Minneapolis City (part 64 of 80)

In addition to his law practice Mr. Cooke has other interests which occupy a part of his attention and are the better for it. He is president of the Minneapolis Trust company, and is also president of the Real Estate Title Insurance company of Minneapolis, treasurer of the North American Telegraph company, and a director of the First National Bank of Minneapolis. He has long been active in the social life of the city as a member of its Minneapolis. Minikahda and Lafayette clubs, and also belongs to the Yale club of New York city and the Hokanide Gun club. Mr. Cooke was married in Norwich. Connecticut, in 1883. to Miss Isabella Boies Turner.

Samuel Hastings

Mr. Hastings is a leading contractor in furnishing cut stone for biiildings, employing five or six cutters and ten to twelve workmen in all regularly. He furnished the stone for the Minneapolis club house, the Blake school at Hopkins, and many other important buildings, having all the business in his line that he can attend to because of his reputation as an artist and high class workman and his upright and straightforward business methods. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on October 6, 1871, and in 1883 came with his parents, Thomas and Mary S. Hastings, to Minneapolis.

The father, who died here in 1907, was one of the best known and most highly esteemed Scotchmen in the city. He founded the business now carried on by his son, being an expert in cut stone work, but conducting business as a contractor both in Glasgow and here. He gained wide reputation also as an expert curler and an enthusiastic devotee and promoter of football, and was instrumental in organizing the Thistle club of curlers, the first in Minnesota, and personally made the curling stones used by it in its games. These were eight in number and cut from a "nigger-head" boulder picked out of the chute when the water power canals were dug. Now all the stones used in the games in this locality are imported from Scotland, and Samuel Hastings is one of the leading importers of them.

The first curling games in Minneapolis were played on a lake in Central park in the winter of 1883. In the winter of 1886 the elder Mr. Hastings won first trophy at the ice palace in St. Paul. The game soon aroused active interest throughout the Northwest, and at this time (1914) there are several clubs in all the leading cities. Minneapolis' has about 100' players.

Mr. Hastings gave his son Samuel excellent training in his favorite games, and for twenty-five years the latter has been, a leading player in all the important events in this part of the world. He has usually acted as captain or "skip" of his team, and has led it to victory in many hotly contested battles, in which it has earned honors of high distinction. Among the trophies which he has helped to win were those captured in Milwaukee, the St. Paul curling prize, the St. Paul .Jobbers' prize, the Northwestern, the Duluth Jobbers'' and the Caledonia at Winnipeg, the last named being secured in an international tourney. He has been playing since he- was fourteen years old, and his skill in the game is everywhere recognized, no name being more familiar or standing higher in curling eireles than his. He is a menilier of the board of directors of the Minneapolis Curling club, and the "skip" of its team.

Mr. Hastings was for years also a leading member of the Thistle Football club. He is president of the Tenth Ward Commercial club and a member of the St. Anthony Commercial club, the Architectural club, the Builders' ICxchange, the Clan Cordon, and numerous other organizations of a social and helpful nature. In November, 1896, he was married to Miss (Jrace Gardner, a native of Minneapolis. They have had six children, one of whom, Grace M.. died in infancy. The five who are living are Thomas Edward. William Samuel. Winfield Francis. Margaret Mary and Harry.

Nf.Wton F. Hawley

During the last seven years he ha.s been the treasurer and active manager of the Farmers and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Minneapolis, and the institution has made steady and substantial progress under his skillful guiding hand and excellent judgment in the management of its alTairs.

Mr. Hawley was born at Springdale, Iowa, on November 28, |s,v.l, and is a son of N. J. and Delia (Canfield) Hawley. He attended the common school and afterward the high school at Tipton, Iowa, and then completed his academic education at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, from which he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1879. He received his Master's degree in 1882. After leaving college he studied law, and in 1884 was admitted to practice in Minneapolis. His first association in professional work was with Wni. .1. Ilahn under the firm name of Hahn &. Hawley. A little while afterward Henry C. Belden was taken into the firm and its name became Hahn. Belden & Hawley: and still later >Ir. Hahn retired from it and Robert .lamison became a member, whereupon the name was changed to Belden. Hawley & Jamison.

Mr. Hawley continued in the active practice of his profession until .January 1, 1906, when he was elected one of the trustees of the Farmers and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Minneapolis, and was chosen secretary and treasurer of the board. This made him the managing olTicer of the institution, and all its business has been largely under his direction ever since. He has given the affairs of the hank the most careful and judicious attention, managed them with enterprise and good judgment, omitting no elTort possible on his part to advance its interests and those of its officials and patrons, and has moved it forward in progress at a steady and well maintained pace. The bank is now everywhi're regarded as one of the best, soundest and best managed of its class in the country, and its business has grown to large pnipurtinns.

Mr. Hawley has also taken an earnest interest and an active part in public affairs, especially in the domain of good government and public education. For years he has served as one of the tnistees of Iowa College, his .Alma Mater, and Was a member of the Minneapcilis hoard of eilueation from 1899 to Kin.-,. He also serv.Ml on the .liarter of 1898 and again on that of ignii. In politics he is a Kepuhlican in national ami state atTairs, but in local elections he is entirely independent of partisan considerations, and looks

The study of social and municipal questions hag always been one of great interest to .Mr. Hawley, and he has given it a great deal of attention. His tendency in this direction has led him to become u member of the American Academy of Political and .Social Science, the National Municipal League, and other organizations of similar character formed for the purpose of developing and illuminating the line of thought to which he is devoted. The social life of his community has also had his active and helpful attention for many years through bis membership in the Minneapolis, Commercial, Minikahda and Six O'clock clubs, in whose welfare he takes great interest.

On September 5, 1884, Mr. Hawley was married in Minneapolis to Miss Ellen M. Field. They have two children, their sons Robert and Douglas. Robert is superintendent of the Gas Traction company and Douglas is a student at Cornell University. All the members of the family attend Plymouth Congregational church and take an active part in all its works of benevolence and service to the community, aiding it in all its undertakings, and helping to direct its forces into the best channels for usefulness and the largest benefits.

Frank Heywood

Frank Heywood is a member of the Miimeapolis board of aldermen, as one of the representatives of the Eighth ward, and is a valued factor in the administration of the municipal government. He is president of the Heywood Manufacturing Company, a substantial concern which controls a large and important businesij in the manufacturing of envelopes ami paper boxes, as well as in the conducting of a well appointed printing establishment, and he is also president of the Rockford Paper Box Board Company, one of the representative industrial corporations in the city of Rockford, Illinois.

Mr. Heywood is a native of New England, that gracious cradle of much of our national history, and is a scion of staunch colonial stwk. He was born at Rutland, Worcester county, Massachusetts, on the 8th day of .luly, 1857. and is a son of C. R. Heywood and ."^arah S. (Brown) Heywood. The father passed the closing years of his life at Rutland, he having devoted the major part of his active career to the lumber business. Frank Heywood gained his rudimentary education in the public schools of his native village and supplemented this <liscipline by a course in the historic I'hillips- Andover Academy. In 1SS2. as a young man of twenty-five years, Mr. Heywood becami' a resident of Minneapolis, where he engaged in the manufacturing of paper boxes, umler the firm name of F. Heywuod A Company. He brought to bear his best energies in the development of the new enterprise, and the same grailually and surely expanded in scope and importance, with the result that in 189fi it was found expedient to incorporate the business, under the title of the Heywood Manufacturing Company. This corporation now bases its operations on a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, and the well eiguipped plant has been maintained for the past seventei'n years at 421) and 428 Third street north, where employment is now given to a corps of three hundred persons, including a large number of skilled artisans. In addition to the departments devoted to the manufacturing of envelopes and paper boxes, the printing department is maintained at a high standard, its operations being in the printing on stock manufactured in the other two departments of the business and general printing. The company controls a substantial and prosperous trade, centering in Minneapolis and St. Paul, but extending also throughout the territory normally tributary to Minneapolis as a distributing point.

Mr. Heywood, as may be inferred from his preferment as an official of the municipal government, is one of the representative and honored citizens of the Eighth ward, where his attractive residence is located at 3316 Third avenue south. Mr. Heywood was one of the most active and valued members of the West Side Commercial Club and served two years as its president. This position he resigned in 1910, when he became a candidate for alderman from his ward. He has proved a most zealous and progressive worker in the city council, and he served two years as chairman of committee on railroads. On the board of aldermen he is now chairman of the committee on power and crematory. Though he is a staunch Republican in his political allegiance he is broad and liberal in his views and places the good of the city above mere partisan dictates. For the past eight years Mr. Heywood has been president of the Rockford Paper Box Board Company, which has built up a large and prosperous business in the manufacturing of paper-box board, wall board and similar products. He has attained to the thirty-second degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry and is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Royal Arcanum. Mr. Heywood finds his chief recreation through his indulgence in sports, afield and atloat, and is an adept in the arts of hunting and fishing, in the latter of which he has gained many fiiie trophies through his skill as an angler, though he is willing to wear his piscatorial honors with a modesty that is somewhat anomalous under such conditions.

In the year 1886 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Heywood to Miss Blanche A. Merrill, of Lansing, this state, and they have two children - Hazel and Ruth. Mr. and Mrs. Heywood hold membership in the Fifth Avenue Congregational church and are popular in the social activities of their community. In addition to their attractive residence in the city they maintain a pleasant summer cottage at Lake Minitonka.

Walter L. Badger

Mr. Badger is a native of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where his life began on May 27, 1868. His parents, George A. and Harriet E. (Hastings) Badger, were born and reared in Massachusetts and descended from old New England families. The place of their nativity was Amherst in the Bay State, and there the father was educated and prepared for business. After reaching his maturity he engaged in the lumber trade in association with his father, whose name, also, was George. He died in 1902.

His son Walter began his education in the public schools of Oshkoah, Wis,, which he attended until 1878, when he came with his parents to Minneapolis. Here he again attended school for three years and. then left school to begin his business career. He started as office boy in the real estate business in this city. In 1886 he started a real estate office of his own. Four years later he gave up his individual enterprise, although he was succeeding in it, and became a member of the firm of Corser & Company as a special partner. In 1896 he left the &-m and again embarked in business for himself. In 1912 he incorporated his firm as the Walter L. Badger Company. Frederick T, Krafit and Edson J, Kellogg, both of whom had long been with him, became members of the firm. The firm ranks as one of the leading firms in their line, and can always be found on the conservative side of matter^. He buys and sells real estate extensively, and is recognized as a man of excellent judgment in the business and an authority on all phases of it. He makes a specialty of the management of large estates and office buildings, and has built up an extensive and very active business in this line as well as in real estate transactions, representing a large body of Eastern clients in property interests here.

Mr. Badger is sometimes called the "Father of Seventh Street," for he undertook the task of making a good retail business street out of it when it was lined with houses and everybody thought it necessary to be on Nicollet Avenue in order to do any business. He backed up his faith by building business blocks there before tenants were secured, and in many cases gave free rent until firms could get started. It was only a short time after this when retail firms were awake to the future of this street, and today it is in competition with Nicollet Avenue, When Mr. Badger secured the first property there about thirteen years ago, and he paid $225 per foot, today that same property would bring $3,500 per foot, and the future of this street is unlimited.

Throughout his career Mr. Badger has been at all times earnestly and helpfully interested in municipal reform, good government and general public improvements. He is ardent and loyal in his devotion to Minneapolis, and always ready and willing to aid any project that will make it a better and more pleasant place to live, and impelled by this spirit, he takes an active part in everything designed to promote its welfare in any way. In politics his abiding faith and allegiance are given to the policies and candidates of the Republican party, except in local matters when he never hesitates to split his ticket when occasion requires it. but he has never, himself, sought or desired a political office.

His religious connection is with the Plymoiith Congregational Church, of which he is a regular attendant, and in wliose affairs he takes an active part. Socially he holds membership in the Minneapolis Minikahda and Athletic Clubs, and fraternally he belongs to the Masons.

In October, 1890, Mr, Badger was united in marriage with Misa .\nna Dawson, of Keokuk,' Iowa, a daughter of .lames and Rosa (Hammel) Dawson, Two children have been liorn to Mr, and Mrs, Badger, their sons Lester R. and Norman D., the former of whom is living and still abides with his parents.

Charles Murgan Hardenbergh. ex-president of the National Milling company and eminent citizen, was a native of New .Jersey, born at New Brunswick. January 4, 1833. After completing his collegiate training in Trinity college at New Haven. Conn., he entered a ship chandlery wli^-re he perfected himself in the trade of a shipwright. In 1863 he came to Minneapolis and established the Minnesota Iron works and continued to be an important factor in the prominent manu- faeturinj.' ami li\isiiu'!>s iiiti-rcsts of the city. Hi- liuilt the Crown KolliT mills in 1S79, which wi-ri- o|>iTiitc'(l by I'hristiun BrothtTi* until IM'Jl. when he withdrew from this enterprise and, in company with his son. Mr. George Hiirdenbergli. organized the National Milling company, of which he was president. Mr. Ilardenberjih interested himself in the general welfare and progress of the city, gave valuable service as an alderman and was a member of the chamber of commerce. His political declarations were for the Kepublicnn party. He was married in IWilli to Miss Louise l.egas of .Minni'apolis. Mr. llardenbergh and his wife were members of the ICpiscopaliiin church.

T. Homer Green

The company of which T. Homer Green is the active manager was founded by him -July 1, 1901, with a capital of $300,000 and with himself as president. Karl De Laittre secretary. .John De Laittre vice president and Charles A. Green treasurer. The present officers are: Karl De Laittre, president; T. Homer Green, vice president, and Charles A. Green, secretary and treasurer.

Its business has constantly expanded, now operating in Minnesota. Northern Wisconsin, and the Dakotas and is recognized as one of the leading wholesale grocery houses in the Northwest.

T. Homer Green w^s born at Lynchburg. Ohio, October 27, 1849. When 16 years old. he went to Illinois, in 1867', rcmovTng to Oskaloosa. Iowa, where he embarked in the wholesale grocery trade in IfttSO. Five years later he went to Sioux City, where he carried on an extensive business in the tame line, until he came to Minneapolis in 1901.

The active management of this company has devolved largely on him from the beginning, although Mr. De Laittre, president, was energetic and active until elected alderman.

Mr. Green is a member of the Minnesota State Wholesale Grocers' association, of which he was treasurer for ten years; is a member of the Minneapolis Credit Men's association and first president and member of the Board of Directors of the Northwestern .Jobbers' Credit bureau.

In 1873, Mr. Green was married to Miss ,Julia A. Casteen, of Versailles. Illinois. Their son, Charles A. Green, was educated at the L<'land .Stanford University and is now the secretary and treasurer of the company.

Anurkw Tolcott Hale

Mr. Hale was born in (Jlastonbiiry. Hartford coiinty, Connecticut, on .July 8, 1820. His father. Henjamin Hale, was a direct descendant of Samin-l Hale, a member of the Wethersfield, Connecticut, c<dony. which was founded in Ki.'Ifi by Kev. Thomas Hooker. The mother, whose maiden name was Lavenia Tolcott. also Ixdonged to old Connecticut families resident in that state from early Colonial days. The late

Henry Tolcott Welles of Minneapolis, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this work, belonged to the same Tolcott laniily that she was a member of.

After completing his education as far as his school facilities would permit him to go in it, Andrew T. Hale passeil some years in engineering work for the I'niti'd ."states government, working under the direction of bis uncle, Colonel Andrew Tolcott, who was an army engineer. In this service he helped to survey the routes for the New York Central Uailroad, the bouMilary line between .Maine and Canaila and the coast at the mouth of the Mississippi river. This employment lasted from 1835 to 1844. The next three years were passed by Jlr. Hale in surveying government land in the Lake .Superior region, and in the fifties he was engaged in the produce trade in Hartford, Connecticut, and successful in his operations.

On November 24, 1840, Mr. Hale was united in marriage with Miss Irene E. Thayer of Westfield, Massachusetts. She survived him forty-three years and six months, passing away on .lanuary 1, 1913, in her ninety-first year, while he died in .June. 1869. a little less than forty-nine years old. In 1860 he changed his residence to Minneapolis, being persuaded in part to do this by the advice of an old friend. Rev. Dr. Horace Bushnell.

After his arrival in this city he invested heavily in real estate, especially in Davison's Addition to North Minneapolis. Mr. Davison was his brother-in-law, and had been associated with him in the clothing business under the name and style of A. T. Hale & Company. The Center block, which is being demcdislied at the time of this writing (May, 19141, was built by this firm on what was once a quagmire or "cat-hole" between Hennepin and Nicollet avenues. Messrs. Hale & Company redeemed this quagmire from the waste and converted it into a desirable business location, erecting on it buildings that have well served their purpo.se until now. when the city park board wishes to devote the spa<'e to "The (Jateway" it is constructing.

Mr. Hale took an earnest interest and an active part in many liiu's of usefulness besides his own business. He was a director of one of the Minneapolis banks, and in 1865 was elected a member of the city school board. During his tenure of this oflice the first high school building was reconstructed and schools were established in the outlying parts of the city. Plymouth Congregational church, of which he was a member, was destroyed by fire in May. 1860. and he was one of the leading instrumentalities in building the new church, which was completed in 186.'t. In adilition. the first formative meetings toward the founiling anil erection of Carleton College at Northfield were held in his parlors, and he serve<l on the first board of trustees of that institution.

Mrs. Hale, his widow, who was well known to the present generation of Minneapolitans. ably seconded her husbaml in all his educational and philanthropic work, and after his death kept up the support and aid he hail planned for Carleton College and his similar benefactions. She was the last survivor of the noble body of excellent women who, nearly fifty years ago. formed the organization known as the "Women's Cliristian Association," the first iM'nevoIent society of the kind Minneapolis ever had; and to the end of her life her deepest interest centered in the helpful work this organization and the socielies that grew out of it were doing. The Tillsbury Home, was benefited by her personal care and devotion to its welfare, and it can be truthfully said that no movement for the betterment of the city of her home in moral.

The life of this noble woman was one of adventure as well as of humanitarian endeavors. As a young girl she crossed the AUeghanies with her father on a visit to Ohio, at time a journey of great magnitude and daring. She also traveled on the New York Central Railroad, one of the first built in the United States, from Albany, to Schenectady. New York, from there to Buffalo on the Erie Canal in the early days of that great internal highway, and from Buffalo to and over Lake Superior on the fir.st steamboat that ever traversed the waters of that mighty inland sea.

When Mrs. Hale was sixty years old she visited Persia, where one of her daughters was a missionary, and in order to get at first hand information for the use of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, in which she was an ardent worker. On this trip to Asia she also visited Constantinople, Athena, and many other highly interesting historical places. Only a few weeks prior to her death, when she was jjast ninety, she asked that a map of Turkey and Albania be spread out before her in order that she might follow with her own eyes the progress of the armies in the late Balkan war.

Mr. and Mrs. Hale were the parents of four daughters. Ellen, who is now the wife of E. A. Harmon, resides in Minneapolis. Mary, who devoted her life to the care of her mother, is still living in the fine home of the family on Clifton Place. Catherine married Dr. .Joseph P. Cochran and went with him as the wife of a medical missionary to Uiuma. Persia, where she died in 1895, after an absence of seventeen years from her native land, and where her husband died in 1906.

Ellsworth C. Warner

Beginning the battle of life for himself in the highly honorable and useful but humble capacity of a country school teacher, and now at the head of a gigantic industry and connected with financial institutions of great magnitude, Ellsworth C. Warner, president of the Midland Linseed Products Company, forcibly illustrates, in his strikingly successful business career, the possibilities of industrial and commercial enterprise, and what can be accomplished by capacity, selfreliance, perseverance and pluck in this land of boundless wealth and opportunity.

Mr. Warner was born at Garden City, Minnesota, in 1864. His father, Amos Warner, who is still living and is over ninety years old, is a native of the State of New York, and the mother, whose maiden name was Aurelia Dilley, was born in what was then the far western state of Ohio. The father was, iii his days of activity, a school teacher, druggist and energetic farmer. He came to Minnesota in 1851, a pioneer in this state, and took up his residence at Garden City, where he still has his home. He has served as town treasurer, and is widely known and highly respected by the people of his home town and county. The mother is now seventy-nine years of age and one of the revered matrons of her long abiding place. Garden City.

Their son, Ellsworth C, was educated in the schools of his native place, passing through the common schools and afterward attending the high school there. He began life for himself teaching a country school in the winter months and working at various occupations in the summer. In 1855 he was appointed register of grain receipts, and was one of the first men in the state of Minnesota to fill that position. He was attentive to his duties and careful and intelligent in the performance of them, winning general commendation from all classes of persons who had dealings with him;

But there was that within Mr. Warner which called aloud for expression in a larger field of action, and could find it only in a business of his own, which he could expand and develop to its largest possibilities. In 1887 he resigned the position of State register of grain receipts, at $125.00, to accept a position at the bottom with the Mankato Linseed Oil Company, at $50.00 per month with promise of more as soon as he made good. Two years later Mr. Warner purchased a linseed oil mill at La Crosse, Wisconsin, which he sold to the National Linseed Oil Company about 1890. He was then employed by this company as the manager of its mills at La Crosse, Wisconsin, Dubuque, Iowa, and St. Paul. Minnesota, and received a very large salary for his services. He remained with the company until it was absorbed by the American Linseed Oil Company in 1897.

In 1898 the Midland Linseed Oil Company was organized with Mr. Warner as president; E. C. Bisbee, vice president; W. C. Stone, secretary and treasurer, and these gentlemen and the late W. D. Douglas, directors. Mr. Douglas was one of the gentlemen whose heroic death in the great disaster of the Titanic thrilled the world.

The capacity of the Midland Linseed Oil Company in 1899 was 400,000 bushels of seed a year. At the present time (1914) it is 6.000,000 bushels per annum, more than one-fifth of all the linseed made and consumed in the United States. It is one of the colossal institutions in American industrial activity, its products being shipped to all parts of the world. It is one of the most successful institutions ever established in our city. Its plants are located in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, and are considered the most modern in the world. Its success is largely due to its active officers, E. C. Warner and E. C. Bisbee. Its present officers are E. C. Warner, president; E. C. Bisbee, vice president; G. F. Piper, treasurer; A. L. Bisbee, secretary; A. F. Berglund, assistant Secretary and treasurer.

In 1894 Mr. Warner bought the McGill-Price Printing Company in St. Paul and associated with him C. H. McGill and Eli Warner of that city in the lithographing, book-binding and printing business. The company is now the McGill- Warner Company - E. C. Warner, president; E. S. Warner, secretary and treasurer; C. H. McGill, vice president, and is well known all over the Northwest and in other parts of the country. It is still located in St. Paul, and is. perhaps, the largest and most successful institution of its kind in the United States.

The fiscal institutions of his home city have enlisted Mr. Warner's interest and had the benefit of his clear head and strong hand for a number of years, and other industries besides that of making linseed oil have felt the impulse of hia Huickening intelligence and enterprise. He is one of the directors of the Security National Bank and a stockholder in the First National, the Northwestern National and the Swedish -Xmerican National banks of Minneapolis. He is also secretary and treasurer of the American Timber and Holding Company; president of the Western Finance Company, and 8 director and member of the executive committee of the Union Investment Company, and also a director of the Northwestern Fire & Marine Insurance Company. In the management of all of these institutions he takes an active jiart and gi^es the details of their business his attention. These institutions arv all located and t-arry on their operations in this country. Mr. WanitT hais also extensive interests in the Dominion uf Canada, and they, too, receive his careful i)ei"Soiml attention. He is president of the Atlas Klevutor Company; treasurer of the Canadian Elevator Company; director of the Empire Elevator Company, and of the Thunder Bay Elevator Company, -II in the Dominion of Canada.

Large and exacting as arc his business engagements and interestj*, Mr. Warner has found time to mingle freely and serviceably in the social life of his community us a member of leveral of its leading clubs, as well as in the general social activities of the people around him. He belongs to the Minneapolis Club; honorary member of the University Club; the Minikuhda Club, of which lie is president; and the luterlachen, Lafayette and Automobile Clubs. He seeks recreation and finds relief from the burdens and cares of business in the game of golf, of which he is a great devotee.

Dn .January l.">, IS'JO. Mr. Warner was united in marriage with Miss Nellie F. Bisbee. of Madelia, Minnesota. They have four sons: Ellsworth B., who is twenty-two years of age; Maurice A., who is twenty; Harold A., who is seventeen, and ^Vendall E., who is twelve. They are all living at home with their parents and aid in making up one of the most i;''ere8ting and agreeable family circles in the city. The family residence is at ^O.'iO West Ciillumn boulevard, and it is a center of social culture and stimulus an<l refined and gracious hospitality. All the members of the household are regarded s« representative of what is best in the citizenship of A[innea|>oli8, and are esteemed in accordance with this estimate.

George Iiliis

The late George Huhn, who was one of the veteran druggists of Minneapolis, and for many years one of the most energetic, useful and representative men in the city, was a native of Germany, born at Oggersheim in the Palatinate, on Xoveniber 22, IS-IS. He was reared to the age of eighteen in his native city and educated there. At that age, in 1853, he came to this country and took up his residence in Clevelaml, Ohio, where he remained two years. From there he migrated to this state and located in St. Paul. The whole of this regicm was wild and unpeopled at that time, and Mr. Huhn found it agreeable to him, as he was of an adventurous disposition.

His love of incident and nilvniture led him into the army a« a volunteer in 1862, nn<l gave him an opportunity to render tin- locality excellent service in assisting to (|uell the Indian uprising of that year. After passing one year and a half as a volunteer he enlisted in tlie regular army in the capacity of hospital steward with headquarters at Fort Kidgely, where he remained in the service three years. He did not, however, pass the time in idleness or trilling nmusements. His leisure was devoted to stuily ami investigation, and by the time he was ready to leave the army he had .ic-quircd a fair knowledge of medicine and surgery.

In 1867 he engaged in the drug business in Minneapolis, continuing in this line of in.rcaiftile life until I88'.t. He was generous to the pioneers in this locality from his native land, ministering to their needs as a physician and also as a druggist, and they^ returned his generosity by patronizing him liberally when they had money. He soon built \ip a large

-Mr. Huhn also took a very earnest and helpful interest in local public affairs. From 1873 to 1878 he was u mi'iiiher of the school board, and when, near the end of his term, tho whole school system was reorganized, he was one of the most active members of the board in the work of putting the improvements into operation. In 1878 he retired from the school board because of his election to the legislature that year. He was re-elected in 1880, and at the close of his term in 1882, was chosen register of deeds for Hennepin county, which oflice he held until .January, 1887.

Among the founders of the German American Bank of Minneapolis Mr. Huhn was one of the most prominent and enterprising. In 1S8U he was elected president of this financial institution, and in that capacity he served it greatly to its advantage and his own credit until his death, which occurred on October 30. 1903. He was married in 1863 to Miss Frederica Nerkwitz.

William Dixsmokk Hale

For forty-six years continuously a resident of Minneapolis, and during the whole of that long period active in business and public service to the community, William Dinsmore Hale, postmaster of the city at this time (1S14| has won the regard of the whole people here by his ability, capacity, fidelity to every duty and genial and obliging disposition in all the relations of life. His residence here has been one of peaceful pursuits, but when armed resistance threatened the dismemberment of the I'nion he did not hesitate to take up arms in its defense, and he bore himself bravely "and creilitably through four years and four 'months of the great and sanguinary war, as he has done in this city amid the ilin and clang of industrial activity.

Mr. Hale is a native of Maine, having been born at Xorridgewoek, f>omerset county, in that state on August lt>. 1836, and a son of Eusebius and Philena (Dinsmorel Hale, also natives of that state. His academic education was obtaineil at FoxiToft ill his native commonwealth and on Long Island, New ^ork. He came to Mini\esota in IS-lfl, when he whs but twenty years old, and, after traveling through the West extensively, took up his residence at Cannon Falls in 185<J, and there engaged in farming. His interest in the public affairs of this state was earnest and serviceable from the lirst, and so engageil public attention that he was elected enrolling clerk of the state senate in the session of 1861.

The Civil war began alKiiit the time his term of service in the senate expired, and he promptly enlisted in defense of the I'nion, and was made sergeant of Company E. Third Minnesota N'olunteer Infantry, and later sergeant major of the Regiment. His Regiment served in Kentucky and. Tennessee against the renowned Confederate raider. General Forrest, anil during this service he was captured, but was soon afterward panded and returned to Minnesota, joining General Sibli'v's I'liinmand in its iiuivements against the .Sjoux Indians in tlie s iiT of IS(12 until the outbreak was siippressol.

This did not, however, end his military service. His n-giment returned to Tennessee, in .January. 1863. and participated in campaigns on the Tennessee River against \'icksburg, Mississippi, aii>l Little Rock. Arkansas. In the fall of 1863 he was appointed adjutant and later major of the Fourth United States Artillery, and his field of duty was again in Kentucky and Tennessee and afterward once more in Arkansas. After being mustered out of the army in February, 1866, he cultivated a cotton plantation near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, during the remainder of that year.

In January, 1867, he was made agent for the Freedmen's Bureau, and in September of the same year came to Minneapolis where for a short time, he found employment in the office of the Minnesota Central Railway. Before the year was out he became bookkeeper for W. D. Washburn & Company, taking the position in December. His worth and ability were soon recognized by the company and he rose to a high position in its business by successive promotions, becoming agent for the Minneapolis Slilling company, then newly incorporated, in 1872, and two years later became one of Mr. Washburn's partners in the enterprise. In 1879 the management of the company's business was placed in his hands and he conducted it to the great advantage and entire satisfaction of the other members and all who had interests in it.

Mr. Hale has also been connected with other business institutions and lias been a valued public official of the Federal government for a number of years. He has been secretary of the Northwestern Consolidated Milling company since 1895, and was secretary, treasurer and one of the directors of the Minneapolis & Duluth Raihvay and a director of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Raihvay from 1875 to 1881. He was appointed postmaster of Minneapolis first by President Harrison and next by President Roosevelt, by whom he was reappointed in 1906; and he was again reappointed by President Taft. In this position his management of the work has been energetic and progressive, and he has made it as successful as possible with the crowded space and limited facilities at his disposal. He has been diligent in the use of all the means at his command to make the service as prompt, complete and satisfactory as possible, and has succeeded to a degree beyond that which most men would have reached under the circumstances.

Mr. Hale also performed important duties as receiver for the American Savings and Loan association from 1896 to 1901. His father was a Congregational clergyman in New England and New York and a member of the prominent family of the name in that part of the country. He died at Riverhead, Long Island, in 1880. The son was first married at Cannon Falls, Minn., in 1864 to Miss Sarah Baker. She died in 1868, and in 1870 he contracted a second marriage, which united him with Miss Flora A. Hammond of Minneapolis. They have four children living. The parents are well esteemed in all parts of the city of their home. He is upright and straightforward in all his business transactions, faithful and readily responsive to every call of duty in his citizenship, and elevated and commendable in all liis daily walk and conversation. The people of Minneapolis regard him as one of their most useful and representative men, an ornament to their community and a fine typo of American manhood in every way.

studio at 1030 Nicollet avenue, after several years of successful business on his own account at 518 Nicollet avenue, he was as well prepared for the successful prosecution of his art as long, practical experience in it from the ground up could make a man of natural adaptability to it. For years before that time he had been a close student and an observing practitioner of the craft, in every department of its work, and had been laying the lessons thus learned concerning it faithfully to heart.

Mr. Hubner was born in Burlington, Iowa, on .luly 17, 1873, and began his education in the parochial schools of that cilv. He afterward completed the public school course there, but started in the business in which he is now engaged at an early age as errand boy for the leading photographer in that city, with whom he served an apprenticeship of three years. He then passed one year in a studio in Baltimore, Maryland, and another in Wheeling, West Virginia. From Wheeling he changed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he held a leading position at good pay for three years.

In the fall of 1895 Mr. Hubner located in Minneapolis, and during the next eleven years was employed in the studio of the man who was at the head of the photographing business in this city. When his employer died in 1906 Mr. Hubner opened a studio of his own at 518 Nicollet avenue. Here he was successful from the start, and his business grew so rapidly that he was soon compelled to move to larger and better quarters. He then took possession of the studio he now conducts, which is up to date in every respect and always prepared to turn out the best work skill in its line can produce, and at rates as reasonable as circumstances will allow.

G. Adolph Hubner Edwin Roswell Barber

Edwin Roswell Barber, president of the Barber Milling company, one of the most widely and favorably known merchant milling corporations in the Northwest, is a native of Benson, Rutland county, Vermont, where his life began on November 22, 1852. His parents were the late Daniel R. and Ellen L. (Bottom) Barber, also natives of Vermont and descendants of families domesticated in New England from early colonial times. The father was a merchant in liis native town of Benson, and proprietor of the principal store there, when he was only twenty-five years of age. During the next ten years he was so successful in his business that at the end of that period he was able to dispose of it at a good profit, which aided in swelling the comfortable competence he had already accumulated' in his merchandising activity.

In the year 1855 the father made a prospecting trip through the Northwest, and selected the new settlement at the Felb of St. Anthony as his future home. The next year he moved his family here. He was first associated in business with Carlos Wilcox, another young man from the Green Mountain State, and together they carried on a real estate business which nourished for a time. But the panic of 18S7 paralyzed all business openftions and the elder Mr. Barber found himself with his nu)ney invested in loans and real estate from which there were no returns immediately or prospectively for an indefinite period. In athc meantime, while he was waiting for the springs of enterprise to rise wd

At the election of 1861 he was chosen one of the county commissioners, and the same year was appointed assessor, an ollice whicli he held in town and city for eleven years. He afterward turned his attention to mercantile pursuits again, first in the grocery and later in the dry goods trade. But his eyes were always open to the main chance around him, and the milling business soon arrested his attention in such a way that he determined to devote his energies to that. In 1871 lie bought the Cataract flouring mill, which was the pioneer mill at tlie Falls. Even for that day he found it antiquated and inefficient. He therefore laid his plans for large operations in his new venture by removing all the old machinery from the mill and introducing all the newest and most approved appliances and methods known to the industry, and tlien, in association with his son-in-law, ,T. Welles Gardner, lie operated the mill to its utmost capacity and on a profitable basis. Mr. Gardner died in 1876, and after that Mr. Barber took his son, Edwin R. Barber, the immediate subject of this brief review, into the business with him. The joint management of the mill by father and son continued until the death of the father on April 17, 1886, at the age of over sixty-nine years. Tlie management was vigorous and progressive. Every effort was made to turn out the best possible product, and great care was exercised in every part of the work from beginning to end. The flour made at the Cataract mill, in consequence of all this studious attention to its manufacture, soon won a high and widespread reputation, and the sale of it was very extensive, not only locally, but in almost all parts of the country.

Edwin R. Barber was but four years old wiien his parents brought him and his sister Julia, afterward married to J. Welles Gardner, and now the wife of John Bigelow, to this locality. He received his early education in the public Schools and later attended the State University, but was not graduated, leaving the institution before completing his course of study. His reminiscences of his boyhood and youth are very interesting in the light of present conditions. He used to shoot partridges where the West hotel now stands, and remembers well when the site of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad depot was an impassable bog, unsightly to look at and wortiiless for use.

After leaving the University Mr. Barber attended a business college and had private instructors in modern languages. He also gained practical experience in business in the office of Gardner, Pillsbury & Crocker in what is now Mill D operated by the Washburn -Crosby company, from which he went into the office of Gardner & Barber, his father and his brother-inlaw constituting the firm, in the Cataract mill, wliich he entered in 1871.

From the humble position which he assumed in this mill on May 1, in the year last named, Mr. Barber has risen to the head of the business, having been connected with it in the same establishment continuously for about forty-two years. He is president and treasurer of the company over which he presides, which is known as the Barber Milling company, and was founded in 1859 and incorporated in 1896. In 1876 the name of the firm, which was originally Gardner & Barber, was changed to D. R. Barber & Son, and when the business was incorporated in 1896 it was put under the name by which it is now known all over the Northwest, and far and wide in

In political relations Mr. Barber is a Republican, but he has never been an active partisan, although deeply interested in the welfare of his party at all times. His church affiliation is with the Presbyterian denomination, and the social side of his nature finds scope and enjoyment in hLs active membership in the Minneapolis, Minikahda, Lafayette and Automobile clubs. He is also a prominent member of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, and is wamily interested in other organizations and all worthy agencies at work in the community for the elevation, improvement and enduring welfara of its residents. He has always been a zealous advocate and promoter of public improvements and an earnest supporter of everything that seemed likely to advance the best interests of his city, county and state.

On October 1, 1873, Mr. Barber was united in marriage with Miss Hattie S. Sidle, a daughter of Henry G. and Catherine (Kurtz) Sidle, natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sidle was for many years president of the First National Bank of Minneapolis. Four children have been bom in the Barber household, and three of them are living: Henry S., who is secretary of the Barber Milling company; Katharine S., and Edwin Roswell, Jr., who is cashier of the Barber Milling fompaiiy. A daughter named Nellie L. was born in 1883 and died on December 28, 1888.

Mr. Barber is modest about what he has done to aid m building up and improving the city of his home. But it is only just to him to record that he was one of the liberal contributors for the purchase of the site of the old Chamber of Commerce building and the postoffiee site, and one of the most efi'ective promoters of the Minneapolis Industrial Exposition and the erection of the Young Men's Christian Association building, Westminster Presbyterian church and the Lake Street bridge. In connection with the enterprise last named he joined with others in paying the interest on the bonds issued for the construction of the bridge for three years in advance, Hennepin county at the time having insufficient resources to assume any more interest bearing obligations. His public spirit in these undertakings is expressive of his real character and clearly indicates the value of his citizenship.

Theodore L. Hays

Mr. Hays is a native of Minneapolis, where his life began on March 29, 1867. He is a son of the late Lambert Hays, one of the early German settlers of this city, who came here with his parents in 1854. He was very active and energetic in promoting the early growth and development of the city, and to the end of his life pursued the same course with benefit to the municipality and profit to himself. The son received a public school education and afterward pursued a course of special instruction for mercantile life at the Curtis* Business College.

Mr. Hays' first employment was with the Minnesota Title Insurance and Trust company in work connected with the abstracting of titles. In 1887 he began an active career in tlie theatrical business in association with W. E. Sterling, they being lessees and managers of the Dramatic Stock company of the People's Theater. This theater was built by his father, Lambert Hays, and its erection was directed and super- intended personally by himself. In 1890 the house passed under the control of Jacob Litt of Jlilwaukee, Wisconsin, and its name was changed to the Bijou Opera House. At that time Mr. Hays was engaged by Mr. Litt as treasurer for the house, but his services in this capacity were of short duration, as the theater was destroyed by fire before the end of the year.

Lambert Hays immediately rebuilt the house and his son Theodore again superintended its erection. It was reopened on April 13, 1891, with Jacob Litt still in control, and for many years thereafter it was conducted by him with great success, offering combination attractions at popular prices. It is still a popular and well patronized house of entertainment, always in touch with the prevailing taste and presenting for the enjoyment of the public the best attainable performances in its class. The property still belongs to the heirs of Lambert Hays.

Soon after Mr. Hays became associated with Mr. Litt he was advanced to the position of resident manager of the Bijou, and in 1896 he was selected also to direct the business of the Grand Opera House in St. Paul. Afterward he became and remained for years Mr. Litt's general representative in the Northwest. After Mr. Litt's death he contiuued to serve in the same capacity for the firm of Litt &, Dingwall, and he is now, and has been for a long time the secretary and treasurer of the Jacob Litt Realty company, the corporation that controls the Grand Opera House property in St. Paul.

Through his connection with the two well known theaters mentioned Mr. Hays has become prominent in amusement circles in the Northwest. He is united with J. A. Van Wie in the ownership and management of the Grand Opera House in Grookston, Minnesota, the most modern "one night stand" theater in this part of the country, and has interests also in other enterprises of a similar character. He is president of the Twin City Scenic company, incorporated, one of the largest and most successful scene painting institutions in the United States. He was one of the organizers of this company, which started in a small way, and it has been largely through his energy and progressiveness that the undertaking has reached its present magnitude and prominence.

In the civic affairs of both Minneapolis and St. Paul, Mr. Hays has long taken a very active and serviceable part. He belongs to the Commercial clubs in both cities, and the Association of Commerce in St. Paul as well as the Civic and Commerce Association in Minneapolis. The fraternal life of his community has interested him too. He is a member of the Minneapolis Lodge of Elks, which he has served as Exalted Ruler, and which presented him with a life membership in recognition of the value of his services in that office. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum and the Order of Odd Fellows. For a tinie he was a member of the Minnesota National Guard and is a member of the Company A. M. N. G. Veterans Association. In 1905 Governor Van Sant appointed him a member of the Minnesota Board of Managers of the Louisiana Purchase E.xposition at St. Louis, and he served as secretary of that Board with universal acceptability and approval. Mr. Hays is married and has one child, his son Theodore Edward. The fiunily residence is at No. 2323 Irving avenue south.

Spencer S. Harden

Mr. Harden was born in Gardiner, Kennebec county. Maine, on March 12, 1832. He grew to manhood, obtained a common school education and learned the carpenter trade in his native place. When he was twenty-two he came to Minnesota in 1854 to look the country over. After returning to his old New England home and remaining there two years, he came back here in 1856 to live, and here he passed the rest of his days. After his arrival here to stay, Mr. Harden was a partner with Mr. Goodale, as building contractors, and ahso became associated in business with Mr. Connor, another early contractor. Mr. Harden's mother, who was a widow at the time, came with him and secured half a block of land on University avenue between Fifteenth and Sixteenth avenues S. E.. and built a dwelling for herself and sons on the corner of University avenue and Fifteenth Ave. Her house was destroyed by fire, and a new one she built to replace it suffered the same fate. She then moved to the West Side, and for a few years lived on Sixth avenue south. But in the eighties she put up the present residence near the old location. Two years later she died in this house at the age of seventy-six. She was a devout and consistent Christian and an active member of the F'irst Congregational cliurch in St. Anthony.

Spencer S. Harden, after working at his trade for some years as a building contractor, accepted an offer from the Milwaukee Railroad and took entire charge of the wood work done on engines in its Minneapolis shops. He employed the men who worked under him without interference from the railroad authorities and continued his engagement with the company for a period of twenty years, at the end of which failing health induced him to return to his farm. This was a tract of 266 acres of superior land located on the Minnesota river eighteen miles southwest of Minneapolis and six miles northeast of Shakopee.

Besides this farm Mr. Harden owned a number of tenant properties in Minneapolis, including the old Hennepin block, and twice a week he was in the habit of coming into the city to look after his interests here. He looked after his own affairs with sed\ilous industry and good judgment, and took an active part in local public affairs as a good citizen but not as a political pnrtlsan, although he was a firm and faithful member of the Republican party. He had no inclination to fraternal orders or social clubs, and did not belong to any. One of his strong likings was for fine trees. He planted a large number and great variety on his farm, and took every precaution to preserve them all from destruction or Injury.

Mr. Harden was married in this county on his birthday, March 12, 1862, to Miss Lucy M. Carleton. a sister of Frank Carleton, of Hennepin county, and Daniel Carleton, who is now living in California. Their parents were Robert and Nancy (White) Carleton, who came to St. Anthony In 1854 from near Bath, Maine. The father returned that fall, and in 1856 moved the family to St. Anthony; sometime afterward moved to Jordan, Scott county, Minnesota, and engaged in farming there. Mr. Harden's death occurred April 28, 1910. Mrs. Harden still resides on the farm in Bloomington township.

Four thildren were born in the Harden household: Walter S.. who lives with his mother; Nellie M.. the wife of Grant A. Knott, who occupies the old family homestead on Universitj' avenue southeast, in this city; Kate C, a physician, who is the wife of Frank C. Helmuth and has her home at Wyoming, Minnesota, and Elizabeth C, who married Dr. Xaboth 0. Pearce and resides at Cloverton in this state. The other old home of the family on University avenue is now occupied by the Scandinavian Christian Union Bible College, as it has been for a number of years.

The estate of Mr. Harden (Spencer S.), amounting to $60,000, according to the probate record, is incorporated as the Harden Realty and Investment company. Of this company Mrs. Harden is the president; Mrs. Nellie M. Knott is the vice-pre'sident, and Walter S. Harden is the secretary and treasurer. Its resources are kept active in an enterprising and profitable business which receives careful attention from its officers and the other persons interested in its useful operations.

Hon. Alexander Hughes

The late Hon. Alexander Hughes, who passed the last years of his life in this city, where he died November 24, 1907, had a record of public service in peace and war that rendered him distinguished, many admirable traits of character cementing the warm friendships formed through years of companionship. He was born at Brandford, Ontario, September 30, 1846, and came as a lad with his parents to Wisconsin. May 22, 1861, while 5'et in his fifteenth year, he enlisted at Fall River, Wisconsin, in Company B, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry, one of the thirty-seven fighting regiments specially mentioned in the War Records for valiant service and losses in battle, and a part of the celebrated "Iron Brigade."

He was taken prisoner at Gainesville, Georgia, when slightly wounded and caring for his brother, who was seriously wounded, but made his escape next morning and assisting his brother reached the Union lines. He received a severe wound 'in the right shoulder at South Mountain; and, at Gettysburg a musket ball passed through his cartridge box causing a painful injury. At Laurel Hill he received a bullet in his right knee and which he carried until 1870, and also two slight wounds in a charge on entrenchments at Spottsylvania. At Jericho ford of the North Anna he was again wounded, more than a year elapsing before recovery. At Gettysburg his gallant conduct on the field won a commission, which he declined to accept on account of youth. He was discharged in October, 1864, and from earliest organization was active and prominent in the Grand Army of the Republic, serving as the first Senior Vice Commander of the Department of Dakota.

He was graduated from Spencer Commercial College in Milwaukee in 1867, and for a short time was bookkeeper for a milling firm at Watertown, Wisconsin. In 1868 he studied law at Beaverdam, soon locating at Monticello, Iowa, where he was admitted to the bar in 1869. That year he was also elected county superintendent of schools and was married to one of the county's teachers. In 1871 he moved to Elk Point, Dakota territory, and ten years later to Yankton. He was an able lawyer, a graceful and forceful speaker and, with perhaps one exception, had a larger practice than any other lawyer in the territory. In 1873 and 1873 he served as a member of the Territorial Council, being its president, from 1875 to 1877 was deputy treasurer of the territory, and from 1877 to 1881 was a member and the secretary of the board of trustees of the hospital for the insane at Jamestown.

Mr. Hughes' ability and influence were recognized in federal as well as territorial official relations. He was United States court commissioner from 1873 to 1881 and was a delegate to the national Republican conventions of 1872, 1876, 1880 and 1896. In the convention of 1876 he was a Blaine enthusiast and looked after his interests in the committee on credentials. In 1896 he placed McKinley in nomination and was a member of the platform committee. Locally he was chairman of the Territorial Republican committee in 1878 and 1879. He was also disbursing agent of the United States land office at Yankton from 1881 to 1883, resigning to take the office of attorney general, which he held until 1886, and he served as adjutant general from 1881 to 1885.

When the question of the removal of the capital came up Mr. Hughes was strongly in favor of the selection of Bismarck as the permanent seat of government. He was opposed to the division of the territory, and as Bismarck was central he believed it would prevent the division. It was largely through his influence that Bismarck was selected, was active in the long litigation that followed the removal, and is still accorded the credit for the retention of that city as the capital. He was made chairman of the legislative committee to select a site for new public buildings and have them erected, serving from 1883 to 1887. To facilitate the work he removed to Bismarck, and, being the resident commissioner, was in direct oversight of the erection of such buildings.

He was elected to the Territorial Senate in 1887 and reelected in 1889, during which was chairman of its judiciary committee. He was president of the board of education from 1885 to 1887, city attorney of Bismarck in 1886 and 1887, and assistant counsel of the Northern Pacific Railroad from 1887 to 1901. In politics he was always a staunch Republican and a quiet but effective worker for his party, and had cast his fii-st vote at the age of sixteen in the army trenches facing the enemy. For twenty-six years no other man was so potential as he in shaping the public afi'airs and civic development of Dakota.

In reference to and commendation of the enterprise and public spirit displayed by Mr. Hughes, the Bismarck Tribune of November 26, 1907, said: "Several years ago he and his sons organized a corporation to furnish electric light and power, and for this purpose took over plants at Bismarck and Dickinson, North Dakota, and Glendive, Montana, and erected one at Fargo. They were also interested in telephone and other constructive enterprises." One of his last activities was obtaining a park for the residents of Kenwood, in this city. For his services in this connection his neighbors gave him an expressive testimonial of appreciation. At his death the district court at Bismarck passed resolutions full of feeling and strong in eulogy, and his neighbors spoke of him in the following language:

"We sincerely sympathize with his mourning and griefstricken family, and assure them that we share with them a sense of great and irreparable loss. While we would not persuade them from their deep sorrow, we remind them and ourselves that to have known Alexander Hughes was to have loved him; and that no matter how great may be our present bereavement, our loss would have been immeasureably greater had we never been privileged to call him friend."

Mr. Hughes was married at Monticello, Iowa, in 1S70, to Miss Mary Higinbothara, a native of Greencastle, Indiana, whose father was from Virginia and mother from Kentucky. The father was a graduate of Asbury College (now De Pauw

University), and died at his post while serving as an army surgeon. Mrs. Hughes was educated at the Northern Indiana College, South Bend, and was a teacher in Iowa until marriage. Her children are: George A., an inventor and manufacturer in Chicago; Edmond A., at present State Senator from Bismarck, and operator of the electric liglit and power plants there and at Dickinson; Frank C, who is in the same line at Glendive, Montana, and William V., who is proprietor of oil plant's at Beach, North Dakota, and Glendive, Montana.

Benjamin B. Sheffield

Extensively engaged in the milling business and as a banker, and connected actively in an official way with a number of educational institutions of high value, Benjamin B. Sheffield has been and is of pronounced service to the people of Minnesota in a double capacity directly, as well as generally through his interest and activity in connection with tne affairs of the state in other lines. There is scarcely a public interest which does not enlist his attention and secure his aid, and there is none to which he gives attention that is not the better for it.

Mr. Sheffield was born at Aylesford in t^u province of Nova Scotia, Dominion of Canada, in 1860, a son of Miledge B. and Rachel (Tupper) Sheffield, the former a native of Aylesford, Nova Scotia, and the latter of Burwick, N. C When he was four years of age he was brought to Faribault, Minnesota, where his father was engaged in manufacturing flour. He was graduated from the Shattuck school in 1880, and at once entered the milling industry, soon alterwarl becoming the manager of an extensive business already estal - lished.

In 1896 the Sheffield mill, with whicn he was connected was destroyed by fire, and a 2,500 barrell mill was at once erected. This Mr. Sheffield operated until 1905. when he sold it. In the meantime he had become interested in the Sheffield Elevator company at the Minneapolis Terminal, and for fifteen j-ears he has had his ofliee in Minneapolis. In 1909, in association with W. D. Gregory and W. D. Gooding, lie organized the Big Diamond Milling company, the Commander Milling company and the Commander Elevator company, of each of which he is the vice president.

In addition he is president of the Shellield Elevator company at the Terminal, and he operates a number of grain elevators in Southern Minnesota along the Chicago. Milwaukee & St, Paul, the Chicago Great Western and the Minneapolis & St, Ijouis railroads. His office in this city is in Room 922 Flour Exchange, where he carries on a very active and extensive business, to which he gives his close personal attention. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and a dealer on Change, and has also been connected with the banking business as president of the Security National banks at Faribault and Owatonna.

As has been intimated, Jlr. Shellield is deeply and servic<'- ably interested in tlie cause of education, general and technical, and in two special lines of its usefulness. For six years he has been president of the board of directors of the State School for the Deaf and Dumb, and also of the board of directors of the State ."^cliool for the Blind, both located at Faribault. The same board controls both schools, but the schools themselves are kept separate. He was a member of this board some years before he became its president, and has given the institutions over which it has charge a large amount of his time and energy, and rendered them, and through them, the state very valuable service, to say nothing of their unfortunate inmates, in whom he has long felt the liveliest and most sympathetic interest.

Since 1897 Mr, Sheffield has also been a life member of the board of trustees of the Bishop Seabury Divinity School at Faribault and one of the trustees of the Shattuck school, of which Bishop Edsall is president. The late Walter D. Douglas, who gave up his life so heroically on the Titantic, was one of Mr, Sheffield's associates on the board last mentioned, and was one of its most useful and esteemed members.

Of the fraternal and benevolent societies so numerous among men Mr, Sheffield has membership in but one. That is the Masonic order, in which he has taken the rank of the thirty-second degree in the Ancient and Accepted Socttish rite. In this fraternity he is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine with membership in Zura Temple at Minneapolis. He has been twice married, his fiist union in this department of life having been with Miss Carrie A. Crossett of Faribault. They had three children, their daughters Blanche and Amy. The former is a member of the class of 1913 at Smith College, and the latter is a student at Stanley Hall, and one deceased. After the death of their mother Mr. Sheffield contracted a second marriage which united him with Miss Flora M. Matteson, of Minneapolis, who is still living and presiding over his domestic shrine.

Mr. Sheffield served as mayor of Faribault while a resident of that city, and was chosen presidential elector on the Progressive ticket in 1912.

Devoted always to his profession to the exclusion of all other interests. Dr. Earle Russell Hare has won for himself a prominent place in medical associations of the city.

Dr. Hare received his common school education in the schools of Summerfield. Ohio, and those of Kan.sas City, Missouri, graduating from the High school of the latter in .June, 1890, He next attended the Iowa Wesleyan College from which he graduated in June, 1S94. with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

In 1896 he entered the medical Department of the .'^tate University of Minnesota and from there he received the degree of M. D. in June. 1900, he also served as instructor in the departments of Anatomy and Surgery for a period of 14 years.

Since receiving his degre of M. D. Dr. Hare has devoted himself to the general practice of his profession in Minneapolis, and has met with flattering success, enjoying a large and steadily growing practice throughout the city. Of late years, the greater portion of his time has been given to surgery.

The Dr. is a member of the Hennepin County Medical Association, the Minnesota State Medical Society, the American Medical Asstxdation. the Minnesota Pathological Society, the Minnesota Academy of Medicine and the Association of American Anatomists.

Charles M. Hooper

Charles Mather Hooper was born in the state of New York, on the 13th of December, 1845, and died Jan. 30th, 1894. He was a scion of honored pioneer families of the old Empire commonwealth, within whose borders were born his parents, Sanford A. and Mary (Harris) Hooper, with whom he came to St. Paul, Minnesota, as a boy, though he returned to his native state thereafter for the gaining of educational advantages. Sanford A. Hooper became one of the interested principals in the development of the townsite of Belleplaine, Scott county, and was there a leader in civic and business affairs. He became prominently concerned in the development of salt works at that place, where he also erected a large hotel and a flour mill, and he was one of the foremost and most honored citizens of Belleplaine at the time of his death, which occurred after he had passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten, his wife having preceded him to the life eternal. He was also a successful bridge contractor after his removal to Minnesota and assisted in the construction of one of the first bridges across the Mississippi river at St. Paul, besides doing a considerable amount of other important bridge work on this great river, as a government contractor.

Charles M. Hooper acquired the major part of his early educational discipline at Geneseo, New York, where resided at tlie time two sisters of his mother, one having been the wife of Governor Y'oung and the other the wife of General Wood, and both having been intimate friends of the family of the distinguished General M. C. Wadsworth. Besides his academic training Mr. Hooper completed a thorough course of study in a business college, and as a youth he became associated with his father's contracting business, as did also his brother, Campbell Harris Hooper. After severing his connection with this field of enterprise, with which he was concerned only a short time, he established himself in the drug business at Belleplaine.

About the year 1885, ilr. Hooper exchanged his holdings at Belleplaine for property in Minneapolis, he engaged in the real-estate business, in which his operations as a general agent attained to wide scope and much importance. His father-in-law, John C. Stoever, one of the pioneers of St. Peter and Henderson, Jlinn., and a representative man of affairs in Minneapolis, had for several years given attention to the extending of financial loans on real-estate security, and Mr. Hoojier gradually assumed the management of Mr. Stoever's large business interests, in addition to supervising his own.

His political allegiance was given to the Republican party, his religious faith was that of the Protestant Episcopal chiu-ch, and he was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He was essentially liberal and progressive as a citizen, was an able and far-sighted business man.

On the 17th of April, 1873, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hoo])er to Miss Susan Elizabeth Stoever. who survives him and who still maintains her home in Minneapolis, her attractive and hospitable residence being located at 106 Spruce Place. She was born in the state of Massachusetts, and was a child at the time of the family removal to Minnesota, in 1856. Her father, the late John C. Stoever, was one of the sterling pioneer settlers of this state, was in active service in the conflicts with the turbulent Indians in the early years of the Civil war, and served as paymaster for the government in connection with military operations in Minnesota at this time. He established his residence in Houston county, was closely and prominently identified with the industrial and civic development of that section of the state and there he lived until well advanced in years, when he came to Minneapolis, where he died at the age of seventy-one years, his name meriting high place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Minnesota. His first wife died when her daughter Susan Elizabeth - Mrs. Hooper - was eight years of age, and his second wife, whom he wedded in Pennsylvania, survived him by several years, - a woman of marked talent and most gracious personality.

Professor Ludwig W. Harmsen

While Minneapolis now holds high rank as a center of musical culture in its early days it lacked in organizations. There was needed a master who could collect, fuse and harmonize the musical talent and attainments.

This master spirit came in 1868 in the person of Professor Ludwig W. Harmsen, who has won wide and appreciative popularity and admiration as a composer, performer and director in musical events. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, December 31, 1839, and had his natural gifts admirably trained in that city's celebrated Conservatory. He began to take pupils and teach music when he was only sixteen years old.

In 1865, he joined a brother at Atlanta, Georgia, where he remained two yeare. being employed as director of the i\Iozart Society. In 1868 he came to Minneapolis and soon became popular as a teacher and director in the different musical societies.

One exception to the epiiemeral character of the early musical organizations was the Harmonia Society formed bj' the German residents in the early seventies and Still in vigorous existence. It owed a large part of its vitality to the work and influence of Professor Harmsen, one of its early leaders. Peter Rauen was prominent as an early president and Richard Stempf and other well known musicians were also leaders in it. Another valuable musical organization, was the Minneapolis Choral Society, which was founded in 1876. George R. Lyman was its first president and Professor Harmsen its first teacher, leader and director.

Professor Harmsen was also an important factor in the Jlinneapolis Orchestral Union, the Concordia and Maennerchor of St. Paul, the Stillwater Maennerchor, the Harmonia Frohsinu and the Liederkranz. He was also the organist of Plymouth church for ten years and of the Church of the Redeemer for thirteen. In addition to these, Presbyterian churches had the benefit of his similar services as had also the Hennepin Avenue and Wesley Methodist churches; and. he was director of the Concordia Singing Society of St. Paul for a continuous period of twenty-si.x years.

He acquired an enviable reputation as a director of large orchestras. He has been highly honored by the lovers of music, many testimonials of esteem and regard being bestowed. His piano symphony "The Martyr" composed upon the death of President Garfield, and dedicated to the American people, has won high place among musicians. His compositions for choral work have been accorded distinction. "The Singer's Course," especially, demanding attention when rendered by a chorus of 500 chosen male voices at the Singer's festival at Brooklyn.

He was mairicil in 1875 to Miss Anna Sauer or Minneapolis. Tliey liave two daugliters and one son. The professor is truly loyal and devoted to the country of his adoption, but still cherishes a warm and appreciative atfection for that of his birth, wliicli he visited in lS6y, and again in 1874.

Lewis S. Gillette

Lewis S. Gillette, long one of the leadinj; business men of Minneapolis, and a far more extensive and important contributor to the growth and improvement of the city than the residents of it generally know, was born at Niles, Michigan, May 9, 1854. a Son of Mahlon Bainbridge and Nancy Mary (Reese) Gillette, and a direct descendant of Jonathan Gillette, who came to America in the ship "Mary and John" in 1630 and settled at Dorchester. Massachusetts. He is also a direct descendant of Commodore Bainbridge of the United States navy, who quelled the piracy of the Barbary States on the Mediterranean coast of Africa in 1803. and afterward still further di.stinguislied himself in the naval service of his country.

Mr. Gillette's father and grandfather emigrated from Western New York to Michigan in 1844, and located on a farm at Niles on the St. Joseph's river, making the journey of nearly 200 miles from Detroit to Niles by team. On this homestead Lewis S. Gillette was born May 9, 1854, and his brother, George M. Gillette, December 19, 1858. They received their elementary education in the country school eonducted on the homestead and were prepared for college at the high school in Niles. Lewis passed the entrance examination for the University of Michigan in the summer of 1872. but on account of illness came West, reaching Minneapolis in September of the same year. Dr. W. W. Folwell, then president of the University of Minnesota, and a cousin of his father, persuaded the young student to attend the latter University for one year at least.

At the end of that period he expected to return to Michigan, but he became interested in the progress of Minneapolis, then a city of about 18,000 people, and the growth of the University, then in its infancy, and remained for the full four years' course. He carried a double course through the fall college period, and was graduated with the degrees of B. S. and B. E. in 1876. A few years later the University conferred on him the degree of C. E. on account of meritorious work in engineering, his first work in this line being done while he was at college and under the supervision of Colonel Farquahar and Lathrop Gillespie, engineers in charge of Government work on the Upper Mississippi and the Falls of St. Anthony.

After his graduation in 1876 Mr. Gillette returned to his old Michigan home and purchased a farm adjoining that of the family homestead. He was married December 18, 1877, to Miss Louesa E. Perkins, of Minneapolis. While conducting his farming and live stock operations he bought an interest in the Niles Chilled Plow Works and became the treasurer and manager of the industry. His farm house was destroyed by fire about this time, and he then moved to Niles and took active charge of the plow works. In 1880 he represented the State of Michigan at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition, and there he made so great a market for the products of his plow company that it became necessary to either double the plant or move it to another locality with greater facilities.

In 1881 James J. Hill offered him the position of assistant right of way agent for the Great Northern, then the St. Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway. He accepted the offer, moved to Minneapolis and remained with the railroad company four years. During this period much of the right of way occupied by the road, for which it had never procured title, was purchased. This included the line westward from the Mississippi, all the old Union depot grounds, the present terminal, the Minnesota Transfer and the main line, which then extended only to Grand Forks.

In 18S2, after the purchase of the St. Anthony Falls water power by the Hill interests, Mr. Gillette was appointed engineer and agent of the Water Power Company, and he served in this capacity and also as right of way agent of the Great Northern until May, 1884. It was largely through his efforts that East Minneapolis secured the location of the Exposition building. He was chairman of the committee that made the purchase of the site, and at the same time the city made hira trustee of its properties on Central avenue. He was authorized to sell or exchange these properties and purchase the whole water front between the exposition and the east channel of the Mississippi.

In May, 1884, Mr. Gillette bought a one-half interest in the Herzog Manufacturing Company, then a small institution on the east side of the river. From this date his advancement and successes were rapid. In 1899 he bought Mr. Herzog's interest in the entei-prise, and the iron works became known as the Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Company. Mr. Gillette's knowledge of engineering served him well and his company became the pioneer in skeleton steel construction for mining and manufacturing buildings throvighout the West .ind the recognized authority on that subject. Its work is found in every principal city and mining camp from Panama to Alaska, and from 1884 to 1900 there was scarcely an enterprise between Chicago and the Pacific coast requiring steel work in its construction that did not confer with the Gillette company. So enviable was the reputation the operations of this company won for the men at the head of it that in 1885, Allen Marwel, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, offered Mr. Gillette the position of assistant general manager of the Santa Fe system to succeed H. C. Ives, deceased.

In 1895 Mr. Gillette and his associates organized the Minnesota Malleable Iron Company, and conducted its operations in North St. Paul at the plant of the defunct Walter A. Wood Company, which was afterward sold to the American Grass Twine Company. Mr. Gillette was also one of the principal organizers of the American Bridge Company. Two years were required to procure the options on the thirty-one properties that were absorbed by this company and to effect their sale to Mr. Morgan after Jlcssrs. Selligman & Harriman had failed to underwrite them. At the request of Charles Steele, J. P. Morgan & Company and Percival Roberts, president of the Bridge Company, Mr. Gillette remained in tharge of all the properties, west of Chicago until the company was absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation. He then retired and made an extended foreign trip accompanied by his family.

immediately sought new fields of enterprise. He aided in founding and building the Red Wing Malting plant, a continuously prosperous industry. He also organized and built the Electric Steel Elevator, one of the largest of all the American terminal elevators and to this day a model. In connection with this plant of 3,250,000 bushels capacity, he conceived the idea of grouping other industries and induced three of those now surrounding it to enter into the project. The Russell Jliller ilill, The Spencer-Kellogg Linseed Oil Crusher, the Electric Malting plant, the Arelier-Daniels Linseed Oil plant and the Delmar Elevator are grouped around the mammoth central elevator and from it they receive over belts, at the rate of 10,000 bushels per hour, the grain required for their uses, which is purchased and delivered to them by the central company. The anangement is mutually satisfactory and profitable, and the large milling companies are now copying it on a smaller scale. Prior to his entering upon any of the enterprises last enumerated, Mr. Gillette received an offer from J. P. Morgan & Co. inviting him to take the management of one of that firm's Eastern railroads, but as his interests and ties were all in the West he declined the offer.

This gentleman of many powers was for years vice president of the Metropolitan Bank, which was sold through him to the Northwestern National Bank, in which he became a large stockholder and director. He was also one of the early stockholders and directors of the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company, and he aided his sons, his brother and J. L. Record in establishing the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company, one of the largest industrial institutions in this state. In association with other gentlemen, he purchased the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper, with its building and printing establislunent. The purchasers conducted the business succesfully for some years and then sold it profitably to the owners of the St. Paul Dispatch.

Mr. Gillette has always been intensely interested in the growth of the State University and aided it on numerous occasions. It was largely through his efforts and those of F. W. Clifford that plans for a Greater University were secured and the master mind of CaSs Gilbert was induced to establish the type of buildings that should be ei"ected on the campus. Since 1887 he has been an extensive traveler. There are few countries in the world he has not visited and carefully studied, all the American States are as familiar to him as Jlinnesota. His home is full of mementoes of his foreign travels which delight his friends and visitors.

He is also a willing servant in public and civic work, and has been prominent for many years on boards having such work in charge. After visiting Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres and seeing the wonderful reconstruction of those cities, he conceived that it was possible to do something similar in Minneapolis. At a dinner given by Hon. E. A. Merrill, when discussing this subject with the late Judge Martin B. Koon and General W. D. Washburn, Mr. Gillette related the miracle performed in the two South American 'cities. The result was the organization of the Minneapolis Civic Commission, which was formed for planning the Greater Minneapolis.

The investment enterprises Mr. Gillette is connected with and president of are the L. S. Gillette Company, the Plymouth Investment Company and the Chippewa Land and Pasture Company of Wisconsin. The clubs he belongs to are the

Engineers. New York; the University, Chicago; the University and Minnesota, St. Paul, and the Lafayette, Minneapolis and Minikahda, Minneapolis. His religious affiliation is with Trinity Baptist Church. He believes that every citizen who has lived in a community, shared its prosperity, enjoyed its society, benefited by its public service, and gained a competence within its borders owes something to that community and should pay the debt, and he is zealous in the work of discharging his own obligation to Minneapolis. He is an enthusiastic sportsman and has been for ten years president of Lake Emily Gun Club.

Mr. Gillette was married on December 18, 1877, to Miss Louise F. Perkins, of Minneapolis, a daughter of George E. Perkins, who settled in St. Anthony in 1857. They have two sons and three daughters.

He has for thirty years been one of the state's largest employers of labor, and has held the confidence and loyal service of his men. He enjoys the enviable reputation of having keen foresight and clear perception - is a good judge of men - a tireless worker, resourceful and of unquestioned integrity. Men of affairs join willingly in any enterprise that he will father. Many benevolences and worthy poor enjoy his unostentatious aid.

Mrs. Helen F. Hanson

A unique position in Minneapolis is that held by Mrs. Hanson, proprietor of the Plaza hotel, the leading establishment of its kind in the city and one that compares more than favorably with the best family hotels in other metropolitan centers. Mrs. Hanson has not only proved a discerning and capable executive but has also attained marked distinction and popularity as a hostess. She has made an enviable reputation in her choseii sphere of endeavor and her circle of friends is 'coincident with that of her acquaintances.

Mrs. Hanson has been actively identified with the hotel business since May, 1901. For five years she was proprietor of the Judd House, and since its opening, in October, 1905, has officiated in a similar capacity at the Plaza, of which she is the lessee. It is essentially modern and attractive, being designed by the well known architect, Walter J. Keith, who was the chief promoter, and who became the executive head of a syndicate of representative local capitalists. Mrs. Hanson was one of the stockholders and her ability and popularity marked her as the one most eligible hostess of the new hotel, which completed at a cost of two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. She has handled the executive affairs with ability making the hostelry one pervaded by the true home atmosphere, the while giving the latitude and facilities of the first-class metropolitan hotel. The Plaza has accommodations for one hundred and twenty-five guests and it is a popular center of much social activity.

Mrs. Hanson was born and reared in the city of Boston, and is a representative of staunch New England lineage, as was also her husband, the late Charles M. Hanson, who was at one time secretary of the Title Insurance & Trust Company of Minneapolis. Mr. Hanson likewise was born in Boston of a family founded in New England in the colonial era. Mr. Hanson was afforded excellent educational advantages, having distinctive ability and exalted character. In 1864, a mere lad, he ran away to tender liis services in defense of the Union, enlisting in the Massachusetts regiment. In later years he perpetuated the memories and associations of his military career by affiliation with John A. Rawlins Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and in which he was held in highest regard. He died on the 39th of January, 1909, at the age of sixty-three. Mr. and Mrs. Hanson were parents of one daughter. Alma, who is the wife of Dr. Charles B. Wright.

Perry Harrison

The scion of families distinguished in local history Perry Harrison, one of the well known bankers being connected one of the strongest fiscal institutions in the Northwest, has admirably upheld the examples and record of his family in a fruitful and useful business career.

Mr. Harrison was born in Minneapolis, October 11, 1862, being a son of Hugh Galbraith and Irene Amelia (Robinson) Harrison, an account of whom will be found elsewhere in this work. He was educated in the public schools and at the Northwestern University Preparatory School. At the age of sixteen he began his banking career in a subordinate position, and has steadily advanced until lie is now vice president of tlie Security National Bank.

Mr. Harrison has always taken an earnest interest in local affairs, and has contributed to their promotion. He served seven and a half years in the First Regiment. Minnesota National Guard, becoming lieutenant colonel. He has ever been energetic and resourceful, the progress and improvement of Minneapolis and Minnesota giving practical aid to every undertaking for betterment morally, intellectually, socially and materially.

Mr. Harrison is a Republican, but has never sought or desired political office. He is a member of the Minneapolis, Long Meadow Gun and Lafayette clubs. In 1887, Mr. Harrison was maiTied at Hokendauqua, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, to Miss Miriam Thomas.

Arthur W. Ho Bert

Arthur W. Hobert was bom at Ottawa, Illinois, August 14, 1858, and is a son of Edward and Mary E. (Phillips) Hobert, both of New York state. The mother dying when the son was four years old, he was reared by a step-mother, remaining at home until manhood. He obtained a common school education, which he svipplemented by night scliool instruction in Chicago, where he learned bookkeeping and was employed in the office of Dr. Madison, a dentist, as was Mr. Hobert's father. He soon afterward became connected with the dental manufactory and supplies establishment of S. S. White, as a salesman on the road and in charge of ofTice detail.

He remained with Mr. White until married October 9, 1883, to Miss Bessie Berry, daughter of William M. and Betsey Ann (Godfrey) Berry. She was born at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, living in Chicago from 1875, there attending the public schools as also Miss Grant's noted School. The year after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hobert came to Minneapolis. Tlicy have two daughters. Helen graduated from National Park Seminary, at Washington, D. C, and married Ensign Ralph M. Jaeger, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, and then an officer in the navy. He is a son of Luth Jaeger and a grandson of Col. Hans Mattson, twice secretary of state of Minnesota. Hortense attended the high school two years and is now a student at Beeehwood College, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, where she has given special attention to voice cultivation.

Mr. Hobert was employed one year in building Hillside Cemetery, and then, 1891, became superintendent of Lakewood Cemetery. He stands high in landscape gardening and is an esteemed member of several national associations devoted to this branch of enterprise and improvement. The superiority of his judgment in connection with the subject is widely known, and he has been called to superintend the designing and laying out of cemeteries in many different places. His residence is near Lakewood Cemetery.