place.

In 1866 Mr. Hill turned his attention to railroad building as president, of the construction company for the Toledo, Peoria & Western road, and after the line was completed he was made president of the railroad company. Afterward he was superintendent of construction on a railroad from the

Mississippi to the Missouri across Northern Missouri and Southern Iowa, and still later vice president of that road. About this time, or a little later, he was also the principal factor in building the Midland Pacific Railroad in Nebraska and other parts of its route.

By 1878 the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad required a readjustment of its affairs, and that year Mr. Hill was one of a committee of three selected by the bondlioldcrs to sell and reorganize it. While the transactions were in progress he became intimately acquainted with Colonel Robert G. IngersoU. attorney for the bondholders, then at the height af his fame, and a very cordial and mutually appreciative friendship grew up between them.

Mr. Hill was associated in building railroads with General Drake of Centerville, Iowa, and other enterprising men, and he continued his operations in this line, principally in Iowa, until 1881, when the Wabash system secured the properties in which he was interested. He then transferred his activities to Minneapolis and gave his attention to other business. For thirty years he was a partner in the banking firm of Hill, Dodge & Company at Warsaw, Illinois, and for some years was one of the directors of the Flour City Bank of Minneapolis. In 1891 he and his sons, with Wallace Campbell, founded the bank of Hill Sons &, Company in this city, and of this institution he was president until liis death, on April 2, 1902. His widow survived him eleven years, passing away on February 5, 1913.

Through life Mr. Hill was a man of very unusual business capacity and enterprise. He had great breadth of view, a strong will, decisive promptness in action and remarkable executive ability. He was also a very 'genial, obliging and courtly gentleman, who always looked for the best traits of the men he had dealings with and treated them on that basis, while he undoubtedly possessed the noblest attributes of manhood himself. His wife was a companion meet for him and of a spirit and demeanor kindred with his own.

Hon. Fortius C. Deming

Fortius Calvin Deming was born in Milton. Chittenden county. Vermont, on December 12, 1854, and in 1S82 became a resident of Jlinneapolis. wliere he has since been busily and successfully engaged in the real estate, loan and insurance business. He began his education in the country schools, and entered Essex Classical Institute, a college in his native state. But his father died while the son was yet in his boyhood. He started learning the printing trade, but his health was delicate and he found the work and Surroundings at the trade hurtful to him. He was also employed in Vermont as a bookkeeper and salesman after leaving school by one of the large printing companies of that state until his removal to Minneapolis. Since his location in this city he has been almo.st continuously connected with his present business, his dealings in real estate being the largest part of his work, and the most important branch of it. He has been a potential factor in the development and improvement of Northeast Minneapolis, but has also borne ft heavy hand in the advancement of other parts of the city, having served as a member of the city park board for many years and been very diligent in his work as such.

ninth legislative district in the state house of representatives. In his iirst session he was a member of the committee on appropriations and served on some of its most important subcommittees. In that session also he began to take a very deep and practical interest in Itasca State Park. At that time eighteen years had passed since the government had given the state one-half of the land in the park, and no appropriation had been made for the purchase of the private lands within its limits. Mr. Deraing secured an appropriation for the purchase of some of these lands on which a valuation had been placed, and he has continued to work for a permanent arrangement with a large Standing appropriation, by which all the land desired in the park could be bought. By his personal efforts on the floor of the house he secured an appropriation of $20,000 in 1899, and in 1901 there was a standing appropriation of .$5,000 annually created for purchase of timber land, which remained in force tintil 1913, when all were abolished. In 1903 he was chairman of the Hennepin county delegation in the house and of the committee on public lands. In that session he secured, as a member of the subcommittee on finance, an appropriation of $20,000 in the omnibus bill for the Same purpose.

Returning to his work in the matter with renewed energy in 1911, but not as a member^ Mr. Deming had a bill proposed appropriating $20,000 a year until all the pine land in the park should be bought and paid for. While this failed of passage it resulted in the legislature adding $1,000 to the regular allowance of $5,000 a year, making it $6,000. Early in the session of 1913 he asked the state forester to back up, with his influence and aid, a similar bill for $25,000 a year. He urged the passage of his bill before the house committee on public lands, which favored it. But a successful movement to abolish all standing appropriations limited the provision made to two years, but it resulted in the passage of the bill which provided for a tax levy and issuance of certificates of indebtedness to the amount of $250,000, which is ample for all its needs.

Mr. Deming succeeded in interesting the leading papers of Minneapolis and St. Paul in a campaign of education which resulted in making each member and the people in general familiar with the great results to be obtained by the passage of the bill.

In the great work which he has undertaken and pushed with such relentless industry, Mr. Deming has been assisted by many public men of great weight and influence. Among the number was Hon. J. V. Brower and Senator Knute Nelson, who wrote on one occasion : "Itacka Park and its preservation are sacred and dear to every American heart. The lake and its beautiful environment should, as far as possible, be kept intact in their primitive and normal condition." The efforts made for such preservation are well placed, although there has been some dispute as to the real source of the Mississippi. In 1889 J. V. Brower, also deeply interested in this subject and well posted on it, claimed that Glazier lake was the source. But his claim has been disproved. At his instance the State Historical Society made a careful survey, which established Lake Itacka as the real source of the renowned river. Mr. Brower was the father of the park movement and a tireless worker for its success until his death in 1905.

Mr. Deming was a member of the Minneapolis park board from 1894 until he resigned in 1899. when he was elected to the legislature. In 1909 he was again elected a member of tlie board to fill a vacancy. The term expired January 1,

1913, but at the election in November, 1912, he was chosen for another full term of six years. He is a member of the committee on improvements and chairman of the committee on forestry.

In the last four years a great deal has been done in the extension of boulevards, the establishment of small playgrounds and parks in various neighborhoods and the connection of the lakes near the city by canals. In 1909, 1911 and 1913 he assisted in securing allowances of nearly two millions of dollars for park improvements by his efforts before the legislature and elsewhere.

Mr. Deming also takes an interest and an active part in the business life of his community as a member of the St. Anthony and New Boston Commercial clubs, also the Commercial club of Minneapolis. He is also a member of the State Historical Society and the Minneapolis Real Estate Board. His interest in Northeast Minneapolis began in 1888, when he arrived in the city and opened a real estate office. He handled much of the property in that part of the city that was platted that year, and several additions Since made have borne his name.

In fraternal relations Mr. Deming is connected with the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum. He was first married early in life to Miss Mary Crown of Milton, Vermont, who died in Minneapolis, leaving four children: Helen Venorma, who is a teather in the Minneapolis schools; Harriet Mary, the wife of Mr, A. Schermerhorn, of Seattle, Washington; Portia D., the wife of Dr. Dunbar F. Lippitt, of Duluth, and Calvin, who is a Student at St. Thomas College, Midway. On August 8, 1911, Mr. Deming was married a second time, uniting himself with Miss Jeanette Geiser, of Monticello, Minnesota. They have one child, their daughter, Dorothy .Jeanette.

John Wesley Day

The oldest son of Leonard Day, a leading business man and citizen in the early history of Minneapolis, and himself the head of large business enterprises, the late John Wesley Day, was a man of importance in the progress and development of the city during a continuous period of fifty-six years.

He was born in Wesley, Washington county, Maine, October 23, 1831, and died at Riverside, California, .July 26, 1910. He came to the northwest on a prospecting tour for his father in 1854, and his report of the resources, possibilities and prospects was so favorable that it induced his father to make it the future home. The family were four sons and two daughters, John W., Lorenzo Dow, William Henry Harrison and Augustin A., and Emeline and Lois. Emeline married Baldwin Brown and died in Minneapolis a number of years ago. Lois married Caleb Philbrick, and survives him.

The father began flour milling and operating in lumber, soon afterward organizing the lumber manufacturing firm of Leonard Day & Sons, which lasted until his death in 1886. The business was thus reorganized as J. W. Day & Company. The first firm included the father and all the sons except Augustin. The second was composed of John W., Lorenzo and William Henry Day, Leonard D. Day, a son of Lorenzo, and David Willard, a son-in-law of John W.

to have received the highest wages paid for that class of work. The latter firm conducted a large mill at Twenty-fourth avenue north and the river until 1897, cutting regularly 35 to 50 million feet of lumber a year from its own lands, employing 300 to 400 men in the logging operations and as many more in the yards and other departments of the business. John W. personally located and purchased these lands and conducted the logging activities.

In 1897 the mill was destroyed by fire, when the lumber on hand was sold to the Nelson-Tenney company and the timber lands to a Dubuque concern. Toward the end of life John W. removed to Riverside. California, but retained large interests in this city where his influence continued to be felt.

Mr. Day was married in Minneapolis November 3, 1854, to Miss Lavinia Gray, who was born in Wesley, Maine, May 22, 1831, and came to Minneapolis with the Leonard Day family, her sister being the wife of Lorenzo Day. Her parents, Benjamin and Mary (Lovejoy) Gray, came to this state one year later and located on a farm near Otsego, Wright county, where they lived several years dying in St. Cloud, each having attained the age of seventy-seven years.

John W. and Lorenzo took up a pre-emption on Diamond Lake operating it for six years, until they joined their father as indicated. The farm still belongs to the widows, and lies on Portland avenue fronting on Diamond lake. During the last fourteen years Mrs. Day has passed her winters at Riverside, California. She is a prominent member of the Minneapolis Library club, is an advocate of woman suffrage and warmly interested in all local activities. She is an energetic, working member of the Methodist E|)iscopal church. Lorenzo Dow Day died in California while on a visit to that state. His son, Leonard A. Day, is a resident of Boston, Massachusetts. William H. H. Day married a Miss Hanscon and died in Minneapolis. The other brother, Augustin A. Day, located on a farm at Rosemont. He also went to California and died in that state.

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Day became the parents of three children. Cora married David Willard, and resides in Duluth. Florence married Frank J. Mackey and died in May, 1912. Kugene H. Day was born May 2fi. 1867, in the old family home at Eleventh avenue and Third street south. He has lived in Minneapolis all his life.

Until very recently he was engaged in the retail lumber business. He took over the retail lumber yards of the J. W. Day company wlien it was dissolved, and afterward organized the E. H. Day Lumber company, which owned three yards until all were sold in 1913. Mr. Day is now handling city real estate and farm lands in Northern Minnesota. He also builds apartment houses for rental purposes. He is a member of the Commercial club and the Civic and Commerce association.

Mr. Day was united in marriage with Miss Mabel Conkey. a daughter of the late De Witt Clinton Conkey, a sketch of whom appears in this volume. He died in 1907 after many years of valuable service as salesman for the North Star W'oolen Mills. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Day have three children, Eugenia, Kingsley and .John C. The father owns a large orange grove in California. The family residence is at 2729 Portland avenue, and is a center of refined and gracious hospitality and a popular resort for the hosts of admiring friends.

Godfrey Deziel, M. D., a well known practitioner of Minneapolis, was born at Ontonagon, Michigan, the son of Godfrey and Anastasia (Lalonde) Deziel, who were natives of Canada, the former having been bom near Quebec and his wife at Montreal. They came to Minnesota in 1865, and settled on a farm near Hamel in Hennepin county, where Godfrey Deziel died in 1874. His wife survived him a number of years, making her home with Dr. Deziel in Minneapolis until her death in 1908 at the age of ninety-three years. Godfrey Deziel remained on his father's farm until 1876 when he became a student in a commercial school in Minneapolis, having previously attended the high school. He spent one year at this time as clerk in the postottice, which was then located in the old city hall. In preparation for his chosen profession he began his studies in the St. Paul Medical College, which later was incorporated in the State University, and supplemented his college course with further medical research under the direction of Dr. Lamb and Dr. Edward H. Stockton, with whom he later formed a partnership. He graduated in 1886 and began the practice of medicine in Minneapolis, where his ability and success have won him the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. His partnership with Dr. Stockton continued until the death of the latter. Dr. Deziel is a thorough student in his profession and an active member of various medical societies of the county, state and nation. His ability had been recognized by a number of appointments to public service. He served for four years as medical inspector under Dr. Hall, as health officer, also as deputy coroner, and is the medical agent for the St. Anthony Aerie Order of Eagles. Dr. Deziel is a member of Minneapolis Athletic Club, a director of the St. Anthony Commercial Club and his political affiliations are with the Republican party. In fraternal associations he is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Elks Lodge. He was married in 1892 to Miss Charlotte Louise Lalonde of Michigan, and they have one daughter, Delphine. Dr. Deziel is a member of the Notre Dame Catholic church.