Minneapolis City (part 65 of 80)

Colonel Erle D. Luce

Promoter and president of the Electric Short Line Railway Company and colonel of the First Infantry of the Minnesota National Guard; born at Red Wing, the judicial center of Goodhue county, Minnesota, on the 20th of May, 1882, and is a son of William L. and Nellie B. (David) Luce, the fonnei of whom was born in Maine, of staunch colonial stock, and the latter of whom was born in Iowa, in which state their marriage was solemnized, in 1881, in the city of Burlington. William L. Luce is one of the honored pioneers of Minnesota and through well directed enterprise along various lines he has contributed definitely to the civic anil industrial development and upbuilding of this favored commonwealth. He became a resident of Red Wing in 1858 and eventually developed a large and important business in the buying and shipping of grain, a domain of enterprise in which he gained definite precedence and high reputation. He became the owner and operator of a series of well equipped grain elevators along the line of the Great Northern Railroad and his extensive operations had marked influence in the furtherance of progress and prosperity throughout a large and imjiortant agricultural district of the state. He continued to give tlie major part of his time and attention to the grain trade until about the opening of the twentieth century, and in the meanwhile, in 1889, he removed with his family from Red Wing to Minneapolis, in which latter city he has since maintained his home. He has been closely and prominently identified with real-estate operations within later years and became a dominating force in the promotion of the Electric Short Line Railway, as he early discerned the groat benefit that would accrue to Jlinneapolis through the construction of such a line to the west. He is the vice president of the comjiany controlling the Minneapolis terminal system of the Electric Short Line Railway, and president of the company which controls tlie line of the system outside of the city, his son, Colonel Luce, of tliis review, is vice president, the two separate corporations having similar corporate titles. William L. Luce has given his influence and co-operation in the furtherance of legitimate movements for the general good of the state of his adoption, and during the long years of his residence in

Colonel Luce guined his preliminary etiucation in the public schools of his native city and continued his studies in the public schools of Minneapolis, where he was graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 1903. Scon afterward he was matriculated in the law department of the University of Minnesota, and in the same he was graduated in 1907, witli the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Even at the time when he entered the high school Colonel Luce began to manifest marked prescience and interest in the matter of affording electric interurban facilities connecting Minneapolis with the splendid section of country lying to the west, - a section not adequately served through the medium of the steam railway systems. He entered fully and enthusiastically into the splendid conception made by his father in this connection, and thus he was deflected from the work of the profession for which he had fitted himself and was led to enter vigorously upon the practical execution of plans which he had formulated in the matter of developing the intervu'ban electric system which had engrossed much of his thought. His law course was taken primarily for the purpose of fortifying himself for the emergencies and legal technicalities that might arise in connection with the prosecution of his ambitious plans for the developing of an important public utility, and his technical knowledge has proved of great value to him, even as he had anticipated. His conceptions of justice and equity have been shown to be of high order and this fact has gained to him in his enterprise ready co-operation ratlier than antagonism. Vigorously and effectively has he handled the involved and multifarious details of bringing his ambitious purpose to concrete results, and he has shown much circumspection and judgment in securing right of way, terminal facilities and other required concessions, as well as in the general supervision of the details of survey and practical construction work. He has shown splendid capacity in the handling of large affairs and the solving of formidable problems, even as he has proved himself an able financier. The following extracts from an appreciative article which appeared in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune of March 25, 1913, will afford an idea of the magnitude and value of the enterprise which has been fostered and developed under the able supervision of Colonel Luce:

"A ainner in celebration of the acquirement of adequate terminals for the Electric .Short Line Railway was given by Colonel Erie D. Luce to more than five hundred Minneapolis men and citizens of a dozen towns along the route of the railroad, at the Commercial Club last night. Speakers of the evening praised the men who have fostered the project, anil President Fiske of the Civic and Commerce association epitomized the spirit of the occasion when he said: 'As it was said in the old days, "All roads lead to Rome," so may it be said in the future, "All electric lines lead to Minneapolis."

"How the road will mean vast wealth to the city in interchange of freight, increased land values to the country, more factories here and more produce there, increased population, and a steady stream of happy, prosperous, money-making and money-spending people in both the country and the city was brought out by Douglas A. Fiske. Enthusiasm over the greatness of Minneapolis and the far-sighted pioneer spirit of Colonel Luce and William L. Luce in their cherished plan

Colonel Luce has not only shown himself to be one of the most ambitious and resourceful of the vital young promoters of his native state but has also attained to marked prominence and popularity as a representative figure in the Minnesota National Guard. In October, 1898, he enlisted as a private in the Fourth Regiment, in which he was promoted corporal of Company C on the 18th of October, 1899. On the 20th of Ma}', 1900, he was promoted sergeant of Company B, First Infantry, and his subsequent rise, through successive elections is here designated by rank and date : Second lieutenant, February 13, 1901; captain, April 1, 1901; major, June 10, 1910; and colonel of the First Infantry, July 17, 1911. Enthusiastic in all that he undertakes. Colonel Luce has exerted great influence in advancing the personnel, the equipment and the efficiency of his command, as is indicated by the honors and attention be.stowed upon the regiment when it appeared on the occasion of the inauguration of President Wilson, in the city of Washington, where it won merited recognition and many plaudits.

Ill 1912 Colonel Luce effected the erection of the fine Coliseum building in Minneapolis, at a cost of seventy-five thousand dollars, as well as the erection of the State Auditorium, at a cost of thirty thousand dollars. His loyalty to his home city and native state is of the most intense order and has been shown forth in other public-spirited undertakings than those of which mention has been made in this context. He has made judicious investments in real estate, and among the.se may be mentioned his interests in the following named buildings in Minneapolis: The Phoenix building, Hampshire Arms, Netley Corners, Dunsmore House, Forest Court, and the Fremont and Franklin Avenue apartment buildings.

In politics Colonel Luce accords allegiance to the Republican party, and he has given eft'ective service as president of the Voung Men's Republican Club in his home city, as well as chairman of the Hennepin county Republican committee. He has attained to the thirty-second degree of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry, and in this great fraternal order his ancient-craft affiliation is with Kurim Lodge, No. 112. Free & Accepted Masons. He is president of the Minnesota National Guard Association, is an active and valued member of the Minneapolis Club, and is affiliated with the Phi Delta Phi and Theta Delta Chi college fraternity. The Colonel is still fond of athletic sports and during his student days in the high school and university he gained excellent reputation as a resourceful factor in the contests of the football gridiron.

On the 8th of December, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Colonel Luce to Miss Hazel Brown, daughter of Clarence A. Brown, of Minneapolis, her father being vice president and general manager of the St. Anthony & Dakota Elevator Company. Colonel and Mrs. Luce have a fine little son, William L., who was named in honor of his paternal grandfather.

I'nr some years a grain dealer in Wisconsin, and now a biiilihr :ind operator of grain elevators and storage warehouses. Lewis 0. Iliekok was born in Augusta, Illinois, in

1845, being a son of Nelson Hiekok, a native of Vermont. After a number of years engaged in farming in Illinois he removed to River Falls, Wisconsin, where he continued farming until death. Lewis O. Hiekok obtained his early education at the schools in River Falls, Wisconsin. Directly after leaving school he located at Glenmont on Lake St. Croix, Wisconsin, buying and shipping grain. Mr. Hiekok went to Augusta, Wisconsin, on the Omaha R. R. in 1873 and built the first grain elevator erected there, also acquiring another elevator and handled practically all the grain shipped from that station. In 181)0 he built a line of elevators for the Northwestern Elevator company on the Great Northern Railroad between Rutland and Ellendale, North Dakota, and between Rutland and Aberdeen. In 1891 he built a similar chain of elevators for the I'eavey Elevator company on the Omaha Railroad, and in 1892 he became the traveling agent of the Hubbard & Palmer Elevator company, which operated a chain of elevators through Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas. During the five years of his connection with this company he had charge of the building and equipment of a large number of elevators. He then became a regular elevator contractor. He built a large one at Kasota, Minnesota, and a barley cleaning house with a capacity of 250,000 bushels. In 1908 he erected the concrete structure in South East Minneapolis No. 20 together with a frame warehouse. During the last five 'years Mr. Hiekok has erected a large number of other storage tanks, fire proof warehouses and similar structures.

In 1870, Mr. Hiekok was married at River Falls, Wisconsin, to Miss Luella Smitli. They have four children, Harvey M. spent two years in the university and then graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has since been associated with his father. Mr. Hiekok belongs to Mounted C'ommandery No. 23, Knights Templar, and to Zurah Templar, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the New Athletic club.

never sought or desired a political office. May 18, 1897 he was united in marriage with Miss Marie Louise Fitzer a native of Minneapolis. They have two children, Sylvia and Marion.

Harry S. Helm, vice president and general manager of the Russell-Miller Milling Company, has lived in Minneapolis for sixteen years. He was born in Byron, Ogle County, Illinois, December 17, 1867, and was reared and educated in that state. In 1888, he entered the employ of the Russell-Miller Milling Company as a bookkeeper in one of its offices in North Dakota. He soon afterward became manager of the mill at his North Dakota location, and in 1902 was promoted to the position of general manager for the company, having come to Minneapolis in its service in 1897.

Mr. Helm's preparation for the battle of life in a scholastic way was extensive and thorough. He attended the Rockford, Illinois, High School, also the Beloit Academy for a time and finally passed one year in the University of Illinois. He was naturally endowed for a business life, however, and his inclination led him in that direction. The success that has attended his eflforts shows that he has developed and applied his faculties judiciously.

With no desire whatever for public life, Mr. Helm has always taken an active and helpful interest in local public affairs and in the substantial and enduring welfare of his community. The social life of the city has also had his earnest support and he is an active member of the Minneapolis, Minikahda, and Auto Clubs of Minneapolis, the Lake Pepin Countrj' Club, and the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association. In all of these organizations his membership is valued and he is held in high esteem, as he is in business circles in all parts of the city and by the people generally, wherever he is known.

William Otto Hartig

Wm. Otto Hartig was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1870, and is a son of Henry and Marie Hartig, representatives of old families. The father was also an electrical contractor, and with whom the son first became interested in electricity. William attended the local schools and served an apprenticeship as an electrician, serving in all departments.

At si.Kteen he came to the United States and soon thereafter reached Minneapolis. For a time he was employed at the West Hotel, and subsequently for 14 years was with the firm of Vernon Bell, electrical contractors.

He began his present business in 1900, and wliidi for the first year amounted to $3,500, increasing so that for 1912 it amounted to $150,000. He did the electrical work in the Leamington Hotel, the Deere-Wcbber building, the Powers Mercantile company building, the Auditorium of the School of the Blind, the Girls' Dormitory of the School for the Feeble-minded both at Faribault. Carleton College at Northfield, Wartlju'rg Seminary at Clinton, Iowa. He has also installed the street lighting done by the Publicity Club and by the city. He generally has about 100 employes, the payroll at times, exceeding $1,500 per week.

Hon. James C. Haynes

The life of the late Hon. James C. Haynes, four times mayor of Minneapolis and prominent in the political life of the city for twenty-two years, in its early stages, its course and its achievements presents an epitome of American life in general for most of the men who win distinction and dignity and adorn the manhood of the nation, ifr. Haynes was born in obscurity, cradled and reared amid the inspiring scenes and useful pursuits of rural life, taught from his boyhood the value of productive industry through practical application to daily duties, and furnished the rudiments of his scholastic education at home, never =eeing the inside of a schoolhousc until after he was eleven years of age. He grew to manhood on his father's farm, extended his education in a public school and completed it at good academies, all the time making a hand on the farm, as the Civil war was in progress and labor was scarce, even in the North, during a part of the formative stage of his development.

Mr. Haynes was bom at Van Buren near Baldwinsville, Onondaga county, New York, on September 22, 1848, and was a son of James and Eliza Ann (Clark) Haynes, also natives of New York state. The father continued farming until after middle life, tlien sold his farm and moved to Baldwinsville, where he engaged for some years in the hardware and lumber trade and operated a canal boatyard on Oneida lake. He died at the age of seventy-two. The mother, who died in 1909, at tha age of eighty-seven, was a daughter of Sereno Clark of Oswego county. New York, a man prominent in local and state public affairs. He served in the constitutional convention held in Albany in 1846 with Charles O'Connor, Samuel .J. Tildcn and others who afterward won international renown.

Joseph Haynes, one of the early American ancestors of the late mayor, whose home was at Haverhill. Massachusetts, was an officer in a New Hampshire regiment during the war of the Revolution and active in helping to bring on the struggle for independence. He was a member of the first provincial congress at Ipswich and Salem, Massachusetts, in October, 1774, and aided in framing the resolutions adopted by that body for presentation to the Continental congress, in which the determined spirit of the colonists for liberty was made manifest in every line.

In 1867 Mr. Haynes of this sketch entered the academy at Baldwinsville, New York, and soon afterward he and former Attorney General H. W. Childs of this state were examined together and authorized to teach in the district schools at the same time. During four winters Mr. Haynes taught the district school near his old home at $40 a month and board, and kept up his studies at the academy. At the end of that period he began attendance at the Onondaga Valley academy, afterward pursuing a course of instruction at Cazenovia seminary. He next studied law in Syracuse and Baldwinsville in the offices of good lawyers, and in 1874-5 took a professional course at the Columbia law school in New York city.

Mr. Haynes was admitted to the bar at a ;2cneral teiin of the Supreme Court of New York, held in Buffalo in June, 1875. During the next three years he practiced his profession in association with the law firm of Pratt, Brown & Garfield, of Syracuse, and in the fall of 1878 formed a partnership with R. A. Bill, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Tlie next year Mr. Bill moved to North Dakota and Mr. Haynes came to Minneapolis, where he resumed the practice of law, especially the branch relating to business corporations. On September 4th, 1879, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah E. Clark of Skaneateus, New York. Three children were born to them, two of whom are living, Ruth - the wife of L. F. Carpenter and Dean Clark, both reside in Minneapolis. Mr. Haynes also took an active part in business affairs outside of his profession, organizing in the Spring of 1883, in company with the late Alfred T. Williams, the American District Teiegraph company of Minneapolis, of which he was president as long as he was connected with it. About 1888 the late Thomas Lowry and Clinton Morrison purchased large blocks of .stock m the company and continued to be members of its directorate until lEToe, when it was absorbed by the American District Telegraph company of Minnesota.

-Although always deeply and actively interested in municipal affairs in his home city, Mr. Haynes did not enter politics as a candidate for office until 1890, when he was nominated for alderman by the Democrats of the Second ward. He was elected by a plurality of twenty-three votes, and was the first Democrat elected from that ward, and, with the exception of E. J. Conroy, the only one who ever has been. In 1892, while still a member of the city council, he was nominated for mayor, but, although he ran about 2,000 votes ahead of hia ticket, W. H. Eustis, his Republican opponent, won the election by over 2,000 majority.

During the next ten years Mr. Haynes did not seek any political honors, but in 1903 he defeated Julius J. Heinrich for the Democratic nomination for mayor by a small plurality after a very hard fight. At the election which followed he had little difficulty in defeating Fred M. Powers, the Republican candidate, receiving a majority of over 5,900 votes. At the next election he was opposed by David P. Jones, at that time president of the city council, and was defeated by 256 votes. In the fall of 1906 more votes were cast for the office of mayor than at any other time before or since. Mr. Haynes was again the Democratic candidate and Mr. Jones the Republican nominee. The battle was one of the fiercest in the history of the city, but Mr. Haynes was elected by a plurality of 3,565. In 1908 he defeated Charles H. Huhn by the same plurality that Mr. Jones secured four years before. In 1910 the situation was complicated by the first serious entrance of the Socialist party into the contest. Thomas Van Lear was the candidate of that party and former Alderman W. E. Satterlee was the Republican candidate. The three were so clo.se together at the election that it took several days to determine the exact result. In the official count Mr. Haynes had the slight plurality of thirty-four votes over Mr. .Satterlee and only a few more than 750 over Mr. Van Lear.

While Mr. Haynes was a member of the city council an unusually large number of important matters came before that body for action. He was firm in his advocacy and support of the interests of the people in connection with every measure, as he always was in his whole career. There was great activity and interest in the proceedings of the city council also during his tenure of the oflSee of mayor. Mr. Haynes kept his ears to the ground and obeyed the voice of public sentiment which he had founded in all his official acts, looking after the welfare of the city and its residents with sleepless vigilance and untiring energy. He vetoed many ordinances passed by the city council regulating raattera of public policy, giving excellent reasons for his position in every case, and most of his vetoes were sustained.

Perhaps the greatest contest in which Mr. Haynes engaged while he was mayor was with the Minneapolis Gas Light company. The city council passed an ordinance granting that company an electric franchise for thirty years. Mayor Haynes vetoed this ordinance on the ground that there was no justification for granting a franchise for so long a period, and contended that only frequent renewals, for periods not to exceed ten years, or fifteen at the outside, would compel good senMce and just and rea-sonable rates. His veto message hung fire for several weeks, but was finally sustained by the council, its opponents being unable to muster enough votes to override it. His positiveness in standing by his convictions awakened strong criticisms and at times bitter censure, but after time passed even the most violent of his critics acquitted him of obstinacy and all unfairness, and the judgment of the city council, as embodied in resolutions formally passed after his death, was accepted generally as that of the commiuiity. It was:

"That the character and the life of the late .lames C. Haynes were such as to command not respect and confidence only, but admiration and affectionate regard. He combined in an unusual degree lofty ideals and firmness of purpose ' with a tactful and kindly demeanor. He was forceful and resolute, yet free from rancor and from all uncharitableness. He performed unpleasant duties unflinciiingly, yet with such evident fairness that resentment was disarmed. He was lovable as well as inflexible, a good neighbor, a capable and honest ollicial and a model citizen. The records of this body bear eloquent testimony to his wisdom and his firmness. Unmindful of selfish and unjust criticism, he was singularly responsive to the public will where ditt'erences of opinion seemed founded on reason. Mere stubbornness was no part of his nature; his fiinuness was not pride of opinion, but faith in the right as God gave him to see the right."

Mr. Haynes died at 8:10' Monday morning, April 15, 1913. For some months he realized and his friends feared that his end was approaching - that the plow was nearing the end of the furrow. But as an evidence of the appreciation in which he was held, close personal associates got together and provided for an effort to prolong his life by a change of air, an extended rest and quiet recreation. Thej- made up a purse of $6,300, the contributors numbering 560. The number presented him with a beautiful bound volume containing their signatures and the following: To the Honorable James C. Haj'nes, Mayor of Minneapolis:

We, your friends and fellow citizens, desire to express to you upon your retirement from the office of our chief e.xecutivc, our honor and respect for the honesty and fearless fidelity with which you have labored for the best interest of Minneapolis, as her mayor of longest continuous service; and to add thereto our sincere regard for you as neighbor, friend and citizen.

Yours has been a rich gift, the gift of your best years and greatest powers to the public service of our city. We honor you for this great sacrifice of private time and opportunity.

We believe that your sacrifice has not been in vain, that you have set a mark in the public service; that henceforth whenever an executive, guided by your example, strives for and attains a high plane of usefulness it will be sufficient to say in his praise: "'He was as good a J^ayor as James C. Haynes."

This money was presented to Mayor Haynes at his home. 711 East River road, on Christmas day, 1912, and soon afterward he left for a trip to the South and a sojourn on the Isle of Pines in the West Indies.

Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Haynes passed some weeks on the Isle of Pines, then went to Xassau on New Providence Island, one of the Bahamas. Early in April, 1913, they returned to New York city, intending to go from there to Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the benefit of the sea air and ocean tonic. But the sufferer felt that his strength was waning, and the tourists hastened home. They arrived on Sunday, April 13, and the next day the weary star of the distinguished citizen and public official was unloosed, atrophy of the muscles being the cause of his death.

Every possible testimonial of public esteem was bestowed upon him after his death, in his home city and many other places. Business was generally suspended in Minneapolis during the funeral services, and the various organizations to which Mr. Haynes had belonged were represented in the procession which attended his remains to their last resting place in Lakewood cemetery, as did the city council in a body after holding a special meeting and passing resolutions proclaim- .iiig to the world the merits of the man whose death the members mourned. The body lay in state at the city hall and

Mayor Haynes was active in the fraternal and social life of his community. He belonged to the EUcs' lodge of Minneapolis; was a thirty-second degree Freemason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine in the fraternity; and was also a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Knights of Pythias. Formerly he served on the public affairs committee of the Minneapolis Commercial club, of which he was long a member, and he also belonged to the St. Anthony Commercial club. In religious affiliation he was a devout member of All Souls Universalist church, and attended its services with continued regularity.

George G. Hyser

Though he retired from active business in 1907, George G. Hyser still represents one of the few remaining links between the generation of bonifaces of the early days in Minnesota - that is, its boom times and its fast-building period - and the head of the hostelry of the present day. He has had a part in the building of the Northwest in a sense different from that of most other factors in it, and he has been the friend and companion of many of the foremost men of the Northwest.

George G. Hyser was born in Zurich, Switzerland, Jlarch 24, 1847. When he was two years old he came to America with his parents. They settled first in Massachusetts, and when George was nine years old he went to work in a cotton piill. He worked in the finishing room, marking goods, etc., until he was nineteen. Then he spent three years as an overseer over eighteen employes, who worked at measuring and tagging for shipment. His wages as overseer were $55 a month; to this he had worked up from the meager wage of a boy marker. In 1869 the family came west. His father took a homestead two miles north of Smith Lake, Wright County, Minnesota. He joined his father and began the labor of farming, but soon found he was not fitted to cutting trees and digging in the ground. A few months later a neighbor built a "shack called a hotel," as Mr. Hyser puts it, at Smith Lake, then on the new line of the St. Paul and Pacific railroad - now the Great Northern. The line into that village was just building. Regular trains were running to Delano from Miimeapolis. It was when the construction train reached Smith Lake that Mr. Hyser and his mother took charge of the hotel. The next year the railroad was extended to Benson, sixty-six miles further west. The railroad company built a hotel there, - the hotel business in small towns was then promoted by the railroads which built into them - and Mrs. Hyser and her son George were asked to take charge of that one. The son accepted, and his mother and his brother Robert soon joined him. They were there a year before regular trains were run into Benson. A year later they moved on westward into Morris, fifty-five miles further on, to nm the hotel. Shortly the railroad company built another hotel, this time in Brockenridge, as part of its policy of development of its towns. Mr. Hyser went there and remained ten years. In those days, Mr. Hyser says, it took two days for passenger trains to run from St. Paul to Breckenridgo, 214 miles. It was some time before the railroad was extended further, but stages ran between Brcekenriilge and Winnipeg, and the travel by four-horse stage coach was heavy. Thus it came about that in his hotel Mr. Hyser entertained some of the biggest men in the country. President Hayes and his party took dinner with him; Mark Twain was a guest, and many other men of importance. J. P. Farley became receiver of the road, and operated it until James J. Hill came upon the scene.

It was in this period that two steamboats were built on the Red River of the North, and were operated between Breckenridge and Winnipeg. W^ith them flatboats were run, and on these hugh quantities of groceries and supplies were shipped, and sold direct from the boats at many places along the river. Mr. Hyser became interested in this trade, which proved a lucrative one, sometimes as high as -f 20,000 worth of groceries being carried and disposed of at good profit. Meanwhile he ran the best hotel along the route. Later the railroad was extended to Fargo, N. D. About this time Mr. Hyser married, and in the summer of 1880 he built the Arlington hotel at Wayzata, the first big summer hotel on Lake Minnetonka. He was led to erect the Arlington at the instance of James J. Hill. Mr. Hyser found it a losing venture, and in the winter of 1880-81 he w-ent to clerk in the Nicollet House in Minneapolis, under Col. John T. West. In 1884 he went with Colonel West to the West hotel, and was the first clerk in that hostelry, which was for many years one of the famous hotels of America. Later Mr. Hyser built the hotel at Third Street and Second Avenue South, now known as the Allen. He ran that for five years, and then he went to Fourth Street and Nicollet Avenue and remodeled the building into the Hotel Hyser. He conducted that hotel for eight years, and then retired in 1907. Thus Mr. H}'ser was identified prominently with the hotel business of the Northwest for thirty-six years and acquired an acquaintance almost unequalled in the state.

It was in 1880 that Mr. Hyser married Miss Alice M. Bowen of Minneapolis, daughter of a contractor who was one of the best known politicians of his day. To them were born two children; a daughter, Alice Maude, now the wife of Warren Leslie Wallace, superintendent of Lewis and Clarke High School in Spokane, Wash.; and a son, George W. Hyser, an electrician in Minneapolis. Mr. Hyser is a member of Masonic orders, the Scottish Rite and the Knights Templar. His home is at 1 Orlin Avenue, Prospect Park.

Michael W. Hackett

Michael W. Hackett was born near Darwin, Minnesota, on June 29, 18G0, and died in Minneapolis on May 26, 1912, lacking just one month and three days of being 52 years of age. He was w'holly the architect of his own fortune and made his way in the world by his own unaided eft'orts. His father died while the son was still in his boyhood and the mother married a second time.

The son therefore started the battle of life for himself at an early age, and in the pursuit of advancement among men came to Minneapolis. . Here was employed by Geo. Elwell as a furniture salesman both in the city and outside for a number of years, after which he became manager of the, Webster Chair Factory, with which he was connected in this capacity until his death, a period of about eight years. He Was careful with his earnings and invested them wisely in farm loans and real estate, becoming the owner of a farm of 314 acres near Campbell, in Wilkin county, this state. His business absorbed his energies and attention to the exclusion of almost everything else. But he took an interest in fraternal life as a member of the Order of Knights of Columbus and was also a devout and consistent member of St. Lawrence Catholic church. To his home and family he was warmly attached, and in his hunting and fishing trips and his occasional outings at the lakes, always insisted on being accompanied by his wife or some other member of the household.

Mr. Hackett was married on January 8, 1884, to Miss Ida May Jester, who was also a native of this state. She died on October 19, 1907, leaving a family of six children, Mabel, Ida May, Grace Arvilla, Rollie J., Adelaide Olivia and Rosalia. Mabel is the wife of H. J. Lane, who is connected with the Russell-Miller grain commission company in the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce. The home of the family for the last twelve years has been at 1004 Seventeenth avenue southeast.

The mother's early death left the family largely to the care of the second daughter, Ida May. The older daughter was married and Ida had just entered upon her high school course. But she abandoned this in order that she might give her whole attention to caring for the younger children. They have found in her a devoted motherly companion and helper. Her father was thus ably assisted by her, and when his own end approached, found great consolation in the fact that he would be able to leave those who were dependent on him in such excellent hands, and that the comfortable competence he had accumulated for them would be judiciously employed for their benefit.

George E. Huey

A pioneer in three of the Northwestern states, one of the founders of at least two great industrial and commercial centers, and a successful operator in several important lines of business, the late George E. Huey was born in Steuben county, New York, December 19, 1819, being the son of John and Susan (Minier) Huey, who were taken as children from Pennsylvania to New York. Abram Huey once owned the land on which Harrisburg now stands.

Judge Huey, a lo'cal justice of the peace, and later first police justice of Great Falls, Montana, was reared on a farm in his native state and educated in a country school. He was in business for two years in New York, and in 1851 reached the Indian agency at Long Prairie, Minnesota, where lie was employed by the agent for one year.

In 1853 he returned to New York, but within a year he returned, soon coming to St. Anthony Falls. Here he engaged in rafting logs and cutting them into lumber. He assisted in the organization and operation of the Minneapolis Milling company, which superseded the "Old Government Mill" in 1856.

He was the first secretary and superintendent of llic board of directors of the old Canal company, which took a leading part in rivalry between the lower city, and Bridge Square as to which should become the business center.

He took a valiant part in this struggle in favor of the milling district, and in furtherance of determination to make that section the business center, he built the Cataract house, at what is now the intersection of Washington and Sixth

In 1854 Judge Huey was elected the first county register of deeds for four years, and in 1855 was made a justi'ce of the peace, rendering valuable services in establishing law and order. By 1865 the lumber industry had grown to such importance that in association with R. P. Russell and others, built a large planing mill where later the Model mill stood.

In 1861 R. P. Russell and 0. B. King built the Dakota flour mill. In 1879 he moved to Central City, Black Hills, where he operated stamp mills, and finally selling his interests immediately sought new fields of enterprise.

In 1884 he went to Great Falls, Montana, where not seventy-five persons were then living, but its natural resources and promise for the future were inspiring, and it is now a busy, progressive city of some 25,000. Judge Huey took up a pre-emption claim on land he felt the town must soon cover, and after securing title platted it as Huey's Addition to Great Falls.

He took a great interest in the development of the town and was ele'cted first police magistrate, his firmness enabling him to handle the tough element that still abounded.

About 1901 he returned to Minneapolis and died at Excelsior, April 17, 1904. He was a lifelong Democrat, and was a devoted Freemason and Odd Fellow. In early life he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Ticknor. Their daughter is the wife of Byron Dague of Deadwood. Her mother died young, and in 1858 he married Miss Corolene Taylor, a native of Painesville, Ohio. Four of their children are living. George T., a railroad man; Arthur S., of Chicago; Frank, who live-s in Montana, and Douglas, a resident of Mexico.

One son, Albert (twin brutlier to Arthur) died in Jlexico where he was in business, in August, 1903. A friend at Judge Huey's funeral said: "He lused his time in useful labors and won for himself a warm place in the affectionate veneration of the people. One of the patriarchs of the city he helped to found, he could look back over his long connection with it with pleasure unmarred by the recollection of any interest neglected, any duty slighted or any wrong done eons'ciously to any pei-son."

Charlkr F. Haolin

It was in 187:i that Charles F. Haglin, one of the leading contractors and builders of Minneapolis, came to this city and began his very creditable and successful career here. He started in business in this locality as an architect, having been well trained in the technique of the profession by previous study and practical work in architects' offices farther East, and having also brought to this Western country the spirit of enterprise and self-reliance required for advancement among men in its strenuous activities, large engagements and great wealth of opportunities.

Mr. Haglin's life began in the village of Hastings, Oswego county. New York, on April 7, 1849, and there he passed his boyhocKl and early youth on the farm of his father, Joseph Haglin. He was educated in his native state, and, having a special aptitude for drawing, became a draughtsman in an architect's office in the city of Syracuse. A few years later he came to Cliieago, and there he was employed for two years

When he came to Minneapolis the old city hall was Hearing completion, and he decided to wait until he could secure an office in that building before beginning operations here. He forme'd a partnership with F. B. Long, under the name of Long & Haglin, and they were associated in business three years. At the end of that period Mr. Long sold his interest in the firm to F. G. Corser, and the firm name was then changed to Haglin & Corser, the new partnership enduring until 1879.

In that year Mr. Haglin, having found that there was a better field for him in the domain of building than in that of architecture, formed a new partnership with Charles Morse, and they immediately began contracting and building. They erected the Globe building and the Washburn Home in 1888; had eight of the leading contracts for the construction of the new court house and city hall, and built the union station in Duluth and a number of brick structures in Brainerd.

During the construction of the Minneapolis court house and city hall Mr. Haglin severed his business connection with Mr. Morse and conducted his operations under his own name alone, He continued to do this until 1909, when he formed a partnership with B. H. Stalir, and they carried on their business under the name of the Haglin-Stahr company. During the time he was alone in business he built many of the city's prominent business and residence structures and a number of the largest grain elevators in this section of the country. Some of the larger buildings put up by him are the Sixth street addition to the Glass Block, the Northwestern Telephone building, the Security National Bank building, the Wyman-Partridge building, the Patterson-Stevenson building, the Minneapolis Gas Light building, the Orpheum theater, the Northwestern Miller building, the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce annex, tlie Security Warehouse, the First National Bank building, the Plaza and Radisson hotels, the Pence building at Hennepin avenue and Eighth street, the Studebaker building and the F. E. Murphy building, and there are others almost as important and imposing.

In the line of private residences this firm also has a long and impressive record of its credit in the way of construction work. Among the fine residences in and about Minneapolis which it has erected are those of .John Edwards, Frank H. Peavey, George W. Peavey, C. M. Harrington, George Partridge, L. S. Donaldson, Frank T. Hell'elfinger, A. S. Brooks, Mrs. L. R. Brooks. F. B. Semple, Franklin Crosby and John Crosby, in the city proper, and those of George H. Porter, E. W. Decker and John Birkholtz at Lake Minnetonka, and that of Frank H. Peavey at Highcroft.

The list of grain elevators and warehouses built by Mr. Haglin includes the Peavey elevator in Duluth, one for the American Malting company in Chicago, one at New Ulm for the Eagle Rolling Mill company, a (lour mill and elevator at Waseca, tlie Wasliburn- Crosby elevator, the Concrete elevator, the International Sugar Feed company's house in Minneapolis, two warehouses for the J. R. Watkins company in Winona, one for the same company at Memphis, Tennessee, the Minneajiolis Sewer company's plant, a machine shop and several warehouses for the Minneapolis Threshing Machine company at Ho])kins, besides many other large structures in different localities in this and neighboring states and others in other sections of the country.

progress and wholesome improvement of the city by both natural tendency and the cliaraetcr of liis business, Jlr. Haglin has given practical and serviceable attention to all undertakings involving or contributing to its good in any way. He is the owner of the ilinneapolis Cornice and Iron Company, and is president of the Minneapolis Stone company and the Oklahoma Gipson company, of Prim, Oklahoma. He belongs to tlie Minneapolis, Commercial, Auto and New Athletic clubs, being a life member of the one last named. He is also' a member of the Masonic Order, in which he is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine in Zurah Temple, Minneapolis. On .January 22, 1880, he was united in marriage with Miss Emma R. Smith, a native of Racine, Wisconsin. They have three children, Edward, Charles F., Jr., and Preston.

Mr. Haglin's record as briefly outlined in these paragraphs is almost wholly one of results accomplished by his own efl'orts or under his immediate direction and supervision. But he has also been a potential force in inspiring other men to activity and achievement by his example and stimulating advice and encouragement.

Mr. Harrington is a member of the Minneapolis Athletic club, the Rotary club and the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce association and St. Albans Club. He also retains active membership in his college fraternity and is a zealous adherent of the Masonic order. He is an ardent devotee of his business and never neglects it on any account. But he Seeks relief from its burdens and cares in hunting, fishing and other outdoor enjoyments when he has opportunity. He is also fond of athletic performances and always takes a cordial and helpful interest in their promotion.

On September 2, 1903, Mr. Harrington was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Willis, a daughter of H. B. Willis, president of the Brydwell Manufacturing Company of this city. Mrs. Harrington was bom in Rochester, Minnesota, and educated in the Central High School and the State University. She and her husband are the parents of two Sons, Wayne E. and Willis L.

Curtis L. Harrington Leason Edwin Holdridge

This estimable gentleman and excellent business man has been in business in Minneapolis for years and a resident of the city, with but temporary absences, since 1899. He was born in New Richmond, Wisconsin, April 29, 1876, and is the son of George N. and Effie M. (Lyman) Harrington, whoso names stand high on the records of our sister state across the Mississippi. The father was a farmer and dairyman at Hayward, in Sawj'er county, that state, and the mother, who was a teacher in her young womanhood, has been county superintendent of schools in that county for twenty-four years, being the oldest lady county superintendent in length of continuous service, it is believed, in the United States.

The son was graduated from the high school in Hayward and came to Minneapolis in 1899. Here he pursued a course of s^)ecial training in a business college, and then entered the Northwestern University, at Chicago, to prepare himself for the Christian ministry. The uncertain state of his health, however, interfered with his design in this respect, and he returned to Minneapolis and became a student in the Law Department, University of Minnesota. He worked his way through this institution, and was graduated in the class of 1904, and admitted to the bar of the State of Minnesota in June, 1904.

He began his business career in the office of H. E. Ladd, a real estate broker, in whose employ he remained three years. He then formed a partnership with R. C. Wyvell in the same business, and this also continued three years. At the end of that period he associated himself with A. V. Skiles in the real estate and insurance business under the name of the Harrington-Skiles company, incorporated, and also engaged in the practice of law which he still continues. In 1911 Mr. Skiles withdrew from the company, and the name was changed to the Harrington Sales 'company, the one under Which the business is now carried on.

I his company conducts extensive operations in building and Selling on a commission basis, in addition to handling its own properties. The company has erected about 240

This estimable gentleman, whose early death in Minneapolis on November 37. 1889, in the forty-eiglith year of his age, widely lamented, was a native of Northampton, Massachusetts, where his life began September 15, 1842. On .June 3, 1868, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Parish at Poughkeepsie, New York, where she was born December 25, 1847. They came to Minneapolis in 1881. Jlr. Holdridge was a wholesale dealer in crockei'y in Poughkeepsie, and in this city returned to that line of mercantile enterprise, although, for a short time, he was a bookkeeper in the First National Bank.

The state of his health obliged him to leave the bank, but he soon afterward took another position as bookkeeper, this time in a grocery store. A little later he became manager for C. W. Foss in an extensive crockery trade, and also conducted a real estate agency. He built a home for his family at Twenty-seventh street and Hennepin avenue, one l)lock removed from the home of R. P. Russell, who lived at Twenty-eighth street and Hennepin avenue, there platting the Holdridge subdivision. In this home he died in 1889, as has been noted, and in 1901 his widow had a summer residence erected at Mcadville. Excelsior, on Lake Minnetonka, where her life ended on February 18, 1909. They were both charter members of Lyndale Congregational church, and Mr. Holdridge was its first treasurer. After the widow's removal to the I^ake she continued to be an active worker in this cliurch as long as her health permitted.

Three children were born in the Holdridge hou.seliold. .James Parish, the only son, who was a stenographer, died at the age of twenty-seven, and Mary Dibble, in childhood. Rachel Harrington Holdridge, the only survivor of the family, remained with her mother until the death of the latter, and still resides in the home on the lake. It is beautifully located on Lake Minnetonka, about one mile distant from that village, and on the opposite side of the water.

Miss Rachel Holdridge was a charter member of the Sunday school of Lyndale Congregational church, and she is now an active nu'mber of the Excelsior church of the same denomina- tion. In February 1912, in company with Miss Ella Stratton Molter, she established the Minnetonka circulating library at Excelsior, in rooms rented for the purpose, the ladies having their home together at the Holdridge residence. They have about l.SOO volumes in the library, and during the year and a half of its usefulness about 5,000 books have been read from it by its patrons. It was founded for the purpose of elevating the taVite of the community, or gratifying it where it was already manifest, and is admirably filling this want. It is kept supplied with the best literature, and has become a very popular and highly esteemed social center. The ladies at the head of the enterprise are their own supervisors and conduct their business according to their own judgment. But they are studious of the lu'cds of the community around them and zealous in their efforts to supply them in the pleasing and beneficial line of their work. They are well esteemed for their genuine worth personally, and widely commended for their courage in undertaking a work so useful and attended with so much risk, as well as for the agreeable manner in which they perform the duties they have so resolutely taken upon themselves.

He was married in 1869 to Miss Louisa M. Herrick, daughter of Nathan and Laura (Small) Herrick. both from Ver mont. They moved to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1S54, four years later coming to Minneapolis, where Mr. HeiTick engaged in the marble trade, at Third, street and Nicollet avenue. He died in 1893, aged eighty-five, and his widow in 1898, aged eighty-eight. Of their four children, ]\Irs. Hale is the only survivor. Albert passed away in 1911. George died at Monticello, Minnesota, and Eev. Henry Herrick, a Baptist minister, the oldest son, died at Granville, Ohio. Prior to his marriage to Miss Herrick, Mr. Hale was married to Miss Emeline Barrows, of Vermont, who died in Minneapolis in 1867. They had one child, Jessie, now the widow of George Tuttle, of Minneapolis. Charles S. Hale, the only child of the second marriage, is president of the Peteler Car company.

Mrs. Hale is a member of the board of directors of the Pillsbui-y Home, having been active in the service of that excellent institution for many years. She is also a member of the Women's Christian Association, which has an oversight of the Pillsbury Home, and of other charitable and benevolent organizations, among them the Puritan Colony, and various church missions of great usefulness.

Jefferson M. Hale, who died in Minneapolis, October 22. 1893. at the age of sixty-five, and after a residence of over forty years in this city, was born at Tunbridge, Orange county, Vermont, September 5, 1828, and passed his earh' life on a farm at Stowe in that state. In 1849 he joined a party of gold-seekers going to California, by the Cape Horn route. Soon after returning to the East two years later, he came to Minneapolis, working for Mr. Northrup and other lumbermen in the mills and at other occupations until 1868, when he joined his brother George in the dry goods business, with which he was connected to the end of his life.

George W. Hale was a merchant near Boston previous to coming to St. .\nthony in 1858. He was for a time toll keeper for Captain Tapper at the bridge, and after teaching school for a time, returned to the East. In 1868 he came back to Minneapolis, and in company with his brother JefTerson opened a dry goods store on Washington avenue, between Nicollet avenue and First avenue' south. They soon built up a large trade which necessitated tlie employment of several assistants. They confined their operations to dry goods, and after some years moved to the only double store, and the largest dry goods house, in the city at Third street and Nicollet avenue. Just before the business was again removed to Fifth and Nicollet, George died, and .Jefferson selected John Thomas as buyer in his place, in accordance with an arrangement previously made by George. Mr. Thomas is still carrying on the business, established fortysix years ago.

JefTerson M. Hale confined his attention exclusively to the details of the business until his death. The firm name was originally G. W. Hale & Company, finally becoming Hale, Thomas & Company. Mr. Hale took no particular interest in party politics or public affairs. He performed all the duties of citizenship conscientiously and faithfully, but never became an active partisan or sought or desired public office. He was. however, warmly interested in the welfare of Plymouth

Willard W. Morse

Prior to 1880, St. Paul had practically a Mumopoly of the jobbing trade in this part of the country, but witiiin the decade which began with that year, enterprising and resourceful men put forces in motion here to build up an extensive trade of the same kind for this city. The steps taken looking to this end were not designed to rob the sister city of any of its trade, but to secure for Minneapolis that proportion of the wholesale trade of the Northwest to which, by her location and natural advantages, it seemed she was justly entitled. This brought about a wholesome rivalry that resulted in vast advantages for both cities, and for the whole Northwest, as an immediate consequence. One of the men to whom these ideas strongly appealed, and w)io luid nuich to do with the results which followed, was Willard Morse, now president of the Security Warehouse Company, of this city. He built warehouses on an extensive scale and gave manufacturing companies in other localities space in tlieni for the storage and exhibition of their products. From these warehouses orders were filled and deliveries made that effected great savings both in time and in freight charges in the delivery of merchandise to the people of the Northwest. He visited the manufacturers at their headquarters and showed them the possibilities of trade for them in the Northwest.

Mr. Morse did not seek to augment his business to anygreat extent through the storage of household goods. His energies were employed in getting trade that reaches farther and tends at once and directly to aid in building up the city of Minneapolis as a jobbing center.

Many of the jobbers in this city who are now carrying on an extensive business in Minneapolis were started here by his enterprise. It was his custom to visit the leading factories in tlie Eastern and Middle States and get them to begin trading here bv using his facilities. Seventy-five to eighty per cent of the agricultural implement houses now operating in this section, began business in the Northwest in this way. Four-fifths of the companies now composing the International Harvester Company began their operations in the Northwest through tlie Morse warehouses. At the present time, seventyfive to one hundred companies, foreign to this city, keep extensive stocks of goods in these warehouses. Mr. Morse began with storage room for agricultural implements, and as the trade in tliem became established, he furnished space for stocks of groceries, hardware and other merchandise. Many manufacturers sent carloads of goods to his warehouses and then put agents in the field to sell them. When their trade was sufficiently developed, they established wholesale houses of their own in this city. Numbers of tlie companies which have large establishments in ilinneapolis now, were first induced b}- Mr. Morse to enter the trade territory of Minneapolis. In this way, a very large jobbing trade was started here, and the story of it is creditable alike to the city and the man who initiated the enterprise; and the enterprise, itself, furnishes strong proof of both his business capacity and his strong and intelligenf devotion to his home city and its residents.

Willard W. Morse was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on July 5th, 1864. He is a son of Willard and Lydia (Whitconib) Morse, natives of Sharon, Massachusetts and Newport, New Hampshire, who moved to Michigan in 1857 and to Minneapolis in 1882. The father was a merchant and soon after his arrival in this city started the Minneapolis Rubber Company, which continued in business five years. After the expiration of that period the elder Mr. Morse engaged in various lines of merchandising until his death in 1897. The mother is still living and makes her home in this city. They had two children, their son Willard W. and their daughter Minnie F., both of whom are residents of Minneapolis.

The son obtained a high school education and started his business career in the employ of his father's rubber company. In 1886, in association with Harry B. Wood, also of Kalamazoo, he started the Security Warehouse Company. The partnership lasted until 1894. when Mr. Wood moved to California, where he has ever since had his home, and since then Mr. Morse has been the sole proprietor and director of the business of the company. He owns his own warehouses, some fourteen in number, all located on North First Street and all supplied with trackage of the C. St. P. M. & O. Ry. Co. In 1886 there was but one warehouse and was located at No. 700 North First Street. This was the first general storage warehouse for merchandise ever opened in Minneapolis. Now the warehouses contain sixteen acres of floor space and the busin ss employs regularly about 100 persons, and in busy seas many more.

dr. Morse has long taken an earnest interest and an active t in the organized social life of the community and all lertakings for its advancement and improvement as a mber of the St. Anthony Commercial Club and the Civic 1 Commerce Association. He does not, however, confine his )rts for the betterment of the city to the projects these anizations have in charge, but opens his hand freely and ploys his faculties industriously in behalf of all work for irovement, morally, mentally, socially and materially, and his efl'orts are guided by intelligence and inspired by a >ad and discriminating public spirit.

M. Alden, a pioneer merchant here, who was in business in this city from 1864 to his death some ten years ago. Mts. Morse was born in Spring Valley, Fillmore County, Minnesota. She and her husband are the parents of four children, Willard A., Guilford A., Mildred and Priscilla A. All the members of the family attend Plymouth Congregational church and are actively interested in the work of that organization. They are also esteemed throughout the community as enterprising, progressive and serviceable members inspired and directed by lofty ideals of citizenship, and they richly deserve the universal regard and good will bestowed upon them.

Rev. .John Hooper

For many years in liis young manhood the voice of tliis now venerable minister of the gospel was literally that of "one crying in the wilderness," in appeals to men to "repent, believe and be born again." He came to this state as a pioneer Methodist Episcopal minister in 1855, and carried the message of salvation to men and women in their crude and lowly homes on the frontier, preaching wherever he could find a roof to cover him and his hearers, and under the blue canopy of heaven when no other covering was available. He is now (1914) eighty-six years of age, and during sixty-eight of the number, twice the average duration of human life, he was an active force in the Christian minisfry.

Mr. Hooper was born in County Cornwall, England, on April 27, 1828. His parents emigrated to the United States when he was but three years old, and he was reared to the age of twenty in his native land by an uncle. When he was seven he began working in a tin mine at a wage of five shillings a month, boarding himself, and he continued his laborious and meagerly recompensed toil for thirteen years, but without much improvement in wages or conditions. At the age of fifteen he joined the Methodist Episcopal church, and two years later began preaching in humble quarters and the open fields, as was the custom of his class in England in those days.

In 1848 he too came to this country and joined his parents in Cleveland, Ohio. One year later he moved to Grant county, Wisconsin, near the Illinois line, and there served as a supply preacher until he could join the conference of his denomination and become a regular circuit rider. In 1855 ho was sent to Minnesota on a mission, the whole territory now embraced in this state and Wisconsin then being under one organization. He was assigned to a mission at Caledonia, now the seat of government in Houston county, but then almost nothing but a name in the wilds. There was but one congregation organized in the locality at the time, but in the two years Mr. Hooper passed there he organized several others. There was also only one schoolhouse in his territory and he was obliged to preach often in private dwellings. For the purpose of securing a house for regular meetings he hewed timber in the woods and helped to put it together in the erection of a rude church. He also conducted camp meetings, being the only evangelical worker in the region, as other denominations had not yet begun their circuit work in that section of the state.

Mr. Hooper attended the first Methodist Episcopal conference in Minnesota. This was held at Red Wing in 1857, and presided over by Bishop Swift. The conference sent him to North Minneapolis, his circuit embracing all the territory for many miles north of Bassett's creek, and he also had charge of the church interests at Harmony, now Richfield, and those at Brooklyn Center. He secured the nucleus of a congregation at each place, the number at the first being seven. Of this number only one, Mrs. Abisha Benson, of Minneapolis, is now living. There was not a school house or M. E. church building in his territory, and for about one year he preached and worked as best he could.

At the end of the year he was transferred to Princeton, where there was a church edifice, and where he remained two years. His next appointment included Sauk Rapids, where there was a school house, and Little Falls, where there was a church. He next passed another year at Brooklyn Center and one more at Richfield, preaching tljree times every Sunday, attending to pastoral duties during the week, acting as local elder, and working on a farm he rented to provide a living for himself and his family.

In the course of a short time Jlr. Hooper bought eiglity acres of land on what is now Pcnn avenue but then lying far beyond the boundary of the city. This land he transformed into a good farm, and when the city grew out to it laid out a part of what is now one of its main streets, Penn avenue already mentioned. The school house on that street stands on what was a part of his farm, and the bountiful crops which once enriched and beautified the rest of it have been succeeded by acres of solid masonry in which many varied industris are now housed and conducted, and by a multitude of homes in which prosperity and comfort abound.

Rev. Mr. Hooper preached his last sermon three years ago. having been engaged in the ministry for sixty-eight years. He is now a member of the new Calvary church in this city. AVhen the general conference of the denomination to which he belongs met in Minneapolis in 1911, he was called before the conference as being probably the only charter member of the first Minnesota conference of the church who was then living.

Mr. Hooper cast his first political vote for candidates of the Free Soil or Abolition party in Ohio. He afterward became a Republican and later a Prohibitionist. He has occupied his present residence sixteen years. On July 31, 1853, sixty years ago, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary M. Atkinson of Wisconsin. Four of the children born of their union are still living, one daughter, Ida M., being the wife of Edwin Peteler, as told in a sketch of his father. Colonel Francis Peteler, on other pages of tliis volume. The others are also residents of Minneapolis and, like their parents, the children all have and well deserve a strong hold on the regard and good will of the community in which they live.

Judson C. Higgins, until recently a leading grocer of Minneapoli.s. has passed fifty-two years of his seventy-five in contributing to the advancement and welfare of the city. He was born in Benson. Rutland County, Vermont, November 21, 1838. His father was successively a farmer, a merchant, and a postmaster, and came to Minneapolis in 1860 and became associated with Daniel R. Barbee in the loan business. They borrowed money in the East at six per cent, investing it here on mortgage loans at five and even six per cent a month. He died here in 1867, aged sixty-five, in the old Elder

Judson C. Higgins came to Minneapolis in 1861. He had taught school in his native county and was accustomed to hard labor and simple living. He bought a wood saw and sawhorse, and during his fir^t winter in Minneapolis earned his living by sawing stove wood at sixty cents a cord. He was married in the East, March 24, 1861, to Miss Emeroy Knapp, and they started at once after marriage for their new home.

Early in 1862 he bought a yoke of oxen and for several months engaged in teaming, buying other teams as his patronage increased. He liauled freight from St. Paul, supplies to the lumber woods, etc.

Early in the Indian outbreak of 1802 he volunteered to haul supplies for Capt. Richard Strout's company and 20 citizens that had been ordered to Meeker County. Nine teams were so engaged in hauling camp outfits and other necessaries. He was out for 30 days. He w-as in the fight with Little Crow's Indians near Acton, and when the whites retreated he, with his two horses, went to Hutchinson, i^i company with the troops. Before daylight that morning while in camp at Acton postoffice. Captain Strout had been warned by three white men that the Indians were in force near him and he at once started for Hutchinson. Two miles out the whites came upon the Indians in ambush in a wheat field, 150 in number. The savages, on horseback, attacked the party, attempting to surround it, but the whites charged them and escaped. The Indians followe<l Strout's command for four or five miles, or to near Hutchinson, riding along at a convenient distance and firing into the command from both sides. Three white men were killed, twenty were wounded, and five teams were lost. The Indians attacked Hutchinson the next day.

Mr. Higgins continued teaming until 1867, hauling supplies to the pineries, logs to the saw-mills, and lumber for Ankeny, Robinson & Petit from the yards to the planing mills. He also did considerable hauling for other firms. Early in 1867, he met Mr. Ankeny and entered the employ of Ankeny, Robinson & Petite, made a success of his work, and remained with the firm until 1S70, becoming head manager of the yards, and having charge of the measuring and shipping.

In 1869 Mr. Higgins and Morris Gleason decided to engage in the grocery business. Mr. Higgins borrowed $2,100. at 12 j>er cent interest, to begin business. Mr. fileason decided to remain with the lumber firm, but Mr. Higgins opened the grocery under the name of Higgins & Gleason. according to announcements already made. The store was at No. 127 Washington avenue .south, in a locality recommended by Anthony Kelly. There were then five or six grocery stores in the city, but Mr. Higgins made the venture. He purchased the building, opened the store, and within the first year his business became so extensive that he was able to pay back the capital borrowed, employed four or five men and used three teams. At the end of four years he found himself $25,000 to the good financially, but with his health breaking down from overwork. He then sold the store to his clerks.

In the meantime he had bought the adjoining building on the corner of Second and Washington Avenues, and had formed a partnership with E. S. Corser in the purchase of 300 or 400 acres of railroad land near Crookston. which they intended to farm. Tliev sent two carloads of horses and other tilings needed to the land, erected buildings for a superintendent, and took all other necessary steps to begin operations, when Jlr. Higgins became Sick from drinking alkali water and retired from the undertaking, selling his interest to Mr. Corser and Lester B. Elwood, and returning to Minneapolis.

For some years thereafter he was engaged in the grocery trade and as a shoe dealer, a portion of the time with Robert Anderson. He finally sold his grocery establishment and bought Anderson's interest in the shoe store, which he conducted for some time, eventually turning it over to his son. the present proprietor.

The senior Mr. Higgins still owns the two store buildings, and a number of other pieces of desirable property. He has lived in his present home at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Sxith Street thirty-two years, though it has recentl}' been leased for business purposes for a term of one hundred years. Since Mr. Higgins bought this property, in 1862, it has increased in value seven fold. In 1887 he paid $99,000 for his store property, a lot of 66 feet front with the same buildings on it that are now there, and borrowed a large part of the purchase money. This lot was bought in earlier yeara for $1,100. For himself and wife he is now building a residence at 3624 Nicollet avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. Higgins had seven children: Lucy A. is the widow of the late Henry Waterman; Lottie E. married a Mr. Goden and died young; Chauncey, is in charge of the shoe department of the Donaldson store; Albert, J. is in the commission house of Gamble & Robinson ; Anna L. is the wife of Grant CoUender; Fannie L. died at the age of eleven; Beatrice M. is the wife of Charles B. Peteler.

Stephen Crosby Hall

Thirty-five years of active and useful existence in three states ending suddenly and tragically by accident, make up the life story of tlic late Stephen Crosby Hall, who was engaged in the lumber industry from early manhood, and became one of the most extensive operators during a fruitful business activity. He lived in Minneapolis only four years, but long before this he was as well known in its business circles as though here dwelling and operating.

He was born in Penn Yan. New York, August 16, 1834. He met with a fatal accident August 3, 1888, while employed at his sawmill on the bank of the river. He made a misstep and fell a distance of about twenty-six feet striking Some timbers, thus ending an active career at the age of fiftyfour years. He was the son of Deacon Jonathan and Anna (Whitaker) Hall, originally of Passaic, New Jersey. One of his sisters became the wife of Rev. Luther Littell, a prominent Presbyterian minister of Orange county, New Y'ork.

In his youth he was much inclined to mathematics, and made a specialty of that branch of learning to become a civil engineer, a knowledge of which was of vast use a few years later when living in the wilds of Michigan. At nineteen he was employed as a clerk in New Y'ork city, and two years later moved to Michigan, locating on White river in the great [linc forest. For a number of weeks he carried the mails to and from his locality in a carpet bag until a regular route was established and a postoffice selected. Whitehall was chosen as the name, and it was formed by combining the name of the river with that of Mr. Hall and his brother. It is now a city of some 2,000 inhabitants, and has become a widely popular resort, and was for some years the chosen home of the renowned Alexander Dowie.

Mr. Hall was soon employed in surveying, in which he acquired an expert knowledge of timber and where the best of it was. About one year and a half later he erected a sawmill, but which he soon sold. He acquired title to a 2,000- acre tract of land in what surveyors reported to be an impassable marsh. This he drained and converted into one of the finest farms in Michigan, and which has in recent years been e.xchanged for valuable property in Minneapolis.

In addition he soon began to acquire pine lands, making his own investigations, selections and surveys. While doing this he slept in the woods many nights, depending on fires to protect him from the wolves with which the forests abounded and which especially in winter were often ravenous. He then began extensive logging operations, having 1,500 acres of pine later increased to 300,000 near Houghton lake. By employing 300 to 300 men and one-third as many horses he was enabled to put 15,000,000 feet of logs into the lake in a single season.

In the seventies he operated several sawmills, being associated with Thompson Bros. & Company, of Chicago, the output of the mills going largely to that city. The Steamer Stephen C. Hall, which he built at Grand Haven and which engaged in this traffic, was named in his honor. He was president of the Bay State Lumber Company of Menominee, Michigan, and also of the S. C. Hall Lumber company, his Son-in-law, Thomas H. Shevlin, being its manager. His operations led him to buy Minnesota timber lands, interests which induced him financially to move to Minneapolis in 1884.

Mr. Hall was for a time a partner with Colonel James Goodnow in the North Star Lumber company; and, in 1886 the Hall & Ducey Lumber company was incorporated, he being the president and manager. This company became one of the largest operators in Minnesota, cutting regularly 40,000,- 000 feet of lumber and doing a business aggregating threefourths of a million dollars annually. The Hall & Shevlin company, he being president, was organized in 1886, erecting a new mill with a capacity of 40,000,000 feet. In 1888 the pay roll of the two companies averaged $18,000 a month.

Mr. Hall was a member of the Minneapolis Lumber Exchange, which at his death showed its estimate by passing strong resolutions. Busy as he was, he made it his duty to take an active part in all projects designed to improve the community and promote the general welfare. He served as supervisor and county treasurer in Michigan, where he was also president of a Congregational church society and an ardent supporter of foreign missions, even going so far as to support a missionary in Japan at his own personal expense. The Y'oung Men's Christian Association in Minneapolis enlisted his most helpful interest, as did also Westminster Prebyterian church, and he was a liberal contributor to the needs of both, being especially so in the erection of the church edifice which stood on Nicollet avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets. As he was diffident and retiring, shrinking from public notice, knowledge of his charities and public benefactions became public only after his demise.

On April 8tb, 1862, Mr. Hall married Miss Alice Clark, of Grand Haven, Mich. She is still a resident of Minneapolis; three of their four children are also living. Alice A., married Thomas H. Shevlin and died in 1910. Emma is the wife of

Charles A. Bennett, of Los Angelas, California. Hattie is tlie wife of Edwin Shevlin of Portland, Oregon; and Stephen A. Hall, who died in 1914. He married Miss Cecilia A. Kent. They had one child, Stephen A., Jr., the third generation of the name, a high school student.

At the death of her husband Mrs. Hall assumed the heavy responsibility so suddenly thrust upon her, and taking upon lierself the management of his large interests, directed them with admirable judgment and ability. She gradually changed extensive outside holdings into Minneapolis properties, and has erected some very important buildings, including those at the corner of Nicollet avenue and Eleventh street and the corner of Hennepin avenue and Seventh street. The Colonial Realty company has been fonned to look after the various properties, she being its president and the owner of nearly all its stock. Earlier she was a zealous chur'ch woman and the prime mover in many important charities. She was also devoted to art, literature and social organizations. In later years, however, business responsibilities have overshadowed the social, artistic and esthetic inclinations engendered by her education, culture and early environment, though still no really worthy cause is allowed to pass without some consideration from her.

Edwin Hawley Hewitt of Minneapolis, one of the most widely known and most highly approved architects of the Northwest, has made his own way to success and prominence by arduous effort, close and analytical study, and a judiciou.^ use of all the means for the development of his art faculty which he has found or made available for his purposes.

Mr. Hewitt was born in Red Wing, Minnesota, March 26, 1874, a son of Dr. Cliarles N. and Helen R. (Hawley) Hewitt. His father, a renowned physician and surgeon, was born in Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont, and was graduated, with the degree of A. B., from Hobart College, Geneva, New York, and with that of M. X>. from Albany Medical College. He served throughout the Civil War in the medical service of an engineer corps in the Union army, becoming chief of a division in the Army of the Potomac.

After the close of the war Dr. Hewitt located in his profession at Red Wing. He organized the first Minnesota State Board of Health and served as chief State Health Officer for 25 years. He was also for many years a member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota, and a lifelong associate and friend of its first President, Dr. William W. Folwell. Edwin Hewitt's grandfather was also a physician and surgeon, and a graduate of Y'ale University, and he too served in the Civil War. The mother's father was a distinguished physician of Ithaca, New Y'ork, and also a graduate of Yale.

Edwin H. Hewitt received his early education from his father, who instructed him and directed his studies until he reached the age of fifteen. He then went to Potsdam, New York, where he studied two years. After his return to Red Wing he followed a course of study preparatory to entering Hobart College, his father's alma mater. He passed one year at Hobart, and in 1895 entered the sophomore class of the University of Minnesota, and from this institution he was graduated in 1890 with the degree of A. B. The next year he devoted to the stuiiv of architecture in tlie Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, in which he was a member of the sophomore class. This gave enlargement and definiteness to the knowledge of his chosen profession which he had gained by previous study and practical work, during his vacations, in the office of Cass Gilbert, the eminent architect of St. Paul and New York.

After completing his course in the Institute of Technology Mr. Hewitt worked in the offices of different architects from 1S98 to 1900. In April of the latter year he went to Paris to study in the "Ecole des Beaux Arts," the national school of architecture in France. He was admitted to this institution on a competitive examination which placed him at the head of the list of foreign applicants and within one place of heading the whole list of students admitted. When he completed his course in this school he stood second in a class of fifty students or more.

Mr. Hewitt remained in Paris until 1904, when he returned to Minneapolis and opened offices for the practice of his profession. While he was abroad, however, he made trips to England, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy for study. His first offices in Minneapolis were in the Lumber Exchange, but he found them inadequate and moved to larger rooms at 14 Fourth Street North. These met his requirements for eighteen months, and he then decided to build an office of his own for permanent use and erected the attractive and artistic office building which he now occupies at 716 Fourth Avenue South, and which is one of the architectural gems of the city.

From the beginning of his career here Mr. Hewitt has had an extensive business and his work has all been of a high class. He designed the residences of Mrs. L. R. Brooks, on Mount Curve Avenue; and of E. J. Carpenter, T. B. .lanney, Robert Webb, and William Bovey. He also designed the city residence of Charles S. Pillsbury and his summer home at Lake Minnetonka, the McKnight Building, St. Mark's Church, the Thomas Hopewell Hospital, and the Loose Wiles Biscuit Factory. He is now (1914) at work on the Hennepin Avenue Jlethodist church and the Gateway Park.

Mr. Hewitt was one of the prime movers in the efforts that resulted in the erection of the fine building for the Minneapolis Museum of Arts, and he is an enthusiastic member of the Society of Fine Arts. He also belongs to the Minneapolis. Minikahda, and Lafayette Clubs, and tlie Cliff Dwellers Club of Chicago. He was married April 18, 1900, to Jliss Caroline C. Christian. They have one child, their son Charles C, who was born in Paris. A daughter named Helen died a number of years ago. The jiarents are members of St. Marks Episcopal Church, and live at 126 East Franklin avenue. No residents of Minneapolis stand higlier in public esteem than they, and they are richly deserving of all the regard and good will bestowed upon them because of their high character, rare accomplishments, genial natures and genuine worth in every way. They embody the best attributes of elevated Minneapolis citizenship and are among its most admired exponents.

Charles Suimner Hale

As president of the Peteler Car company, Minneapolis, and through his connection of other large industries in this city Charles Sumner Hale lias been able to contribute largely and substantially to the growth of Minneapolis as a manufacturing center and the exi)aiision of the city's industrial and com- mercial power and usefulness, and he has made the most of his opportunities in this respect for the benefit of tlie city and all classes of its residents.

Mr. Hale was born in Minneapolis on A])ril 1, 1870. and is a son of Jefferson M. and Louisa M. (Herriok) Hale. He was graduated from the high school in 1888 and from the academic department of the University of Minnesota in 1892. He then began his business career in the store of his father. Some time afterward he was associated for two years with the late Jesse G. Jones, and at the end of that period became connected with W. S. Hill in the lumber trade. In 1896 he was made secretary and treasurer of the Kettle River Quarries company, furnisher of building and paving material, with quarries at Sandstone, Minnesota. In 1904, in company with George W. Bestor, he organized the Kilgore Machine company, which soon afterward absorbed the Peteler Portable Railway Manufacturing company, and is now called the Peteler Car company and engaged in making cars for contractors and railroads.

The old plant of the Peteler Car company embraces five acres, and the company also owns another site of twenty acres within the free switching zone at Como avenue and Belt Line. The new plant is located on that track and is the only commercial car plant in this state for standard car work. It has contracts with the Soo Line, the Minneapolis & St. Louis and the Chicago Great Western railroads covering the building of refrigerator cars, tank, box and flat cars and rebuilding and repairing old ones. Its employes number at times more than 300 and its pay roll exceeds $20,000 a month.

In 1870 Francis Peteler founded the Peteler Portable Railway Manufacturing company, he having been the inventor of the first dump car used in railroad work. He erected the plant located at Thirtieth Avenue S. E. and the Northern Pacific tracks south east, and continued in charge of it until 1905, when the company was consolidated with the Kilgore Machine company and he retired from active connection with it. Since then the consolidated enterprise has been manufacturing additional lines of equipment for railroad work, and has built up a vci-y extensive business.

Mr. Hale has also been president of the American Locomotive Equipment company, of Chicago, and the Sandstone Land company, which owns the townsite and electric and water companies at Sandstone. He is a member of the Minneapolis and Minikahda clubs, the Chi Psi college fraternity and Plymouth Congregational church. On June 23, 1897, he was married at Mankato, Minnesota, to Miss Marjorie L. Patterson. They have one child, their son Sumner Patterson Hale.

William S. Hunt

He is the son of Dr. Henderson Hunt and Sarah Ann (Barlow) Hunt and was born in the town of Delavan, Wisconsin, on May 1st, 1861. His mother's father, Stevan A. Barlow, was for two terms the attorney general for the state of Wisconsin. Another relative on his mother's side was .John W. Barlow who as an officer in the regular army held the rank of brigadier-general. Dr. Hunt, the father, was an old time family physician, of a type, unfortunately, which the specialist has driven out of fashion. He was not only the physician of the physical ills but also the healer of souls and the father confeesor of half the town of Delavan; William, his son, spent the years of his early youth and boyhood in Delavan and began his education in the local schools. When he was sixteen years of age the family moved to Beloit and he began the scientific course in Beloit College. From this college he graduated in 1880. He now determined to become an architect and went to Chicago to study. He put in three years of hard work there as a student and then entered the office of one of the most prominent of the Chicago architects as an office student. He came to Minneapolis in 1888 still considering himself a student. That same year he began an independent practice of his profession which he has continued successfully evei* since. It has been his good fortune to plan a great many of the large and beautiful buildings of the citj'.

Mr. Hunt is a republican in politics although not seeking office and having little time for any special activity along political lines. He is interested in all civic matters and a student of civic conditions. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and a number of principal clubs of the city. He belongs to the Episcopal church. He married Miss Caroline Park Graves in 1885. She died seven years later. In May, 1906 he was married to Miss Barbara C. Maurer. They have uo children.

Alonzo D. Hoar

Mr. Hoar was born in Meeker county, Minnesota, September 1, 1864, being a son of David B. and Melissa (Bryant) Hoar, natives of Maine but married in Minneapolis. The mother came to Minnesota with her parents, in 1856, finding a new home near Montieello, in Wright county. David B. Hoar became a resident of Meeker county, in the fall of 1857, the next year taking a tract of government land from which he was driven by the Indians in 1862, his dwelling being burned. He then served in the militia aiding in reducing the savages to subjection.

When their homes were destroyed the families fled to Montieello. Eleven of the men returned and collected the household effects, and on their way back to Montieello intentled to stop at a Mr. Coswell's. Four of them drove into this place and were immediately killed by Indians lying in concealment. The other seven escaped, one of whom, James Nelson of Litchfield, is still living.

Mrs. Hoar was teaching school at the period of the outbreak, and was warned of the impending danger by a mail carrier. But before she and the rest of the family could get away bands of Indians appeared in the neighborhood. As their house was destroyed and their crops ruined, they decided to go back East, and for two years and a half thereafter lived with Mr. Hoar's peojjle in New Brunswick. The}' then returned to their homestead of 280 acres in Meeker county, and there Mr. Hoar died in 1900 in his eighty-third year.

Mrs. Hoar and some of the members of her family are still living on the homestead. She and her sister, Mrs. Lemming, are among the very few survivors of the Indian trouble in her vicinity. She and husband were the parents of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, ten of whom are living (1913) and of whom Alonzo D. and Irving are residents of Minneapolis. Alonzo came to this city in 1886, and for seven years was assistant engineer at the city water works. About 1893 he started his present transfer business with one

Mr. Hoar's father took a warm interest in local public affairs and filled several local offices. In this respect the son has been like the father, having been interested in the progress and advancement of his community. In 1908 he was elected, alderman from tlie Tenth ward and served on the committees on good roads, public grounds and buildings, licenses, salaries, markets, and fire department. The goods roads committee of which he was a member did effective work in the way of bringing about a general improvement of the roads leading into the city. In fact, laid the foundation for all such improvements that have Since been made.

November 12, 1890, Mr. Hoar married Miss Xettie Beach, daughter of John P. Beach, one of the pioneers of Northfield, who came from New York. Mrs. Hoar died in 1907, leaving three sons, Chester, Bryant and Gordon. The former is in the employ of a railroad company in St. Paul and Bryant is in the employ of Pittsburg Plate Glass Co.

December 10, 1910, Jlr. Hoar was united with Miss Mina Grout, who was born and reared near Mankato, where her father was for years a member of the police force, and who died recently in Minneapolis. Mr. Hoar has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows from the age of twenty-one, and is on the charter roll of Highland Lodge, at Camden Place. He also belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Woodmen of the World. His religious alliliation is with the Camden Place Methodist Episcopal church.

Pleasant M. Starnes

Pleasant Jl. Starnes is a stockholder and valued executive in coriiorations that are conducting extensive operations in the handling of timber lands and other properties on the Pacific coast, with specially large holdings in Northwest Canada. He maintains his residence and business headquarters in the city of Minneapolis, where he is vice-president and general manager of the American Timber Holding Company, besides which he is vice-president of the North American Timber Holding Company, the official headquarters of wliicli are in the city of Chicago.

He was born in Hancock county, Illinois, on the 1st of January, 1S63, and is a son of Eldridge and Emily (Jenkins) Starnes, the former of whom was born in Tennessee and the latter in Ohio, their marriage having been solemnized in the state of Illinois, where the father Eldridge Starnes was a pioneer representative of the agricultural industry in Hancock county. He departed this life Feb. 3, 1914. and the mother on April 17, 1914. After long years of worthy and fruitful application, he maintained his home at Afton, Iowa, and both he and his wife commanded inviolable places in the confidence and high regard of all who knew them.

Pleasant M. Starnes gain<'ii his initial experience in connection with the work of the home farm and duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of his native state, where he also attended a well ordered academy and thus effectively supplemented his earlier educational discipline. He finally went to the state of Iowa, and there he began the study of law under effective preceptorship. He later established his residence in Kansas, where he was admitted to the bar, and for several years thereafter he was there engawed in the successful practice of his profession. He maintained his residence for some time at Winfield and later in the city of Topeka, the capital of the state, and in the meanwhile he developed and matured the powers which have made him a force in the industrial world. He then moved to Iowa where he held the position of state manager for an insurance company and later he there effected the organization of a life insurance company, of which he became president, an olhce of which he continued the efficient incumbent until the company was consolidated with the National Life Insurance Company of the V. S. A. in Chicago, ilr. Starnes showed great administrative and constructive ability during his identification with this important field of enterprise and developed a large and substantial business for the corporation. After its consolidation with the National Life Insurance Company he became president of the latter corporation, of which he continued the executive head for two years.