Minneapolis City (part 62 of 80)

Thomas Daggs Skiles

Reared and trained in the business tenets, methods and scope of operations current in one of the oldest States on the Atlantic slope, and very successful there in the application of them, the late Thomas Daggs Skiles of Minneapolis showed, after his advent in this part of the country, that he possessed the ready adaptability that made him at home in any business environment and enabled him to meet the requirements of business operations on any scale of magnitude. The whole atmosphere of the business world here was different from that to which he had been accustomed, and the range of its transactions included features and magnitudes entirely new to him. But he took his place in its most active currents of trade with perfect poise, and at once and completely grasped their full import and made them subservient to his will and his advancement.

Mr. Skiles was born in Uniontown. Pennsylvania, on December 5, 1832, the son of Isaac and Harriett (Daggs) Skiles. the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Virginia. The father was a merchant, and his son Thomas, after an irregular attendance at the district schools in his neighborhood, entered the store as a clerk and salesman at the age of fifteen years. He remained in the store with his father until the death of the latter, and then .succeeded him in the owner- ship Hnd management of the businens. The store was the largest and most prominent one in the eity of Uniontown, and its business, wliich had long been very extensive and active, was still further expanded after the son lM>came proprietor of it. He did not. however, devote himself exclusively to its demands. During the Civil war he served in the Pennsylvania Reserves, which were kept in readiness for field service at any time, if that should be required of them.

Id October, ISTU, ilr. Skiles came to Minneapolis in company with his brother Isaac, who had been a banker in Uniontown. Pennsylvania. They had Duluth in mind as the place of their residence in this state, but in a visit to Minneapolis they were so well pleased with the city and its business prospects that they decided to remain here. Isaac, however, lived a retired life, not engaging in any very active pursuits. He died in this city in 1S7T, leaving six daughters, three of whom are still residents of Minneapolis. They are Mrs. E. H. Moulton. Mrs. R. II. Newlon and Mrs Franklin Benner. and are all well known and highly esteemed

Thomas D. Skiles bought 110 feet of land on Xicollet avenue jit the corner of Fifth street and erected on his purchase the building that is still standing on that corner. He bought the lot for $11,000 about 1874, and in 1912 the improved property was sold to Mr. Sears, of Clilcago, for .$.500,000. Mr. Skiles also bought, in 1873, eighty-two feet on Nicollet between Sixth and Seventh streets, and on this lot he had his home until 1883, when he put up on it the Skiles block, which was erected in connection with the LIndlay block. In addition to these purchases Mr. Skiles bought property at the intersection of Washington and Thirteenth avenues south. He died on March 4, 1888. at the comer of Seventh street and Fifth avenue south, where he had lived for several years.

Being a devout Presbyterian in religious faith, Mr. Skilea was an active and serviceable attendant of Westminster church of that sect. For many years Rev. Dr. Sample was his pastor, but at the time of his death Rev. Dr. Burrell was in charge of the congregation. Mr. .Skiles was also one of the original members of the Minneapolis club and belonged to the Chaml«-r of Commerce. He was married in 1869. in Washington. I). C to Miss Kate Watklns. at the time a resident of that city. She is still living, a lady of superior intellectual attainments, line social culture and pleasing and productive public spirit. She is active In the work of Westminster I'reshyferian church and takes a cordial and helpful Interest In the welfare of the Minlkahda and Lafayette clubs, to both of which she belongs. .\ great deal of her time is now passed in the state of California, where she has hosts of friends, as she also has in Minneapolis.

Mr. and Mrs. .Skiles became the parents of four children. William, their first born, died in 1896, at the age of twentyfive. Helen, who became the wife of Hon. Allen Wright, a judge in Mc.^lestcr. Oklahoma, died in that city in December, 1912. The other two children, Alvln V. and Thomas D., arc m the real estate and Insurance business, and have their offices in the Skiles block. Their father was a member of the firm of Skiles & Newlon. brokers and railroad ticket agents, whose offices were In the Nicollet House block. They operated extensively and had a very profitable business, and both were men of commanding infiuence in business circles In the city. Mr. Skiles was also earnestly and actively interested in the development ami improvement of the city, and one of the leaders of thought and enterprise In promoting Its growth and welfare. He died at the age of fifty-five, while his usefulness was at its height, and his untimely demise was universally lamented, for he was regarded as one of the most estimable and serviceable citizens Minneapolis hud. He was a director of the First National Bank some years and was at the time of hU death.

Frank Wiluam Forman

Frank W. Forman, for twenty-seven years an active glass manufacturer as president of Forman, Ford & Co., of Minneapolis, was born In Oneida county. New York, November 21, 1835, and died in this city May 22. 1910. During the first twenty years of manhood he was engaged in general merchandising at Leroy, New York, and came to Minneapolis in April, 1883. He luid previously visited this city and St. I'aul. becoming captivated by the locality and prospects of business advancement. He engaged in real estate operations for a few years, laying out additions to the bity, one of which was the Cottage City addition at Lake Calhoun, the thriving future of which he clearly foresaw.

In 1880, he turned his attention to the wholesale glass business as a member of the firm of Forman & Ford. Birdwell & Ford had established the business some six years previously and in 1884, Frank B. Forman, son of Frank Wm., purchased Mr. Birdwell's interent and William E. .Steele became a partner, the firm becoming the Steele. Forman & Ford. Frank W. was the active nmnager of the business whose operations were increased to include the manufacture of art and stained glass mirrors and other high-class products. The business conducted under the name of Forman, Kord & Company is still one of the leading ones of its line In the country. As president of the company he had added a paint factory to its other departments, eretted a new building on Second street south between First and Second avenues, had extended the trade over the whole Northwest, and had made constantly increasing gains in business. Frank W. Forman was an active and controlling force in the business until death. He had also established and was president of the Nortliern Linseed Oil Company, at Midway. His son Frank died In 1905, and he continued In charge as the head of the company, also becoming Interested in a company which erecteil a large numlM-r of buildings in Winnipeg where it made many other improvements. He was always enthusiasttb in the growth of Minneapolis, and saw Its progress surpass his earlier expectations. His religious connection was with St. Mark's Episcopal church, of which he was a vestryman and warden for a number of years. He was also for some years a tmstee of St. Mary's School, at Faribault, being much interested in its work and that of the church. He was widely read, and, although a great lover of home, enjoyed travel with his wife, visiting China and .Tapan and Europe, inspecting temples, cathedrals, historic buildings and other scenes of interest.

the age of twenty-one Mr. Forman was married to Miss Mary .Jane Bridge, also n native of Oneida county, New- York, who survives at the old home at 2303 Park avenue. She is active in club and church work, as well as In social life. She is the mother of one son and three daughters. Frank B.. died at the age of forty-five. Evelyn .lane is the wife of Alexander E. Clerihew, president of the Forman. Ford Co., and also living at the old home. Katherine ¥. is the

John Fagerstrom

John Fagerstrom, contractor and builder, is a native of Sweden, born November 17, 1856. He came to America in March. 1882. and immediately settled in Minneapolis. Full of faith in his adopted country, he secured employment at $1.25 a day and took his place in the ranks of American citizens. As a memento of his first day of work he recalls the fact that he struck the first pick in the breaking of the ground for the West hotel. From this start and with the capital of his own hands. Mr. Fagerstrom has built up a splendid independent business and now owns numerous properties, residences and flats in Minneapolis, a city that continues to command his ardent support and trust. A few weeks after securing his first position he was taken ill and forced to spend several months in the hospital. On his recovery he continued at day labor, this time working for a year assisting in the construction of the Second street sewer. He then became employed as a brick and stone mason and from that occupation advanced to his present one of contractor and builder, in which he has been engaged for the last fifteen years. He began to invest in property as early as 1886 and his keen judgment in business matters and great efficiency in all details of his work, being himself both superintendent and architect, have contributed to his successful career. He keeps in his employ from ten to fifteen men and devotes most of his labor to the construction of flat buildings and residences of which he disposes by renting or selling on terms. In 1885, Mr. F'agerstrom visited in Sweden and on his return a sister and brother accompanied him to his new home and a little later they were joined by a second sister. Another journey to the old country was made in 1908. Mr. Fagerstrom served for two years in the city hall as street opening commissioner and is a director of the Minneapolis State bank and the Bankers' Security company. His political affiliations are with the Republictui party. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen fraternal order, the West Side Commercial club and is vice president and a director of the Swedish-American club. Mr. Fagerstrom has been a faithful and generous supporter of the Zion Lutheran church since its organization twenty years ago. He was married in 188.'> to Miss Caroline Erickson. like her husband a native of Sweden, who came to Minneapolis in 1881. They have two sons, Albert, who graduated in medicine from the University of Milwaukee, and is now a successful practitioner in Minneapolis, and Lawrence F.. a student in the University of Minnesota.

Charles Rollin Fowler

Charles RoUin Fowler is of 'Quaker ancestry, and his family who were from Warren county, Ohio, came to Minneapolis in a body in 1853. The Quaker blood comev* from his mother's side. .She was Jane Varner. His fntlier was RoUin D. Fowler. The son. Charles R., was l)orn at -Jordan. Minnesota, on

September 17, 1869. His early boyhood was passed at Jordan and he began his education there. In 1885 he came to Minneapolis and has been a resident of this city ever since with the exception of one year which he spent in Glencoe, Minnesota, and another at Fargo, North Dakota. He entered the Law Department of the University of Minnesota and graduated in 1892. For the years 1892 and 1893 he practiced his profession in Fargo, North Dakota. In 1893 he opened an office in Minneapolis and has enjoyed a continuously successful and profitable practice ever since. In 1905 he formed a partnership with Judge W. A. Kerr and the firm was known as Kerr and Fowler. Later .Judge Fred V. Brown became a member of the firm with the firm name Brown, Kerr and Fowler. Mr. Brown soon withdrew to become General Attorney for the Great Northern R. R. at Seattle. The firm was continued under the name of Kerr and Fowler until .January 1st, 1913, at which time John R. Ware and Fred N. Fowler were added as partners under the firm name of Kerr, Fowler, Ware & Fowler. For a number of years Mr. Fowler has been resident vice-president of the American Surety Company of New York.

He is socially inclined and his tastes are thoroughly democratic. While he was in the University he took an active part in the social life of the instituton as a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity and was pi-esident of the law alumni association in 1897. He is a Mason, an Elk and a member of the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Minneapolis Athletic. Minneapolis Automobile, Minikahda and University clubs. He is a member of the Episcopal church. He was a member of the Minnesota National Guard from 1886 to 1891, in Company B. of the First Regiment.

Hovey Charles Clarke

Hovey C. Clarke of .Minneapolis, who has for many years been one of the leading lumbermen of this country, and whose operations in the industry to which he has given the greater part of his time and attention have been imperial in their range and results, is a native of Flint. Michigan, where his life began on May 7, 1859. He is a son of (^.eorge Thomas and Mary Elizabeth (Du.\bury) Clarke, natives of New England. The father was a civil engineer, and had charge of the Baltimore & Ohio, the Maine Central, the Pere Marquette, the Ann Arbor, and other railroads east of the Mississippi.

The ancestry of the family in this country runs back to early Colonial days and began in New England, where the progenitors of the American branch of the house were among the pioneers and founders of civilization. Hobart Clarke, the grandfather of Hovey C, was a resident of Andovcr, Massachusetts, a lawyer by profession, and the first president of the Boston & Maine Railroad: and throughout the American history of the family its members have dignified and adorned the higher walks of life in many fruitful fields of useful endeavor.

Hovey C. Chirke began his academic education in the common school in his luitive town and finished it at the high school in .\nn Arbor in the same state. \\Tien he left school he entered the office of the (liicagd & AVest Michigan - now the

Pere Miirqtu'tte - Railroad, beginning his services to this lino at Muski'gon, Micliigiiii, in 1HT6. He started as a clerk in the auditor's olliw. but rose by rapid promotions for meritoriuiu work ami tiniisiml adaptability to tlic business to one higher position alter aiiotlier. biroining in turn purchasing agfnt, secretary to the general superintendent and chief clerk to the freight, traffic and passenger agent.

But while he found railroad work agreeable ami full of promise for him, Mr. Clarke had a longing for another line of etfort which seemed to open a shorter avenue to large success through business interests of his own. Accordingly, when the Hall \ Ducey Lumber c<)mi)any was organized in the spring of l!<sr> by Thouuis H. 8licvlin. Patrick A. Ducey, .*<tephen C. Hall and himself, he gave up his engagement with the railroad company and became secretary of the new lumber enterprise. In this position he proveil himself to bo possessed of great energy and excellent ju<l;.'ment in connection with the work he bad in hand. He rapidly ma<le himself master of inner knowledge of the manufacture and distribution of lumber, and noon became one of the best informed and most useful men in the industry.

(In .January 1, 1K93, Klbort L. Carpenter, a sketch of whom will bo found in this work, and who had been a wholesaler in Minneaiiolis. bought an interest in the Hall & Ducey company, and it was then consolidateil with the Hall & Shevlin Lumber company, which was organized in 1887 to carry on a manufacturing business. The name chosen for the new corporation was the ShovlinCarponter Lumber company. Thomas H. Shevlin was elected its president, E. L. Carpenter its secretary and Mr. Clarke its treasurer.

Minneapolis was the great primary white pine lumber market of the country, and the Shevlin-Carpentcr Lumber company rose rapidly to the first rank among the lumber manufacturers in this part of the world. But it was all alive with enterprise, and as soon as it had one big undertaking well in hand it reached out for another. The company secured extensive timber holdings in the Red River district in Northern Minnesota, which it is now operating on a large scale. In 1895 Mr. Clarke and his associates organized the .1. Neils Lumber company, which owns and operates a sawmill at Sauk Rapids, this state, which cuts 15,000.000 feet of lumber annually: and in IS'.i'J the eom|>any bought another mill at Cass Jjike. and there built an ailditional band and bund resaw mill. The capacity of this has since boon enlarged by the addition of a gang saw, and thereby the annual output of the two mills was increased to 50,000.000 feet.

Another undertaking of consi<lerable magnitude in which .Mr. Clarke was interested with .Mr. Shevlin cluring the life of the lattiT, anil with which he is still connected, aixl in it associated with Krank 1'. Hixon of Iji Crosse, Wisconsin, was started in 1896, when a hirge amount of timber was bought on the Red Lake Indian Reservation tributary to the Clearwater river, and the St. Hilaire Lumber company was organized to deveU>p it. A saw mill with a capacity of 40.000.000 feet u year was put up ut St. Hilaire. and one year later the St. Hilaire company bought the sawmill and logs of the Red River Lumber comjiany at Crookston, with all of the timber holdings of the latter. The Crookston Lumber company was then organizcil, the present plant of which has a capacity of 40,000.000 feet a year. In connection with these manufactur ing plants twelve retail odices and yards are opi'rated under the name of the St. Hilaire Retail Lumber company. These greatly facilitate handling the lumber from the tree to the consumer, which it has alwavs been the desire of the farseeing gentlemen at the head of these mammoth institutions to do to the greatest possible extent.

Subsequent to the time mentioned above the old Crookston Lumber company and the St. Hilaire Lumber company were consolidated under the name of the former. .\Ir. Clarke continued to serve as treasurer after the consolidation, and he still bears that official relation to the company. .Soon after the combination of the two companies a large mill was built at Bemidji, where the general offices of the company for that part of the state had been Iwated some time before, and wa» ei|uipped with two band saws and a gang saw. which made it capable of turning out annually 70.000,000 feet of lumber. For the purpose of furnishing logs for this mill by direct transportation a logging spur twelve miles long was built through the timber, connecting with the Minnesota & International Railroad at Ilovcy .lunction. This arrangement has uuide easily available a large amount of timber inaccessible jirior to its completion. The company now owns approximately 400,- 000,000 feet of stumpagi' in this state, and is working it all vigorously.

.Mr. Clarke and his associates are also very extensively interested in the lumber industry in Canada, in addition to what they are doing in this country. In the fall of 189:t the Shevlin-Clarke company, limiteil. was organized to operate in the province of Ontario, and a number of timber berths, aggregating 225,000,000 feet of pine, were purchased in the Dominion. This company is still energetically engaged in business, and its output and dealings reach an enormous total in volume and value.

Mr. Clarke's business interests and operations have a magnitude surpassing those of many other men. and it is easy to infer that they are very exacting. But he has always found time and energy to take an active oml helpful interest in the public affairs and general welfare of his community. Perhaps nil service he ever rendered Minneapolis has been of more value than the courageous work he did in helping to cleanse the city of the municipal rottenness which permeated it umler the administration of former Mayor Amos, and which broiight great temporary discredit to it.

Throtigh the corruptness of some of its municipal officials, the Scandinavian metropolis of the Northwest was infested with criminals of every class, invited to the city by the officials themselves, it was said, in order that those officials might increase their bank accounts by the graft that would follow. For a time crime ran riot in the city, and a most deplorable condition prevailed. This was in the latter part of 1901 and the early months of 1902. In April of the year last named an ordinary grand jury was impanoleil and began its work without special instructions. Mr. Clarke was foreman of this grand jury and had some knowledge of the malfeasance of the city's officials. He proposed an investigation to his fellow jurors, won them over to his views, and the investigation was begun.

From the start Mr. Clarke was hampered by the persons likelv to be exposed. Kvery device available was used to hinder his progress. Bribes wore offered to induce him to desist, and even his life was threatened if ho persevered. But he went on with the inquiry no matter what obstachs were placed in his way or what .langer was nuide to appear imminent. When evidence through the ordinary channels was denied him he hir.Ml local iletectiv.'S and then employed outside sleuths to wHtil/ them. He paid the bills himself, the expenses

In a short time the better elements in the community rallied to ilr. Clarke's assistance, and within eight months the criminals were routed, corrupt officials were sent to prison, and the city was cleansed and regulated as it had never been before, Minneapolis, grateful for his good work in this courageous action, oflered him political reward for it, but, with characteristic manliness and unselfishness, he declined all overtures in that line. He won, however, a better and more enduring reward than any political preferment could have given him in the lasting regard and admiration of all right-thinking men and women in the city and throughout the length and breadth of the land.

In addition to the business enterprises already mentioned Mr. Clarke is connected with several others. He is treasurer of the Lillooet Lumber company and of the Land, Log and Lumber company; and he is also a director of the First National Bank of Minneapolis and one of the trustees of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In social relations he is connected with the Minneapolis, Lafayette and Minikahda clubs of his home city, the Chicago club of the Illinois metropolis, and other social, golf and entertainment organizations. He has been president of the Lafayette club for ten years, and has long been active and serviceable in every other organization to which he belongs. In religious affiliation lie is an Episcopalian and for some years has been a member and vestryman of St. Mark's church of that denomination in Minneapolis. He takes great interest in the affairs of the congregation to which he belongs, and in religious matters generally, and is broad-minded and practical in the service he renders in this behalf. On .June 9, 1886, he was united in marriage with Miss Maggie L. Rice of Detroit, Michigan. Thev have no children.

George N. Farwell

In 1856 John L. Farwell, father of him whose name initiates this article, came to the west from his native state of New Hampshire, as a young man of twenty-two years. Ho made the trip to Davenport, Iowa, in company with another young man, the late Austin Corbin, who later achieved national reputation as a successful railroad builder. Mr. Cor bin at that time was virtually without financial resources, as shown by the fact that he borrowed from his friend Farwell the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to defray the expenses of his western trip. It is gratifying to note that Messrs. Farwell and Corbin continued close personal friends and associates for fully forty years, the relations being severed only by death. After visiting St, Louis young Farwell came up the Mississippi river to the ambitious but embryonic city of Minneapolis, and he became so impressed with the locality that he purchased, at eighteen dollars an acre, the tract of eighty acres which his son has in recent years developed into the suburli known as Homewood,

John L, Farwell finally returned to New Hampshire, where he eventually became a substantial banker, as well as one of the representative men of affairs in the state. He retained the Homewood tract at Minneapolis until his death, and though he had been offered five thousand dollars an atre for

In 1879 George N. Farwell, who had been reared and educated in his native state of New Hampshire, made a trip to the west, the principal allurement being a gracious young woman who was then living at Dubuque, Iowa. It may be stated that the friendship of the young couple ripened into love and resulted in the marriage of Mr. Farwell to Miss Anna Grosvenor. About 1882 Mr. Farwell became associated with William A, Barnes and EUwood S. Corser, who owned eighty acres, and with a Mr, Griswold, who had forty acres, and they platted the Oak Park addition. The Barnes and Corser half of the property was greatly improved within the next few years, streets being laid out and other modern improvements being installed. Prior to the time when real estate improvements came to temporary ebb in Minneapolis, there had been erected on the addition about eighty houses of the better order, at cost varying from four to eighteen thousand dollars. Mr. Farwell had in the meanwhile become a substantial banker at Claremont, New Hampshire, and had made no special effort to dispose of his Minneapolis realty. In the meanwhile he acquired ownership of the eighty acres of land that had been purchased by his father in the pioneer days of Minneapolis. About the year 1906, he decided to come to Minneapolis and devote a few years to the improvement and development of his local property. In the meanwhile the D. C. Bell Investment Company had acquired the west half of the original eighty acres, and in conjunction with this corporation Mr. Farwell became active in tlie platting and improving of the Homewood addition to the city of Minneapolis. Adjoining the tract on the west was a tine body of native timber, and this had been purchased by the Minneapolis board of park commissioners, at the instigation and advice of Mr. Farwell, the tract now constituting the city's beautiful Glenwood Park.

His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, both he and his wife are communicants of St, Mark's church. Protestant Episcopal, and he is a member of the board of trustees of the Wells Memorial Settlement House. Mr. and Mrs. Farwell have two children, Grosvenor was graduated in Harvard University, as a member of the class of 1909, and is now identified with banking operations in New York city; Susan is the wife of Harold H, Bennett, a Harvard graduate, and they now reside at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,

Major Edward G, Fai.K.

Was born in Red Wing. Minnesota, July 22, 1859, and is a son of Andrew and Catherine Falk. The father coming from niinois, was a pioneer of Red Wing, locating there in 1845, where he opened the first hotel. Later he took a homestead in Goodhue county, but still maintained his residence in Ked Wing, and for a time traded with the Chippewa and Sioux Indians until they were removed.

Edward G. Falk learned the trade of harness making there and came to Minneapolis in 1879, working at the bench till 1886, when he opened a grocery store at Stevens avenue and Twenty-sixth street, which he conducted for three years, then engaging in carriage trimming and harness making for Stark & Darrow for three years. He was for two years in the livery business, and then took a contract for Podds & Fisher,

In 1892 ho started his present business as ii mnmifacturer and dealer of harness and other leather goods, on Lake street, and in this has been eonfinuously engaged for twenty-one years.

,Iunc 19, 1882, he enlisted in Company A, First Minnesota ]{eginient. and was soon afterward made corporal and sergeant. In 1H92 he was appointed inspector of rille practice on the staff of Col. W. B. Bond, and held this position until the iH-ginning of the Spanish-American w;ir, when lie was made regimental ailjutant of the Thirteenth .Minnesota \'olunteer Infantry with the rank of first lieutenant. He went to the Philippines with this regiment, and in March, IK'Jll, was promoted to the rank of captain and adjutant.

As adjutant Captain Kalk hail supervision of all the details of the regiment. All orders were issued and all promotions made through him. and all parts of the field work of the regiment were also under his personal attention, j In addition he had direct supervision over the non-commissioned staff band and hospital corps.

He was appointed regimental iuljutant with rank of captain at the reorganization of the First Regiment upon the return of the Thirteenth Regiment from the Philippines, in which position he served to I'.lll, when he was made adjutant-general of the First Brigade with the rank of major. In the Philippines the major took part in about thirty-five engagements. At the battle on the Uth of August, 1898, he was recommended lor bravery and special reward.

Major Falk is a Shriner in Zurah Temple, a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics and is Past Regent in the Royal Arcanum. He helped organize and was three years president of the West Side Commercial club, which has done much to improve the Lake street district, and which presented him with a handsome testimonial.

Major Falk was married in 1883, to Miss Frances Lydia .lames, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Jonathan James, a prominent contractor of Minneapolis. They have one son, Harold N. Falk, a real estate dealer on Ijike street. He graduated from the high school and the law department of the State University.

Major Kalk has won many honors as a nmrksnian and taken a large number of medals, iiliout 100 in all. in shooting eontests. He was a member of the state ami regimental team twenty-five years, and while connected with it won the American championship on many shooting ranges. He also, in 1888. broke the army record at Fort Snelling. before that time hell! by Captain Parlelle of the regular army. In this contest he shot at 200. .100. 400, .'.00 and 600 yards, and led the score for each distance.

The major has been in demand, too, for exhibitions of his "kill before popular audiences. In company with his brother W. O., he has often appeared in lightning and fancy drill ' xi'rcises, which have led to tempting offers from the vaude- lUe stage. He enjoys all athletic and other outdoor sports, and engages in them frequently through his membership in several of the leading clubs and social organizations. AU that is manly and elevating in physical development, all that IS beneflcial and improving in citizenship, all that contributes to the expansion and inlluence of the business interests of his eommunity, ami all that raises the moral and intellectual standard enlists his cordial support, and he is esteemed for

. The character, services and career of Ur. William W. Folwell are best indicated in the comprehensive, highly honorable and very expressive title of "Educator." His whole manhood has been given to teaching in various ways, and the world is better and wiser because of his activities in this useful line of endeavor, while hundreds of men and women are living in a more exalted and invigorating moral and intellectual atmosphere because of intercourse with him either directly in the class room or more remotely through his numerous addresses and writings on questions of present moment and enduring vitality and importance.

Dr. Folwell was born at Romulus, Seneca county, New York, on February 14, 1833. He was graduated from Hobart College, Geneva, New York, in 1857, and received the degree of LL. D. from that institution in 1880. In 1857 and 1858 he was a teacher of languages in Ovid Academy, New York, and from 185H to 18G0 aiijuiut professor of mathematics in Hobart College. In 1860 and 1861 he was a student in Berlin, Germany, and from 1862 to 1865 a Union soldier in the Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineers, in which lie rose from the rank of first lieutenant to that of major and brevet lieutenant-colonel.

After the close of the Civil war the colonel engaged in business in Ohio for four years, during the last one serving also as a profes.sor in Kenyon College at Gambler in that state. In 1869 he was elected president of the University of Minnesota, and he held that position with renowned credit to himself and great benefit to the institution until 1S84. a continuous period of fifteen years. At the end of that period he resigned the presidency in order to gratify his strong desire for classroom work, and took the chair of political science in the University, which he continued to occupy until 1907, when he severed his connection with the institution for the purpose of engaging more extensively in literary work.

Dr. Folwell's ability and high character received early and continuous recognition in this state in the most extensive and creditable way. In 1876 he was Centennial Conimi.ssioner for the state. From 1882 to 1892 he was president of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. For eighteen years from 1889 he was a member of the eity park hoard, and from 1894 to 1901 its president. He was also chairman of the State Board of Correction and Charities from 1895 to 1901. and president of the Minneapolis Improvement I^eague from 1902 to 1905. In 1892 he was acting president of the American Economic Association. In 1883 he passed hia examinations and was admitted to the Hennepin county bar. On March 14. 1863. he was married in Buffalo, New Y'ork, to Miss .'Jarah Hubbard Heywood.

Valuable as his services have been in other lines of endeavor. Dr. Folwell is best known and most highly esteemed for what he did to establish the University of Minnesota and promote its growth. The University was most fortunate in securing such a man for the period of its organization. At the time of his election to the presidency the .\merican university as it is today was unknown. He looked into the future and determined to make the Minnesota institution university in fact, and planned to make it also a part of a system of general public instruction for the state. Bom and reared on a farm: a graduate of a good college; with his education supplemented by study and travel abroad and his professorships at Hobart and Kenyon; with four years' service in the Civil war - with the benefit of all these broadening influences, he came to Minnesota at the age of thirty-six, young enough to be full of energy and initiative, and not old enough to have lost any youthful enthusiasms or sympathies. He put all his resources into his work here, and he started the University on a broad and firm foundation on which it has grown to its present magnitude, power and usefulness, an inevitable result of the wisdom of his plan.

Fred Beal Snyder

Fred Beal Snyder, prominent member of the Minneapolis bar and well known citizen of the state, is a native of this city, born February 21. 1859. His father. Simon P. Snyder, was a native of Pennsylvania and traced his ancestry to the old Dutch family of Schneiders who figured in the colonial history of that commonwealth. His mother was of Scotch lineage, a descendant of the houses of Ramsey and Stephenson. Simon P. Snyder came to Minneapolis in 1835. and lived for a time in the first house erected in the village, known as the Colonel Stevens house, which was built in 1849 on the present site of the Union station. The birth of Fred Beal Snyder, the second son of the family, occurred in this historic edifice. He received his early education in the village schools and after completing his course of study there, entered the University of Minnesota, where his career was marked by the success and ability which have attended all his activities. In recognition of his attainments in scholarship he was elected to the honorary society of Phi Beta Kappa. He is also a member of the Chi Psi fraternity. After graduating from the University in 1881 he secured a position in a book store, receiving for his services a weekly compensation of $4.00. At this time he began to prepare himself for the legal profession, finding time from his duties as a clerk to study law in the office of Lochren, McNair & Gilfillan. He later continued his studies with the firm of Koon. Merrill & Keith and was admitted to the bar in 1882. His first practice was in partnership with .Judge .Jamison, a connection which was maintained from 1882 to 1889. His legal career has been characterized by a steady and substantial growth, and his standing at the bar for integrity and truth is unsurpassed. He has been identified as attorney with many of the important cases of the state, winning particular distinction in that of the State vs. Pillsbury in which he overturned a provision of the city charter relating to special assessments for local improvements and in his defense of the Torrens Land Law, of which he was the author, in the suit of the State vs. Westfall. Mr. Snyder has rendered conspicuous service to his fellow citizens in many positions of public trust and honor where his influence and energies were persistently devoted to the best interests of the public. He was elected alderman in 1892 and for four years was president of the city council. By virtue of this office he assumed leadership in the controversy between the city and the Minneapolis Gas & Light company and it is to his untiring effort at this time that the public owe the reduction in the rate of gas rent and the authorship and passage of the ordinance creating and regulating the otlice of gas inspector. In 1896 he was called upon to represent the university district in the legislature and after serving as a member of the House for two years was elected to the Senate for a term of four years. He declined reelection to a second term as senator. As a member of the two legislative bodies of the state he displayed his usual administrative ability and capacity for public service and was actively identified with the work of law making, introducing the bill increasing the annual revenue of the state university, the board of control bill and assumed the fight for the bill for the increase of the gross earning tax from three to four per cent in the Senate. The probation law for juvenile ofi'enders was introduced and passed by him. Mr. Snyder was married, September 23, 1885, to Miss Susan M. Pillsbury, daughter of the late Ex-Governor John S. Pillsbury. Mrs. Snyder died in 1891, leaving one son, John Pillsbury Snyder. Mr. Snyder contracted his second marriage February ^, 1896, with Miss Leonora Dickson of Pittsburg. They have one daughter, Mary-Stuart Snyder. Mr. Snyder is a Republican and holds membership in the principal social clubs of the city. He is a member of the board of regents of the University of Minnesota. He was one of the organizers of Civic & Commerce Association of Minneapolis. He drafted its constitution and was its first secretary. The association has done much to advance the general growth and prosperity of Minneapolis along all lines of commercial and moral progress.

His favorite recreation and pleasure is found in the attractions of out door life and he spends much of his leisure time at his attractive home at Lake Minnetonka. Mr. Snyder attends St. Mark's and has been a member of its Board of Vestry for the past three years.

Charles Stevens Fay

Although but seven years a resident of Minneapolis the late Charles S. Fay. who died January 1, 1905, made a deep and lasting impression on business circles by his superior capacity and enterprise as a business man, and upon the community in general by elevated manhood, cordial interest in local affairs, highly useful citizenship and genuine worth in all public and private relations.

Mr. Fay was a native of New England and exhibited in his successful career the salient elements of character which distinguish that section of the country. He was born at Walpole, New Hampshire, July 17, 1849. When he was six years old his parents, Oliver and Deborah (Perkins) Fay, removed to Stoughton, Dane county, Wisconsin. The father was a farmer there some twelve years, when he changed his residence to Osage, Iowa, where both he and his wife passed the remainder of their days.

Charles was educated in the district schools and by instruction at home, ever anticipating an early start in business for himself. At nineteen he joined M. A. Sprague in the management of a retail lumber yard at Osage, four years later starting a yard at Rockford, Iowa, in partnership with a Mr, Emerson. The railroad having just been completed to that town, the business of the firm was active and prosperous. At the end of one year Mr. Fay bought his partner's interest, anil continued the ownership until his death. He also owned

Mr. Kay came to Minneapolis in .luly, 1898, to secure better educational advantages lor his children. Soon alter he formed a partnership with W. I). .Morrison in the wholesale lumber trade. This partnership lasted several years and did an e.\tensive and prulitable business. Late in 1<J04 Mr. Fay formed a partnership with William Moss, a nephew. An office was selected and furnished, and all the arrangements necessary for starting the business were made, when the premature death of Mr. Fay ended the operations.

After removal to .Minneapolis he continued to do the buying for his yards in Iowa, though they were operated by managers and have since passed to other hands. In addition to his lumber business he had interests in banks in Rockford, Mason City and Garner, Iowa. He became the largest stockholder in the Mason City bank, owning a controlling interest. His holdings in the bank at Rockford are still retained by his family.

In political affairs Mr. Fay was an ardent Republican and a worker for the success of his party. During his residence in Iowa he was of prominence and inHuenee in party councils frequently serving as a delegate to conventions. But his activity in politics was all expended in the interest of friends and for the good of his party, never seeking or desiring political honor for himself. He was of religious convictions and while not a member of any religious organization, was a regular attendant of Westminster Presbyterian church. In business matters he was precise, living up to all contracts and engagements to the letter.

August 20. 1S75, he married Miss Mattie L. Lyons of Ro<?kford, Iowa, whose parents moved to that state from Ohio before the Civil war. Mrs. Fay was zealous in temperance work in Iowa, and in Minneapolis is an ardent church and women's club worker. The family are three daughters. Opal S., a graduate of Central High School, is tlie wife of Paul R. Trigg, a lumberman at Lewistown. Montana. Adra M., who is a graduate of both Smith and Simmons colleges, is an assistant in the Minneapolis public library, and Lucille G. is a student in St. Mary's School at Knoxville. Illinois.

to enlarge his store from time to time to provide for the increasing demands. Since his retirement the store i» continued by his son, George H. Filbert. When he began the old credit system was in vogue, and he lost considerably by trusting too freely. Dut he also had agreeable experiences and proofs of the real integrity of men, when some oj bis debtors paid him in full, years afterward, one even insisting ou paying compound interest. Lae StalFord and Clinton Morrison were among his first ac(|uaintances and customers, an|i as they became warm friends continued to deal with him until his retirement.

Mr. Filbert was popular as a merchant and as a man. but steailfastly refused all solicitations to lie<-ome a cumiiilate for membership in the city eoiuicil or other ollicial positions. His business was enough to keep him occupied, and he gave that his whole attention. But he never neglected the duties of citizenship, and was and is always warmly and helpfully interested in the progress and development of the city.

Se|)tember 21. 1867, Mr. Filbert was married in Lyons, France, to Miss Marie C. Gleyre, a niece of the great French idealist painter of Swiss nativity, Charles Gleyre, and who honored the occasion with his presence. His paintings are exhibited in the Louvre, Paris, and in many other leading art galleries. Mr. and Mrs. Filbert are members of the Church of the Redeemer. He was made a Freemason in Minneapolis Lodge \o. 19. but his business being so exacting he never became an ardent Lodge worker, although always deeply interested in the fraternity.

The children born and reared in the Filbert household number four (laughters and two sons. Matilda is the wife of Carl V. Lachmund, and they are residents of Portland, Oregon. Ida is the wife of Frank Ci. .lordan. a Minneapolis commission man. Alice L. married W. .1. Filbert, who is now controller of the I'nited States Steel Corporation in New York city. He is a grandson of Mr. Filbert's father's youngest brother, who came to the United States many years ago but was lost sight of, and the family connection was learned only through accident. Gertnide is living at home with her parents. George H. is proprietor of his father's old store, and Paul C. is with the Steel Corporation in the plant at I>orain, Ohio. .\ll the children were given high school and other eilucational advantages, which all have justified.

Christian Filbert

Mr. Filbert was bom in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, February 16, 1841, where he was reared and educated, acquiring a complete speaking and writing knowledge of French, and also some ma!,tery of English. When he was about sixteen, he Went to France spending ten years in Paris and Lyons, coming from the latter city to this country in 1867.

He became a bookkeeper for three years in Illinois where he was advised by a friend, Thomas (Jreen, to come to Minneapolis. Mr. (Jreen was a nephew of Hugh and Thomas Harrison, and through his inlluence tlio.se gentlemen gave the newcomer credit fur lumber with which to build his grocery store. On what is now Third avenue south there were then but an old shack and Dorilus Morrison's residence, and though the region was sparsely populated, its trade was sullicient to make his business profitable from the start.

He handled dry goods, cirugs, hardware, groceries, and almost everything that was called for in an ordinary country store. He remained on that site for thirty-five years, being compelled

George A. Fisher

For twenty-eight years continuously George A. Fisher, president of the Fisher Paper Box company, has been engaged in the same business, having therefore abundant opportunity to prove his business capacity.

He is a native of Rutland. Massachusetts, where he was born .lune 21, 1866. He was there reared, and at seventeen, becoming a resident of Minneapolis, arriving April 1.1, 1883. He was employed two years in a hardware store, and was eight years an employe of the Frank Heywood Paper Box i'o. In 18'.):i, he founded his present business on a small stale. The output of his factory has increased a thousandfohl and is constantly growing.

The business was incorporated in 1900. with a capital sttK-k of $12,(100. It now occupies all of a three-story brick building, with 63 feet frontage on First street, is 162yt feet deep, containing 3-1,000 square feet of floor space. Mr. Fisher owns the building and gives personal attention to every detail. He employs some fifty-four persons and manufactures a large variety of paper boxes, nearly all made to order and for local demand. The plant is equipped witli the most modern appliances. With no desire for place or office he is a careful student of social and economic que.stions.

In public affairs he takes a helpful interest, being a zealous working member of the Joint Improvement Association of which he served as president two years, and is now chairman of its municipal market committee. He was a member of the committee which took the initiatory steps toward giving Minneapolis a new city charter, many of his ideas being embodied in the document recently submitted. He is an advanced thinker, and has given the matter of municipal markets thoughtful consideration and investigation, being convinced of the advisability of having such operated by the city.

He is Past Noble Grand of North Star Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been representative to the Grand Lodge. Although not strongly inclined to sports, he occasionally devotes his vacations to fishing trips. In 1896, he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Litera, of Minneapolis, a native of Minnesota, of German parentage. They have two children, Alvin M. and George Lee. The former a student in the East High School.

Col. Frank Melville Joyce

Col. Frank Melville Joyce, who died in Minneapolis July 22. 1912, was for eighteen years one of the prominent and successful business men and useful citizens of this community, and made a record in all the essentials of elevated manhood and sterling citizenship that is creditable alike to him and the locality in which it was wrought out, and is remembered with such warm and general commendation. He became a resident of the city in 1894, and from then until his death maintained his home here.

Colonel iToyce was bom in Covington, Fountain county, Indiana, March 18. 1862. His father was the eminent Methodist Episcopal clergyman, Bishop Isaac W. Joyce, and his mother, before her marriage was Miss Carrie W. Bosserman, of La Porte, Indiana. This was her native state, but She was educated in Baltimore, Maryland. She died at the home of her son Frank in Minneapolis in 1907, after a life of great activity, filled with incident and adventure experienced in many sections of this country and a number of foreign lands widely separated in space and in the manners, customs and languages of their people.

Colonel Joyce, the only child of his parents, passed his early years in his native state. He attended public schools in Lafayette, but completed his preparatory work by a special course of study in Baltimore. In 1877 he entered the institution of learning at Greencaetle. Indiana, which was then known as Indiana Asbury University, but is now Tie Pauw University. He was graduated from the academic department of this university with the degree of A. B. in 1882. and later the degree of A. M. was conferred on him by it. During his university course he was prominent in all lines of college activity, and one year won a gold medal for proficiency in mathematics. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and for some time after leaving the university published the fraternity magazine and also issued the fraternity song book, which was used for a number of years.

After liis graduation Colonel .Joyce located in Cincinnati, where he became teller in the Queen City National Bank. He served in that capacity until 1888, when he was appointed agent of the Provident Life and Trust company. Two years later he began work in Cincinnati for the Mutual. Benefit Life Insurance company, remaining in the employ of the company in that city until 1894. It was during this period that he received his title by appointment on the official staff of Governor McKinley in 1892. A military title and the duties it indicated were not, however, entirely new to him. While at De Pauw he was a cadet major in the military department of the university, and as such organized and trained the famous "Asbury Cadets," a company which won many first prizes in interstate competitive drills.

In 1894 the JIutual Benefit Life Insurance company assigned Colonel Joyce to duty as its state agent for Minnesota, the territory included in the agency being this state, the two Dakota* and a part of Wisconsin. He then took up his residence in Minneapolis, and during his life in this city he was active in all matters affecting the interests of the public. He was particularly zealous in connection with the movement for good roads, and made several trips to Washington, D. C. to aid in furthering its advancement. He was president of the Automobile club and a potential factor in the building of its present beautiful club house on the Minnesota river. He was also president of the State Automobile association for a time, and served as secretary and afterward as president of the Apollo club. He was also a member of the Minneapolis and Commercial clubs, a Knight of Pythias and a thirty-second degree Freemason. While living in Cincinnati he was Captain of the Light Artillery of that city, serving during the famous court house riots, and for a number of years was president of the Northwestern Beta Theta Pi Alumni Association.

Colonel .loycp was ever greatly interested in the work of the church, and gave liberally toward its support. When it became necessary to purchase a new organ for the Joyce Memorial church he gave one-half of the amount. During the general conference held here in 1912 he served as chairman of the entertainment committee which secured hotel atecommodations for over 831 people and each one felt that they had received special attention.

Colonel .loyce was married in 188.S to Miss Jessie Birch, of Bloomington. Illinois, who was his classmate at De Pauw University. It was their custom to attend the reunion of their class at the university every two years. The last one they attended wa.*: the thirtieth and took place in 1912. only a short time before his death. His widow and their four children. Arthur Reamy. Carolyn. Wilbur Birch and Helen, survive him and still have their home in Minneapolis.

Edward Chenery Gale

A scion of old Engli.sh families, members of which settled in this country in early Colonial days, and whose representatives have dignified and adorned American citizenship since in many places and lines of useful endeavor. Edward C. Gale, one of the successful and prominent lawyers of Minneapolis, has wi'll iiplic-lil tlio iiiunlioud and traditions of lii» ancestors in his own daily lilv and business career. Richard (iule, the progrnitor of the American brunch of the family, emif;ratcil from Kngland to Musmu-husi-tts in 1636 and took up his residence at Wiitertown in that state. One of his descendants was Siiniiifl f. (Iiile, who w«» the father of Edward V.. and who became a resident of Minneapolis in 1H57. .Samuel C. Gale was educated for the bar but early in his manhood turned his attention to the real estate business, and in that and the civic life of this community he has long taken an active and serviceable part.

Edward C. Gale was born in .Minneapolis on August 21, 1862. He attended the public schools of this city and was graduated from the high school in 1878. He then attended the luiversity of Minnesota for two years. At the end of that period he entered Yale University, from which he was graduated in 1884. After passing a year abroad he studied law in the office of Messrs. Shaw & Cray, Minneapolis, and subsequently received the degree of A. M. from the Law School of Harvard University. He has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession from the time of his admission to the bar. and has reached an honorable position in it anil in the regard and conlidence of the bench and bar and the citizenship of Minneapolis generally. At the present time (19141 he is associated in practice with Fred B. Snyder in the law linn of Snyder & Gale, which has high standing and a large business.

Mr. Gale is a director of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, of which he has been president. He is also treasurer of the Minneapolis Academy of Sciences: a director of the Minneapolis I'ubliC Library Board, a member of the Municipal -Art Commission of Minneapolis. President of the Hennepin County Sanitoriuni Commission, and active in many other movements which make for the better things in life, civic and general as well as individual. But while his taste is es.oentially aesthetic and leads to the higher walks in artistic and intellectual development, he by no means neglects the plain, practical things of life, but is always attentive to the voice of duty in reference to what is demanded of good citizenship.

On .lune 28, 1892, Mr. (Jale was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Pillsbury. a daughter of former Governor John S. Pillsbury. They have one child living, their son Richard Pillsburv Gale.

Charlks Gluek

Mr. Gluek is a native son and entirely a production of the great Northwest. Me was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on .lune 6. 1860, and obtained his academic education in the public schools of this city. He was also specially prepared for business by a thorough course of instruction in one of the Minneapolis business colleges. He is a son of Gottlieb and Caroline ( Koell I (JIuek. the former a native of Germany and the latter of the same country. The father came to the United States in 1854. and for a time lived in Philadelphia. From there he came to Minneapolis in 1855, and here he passed the remainder of his life, which ended in this city in 1880. He founded the brewery that bi-ars his name, and which his Bong, with all the enterprise, business capacity and progregsiveness that he possessed, have developed to such large

Charles Gluek bi'gaii the work that has occupied him and engaged all his time and energies to the present day under his father's direction in the brewery. With the thoroughness that he displays in everything he undertakes, he gave himself at once to a close and exhaustive study of the brewing industry, and continued this until he became completely master of it in every detail. His studious attention to all its requirements is still kept up, and through this he has been able to introduce nuiny improvements in the management and workings of the brewery, and keep its products abreast of the times in ([uality, superior excellence and extending popularity.

The business was incorporated as the Gluek Brewing company while Mr. Gluek of this sketch was still a very young man. and he was at once elected vice president of the new company, an oflicial relation to it that he has held ever since, much to the company's advantage and his own in giving him opportunities for varied and extensive usefulness to the community in which he lives and carries on his business. He manifests a deep interest in the welfare and substantial progress of that community, and his cfTort.s in this behalf are always practical, guided by good judgment and applied with energy. The people of Minneapolis look upon him as one of their best and most progressive and publicspirited Citizens.

Mr. Gluek is also vice president of the German-American Hunk and the St. Andrews Hospital association of Minneapolis. He is a leading member of the Cliamber of Commerce and belongs to the Athletic club and several of the other social organizations in the city. Fraternally he is afliliated with the Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks, holding his membership in the lodge of the order in his home city. On December 8, 1888, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Thielen. and by this union became the father of three children. Carl G.. Emma C. and Alvin G. Their mother died while they were still young, and the care of rearing them devolved largely on their Tather. He has been faithful to duty in this work, as he is in every relation of life and every public, business and private capacity.

Hon. Paris Gibson

Although I visited the Falls of St. Anthony in 1854. T did not establish my residence in Minneapolis until the spring of 1858 when I formed a co-partnership with William W. Eastman, a man of high character and one of the ablest business men I have ever met. Soon after I became associated with Mr. Eastman in business, we secured a site for a flour mill from the Minneapolis Mill Company who had just concluded the construction of the wc^t side dam which made connection with the east side dam of the St. Anthony Falls Water Power Company near the centre of the river and about 80 rods above the crest of the falls.

During the year 1858 we secured plans for a merchant Hour mill of 300 barrels daily capacity and comnienceil its construction. The following year we completed this mill, naming it The Cataract Flour Mill, and commenced making tlour in Septemlx-r. This, tlie first merchant Hour mill built in .Minneapolis, marks the iH'glnning of business prosperity in that city following the financial panic of 1857. The building of the Cataract Mill also marks the beginning of wheat raising immediately tributary to Minneapolis.

Immediately following the building of the Cataract Mill, Kastman and (iibson began the manufacture of flour barrels, the first ever made in that region, and soon after commenced the shipment of flour to the Atlantic seaboard. Our transportation line from the mill to our eastern markets was as follows: Teams from Minneapolis to St. Paul; Steamboats from St. Paul to LaCrosse; Milwaukee Railway, then just completed, from LaCrosse to Milwaukee: Lake boats to ButTalo; thence by railway lines to various markets.

It will interest those who may read this narrative to know that James J. Hill, now the acknowledged chief among railway financiers and builders of the world, then a young man, checked off the flour from teams at the steamboat wharf in St. Paul.

In 1862-3, influenced by the wide-spread boom in wool and woolen goods then prevailing throughout the country, we built the North Star Woolen Mill, .\fter its completion John De- Laittre was admitted to the firm and the mill was employed in the manufacture of miscellaneous woolen goods. Eastman and DeLaittre having sold their interests to Alexander Tyler and myself, the mill was subsequently employed chiefly in the manufacture of fine white blankets, sleeping-car blankets and Indian robes, its fine blankets having attained a nationwide reputation.

The failure of Gibson and Tyler in 1876, largely the result of the panic of 1873 and the depression in woolens that followed, ended my career as a manufacturer in Minneapolis.

It is due to the memory of William W. Eastman and it is but justice to myself that I should state that, in building and putting in operation the Cataract Flour Mill and the North Star Woolen Mill. Eastman and Gibson placed foundation stones on which rest much of the remarkable industrial development of Minneapolis at this time.

Charles Deere Velie

Mr. Velie is a native of Rock Island, Illinois, where he was bom on March 20, 1861. He is a son of Stephen Henry and Emma (Deere) Velie, the latter a daughter of John Deere, the founder of the Deere implement business, and the second man to engage in it on a large scale in this country, his works being located at Moline, Illinois, Tiie father, Stephen H. Velie, was one of the largest stockholders in the firm of John Deere & Company and tor many years its secretary and treasurer.

Charles D. Velie was educated at the public schools in Moline, Illinois, and the excellent McMynus academy in Racine, Wisconsin, He also had the advantage of a special course of instruction in mine engineering at Columbia I'niversity in the city of New York. His first business engagement was with his grandfather's firm, and in 1883 he came to Minneapolis to serve that firm as assistant superintendent of the Deere & Webber company's warehouse in this city. The next year he acted as bill clerk for the company ami trimi 1887 to 1889 as one of its traveling salesmen. In the year last mentioned he took charge of the sales department of the D. M. Seckler Carriage company at Moline. Illinois, in which capacity he served the comjiany well ami wisi'ly until

1892. The next year he was elected vice president of the Deere & Webber company in Minneapolis, and this position he has filled acceptably and with great advantage to the company ever since. He is also a director of the John Deere company in his old Illinois home, the city of Moline, and occupies the same relation to the Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis, the Velie Carriage and Motor Vehicle company and the John Deere Wagon company.

Mr. Velie understands his line of business thoroughly all the way through, and is devoted to it. All the companies he is connected with are flourishing, have a strong hold on public confidence and regard and have built up large and active operations. He has been of great service to them in helping them to the high position and extensive business they enjoy. But he has not ignored or neglected the civic, educational and social forces of his home community, but has given them valuable aid in many ways and been eamest and helpful in his support of all good agencies for progress and improvement at work in that community.

One of the means of improvement with which he has been most prominently and serviceably connected is the Boy Scout movement. Hennepin Council of Boy Scouts was organized in October, 1910. Mr. Velie was its first treasurer, and has held that office ever since. But in addition to acting as treasurer of this Council he has ben earnestly interested in the movement from its inception and has supported it generously. Through his liberality and financial backing Hennepin Council has been able to have Ernest Thomas Seton, Chief of the Boy Scouts of America; Lieutenant Robert Baden-Powell, Chief of the Boy Scouts of England; James E. West, Chief Scout Executive of New York city, and other men high up in the movement, visit Minneapolis, thereby giving the local Council a high standard for the guidance and government of its activities and the whole movement in this locality a strong impetus for greater progress.

Mr, Velie's felloAv members of the executive committee have been encouraged by his interest in the Scout movement and his enthusiasm for its advancement to continue their efforts for the proper training and incidental enjoyment of the boys of this city, and to raise the necessary funds to maintain a h>cal Scout office, with a paid executive in charge aside from the regular expenses, a large part of which has been provided for by his generosity. The Scout camp is located on a part of his land on Maxwell's bay, Lake Minnetonka, not far from his summer home, and he has taken great pleasure and gone to considerable expense in making the place an ideal one for a boys' camp. Without Mr. Velie there would be no Boy Scout Movement in Minneapolis, and his name will always be remembered and revered in connection with this greatest of all undertakings for the recreational education and citizenship training of the Boy Scouts of America.

Mr. Velie is an active member of the Minneapolis, Commerciitl and Minikahda clubs, and takes an earnest interest in their welfare and all their activities. He seeks his principal recreations in farming, golfing and horse back riding, to all of which he is ardently devoted. He was married in Minneapolis on December 12, 1900, to Miss Louisa Koon, a daughter of the late Judge M. B. Koon. They have four children: Charles Koon, aged twelve; Josephine, aged nine; Grace, aged seven, and Kate aged two. The parents are members of the Congregational church and take an active part in all the good work of the branch of it to which they belong. Their comfortable and popular home is at 225 Clifton avenue.

Francis A. (Jross. president of the Ci-rinan Aiiu-rieun Hunk of Minnt'Uixilis. is a native of Hrnnopin county, Minnesuta, born in Medina township on OcIoImt 10, 1870. He is a son of Mutliias and Mary (Lenzeni Uross, residents of Miiineapoli». wliere tliey located when Kraneis was alxnit one year old. Kor .-some years the father was enj!aj|;ed in the ;;rocery trade in this city, but lie is now a real estate dealer of proniinenre. He was born in (ierniany and brought to this country when be was but two years old. He grew to inanhoo«l in Wisconsin and moved to Minnesota in 18fi8. He is now seventy years of age, and nearly fhree-tifths of his life has been passed in Minnesota, and all but three years of that imrtion in Minneapolis.

His son Francis obtained his education in the public and parochial schmils in Minneapolis, and at St. John's University in Stearns county of this state. As a boy he clerked in his father's grocery, doing good and faithful work there, as he has done in every situation he has ever occupied. At the age of nineteen he entered the employ of the German American Bank as a messenger, and he showed such aptitude for the business that he was soon appointed collection teller. From this position his rise through the offices of paying teller, receiving teller, assistant casliier and cashier to the presiilencv of the bank was rapid, steady and well deserved. He never had to ask for a promotion. The directors of the bank were always ready to advance him to higher and greater responsibilities in their service when they had opportunity, for he was true and faithful in every position, and his usefulness increased as his duties became more elevated and enlarged.

Mr. Gross has taken great and very helpful interest in public affairs in the city of his home, but not as a political partisan. He has never held a political oilice and has never desired one. But he has been eager to promote by every means at his command the substantial and enduring welfare of the city and the bi'st interests of all its residents through good local goveniment, general progress and improvement and the aid <if every agency at work in the community for its ' betterment mentally, morally, .socially and materially, and he has never withheld his support from any undertaking in which the good of his locality has been involved.

When the North Side Commercial Club was organi/.eil Mr. Gross, who had l)een one of the most active men in bringing it into being, was elected its first president. He has been zealous in his support of it ever since, and has had a strong induenee in directing its course and management. He is also active in the Royal Arcanum, and has served as Regent of his organization in the fraternity. In addition he lielnngs to the Catholic Knights of America anil the Benevolent Protective Order of KIks. an<l is president of the Twin City Hankers club. The bank of v\'hich he is president has made great progress in its business under his management, and every other institution with which he has been or is conmrted has felt the quickening impulse of his active mind :>nd skillful and ready hand.

On OitolM'r !i. 1H'.I3, Mr. Gross was married to Miss Ida K. IliiiTfeiiing. a daughter of Captain Martin Biierfening and granildaughter of Frederick Weinard. a pioneer who came to 8t. Anthony in 1854. Four children have been Imihi of the union, and all of them are living and still meinlx'rs of the parental familv circle. Thev are Roman B.. Francis B..

.Marie I!, and Carl li. The family has a pleasant and attractive home, which is a popular resort and a center of retined scH-ial enjoyment and gracious hospitality.

-Mr. Gro.s8 has served as a member of the city park board and the city water commission. He has also been a memlier of the city charter commission. These positions came to him without solicitation on his part, and his ap|)ointinent to them was based on no political services or considerations of a mercenary character, but was made solely because of his capability to till the places ably and Serviceably and the certainty that he would perform the duties belonging to them wisely and efliciently. His course in each position fully justified the coutldence of the appointing power and fulfilled the expectations of the people in every respect and in full measure.

Among the men engaged in the grain comiiiission business on a large scale and with eminent success. I'. H. (Jetchell of the Getchell and Tanton Company. 907-908 Chamber of Commerce building, holds high rank as far-seeing operator and judicious manager. He is also of inlluence in public affairs; and, as ahlerman from the Tenth ward, is giving excellent service.

Mr. Getchell was born in this city February 14, 1871, and is the son of 1). \V. and Mary (Laveryi Getchell, the former of Maine and the latter of Ireland, bvit partially reared in New York. Both came to Minneapolis with their parents, Mrs. Getchell in 1854 and her husband in 1856. P. B's grandfather was a lumberman, also owning lands and operating a llouring mill. He prospered and was making headway toward a comfortable estate, when death stopped his activities when his son D. W. was a lad of about eight or nine years.

Peter Lavery. the mother's father took up a claim on the East Side, on a part of which the plant of the Minneapolis Sash and Blind company now stands. He died on his farm at the age of eighty-four. 1). W. Getclu-ll for many years after age was janitor of the piiblii' schools on the Fast Side. He was also a soldier serving three years in the First .Minnesota Infantry and one year in Hatch's battalion, having enlisted at the age of sixteen. He now is Corporal of Chase Post, Grand Army of the Republic.

He is about seventy years old. and is one of the oldest temperance men in the community, having been a member of the Father Matthew ScN'iety in St. .Anthony de Padua Catholic church. They had twelve children, eleven of whom reached maturity. Kight are living ami live are residents of .Minneapolis.

P. B. Getchell alteniled the common scliools and high school, although at sixteen lie became connecteil with the grain trade as an errand boy; and. from that humble beginning steailily worked himself up, by industry, cajiacity and strict attention to business. He was in the employ of the \'an Dusen-Harrington Company thirteen years, five as inspector and eight as bookkeeper. Subsequently he became manager for Woodend & ( ompaiiy. and later filled the same position in till' Spencer-iJiaiii Company.

In 1907. in association with A. G. Tanton and F. C. Lydiard, he formed the (ietchell-Tantoii Company to conduct a general grain commission business. He is also vice president of the Hoppeiirath Cigar Company, which thirty-live men at its factory at 208 Twentit'th avenue north, and is connected with other institutions of importance in industrial, commercial and mercantile activities among them the North Side Commercial club.

In 1910 Mr. Getchell was elected alderman from the Tenth ward. He is chairman of the committee on sewers and a member of the committees on public lighting, health and hospitals. In the movement to check the violations of law by cafes and rooming houses, and bring about better moral conditions he has been active, his work in this behalf producing good results. Mr. Getchell is a pronounced regular Republican. He was married in 1895 to Miss Ida Wolsfield and has three children: Grace Catherine, Virna Agnes and Frank Benjamine. The parents are zealous members of Ascension Catholic church.

Dorance Dorman Greer

The Dorman family in Minneapolis originated with Ezra and Chloe Dorman, who emigrated from near the city of Quebec, Canada, to Galena, Illinois, in 1840; and, in 1854 settled at St. Anthony Falls, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The former was past eighty when he died, and his widow survived him a number of years, being eighty-nine when she passed away, and, at the time probably the oldest member of the old First Universalist church. During her residence in this community she became one of the most widely known women on the East Side. "Mother Dorman" or "Grandma Dorman" was the familiar name by which everybody called her; and, she was regarded as one of the most intelligent and benignant ladies in the city. Her interest in others and her activity in their behalf carried her into the homes and hearts of all the people of the earlier days, and her name is still enshrined in grateful recollection as a synonym for all that is good, generous and helpful in womanhood.

In company with his son Dorian B., Ezra Dorman built the Dorman block in St. Anthony, in which Dorian conducted one of the lirst banks. His death in 1864 was directly traced to an accidental gun shot wound in the right lung, which he received while hunting. His sister Delia married in Canada, becoming the wife of Dr. Rankin, and did not see lier parents or the other members of the family for sixteen years. But in 1856 she joined them in St. Anthony and purchased property, which is now the home of Mrs. Josiah Chase.

Another daughter of the family was Dorinda, who married Judge Norton H. Hemiup, a lawyer and the first probate judge of Hennepin county. Dorian B. Dorman married Anna P. Hemiup, a sister of the judge. She survived until February, 1903, and had two children: Mary, married Allen J. Greer of Lake City, Minnesota, who was one of the state's ablest and mo.it influential educators and lawmakers. For some years he was county superintendent of the public schools in Wabasha county, and later, as a member of the State Normal School Board, was instrumental in securing for the State its present higlily creditable system of normal schools. He was an early graduate of the State University and the first alumnus of that institution to become a member of the State Legislature.

This gentleman served twelve years as a legislator, four in the House of Kejiresentatives and eight in the Senate; and, was not only tlmrouglily informed on all public questions, but took advanced ground in reference to every matter of legislation affecting the welfare of the people. He labored unceasingly and effectively for the betterment of social, religious and educational conditions in Minnesota, and was a strong force in promoting improvements of every kind. Removing to Monrovia, California, he died in that city in 1905, at the age of fifty-one. His widow and their son. Doranee Dorman Greer, now reside on the Dorman Addition to Minneapolis.

Doranee H. Dorman, the son of Dorian B., died September 17, 1909. He was connected with many interests in the city, and platted Dorman's Addition, a tract which lies along the Mississippi river north of Lake street, and which his father purchased fifty years ago. He was widely known in fraternal circles, especially in the Order of Elks, in which he was prominent and was a charter member of Minneapolis Lodge No. 44, B. P. 0. E. He served this Lodge for a time as its Exalted Ruler, and was secretary of the committee in charge of the erection of the new Temple, selecting the site and devoting arduous efforts to secure a new home for the Lodge, which, however, he was not destined to see completed. He died a bachelor,

Doranee Dorman Greer, the son of Allen J. and Mary (Dorman) Greer, was born in Lake City, Minnesota, October 11, 1883. He obtained his academic education in the schools of his native place and was graduated from the law department o'f the State University, a member of the class of 1904. For a time he was associated with .John S. Crosby in the real estate and insurance business, with offices at the corner of Lake street and Twenty-seventh avenue south. He is now actively interested in the extension, improvement and disposition of the above mentioned Dorman's Addition to Minneapolis. He is a Scottish Rite Freemason with membership in the branch of the order working in Duluth. His wife, whom he married in 1908, was Anne Frances Alexander, of Lake City. They have one child, their son Allen .James Greer.

John Finley Wilcox

The phenomenal growth, and sturdy healthy development of the once straggling village on the frontier, which has now become the beautiful City of Minneapolis, makes it one of the most interesting communities in this country.

The present magnitude, its state of physical improvement, its superb park system; at present only in its infancy as regards the future possibilities, are startling to contemplate and are exemplifications of the progressiveness and enterprise, a.s well as the appreciation of natural beauty and love of their home city, so characteristic of the American people.

Located U])On the magnificent Mississippi River at an advantageous point, nature's tremendous physical forces have been harnessed and controlled, and in a great measure these gifts of nature, reluctant to submit to hand of nian, have been directly responsible for the possible gigantic volume, and great number of industrial and business enterprises, many of which have sprung up as if by magic and have become leaders of their kind in the entire world.

Abreast of the business development ami the linanrial solidity of Minneapolis, education and art have prngn'ssed hand in hand. The early residents while conscious of the financial and physical development of their city, were not blind to the responsibility, of the care of Civic virtue, the moral and educational duties entrusted to them; and it with pridf and uppreciatioii timt tlie present >;i'iieratioii point to the school system ot Minneapolis, tlio L'nivfrsity. the various public institutions which are the direct result ol that sturdy indomitable spirit, the high ideals, and comprehensive duty and the activity lor the futurowhich has characterized 50 many of the men who were the builders of Minneapolis.

Among the men of Minneapolis who have built up great industries and made them serviceable to the community on a broad scale, few, if any. have been more muc<i'.-»iuI. and none have a more eoniniendable record tluwi .l<ilin Kiiiley \Vilco.\ who for nearly fifty years has been actively engaged in the manufacturing business, a potential force in many other agencies, and a strong, loyal, untiring, yet modest worker for the best advancement and improvement of Minneapolis.

In the fifty years of his business activity, he has at all times engaged in some busint^ss of magnitude and nothing to which he has given severe attention has failed- to respond to his quickening brain and strong, determined hands. The constructive tendency was manifest early in his youth, and throughout his career, his capacity and energy, tempered by kindness and con-ideration for others, his unselfishness and tenderness in his family, have brought with his success congratulations from lall and envy from none.

As evidence of the close relationship of those with whom he has been associated in building the industry of which he \a at the head, and the loyalty, love, and trust which his employees have for him. it is a noteworthy fact that nearly thirty of his proent enipliiyees liavi- occupied their present positions for as many years, and an annual dinner and sojourn to his beautiful country home where these employees are entertained, old tales retold, reminiscences indulged in, is indicative of the happy relation, and sincere bond between employer and employee.

Mr. Wilco.i: was born at .Middlebury. Ohio, on January 4th, 1847, the town being now a part of Akron. Ohio. He is a son of David (J. and Hannah C. (Whitnev) \Vilco.\. the former a native of the state of New York and the latter of Salisbury, Ohio. The father moved from his native state of Ohio when he was but fourteen years old. and eventually became a manufacturer of sash, doors and kindred products of tluwood worker's skill as a member of the firm of Weary. Snyder and Wilcox. He illid In Bulfalo. X. Y. at the a;;e of eightyfour.

John K. Wilcox was educated in the public scliools of Akron and at Dennison University, (iranville, Ohio, where he pursued the Scientific Course. In ISfiT. a few months after leaving school, he came to .Minne.sota and located in Minneapolis. Being capable in the industry conducted by his lather, he entered the employ of Wheaton. Reynolds <t Francis, a firm engaged in the same line, soon after his arrival. Mr. Francis rt'tire<l from the firm in 1H71. and at that time Mr. Wilcox was taken in in his place, the lirm name being changed to Wheaton, KeynohU & Company. In 18H.') he ilisposed of his interest in the concern to his partners and started in business alone as John K. Wilcox, manufacturer of wood specialties, and in this line of production he has ever since been occupied. His own plant, which has now been in continuous operation for twenty-eight years, was started on a small scale and has been built up by his enterprise, progressiveness and line lnisiness capacity to great proportions. He has given it unceasing attention and has kept his eye open to its needs and the requirements of the market wisely ond with excellent judgment, his aim being to make every ounce of its power count to its expansion and his own advantage. In this aim he liaa succeeded admirably, as the industry over which he presides with such mastery amply testilicB.

During the long period of its growth and development, however, he has been assiduous also in his efforts to advance the general interests of his community and the abiding welfare of its residents, never wiihhohling liis han<l when a public need required its aid, and never stopping to consider the personal sacrifice or inconvenience to himself the service might involve. In the earlier days of his residence in the city he was a member of the Cataract Volunteer Fire Engine Company, and always "ran with the machine" when duty called liini to do so. When the company was taken over by the city as a part of its paid tire department he discontinued his connection with it.

Mr. Wilcox has taken an active part in the direction of public affairs, but only for the general good, and never for personal advancement or the gratification of a personal ambition. For he has never held a political ollice, although he stands high in the Councils and regard of the Republican party, of which he has always been a member. In church afliliation he is a Cougregationaliat and in fraternal relations a Freemason of the Thirty-second degree in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite. He is also a member of the Minneapolis, Athletic, Minikalida and T/afayette clubs, and a valued contributor to their needs and general welfare.

On June 13th, 1871, Mr. Wilcox was married to Miss Kmma E. Clement. They have five children, Harry E., President of the H. E. Wilcox Motor Company, Dr. Archa E., Surgeon of Hillcrest Hospital. Myrtic E., who is the wife of Dr. Walter T. Joslin, Ralph D., who is connected with his father in most of his business enterprises, and Beatrice E., who is still a member of the parental family circle.

William Daniel Gregory

Mr. Gregory has long been an influential factor in the industrial life of the Northwest, and one of the leading millers and lumbermen of Minnesota.

He was born in Maumec, Lucas County, Ohio. March 22, 1855, the Son of a pfiygician in active practice in that town. His opportunities for education in the public schools were limited, but he had excellent training in the practical school of experience. At the age of 17 he entered a flouring mill as a workman, and there he became a complete master of the milling business and the grain trade in which he has been engage<l during the subsequent years of his life.

For some years after acquiring his trade Mr. Gregory waa associated with George W. Reynolds, one of the oldest millers in Northern Ohio, in milling and grain operations in Toledo. In 18,'I4 he came to Minneapolis and united with Samuel S. Linton in a grain Arm, from which has grown that of the present Gregory, .lennison &. Company of Minneapolis, and Gregory, Cook «t Co.. of Duluth. The Minneapolis firm has its offices in the Flour Exchange Building, but were for a number of years in the old (liamber of Commerce. William I). Gregory is senior member of this Arm. It owns the Midway Elevator, with a capacity of L.'IOO.OOO bushels. He is president of the Powers Elevator fonipany. which operates .').! elevators and 23 lumbiT yards in the Northwest. He Is also pre>tiilent of the Ilulufh Cniversal Milling Company

He has ever been active in helping to promote the welfare of his home city and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Civic and Commerce Association of Minneapolis and the Board of Trade of Duluth. He also belongs to the Commercial, Minikahda, and Lafayette Clubs of Minneapolis.

October 28, 1889, Mr. Gregory married Miss Xellie Sowle, a (laughter of L. T. Sowle, of Minneapolis. They have one child, a son, named Lawrence S. Gregory, who is with Gregory, .Jennison & Company. Mr. Gregory is a Republican and firm in his faith. But he has never been an active partisan or sought or desired a political office. His fellow-citizens look upon him as one of their most useful, creditable and representative citizens.

Jonathan T. Grimes

Mr. Grimes was born at Leesburg, Loudoun county. Virginia, on the 10th of May, 1818, and was a scion of staunch English stock. The original American progenitors of the Grimes family were adherents of King Charles I of England, and under tlu' turbulent conditions in tlieir native land they sought a home in America, having established their residence in Virginia about the year 16-10. The name became prominently identified with colonial affairs in the Old Dominion and its representatives in the early and later periods were largely engaged in agricultural pursuits, as successful planters. One of the family was a distinguished clergyman of the English or Protestant Episcopal church. George Grimes, father of him to whom this memoir is dedicated, was a prosperous planter in Virginia, but was not a slaveholder, his wife, who was birthright member of the Society of Friends, having had conscientious scruples against the holding of human vassals, (ieorge Grimes passed the closing period of his life in Indiana, where he joined his son Jonathan T.. of this review, about the year 1843. He had given valiant service as a soldier in the war of 1812.

-Jonathan T. Grimes was reared to maturity in the historicold state of Virginia and received the advantages of the schools of the period. At the age of twenty-one years he severed the home ties and set forth to seek his fortunes in the west. This was about the year 1840 and he traversed portions of both Indiana and Illinois, in which latter state he visited both Chicago and Springfield. He finally purchased a tract of land near Terre Haute, Vigo county. Indiana, where lie continued to be actively engaged in agricultural and liorticultural jiursuits until 1S5.5, when he came to Minnesota, this change having been made principally because he found it expedient to obtain different climatic conditions. He was most favorably impressed with the advantages and opportunities here offered and in the following year he established liis residence in Minneapolis, his original home having been a modest house on the block between First and Second avenues and Fourth and Fifth streets and near the site of the ])resent Niirthwestern National Bank, About three years later Mr, lirimes bought a tract of land west of Lake Harriet, ami his old homestead, a substantial building erected by liini. is still staniling and in an excellent state of preservation. It is lecated on Forty-fourth street and is owned and occupied by his son Melvin. When he purchased this property that section of .the city was represented in farm land and was but little improved. On his farm Mr. Grimes initiated the development of a horticultural business, by establishing the Lake Calhoun Nursery. He remained on this homestead about a quarter of a century and made the place one of the leading nurseries of the northwest. As a pioneer in this field of industry he was a contemporary and personal friend of Colonel Stevens, Wyman Elliott and others who became prominent and influential in this line of industry. Mr. Grimes introduced and tested many new varieties of fruit, flowers, ornamental shrubbery, etc.. and he was a recognized expert and authority in his chosen vocation. He supplied shrubbery and flower? to nearly all of the old homes in Minneapolis and became also a successful fruit-grower. Mr. Grimes served as president of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, and when venerable in years he and other pioneer members of this organization were photographed in a group, the depicture being retained as a valuable and interesting historical souvenir. In this group appear also the pictures of Messrs. Stevens and Elliott, previously mentioned in this paragraph.