Minneapolis City (part 63 of 80)

Mr. Grimes passed the last twenty years of his life in Minneapolis, where he lived virtually retired, though he never abated his interest in the practical affairs of the day, his mental ken being wide and his judgment of mature order. The closing period of his long and useful life was passed in a home at 3209 Nicollet avenue, and there he delighted to greet and entertain his host of loyal and valued friends. Mr. Grimes, with the rapid expansion of the city, platted a portion of his old homestead farm into residence lots and he gave to this addition the name of Waveland Park. Later the Grimes Homestead addition was |)Iatted. and the section is now one of the most attractive residence districts of the Minnesota metropolis, Mr, Grimes suggested the line of the old motor railway that traversed his farm and on the same Grimes Station was named in his honor. This line has since been developed into the effective interurban service of the Minnetonka electric line. As a young man Mr. Grimes served several terms as county commissioner and as a citizen he was at all times loyal, progressive and pulilic-spirited. He was uncompromising in his allegiance to the Republican party and gave active service in the promotion of its cause. Both he and his wife were devout members of the First Presbyterian church of Minneapolis, in which he held the office of elder. The names of both are held in enduring honor in the state that long represented their home ami of which they were pioneers.

In Sullivan county, Indiana, on the 20th of September, 1843, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Grimes to Miss Eliza A. Gordon, who was born in Warren county, Ohio, on the 12th of July, 182G. The ideal companionship of Mr. and Mrs. Grimes continued for more than half a century and was severed only when the devoted wife and mother was summoned to eternal rest, on the loth of November. 1902, her husband surviving her by only three months, passing away Feb. 10. 1903, so that in death they were not long divided. Mrs. Grimes was a daughter of John Gordon, and the latter was a son of George (lordon, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, who served as a gallant soldier in the war of the Revolution, in which he participated in the Canadian expedition under General Ethan Allen.

James L. Garvey

James L. liarvey, of Minneapolis, before his di^ath was one of the few remaining links connecting the present advanced development and elevated civilization of this city with the formative period of its pioneer days, and was revered by all the people of the community as a patriarch anionp them. He located on a farm in the neighborhood of the village in May. I8j,s. and died at 1U37 James avenue south, in the heart of the city, on February 23. 1SH2. after a residence here of fifty-four years and at the age of seventy-nine.

Mr. Garvey's history is therefore a very interesting one, and cannot but be striking even in the brief reconl of it presented in these pages. He was born in Holton, Maine, on February 2, IS.13, and grew to the age of sixteen in his native place. In 1849 he heard and heeded the siren voice of California proclaiming her boundless wealth of golden treasure, and went to that then far distant state by way of Cape Horn, Nine years were passed by him in the modern Eldorado, during which he sought diligently for the buried treasure, but was only moderately successful in fimling it.

In 1858 he determined to return to his family and made the long journey back. During his absence, however, his mother and the rest of the nine children in the family had come to Minnesota and located in what is now Minneapolis, being guided hither by Mr. Garvey's older brother Christopher. Christopher passed the remainder of his days and died on what is now Lyndale avenue, although he was well out in the country when he took up his residence there. The mother lived to a good old age, and also died in this city, making her home with her son James until after his marriage.

James L. Garvcy bought a farm in the early ilays soon after his arrival in this region, around the priseiit intersection of Lyiidale avenue an<l Forty-eighth street, and on September 9 was united in marriage with Miss Laura E. Richardson, a <laughter of .Jesse N. and laicy \V. (Nason) Richardson, the former a native of Halifax, Nova .Scotia, and the latter of the state of Maine, town of Crawford. The father was brought to Maine when he was but four years of age by his parents. They located at Crawford, Washington rounty. in that state, and there he grew (o manhood ami was nuirrieil. lie brought his family to Minnesnta in is.'id. reaching St. Anthony on November '.i.

The partv of emigrants from .Maine with whirli he came numbereil fifteen, there being three families among them: Nathaniel Grover. his wife and child: John ISrow ii and his wife: and .1. N. Richardson, his wife and two children. Ilethia Hanscomli, one of the young ladies in the party, married Joel Nason and moved with him to Wisconsin, where she has since died. Emily Nason. a sister to the mother of Mrs. Garvey. became thi- wife of W. II. To«nsend. an oldtiiiie lumlierman, ami pasMil the rest of her life in Minneapolis. There were several utlii-r young persons in the party, but of the whole number of (ifteen Mrs. Garvey is the only one now living. She has vivid recollections of the incidents of the trip from Machias, Maine, to St. Anthony. It consumed two weeks and three days, anil was not made without many adventures and some hardships and privations.

Mrs. Garvey's father. Jesse N. Richardson, was one of the early lumbermen of this locality, and worked in the business for Mr. Russell. In 1853 he pre-empted 160 acres of land, including a part of what is now (.'hicago avenue, although when he took possession of his home it was two miles and a half from his nearest neighbor. He built a little cabin on his land and lived in it in constant fear of the Indians, whose outbreaks were fre<iuent a little farther west. The Catholic Orphans' Home stands on a part of the old place. In 1873 he opened a store at what is now the junction of Lyndale avenue and Fifty-second street, and this he conducted until he died on November 25, 1904. age<i eighty-three years. His widowdied on February 2, 1907. aged eighty.

They had five children: Laura, who is now .Mrs. Garvey: Adriana, who died in 1850, soon after her arrival in this state; Thomas A., who was born on the Hennepin county farm and is still living in Minneapolis; Walter W., who died at the age of fifteen, and Arthur L.. who was a partner of his father in the store, and who is still living in this city. He tared for his parents until they died, his wife, whose maiden name was Anna Rohan, becoming very devoted to them and giving them as much attention as she could have given her own father ond mother.

After his arrival in this part of the country Mr. (larvey worked for Oorilus Morrison, driving ox teams to and from the woods. He was head teamster and had charge of all the teams owned anil u.sed by Mr. Morrison. At the time of his marriage he had fifty or sixty acres of his land cleared and under cultivation, his mother and two sisters living with him and looking after the household affairs until his marriage. He continued to own, cultivate and improve his farm until 1866, when he .sold all of it but twenty acres, where Lyndale avenue and Forty-eighth street now intersect, which he retained and occupied until a year before his death, passing nearly fifty-five years on tln' land whiih he took up from the wilderness.

Mr. Garvey employed his time and energies mainly in llie management of his farm, although at times he was ehorrn to fill township ollices and drawn into participation in oilier public affairs. He was very fond of fine horses and raised numbers of them, and as one of the leading farmers of the neighborhood, he was of great assistance to William King, whose farm adjoined his. in the management of the fair of (he early days.

Five children were born in the Garvey family, all of »hoin are living. They are: Cora H., now the wife of Eugene Fogg of Minneapolis, a railroad boarding contractor: Florence M., who is one of the older teachers in the city and is now employed ill the llreiner sehool; .lames .1.. who taught manual training in the Central High school (en years and is now in charge of the same department of instruction in the high school at Oak Park. Illinois, and also an architect in active practice: Uiura K., who is living at home with her mother, and Arthur W., a real estate deah'r. who is handling the "Garvey Rustic I»ilge." a part of the old family homestead ^t l.ynsilah- avenue ami For(y-eighth street, which has hei-n platted as an addition to Minneapolis. Mrs. Garvey has always shared her husband's interest in the welfare of the community and has long taken an active part in its fraternal life as a member of the Territorial Ladies' association and of Palestine Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. Her residence is now at James avenue south.

Henry Doerr

Connected in a leading and serviceable way with a number of industrial, mercantile and financial enterprises, but chiefly known far and wide as the head of the firm of Winecke & Doerr, wholesale cigar merchants, and as president of the Minneapolis Drug Company, Henry Doerr has won an honorable place among the enterprising and far-seeing business men of the Northwest and in the regard of the people wherever he is known.

Mr. Doerr was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 15, 1853. He is a .son of Valentine and Caroline Doerr, names well and favorably known in the Wisconsin metropolis. The father was the owner and proprietor of a hotel in La Crosse, Wisconsin, but tlie son passed the early years of his life in Milwaukee, and in that city he obtained his education, attending the Milwaukee Academy. He sought no higher walks in the great field of schola.stic attainments, but immediately after leaving the Academy began his business career with the determination to make it as conspieiously successful as possible, discarding all half-way or common place achievements.

The first adventure in tlie <loniain of business, was as the proprietor of a cigar store, which he started in 1873. Before that, however, he had been employed for a time by a wliolesale Minneapolis cigar house, and in its service he acquired his elementary knowledge of the business in which he has ever since been mainly engaged. Starting in business in partnership with Henry Winecke, and for many years thereafter the lirm of Winecke & Doerr was one of the best known in the tobacco and cigar trade, as it is now, its operations being both wholesale and retail.

Mr. Winecke died in 1901. and at that time Mr. Doerr became full owner and manager of the business, including the wholesale department and a number of retail stores the firm had established in Minneapolis. St. Paul and other places. But the firm name has never been changed, and the retail stores are still conducted under it, although they are now a corporation and operated under a general manager.

In 1907 the wholesale department was consolidated with the Eliel-.Jerman Drug com])iUiy under the name of the Minnea|)olis Drug company, with Mr. Doerr as president, a position which he now occupies, and its affairs are flourishing and its business is expanding in volume and value.

Mr. Doerr has extensive interests outside of the drug and tobacco business, and he commands them to the same success and progress he has won in that. He is secretary and treasurer of the Salzer Lumber company, which operates a number of country lumber yards; president and treasurer of the Minneapolis Ornamental Bronze and Iron company; the vice president and one of the directors of the German .\merican Bank of Minneapolis: a director of the Minnesota Loan and Tnist company, and one of the trustees of the Hennepin Savings Bank. In all of these institutions his influence is strong and very helpful, and his business sagacity is valued in a liigh degree. He belongs to the Minneapolis, Athletic. Minikahda, Lafayette and Automobile clubs, and takes an active part in promoting tlieir welfare. He is also a member of the Masonic order, and the fraternity has his very cordial and serviceable support, as well as his loyal devotion to its principles and teacliings. In political relations be is a Republican, but he has never sought a public office either by election or appointment.

Mr. Doerr was married on January 24, 1882, at La Crosse. Wisconsin, to Miss Sarah L. Scharpf. They have three children, their sons George V. and Henry Doerr, Jr., and their daughter Clara L. The famih- is of German origin, Mr. Doerr's father, Valentine Doerr, liaving left Darmstadt, the place of his nativity, and come to this country in 1840, locating in Milwaukee, where he died some years ago. The mother was born in Hanover. Germany. All the members of the family are highly esteemed in social circles and all exemplify in an admirable degree the best traits of elevated and patriotic American citizenship. No man in Minneapolis stands liigher in public regard than Mr. Doerr and none is iiioie worthy of liigh standing and general approval.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Gerlach

Colonel Gerlach is well known and honored in Minneapolis and throughout tlie State. A sketch of his personal history prepared by himself, but not for publication, follows:

I was born November 15, 1835. at Schotten, a small city located in the Bird Mountains, province of Ober-Hessen, grand ducliy of HeSse- Darmstadt, Germany, where my father, in government service as collector of internal revenue, was then stationed. When I was five years old father was transferred to another district, and we moved to Alsheim, province of Khein-Hessen. Here in due time, having passed my sixth birthday, I was sent to the public school and continued to attend it for the next five years. On the eve of my eleventh birthday father died. My mother, being in poor health, made her home with a married daughter, and I was sent to a boarding school at Gau-Odernheim kept by Rev. R. Rau, a clergyman of the German Reformed church. Our classes consisted of seven pupils, five boys and two girls, and the course of instmction wav; shaped, with the addition of music, to prepare us for the gymnasium, the preparatory school for the University. We atte'nded in winter some of the classes in the public school, but our regular instruction at the parsonage was conducted by Mr. Rau. assisted by a young clergyman (candidate), a graduate of the University of Utrecht. Holland. Our bodily needs were jirovided for under the supervision of Mrs. Rau. a kind lady, but a rigid disciplinarian. Our fare was plain and wholesome, but would appear rather hard to some of the growing generation now. Nevertheless, I have often had reason to be grateful for the training I then received, especially after I entered the army here, and served where luxuries were not too plenty.

Shortly after my confirmation (fourteenth year), I left the parsonage, going to Darmstadt, where I entered the polytechinc school to qualify for a university course. Mother now took up her residence there too, and I once more had a home. A sister tliree years older than myself, unmanied, was n pleasant companion. The youngest of six children, we were thr only oiifs at limiir. I ri'inained at school in Darmstadt up to my sevontwiith year, intending to enter tlie university as snxin as I reached the |iio|«t aj;e. eighteen, and to take up the study of law.

Meanwhile, however, a lirother who had emigrated to the L'nited States kept urging my mother to have me come to him in New York, where I would have better prospects in life than would be before me after completing my studii'S in Germany, and after graduating at the university, when I would have to go on a waiting list for a government position, probably. He promised to provide for me until I should be able to make by own living. Mother accepted his offer, and I was sent to America. On arrival I was received in my brother's family, and he put me as an apprentice in a lithographic establishment, his own line of business. I went to work with a will, taking up the study of Knglish in my spare time, boon I adapted myself to the ways of a newworld and intidentally acquired some of the American notions of independence and democracy.

It was well I did. My sister-in-law not approving of what my brother did to assist me, my position in her family be<-anie unbearable. I cut loose, confident that a young man not afraid of work could make his way. I was fortunate in finding employment in a large bakery. My new master, Mr. M. Wentworth, was a gentleman from Maine. The members of his family were most estimable persons, and I found a new home. My educational qualifications enabled me to give Mr. Wentworth mu<li as.'*istance in his olTice, and I spent my evenings helping the children with their lessons. I was content and deriving much benefit from my association with - truly cultured .American family. The close- indoor employment, however, undermineil by health, and. admonislied by the physician whom I consulted, that I must get out of town if I wished to live long, I was forced to contemplate s change in my occupation. With my (ierman ideas of military life, I conceived the plan of going into the United States army for a few years. Mr. Wentworth tried to dissuade me. but when he found me persistent, remarked that he had no doubt I would get along anywhere, and I enlisted for five years on February 26, 1856.

Sent to a recruiting depot on Governor's Island, it appeared to me for a time that I had made a mistake. My associates were not, as a whole, of a congenial class. Restless, hard drinkers, many had drifted into the service; running amuck of discipline, they became desperate, and deserted. As I looked about me I became convinced that, after all, it was not a forlorn hope for me. I paid close attention to my duties. Assigned to a company in the Kourth .Artillery, then en route to Floriila, I attracted the attention of my superiors.

With the kind good will of my Captain. .Tohn P. McCown, later a Major General in the (nnfederate army, my position in the service was de<iile<lly pleasant. During my first year in the company, as we were then engaged in a hard campaign under General W. S. Harney against a hand of Sominole Indians led by "Killy Bowlegs." who obstinately refused to join the remainder of the tribe in the Indian Territory, I saw harder service than it ever after became my lot to encounter iluring my active army career. Chasing Indians through the Kvergladc-s. up and down rivers, through nwamps and dense forests; never certain w-hcn we should be fired on by an invisible enemy from ambush; hungry often »nd thirsty, we worked for ten months. In all this period *<- had one fair glimpse of an enemy and open shot at him.

Thoroughly familiar with the ground, the Indians, while bitting us hard, always umnaged to escape an engagement; and it was only by keeping them always on the move that General Harney and his Successors, when he was sent t« Kansas in 1S5T, succeeded in tiring them out and forcing their final surrender. Fever and mosquitos were worthy allies of the redskins. As an example of the wear of such field service, I will only state here that of the eighty-seven strong men we had when starting for Florida, in October, 1856, we mustered forty-four men at Fort Leavenworth in December, 1857. We bad been sent from Florida to bleeding Kansas on account of border troubles in the fall of 1857. Other companies fared even worse.

In the winter of 1857-58 a large number of troops of all arms bad been concentrated at Fort Leavenworth in preparation for the start to Utah on account of Morman troubles as soon as grass growing would permit the march of reinforcements for the expeditionary force then wintering at Fort Bridger. An exigency of the service caused the relief of Captain McCown from duty with his company, and he was directed to proceed to Fort Kearney, Nebraska Territory, to assume commanil of the post. The company, unmindful of the hardships incident to a 300-mile march across the plains in winter, begged the captain to take it along. General Harney, in command of the department at the time, remembering our good service in Florida, permitted the transfer.

Starting from Fort Leavenworth in February we reached Kearney March 6. 1858, after encountering some very severe storms en route. On the last day of February we necessarily covered - thirty-three miles, facing a bli/.zard which started about an hour after we left camp in the morning. While we might have camped and melted snow, there waa not a particle of fuel in sight until w-e reached a cottonwood grove on a little stream about dark. Nevertheless, we reached o\ir new station in good condition. Kearney then was the first point in the line of communication between Leavenworth and Salt Lake. Located shortly after the Mexican war, garrisoned by Company 1, Sixth Infantry, in the Pawnee country, it increased in importance when it became, in 1857, a supply and refitting station for troops en route to Utah, and in 1858 and 1859 it was materially enlarged, a garrison of artillery, serving as infantry, and one of cavalry being sent there.

With our arrival at Fort Kearney commenced one of the most pleasant periods of my service. Pawnees were friendly, and they looked to the troops for protection against incursions of both Sioux Imlians from the north and Cheyenni's and Arapahoes from the south, who. although they were not hostile, as far as troops were concerned. ha<l the habit of seniling war parties into the Pawnee territory to replenish their stock of horses. The prairies all summer were covered with herds of bufTalo, antelope were plentiful, and by going south alM^ut forty miles to the Republican Fork of thi' Kansas river, we could find a supply of wild turkeys, deer, and grouse for our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Our duties »-ere light. There was plenty of time for hunting, and to mo lots of leisure for study. An exvellently selected company library, rich in works on history, supplemented by my captain's store of standard w-orks. enabled me to take \ip, under his kind <lirection. a thorough course of reading.

caused a concentration of the Fourth Artillery at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, and Fort Ridgely, Minnesota. We marched then across the country, due north, about 200 miles, from the Platte River Valley, at Kearney, to Fort Randall, on the Missouri river. The country we then traversed, crossing the South, North, and Loup forks of the Platte and the Elkhorn river, was at the time a complete wilderness.

Conditions did not change much, as far as I was personally interested, after our arrival at Randall. Now completely satisfied with my army life, and with prospects of substantial promotion ahead. I re-enlisted when my first period of service was about to expire, December 26, 1860. Changes, however, were soon to come which bade fair to upset all my hopes. Secession raised its head; the regular army was demoralized by the resignation of numberless officers born in the South. Among these was my captain. Other officers were transferred to other regiments and fields. The colonel of the Fourth Artillery, who had taken an interest in me, died.

Without friends in position to help me; unable to get even East into active service; my company without officers; left at Fort Randall for the time. I finally passed examination for appointment as hospital steward in the United States army. Here again hard luck seemed to pursue me. Although I Secured the appointment I sought, a responsible noncommissioned staff position, I was ordered not to a field army, as 1 had desired, but sent on to the Plains, to my old station. Fort Kearney, Nebraska. All my efforts to get a change, made for years, were ineffective. This was partly due to the necessity of having a perfectly competent man at Kearney, which was soon garrisoned by volunteer troops; and furthermore, because when the latter came, and Indian troubles became serious, my experience in that line of work, to which was added my perfect knowledge of the country, gained during my previous service there in 1858 and 1859, caused me to be sent into the field to assist officers in command of detachments.

Ordered Eastward at last, I was placed on duty at the large general hospitals at Keokuk and Davenport, Iowa. The war closing soon afterward, I managed to get back to Fort Randall, Dakota. Then I was transferred to a larger post, new Fort Sully, on the Missouri above Fort Randall. I finally applied for examination to determine my fitness for a commission. Ordered before a board at Fort Sully, the record of the examination, added to my service record, resulted in my appointment as second lieutenant of infantry. Ordered to my regiment, the Thirty-seventh Infantry, I served at Fort Dodge, Kansas, until ordered to New Mexico in the fall of 1867.

Busily engaged as quartermaster in the retonstruction of Fort Stanton, when the army was reduced in 1869. I was retained in service and transferred to the Third Infantry. This brought me back to Kansas. Routine duty kept me busy at Fort Larned and Leavenworth until, in 1S74. my regiment was suddenly ordered South, first to Holly Springs. Mississippi, and from there scattered to various stations in Louisiana. A period of very disagreeable duty, political rather than military, now followed until 1877, when late in the fall the Third Infantry was ordered to Montana. I was away on leave then, the first indulgence of the kind of any duration I had enjoyed during my service, and was over in Germany. Returning too late to take my family across the Rockies to my Montana station, I was ordered to duty at Fort Steele, Wyoming, and held there until May, 1879, when I joined my company in Montana. Appointed quartermaster of the regiment in 1898, I came with it to Fort Snelling. Promoted to captain in 1890, I joined my company at Fort Meade, South Dakota. Left without a command by the skeletonizing of two companies in each infantry regiment of the army. I was detailed in 1890 for duty as chief ordnance officer in the Department of Dakota, and to command the ordnance depot (lower post) at Snelling.

Upon the breaking up of the ordnance depot in 1894 I returned to my regiment, and I then served as company commander at Fort Snelling to the beginning of the Spanish- American war. Selected to remain in charge of the post when the regiment went to C\iba. I continued in command until the troops returned. Again, when the regiment was ordered to the Orient, I was detached by War Department orders and left in charge of the post. Anxious to go with the Third Infantry to the Philippines, the need of an officer versed in administrative work, and the nearness of my retirement by age, caused my wishes to be disregarded. Promoted to major soon afterward, I remained at Snelling to the date of my retirement, November 15, 1899.

At the date of my retirement I had to my credit almost forty-five years of active service, and, I am proud to say, service without a blemish, as the records will show. Since then I have added over ten years of active work, on duty under War Department assignment with the organized militia of Minnesota. During this period I have received a new commission giving me the grade of lieutenant colonel for war service, 1861 to 1865.

Often now, as I sit in my den - army slang for study - with a brave and noble wife, who, since 1862, has shared my service, hardships and honors too. I review my army life. The form of many a comrade true, who having done his duty well, answered the last roll call, at home or on the battlefield, arises before me, and ray eyes turn moist.

But I am content, and grateful to Providence that as a member of our little regular army I was permitted to do duty in the advance guard, picketing the danger line on our inland frontier, thus enabling the hardy ])ioneers and railroad builders to conquer a vast wilderness. To them belongs the honor for the development of our national greatness. Tliere is still more glory for them if hand in hand the farmer and railroad king continue their work. The army's task is nearly done.

In closing this sketch I cannot help calling attention to a peculiar phase of my service career: In the army for life, sworn to defend the flag, the symbol of our nationality, bom in a foreign land, free from State or other local attachments, my political ideas have been always eminently national. My military training has taught me the value of team work in all that concerns measures for the maintenance of our national integrity. Here there should be no party lines or State intirests. Every American should realize that his most exalted duty is the defense of his country against all opposition, foreign or domestic. Popular traditions and feeling will ever oppose the maintenance of a large permanent army; nevertheless, prudence demands that we be prepared for war. Should we be forced to take up arms we would (]uickly find that a national army alone can fight our battles. Let us, therefori', foster our militia organizations. There should be no prejudice against them by labor unions or others.

Those arc tlie reasons » liy 1 am still on duty «lii-ii with propriety I could take a rest, for the few yenrs or days which yet remain to me, amply provided for by a liberal goTemment.

Col. (Jerlncli is remarkably well preserved. In November. 191.1. he was operated upon for a serious trouble at St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Paul. A short time after the operation I hiriu'e niimlH-r of physicians, members of the Ramsey County Medical Association, in attendance upon their annual clinic, lanu- into his presence. Despite his weakness from the operalion and the intirniity of his 78 years, the old soldier raised liini-self from his stretcher and gave his visitors a full military salute.

Charles M. Godley

Charles M. Godley, an old-time merchant of Minneapolis, but for some years now retired from business, was born August 27, 1838, at Harrison, Ohio, and there reared to nanhood, educated, and prepared for his useful career and lelpful citizenship. He is a son of John and Mary (McHenry) jodley, who were pioneers in Minnesota, as their parents ^-ere in Ohio. .Tohn Godley's father removed his family from S'ew .Jersey by team to Ohio in the early existence of that State; but .John Godley moved his family to its new home n Minnesota by steamboat down the Ohio and up the Mislissippi to Minneapolis, arriving in this city May 1, 1862, Jis household comprised thirteen persons and he had not inly their goods but a stock of dry goods and several horseVi, r'rom Dubuque the voyage was completed on the famous old iteainer "Northern Light," when she was making her first :rip up the river that year. On arriving in Minneapolis Itr, Godley and his family were the first guests of the Nicollet Jouse, which had just been opened by "Mace" Eustis, although t was not really ready for occupancy.

A few weeks after his arrival the elder Mr. Godley opened I dry goods store on Bridge Square, at the corner of Second street. Two of his sons, Charles and Philip, were associated ffith him, Augustus, another son. went to a farm in Brooklyn >nter, which he occupied and cultivated until his death, in 1877. Still another son, George Godley, went back to Ohio, »here he is still living. The father passed his last years on he farm of his son Augustus, at Brooklyn Center, and there le died, also in 1S77. He was an old State Rights Democrat iBd a zealous supporter of President Pierce, and being a lluent ind resourceful public speaker, he rose to prominence and nfluence in the political affairs of this city. He was also an kttendant of the Westminster Presbyterian church, which all ;he members of his family who were living in Minneapolis ittended.

Philip and Charles Godley gave up merchandising in 1807. Philip then became a commercial tourist for thirty years. 3e <lied in 1898 or 1899.

Charles M. Godley has lived retired from all active i>ursuits 'or many years. He is the only member of all the family »ho is or ever has been a Republican, He has been an active forking member of Westminster Presbyterian church from roung manhood.

On .lune 18, 1867, Mr. Godley was married in Minneapolis lo Miss Ella Scrimgeour. a native of Connecticut and a lescendant of old Scotch ancestry. She was a member of the first class graduated from the old Union School, in 1862. Her father, E, J. Scrimgeour, came to Minneapolis in 1855 and bought land at the intersection of Fourth street and Second avenue north, where he and David Morgan built houses on opposite corners. He engaged in the grocery trade here in partnership with I, F, Woodman, at Washington and Second avenues south. Mr, Woodman built Woodman Hall, of early days, and the St. James hotel.

Mr. Scrimgeour was afterward associated with B. S. Bull in the grocery trade at the corner of Nicollet and Washington avenues, and while conducting that business died suddenly in the spring of 1865; the direct cause of bis sudden demise was supposed to have bei'U the assassination of President I..incoln, whom lie warmly admired. His widow survived liim many years. They were among the organizers of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Scrimgeour supplied the lumber for the church building, at Third avenue south and J'ourth street, the first church of that denomination erected in Minneapolis. He was, to the end of his life, one of its trustees and class leaders,

Mr. Scrimgeour had three children, viz: Mrs. Godley; her sister Helen, widow of the late .John Horton, and who resides at 2015 Aldrich avenue south, and David Scrimgeour. The last named was for more than twenty years one of the leading grain dealers in this city and one of the most active members of the Chamber of Commerce. He died suddenly August 13, 1913.

Charles M. Godley and his wife have two daughters, Margaret and Florence, both of whom are school teachers. All the members of the family belong to Westminster Presbyterian Church ; the daughters represent the third generation of the family connected with that congregation, Mr. and Mrs. Godley are still well known throughout the city and highly esteemed by all classes.

Ard Godfrey

The oldest house now standing in Minneapolis, and which has been carefully preserved, was erected by Ard Godfrey in the fall and winter of 1848, and is now one of the places of interest to every person interested in local history. It was moved to its present location at the old Exposition building by the Hennepin County Territorial association, while it was originally built some 200 feet back from .S. E. Main street on quite an elevation, and was later moved to Prince street.

Ard Godfrey was born at Orono, Maine, .Jan. 18, 1813, and there grew to manhood learning thi' trade of millwright under his father, born in 1777, an exti'usive contractor and builder of mills as well as being an owner ami operator.

He was named for his father and his mother was Catherine Gaubcrt, the daughter of .Vnton Gaubert, born in 1779, one of the Huguenot emigrants, who came to America, leaving extensive estates in Paris,

At eighteen .\rd was given his time, and was placed by his father in charge of the erection of a large mill, having about one hundred men under his supervision. He also invested in a schooner, which, however, was lost on its maiden voyage, causing him a severe loss.

and expecting to find the dam well toward completion. But little more than some preliminary work was done, and he was put in charge of both dam and mill. During the winter. Anson Northrup hauled the plank for the dam from a mill on the St. CroLs river, and the following year both dam and mill were completed, the first lumber sawed being used by Godfrey in the building of his own house above mentioned.

He had become a partner both in the water power, the mill and the town site, and continued in personal charge of the mill until he sold out all his interests and, in 1853, removing to a claim at Minnehaha, his house standing on the site of the present Woman's Building of the Soldiers' Home. Here the greater part of his life was passed, but a few years toward the close being at Minneapolis, where he died Oct. 15, 1894.

He also built two mills on Minnehaha creek near its mouth BO that logs were supplied direct from the river. The sawmill was burned, as was the flour mill later, not in fact till after he had disposed of it.

He had been actively identified with almost every movement of the early days in St. Anthony. He was the first Postmaster. His commission, dated April 10, 1850, and signed by Jacob CoUamer, the Postmaster General, is still in the hands of his son.

He was one of the charter members of Cataract lodge of Masons, the lodge being organized in his house, and for lack of a sufficient number, his wife was requested to act as Tyler of the lodge.

Judge E. B. Ames had come from Illinois, as organizer, this territory being in that jurisdiction. The boat came to Stillwater, and the Masons there appealed to Ames to organize their lodge I)efore coming to St. Anthony, which was done, thus blasting the hopes of the local members to make Cataract lodge number one in Minnesota.

Mr. Godfrey was married to Harriet N. Burr in Brewer, Maine, Jan. 31, 1838, who died .June 24. 1896. Their family were seven children, five of whom now survive. They are Abner C, who for some years has been a theatrical manager, and who is well known in connection with fraternal work in several orders, his greatest activity being with the Knights of Pythias, of which he is Past Grand Chancellor. Harriet R. is a well known teacher and first white daughter bom in St. Anthony, May 30. 1849. late president of the Territorial Pioneers. Women's Club. Martha A. is a maiden lady. Mary is Mrs. C. 0. Parsons of Milwaukee, and Minnie, her twin sister, is the wife of D. W. Ham. The eldest daughter, Hcleri^ married Mark T. Berry and died at Los Angeles in 1902. Sarah Catherine died in 1881 the wife of John E. Osborne.

Harry B. Waite

Mr. Waite was born in the city of Chicago on .July 23, 1865, and is the son of Henry -J. and Ann (Ellis) Waite. Not long after his birth the family moved from Chicago to Marseilles, Illinois, and there he began his academic education in the public schools. He came to Minneapolis in 1880. and in order to complete his education attended the Central high school in the city. Early in life he made up his mind to be a physician, and after his graduation from the high school began the study of medicine in the Minnesota College Hospital, an institution of medical instruction then in charge of the most prominent physicians and surgeons of the Northwest. Mr. Waite completed'his second year's course in the medical school, but by the time he did this he had learned to look at the world in a different light, and instead of becomin* a professional man he decided to go into business, and chose the lumber trade as his line because of the large opportunities offered in it by the rich pine forests of this state.

From his entry into industrial and mercantile life Mr. Waite had made rapid and continuous progress, working his way up, step by step, from a small beginning to his present eminence in the business which has engaged his attention. The H. B. Waite Lumber company has its headquarters in Minneapolis, and for some years confined its operations to country tributary to this city. But of late it has extended its scope to the Pacific Coast and has correspondingly increased its activities and productiveness.

Within the last few years Mr. Waite has also become connected with a number of business organizations outside of this city and state. He is president of the Waite Mill and Timber company, which is one of a number of organizations in the Puget Sound region in which he has extensive interests and to which he is giving a considerable part of his time. He has interests also in other parts of the Farther West and in some business institutions nearer home.

Mr. Waite has always taken a sincere interest in the public affairs of his home community, and given his support to all agencies at work for its good and the welfare of its residents. For some years he was a member of the Minnesota National Guard as a private in Company I, and while in no degree a politician or aggressive partisan, he has never neglected the duties of citizenship, but has always done all he could to aid in securing the best attainable government and administration of affairs for his city and state.

Mr. Waite's social activities include membership in the Minneapolis, Minikahda, and Lafayette clubs, and his religious afiiliation is with the Episcopal church, of which he and hi? family are regular attendants. In 1891, he was united in marriage with Miss Luella Lichty, of Waterloo, Iowa. They are botli highly esteemed in social life and active aids in ill good works undertaken in the city.

Almost from the dawn of his manhood Harry B. Waite has been prominently connected with the lumber industry of Minneapolis and one of the leading factors in developing and expanding it to its present colossal proportions, and since 1895, when he founded the H. B. Waite Lumber company, he has devoted his energies to building up the interests and enlarging the business of that corporation, of which he has been the president and active manager from the beginning of its history. He has been connected also with other industrial and mercantile agencies, here and elsewhere, and through them

John T. McGowan, president of the McGowan Mahoney Investment Company, engaged in his present business in 1889 when he purchased the insurance business of R. W. Cummings, which was established in 1852. He was formerly associated with Henry C. Schultz, who was succeeded after his death by John Mahonev, who has also since died, a sketch of wboB

U in tliia work, together having built up a business in real estate, loans and insurance which places their company among the local leaders in this line. In 1912 they incorporated under the above name and took their two sons. Thomas J. McGowan and James W. Mahoney into business with them.

He was born in Minneapolis April 6, 1864, and is the son of Thomas and Catherine (Murphy) McGowan, natives respectively of Leitrim and Fermanagh Counties, Ireland. They were married in Minneapolis in 1S60. the father landing in New York in 1S50, and having become a resident of this city in 1S53. lie was a stonemason and helped to build many of the earlier houses in St. Anthony and the newer town on the west side of the river. lie became a building contractor and owner erecting a number of stores and dwelling houses in St. Anthony. He died in February. 1894, aged seventy-nine, 9ur>"iving his wife seventeen years, she having died in 1879. They were among the original members of the old Catholic church of St. Anthony de Padua and devout and serviceable to the parish in their loyalty and conservation. He was a staunch Democrat and an active and effective worker for the success of his party, seeing in its principles the best security for the rights and welfare of the whole people. They were the parents of three children, Michael, who died in childhood. Peter P. has been connected with the police department lor fourteen years. The)- were educated in local parochial schools and at the Eastern High School and the Minneapolis Academy. John T. also devoted one year to study in the law department of the University.

Mr. McGowan lias been in his present line of business since 1889, the present firm being the successor to the R. W. Cummings insurance agency, one of the oldest in the city, formerly operating chietly on the East Side. The business has grown steadily from year to year until it ha.s become one of the leaders in its line. It handles its own properties, including both business, residences and farm lands,

Mr. MoGowan has long been an active participant in public alTairs. He served from 1888 to 1892, as ahlerman from the First ward, being elected when but twenty-four years of age. During his service the street car system was electrified, the tracks of the Great Northern Railroad were bridged, the first work of this kiml done, and other important projects of improvement were carried into elTect. He served on all the committees which had these matters in charge, although of 39 aldermen there were but four Democrats in the council. He was instrumental in securing the introduction of sewers in the First ward, which began at that time, and it was workday for city employes was adopted. In l.sito he was elected to the state senate from a district composed of the First and a part of the Third Wards, He served three terms in the senate, during eight years of which he was the only Democratic member from Hennepin county. At his first election he received a handsome plurality, at his second his plurality was three times as large, and the third time he was chosen without oppuMition, the Republicans declining to put up a candiilote, thus paying a high tribute to his legislative ability.

He ever stood for better conditions for the working people, oecoming known everywhere as the laboring man's senator and advocate. During his first term in the senate he introduced a bill providing for an eight-hour day in all state work, which was fought very hard by the country members and only became a law after two sessions of hard work on the part of Mr. McGowan and other advocates of the eighthour movement. He also introduced a resolution embodying the principle of compensation for workmen injured in the course of their employment, his prevision and perception being sustained when in I'.tlS the Bame i<iea8 became a law. He has served as a delegate to numerous conventions and baa taken an active part in party councils and campaign work.

Mr. McGowan is a member of St. Anthony de Padua Catholic church, in which he was baptized, and the one in which he was married in 1886 to Miss Julia Crosby, a native of Minneapolis and daughter of Michael Crosby, another one of the oldest families. She died in 1901. leaving one son, Thomas, who is now a member of the Mciiowan. .Mahoney Investment company. In 1909 Mr. McGowan married Miss May Healey, a daughter of .Tames and Julia Healey, also old residents of St. Anthony.

They have a son Edison James Bryan. Mr. McGowan is connected in fraternal relations with the Knights of Columbus, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He also belongs to the New Athletic and the Minneapolis Boat clubs, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Real Estate Board and has always been considered a leading and very popular re[>resentative of the Irish-.American race in the State of Minnesota. Mr. McGowan retired from active politics in 1910, and while he has been urged many times since to become a candidate for some important state or city office, he declares that he has no more desire to hold n public office and could not be induced to accept a nomination or election.

Sylvester Smith Cargill

Late president of the Victoria Elevator Co., and one of the most successful and best known grain men of the northwest, was born at Port JelTcrson, Long Island, Dec. 18, 1848, and died Dec. 20, 191.T, just entering his B6th year.

His father was Captain Wni, D, Cargill, a native of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, and his mother Edna Davis of Long Island. Captain Cargill was a vessel owner and master, engaged for several years in the coast-wise trade. The mother, desirous that her sons should not follow in the father's career, wished to get away from the attractions of the ocean, and in 1855 they moved to a farm near Janesville, Wisconsin, where Sylvester grew to manhood. He attended the public schools in Janesville and finished his studies in Milton College at Milton Junction. His entire business life was devoted to dealing in grain: he was connected with his brother, W, W. Cargill, at Delavnn, Minnesota, for four years, when he began independently, securing an elevator at Northwood, Iowa, extending his operations until he had elevators at various points on the M, A St. L. ami Central Iowa railroads.

In August, 1882, he moved to Albert I^ea, still extending his business until, in 1885, he decided to become more closely identified with grain men at Minneapolis, the center of the grain trade. In company with G. C. Bagley. he organized the Bagley A Cargill Grain Co., incorporating his own elevators as a part of the business. They erected elevators on the line of the Hastings and Dakota railroad, having terminal facilities in Minneapolis, and thenceforth Ixe became an important factor in the Chamber of Commerce. Four years later he sold his interests to his partner, intending to retire from the trade, but impelled by his thorough knowledge of the business, and its attraction for him, he was in the harness again within a few months, and there remained until the summons came for tinal rest. In Oct., 1889, he organized the Victoria Elevator Company, of which he was the president, with A. E. Benedict as treasurer and W. T. Spencer, secretary. Terminal Elevator "R" was erected, with a 300,000 bushel capacity, which was later increased to half a million bushels.

A line of 32 elevators were finally acquired on the Great Northern, Soo, Northern Pacific, and Milwaukee railroads in the Dakotas and Montana, the Victoria Elevator Company becoming widely and favorably known among grain growers, shippers, millers, and dealers. For more than twenty-four years Mr. Cargill continued at the head of this organization, giving to every extension and expansion his personal attention, and witnessing at the last, one of the most successful years, the grain handled at this time, exceeding three million bushels. With thought and energy concentrated upon the one line. Mr. Cargill knew the grain trade as few men knowany one business, his success being commensurate with the devotion and attention bestowed.

For a time he was a director in the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company, but his preference was in the line in which he had so many years of successful training and experience. Politics did not attract him, and though a Mason, he was not an ardent fraternity man, choosing rather the comforts and enjoyments of domestic life. If not in his ollice, it was safe to say he could be found at his lionic He had traveled considerably, spending one summer in Alaska and one abroad, but his fondness for out-of-door life led him to spend much of his leisure enjoying the recreation afforded by our numerous lakes, prairies and woods, enticing the finny inhabitants of the one or hunting the fowl or small game of the other.

For many years he was a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church, where he was a regular attendant, seldom a Sunday passing when he was not in his accustomed place.

He leaves a wife and three children. His wife was formerly Miss Elizabeth Murphy, of (5sagp. Iowa; the chilihcii are Robert G., Samuel S., and Helen Louise.

While few men in Minneapolis enjoyed a wider acquaintance, the circle of really warm, close personal friends Wiis small, but for those few the warmest attachment existed, ami many of his most enjoyable hours were passed with those friends at his own billiard table.

It was while awaiting the coming of some of those friends to participate in such a game that the summons came to him, without premonition, to leave all he had heretofore known and loved and to enter upon another sphere of action in closer relation to "Him who doeth all things well."

Louis Gluek

Louis was born there on September 21. 1858. Gottlieb Gluek, the father, early established himself in the brewing business in the part of the city which is now known as North East Minneapolis, and thiee of his sous, including Louis, have continued in the business established by their father. When the father died, in ISSl, the Gluek Brewing company was firmly established on a thriving and satisfying basis. It has since been developed by the sons of Gottlieb Gluek as the Gluek Brewing Company into one of the largest and most successful concerns in the Northwest.

Louis Gluek, like his brothers, was educated in the Minneapolis public schools and was early apprenticed to the brewing business. Through a close association with his father, who was an expert chemist in his line, and who knew the brewing business on a thoroughly scientific basis, his son soon became head of the manufacturing department. When his father died he took his place at the head of the company, and when the company was later incorporated into the Gluek Brewing Company he became the president of the concern, which position he has held ever since.

The historical significance of this great brewing company is something of which to take into account. Being established as early as 1857, it is the oldest of its kind in the city and one of the oldest business concerns of any kind in the state of Minnesota. For fifty-five years it has been owned and operated by the same family and has been continuously prosperous and successful. The industry and conservatism whith made Gottlieb Gluek one of the most trustworthy and reliable ilinneapolis business men are dominant characteristics in his sons, and they, too, have the respect and trust of their fellow business men.

Louis Gluek is democratic and social in his tastes. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., the B. P. O. E., and the Knights of Honor. He takes an active part in civic affairs, and is extremely generous with his time and with his money in anything that makes for the betterment of the state or the city. He has never taken any active part in politics and has never aspired to any political honor. He is a Democrat and earnest in his convictions.

Mr. Gluek finds but little time for recreation. His fad is liis beautiful farm located near Minneapolis. Here he finds in tlic management of this his pleasure. In fishing and liunting he finds his real rest from work.

Louis Gluek is the son of Gottlieb and Caroline (Foell) Gluek. who brought to the West from their home in Germany the thrift and industry which did so much, through example and by their enterprise, to build for the state and for the city. They came to St. Anthony in the early days and their son

The president of the Bovey-DeLaittre Lumber Company and of the Chinook Timber Company is known and honored as one of the substantial and representative business men of Minneapolis and as a citizen whose civic loyalty and progressiveness have made him an influential figure in furthering the general advancement and prestige of the Minnesota metropolis. Mr. DcLaittre became vice-president of the Bovey- DeLaittre Lumber Company at the time of its organization, nearly thirty years ago, and he retained this executive position until .January 1. 1913. when he succeeded his cousin. John DeLaittre. in the presidency of the corporation. He has thus been most prominently and closely identified with the lumber industry in Minnesota and he is one of the representative men of airairs in the state that ha8 long been hiii home. He is president ol the Chinook Timber Com|mny. whieh hohls extensive mill valiiabli' traet^i ut' tinilMT litnil in Orc^'un; iinil is a direetor ol tlu' Merchants i Mechanies Hank of Minneapolis. The Chinook Timber Company has its head<|uurters in Minneapolis, and is holding large tracts of Orefton timber for futnre use. Mr. DeLaittre is a practical lumberman, with bruail and varied experience in connection with all details of the industry, an<l through bis well ordered endeavors he has achieved success. He is one of the well known citizens of Minneapolis and here his circle of friends is coincident with that of bis acquaintances, so that there are many points which render specially consonant his recognition in this history of his home city. Aside from the connections alreaily noted. Mr. DeLaittre is a director of the Diamond Iron Works, of North Indianapolis, where he is also a stockholder of the Camden Park .State Bank.

He claims the old Pine Tree state as the place of his nativity and is a representative of staunch Xew KngUind stock. the lineage being traced back to French origin and the family having been founded in America many generations af;o. He was born at Ellsworth, the judicial center of Hancock county, Maine, on the 6th of September, 1845. ami was reared and educated in his native state, where he gained his initial experience in the lumbering industry, his father having been identified with lumber operations in Maine and the son having been virtually reared in the lumber woods on Union river, that state.

In 1869, when twenty-four years of age, Mr. DeLaittre came to Minnesota, and Minneapolis his destination. He entered the employ of the lumber firm of Eastman. Bovey & Company, the interested principals of which were William W. Eastman, .John DeLaittre and Cliarles A. Bovey. He assisted in the company's logging and mill work and when the concern was reorganized, under the title of Bovey, DeLaittre A. Company, he became vice-president of the corporation, the title of which was later change<l to the present form. This has been one of the most important of the lumbering concerns of Minnesota, and its operations were conducted upon a most extensive scale at the height of the lumber business in this state, as shown by the fact that in a single season the company cut and manufactured forty million feet of lumber, all of the logs having been brought to the mills in Minneapolis. In the lumber camps of the company employment was alTorded to an average of about one hundred and fifty men during the winter seasons, and much timber cutting was done by contract also, a large force of workmen being likewise employed in the saw mills of the company. For more than forty years Mr. DeLaittre was closely and graciously associated with his cousin. .John DeLaittre. in lumbering operations, and the two families are still associated in the Cliinodic Timber Company.

.Mr. DeLaittre has met with ability all the exactions and demands placed upon him in his peculiarly long and successful business career ami has at all times stood exemplar of broadminded and loyal citizenship. He is well fortified in his opinions concerning public policies and has been unswerving in his allegiani'i' to the Republican parly, as candidate of which he was a nii'inber of the .Minnesota state legislature for the term of I8U4-5, and six years on the park board of Minneapolis. He proved a strong and independent worker in the legislature and did all in his power to oppose the freesilver policy then advocated by the Democratic party. Mr.

DeLaittre is not formally identified with any religious body but is liberal in his support of the various deiioininatiuns, especially the Baptist church. He i» a member of the .Minneapolis Athletic Club, is a thorough and unassuming business man, and he has measured fully up to the demands of popular approbation, as is shown by the unqualified confidence and esteem reposed in him by all who know him.

In 1873 was .solemnized the marriage of Mr. DeLaittre to Jliss Dora Coggins, of Lamoine. Hancock county, .Maine, and they have five children, concerning whom the following brief record is entered: Jliss Grace N. remains at the parental home and is a stockholder in the DeLaittre- Dixon Lumber Company; Joseph A. is president of the DeLaittre-Dixon Lumber Company, of Minneapolis; Sarah U. is the wife of Roy A. Dixon, secretary and treasurer of the DeLaittre-Dixon Lumber Company; Kvdyii 1!. leniains at the parental home and she likewise is a stockholder of the DeLaittre-Dixon Lumber Company: and Horace, who is vice-president of the De- Laittre-Dixon Lumber Company, is attending the Colorado School of Mines, at Golden, where he is a luember of the class of 1U14.

Samuel C. Gale

Samuel Chester Gale, a resident of Minneapolis for over half a century and always one of its prominent, most publicspirited citizens, came here froiii Massachusetts, where he was born at Royalston in that commonwealth September 15, 1827. His grandfather, Jonathan Gale was- a soldier in the War of the Revolution. His father, Isaac Gale, died in 1838, leaving a family of ten children. This made dillicult the support of the family, and while still a boy Mr. (Jale was apprenticed to an uncle, Salmon Goddard of West Moyalston, as a tanner. His desire for an education was so keen, however, that at seventeen he began to prepare for college. After a hard struggle he was able to enter Vale College in 1850, graduating four years later, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and chosen class orator at graduation in a class of 100 members. Mr. Gale spent one year in Harvard law school, and then read law with a lirni at Worcester. In 1857 he came to Minneapolis, where he con tinued his law studies in the ollice of Cornell & Vanderburgh, and was ailmitted to practice in 1858. The practice of law not being in much demand here in those days. .Mr. Gale opened u real estate and loan ollice in 181)0 in partnership with his brother, Harlow, the linn name being Gale Jt Co. This rapidly grew into a most prosperous business, adding much to the development of the growing young city,

.Mr. (iaie has been an active participant all his life in almost every movement looking toward the improvement of the city, materially, iiitellei'tually and morally. He was for some time th<' president of the Minneapolis .\thi-naeum, which was founded in 1800; he was one of the original promoters of the Public Library, and long a memb<>r of the board. He was on the Board of Education from 1871 to 1880. He was president of the City Council, chairman of the Building Committee of the Minneapolis Industrial Exposition, and later on its president. He was also actlvi-ly connected with the .Academy of Natural .S(ipnce><. tin- Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, the Board of Trade, ami virtually every organized effort toward the inipnivenient and upbuilding of thitt city in its earlier days.

Mr. Gale was married in 1861 to Miss Susan A. Damon of Holden, Mass. They have five children, Edward C. and Charles S., and Mrs. David P. Jones, Mrs. Clarkson Lindley and Miss Marion Gale, all of this city.

James B. Oilman

Mr. Oilman, Chief Engineer of the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company, was born January 38, 1872, in Rosemount, Dakota county, Minnesota. He is a son of James B. and Laura C. (Foster) Oilman, of New York and Massachusetts, respectively. His mother came to Minnesota in the pioneer days. The father operated a foundry at Dansville, N. y., until 1848, when he came to Minnesota and engaged in farming in Dakota county. He served three years in the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, returning to his farm, until 1880, when he removed to Minneapolis. James B. Gilman completed an academic education in the high school, and entering the University of Minnesota for a special course in civil engineering, graduated in the class of 1894. While a student in the University, he spent part of his vacations on the survey of the right of way for the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad as far as Portal. North Dakota, thus acquiring valuable experience. Upon graduation he became a draughtsman with the Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing company, and in 1897 was made chief draughtsman, so remaining until the company was absorbed by the American Bridge company. He continued in the employ of the American Bridge company as an engineer until 1907. when he became chief engineer of the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery company, the largest structural steel concern in the West. Mr. Oilman's work covers a large field, as the company operates throughout a wide territory, giving ample scope for the exercise of the highest technical knowledge and practical skill. He maintains active membership in and is ex-president of the Minneapolis Engineers' club, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He also belongs to the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce association, the East Side Commercial club and the Auto club. Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic order. Although a Republican he is not active in political affairs, but takes a serviceable interest in general welfare, and is ardent in support of every commendable undertaking. June 1-1. 1899, Mr. Oilman was united in marriage with Miss Alice A. Hayward of Minneapolis. They have one daughter, Dorothy.

James Edward Oage

Dealing in grain and managing grain elevators on a large scale was the steady and continuous business of the late James E. Gage, from the time he began business until death. January 28, 1908.

Mr. Gage was born in Waterloo, New York, April 7, 1849, being the son of John and Eleanor (Probasco) Gage, who came to Minnesota about 1857 and located on a farm in Wabasha county, between Beaver and Minneiska, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The father was a railroad contractor, as well as farmer, and built several miles of the Milwaukee Railroad between Winona and King's Cooley and the narrow gauge road to Zumbrota. He took an active interest in pulilic affairs, holding several local offices and wag for some time representative in the state legislature.

James E. Gage was educated in the country and at the high school in Winona. He served as bookkeeper for his father wliile tlie latter was a railroad contractor and then became connected with the grain trade in the employ of others at Kellogg, near his home. After some experience he was taken into the firm of Barnes & Tenny, owners of the Northern Pacific Elevator company, and remained a member of the firm until its failure in 1895.

He was .superintendent for this company, with his office at Fargo for some years, removing to Minneapolis in 1891. He had then been a member of the Chamber of Commerce here for a time, becoming familiar with all details of the grain trade and acquiring close acquaintance with other leading dealers. When the Northern Pacific Elevator company went into liquidation in 1895. he, in association with A. C. Andrews, organized tlie Andrews & Gage company, which is still in operation under the name of the Andrews Grain company.

This company leased and operated the line of elevators belonging to the old Northern Pacific Elevator company fn the Red River valley and carried on a flourishing grain business. Mr. Gage was related to this company to the end of life, and was wholly absorbed in its management.

He was a member of the Commercial and Minneapolis clubs, in which he felt deep interest, realizing that they were strong agencies for good. He was of domestic tastes and warmly attached to his home, only occasionally finding relief from business in fishing and other outdoor sports. He was ever an earnest advocate of good government and the advancement of the community. But he was no politician or active partisan and was never an aspirant for a public office of any kind.

Mr. Gage married at Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, Jan. 1, 1872, Miss Rhoba Elizabeth Collier, who was born in Illinois, and as a child brought to Wabasha county, Minnesota. She is the mother of three children. John Charles is in the grain trade witli the Consolidated and International Elevator company, of Winnipeg. Gertrude married George Caplin. of Minneapolis, and died soon afterward. .Joseph Probasco is a grain man and a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Scanlon was born on August 24th. 1861, near Lyndon, Wisconsin, and is a son of M. J. and Mary E. (McDonnell) Scanlon. He obtained his education in the district schools and at the high school at Mauston, a neighboring town, from which he was graduated in 1879. For several years he taught school during the winter inonths and worked in the summer niontlis, as a means of preparing himself for higher and broader usefulness.

In 1881 he entered the Law Department of the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, with a view to making the legal profession his work for life. But he soon found that his bent wits ill anotluT iliii'ctioii, anil with iluiractoristio readiness of decision, he abandoned thi' study of hiw bj'fore bein}; adniitteil to the bar. In the autumn of 1SS4 he went to Onniha. Nebraska, and wliilc there he decided to take a course of lipecial training in a business college. This course was completed in the sprint: of ISK5 and he immediately entered the employ of the K. S. Newcomb Lumber Company, one of the subsidiary corporations of the then <;reat lumber lirni nl S. K. Martin Lumber Company, as bookkeeper.

Mr. Scanlon remained with this company four years, rising by rapid promotion until he was given charge of the purchases and sales of the company, which brought him in close touch with the leading lumber manufacturing concerns of the North and South.

On March 1. 1SS9. he resigned his position with the Xewcomb Lumber Company to become secretary of the C. H. Ruddock Lumber Company of Minneapolis, who were then manufacturing lumber on a large scale in the Northwest. In the fall of 1890. this company decided to close up its Minneapolis business and purchased a large tract of cypress timber lands in the vicinity of Xew Orleans. The Ruddock Cypress Company was organized and Mr. Scanlon was made secretary of the company, with headquarters at Xew Orleans, in charge of sales and credits. The climate of Louisiana did not agree with his wife's health, so he disposed of his interest in the Ruddock Cypress Company and returned to Minneapolis in March, 189S.

liy this time he had acquired a knowledge and command of the lumber business that made him feel that he should go into it on his own a<?count. He prganized the .Scanlon, Gipson & Company to do a jobbing business, buying stock in Minnesota and Wisconsin and selling it to the trade tributary to Minneapolis. During the autumn of 1894 the forests of Minnesota and Wisconsin were devastated by fire and a great deal of valuable timber was fire killed. In Xovember of that year the firm name was changed to Scanlon-Gipson Lumber Company and the well known firm of Brooks Elevator Company became interested in it. The new company acquired a large tract of partially fire killed timber in the vicinity of Nickcrson. Minn. Mills were built immediately 'which were operated day and night, winter and summer, manufacturing fifty million feet annually for many years. The trade of the company was large from the start and, in order to take care of it, the company bought the lumber business of H. F. Brown of Minneii|polis. in the spring of 1896, which gave it a wholesale yard with splendid shipping facilities, which enabled it to take care of its rush order business promptly. The Minneapolis yaril did a business of sixty million feet annually until 190.5, when it was discontinued on account of the company's timber lieinp exhausted and it being impossible to secure logs from other sources to stock the mill.

In 1S98 the company found it necessary to build another mill to take care of its constantly increasing business. A large body of timber was purchased in the northern part of the state and a double band mill was erected at Cass Lake, with an annual capacity of forty-live million feet. Within the next few years, the firm became so well and favorably known ami its trade so great, that they found it necessary to manufacture more lumber to take care of it. To accomplish this, the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company was organized in 1901, with a paid up capital of $1,750,000.00. Immediately after the formation of the company, it built an immense five hand and gang saw mill at Scanlon, Minn., with a daily capacity of 000,000 feet. This was probably one of the tiuest and best arranged saw mills in the country. For a number of years it held the world's record for output, being upwards of one hundred million feet annually. In order to insure a supply of logs to the company's mills at Nickerson and Scanlon, the M. &, X. W. Railroad Company was ornized. It built seventy-tive miles of standard gauge railroad, on which was hiid heavy steel and the equipment was extra heavy, and modern in every respect. While the road was built largely to take care of ]>rivate business, still it did a large general commercial business. Jlr. Scanlon is vice president of the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company and the M. &, N. W. Railroad Company and these corporations furnish scope for a considerable part of his time, energy and enterprise

Sir. ."^canlon has always been a man of great business ambition and broad views with reference to his line of trade. His several companies were manufacturing upwards of 2.50 million feet per year and, with the rapid disappearance of timber in this state, local conditions and requirements became too contracted to satisfy his demands, and in 1905 he turned liis attention to tlie great forests of yellow pine timber of the South. Another company, known as tln' lir<M)ks- Scanlon Company, with a ])aid up capital of $1,500,000.00. was organized. This company acquired a vast area of virgin long leaf yellow pine timber in Louisiana. It also purchased the mills and timber of another company at Kcntwood. La., and immediately built a new double band and gang mill at the same point, which gives the company an output of about 130,000,000 ft, per year. The company's plants are the most modern and complete plants in the South and are a source of considerable pride to the company. In addition to lumbering, the company is carrying on turpentine operations on a large scale. The output of the mills and turpentine orchards are sold to the foreign and domestic tradi' and enjoys a high reputation. The Kentwood & Eastern Railway Company, with its sixty miles of road, and equipment, performs a function for the Brooks- .Scanlon Company similar to the M. 4 N. W. Railroad Company for its allied concerns in the Northwest.

Mr. .Scanlon is president of the Bahamas Timber Company, Limited, of Wilson City, Abnco Island, the Bahamas. This company owns vast tracts of very valuable pitch pine timber in the Bahamas. It owns and operates an up-to-date saw mill plant with all modern appliances, at Wilson City, and markets its output through its own distributing yards in Cuba,

He is also vice president of the Brooks-Scanlon-O'Brien Company, Limited, Vancouver, B, C. This company owns a splendid bo<ly of timber in Western Canada and is logging and nuirketing it at the rate of fifty to sixty millions per year.

Mr, Scanlon recently organized and is president of The Cottonwoo<l Lumber Company, of N'ancouver, This company has built a modern plant ut DeRoche, which is completed and in operation. It enjo_\-s the ilistinction of iM'ing the only mill on the I'acitie Coast that is engaged exclusively in the nianufa<'ture of cottonwood lumber.

In addition to his interests in operating lumber companies, Mr. Scanlon is heavily int<-rested in and a great believer in standing timber. He is president of the Central Floriila Lumber Company, which owns 1 10.000 acres of timber land in Florida; president of the Brooks- Robertson Timber, and Oregon Timber Company, large owners of pine timber in central Oregon: president of th<' .Vinerican Timber Holding Company. North American Timber Molding Company, .lohnson

Straits Lumber Company and Brooks Timber Company, all large owners of timber on the Pacific slope. In 1909 he organized and became vice president of the Powell River Paper Company, with a paid up capital of $3,500,000.00. The company purchased timber land on the Pacific Coast and a magnificent water power at Powell River, B. C, and immediately began the construction of a newsprint paper mill at Powell River, which wa.s completed and put in operation in May, 1913. This plant is the largest newsprint paper mill in the world. The buildings are of reinforced concrete throughout. the machinery is of the latest design and the best money could buy. In fact, the whole plant is said to be the last word in paper mill construction. This company enjoys the distinction of being the only paper company that owns a perpetual supply of pulp timber for its plants.

Mr. Seanlon, as above statements indicate, is the active head of a combination of lumber, paper and timber interests, whose business ranks with that of the leading firms of the country. He is also a citizen of elevated character, very public spirited and any undertaking for the improvement or advancement of educational, social or moral interests always received his hearty support. In politics he is a Democrat, in religion a Catholic. Socially he holds memberships in the Minneapolis, Minikahda and Lafayette Clubs. He was married in Minneapolis on November 26th, 1890, to Mrs. Sarah W. Heiikle, formerly Miss Sarah W. Plummer, of Prairie du Cliien, Wisconsin. They have three children, Helen M., Bonnie W. and Robert H.

Orlando Crosby Merrlman

For a continuous period of almost fifty years a resident of Minneapolis, and during all the time earnestly, intelligently and effectively engaged in promoting the welfare and progress of the community, the late Orlando Crosby Merriman was one of the city's best known, most highly esteemed and most serviceable citizens from the time of his arrival here in the spring of 1859 until hi.s death on August 2d. 1906, at the age of seventy-nine years, his birth having occurred on July 27, 1837, at Somervillc, St. Lawrence county. New York, where he grew to manhood and began his education.

At the age of eighteen Mr. Merriman entered the Wesleyan Seminary at Oouvemeur in his native county, which was one of the best schools of its class in that day. After completing the course of instruction in this seminary he passed four years working at haying, harvesting and other farm labor in the summer and teaching in the winter. When he was twenty-three he began the study of law under the direction of Charles Anthony, a prominent lawyer at Gouverneur, New York, and on April 3, 1854. he was married to Miss Rosannah Herring, itnd they came at once to .Janesville, Wisconsin, where Mr. Merriman formed a partnership for the practice of law with former Lieutenant Governor .Tohn E. Holmes, of Jefferson. Wisconsin. He received substantial assistance from .lohn M. Berry, a lawyer at .Janesville, later for twenty-three years a justice of the supreme co\irt of Minnesota and for several Mr. Merriman's neighbor in St. Anthony. Besides practicing law at Jefferson, Wisconsin, Mr. Merriman served as postmaster, superintendent of schools and in other public positions there until the spring of 1859, when he moved to

Mr. Merriman was elected mayor of St. Anthony in April, 1861, just a week before the bombardment of Fort Sumter began. He took a great interest in the sectional conflict of which this was the beginning, and assisted very earnestly in enlisting volunteers for the defense of the Union. In April, 1863, he was re-elected mayor, and in August of that year enlisted as a private in Company B, Sixth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, of which he was soon afterward elected captain. Without waiting to be mustered into the sei-vice of the United States the regiment hurried to Fort Ridgley to assist in defeating the Sioux Indians, who were on the war path and had beleaguered the fort. The force took part in the battles of Birch Coulee, Wood Lake and other engagements and marches in the various campaigns of 1862, 1863 and 1864.

In June, 1864, he resigned his commission in the army and formed a law partnership with Judge William Loehren, and he also continued to serve as mayor of St. Anthony the greater part of the tiiue until 1867, when he became treasurer and general manager of the Mississippi and Rum River Boom Company. This position he resigned in 1870 and entered the firm of L. Butler & Company, in which he was associated with Dr. Levi Butler, T. B. Walker and James S. and Leonidas M. Lane. They erected a large and well equipped mill at the east end of the Water Power company's dam, and produced all kinds of lumber, carrying on an extensive wholesale trade. Later Mr. Jlerriman was the head of the firm of O. C. Merriman & Company and a member of the firms of Merriman, Barrows & Company and Merriman & Barrows Brothers, finally withdrawing from the lumber industry near the close of 1891. A sketch and portrait of his old partner, Fred H. Barrows, will be found elsewhere in this work.

For a number of years after leaving the lumber companies Mr. Merriman was the cashier and one of the directors of the Commercial Bank, and before this he was a director of the Northwestern National Rank for a dozen years or longer. He was at all times energetic and zealous in the service of the State University, devoting time and labor as weU as money to making the great institution a success. In 1864 he was named on a special commission, with Governor John S. Pillsbury and John Nichols, to Sell lands and pay the debts of the Universi,ty. In December. 1867, the commission reported that the debts had been nearly all paid from the sale of less than 12.000 acres of land, a feat of such magnitude and unexpected promjitness of execution that it won the universal approbation of the people of the state. When the commission began its work the University was in a very bad way financially. A large wing, erected in 1856 or 1857, had never been used, and no payments had been made on the bonds issued to build it, or the interest on them, whith was at the rate of 12 per cent. The debt had become very large and its liquidation required action by the legislature. To its payment in the manner narrated nuist be ascribed all the subsequent success of the University.

While Mr. Merriman was not regarded by his friends and acquaintances as a politician, as he never took part in political contests and avoided public office as much as he could, nevertheless, being a man of broad public spirit and decided views on all subjects of public interest, he tould not wholly refrain from taking part in political activities. He was a Democrat of the strict Jeffcrsonian school and his counsel was highly vnliuil by lii» party u^sociatcs. They iiinde him their candidate lur i^tate ssenator iiiid fur congreHsniaii, but us he livud ill a 8tioii{.' Kepublii-iin district tliere was no chance of his election, altliough he did greatly reduce the vote of his opponents. In 1875. after the consolidation of St. Anthony and Minneapolis, he was unanimously elected mayor of the Consolidated city. He was also for three temvs secretary of the lirst board of nine regents of the University, a member of the board of directors of the K.\position of IHill. and was chosen a member of the lirst park commission, but declined to serve on it.

Mr. Merriman was liberal in religious matters. He was a member of the tirst Universalist society in St. Anthony, and in 18S1 helped to found the lirst Lnitarian church society in Minneapolis, being a trustee from the beginning of its history and president of the board for a number of years. He was a regular attendant at its church services, a liberal contributor for its welfare, and was highly esteemed by all its members, as he was throughout the city. He was not, however, a sectarian, but broad in his charity, tolerant in his views and sympathetic in his feelings for all sects and all persons, and helpful in his aid of all good agencies working for better conditions.

In fraternal life he was an attive and zealous member of Darius Commandery, Knights Templar, and also of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. In 1898 he was appointed referee in bankruptcy, which olhce he held until his death, and was then succeeded in it by his son. Orlando C, Jr., who held it four years. He lived at the present home of his son Orlando, 927 Seventh street southeast, from 1881 until his death. His widow survived him nearly six years, dying on February 26, 1912. Four of their children are living, Orlando Crosby, Jr.. John ITerring. Frances Frederika (Mrs. F. G. -lames, of Virginia! and Harry. The general esteem in which Captain Merriman was held in the community was feelingly expressed in a preamble and set of resolutions unanimously passed by the city council a few days after his death.

Ch.-Vrles A. Ik H F.Man

Charh's A. HolTinan was born in I'ittsburg. Pennsylvania, on June 6. IK.IS, the son of Dr. .lohn Frederick and Dorothea (HassensteinI Hotrman. natives of Sa.xony. Germany. The father was a physician and surgeon in Pittsburg and Cliicago, and died in the latter city of injuries received there during the great fire of 1871. The mother was the daughter of a noble .Saxon family of her name and a descendant of the ancient Bohemian kings. Young HolTman was pursuing his professional studies as an apprentice to the court physician at <'ob\irgGotha. in his native land, and there he became acquainted with the mother and their acquaintance ripened into dee[i and fervent affection. To separate them her friends had him sent to the United States. But the young lady followed him to this country, and they were married in Pittsburg. The mother survived her husband about ten years.

In I'll 2 Mr. Hoffman visited Kurope and called at the ancient castle of his mother's family at Coburg-Ootha, the Frederickschlosse, which is now occupied by the Graetin Hassensteins. In the gallery ol tliat castle he saw the portrait of his mother. He also made a visit t<i the old Kohemian castle of Hassenstein, which was built in 1480. twelve yi^ars before Columbus discovered America, but which is still standing and in an excellent state of preservation. Its walls iontain tablets commemorating visits to the castle by Martin Luther, the father of the Keforniation, and Johann von Goethe, the greatest of all Gernmn poets. Mr. Ilollnian brought away with him photographs of all the interesting features in and about the castle.

The Itoliemian name of the family was Lobkowitz, but the branch of it which migrated to Saxony during the Thirty Years' war t<M)k its name from the old castle of Hassenstein. This was only aliout sixty miles distant from the Bohemian castle, but that was a long stretch of country in those days. In looking up the records of the family Mr. Hoffman was pleased to learn that it had given to the world several celebrated opticians and eye surgeons. One of these was Ur. Frederick Edward Hassenstein. recently deceased, the real inventor of the opthalnioscope, although the invention bears the name of his associate. Dr. Helmholtz. Another was Dr. Walter Hassenstein, medical adviser of the king of Saxony. Their visitor from Minneapolis was received with great kindness by the gracious Graefin Hassensteins, and presented l)y them with the ancient family coat of arms.

Charles A. Hollman obtained his academic education in the schools available to liini, and as a special |)reparation for the work to which he had resolved to devote himself, lie passed two years at Rush Medical College in Chicago, his intention being to be a physician and surgeon. But his medical studies were broken up by the great fire, and he turned his attention to another field of endeavor. His short stay at the medical college had directed his attention to the great need of more advanced and .scientific production of optical instruments, and the field was fully in line with his inclinations and natural endowments.

In 1881 he came to Minneapolis and founded his present business in the Boston block, beginning it on a small scale. Sometime afterward, to secure more commodious quarters, he moved to the present site of the Leader, and later still to Fourth street south, where he remained eight years. In 1887 he changed his location to 624 Nicollet avenue, and in 1911 bought the building at 814-816 on the same street in wluch he now conducts his business, and where he occupies three floors and employs thirty skille<l wiukuien. He also has considerable detail work of his manufacturing done at another shop near his home, and yet finds his facilities heavily taxed to supply the extensive demands of his trade.

Mr. Hoffman is the inventor of the celebrated Tru-fit. invisible bifocal lense and makes a specialty of manufacturing it. Tliis lense is also manufactured in Indianapolis and San Francisco under royalties. Its inventor has been granted a number of patents on it, as improvements have been made, and it has been kept up to the latest developments in optical science by his close and judicious study of the subject. It is estimated that at least half a million pairs of these lenses are now in use. During his tour of Europe in 1912 Mr. Hoffman organized a company for their manufacture in Germany for the European trade. He is a large importer of the renowned crystal glass made in .lena, (lermany, which has been found to be the best in the world for use in lenses, and he also exports in large quantities the finished products of his factories, including a general line of spectacles, optical goods and photographers' supplies. In addition he is largely engaged in making up specialties from prescriptions of oculists and opticians all over the Northwest, and from many in other parts of the country.

In the public affairs and social and fraternal life of his community Mr. Hoffman takes an earnest interest and an active part. He is a member of the Minneapolis Commercial club and several other business or social organizations. He is also one of the charter members of Ark Lodge Xo. 176. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and has advanced to the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite branch of the fraternity. He was for years a director of the old Germania Bank and is now a stockholder in the Metropolitan National Bank. In fact, he is connected in a serviceable way with almost every phase of the multiform life and activity of his home city and manifests great enterprise and breadth of view in helping to promote its welfare and that of its residents in every way available to him.

On March 10, 1876, Mr. Hoffman was united in marriage, in Chicago, with Miss Mary E. Mueller, a native of Germany. They have tour sons, Walter F., Arthur C, Ralph M., and Stuart Victor. Walter is an oculist in Seattle. Washington. Arthur C. is one of the members of the C. A. Hoffman company. Ralph M. is a mechanical engineer and associated with a company which manufactures elevators in Vancouver, British Columbia; and Stuart Victor is a student in the West Side High School.

Klbridge Clinton Cooke

President of the Minneapolis Trust company, is a native of the state of Illinois, where he was born in 1854, and a son of .Joseph Clark and Amy (Wade) Cooke. He began his academic education, like most other American boys, in the public schools, continued it at Norwich Academy in the city of Norwich, Connecticut, and completed it at Vale University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1ST7. After a due course of preparation in the study of law he was admitted to the bar and began his practice in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1879. He was elected city attorney there in 1881 and held the office until 1883. At the close of his official term he moved to Bismarck in what was then the territory of Dakota but is now the state of North Dakota. He at once founded the Northern Pacific Bank at Mandan in that territory and was clmsen its president. He also practiced his profession in tlic territory until 1886. and made gratifying headway in it.

In October, 1886. .Mr. Cooke changed his residence to Minneapolis, and here he has ever since resided. Prior to coming to this city he formed a partnership with George P. Flanncry under the firm name of Flannery & Cooke, which was started in business in 1884. The firm has a high reputation in the profession, stands well with the courts, and its hold on tho confidence and regard of the public is strong and well sustained. Its practice is general, covering the whole field of legal procedure, and in every branch of its business it has been and continues to be very successful. And its members well deserve their success. They have an extensive and accurate knowledge of the law, both as written in the books and as interpreted by the courts, and are skillful in applying their knowledge and forcible in advocating their views in any case. They are also diligent and zealous in looking after the interests of their clients, leaving no effort untried to win for each in litigation everything he is entitled to.