Minneapolis City (part 60 of 80)

Oric O. Whited

Oric O. Whited, teacher, lawyer, banker and land dealer, and in all respects a most estimable citizen, was a resident of Minneapolis for twenty-two years, and they were the last and most useful years of his life. He tried his hand in several different lines of business in turn, and won a gratifying success in each. But he was neither imsteady nor an experimenter. He was a man of quick and keen vision and prompt to act when an opportunity presented itself. He also had the ability to make the most of each chance as it came, and use it as a stepping stone to something better. His life was productive for himself, and at the same time very useful to the community, and the tragical nature of his deatli. at the early age of fifty-eight, gave the people of the whole city a great shock and was universally lamented.

Mr. Whited was born in Kitchville, Huron county. Ohio, on January 20, 1854, a son of John and Clarissa (Crane) Whited. They were early pioneers of Minnesota, and on tlu'ir arrival in this state from their old home in Ohio, via Prairie Schooner and yoke of o.ven, located in Olmstead county, where the father was a prosperous farmer, as he had been at his former residence. The son's assistance was needed in working the farm, and he therefore had but little opportunity to go to scliool in early life. But his education was not neglected. The elementary part of it was acquired at home through his own efforts, and he afterward learned German while working in the fields behind a yoke of oxen.

When he reached manhood he put himself through the Speneerian Business College in Milwaukee, from which he received the usual certificate of graduation at the completion of his course. He then attended the Minnesota State Normal School at Winona, and from that institution he was graduated in 1872. His purpose in going to the Normal School was to prepare himself for teaching, and for some years after his graduation he engaged in that occupation in Olmstead county, and with such success and credit that he was chosen county superintendent of the public schools in Olmstead County, Minnesota.

When Mr. Whited finished teaching school he became connected with a bank at Fisher's Landing in this state, and for some years he also ran a bank of his own in Cando, North Dakota. He owned and operated this bank until 1890, when he sold it and moved to Minneapolis. In the meantime he had studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He did not become a regular practitioner of his profession, however, but only took cases which especially interested him. In these he was so successful that the late F. H. Peavey retained him as his confidential counsel and adviser, and for six years he occupied a controlling position in connection with the extensive operations of that eminent business man of large afTairs.

On coming to Minneapolis Mr. Whited turned his attention mainly to dealing in land in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and this was the principal business which occupied him from then to the end of his life. But he did not wholly abandon the law, even after he ceased acting as Mr. Peavey's 'counsel. In 1898 he pursued a course of instruction at the Kent Law College in Chicago, and there received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. This he followed with a post graduate course at the University of Chicago, from which he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. But the practice of law was always secondary to his operations in land after he began them, and in these he was very successful, building up an extensive business in that line of trade; and he also won universal commendation by his public spirit and deep and abiding interest in the welfare and progress of his home community, and widespread popularity by his genial nature, kindness of heart and genuine manhood.

On September 4, 1875, Mr. Whited was united in marriage with Miss Clara A. Stevens, who was also a native of Ohio, and who died on July 25, 1904. The marriage took place at Pleasant Grove, Minnesota, and three sons were born of the union. Bernard B., the first born, died at the age of fourteen. Oric O., Jr., is now (1914) thirty years of age, and Giro N., the other living son, is now twenty-one. The father was an enthusiastic Freemason and had ascended the mystic ladder of the fraternity to the very top. the thirtythird degree in the Scottish rite and that of Knight Templar in the York rite. He was also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, holding his membership in Zurah Temple, Minneapolis.

Mr. Whited's death was one of the saddest and most tragic that has ever occurred in this city. It was due to hydrophobia and came after a heroic fight for life lasting fortyeight hours. On Tuesday, July 6, 1912, while at his summei; home on Eagle Island, Lake Minnetonka, he was bitten in the face by a pet coach dog, which a few days later developed rabies. Mr. Whited, however, showed no fear, but began treatment at the Pasteur Institute, using the short course of three weeks. But the disease develop in him so rapidly that the serum did not have time to work out its full effect and develop the immunity it usually confers. The patient was given the best attention known to science, but nothing could arrest the progress of his malady, which led to delirium, semi -consciousness and finally to a much lamented death.

He used to repeat the verse "Lost somewhere between daylight and dark - 2 golden hours - each set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are lost and gone forever," when his day was not long enough.

He was a real man, the best of husbands, a better father could not be found - and his ambition was to so live and act that his sons would have a bright and Shining example for them to follow.

William de la Barre, engineer agent and treasurer of the St. Anthony Falls Water Power company and the Minneapolis Mill company, is known as an eminent engineer, both in this country and abroad. He has been prominently associated with important engineering projects of the milling interests of Minneapolis during the greater part of his career. He was born in Vienna, Austria. April 15, 1849, and received the excellent educational advantages of his native city. In 1865 accompanied his parents to the United States. Thej- returned to Austria in a .short time leaving their son in Philadelphia, a student at the Polytechnic Institute of that city. He completed his course at the age of twenty-three and secured a position as engineer and draughtsman with the Pascal Iron Works, of Philadelphia.

In 1878, after the well remembered mill explosion in Minneapolis, caused by sparks from the millstones igniting the dust, Governor C. C. Washburn sent for Mr. de la Barre to come to Minneapolis as the representative of a German invention for the prevention of similar disasters. He spent the following year installing the appliance in the Washburn plants and other large mills in the city and then became superintendent and engineer in the Washburn mills. He served in this capacity for eleven years, remodeling during this period a number of the mills and erected in 1880 the first mill to contain the new roller process, the Washburn "A" mill.

When the Minneapolis Mill company and the St. Anthony Falls company, whose charters as water power companies were granted in 1856, were consolidated and became the property of the Pillsbury-Washburn Floiir company, Mr. de la Barre was made engineer, agent and treasurer of the organization.

During thirty-one years he has bad full charge o£ the reconstruction work and the developing of the water power, erecting 'in 1896 the lower dam and in 1908 the 12,000-hoi^e-power electric power station on Hennepin Island. He has been supervising architect for several grain elevators and he is regarded as an authority in all matters relating to steam or waterpower equipment for mills. In 1888 he prepared the plans for the Sioux City Street Railway.

Mr. de la Bane holds membership in several foreign engineering societies and is well known throughout the engineering world. He was married in Philadelphia to Miss Louise Merian and they have two children, William, who is a practicing physician in Minneapolis, and Louise, who is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Mr. de la Barre is a member of the Athletic Club.

Karl De Laittre

Karl De Laittre was born in Minneapolis on Jime 23, 1874, and is a son of .John and Clara T. (Eastman) De Laittre, an account of whose useful lives will be found in this work. The son began his education in the public schools of his native city, passing through both the lower grades and the high school course, and completed it at Harvard University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1897. Immediately after leaving the University he began his business career, and this he has been extending and making broader and more commendable ever since. Both the lumber trade and the grocery business have engaged his attention, and he has risen to prominence in each, being now vice president of the Bovey De Laittre Lumber company and secretary of the Green & De Laittre company, wholesale importers and grocers, each of which has an extensive and expanding trade.

In his politic.Tl faith and affiliation Mr. De Laittre is a pronounced Republican, and as such he has taken a very active and serviceable part in the public affairs of his home city and state. In the general election held on November 8, 1904, he was chosen to represent the Thirty-eighth legislative district in the State House of Representatives. The district then embraced the First and part of the Third and Tenth wards of the city, and Mr. De Laittre led his portion of the ticket. In 1908 his energetic and effective interest in the progress, improvement and general welfare of the city led to his election as alderman from the 4th ward to fill an unexpired term, and in 1909 he was re-elected without opposition. His services during his first term were so satisfactory and his ability was so manifest tliat during his second term he was chosen president of the council, a position he is still filling with great credit to himself and satisfaction to the people of his ward and the whole city. He is alert in looking after every public interest and diligent in promoting all, having at all times the good of the whole community in sight as his incentive and impelling force, and allowing no other consideration, political or personal, to influence him.

Mr. De Laittre has also taken a warm interest and a helpful part in the organized social life of the city as an active and zealous member of the Commercial, Minneapolis and Roosevelt clubs, and his public spirit and progressiveness have made him a cordial and intelligent supporter of every commendable undertaking designed to promote its advancement. In fact, every duty of citizenship has been faithfully performed by him from the dawn of his manhood, and his attention to each has not been forced or merely perfunctory, but earnest, warm-hearted and productive. He is universally esteemed throughout the city as one of its capable, far-seeing and successful merchants and one of its creditable and representative citizens, a man ready and fruitful in service at present and full of promise for the future, with many avenues of advancement open to him, if he will consent to let the people around him have their way.

William H. Da Vies

For thirty-two years William H. Davies has been an esteemed resident of Minneapolis, and is recognized as a funeral director of superior capacity and skill.

Mr. Davies was born July 3, 1857, in Castine, Maine, on the banks of the Penobscot, where it widens into the great bay of the same name. He is a son of Edward F. and Caroline W. (Eaton) Davies, both families having been in New England for several generations. The father, a furniture dealer and undertaker, was a captain during the Civil war and took part in a number of historic battles.

William H. graduated from the high school. Learning the business which he has followed since in his father's establishment. In 1881 came to Minneapolis, and the next year established the present business now located at No. 19 South Eighth street.

His thorough knowledge of the business and close and careful attention made him successful and won for him a high reputation. He has also universal admiration and regard for dignified bearing and decorum, possessing in a high degree those necessary qualifications for a successful conduct of obsequies.

He is a member of the Masonic order in both the York Rite and Scottish Rite, as well as being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and is a member of Minneapolis Lodge of Elks No. 44. In honor of his father's services he is actively enrolled in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.

He is no politician and has taken part in public affairs only as a good teitizen. On September 20, 1886, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Ransier. Their two children are Edward Charles and Florence E. Members of the family attend the Baptist church.

Hon. Francis Brown Bailey

One of the valued contributions of New England, and one of the moat valued from any section or source, was the late Francis B. Bailey, for more than ten years a judge of the municipal court of Minneapolis, and before and after hia service in that position one of the leading and most successful lawyers in the city. On the bench his administration was dignified, firm, discriminating, and in proper cases merciful. At the bar he was able, tactful, forcible and learned, but always square and straightforward. His professional brothers regarded him highly as a lawyer and as a man, and the people of Minneapolis generally esteemed him warmly in all relations.

Judge Bailey was born in the city of Portland. Maine, on June 22, 1839, and was a son of Libbias and Marietta Monroe (Clapp) Bailey, both of Puritan ancestry and connected by close kinship with some of the most highly respected and distinguished families of New England. Tlie judge was but six years old when his father died, leaving the mother with eleven children to rear and very slender means for their support. Necessity, therefore, united with the boy's high sense of duty in leading him to rely on himself at a very early age, and to contribute from the earnings of his labor to the support of the otlier members of the family.

The burden laid on this aspiring youth by the necessities of his condition was a heavy one, but he did not chafe under it. On the contrary, it acted as a stimulus to him and sharpened his intensity in the pursuit of knowledge through every channel open to him. So thorough and comprehensive was he in his studies that at the age of seventeen he was graduated from a high school in his native city of Portland. Standing then on the threshold of a wide and open world, he found no way of advancement without continued struggle and arduous effort in its requirements, and no matter to what direction he turned serious obstacles to his progress confronted him. His ambition was to become a lawyer, but the study of the profession could be followed by him only with frequent interruptions. But he held to his purpose and in seeking to accomplish it he accepted every aid that came his way, declining no honest labor of any kind.

But the young man was not left wholly to his own resources. Friends were at hand to help him, won to his aid by his sterling wortli. They backed him for appointment to several offices of trust in succession, among tliem that of deputy collector of customs at the port of Passamaquoddy on the bay of the same name. His right to begin the practice of law came at length after weary waiting. In 1870 he was admitted to the bar in Washington county, Maine, and at once formed a law partnership with Charles R. Whidden of Calais in that county, an old lawyer of distinction in the state.

This partnership lasted until Mr. Whidden's death in 1876, and in the meantime Mr. Bailey formed another of a different kind, a partnership for life, by his marriage with Miss Anna H. Moor, a daughter of Wyman B. S. Moor of Waterville, a versatile and gifted lawyer, who had been United States Senator from Maine and one of the promotors and builders of the first railroad in central Maine. Miss Moor was educated at the Academy of Notre Dame in Montreal, Canada. Her marriage to Mr. Bailey was solemnized at Gloucester, Maine.

After the death of his partner in Calais Mr. Bailey determined to seek a new and more -open field of endeavor in the West, and in 1877 became a resident of Minneapolis. On his arrival in this city he entered the office and employ of the law firm of Lochren. McNair cSc'Oilfillan, and four years later, when Mr. Lochren was appointed judge of the district court, he became a member of the firm, which was reorganized imder the name of McNair, Gilfillan & Bailey. He continued his membership in this firm and shared in its labors, its triumphs and its very infrequent defeats until he was appointed associate judge of the Minneapolis Municipal Court, of which Hon. G. B. Coolcy was then the presiding judge. At the next election after his appointment Judge Bailey was elected to the Municipal Bench for a full term, and when Judge Cooley retired in 1883 he was elected to succeed that eminent jurist

In 1890 Hon. F. Von Schlegel, Judge of the Probate Court for Hennepin county, died and Governor Merriam appointed Judge Bailey to fill out the unexpired term, which he did to the entire satisfaction of the bar and the general public. After his retirement from the Probate Court he resumed the practice of law and continued in it as the senior member of the firm of Bailey & Knowlton until his death, which occurred on September 29, 1896. Mrs. Bailey is still living and has her home at No. 84 Willow street. Two of the five children born of her marriage to the judge are also living. They are Seavey Moor and Paul Thorndyke, both now grown to maturity. .Judge Bailey was a member of Masonic fraternity, being a member of Zion Commandery of Minneapolis. He was a member of Minneapolis and other clubs of the city and an attendant of the Plymouth Congregational church.

John Dun Woody

A life of utmost rectitude and of inflexible fidelity to duty was tliat of the honored citizen to whom this brief memoir is dedicated. He was long in service of the St. Anthony Dakota Elevator Company, of Minneapolis, as one of its most valued executive officers, and of this important corporation he was treasurer and a director at the time of his death, which occurred on the 14th of April, 1909. Shortly after his demise, the official record of a meeting of the board of directors of the company with which he was long and prominently identified embraced the following account of his life in its record:

"John Dunwoody began with this company, as cashier and bookkeeper, September 1, 1888. After about three months' service in this capacity he was obliged to relinquish his position temporarily, in order to look after the estate of a deceased brother, in Pennsylvania. Returning August 16, 1889, he remained continuously in a responsible position till the day of his death. He was elected treasurer August 31, 1891, and for nearly eighteen years was responsible for the proper handling of the funds and securities of the company. He was elected a director, to succeed Peter B. Smith. September 14, 1907. He died almost literally with the harness on, April 14, 1909, having remained at his desk in the discharge of his usual duties until one short week before his death, though we know now that the last few days of his service must have been rendered under a continual burden of pain and weakness. Such, in brief outline, was his official connection with this company, but such an outline can give no adequate idea of the high character of the services here rendered. Modest, unassuming, considerate of others, devoid of self-assertion, he was, nevertheless, courageous and steadfast in defense of his principles. There was nothing perfunctory in his service. He had a keen sense of his responsibilities and of the high confidence placed in him by the directors of the company, which made him extremely conscientious and painstaking in the discharge of his duties. Under his careful watchcare and the powerful influence of his example upon other employes many millions of dollars were disbursed without one transaction ever being called into question. The mere making of money was a matter of minor importance with Mr. Dunwoody. Faithfulness to duty as he conceived it was the keystone of his character. He accepted prosperity and adversity in the same serenity of spirit, assured that the highest reward of labor was in a consciousness of duty well performed. As the one who lived closest to him has testified, he tried to live each day as though he knew it would be his last on earth; and all who knew him intimately must testify that, measured by this high standard, his life was a success."

.John Dunwoody was born in Westtown, Cliester county, Pennsylvania, on the 21st of February. 1846, and thus he was but fifty-three years of age at the time of his death. On other pages of this work appears a review of the career of his brother William, and in that connection are given further data concerning the stanch old Pennsylvania family of whicli the subject of this memorial was a worthy scion. Mr. Dunwoody was reared to adult age in the old Keystone state. He was afforded tiie advantages of the common schools of the locality and period and during his entire mature life he was a student of good literature. As a young man Mr. Dunwoody came to Minnesota and established his residence in Minneapolis, where he found employment in a Hour mill with which his elder brother, William, was identified as a principal. Later he iiad charge of the office of the Minneapolis Millers' Association, and in 1888, as previously noted in this context, he entered the service of the St. Anthony Dakota Elevator Company.

His nature was deeply and significantly spiritual and devout, and this was shown through his zealous labors and potent influence in connection with the various activities of Westminster Presbyterian church, of which he was a zealous adherent, as is also his widow, and in which he served as elder for virtually a quarter of a century, besides which he was specially active in the Sunday school.

In the year 1876, in the city of Philadelphia, Penn.sylvania, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunwoody to Miss Emma Bishop, of Media, Delaware county, that state, and of their children the finst-born was Preston, who was educated in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the city of Boston, and who died at the age of twenty-six years; Hannah is the wife of Fayette Bousfield, of Aberdeen, Washington; Mary, now Mrs. Charles E. Cartwright of Detroit, Michigan; Ruth H. is the wife of Carl N. Hardee, of Toledo. Ohio. Preston, the only son, a young man of distinctive talent and sterling character, became associated with the extensive business activities of his uncle William, and on the occasion of a strike on the part of the workmen in his uncle's mills the office employes volunteered to serve in the place of the strikers. The enthusiasm and loyalty of young Preston Dunwoody were shown by such service, but in the strenuous incidental labor, to which he was unac'customed. he overtaxed his powers of endurance, the weather having been extremely hot at the time. He fell exhausted at his work, and this caused his death within a short time thereafter. He was loved by all who knew him with aught of intimacy and his death was a severe blow to his parents and Sisters.

George L. Dingman

After several years of useful industry and successful achievemeijt as a newspaper man, a school teacher, a merchant and a public official, George L. Dingman entered the employ of the Pillsbury Milling company as a salesman eight years ago, and since then he has been one of the company's most enterprising and successful men on the road. He was born in Erie county. New York, at East Aurora, the town to whicli Elbert Hubbard and his periodical. The Philistine, have given celebrity, on October 10, 1853, and came direct from there to Brownsdale, Mower county, Minnesota, in 1876, and from Brownsdale to Minneapolis in 1883. He was educated at East Aurora Academy and from the age of seventeen to that of twenty-three taught in New York schools, and for a time was also connected with the East Aurora Advertiser. He also taught school at Brownsdale in this state.

After locating in this city in 1883 Mr. Dingman engaged in the grocery trade at the corner of Twenty-fifth avenue (now Lowry avenue) and Central avenue, in the part of the city then called New Boston. In this store was located the first branch postoffice in East Minneapolis, while O. M. Laraway was postmaster. The streets in New Boston were unpaved and the only means of public conveyance between it and the city proper was the old horse car line. He built his store building and continued his grocery business until 1895, when he sold it to W. J. King. That same year he was elected a member of the State House of Representatives from the Twenty-ninth legislative, which was the University district.

In the session of the legislature which followed he was chairman of the committee on university lands, with Representative L. J. Ahlstrom and Senator J. T. Wyman, from that district, as his colleagues. He was defeated for re-election by the opposition of the liquor interests, because he had favored temperance legislation. He was very active in securing the passage of a bill providing that any person could make a complaint against a disorderly saloon, which until that time only a policeman could do. He was renominated by the convention of his party, but was beaten at the election by a majority of fourteen votes.

After his defeat Mr. Dingman wag appointed assistant dairy and food commissioner by Governor Van Sant, and held the office four years, from 1897 to 1901. This was a time of very great activity and marked progress. W. W. P. McConnell, of Mankato, was commissioner and gave Mr. Dingman special charge of the food department, with five deputies working under him, and he saw to it that the laws were strictly enforced in his department. The Armour and Swift packing companies and other big corporations were successfully prosecuted for violations, and every case was won by the state. One source of great satisfaction to Mr. Dingman in connection with this period of activity is that it brought him into contact with many smooth offenders and he brovight tliem all to justice, with Go^'ernor Van Sant standing firmly behind him and aiding his every effort.

After his term of office expired Mr. Dingman made a brief trip to the Pacific Coast. Since his return to Minnesota he has been actively connected with the Pillsbury Jlilling company as a salesman. During his last year of service he sold 6.000 barrels more in the western part of the state than were sold in his whole territory eight years ago. His sales have been constantly increasing from the start. During his first year of service to the company they amounted to 12,000 barrels, and in 1912 the aggregate was 34.000.

Mr. Dingman's interest in the improvement of the city has always been earnest and active. In 1887 he began an agitation for converting the Moulton nursery tract in Northeast

Minneapolis into a park, and after two years of hard work in the matter he was successful. A committee, consisting of himself. Jacob Kessler and Aldis A. Sage, held conferences with the park board, and as a result Windom park of ten acres, which is now one of the most admired beauty spots in the city, was secured.

Fraternally Mr. Dingman is a Freemason, one of the charter members and a Past Warden of Arcana Lodge, No. 187, Minneapolis, and also a member of St. Anthony Falls Royal Arch Chapter. He also belongs to Northern Light Lodge of Odd Fellows and the Koyal Arcanum. His religious affiliation is with Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has been a trustee for twenty-five years. He was first married in 1878, in Mower county, to Miss Cena M. Sprague. She died in Minneapolis, and in 1887 he was married a second time to Miss Minnie S. Banker, a daughter of Silas R. Banker, who is still a resident of Minneapolis. One son, George Banker Dingman, has been born of the union. The beautiful family home is at 2315 Lincoln street northeast.

Sever Ellingson

In a residence in Minnesota of over fifty years, which began in 1856 and has continued to the present without a break except during the Civil war and about one year before and after that conflict. Sever Ellingson, now one of the patriarchs of Hennepin county, has rendered his immediate locality and his county excellent service as an enterprising and progressive farmer, and the state at large the same as a conscientious public official.

Mr. Ellingson, whose home is in Bloomington township, on the bank of the Minnesota river, seventeen miles south and west of Bridge Square, Minneapolis, was born in Norway Dec. 22, 1839, and came to the United States with his parents in 1850. The family located at Rock Prairie, Wisconsin, and remained tliere until 1854, when the father entered a tract of government land in Poweshiek county, Iowa. In 1856 Sever came to Minnesota with his uncle, Sever Foss, and resided with him on a farm in Nicollet county, near St. Peter.

In 1860 the preliminary throes of the great sectional contest induced Jlr. Ellingson to return to his Iowa home, and the next year he enlisted at Decorah, Iowa, in Company D, Third Iowa Infantry, being sworn into the service of the United States at Keokuk. His regiment was sent to join the command under General Grant operating in the West. It took part in the battle of Blue Mills and the battle of Hatchie. Soon after the latter battle was begun he was detailed to conduct his captain. E. I. Weiser, who was severely wounded, to his home, and was absent from the regiment about eight months, rejoining it when it was operating before Vicksburg, Mississippi. He had participated, however, in the battle of Shiloh under General Hurlburt, and there his regiment sufTered severely.

At the end of his first term Mr. Ellingson re-enlisted, and after enjoying a veteran's furlough, went back to his regiment, wliich was then with General Sherman in the siege of Atlanta. He remained with Sherman through his famous march to the sea, and through all the subsequent operations, including the Grand Review at Washington, D. C. He was mustered out .July 16, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky, after having been in the army over four years. At the battle of

Jackson, Mississippi, on July 12, 1863, in a furious brigade charge his regiment was almost annihilated. July 22, 1864, before Atlanta, it was reduced to one company of 27 men with no officer and was afterward consolidated with the Second Iowa Volunteers.

Mr. Ellingson then returned to Iowa, and in 1866 he was married at Mankato to Mrs. Emily Bunker, a widow, whom he took back to Iowa. Two years later tliey located on the farm on which he now lives, which was originally taken up as a pre-emption claim by .Joseph Dean, who founded the Security National Bank in Minneapolis, and had been purchased of him by Mr. Bunker in 1862 or 1863. The farm at first contained 350 acres, but its present owner has reduced it to 180 acres, of which 100 acres is under cultivation. The first house built on it was of logs and was one of the earliest erected in Hennepin county. It is still standing at Bloomington Ferry, which in the early days was operated by Messrs. Dean & Chambers.

Tlie present improvements on the property consist of a frame dwelling house, fine, large barns and other necessary structures. They were nearly all put up by Mr. Bunker, but some of them were the work of Mr. Ellingson. Mr. Bunker died on' the farm, and on it Mrs. Ellingson also passed away, her life ending on February 12, 1895. The dwelling house stands on a bluff overlooking the river and valley. Mr. Ellingson has kept on clearing and cultivating the land, raising live stock and grain, and has always been up to date in his operations. As long as the demand for roadster horses continued he was prominent as an extensive and successful breeder of them.

In the public aflairs of his community this public-spirited citizen has always taken an active part. He served as township clerk and assessor in the early days, and as postmaster from 1868 until after the election of President Cleveland, a period of twenty-seven years, during all of which the postoflice was in his residence. In 1887 he was elected to the house of representatives from the district embracing the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Twelfth wards of Minneapolis and about half of the townships in Hennepin county. In the legislature he was a member of the committee on temperance, and tlie advanced legislation of this state in behalf of temperance dates from his activity and intelligence as a member of that committee. He championed what are known as the "Patrol law," the "Blind Pig law," the "High License law" and the act requiring the public schools to teach the effects of alcohol and narcotics on the human system.

In 1889 Mr. Ellingson was re-elected to the legislature, and in 1891 he was the Republican nominee for the state senate. Because of a division in his party at that time he was defeated by Dr. John S. Bell, and nearly all his colleagues on the ticket went down to defeat with him. only two Republican candidates out of twenty-one being elected, John Day Smith being one of the two. This election closed Mr. Ellingson's political activity as a candidate for office, although he has since been frequently a delegate to county and state conventions of his party, as he was before.

In religious affiliation Mr. Ellingson is a member of Bloomington Ferry Methodist Episcopal church, whose house of worship was erected in 1900. He also belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, holding his membership in Halstead Post at Excelsior, as a member of which he attended the national encampments of the G. A. R., which were held in St. Paul and Minneapolis. He and his wife were the parents of two children, their daughter Minnie and their son Edward L. Minnie is now the widow of the late Edward Tapping and conducts a summer resort called 'Woodside" at the old homestead. She has two children, Mendon and Regina. Edward L. EUingson owns an adjoining farm and operates the homestead, and raises large numbers of cattle and hogs for the markets. The latter constitute the main feature of his enterprise and he is very successful in raising and feeding them, and won three years ago a prize of $300 offered by James J. Hill, which was awarded to him for the best managed farm. He devotes his whole time and energy to his farming operations and live stock industrj-, and is one of the most progressive men in the state in this connection. His wife is Minnie, the only daughter of Col. Frances Peteler. They have no children.

James Thomas Wyman

Among the enterprising manufacturers, substantial business men and public-spirited citizens of Minneapolis, none stands higher in public esteem or deserves a higher rank in the regard of the people than James Thomas Wyman, who has been connected with the business life of the city for more than forty years, and has been very serviceable to the community both in his business operations and in public affairs.

Mr. Wyman was born at Millbridge, Maine, on October 15, 1849, and was one of the twelve children of John and Clarinda (Tolman) Wyman, both of whom were of New England nativity and English ancestry. On the father's side the family came from West Mill, Herefordshire, and on the mother's from Leeds, Yorkshire. The earliest arrivals of the house came to this country in 1640 and settled at Woburn, Massachusetts. The representatives of both families, the father's and the mother's, were devout in their loyalty to the colonies from the start, and took part in all the Colonial wars and the War of the Revolution. After the successful teimination of the struggle for independence, Mr. Wyraan's great-grandfather removed to Maine, which was then a part of Massachusetts.

John Wyman, the father of James T., was a dealer in building materials, but his financial resources were limited, and owing to this fact and the size of his family, he was able to give his children nothing more in the way of mental training than a common school education. He and the mother, however, implanted in them correct principles, a strong sense of duty and high ideals of usefulness, and these attributes have been manifest in the lives of their ofl'spring ever since.

James remained at home until he reached the age of eighteen, working for a living during all his school vacations from boyhood. He was of a very industrious turn from early life, and was also eager for more information thaii his school books furnished. He was a zealous reader, but the bent of his mind was for business, and his reading was mainly of books devoted to business life and requirements.

He came to Minnesota in 1868 and located at Nortlifield. There he embraced a welcome opportunity for somewhat more advanced training than he had before secured, by attending Carleton College in 1869 and 1870. But he was not alile to complete the college course and graduate. His first adventure in business was as one of the jiroprietors of a small sash, door and blind factory and a sawmill cutting hard wood lumber. This venture proved unfortunate. The mill was destroyed by fire, and there was no insurance on it. He accepted his disaster with courage and manfully paid his share of the resulting liabilities in full.

In 1871 the larger and more promising field of Minneapolis became attractive to him, and he moved to this city that year. Here he secured employment with Messrs. Smith & Parker, who operated a small sash, door and blind factory on the old sawmill platform at the foot of Cataract street, now Sixth avenue south. Before the end of the year he was made superintendent of the factory, and in 1874 a member of the firm, which became Smith, Parker & Co. In 1881 the name of the firm was changed to Smith & Wyman. and he was its junior member.

The new firm bought the interests of the other partners and began to make arrangements to enlarge the business. Under their vigor and enterprise in managing its allairs the business has grown from the humble plant which they first operated to one employing three hundred persons. Mr. Wyman became head of the house after the death of Mr. Smith on December 24, 1906, and he has still expanded its operations into larger volume and value.

In May, 1889, Mr. Wyman united with other enterprising men in founding the Metropolitan Bank of Minneapolis and was made a member of the board of directors. In 1890 he was elected president of this bank and held the position until the bank was merged with the Northwestern National Bank, of which he became a director, and he still holds that relation to the institution and he is also a director in the Minnesota Loan & Trust Co., an affiliated institution. During the financial panic of 1893 he was a member of the Clearing House committee of the associated banks of Minneapolis and later was elected president of the Clearing House Association for one term. He also served as chairman of the committee on manufactures of the Minneapolis Board of Trade for a number of years, and as president of the Board for two terms, in 1888 and 1889. In the latter year he helped to organize the Business Men's Union of the city and was chosen one of its board of directors.

His busines engagements have been extensive and they have had his constant and intelligent attention at all times. But he has still found opportunity to serve the people of his city in important public offices. He has been a zealous Republican from the dawn of his manhood, and as such was elected a member of the state House of Representatives in 1893 and of the state Senate in 1895. In his legislative service the state had the benefit of his practical business capacity, clearness of vision and interest in all classes of the people, and he left the mark of these traits and acquirements in valued laws which are still on the statute books. Among the acts of which he was the author and promoter are the banking laws of the state, which has received the most favorable commendations from banking experts throughout the country; laws for the protection of employes from accidents in using machinery in factories and in building operations; the University tax law for the support of the University of Minnesota ; and others of greater or less importance in themselves, according to their purpose and operation.

Mr. Wyman's interest in the cause of general education, his public spirit and well known ability and breadth of view led to his appointment on the board of regents of the Univer sity in 1901 for a term of six years, and in 1904 he was elected president of the board and chairman of its executive committee, which positions he filled with great acceptability to the end of his term. For some thirty years or more he has been one of the trustees of Hamline University, the denominational institution of the Methodist Episcopal cluirch, to which he belongs, and has long been vice president of the board and a member of its executive committee. He was also one of the founders of the Associated Charities of Minneapolis, and served for a number of years as one of the directors of the organization and for a time as president of the board. In the Hennepin avenue Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has been a communicant for a long time, having been received into the sect in 1S66, he is a member of the board of trustees. In social lines he is connected with the Minneapolis Club, the Minikahda Club, and .John A. Rawlins Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in the last named holding the rank of a staff member.

On September 3, 1873, Mr. Wyman was united in marriage with Miss Rosetta Lamberson, the daughter of a Methodist clergyman. They became the parents of seven children : Roy L. ; Guy A.; Alice, who is now the wife of E. W. Underwood; James C. ; Ethelwyime, who is the wife of J. S. Eaton; Earl F., and Ruth. The mother of these children died on April 15, 1899, and on June 12, 1901, the father contracted a second marriage in which he was united with Mrs. Grace Shotwell, a daughter of .Jonathan D. Seaton, an early settler of Minneapolis and one of its pioneers in the dry goods trade, as Mr. Wyman was in the business in which he is engaged.

Mr. Wyman's business career has been successful. His citizenship has always been elevated and elevating and his public services have been conspicuously valuable.

Frederick W. Dean

Mr. Dean was born in this city on January 16, 1861, and is the sixth in the order of birth of the seven children of Joseph and Nancy Harvey (Stanley) Dean, a sketch of whose lives appears in this volume. The son obtained a high school education in Minneapolis, and has passed the whole of his life to this time (1914) in this community. Immediately after leaving school in 1878, when he was seventeen years old, he secured a position in the Security National Bank at the opening of that institution, of which his father was the first cashier. He remained in the employ of the bank until 1886, and by that time had risen through promotions made on demonstrated merit to the responsible position of assistant cashier.

When he left the bank Mr. Dean united with his brother George in starting a private bank at Hutchinson, Minnesota, of which their father was made president. The sons conducted this bank two years, then sold it, and formed a partnership under the style of Dean Bros, to deal in commercial paper. This business also continued twenty-two years to 1910, during the latter of which Frederick Dean was its sole proprietor. In 1910 he sold it to F, D, Monfort, late vice president of the Second National Bank of St. Paul, and started the enterprise in which he is now engaged, or did some preliminary work leading toward it, as he did not actually open his present office until .January 1, 1913.

In the business he is now conducting Mr. Dean deals in bonds and investment securities, handling his own property as well as that of other persons. He has been dealing in real estate on the side for a number of years and has acquired a considerable amount of it that is valuable. In 1908 he laid out Elmdale Addition to Minneapolis, containing thirty acres and lying at the intersection of Thirty-eighth street and Hiawatha avenue. He also platted Williston Addition at the intersection of Johnson and Division streets. Of these additions he was the sole owner.

In the organized social life of this locality Mr. Dean has taken a cordial and helpful interest as a member of the Minneapolis club and the Minnesota club of St. Paul. On March 22, 1903, he was married to Miss Rowene Davis, a native of Monroe county, Missouri. They have no children. Both attend the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, and take an active part in all its uplifting and improving work, and both stand high in the estimation of the people in all parts of the city.

Dr. Charles Wayland Drew

Dr. Charles Wayland Drew was born at Burlington, Vt., January 18, 1858. He is the son of Homer C. and Lorinda (Roby) Drew, both of his parents being descendants of pioneers of New England, His father was a contractor and builder by occupation and in moderate circumstances.

He attended the public schools and at the age of fifteen entered the University of Vermont. His inclination being chiefly toward scientific studies, he devoted special attention to chemistry and allied branches. In 1877 he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, also receiving honorary election to the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity.

After about eighteen months devoted in part to further research work in chemistry in the laboratories of Brooklyn and New York, and in part to the study of medicine, he became a student in the Medical Department of the University of Vermont, from which he graduated with the highest honors in a class of sixty in 1880. For a year he was associated in medical practice with a leading physician at Brattleboro, Vt., and in 1881 came to Minneapolis, where he soon established himself in the practice of medicine.

Soon after his arrival he became connected with the Minnesota College Hospital as professor of chemistry, and this connection continued for seven years, when this school with others was merged into the State University.

In 1883 he was appointed as city physician and served for two years. He was a pioneer in the investigation of adulterated foods, devoting several years to research work along these lines, and issuing valuable reports upon the subject, which did much to awaken public interest. As a result, he was appointed State Chemist to the Dairy and Food Department, in which connection he not only rendered valuable professional service, but was also influential in determining the policy of the department; and during the six years devoted to this work he was instrumental in securing the enactment of many sanitary and food laws which have been most helpful.

In 1886 he established the Minnesota Institute of Pharmacy and for almost thirty years its educational work has been carried on under his charge. The aggregate attendance ha-s been over 2,500 students and for many years more than onehalf of the legally qualified pharmacists in Minnesota have been graduates from this school.

Minneapolis, and for gome eight years he held this important position. From 1898 to 1902 he was professor of chemistrjand toxicology in the Medical Department of Hamline University.

Since about 1890 his time has been so largely devoted to analytical and research work in chemistry and to teaching, that medical practice has been largely abandoned. As an expert in cases in which chemico-legal and to.xicological questions are involved his services are in frequent demand throughout the Xorthwest.

In politics he is a Republican, and although he has never held any other than a professional position he in interested in everything that makes for good government and civic betterment.

He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Society of the Colonial Wars of Minnesota and of the State Historical Society.

He was made a Mason at Burlington, Vt., in 1879, later became affiliated with Khurum Lodge, and was a charter member and the first Master of Minnehaha Lodge. He is now a member of Ark Lodge, Ark Chapter, Minneapolis Mounted Commandery Knights Templar, of which he is a Past Commander. He was also Grand Treasurer of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar for a number of years, and is a member of Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also an Elk and a member of the Athletic Club.

He married at Brattleboro, Vt., September 18, 1884. Annah Reed Kellogg, daughter of Henry Kellogg, of Boston, Mass. They have two children, Julia Kellogg and Charles W., Jr.

Franklin .J. Eaton

Mr. Eaton belonged to old New England families and was born at Old Town, Penobscot county, Maine, on August 12, 1852. He died in Minneapolis on April 26, 1909, well known in all parts of the city and highly esteemed by all classes of its residents. When he was a boy of fourteen he came with his father, .John W. Eaton, to Chicago, from that great mart to Forest City, Minnesota, a year or two later, and from there to Minneapolis in 1871, when he was nineteen years of age.

The father was a carpenter and worked at his trade in the various places of his residence. His life ended in Minneapolis in 1891. The mother survived him twenty years, passing away in 1911, in this city also, and at an advanced age. She was an active working member of the First Baptist church for some years after her arrival here, and afterward zealous in her devotion and services to the Fourth Baptist church, to which she then belonged, and in which she was for many years a Sundaj' school teacher.

Franklin .J. Eaton was blessed by nature with a fine bass voice, and this was developed and enriched by careful training. His academic education was interrupted by his frequent changes of residence in early life, but his musical training was never neglected, and he became a singer of superior power and skill. He acquired the mastery of several musical instruments as a performer also, and was therefore well qualified to teach instrumental as well as vocal music. He

In religious faith Mr. Eaton was a Baptist and an active worker in the church of that denomination in North Minneapolis which was attended by his mother. He was married in Minneapolis in 1880. to Miss Anna M. Moulton, a native of Wisconsin, but reared in this city. No children were bom of their union, but they reared a niece from early girlhood. Mrs. Eaton still maintains the family home at 3240 Clinton avenue.

Olof N. Ostrom

Representing in splendid degree the fine traditions, principles and personality that have made the Scandinavian element such a valuable force in connection with the development and progress of the great northwestern section of our national domain, the late Olof N, Ostrom wielded large and benignant influence in connection with large and important business and industrial activities in Minnesota and his pronounced and worthy success represented the direct results of his own efforts, the while he so ordered his course as to merit and receive the implicit confidence and respect of his fellow men. Self-reliant, positive and optimistic, he undertook his work with the assurance of success and he virtually magnetized conditions.

At Christianstad. Sweden, capital of the laen of the same name. Olof N. Ostrom was born on the 29th of July, 1850, and his life was cut short in the very zenith of its strong and virile usefulness, as he was summoned to eternal rest, at his home in Minneapolis, on the 19th of September, 1893. His father was a boot and shoe merchant in Christianstad and was enabled -to give to the son excellent educational advantages, including those of the common schools of the town and also tuition under private instructors at the family home. The initial business experience of Olof N, Ostrom was gained in his native city, in the capacity of bookkeeper, but his ambition for advancement was equaled by the courage of his convictions, so that, at the age of seventeen years, he severed the home ties and set forth to seek his fortunes in the United States. In 1867 he came to America, with Minnesota as his objective point. He first located in St. Paul, the capital city of the state, but in the following year he removed to St. Peter, judicial center of Nicollet county, where he entered the employ of a firm engaged in contracting and building. He made good use of the opportunities afforded him in this connection and familiarize<l himself with the various details of the business. In 1872 ho there engaged in the same line of enterprise on his own responsibility, and he proved himself well fortified for sjich independent effort. He continued successfully in the contracting and building business until 1878. and within this interval he superintended the construction of a number of large and modern buildings, including those of the Gustavus Adolphus College, at St. Peter, he having assumed the contract for the work.

In 1879 Mr. Ostrom removed to Evansville, Douglas county, where he engaged in the general merchandise business and also in buying and shipping grain. He brought to bear his splendid powers and built up a large and prosperous business. Further advancement was made by him in 1883, when he founded the Bank of Evansville and gave inception to his admirable career as an able and discriminating financier. In 1885 he disposed of liis mercantile business and thereafter he gave his time and attention to his grain and banking enterprises at Evansville until 1888, when he disposed of his banking interests and removed to Minneapolis, in which broader field he found ample opportunity for the exercising of his fine executive and constructive talents. Here he effected the organization of the Swedish-American Bank, which was incorporated with a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars and of which he became the executive head. The capital was later increased to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and finally, with the substantial expansion of the business of the institution, its stock was increased to five hundred thousand dollars. Almost entirely to the able management and effective policies of Mr. Ostrom was due the upbuilding of the solid and important business of this institution, his administration as its president until the time of his death. On the 28th of November, 1908, the Swedish-American Bank was merged into the Northwestern National Bank, which bases its operations on a capital stock of three million dollars, with a surplus fund of two million dollars, and it is specially gratifying to note that the only son of Mr. Ostrom is cashier of this great institution, one of the strongest banking houses of the northwest.

In 1888 Mr. Ostrom became the prime factor in the organization of the Inter-State Grain Company, of which he became president and general manager. This company was incorporated with a capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars, and Mr. Ostrom's coadjutors in the same were Cliarles S. Hulbert and Charles M. Anisden. The new corporation, with headquarters at Evansville, engaged in the buying and shipping of grain on a most extensive scale and its operations covered a wide area of country. At the time of its organization the company assumed control of twenty-five grain elevators, and this number was later increased to one hundred elevators, located on the Chicago & Great Western, the Minneapolis & St. Louis, and the Great Northern Railroads, the large terminal elevator of the company being established in Minneapolis and having a capacity of one million bushels. .Mr. Ostrom was also financially interested in a number of other important business enterprises, and it may be noted that at the time of his death he was a stockholder of the First National Bank of Alexandria, Douglas county; the Bank of Gibon, Sibley county; and the Washington Bank of Minneapolis.

A lively appreciation of and loyalty to the state and nation of his adoption ever characterized Mr. Ostrom, and as a citizen he was essentially progressive and public-spirited. He kept well informed in the questions and issues of the day and was a stalwart supporter of the principles of the Republican party, his religious faith having been that of the Lutheran church, of which his widow and children likewise are zealous communicants. His life was ordered upon a lofty plane of integrity and honor, his nature was generous and kindly, and he held the high regard of all who knew him, the while his more intimate friends loved and admired him for his many sterling traits of character. He was in the most significant sense the artificer of his own fortunes and the record of his achievement shouhl prove a source of enduring inspiration to young men facing the battle of life on their own responsibility.

and she survives her honored husband, as do also tlieir two children. Alma M., who is the wife of Frank P. Lothmann, of Minneapolis, and Alexander \'., who is cashier of the Northwestern National Bank, as previously intimated in this sketch. Concerning Alexander V. Ostrom the following consistent estimate has been otl'ered by one familiar with his career: "He is one of the best known and most highly esteemed young business men of Minneapolis, and he subordinates all other interests to the executive duties devolving upon him as cashier of one of the great banking institutions of the Minnesota metropolis. As a citizen and business man he is fully upholding the prestige of the name which he bears and he is known as one of the intluential and able representatives of the younger generation of Minnesota financiers, his services in his important executive office being, such as would reflect credit upon a man whose active banking experience would e.xceed in compass the entire age of Mr. Ostrom. He is popular in the business and social circles of his home city, takes a deep interest in all that touches its welfare, and is a prominent and valued member of the Minneapolis Club, the Minnekada CHub and otlier representative civic organizations in Minneapolis."

Senator James T. Elwell

Senator .James T. Elwell has always been one of the foremost of Minneapolis' citizens in the betterment and development, not only of the East Side, where he has been particularly interested, but in the city at large, as well.

Senator Elwell was born in Minnesota and has the true Minnesota spirit of initiative. His early life was spent in Washington county, Minnesota, and he was particularly fortunate in his educational advantages. After attending the common schools he attended Carlton College, at Northfield. He made his first venture for individual independence, when he was but sixteen years old, by inventing a spring bed. He soon began to manufacture it. Out of the boyish venture has grown two of the largest manufacturing institutions of the Northwest, the Minneapolis Furniture Company, of which George H. Elwell is now at the head, and the Minneapolis Bedding Company, which is an outgrowth of the first named company, as C. M. Way, who was active in the furniture company withdrew from it to found the bedding company. This concern has grown and thrived until it is a close second to the original company.

All through the University district there are many beautiful elm shade trees which Senator Elwell was instrumental in having planted with a conception of what they in time would mean to tlie city. It was in 1882 that he laid out Elwell's Addition to Minneapolis and improved it. not only with the planting of numerous trees, but also by building fifty-five houses upon it. These he put upon the market and set about platting Elwell's second addition. He again showed his intelligent regard for the future, by the great number of trees he had planted. These are now one of the chief sovirces of the charm and beauty of the district. Elwell's third addition and Elwell and Higgin's addition followed with all the same general characteristics.

Senator Elwell was a pioneer in the matter of reclaiming lands through a system of drainage. He bought 52,700 acres of land in the eastern part of Anoka county which was largely low land and meadow. Through his enterprise he caused to be constructed about 200 miles of ditching on the property and in this was reclaimed many thousand acres of otherwise almost valueless land and made it into splendid farms.

Like all energetic men, Senator Elwell has a hobby. His is a worthy one which is bringing much good to the state. It is good roads. He might truthfully be called a "good roads enthusiast," for he not only believes in good roads but he backs up his belief with vigorous efficient work for them. He early conceived the idea of good, straight roads for the farming communities and by way of showing how valuable they could be he built eight miles of straight, fine road connecting his two stock farms. This was the first of its kind in the state and was built at a cost of about $1,000 a mile. While a member of the state legislature he did much for the cause of good roads and also was especially active and earnest in doing what he could to promote interest in stock raising.

It was in 1906 that Mr. Elwell was elected to the state senate from the thirty-ninth district. During his service in this capacity he was zealous in his efforts in behalf of the State University. He is far-sighted enough to see what this will mean to the community and the state in the time to come. He is a stanch Minneapolitan, but he is glad to be of use in anything that has to do with the state at large, realizing as he does that whatever helps the state must of necessity help the metropolis. He has always been an enthusiastic worker in the St. Anthony Commercial Club and has served as its president. While Senator Elwell is often very much in the limelight because of his interest in things civic and for the general good, he is not in the least a spectacular man in any sense. He is only a business man of rather iNceptional talent and foresight who has been extremely generous in devoting his time to the public welfare.

Senator Elwell was born July 2, 1855, on a farm in Ramsey county, near the Hennepin county line. He was the son of parents of considerable property, but was of the disposition to begin early to do for himself, so in all respects he might Well be called a self-made man. On the 28th day of June, 1882, he was married to Miss Lizzie A, Alden and they have raised a family of nine children, five boys and four girls. The boys are James T., Jr., Edwin S., Alden W., Lawrence R. and Watson R. and the girls are Margaret A., Elizabeth, Ruth and Mary. The family is prominent in the social circles of the East Side and attend the Como Avenue Congregational Church.

Jamks W. Day

For a period of fifty-two years this enterprising citizen, now retired, has been a resident of Minneapolis, having come here in 1861, when he was but eleven years of age. and while he has contributed to aid in advancing and improving the city, it has also contributed to his progress by the opportunities it gave him for the exercise of fine business capa'city.

Mr. Day was born in Cooper. Washington county. Maine, March 29, 1850. His mother and stepfather, Tillie Richardson, whom she married in 1861, and who had come to Minnesota in 1849. went to a farm in Richfield township, eight miles south of Bridge Square. Mr. Richardson died in Richfield

Mr. Richardson had eight children, Eliza, Hattie, Lizzie,. Emma, Fred and Willie, two sons by a former marriage, Dean E. and Henry W. Richardson, and she had three children, James W., Myra and Alice. Myra is the wife of her stepbrother, Dean R. Richardson, and Alice is the wife of his brother Henry. Both are in Richfield on farms that have become valuable, lands near them selling at $600 an acre. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. (Day) Richardson only one is living, Nellie, Mrs. W. F. Willie, of Northeast Minneapolis. W. Day remained with his stepfather, helping to clear, break and improve the farm, until the age of eighteen. He then worked six years for Leonard Day & Son, who, although they were of the same name were no kin. For four years he drove a four-horse team, hauling logs from thfr woods to their mill at Sixth avenue south and the river, and for two years was scaling lumber at the mill. He lived with W. H. H. Day, son of Leonard, in whose absence he cared for the family. Mr. Day was absent a great deal looking up timber land and attending to other business for the firm, and James W., enjoying his full confidence, then had charge or home affairs and helped in rearing his and his brother's children.

In 1875 Mr. Day, with General Stanley, crossed the plains, but returning passed two years in manufacturing a general line of fencing at Davenport, Iowa. Returning to Minneapolis in 1879, he began dealing in ice. Years before, in his boyhood, he had caught a prairie chicken, which he traded for a domestic hen, whose production of eggs and chickens realized him twelve dollars. He bought two calves, and so kept on dealing until he had money enough to buy the lot on which he has had his home for many years. In a jocular way he has often traced his career back to the prairie chicken as the foundation of his prosperity.

During the first year in the ice trade he had 125 customers, this then being the extent of the business of supplying ice on the East Side that year. In 1903, when he sold his business, he had some 4,000 customers and kept ten big wagons busy, handling about 20,000 tons of ice, from a num- - ber of ice-houses located at convenient points. He confined operations to the East Side, and he kept his workmen as long as they proved worthy and willing to remain, some being with him 12 to 15 years. The last year in business he paid the railroads $10,000 in freight for 800 carloads of ice shipped.

Mr. Day has long been a stockholder in the East Side State Bank, but, while he has always been warmly interested in the welfare of the community, has never sought, desired or been willing to accept a public office, although he has frequently been urged to be a candidate for alderman. In political faith he is a Republican and a Prohibitionist. He catered to saloons in his business, but he has himself abstained from the use of intoxicants as a matter of principle.

Mr. Day has clear recollections of Minneapolis at every stage of its growth and recalls vividly the scenes attendant upon the taking up the planking on the old suspension bridge to keep it from being carried away by the high water in 1861. The Nicollet House was then but half completed, ami the view from its upper stories was extensive and unobstructed. He saw bear tracks near the present intersection of Lake street and Minnehaha avenue, the bear making them being killed when it came out of its hiding at night. While- lie was driving for Leonard Day & Son he delivered a great deal of the lumber for the early houses, many of which arc still standing. Once he hauled in one load all the lumber for a house and the woman, who was to live in the structure, on top of the load. He was intimately acquainted with all the old families and business men of the city.

April 30, 1879, Mr. Day was united in marriage with Miss Marj' Annette Button, of .Jamestown, New York, who came to Minneapolis in 1874. They have one child. Leon W. Day. who was deputy treasurer of Hennepin county for a number of years. He married Miss Gertrude Jacobs and also has one son, Rollin Freeman Day. Mr. Day (-Tames W.I is a member of the St. Anthony Commercial club. He used to be a great hunter and a lover of fine horses, being said at one time to own the best in the city. One noted team he sold to the city fire department for $600. He also owned track horses, and was fond of driving them in races on the ice. His son is a natural mechanic and has done work for the city, installing dynamos in high school buildings and other public structures. Everywhere in the city both father and son are well known and highlv esteemed.

George H. Elwell

(ieorge H. Elwell, president of the Minneapolis Furniture company and of the Minneapolis school board, was born on Xovember 25, 1856, in what was then the village of St. Anthony. He is a son of Tallmadge and Margaret (Miller) Elwell, natives of the state of New York, both of whom came to Minnesota in 1852. The mother and her sister were milliners at Stillwater from 1852 until their marriage at St. Anthony in 1854. This was a double wedding; the sister was married to .John P. Furber of Cottage Grove, Minnesota. This double marriage was solemnized in the First Congregational church by Rev. David Secomb. The father was a daguerreotyper for some years, and many of the historic views now owned by E. A. Bromley and used in this work were taken by him.

After following his art for a number of years he started a town site at Granite City in Morrison county in 1855, where he remained until 1862. The period was one of great expectations in the way of new towns and his enterprise in this line looked very promising. But in 1862 the uprising of the Sioux and Chippewa Indians made the place unsafe and he abandoned the project he had so hopefully undertaken. He then moved to Little Falls, where he remained two years, then to St. Cloud for another period of two years, during which time he was in the employ of the government as collector of internal revenue.

In 1865 he located at the village of Cottage Grove in Washington county, where he remained until 1872. when he again changed his residence, removing to Minneapolis, and here he and the mother passed the remainder of their days, her life ending on March 19. 1894, and his on February 7. 190:!. After his return to this city he organized the Elwell .Manufacturing company in 1873 for the manufacture of spring beds, being the founder of the industry in this part of thS country. He continued at the head of the company until the business was incorporated in 1882 as the Minneapolis Furniture com- [lany, and when he retired from all ctmnection therewith.

were members of the First Congregational church, in which they were married. They had eight children : James T., who has represented the Thirty-ninth district in the state .senate since 1907; George H., the subject of this brief review; John F., who resides in Los Angeles. California; Rev. Robert T., who is pastor of a Congregational church in Seattle, Washington; Susie Isabel, now the wife of C. T. Rickard, proprietor of the Minneapolis School of Business; Mary Whitmore, now Mrs. T. N. .Spaulding, of Pasadena, California; Mattie Laura, the wife of Dr. William Noyes, dean of chemistry in the University of Illinois at Urbana, Illinois, and Jessie Helen Campbell, the wife of Dr. William Frost, professor of bacteriology at Madison, Wisconsin.

George H. Elwell was eighteen when the family returned to Minneapolis. He was educated in the public schools, at Carleton College, where he passed three years, and at the University of Minnesota, which he attended one year. He began making his own way in the world as a teacher, serving as the principal of the public School at Appleton, this state> occupying the position from 1879 to 1882. In the fall of 1S82 he was married to Miss Belle Horn, one of his pupils in the school. In March of that year he took charge of the business of the Minneapolis Furniture company, of which he was one of the incorporators, as its secretary and manager, and the ne.xt j'ear became its president, which position he still holds.

The business of this company has shown steady and continued growth under his vigorous and progressive management. This company has been engaged in manufacturing and supplying to the trade bedroom furniture and Elwell kitchen cabinets. Tlie kitchen cabinet is a very useful article of furniture, very popular and extensively used. The company employs regularly 150 persons and has $200,000 invested in its business. Its annual trade amounts to $250,000 to $300,000.

In his political faith and allegiance Mr. Elwell has been a firm adherent of the Republican party. He never souglit political office either by election or appointment until about five years ago, when he was elected a member of the board of education, and immediately after his election was made president of the board, a position he is still filling. The period of his service has been one of the most important in the history of the school system of the city. The growth of the schools has been rapid, many new buildings have been demanded, and every phase and feature of the system has been expanding in usefulness and requirements. His duties as president of the board have been heavy, but they have been faithfully attended to and his fidelity and ability in performing them are highly appreciated.

Mr. Elwell is also deeply and serviceably interested in church work. He and his wife are members and regular attendants of the First Congregational church, the one in which his parents were married and he was baptized. Hia principal recreation is an occasional hunting trip, but he finds enjoyment in the social life of his community. He is an active member of the Minneapolis and St. Anthony Commercial clubs.

He and his wife are the parents of five children: Harold Manford, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, who is secretary of the company over whose affairs his father presides; Georgia Belle, a graduate of Columbia Teachers' College, now a teacher of Domestic Art in the East High School; Florence and Susie Marie are graduates of East High School, and George Herbert, .Jr., is now a high school

William W. Wales

This esteemed pioneer, whose Scotch and Irish ancestry is traced back hundreds of years, was born in North Carolina in 1818. In early manhood he moved to Indiana, and there married Miss Catherine Elliott Bundy. Impelled by the spirit of the Builder of New Communities, he came to the Northwest with Mrs. Wales, locating in the spring of 1851 at the Falls of St. Anthony, now East Minneapolis. The population of the village at the Falls was about 300 persons at this time. During the year two sawmills were added to a small mill previously in operation; the St. Charles hotel was built and a ferry was established to the west side of the river, then known as the "Fort Snelling Military Reserve." It was also during this year that the University was located at St. Anthony, and the regents held a meeting on June 14th, at the St. Charles Hotel, and decided to build the "Preparatory School" building at a cost of $2,500, and to raise that amount by subscriptions from the people. Mr. Wales took an active part in soliciting such funds.

While the growth of Minneapolis on the east side of the river may be reckoned from this time, the Reserve on the west side was not opened to settlers until 1852.

Mr. Wales soon became active in the civic and social life of the village, and established himself in the book trade, oc cupying the ground on which the Pillsbury A mill now stands his being the first book store in the community. His exten sive knowledge of books and discriminating taste in litera ture, added to his rare social qualities, soon made Mr. Wales little book shop a favorite resort of men and women com bining the culture of the East and South with the vigorous and enterprising spirit of the frontier, all drawn together in the making of a notable community.

Mr. Wales took an active part in the organization of the Republican party in Minnesota. The first meeting of abolitionists held in the state was at St. Anthony on -July 4th,

1854, and was addressed by Rev. C. (i. Ames who handled the slavery question without gloves. The following spring the first Republican Territorial Convention was held at St. Anthony on Thursday and Friday, March 29th and 30th,

1855. It was a mass convention presided over by Wm. R. Marshall, later Governor of Minnesota. Mr. Wales was one of the leaders among those who were radically opposed to slavery and the fugitive slave law. The convention remained in session for two days, and finally closed after passing the following resolution: "Appealing to Heaven for the rectitude of our intentions, we this day organize the Republican party of Minnesota."

Mr. Wales served the town as clerk, as a member of the school board, and. after its incorporation as a city, as mayor, and also as postmaster under appointment from President Lincoln. Furthermore, he Served the legislative district as a member of the territorial legislature in the memorable session of 1857, being a member of the upper house, then known as the Council; and he took a prominent part in the most thrilling of the legislature's proceedings.

In 1857 Mr. Wales published a "Sketch of St. Anthony and Minneapolis," in which he first reviewed St. Anthony, which at that time was far more important than the village on the west side of the river, to which Mr. Wales referred in the following language: "Minneapolis is one of the most beautiful and flourishing towns in the United States. Two years ago there were probably not two hundred persons in the place, now there are over two thousand. No place in the Territory has grown more rapidly or on a more permanent basis than Minneapolis. It has all the elements of prosperity. The site for a large city could not have been made more beautiful by art than nature has laid it out." As an indication of the growth of the city Mr. Wales referred to the increase in the ferry tolls from $300 in 1851 to .$6,000 in 1854. He also called attention to the completion of a suspension bridge across the river.

In his sketch Mr. Wales wrote further: "St. Anthony and Minneapolis are situated at the head of navigation on the Mississippi river. Some expense must necessarily be incurred in improving the channel of the river, but we entertain no doubt that navigation to these points may be regarded as a fixed fact, and there can be no doubt that within five years railroads will begin to intercept the territory in different directions. The prospects of the rapid growth of St. Anthony and Minneapolis are at this time far more flattering than ever before. There is not a town in the West which enjoys Such a combination of advantages and elements that must inevitably build up a large city at these points."

In regard to the climate, Mr. Wales said: "A general error prevails as to the winters in Minnesota. The soil is of a very deep, black, sandy loam, which imbibes heat to a great depth. This is the reason why frost ceases early in the spring, and the principal reason why it holds otf so late in the fall, as compared with clay soils hundreds of miles farther south. The growing season is quite sufficient to mature all products of neighboring states." In conclusion he said: "We look to see Minneapolis and St. Anthony united under one corporation, constituting one great city, which will know no superior northwest of Chicago." This publication was widely circulated and was efi'ective in removing erroneous impressions as to the productiveness of the state and in stimulating immigration.

From the little book shop established by Mr. Wales a prosperous business along art lines was founded, the Wales Art Galleries becoming a strong factor in developing the art interests of the city. Always in advance of the times, Mr. Wales maintained a standard above commercialism. In his galleries all artistic Minneapolis found inspiration and encouragement to high ideals. In this atmosphere, as well as that of a cultivated home, his daughters were developing rare natural gifts into beautiful forms of expression, both in literature and art. In their several lines all have become well known - one in connection with the New York Public Library, others in connection with the Handicraft Guild of Minneapolis and the public schools of Milwaukee and Cleveland. Mr. Wales' son, Charles E. Wales, a well known business man of Minneapolis, is mentioned elsewhere in this volume.

Pursuant to his early expectation, Mr, Wales retired from business in 1892 to devote his time to social and religious work among the mountain people of North Carolina, his native state. His activities in bettering the condition of the mountaineers, whom he so thoroughly understood, occupied tlie last ten years of his long life, which came to an end

Mr. Wales was a man of strong convictions and great felicity of expression, and was therefore convincing. Perhaps of all his qualities his sympathetic understanding and love of his fellow men stood out strongest. He had a rare genius for making friends, and his friends were among "all sorts and conditions of men." Although his religious affiliations were with the Society of Friends, his Catholic spirit was larger than sect or denomination, and recognized the good in humanity wherever it was found and in whatever form expressed. His interests were numerous, for he touched life at many points, and his never failing enthusiasm made him an inspiration to all who came in touch with him. The influence of his life upon others, as felicitou.sly expressed by one of his coworkers was, "that of a quiet, encouraging spirit, like the falling of the gentle warm spring rains, which cause the earth to respond in a glad renewal of life."

Charlks E. Wales

Charles E. Wales, a Son of the revered Minneapolis pioneer, William W. Wales, is a native and lifelong resident of Mjnneapolis. He is widely known as a successful business man and a progressive and public-spirited citizen, and is connected with many business corporations and social organizations, including the principal clubs of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, Chicago and Pittsburgh.

In early life Mr. Wales became identified with the coal trade as an employee in a business conducted by James J. Hill of St. Paul and .John A. Armstrong of Minneapolis; later he succeeded to the Minneapolis branch and organized the Pioneer Fuel Company and soon extended its operations far beyond the boundaries of the state. Still later he merged the Pioneer Fuel Company's business with the organization of numerous Pennsylvania coal mines under the name of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. He was made vice-president of the new organization, with headquarters in Chicago, and for some years devoted his time and energies principally to organization work in securing Northwestern outlets for the company's productions. During the same period he exercised general supervision of the Home Company's subsidiary sales organizations throughout the Northwest, including the Pittsburgh Coal Company of Wisconsin, whose headquarters are in Minneapolis.

With the completion of this organization Mr. Wales resigned as an officer of the company in order that he might devote more time to organization work in the development and Sale of various properties in which he had from time to time become interested, and in which are included terminal and water-front properties at Duluth, Superior, and other ports on the Great Lakes. During the last few years Mr. Wales has effected sales and leases of such properties to many coal companies and to various railroad companies.

Mr. Wales maintains his principal office at his country home, known as "Waleswood-on-the-Minnesota," about six miles south of the Minneapolis city limits.

Mr. Wales' wife is a daughter of the late John M. Smyth, an honored pioneer and well-known merchant of Chicago. Their family consists of two sons, Martin Smvth and Robert Elliott.

Charles Raymond Wales, an elder son of Mr. Wales by an earlier marriage is a member of the Wales-Campbell Company, of Minneapolis, engineei-s and general contractors, whose operations have been principally on the Great Lakes, Charles Raymond' Wales with his younger brothers represent in Minneapolis the third generation of the Wales family and they are expected to perpetuate their name with that of the city.

John Engquist

Mr. Engquist is president of the American Realty & Building Company and a well known contractor of Minneapolis. He is a native of Sweden. He came to Minneapolis in 1884 and having served a long apprenticeship as wagon maker endeavored to find employment. He was unsuccessful in all his applications for work, though he finally offered to give his services free for one month for the opportunity to prove his ability. He was compelled to turn to other occupations, and the first job he secured was as a hod-carrier.

He finally won out and the following year, 1885, he was in position to engage as a contractor on his own account. The carpenters' strike of that year had left many unfinished buildings and he found their completion a profitable field of operation. The site of the first house which he erected was at 3607 P^irst avenue, and for a time the majority of his contracts were in the Eighth and Thirteenth wards. From the first his operations were successful and finally required a force of eighteen or twenty workmen. Mr. Engquist became one of the leading contractors in the city. He built Zion Lutheran church and Lyons Court, on Stevens avenue, and his operations extended to Cambridge and Princeton and various other towns.

The American Realty & Building company was incorporated in 1909, with a capital of $50,000 and with John Engquist as president, Charles, G. Engquist, vice president, and E. L. Bergquist, secretary of the corporation. The company has extensive real estate interests in the city, including about thirty buildings and residences and has erected several business blocks, among which are the building on the corner of Nicollet avenue and Lake street, occupied by the Minneapolis State bank; the new Lake Theatre, which is one of the two fireproof theatres on Lake street and has a seating capacity of 600; the block between Nicollet avenue and Blaisdell avenue, in which the offices of the company are located, and the Stewart Memorial church. The company handles plumbing, heating and cement contracts and aside from local investments owns real estate and buildings in International Falls, Minnesota. For a number of years Mr. Engquist extended his real estate interests to North Dakota farm lands, where for a time he cultivated about 3000 acres, half of which was his own but of which he has since disposed. He is a director of the Minneapolis State Bank and the Bankers' Security Company, assisting in the organization of the former institution as stockholder and one of its first directors. He was married in 1887 to Miss Ida Magney, of Minneapolis. They have five sons, Carl A., .John E., William A., Fred E., and Ray A. The eldest son is associated in business with hia father, in the cement department of the American Realty & Building Company and John E. Engquist has charge of all the architectural work for the Company.

William Albert Frisbie

Connected with the leading daily newspapers of Minneapolis as a reporter and in various editorial capacities since 1890, William A. Frisbie, editor of the Minneapolis Daily News for the last five years, has made his work count for usefulness and good in the community.

Mr. Frisbie was bom in Danbury, Connecticut, on December 12, 1867, the son of Alvah Lillie and Jerusha R. (Slocomb) Frisbie. He began his academic education in the public schools and completed it at Grinnell College, from which he was graduated with the degree of B, S. in 1889. He was engaged in manufacturing in Des Moines, Iowa, until the latter part of 1890, when he came to Minneapolis and turned his attention to journalism, which has been the field of his labors ever since.

The first appearance of Mr. Frisbie in this field was as a reporter and assistant city editor on the Minneapolis Tribune, which he served in those capacities in 1890, 1891 and 1893. In 1892 and 1893 he was assistant city editor of the Minneapolis Times. The Minneapolis Journal had his services next as city and managing editor from 1893 to 1908. On September 1, 1909, he became editor of the Minneapolis Daily News, a position of great trust and responsibility which he has filled ever since.

Mr. Frisbie has found time from his daily duties to do some outside literary work and among the successful books he has published are: "Tales of the Bandit Mouse," 1900; "Pirate Frog and Other Tales," 1901; "Puggery Wee," 1902: "The Other Man," 1904; "A. B. C. Mother Goose." 1905, and others of note. On May 16, 1893, Mr. Frisbie was united in marriage with Miss Nellie McCord, of Des Moines, Iowa. Their pleasant home in Minneapolis is at 1778 Irving avenue south.

Founder of The Eitel Hospital, was bom near Chaska, Carver county, Minnesota, September 28, 18,58. He is a son of John G. and Mary (Ulmer) Eitel, natives of Wurtemberg, Germany, and who were married at Chaska. The father came to America, like Carl Schurz, a refugee from the proscriptions following the Revolution of 1848. His wife's father had been active in that agitation, cooperating with Carl Schurz, and like him was obliged to seek safety in a foreign land. Several of Mr. Ulmer's associates came with him, among them Mr. Eitel. The latter made two trips to California, one in 1849 by the Isthmus route, and the other after coming to Minnesota. After spending some years on the coast he became a farmer and flour miller at Chaska. George G. Eitel was reared on the home farm two and one half miles from Chaska and attended the common schools and an academy. He early chose the medical profession and in 1888 was graduated as an M. D. from the Minnesota Hospital College. Desirous of special training he next devoted one year to clinical work in the University of Berlin, one of the greatest medical schools. After practicing one year he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, taking a thorough review in all previous work; and, upon graduation practiced at Centralia, Washington, until 1893. He then located in Minneapolis, but later revisited Berlin, receiving the medical degree from its University. His twenty years of practice in Minneapolis has not only been extensive and successful, but has won him elevated position in his profession. The idea of owning and conducting a private hospital he had long in mind, but hesitated for years because of the vast responsibility. His practice at various hospitals, however, continued to so enlarge that in order to concentrate and secure best results he was almost compelled to put his design into execution. In March, 1911, work was begun on the hospital building, it being opened for patients in .lanuary, 1912. The hospital is a purely personal enterprise on the part of Dr. Eitel. It has accommodations for 100 patients, demands 40 nurses and 25 attendants and employs four assistant physicians, all of whom are specialists in surgery. In fact, although it admits patients sent by other physicians, the hospital is largely a surgical institution, thus more meeting the desires and intention of its founder, who has specialized in surgery during the last twelve years. $190,000 was needed to erect, equip and maintain the hospital and the Eitel training school for nurses. Only the best and most modem facilities of every required kind have been installed in the equipment. Dr. Eitel holds active membership in the various medical societies. He has been consulting surgeon of the Soo Railroad for years, and has enjoyed an extensive general practice in surgery. Concentrating his mind on his profession and with keen and critical analysis, he has written numerous articles for the medical journals which accord him a high reputation for the lucidity and force of language, the extent and accuracy of examination and comprehensive knowledge displayed. Dr. Eitel was married February 1, 1908, to Miss Jeannette E. Larsen of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The doctor is both a Scottish rite and Knight Templar Mason also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.