Minneapolis City (part 66 of 80)

From the domain of life insurance M. Starnes withdrew to turn his attention to real-estate operations, particularly in the handling of timber lands and other realty in Western Canada and other parts of the west. In 1909 he came to Minneapolis and effected the organization of the American Timber Holding Company, and of this representative corporation he is now vice-president and general manager, the company having extensive and valuable holdings of timber lands^ in various localities on the Pacific coast as well as in th» Canadian northwest. He also was one of the organizers of the North American Timber Holding Company, of Cliicago, of which he is vice-president and a director and in which a number of representative business men and capitalists of Minneapolis and other places are likewise interested principals. Mr> Starnes is also vice-president and treasurer of the Western Finance Company, a director and executive of various other important corporations, in Minneapolis and the northwest.. He is a stockholder in leading financial institutions in Minneapolis and is known as one of the representative men of affairs in this city.

In politics Mr. Starnes gives his allegiance to the Republican party and in his civic attitude he is essentially publicspirited. In his home city of Minneapolis he is identified with, the Minneapolis, the Athletic, the Minikahda, and the Lafayette Clubs and other representative organizations.

In the year 1894 was solemnized the marriage of Jlr. Starnes to Miss Marie Lower, who, like himself, was born and reared in the state of Illinois. They have four children - Frederick E., who is in the office with his father; William U., who is assistant secretary of the North American Timber Holding Company, of Cliicago; and Louis H. and Mildred E.,. who remain at the parental home.

William Penrose Hallowell

William Penrose Hallowell, a well known business man who is prominently identified with the commercial interests of Minneapolis as coal dealer and manufacturer, was born at Philadelphia, Pa., November 30. 1863, the Son of William P. and Elizabeth (Davis) Hallowell. He received the educational advantages of his native state in several of its well known institutions, attending Cheltenham academy, the Friends Central school and Swarthmore college. In 1883, he came to

Minneapolis, joining his brothers, Morris L. and I. E. D. Hallowell, who had located here a few years previously. His first employment was as clerk in the Northwestern National bank. He then served in the same capacity with D. Morrison & Company, merchant millers. In 1888 he accepted a clerkship with the Northwestern Fuel company and since that time has continued to devote his attention to this business. Hu became a partner of the firm of H. W. Armstrong & Company, then resident manager for the Youghiogheney & Lehigh Coal company. In 1903 was secretary of the Holmes & McCaughy company, and in 1904 vice president and treasurer Holmes & Hallowell company, located at 401 First avenue, south, who operate wholesale and retail oflices in Minneapolis and St. Paul. He is also prominently connected with the Ramaley Boat company as president in the manufacture of cruisers, auto boats, hydroplanes, racing sail boats and high grade row boats and canoes. Mr. Hallowell served for five 3'ears, 1883-88, in the state militia, as a member of Company I, First regiment. He holds membership in the Minneapolis, Minikahda, and Lafayette clubs and his personal affiliations are with the Republican party. His marriage to Miss Agnes Hardenbergh, the daughter of Charles M. and Mary Lee Hardenbergh of Minneapolis, was solemnized in St. Marks church, .June 5. 1888. Their only child, William Penrose Hallowell, Jr., died March 23, 1913, aged twenty-one years.

Emanuel George Hall

Mr. Hall is a native of the city of Bowmanville, province of Ontario, Canada, where his life began on August 13, 1865. The circumstances of the family made it necessary for him to begin earning his own living at an early age, and his opportunities for securing an education were therefore limited. In 1880, when he was fifteen years old, he came to Minneapolis with his parents, and soon afterward began learning the cigarmaker's trade in the factory of James Elwin, under whom he served an apprenticeship of four years. He then worked at the trade in several diff'erent states, until early in 1909, when he was appointed assistant State Labor Commissioner of this state under Labor Commissioner W. E. McEwen, during the last term of the late Governor Johnson.

Mr. Hall filled this office with great credit to himself and satisfaction to all the interests involved for two years and four months, having direction of the factory and other inspectors during the whole of his tenure. He retired from tlie office in May, 1911, and in June of the same year was elected president of the State Federation of Labor by its annual convention in session in Mankato. In 1912 he was reelected by the convention which met in Brainerd, and in -Tune, 1913, was chosen a third time by the convention in St. Cloud.

As president of the state central body of organized labor Mr. Hall is required to look after the interests of the labor unions and their members in all parts of the state.

The State Federation of Labor embraces between 30,000 and 3,'j.OOO union workers, and reaches, in its work and uifluence, every locality in Minnesota sufficiently populous to maintain a labor union.

The State Federation of Labor was organized in 1890 on a very small scale. It has made steady progress from the start, although it has had its seasons of depression, and is now a very strong, virile and energetic body. During the last two years one of the most difficult situations it has had to deal with was the strike of the street car employes in Duluth. Mr. Hall was on the battle ground continuously for seven weeks, using every honorable means, Avith the help of others, to bring about an adjustment of the differences between the men and their employers and bettering the conditions of labor for the workmen, and while the strike was not entirely successful, practically every condition asked for by the street ear men has been since conceded and is now enjoyed.

Mr. Hall's devotion to the cause of organized labor and his ability in serving it have been recognized in a national, or more correctly speaking, an international way. He is the Sixth Vice President of the Cigarmakers' International Union, the supreme governing body of the craft for the United States, including their insular dependencies, and the Dominion of Canada. By virtue of this office he is a member of the General Executive Board of the International Union. He ia also the secretary-treasurer of the Northwestern Blue Label Conference, an interstate organization formed and maintained for the benefit of union cigarmakers in Minnesota and the Dakotas.

In 1886, while Mr. Hall was working as a journeyman cigarmaker, he took an active part in the great fight for the eight-hour workday for his craft. The fight was won for the workers, and in fifteen years following the establishment of the eight-hour day for them the death rate from, tuberculosis among cigarmakers fell from 63 per cent to 25 per cent as compared with other industries, which is an enormous saving of human life since the number of persons engaged in making cigars and tobacco products is so large. This decrease is attributed entirely to organization and the eight-hour day.

In his home city of Minneapolis Mr. Hall has been appointed on a committee of three to select a 'committee of fifteen to make an investigation within educational lines for the purpose of recommending to the Minneapolis Board of Education a plan of vocational training to be put in operation in the public schools of the city. On July 2, 1892, Mr. Hall was married in Fargo, North Dakota, to Miss Martha Strem, a native of Fertile, Polk county, Minnesota. They have six children, Gertrude, Ethel, Hazel, Milton, Chester and Irene. The head of the house belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen and the Order of Moose. His residence in Minneapolis is at No. 923 Third avenue north.

Thomas Asbury Harrison

Mr. Harrison was a very prominent citizen and business man of Minneapolis. He was the founder of the Security National Bank, in 1878, and its president thereafter until his death, in 1885. He was one of the original members of the lumber firm of J. Dean &. Company, organized in 1863, and which built the Atlantic & Pacific Mills, for many years the most extensive lumber mills of Minneapolis. He was for several years president of the State National Bank, a director in the First National Bank of St. Paul and in the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the St. Paul & Sioux City Railroads. In 1862 he and his brothers, Hugh and William Harrison, built Harrison's Hall at the junction of Nicollet and Washington Avenues. The building was of stone and upon its con- struction was the most imposing in the town. Mr. Harrison was born at Belleville, 111., December 18. 1811. In early life he was engaged in milling and operated both saw mills and flour mills. He came to Minneapolis in 1859, and died in 1885. In 1839 he married Rebecca M. Green and she died in Minneapolis, February 13, 1884, in her 64th year. They had five children, two of whom - Mrs. S. H. Knight and Mrs. Dr. E. B. Zier - now reside in Minneapolis.

Paul D. Boutell

To no part of the population it has gained from other sections of the country is the Northwest more indebted than to that which it has secured from New England. Tlie persons who have come here from that section have brought with them the industry, frugality and all-conquering ingenuity which have combined to make its residents renowned throughout the civilized world, and having ready to their hands great wealth of natural resources, however difficult of development, have gloriously helped to work out the results of application, genius and persistency wliich have made Minneapolis wonderful for the extent and rapidity of its growth and advancement. One of the admirable specimens of the strong and resourceful New England character was P. D. Boutell, for more than a generation of human life one of the leading merchants and business men of the city, and also one of its most elevated and influential citizens. He was well advanced in years and retired from all active pursuits when the end came on May 26, 1914. His record as a worker was practically made up and closed. There was little more for him in reputation, in achievement or in business profits to look forward to. But the retrospect of his career, however unsatisfactory it may have been to himself, is full of suggestiveness and sources of admiration for his friends and all others who know what he had done and how true he had been to every command of duty.

Mr. Boutell was bom at Bakersfield, a little interior town in Franklin county, Vermont, on .Ian. 3, 1837, and was reared on a farm, obtaining his scholastic training in the country school in the neighborhood of his home. He began his business career in the leather business in Massachusetts, remaining not far from his native heath and amid the civic, social and industrial associations of his nativity until he reached the age of thirty-four years. He prospered in his business and stood well in his community. But there was within him a longing for larger opportunities and a freer air, and the great Nortliwest seemed to offer him all he desired in this respect. His own section of country was not lagging beliind or losinj; ground. It was keeping pace witli the nuirch of events in its way. But the great sweep of advancement seemi'd to be in the regions which bask in the arms of (lie -Mississippi and the Missouri, and he was irresistil>ly inii)elk>d to be in it and a part of it.

When his pas'sion for the West became a ruling one he yielded to it, and in 1871 came to Minneaimlis. after being in business three years in St. Paul. Soon after his arrival in this city he founded the large furniture business whicli i^< now carried on by his sons, Walter D. and William T. He conducted this business and other mercantile enterprises until

1907, when he retired, turning the management of the undertakings he had started over to his sons. Before coming to this city he was a member of the firm of Nelson, Eiee & Boutell, tanners on an extensive scale in Worcester, Massachusetts. His connection with that firm gave him a wide and accurate knowledge of business, and he lost none of the lessons which the hard but thorough taskmaster, Experience, set for him.

When he located in this state to start an enterprise of his own, therefore, Mr. Boutell was well prepared tor the project he had in mind. And he was by no means deterred or daunted by the magnitude of the undertaking, or even much dispirited by the uncertain state of his health, which had drivep him from the bleak and humid climate of New England to the more salubrious one of this region, severe as it often is in winter. He arrived in St. Paul in 1868, and at once became a member of the firm of Coon, Boutell & Company, wholesale dealers in hardware.

After moving to Minneapolis from St. Paul he passed three or four years in the hardware trade as a retailer, then, in 1875, opened a small retail furniture store, which was the beginning of the vast business his establishment now does in its six story building at the corner of 1st Avenue South and Fifth Street, which is 165 by 140 feet in dimensions.

Mr. Boutell was married in Massachusetts on Sept. 12. 1863, to Miss Maria C. Wellington. They have three sons and one daughter living. The daughter is now the wife of J. H. Reuttell. The father was a Republican in political faith and allegiance, but he never was an active partisan. But served on Governor Van Sant's staff with rank of colonel. His business ability and high character were recognized, however, by his appointment on the city park board, of which he had been a member for six years. In fraternal circles he was connected with the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He was president of the Elks' Building association, which had charge of the erection of the new Elks' Temple in the city. He was also president of the Indemnity Life and Accident association. In religious affiliation he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for many years he served as president of the board of directors of the Asbury hospital, to the interests of which he gave a great deal of time and attention, seeing that its affairs were properly cared for and made to result in the largest possible good to the beneficiaries of the institution. Mr. Boutell was one of the best known and most highly esteemed residents of Minneapolis and deserved to be.

Charles A. Hohag

Mr. Hohag has been a resident of Minnesota since his boyhood and is a member of one of the sterling pioneer families. Ho was born in Prus.sia. (m the 10th of August. 1848, and is a son of William and Dorothea (Henchel) Hohag. He was about fen yeai-s of age when, in 1858, he accompanied his ]iarents on their immigration to America, and his father established a home at St. Anthony, where he engaged in the work of his trade, that of carpenter. He became one of the successful contractors and builders of Slinneapolis and here his death occurred in June, 1884. at which time he was sixty-eight yeara of age. His widow survived him by a decade and was seventv years of age when she died. Of the

Charles A. Hohag gained his rudimentary education in the schools of his native land and thereafter attended school in Minnesota. When eighteen years of ago Mr. Hohag went to the home of his maternal grandparents. He assumed virtual charge of the farm, and during the winter terms attended school at Parker Lake. Two years after he thus assumed the work of the farm his grandmother died, and thereafter he and his venerable grandfatlier kept house at the old homestead for two years. A radical change was then made, as Mr. Hohag. in 1871. took unto himself a wife and devoted helpmeet, in the person of Miss Emily Moser, daughter of the late Karl and Margaret Moser, who were natives of Germany and who came from Detroit, Michigan, to Minnesota, in 1854, Mr. MoSer entering a preemption claim to a tract of wild land in Golden Valley township, where he reclaimed a valuable farm. He was a millwright by trade and assisted in the erection of the first grist mill at St. Anthonj' Falls. He continued to reside in Golden Valley but became a successful contractor and builder in Minneapolis. Mis. Hohag was born in Germany, in 1847.

Mr. Hohag early gave evidence of his public-spirited interest in local affairs, and a few years after establishing his residence on his present farm he was elected treasurer of the school district, a position of which he continued the incumbent about ten years. In 1879 he was elected township supervisor, and in this important office he served for thirty consecutive years, during twenty of which he was chairman of the town board of supervisors. When the village of Richfield was incorporated, in 1907, he was elected its first president and in this office he 'continued to .serve during the first year of his incumbency of the position of superintendent of the county farm and infirmary. He made an admirable record as a member of the board of supervisors. In 1900 Mr. Hohag was a candidate in the first Republican primaries in Hennepin county for the office of county commissioner, but was defeated, as was he also in the contest four years later, after having made an excellent showing at the polls and having been defeated by a small majority on each occasion. In 1909 he was appointed to his present responsible office, that of superintendent of the county farm, and his able administration has been signally fortified by the eff'ective co-operation of his wife.

In politics Mr. Hohag has never wavered in his allegiance save on the one occasion when he supported Grover Cleveland for the presidency. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the Third Christian Science church in Minneapolis and both have a wide circle of friends in Hennepin county. They had seven sons, concerning whom brief record is made in conclusion of this sketch: Arthur owns an adjoining farm in Richfield; Walter, who held an office position in connection with the construction of the Panama canal, for a period of four years, is now identified with railroad operations in British Columbia; Augustus is a large farmer, his farm also adjoining the old home, Richfield; Herman died at the age of twenty-four; Frederick likewise owns a farm in Richfield; .John is in charge of the old homestead; and Cleveland Henry, who was named in honor of President Cleveland, resides at Seattle. Washington, where he is engaged in the fniit and produce commission business.

John Harvey Horton

The late John Harvey Horton, who is well remembered in Jlinneapolis for his activity in the lumber trade in the early years and still better for his skill and artistic taste as a house decorator, was born at Chazy, Clinton county. New York, in 1828. His father was a lawyer, farmer and merchant, and his mother was a Beach, a member of which family was one of the distinguished lawyers connected with the trial of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.

At the age of twenty-one .John H. Horton became one of the great host of "Forty-niners" who crossed the plains in search of gold. He remained in California several yeai'S, and on his return to the East found that his father was dead and that his mother and two brothers had come to Slinneapolis. He followed them in the spring of 1856, thenceforth making it his home and the scene of his subsequent activities.

The two brothers were Milon and Myron, twins. Milon was a grocer and Myron a druggist on Second avenue south, the then business center. Milon died in the service of the Union during the Civil war and Myron returned to Malone, New Y'ork. The mother died in Minneapolis, and a daughter, Zerviah, became a homeopathic physician who enjoyed a large practice among the women, continuing her professional service until her death in 1893. after thirty-seven years of active practice. She was one of the earliest homeopathic physicians in the city, being preceded only by Dr. Hatch and Dr. Higby.

.John H. Horton was engaged in lumbering for a number of years. He then turned to house decorating, in which work he is best and most favorably remembered. He became an expert, his services being in demand, the best homes receiving final decorations from his hand. His own first home here was at the corner of Nicollet avenue and Ninth street, and when he and wife built on that site there was but one other house within the range of vision. Later they built a new home on Diamond lake just south of the city. Mr. Horton's death occiu'red in April, 1893.

In politics he was a Democrat of the old school and a zealous worker for the success of his party, although never an office seeker. In religious affiliation he was a Methodist, and a liberal supporter of the church. He was accounted a skillful Sportsman, being companion of T. B. Walker in deer hunting trips. He was also a great lover of fine horses and enjoyed driving in contests of speed on the street and on the Lake of the Isles.

He was married in 1857 to Miss Helen J. Scrimgeour. a daughter of E. J. and Mary (Morrison) Scrimgeour, whose mention is found on another page. Six children were born to them. Florence Isabel is the wife of L. E. Kelley of Minneapolis. Addie S. is the wife of George Colton, and for twentythree years has resided at Yokohama, Japan, where Mr. Colton is an importer of merchandise, but whither he first went as resident buyer for a New Y'ork mercantile firm. Mrs. Colton is acfive in the work of the Union church in Yokohama. Helen Morrison is the wife of Arthur E. Hammond, dealer in farm loans and farm lands. For some years he was in with the Kelly loan office, having come from Vermont to Minneapolis in 1881. Mary Louise and Jessie Phoebe died in childhood. .James Harvey Horton, the only son, is a farmer at Backus, in Cass county.

Mrs. Horton is a charter member of the old Heiincpiii .\venue Methoilist Episcopal church, and one of the two or three survivors of the seventy-two who made up the first congregation. She was active in church work until affected by age and infirmities. She has made three visits to Japan, passing four years in that country. With a quick wit, a habit of close observation, a memory that is richly stored with incidents and events of pioneer life, and a cordial, genial manner in social intercourse, she is an agreeable companion and popular among the many who know her. She makes her home with her youngest daughter, Mrs. Hammond, whose four sons, Arthur Horton, Lawrence Darwin, Wray Ellsworth and John Morrison, are sources of great companionship and comfort to their grandmother, as are the considerate attentions she receives from her large circle of admiring friends and acquaintances.

John R. Hughes

The late .John R. Hughes, who passed the last two years of his life in Minneapolis, and died in this city on April 26, 1913, was one of the earliest settlers at Gettysburg, South Dakota, and during his residence in the town one of its most important, useful and valued citizens.

Mr. Hughes was born at Lewiston, state of New York, on December 28, 1866, the son of Hugh R. and Margaret Hughes. He passed his boyhood at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and obtained his education in the schools of that state, finishing at one of its State Normal Schools, at which he pursued a special course of training for the profession of a teacher. He followed this profession for a sliort time, but soon yielded to an increasing longing for a newer and more unsettled region, and in 1884, took up his residence at Gettysburg, South Dakota, almost at the beginning of its history, and while its possibilities were as yet wholly undeveloped, but full of promise for men of nerve like him.

On locating at his new home Mr. Hughes started a bank there. He was familiar with the banking business, having had experience in it at Emmittsburg, Iowa, for a number of years. His bank proved to be a great convenience and advantage to the people around him, and a fruitful means of assistance in building up the community and providing for its growing needs. He managed it with skill and judgment, and in such a manner as to make it of great service to the public and very profitable to himself. He also dealt extensively in land in South Dakota, and had interests in other banks besides the one he owned and conducted at Gettysburg. He was therefore of considerable importance in the development of the new country in which he was located, and he supported with ardor all undertakings having this in view, and originated many of them himself.

Failing health caused him to retire to some extent from active pursuits, and in 1910 he temporarily changed his residence to Minneapolis, locating in this city on June 9, on account of medical assistance and making his home -in the Lake Harriet section of the metropolis which had his warm admiration. While living there he assisted in organizing the Lake Harriet Commercial club. This made him friends here, and in seeking his co-operation in furtherance of other projects of value they always found him genial, obliging, liberal and highly intelligent in his views as to what would constitute judicious improvements.

Before leaving South Dakota Mr. Hughes served as a member of its legislature, and for a number of years was president of the South Dakota Bankers Association. He attended the conventions of this association and made many strong and illuminating addresses before them. He also attended bankers and other conventions in other states, and always took an active part in the proceedings of any gathering of which he was a part. By appointment of the governor he also served as a member of the board of directors of the State Orphan Asylum at Sioux Falls for some years.

Mr. Hughes was always ready to do all he could to aid in promoting any worthy enterprise. He took a cordial interest' in the fraternal life of the country as a Freemason of high degree, and in social alliances, through his active membership in many clubs and other organizations. Nothing was foreign to him that was human, and everybody who came in touch with him felt the quickening inliuence of his strong mentality,! wealth of general information and companionable disposition.;

Mr. Hughes was married in Wiconsin in 1892 to Miss Mary. J. Williams. Two children were born of their union: Lucille, who is a graduate of the West High School in the class of 1913, and Harold, who is now (1914) a high school student. The wife is very active in connection with the affairs of the Gettysburg Literary club, and in 1912 was the secretary of the State Federation of Clubs, and a delegate to its convention in 1913, and is now secretary of the Ramblers Literary club. The father's usefulness was cut short by his early death at the age of fifty-six on April 26, 1912, and the event was universally mourned throughout South Dakota, in Minneapolis and in all other places where the people had knowledge of the genuine worth and conspicuous usefulness of the life which then closed.

Moses P. Hayes

Living now retired from all active pursuits, and serene in the enjoyment of the rest he has well earned by many trials and triumphs in business in his long and active career, and by his arduous labors in conducting a variety of useful enterprises at different places and in different lines of industrial and mercantile endeavor, Moses P. Hayes enjoys the respect of all classes of the people of this city, and the cordial regard of all who know him well and associate with him intimately. He was an early settler in St. Anthony, as East Minneapolis was called when he located here, and if he did not assist at the birth of the new metropolis at the head of the Mississippi, he was at least one of the guides and guardians of its l)oyhood, to personify the place, and a wise and helpful aid to its growth and development.

Mr. Hayes, whose liomc is now at 525 University avenue, was born at Limerick, Miiine, on December 6, 1829. The circumstances of his parents compelled him to begin caring for himself at an early age, and the self-reliance thus taught him has been a valuable asset through all his subsequent years. As a boy he went to work in a butcher shop in Brighton, Mass., at a wage of $150 a year. He proved capable, industrious and attentive to the interest of his employers to such an extent that his pay was raised to $200 for the second year, and to $300 for the third year. After that he received $600 a year as long as he continued to work for the employers with whom he began his career; becoming head butcher.

By the time he reached the age of twenty-five years he had accumulated $1,000 by fnigality and good management, and with that as active, ready and responsive capital to begin any new venture he might wish to make in business, he came to St. Anthony, arriving in October, 1854. Albert Stimson of Stillwater had married his sister, and Mr. Hayes accompanied them to their home in wliat was then the far West. Albert Stimson's cousin Charles had come to St. Anthony in 1850, and was engaged in the lumber trade here. About 1857 he erected the big mill on the island, but the undertaking proved disastrous. He is still living, now past ninety years of age, and has his home at Elk River.

Mr. Hayes, in association with Charles Stimson and his brother Daniel, built a butcher shop, Mr. Hayes assuming the management of it, and engaged in supplying the local market with meat. The shop was located on Second avenue just off Main street, and for a number of years the firm had an extensive local trade. In the course of time Charles Stimson withdrew from the firm, and some time afterward Daniel sold his interest in it and moved to Oregon. Harman Martin tlien became a partner of Mr. Hayes.

The butchering business was not to Mr. Martin's taste, and he induced Mr. Hayes to join him in the purchase of a foundry and machine shop at Belle Plaine. This they moved to St. Anthony at once, locating it near First avenue and the river bank. Here they manufactured flour and saw mill machinery, and while neithsr of them had had any previous experience in the industry, they made their undertaking successful and built up an extensive and profitable business in it.

Mr. Martin in time sold his interest in the establishment to C. R. Bushnell, and the business continued to prosper and grow until the plant was destroyed by fire in 1879. The loss of patterns by the fire was great, and other difficulties were in the way of going on in the industry, and so the firm determined to abandon it and not rebuild the plant. Moreover, other persons had started in the business, and the competition promised to be keen. Altogether, the conditions did not look promising and the machine shop was given up for other engagements.

In company with the late Senator W. D. Washburn and Capt. .John Martin, Mr. Hayes built a lot of grain elevators on the line of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad, locating one at nearly every station from Albert Lea to Rritt, Iowa. Mr. Hayes took charge of the construction o'f these elevators and afterward of the operation of them, buying grain for the mills at Minneapolis for eight or nine years. At the end (if that period the elevators were sold, and Mr. Hayes then joined Mr. Grinnell and Mr. Jordan in putting up a cold storage jdant. This was not a success financially. Mr. Hayes lost .$1,500 in interest and $3,000 he had loaned on the business.

But he was gamp and not to be deterred by disaster. His next venture was an investment of $25,000 in the stock of a school furniture company. This proved more disastrous than the cold storage enterprise. Mr. Hayes not only lost his investment in the stock of the company, but was forced to pay notes he had indorsed to secure funds with which to carry on the business. This company has since been placed on a paying basis, but he is no longer connected with it.

In company with Thomas F. Andrews Mr. Hayes erected an important business block on Bridge Square. This investment has been profitable, as has his purchase of stock in the First National Bank, which he acquired when the bank was started. In politics he has ever been a firm and loyal Republican, but has never sought or desired a political office.

He was made a Freemason in 1864, in Cataract Lodge, and he also belongs to the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council of Royal and Select Masters and the Commandery of Knights Templar in the Masonic fraternity. For more than si.xty years he has been a liberal contributor to the Congregational church.

On June 17, 1855, Mr. Hayes was married at Limerick, Maine, to Miss Elizabeth Stimson, a sister "of Charles Stimson. When he came to St. Anthony this lady was one of the party, she coming out here to visit her brother. She died on October 10, 1900, after a residence in Minneapolis covering forty-six years. Of the four children born of the union all are living. They are: Nellie, the wife of W. E. Chamberlain, a jeweler in Great Falls, Montana; Carrie, the wife of T. J. Dansenberg; Emma, the widow of a Mr. Arthur N. Monroe, who is living with her father, and Frank M., who is also living at home.

Adam Hornung

The late Adam Hornung, who died in San Diego, Cal., on March 30, 1913, aged sixty-three, after a residence in this city of nearly thirty years, gave the community in which he lived and labored on this side of the Atlantic a striking example of German thrift, frugality, and business capacity.

Mr. Hornung was born in the busy commercial city of Mainz in the province of Hesse, Germany, on January 28, 1849. For a number of years he passed his winters in California, and in San Diego, that state, he obeyed Nature's last call on March 30, 1912. His remains were brought to Minneapolis for interment, and they now rest in Lakewood cemetery in this city. Germany gave him birth and Minneapolis burial; and in his active and useful life he reflected great credit on both. He was reared and educated in his native land, and according to the requirements there served his term in the army. His period of service covered the Franco-German war of 1870 and 1871. He took an active part in the short but decisive contest, and was called on to undergo many hardships and privations in doing so. He faced death in a number of battles of the war, but escaped unharmed, and at the close of the struggle returned to his former occupation of jeweler.

In the meantime Mr. Hornung's fatlier had come to the United States and located in Cleveland, Ohio. He Sent for his two sons, Adam and Vincent, and they joined him in Cleveland, where they also had a sister living. Vincent, his sister and their father remained in the Ohio lake metropolis, and Vincent died there in 1913. Adam, however, came on to Chicago, where he engaged in dyeing and cleaning, carrying on a profitable business and growing into extensive favor with the residents of the city. In 1875 he was married in Chicago to Mrs. Mary Penning, who was born in the grand duchy of Luxemburg, but reared in Paris, her parents being French. She came to Cliicago a widow, with two children, but was married soon after her arrival in that city to Mr. Hornung.

After tlioir marriage the couple rcniniiicd in Chicago for about eight years. In 1883 tlu\v cliiuigcd their residence to Minneapolis, and here Mr. Hornung bought the dyeing and cleaning plant of a Mr. M.ver on Bridge Square. He continued the business until his retirement from all active pursiiits in

1902, and it is now conducted under the firm name of Gross Bros. The main establishment, while Mr. Hornung owed the business, was at Tenth avenue and Fifth street, but he had a branch on Cedar avenue, one on the East Side and one in St. Paul. The business proved to be very profitable and grew to great magnitude, ilr. Honning's returns from it enabled him to invest heavily in real estate and pass his winters in California, where tlie climate was more congenial to his health than were the wnters here. His wife died in 1903. She was about to start for California, but her fatal malady attacked her in this city, and here her life ended.

Mr. Hornung became a citizen as soon as he could after coming to this country, and to the end of his career always took a warm and helpful interest in the institutions, aims, industries and public affairs of his adopted land. He was a devout and zealous member of the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, of which the present Archbishop Kane was the pastor for many years. He was also interested in athletic pursuits and belonged to the German Harmonia Society.

Mrs. Hornung had two daughtcre by her first marriage. Elizabeth became the wife of A. R. Brandt of Chicago, where she died at the age of thirty-three. Margaret, the other daughter, is now the wife of P. J. Thielen of Minneapolis. Their mother was a lady of fine business capacity, and she took an a'ctive and very helpful interest in all the affairs of her husband. She possessed great force of character and was highly educated, being particularly an accomplished linguist and able to read, write and converse with fluency and accuracy in the French. German and English languages, and having an intimate knowledge of the best literature in each. She was also a lady of social culture and refinement, and made a pleasant and lasting impression on everybody with whom she came in contact. Like her husband, she is remembered in Minneapolis with admiring regard, and the foi'ce of her elevating and stimulating example is still serviceably felt in the city of her long residence, as is that of her husband's influence.

Arthur W. Harper, organizer and president of the Minneapolis State Bank, has been prominently identified with that institution since its incorporation September 28. I'.ilis. In January of that year he came to Minneapolis. The bank was organized with a capital of $25,000. which in 1912 was increased to $30,000. Its deposits are nearly $.i00.000, and it has a surplus of $20,000. Mr. Harper became cashier and Roy Quimby vice-president. Fred M. Powers was the first president and was succeeded bj' B. W. Smith. Mr. Harper was elected in 1911, after three years of service as cashier. A. W. Harper and L. M. Chamberlain became vice-presidents.

Mr. Harper was born at Owatonna, Minn., where his father, L. T. Harper had come from Moline. 111., in 1868. He was the first manufacturer of foi'ce pumps in the State, having his factory at Owatonna. The grasshopper years in Minnesota so discouraged him that he removed to Minnehaha county. South Dakota, where he took up a homestead eighteen miles north of Sioux Falls. He continued there and at Parker, South Dakota, with the exception of a few years spent in California, until his death. Arthur Harper accompanied his father to South Dakota and his boyhood was largely passed on the homestead. At nineteen he secured a position in a bank, and in six years had advanced to the position of manager. Previous to coming to Minneapolis, in 1908, he had already organized three banks in South Dakota. He is secretary and treasurer of the Bankers' Security company, which has a paid up capital in excess of $100,000. E. E. Merrill is president of this company, which is closely allied with the Minneapolis State bank, handling stocks, loans and real estate, and owns the controlling interest in several other corporations. Aside from his banking interests Mr. Harper is identified with the Brownton (Minn.) State Bank, and in other corporations.

He is a member of the West Side Commercial club and the Calhoun Commercial club, and is a trustee in the First Baptist Church. He was married in South Dakota to Miss Stella Near. They have two children, Alzo and Keith.

William Chandler Johxson

William Chandler .Johnson, secretary and treasurer of the Northwestern Casket Company, was born in St. Anthony November 1, 1856, being a Son of Luther G. and Cornelia E. (Morrill) Johnson. The father was a native of New Hampshire, settling at St. Anthony Falls in 1853. He was one of the pioneer merchants and helped lay the foundations of the city and its trade, giving even then an illustration of the spirit of broad and compiehensive enterprise that was to distinguish the future business center. Judge E. M. Johnson, whose biography and portrait are in this work, was another son.

William C. .Johnson attended the public Schools of St. Anthony and Minneapolis and for three years the State University. After acquiring a knowledge of merchandising in his father's store he went to Duluth in the employ of the Duluth Iron company. He was for a time cashier in a wholesale flour house in New York city, and spent one year with the Minneapolis Harvester company. In 1887 he became secretary and treasurer of the Northwestern Casket Company, since then being one of the prominent manufacturers and has taken an active part in local development and improvement, as in organized social life. For many years he has been a director of the East Side State Bank and is a member of the St. Anthony Commercial club, the Civic and Commerce Association and the Lafayette club.

Wm. S. Hewitt, head of the Security Bridge Company, although comparatively young in years is a veteran in bridge construction. Bom in 1864, he entered the business which became his life work in 1887, and his name is now identified, after a shade more than a quarter of a century, with some of the largest highway bridge structures between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Coast.

obtained the foundations of his now technical education. He went througli tlie common schools, the high school, and the normal school. When he was only 23 years old he engaged in business in Minneapolis, associating himself with an uncle, S. M. Hewitt, who had himself gone into the bridge business in 1880. Great possibilities loomed before the young man; it was an attractive profession, and he rapidly proved his fitness. In the years that followed, Mr. Hewitt gained a remarkably varied experience, coming in contact with every phase of the work.

In 1897 the firm of W. S. Hewitt and Company was organized. It was incorporated in 1911, as the Security Bi'idge Company, with an authorized capital stock of $250,000, and at once became a factor to be reckoned with in the strongly competitive field of Northwestern bridge contracting. Its specialty was highway bridges, but it built all kinds of bridge structures, in iron, steel, and concrete. Minneapolis was made its headquarters, and branch offices were also established in Billings, Montana, and in Lewiston, Idaho.

It does a business nearly $750,000 annually and employs, in its construction work over the great Northwest, more than 300 men. W. S. Hewitt was the first president of the company, and continued in that position until 1913, when his nephew, A. L. Hewitt, was made president and placed in charge of the Billings offices, while the uncle continued in Minneapolis, as vice president and treasurer.

Mr. Hewitt was married in 1891 to Miss Helen Obert. Tliey have a family of five children: Maurice, a student in the Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota; Agnes, wife of E. H. Carvill, of Montana; Harold, Pauline, and Elizabeth. The family home is a handsome residence at 4602 Dupont Avenue South, in the beautiful Lynnhurst region. Mr. Hewitt is a member of the New Athletic club of Minneapolis, and also is a member of Hennepin Lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M.

Anthony W. Ingenhutt

Anthony W. Ingenhutt was born in Northeast Minneapolis September 34, 1886, and is a son of Joseph and JIary (Keating) Ingenhutt, the former a native of Gladbach, Germany. They were married in Minneapolis in 1877, and here the mother died October 30, 1908. In 1863 the father came to Minneapolis at fifteen years of age with his parents, William and Mary Gertrude (Geopkins) Ingenhutt, who bought the farm, then containing sixty-seven acres, of Edward Bacli, the first postmaster of St. Anthonj^. It had half a mile of river frontage, a good dwelling house and other improvements, and was then considered one of the most desirable residence sites near the city. The price paid was $1,600, a large one for the period, but lie reckoned tliat tlie city would grow to it eventually. The limit then was Eighteenth avenue north, and the farm being at what is now Marshall street and Twenty-ninth avenue, and the city limits extending to Thirty-seventh avenue, his expectation has been fully realized. Since then fifty-five acres have been added and part of the tract bordering the river has been leased and is occupied by the Northland Pine Company.

William Ingenhutt died in 1872. His widow survives, and on March 20, 1914, celebrated the one hundredtli anniversary of her birth. She is active and energetic, and even at her advanced age, continues to do her own housework. They were the parents of five cliildren, Joseph, John, Anthony, Mary and Theresa. John, Antliony and Theresa are still living at home with their mother. Joseph, the father of Anthony W., died a number of years ago, and Mary M. is the wife of John Reiners of this city. The family has been parishioners of St. Boniface Catliolie church for more than fifty years.

Joseph Ingenliutt helped to manage his father's farm, dairy and butchering business until the age of twenty-one, then becoming a cement sidewalk and paving contractor. For a number of years he was councilman from the First ward and was accorded the cognomen of "Honest Joe" because of his unflinching integrity and unselfish devotion to the general welfare. He had clear and practical ideas, and with convincing argument exerted an influence in securing betterments. He was a stanch Democrat, but was free from party bias in matters affecting the improvement of the city, and rendered excellent service for several years as a member of the park board. He reared a family of three sons and one daughter. Gertrude E. is living with her grandmother. John J. is vice president of the Northeast Feed Mill companj', and Thomas S. is a grain merchant.

Anthony W. Ingenhutt, the other son and the third born, obtained his education in the public schools, at St. Boniface Catholic school, of which he is a graduate, and at La Salle Institute, conducted by the Christian Brothers, from whi'eh also he was graduated in 1904. He then worked as a bookkeeper for the Gluek Brewing company, and in 1909 started his present real estate and insurance business. His pride in and devotion to the city and the nature of his business have made him an ardent advocate of public improvements, especially those affecting the East Side. Largely through his efforts greater school and playground facilities have been secured, street car extensions have been made, and many other steps taken in keeping with the advanced spirit of the time.

Mr. Ingenhutt is a firm believer in the power of organization and has made his faith in this respect practical. He is president of the St. Anthony Commercial club. He also belongs to the Knights of Columbus, the Order of Elks, the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Apollo club and the Elks Glee club, the former being the leading male chorus in the Northwest, and is president of the Northeast Minneapolis Improvement association.

Mr. Ingenhutt is a devout Catholic and holds active membership in St. Boniface churcli. He is a worker for all advancement, moral, social and civic. In 1909 he was married to Miss Catherine Weeks of Minneapolis. They have one child, Catherine Mary. He is fond of outdoor sports, being especially ardent in his devotion to tennis, hand ball, the enlivening game of squash and indoor baseball.

Joseph Henry Johnson

Joseph Henry Johnson was horn in Calais, Maine. Jan. 17, 1853, and came with his mother and steiifathcr. Justin Dow, to Minneapolis April 1857.

He is the son of Rev. Charles Henry Augustine Johnson and his second wife, Navini Ann Moore, both of whom were lineal descendants of the New England Puritans. One of his paternal ancestors was Rev. Stephen Bachiler (or Batchelder), founder of the town of Hampton, New Hampshire, and the first minister of the town. Another of his paternal ancestors was Rev. Robert Yallalee, who was ordained by Bishop Coke in 1796 for the Foulah Mission, Africa, and with others went to Sierra Leone. Owing to war the missionaries were compelled to leave. He sailed for America, joined the Methodist itinerants of New England in 1796 and was appointed to Provincetown, Mass. In 1797 he was colleague of Joshua Taylor on Readfield Circuit, Maine. He founded the society at Saco, Maine. It was his privilege to receive into the church the senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal CInirch South, Joshua Soule.

Rev. Robert Yallalee died July 13, 1846, in his seventyeighth year at Rome, Maine (see History of the M. E. Church by Abel Steven, Vol. Ill, Page 498). He married Betsey Hoxie.

The great-great-grandfather of Joseph Henry Johnson and his great-great-great-grandfather were both signers of the Association Test of New Hampshire, viz., Joseph. .Johnson, Sr., and Deacon Joseph Johnson of Hampton, New Hampshire, thus making him eligible to the Sons of the Ameiican Revolution. The subject of this sketch has been a resident of Minneapolis since April, 1857. The white cottage at 318 Fifth street south, where he first lived was still standing in 1913, though there were stores built in front of it.

Early left an orphan, Mr. Johnson was thrown upon his own resources, and at the age of fifteen went to live with the late Judge F. R. E. Cornell, during which time he attended the public schools and business college.

He has been a member of the Methodist church from early boyhood, being one of the few remaining members of Centenary M. E. Church, now Wesley church, which he joined in 1868 and was a member of the Sunday School in 1857 in the '"Xittle White Church Around the Corner."

He is a member of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers, has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1885, is Past Worshipful Master of Minnesota Lodge No. 334, and one of its charter members, also Past Senior Grand Deacon of the M. W. Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Minnesota.

She is descended from the Puritans of New England on both sides. Two of her maternal ancestors were named in the famous charter of Connecticut granted by King Charles, viz., John Deming and Richard Treat. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution through her maternal great-grandfather, Captain .Jabez Deming, and hor paternal great-grandfather, William Bishop. During the middle seventies Jlrs. .Johnson taught in the Lincoln, .Jefferson and Washington schools of this cit.v.

She is a graduate of the Mansfield, Pa., State Normal School, class of 1874, and of the Chaiitauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, class of 1890.

She was Worthy Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star of Minnesota 1895, the banner year in the history of the Order in this State, and Regent of Minneapolis Cliapter, Daughters of the American Revolution 191,3.

Mr. and Mrs. .Joseph Henry .Johnson have two sons. Walter Henry .Johnson, Captain Company C, Second Infantry, United States Army, and Arthur Eugene .Johnson, Second Ijieutenant, Mounted Detachment, First Regiment, Minnesota National Guard. The latter is associated with his father in

Mr. Joseph Henry .Johnson is an active and successful business man. He was early associated with George T. Vail, one of the pioneer undertakers of this city, and continued the business thus established on Washington avenue until 1890, when it was removed to 614 Nicollet avenue. Later the firm was Johnson and Landis, but in 1906 that association ceased, since which time Joseph H. Johnson has conducted the undertaking business at 838 Hennepin avenue.

What is now known as Wyoming Park, near Camden place, was platted and sold by Mr. Johnson for the late John Bohannon in the year 1889, Mrs. Johnson naming the section for the historic Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, which was near her childhood home.

H. S. .Johnson, prominent manufacturer and president of the H. S. Johnson company, was born in Denmark, in 1849. At the age of eighteen he came to this country and for some time was employed in the Union Pacific shops at Omaha. In 1874 he located in Minneapolis and for several years worked at his trade of carpenter in various factories and mills, employed by the Wheat & Reynolds company, manufacturers of sash and doors and subsequently in the Minneapolis Planing mills and in the shops of .Johnson cS Hurd, wlio built the plant which Mr. .Johnson now occupies. In 1878 he formed a partnership with Peter Frazier, purchasing a small shop of Janney Semple Hill & Company and engaging in the manufacture of sash and doors, operating the plant by means of a wire rope that was connected with the machinery of Camp & Walker's planing mill. After some years he sold his interest in this enterprise and in company with Mr. John W. Anderson, started a planing mill on Fourteenth avenue north, under the firm of Anderson &. Johnson. This association continued during five years of profitable and successful trade. At the end of that period Mr. Johnson sold his share of the business to his partner and made an independent venture in the same industry. He operated a mill on Nineteenth avenue for several years, and then, perceiving the fast approaching limitations in the planing mill and lumber business he reverted to his former occupation of the manufacture of sash doors and mouldings and for the past twenty years has devoted his interests to these lines. The firm of Johnson & Hurd, his former employers, had failed and for a number of years the plant had renmined unoccupied and after seven or eight years in his original location he disposed of it and purchased the Johnson & Hurd property on Eighteenth avenue and Marshall street, which became the permanent quarters of his factory. The purchasing price was $30,000 with a cash investment of $10.(100, and in a few years under Mr. .Johnson's management the plant had paid for itself and developed a business of fully three times its former capacity. The company was incorjiorated in 1904 with a capital of $80,000. Mr. Johnson now owns three-fourths of the stock. The other stockholders are Cliarles Lubeck, superintendent of the factory; B. A. Lindpren. who holds a position in the ollices; 0. N. Nelson: Mrs. Bangs of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota: Anna D. .Johnson, wife of Jlr. Johnson, and Bernard Stahr. Tlu- company has enjoyed marked success through a prosperous and steady growth and handles a large local retail and wholesale trade, its annual transactions amounting to $230,000. They make a specialty of interior finish work of all kinds, employing expert workmen. Mr. Johnson is a member of the New Athletic club, the Auto club, the Civic and Commerce association and the North Side Commercial club. His fraternal affiliations are with the Elks and the Masonic order, having attained the rank of the Thirty-second degree. He was treasurer for six years of the Plymouth Masonic Lodge and for a number of years served in the same capacity in Columbia Chapter. He was married to Miss Anna D. Stahr and they have two children, Olga K., the wife of Mr. Hemrichs of Stettin, Germany, and Arthur H., of Muscatine, Iowa.

Olive Talbot Jaffray

In the twenty-five years that Clive Talbot .laflray has been a factor in the banking circles of Minneapolis, he has risen from a clerkship to the vice-presidency. He began his career as a banker in his native city, Berlin, Ontario, in the Merchants' National Bank of Canada. This was soon after he had finished his education in the Canadian public schools. He was associated with this institution for five years and gained there most valuable experience for his future business life. In 1887 he accepted a position as clerk in the Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis. Two years later he was made bookkeeper and in 1890 w^as promoted to the position of assistant cashier of the same institution. In 1895 he was offered a cashiership in the First National Bank of Minneapolis which was then as now one of the leading financial institutions of the city. He has been with this big banking house ever since, part of the time acting both as cashier and as vice-president. He is now devoting all of his time to the activity of the vice-presidency.

Mr. Jaff'ray is a member of all of the leading social organizations of the city, including the Minneapolis and the Minikahda clubs. He is an enthusiastic golf player and spends much of his recreation on the golf links of the Minikahda club. He is a member of the Long Meadow and the Minneapolis Gun Clubs.

Aside from his activity in the First National Bank of Minneapolis he is also in the First National Bank of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, being a director of that institution. He is also interested in the Northwestern Life Insurance Company, the Northwestern Fire and Marine Insurance Company and vice-president of the Minneapolis Trust Company.

Thomas B. .Tanney is yet one of the active and energetic business men of Minneapolis, and at the head of an establishment which connects him in its history and through its acquisitions. He h.us himself been a resident of the city since 1866, and throughout all the Subsequent years has been conducting a very extensive and active business in the hardware trade.

Mr. .Janney was born in the village of Shanesville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, on October 5, 1838, and is the son of Phineas M. and Frances (Smith) Janney. When he was one year old his parents moved to Van Buren county, Iowa, where they lived twelve years, and where he began his education in the district schools. At the age of thirteen he accompanied his parents to a new home in the town of Henry, Illinois, and there attended the academy for instruction in the higher branches. His first business experience was as a clerk in a" general store.

In 1866 Mr. .Janney came to Minneapolis to join his brother Edwin and his brother-in-law, S. T. Moles, in the retail hardware business, which they were then conducting on Bridge Square. For a number of years the firm carried on only a retail business, but it was gradually drawn into the wholesale line, which it then steadily enlarged and emphasized in its operations. The trade grew and Hourished as the years passed, and it became manifest in time that there was room for another enterprise in the same line conducted on a more ambitious basis.

In recognition of this fact Mr. Janney, wlio had been in the hardware trade in this city nine years, in 1875 associated himself with Messrs. Eastman and Brooks and formed the firm of Janney, Brooks & Eastman. This firm purchased the hardware store started by Governor .John S. Pillsbury in 1855, and for a number of years carried on a wholesale and retail business on Bridge Square. The retail department was finally disposed of and the wholesale department was moved to its present location at the corner of First avenue south and Second street.

In 1883 Mr. Brooks died and Mr. Eastman retired from the firm. But Mr. Janney remained at its head and .Janney & Semple was founded and later the present organization, .Janney. Semple, Hill & Company was incorporated as such in 1898. It is by far the largest wholesale hardware establishment in the Northwest, and one of the largest in America. It is in the wholesale trade that Mr. Janney has prospered most and made the greater part of his reputation as a business man. In this he has won the regard and respect of all mercantile circles in his home city and of those in many other localities, far and near.

Mr. Janney has also taken an active and serviceable part in the civic and social life of the city. His aid in fostering and developing the city's interests in every way is generally recognized. For he has been connected with nearly all the movements and institutions which have aided in extending the stability and renown of Minneapolis, and has long been and still is active in all semi-public and philanthropic corporations, organizations and agencies for good of every kind. He was one of the men who founded and conducted the old Minneapolis Exposition twenty-five years ago, and has for years been one of the directors of the Northwestern National Bank. He is also president of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank, and a director of the Equitable Loan Association, which was started as a means of combating loan sharks. It is largely due to his pertinacity in its behalf that this institution was made the gratifying success it is.

Mr. Janney has also long been interested in the work of many civic organizations and has done his full part toward making them as useful and productive of goo<l as possible, and has always given cordial siip])ort to the interests of the Presbyterian Church. He is a director of the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association and belongs to the Minne- apolis, Commercial, Minikahda and Lafayette clubs. In 1869 he was married to Miss Mary E. Wheaton of Minneapolis. They have two children, their daughters Frances, who is still living at home, and Helen, who is now the wife of Charles M. Case of this tity. The delightful home of the family, "Red Oaks," is beautifully located on one of the inviting shores of Lake Minnetonka.

Charles J. Johnsox

Mr. .Johnson is a prominent and well known lumberman, but has reached his position from very humble beginnings and through his own persistent and honorable efforts. There is really no more worthy career than his. He was born on his father's little farm in the parish of Hufmantorp, Sweden, September 12, 1849. His primary education was obtained in the parish school, but he early began to help his father on the farm and worked at farming in Sweden until he was 19.

In 1869 he came to the United States and at first located at Stillwater, Minn. In 1870 he changed his residence to Minneapolis. Feeling that his education was incomplete, he attended a public school on the East Side, and afterward attended one of the city high schools, while working for H. M. Carpenter for his board. After the high school he was for another year at the State University, and also pursued a course of special training at a business college at night, earning his living by clerking in stores, and working in sawmills and lumber yards.

When he left school finally Mr. .Johnson was given employment by Messrs. Camp & Walker in the lumber business, and he remained in their employ for about five years. In 1879 he became connected with C. A. Smith in lumber yards at Evansville, Minn., where he remained until 1884, when he returned to Minneapolis, and here he has been engaged in the lumber trade ever since. He is now vice president of the C. A. Smith Lumber Company and the Northwestern Compo- Board Company. He was one of the directors of the Swedish- American National Bank from its origin until it was consolidated with the Northwestern National, and has been connected with several other business and financial institutions.

Mr. Johnson is an active member of the Odin Club of Minneapolis, and is also liberal in his support of other social organizations and improving agencies. He is a loyal member of the Republican party, and is quietly active in public affairs; but he is more zealous and ardent in behalf of the general welfare of hia home community and its residents than he is in his services to any club, political party or other organization among men. The duties of citizenship come first with him, and other claims receive attention afterward.

Mr. .Johnson was married May 23, 1881, to Miss Mary S. Craft. They have three sons, Victor, Guy and Ansel. The family residence is at 2325 Fremont Avenue South. From the time when he first came to Minneapolis the father has been a member of Augustana Swedish Lutheran Church, and for many years was one of its trustees. Mr. Johnson has practically retired from all active pursuits and is passing his time in rest from long-continued and arduous labors, relief from business burdens and cares. He is an enthusiastic bowler, and has a private bowling alley on his premises in which he spends an hour or two every morning. He is one of the most generally esteemed men in Minneapolis, and the public

Frederick C. Barrows

The firm of Barrows Bros, was for many years among tlie most extensive operators in the lumber trade in Minneapolis. Its members are practical men, who master every line of effort they undertake and give close and critical attention to every detail of their business, whatever may be its nature and requirements. It is, therefore, only a logical sequence of their ability and industry that they have been successful in all of the several business engagements with which they have been connected and in every avenue of usefulness which has had their attention.

Colonel Fred C. Barrows was born in Orono, Maine, on 29th of March, 1830, and is the son of Micah and Judith (Smart) Barrows. He came to St. Anthony in 1855, whither he was soon followed by his brother, William M. Barrows. They soon began operations in the lumber industry, and made themselves thoroughly familiar with it in every stage and detail by actual personal participation in its work through every step of progress from the standing tree to the last turn of the factory on the finished product; and this they also attended into the retail yards and the possession of the consumer, when it was sold at retail.

In 1869 these enterprising gentlemen founded the Barrows Bros, company with a large mill in active operation. The growth of the business was so rapid and continuous that ten years later greater capital and more help in management were required, and then 0. C. Merriman and J. S. and L. M. Lane became members of the company. In 1909 the business was incorporated under the name of The Merriman Barrows company. This company invested largely in pine lands, logged off its own timber, banked it and drove it to the mill. A large box factory was added to the plant, and as long as its timber supply lasted the company was one of the largest manufacturing institutions in the Northwest. When the supply was exliausted the mill was dismantled, and attention was then given to an advantageous disposal of the property, which included not only the large tracts of land that had been cut over but several acres in the mill sites and yards.

The energies and business ability of the members of the company were turned into real estate channels, and all the property w'as in time disposed of at good prices. This company was very prosperous m its operations, but it also met with some serious losses. Two immense mills were destroyed by fire and other disasters were suffered. But there was sufficient force and enterprise in the men at the head of the business to overcome all difficulties and keep the tides of prosperity at flood most of the time.

Colonel Fred Barrows platted Barrows' Addition to Minneapolis around the intersection of Lyndale avenue and Forty-third street. The company has since erected several business and residence structures in the wholesale district of the city and has put some of the land in use under long leases, thus necessitating the continuance of the incorporation, under the influence and control of which the improvements will go on with steady progress and to great proportions, and of which he is still president.

the destiny of Minneapolis and raising the standards of its industrial, commercial and civic life and activities. William M. served as a member of the city board of aldermen from 1880 to 1885. His brother, Fred C, then succeeded to the office, and he has helped to settle many important municipal problems. One for wliich he is doubtless entitled to more credit than any other one man was limiting Minneapolis to a single street railway company.

In order that he might act intelligently on this question Colonel Barrows visited cities with competing lines and cities with but one company. He studied the matter thoroughly and found the argument in favor of one company so overwhelming that he stood valiantly for the one line S3'stem here, and finally, after considerable effort and a large amount of adverse criticism, won the day for his views, thus sparing Minneapolis the inevitable conflicts which involve competing companies, an immense amount of unnecessary trackage and various other costly and discomforting features in its street railway system. Colonel Barrows, however, demanded strict regulation of the one company allowed, and from his positive stand in this respect have resulted the unsurpassed street railway facilities the residents of Minneapolis and the adjacent territory enjoy.

With his strong desire to benefit his home community by every means available Colonel Barrows became one of the original stockliolders of the Soo Railroad. He realized its value to Minneapolis, and was eager to aid all he could in its construction, although he knew from the beginning that the road could not possibly pay any dividends to its stockholders for many years. He has largely increased his holdings in the stock of this road in recent times, and he is now enjoying some measure of the legitimate fruits of his foresight and enterprise in connection with it.

Governor David Clough, in 1898, appointed Colonel Barrows state inspector of oils. The colonel conducted the aflairs of this office with an eye single to the public good and won general and cordial commendation by his wise and vigorous administration of its extensive and complicated duties. He served two terms on the State Board of Equalization, was also a member of Governor Clough's staff.

Colonel Barrows has been married twice. His first union occurred in 1865 and was with Miss Sarah J. Swain, of Monticello, Mo. She died in 1873, and in March 9, 1877, he was married to Mrs. Sadie .J. (BusshII) Jones, she has a son Earl W. C, an attorney at law, as his second wife. His children are: Nellie, now the wife of F. R. Salisbury, of Minneapolis; Fred J., who is at home; and Frank, a well known and very successful music teacher and conductor at Antioch, California. Another son, named Harry, was deputy state oil inspector for a numbeif of years and secretary of the state senate for two terms. He became an osteopathic physician, but died while he was yet a young man, before he had time to make his mark in his profession, as ho surely would have done if he had lived.

Colonel Barrows is an enthusiastic Freemason and one of the oldest members of the fraternity in Minneapolis, having been raised to the Sublime Degree of a Master Mason in Cataract Lodge in 1859. He holds membership in all the different branches in the Order, including the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite and the Mystic Shrine, being connected with Zurah Temple, Minneapolis, in the branch last named. He takes an active part in the meetings and proceedmgs of the difl'erent bodies in the fraternity and is a zealous promoter of the welfare of each. In business, in public oflice.

in social life and in the duties of citizenship generally, he has demonstrated his great ability and genuine worth, and he is esteemed in all parts of the city as one of its best, most useful and most representative men from every point of view.

Andrew Blake Jackson

By birth he belongs to the sturdy sons of the soil for his ancestors were a race of Connecticut farmers for several generations. These forebears were Colonists and then soldiers in the War of the Revolution. By his training he became a scholar and a professional man, having spent his school days in Brooklyn, Freeport and Utica, New York, and graduating from Hobert College, Geneva, New York, in 1870, and from Columbia Law School, New York, in 1873. Fart of his years of training were spent in a law office at Utica, N. Y. His years of endeavor brought him into the wealthy professional class of Minneapolis, and developed in him the highest characteristics for good citizenship, and he has been one of the most enthusiastic and efficient participants in all public enterprises which have made for the up-building of the great city of Minneapolis.

After Mr. Jackson received his degree from the Columbia Law School he practiced his profession for five years in New York City. While there he became attorney for the Bondholders' Committee of the Kansas City Railway and spent most of his time during 1878 in Kansas City. When the Kansas City Railway was absorbed by the Union Pacific in 1880 he came to Minneapolis to engage in private practice. For a number of years he was in partnership with Judge Pond under the firm name of Jackson and Pond and later the firm name became Jackson and Atwater when he formed li partnership with Judge Atwater.

He has never sought office and has only been interested in politics so far as it was his duty as a man and a citizen. He believes in the principles of the Republican party and is an earnest student of conditions and the political situation.

A year after he came to make Minneapolis his home he was married to Eugenia Cheney Adams. They have two children living. The son, Anson Blake Jackson, Jr., was graduated from Yale University with the class of 1907 and the daughter, Margaret E. Jackson, who was a member of the graduating class from Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1906.

David Percy Jones

The men born and reared in a cDmmunity who rise to eminence among its people and maintain their rank are usually the best representatives of the characteristics, attributes, aspirations and achievements of the residents of that comniunit}', and present in their own records most frequently an epitome of its history and the sources of its progress. Among the business and public men of Minneapolis none more dearly holds this relation to the city than Uavid P. Jones, several times its mayor, and for many years one of its leading business men, public spirits and social ornaments.

Mr. Jones was born in Minneapolis on July 6, 1800, and is a son of Judge Edwin S. and Harriet M. (.Tames) Jones. He was educated in the public schools of the city, being graduated from the Minneapolis High School in 1878, after which he attended the University of Minnesota, and from it received the degree of A. B. in 1883. Young as he was at his graduation he felt a call to business and an impelling ambition to take his place in the stirring activities and large ejfcitement of the mart - "in among the throngs of men."

Accordingly, he at once entered the business founded by his father in 1868, embracing real estate, mortgage loans, rentals and fire insurance. With this business he was connected under its original form and management until January 1, 1900, when it was incorporated as David P. .Jones & Co., with himself as president, which he has been ever since. The business has grqwn and flourished from its inception, and has long held a leading place among the mercantile entities of the city, Mr. .Jones being everywhere recognized as one of the best posted and. most judicious men in his line, and as having excellent judgment in reference to business affairs in general.

Mr. Jones has shown this versatility and resourcefulness in his practical business operations, which embrace several enterprises besides the one in which he began his career. He is president of the .Jones Realty company and tlie Jones-Davis Agency, and vice president of the Hennepin County Savings Bank, and is connected in an inrtuential way with other business undertakings of great value to tlie community. In every line of endeavor to which he has put his hand he has shown unusual capacity and been successful in carrying his operations to a high plane and also in making them profitable to himself and beneficial to the people around him.

This wise and progressive business man of Superior talent has not confined his activities to mercantile life alone. With a good citizen's interest in the community in which he lives, he has for years taken an active part in public afiairs, local and general, and has given Minneapolis excellent service in connection with the administration of its civil government in two important positions. He represented his ward in the board of Aldermen six years, and during four was president of the board. He was also acting mayor from July to December 31, 1902, and was first elected mayor for the term beginning .January 1, 1905. The wisdom, vigor and progressiveness of his official administration brought him great credit and warm commendation from all classes of the residents of the city.

On May 13, 1891, Mr. .Jones was married in Minneapolis to Miss Alice Gale, who was born and reared in Minneapolis. They are members of the Congregational church, and in its councils Mr. Jones is active, prominent and .serviceable. He is president of the board of trustees of Carleton College at Northfield, Minnesota, and a member of the Anu-rican Board of Foreign Missions. He is also a member of the executive committee of the National Municipal League. In each of these organizations he is zealous in his attention to the interests he has in charge and with reference to them all he makes his force of character and intelligence felt.

a Freemason, a member of the Loyal Legion, and belongs to the Minneapolis, University, Six O'clock and Minikahda clubs. His membership in each is highly valued and of benefit through his activity, his breadth of view and his strong and stimulating personality. There is no better citizen of Minneapolis, and none who is more widely or favorably known for progressiveness, aggressiveness for what he believes to be right, purity of private life and genuine interest in the public welfare than the former mayor of the city, David P. Jones.

Herschell V. Jones

Mr. Jones is a native of Jefferson, Schoharie county, New York, where his life began on August 30, 1861. He is a son of William S. and Helen E. (Merchant) .Jones, and obtained his education in the district schools and at Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin, New York. His trend was toward journalism from early life, and in 1879, when he was but eighteen years of age he became the owner of the .Jefferson (N. Y.) Courier. In 1885 he moved to Minneapolis, and here he began his journalistic work as a reporter on the Minneapolis Journal. With this paper he was connected in various capacities for seventeen years. Late in the eighties he founded his newspaper market service and became its commercial editor.

In 1001 Mr. .Jones started "The Commercial West," a weekly publication which he conducted until September 1, 1908, when he became owner of the Minneapolis Journal.

Although Mr. Jones has never been an active partisan, and has never sought or desired a political office of any kind, he has been a firm believer in the principles of the Republican party from his youth, and wherever he has lived has been earnestly and serviceably interested in public affairs. He is a member of the Minneapolis, Minikahda, and Skylight chibs. On September 30, 1885, he was married to Lydia A. Wilco.x, of .Jefferson, New York.

Samuel S. Thorpe

Mr. Thorpe was born on April 20, 1864, at Red Wing, Minnesota, a .son of Samuel S. and Caroline E. (Emery) Thorpe, both of New England ancestry, but with the family on the father's side long domesticated in the state of New York, while that of the mother lived for generations in Maine. The father was a Methodist minister and for a number of years a member of the faculty of Hamline University in this state. The son's educational facilities in early life were meagre, and what he obtained was just sufficient to whet his appetite to keenness for more. But the circumstances of the family compelled him to earn bread by the sweat of his brow while he was yet very young, and he entered upon the task of doing it with all his powers and stuck to it as if held by the tug of gravitation.

After a few years of sedulous indtistry and great frugality he was able to attend Hamline University for a time. But he could not complete the course of study at that institution, and accepting the inevitable with cheerfulness, again went to work. That is, he went into business and at once began showing the metal of which he was made. He accumulated about $70,000 in two years, then gave up all mencantile

Prior to this, after serving for awhile as a newsboy, he secured a position in a liat store in 1883. During the next two years he was employed in a bank, and from that he engaged in handling real estate, in which his success was great from the start. After returning from Princeton well fortified with the knowledge he luid craved he re-entered the real estate business in association with his brother, J. R. Thorpe, under the firm name of Thorpe Bros., the style under which the business is still conducted although it is now incorporated with Samuel S. Thorpe as president of the company.

Thorpe Brothers and the corporation of the same name have built a large number of the jobbing houses in this part of the city and have handled and sold or built large numbers of the wholesale and retail buildings. The company is also agent for a great many of the leading business blocks in Minneapolis, including the Andrus Building, the Palace Building, the Plymouth Building, the Dyckman Hotel, and many others of magnitude and importance.

Samuel S. Thorpe is president of Thorpe Bros., real estate, incorporated, as stated above; a trustee of Hamline University and secretary of the board, and vice president of the Asbury Hospital of Minneapolis; president of the University Club and served as president of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges. He is eminently social in his disposition, and manifests it by active, helpful and valued membership in the Minneapolis, Athletic, Minikahda, University and Automobile clubs. He is also in close touch with the genius of improvement awake and at work in his community, and one of the potential factors in all undertakings started and carried on by it. Every phase of his business, locally and generally, engages his close and deeply interested attention, and he is particularly active in connection with national real estate affairs. In 1911 he was president of the National Real Estate Association, which for some time previous to that year he served as vice president. At the conventions of this association he has been for years a regular attendant, and over the one that met in Denver, Colorado, in July, 1911, he presided with distingiiished ability which won him high commendation.

Mr. Thorpe was married on October 3, 1899, to Miss Margaret P. Andrus, a daughter of Hon. John E. Andrus, of Yonkers, New York. Thej' have four children, their sons Andrus, James R., Jule and Samuel S., .Jr. Besides being one of the leading business men of Minneapolis the father is one of the city's most admired and esteemed citizens from every point of view.

Hon. Lowell E. Jepson

Lowell Ellsworth Jepson is a scion of one of the pioneer families and was born on the old homestead in Rice county, on the 19th of October, 1863. His parents were John and Lydia (Sherpy) Jepson, the former born in New York and the latter in Ohio, where they were married and from whence they 'came to Minnesota in the '50s. .John Jepson reclaimed a fine farm and became a substantial agriculturist and well known and influential citizen. During the Civil war he was a member of the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery, and his patriotism was on a parity with his sterling character. He was influential in public aifairs, contributing his full quota to the development and upbuilding of the county. He also conducted for a number of years a prosperous general merchandise business at Cannon City. He passed the closing years of a long and useful life in Minneapolis, where he died on January 21, 1913, at the age of seventy-eight. He was a stalwart in the Republican party, and his religious faith was that of the Congregational church.

Lowell E. .Jepson was reared on the old homestead and his preliminary education was in the public schools. He entered Carleton College at Northfield, in which institution he completed the scientific course, graduating in the class of 1887, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Later his alma mater conferred the degree of Master of Science.

In 1888 he purchased the Winkley patents on artificial limbs and with these as the base of operations he instituted, on a most modest scale, the enterprise which has been developed into one of the mofst important industries of Minneapolis. With limited capital he began manufacturing artificial limbs, his original quarters comprising one small room and employing two workmen. He studied anatomy and mechanics, with a view of making limbs that would most nearly supply the place of natural members of the human body, and this investigation was carried to a diligent study in meeting the needs of individual eases, and proving a force in bringing the business to its present prominence and success. Im])rovements have been made and new patents have been secured to supplement the original excellent ones. The reputation of the manufactory is of the highest, thousands afflicted by the loss of limbs being drawn to the establishment by the conceded excellence of its product.

In 1906 was erected and equipped the present fine manufacturing plant at Fourteenth and Washington avenues North, and here employment is given to a corps of fifty highly skilled artisans.

Mr. Jepson is loyal and public-spirited and a zealous champion of the Republican party. In 1898 he was elected from the Forty-fourth district to the state senate, and forthwith became known as an active and effective worker. He took a part in all legislation pertaining to sanitary, medical and general health regulations, working to elevate the professional standard in the various medical institutions of the state. To his efforts was largely due the establishment of the state tuberculosis hospital at Walker, and the legislation providing means for the treatment, under state auspices, of deformed children. Study of anatomy taught him the expediency of treating deformed children while young, his labors in this initial provision for the proper care of such children being acknowledged.

Mr. .Jepson became one of the organizers of the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association, and was selected a member of its first board of directors. For sixteen years Mr. Jepson has been a member of the board of trustees of Carleton College, and has the distinction of being the first of a younger generation to be called to this position in the college in which he himself was graduated. Both he and wife are members of Pilgrim Congregational church, contributing to its generic work and collateral, benevolences, also to charities and general philanthropic work.

Avillis Jason Jexnison

The late Willis J. Jennison, who died in Minneapolis, at his home, 2546 Portland avenue, June 11, 1908, was identified with diversified interests and displayed superior capacity and public spirit.

He was born at Shelburne, Chittenden county, Vermont, May 17, 1852, was reared on a farm and attended Essex Classical School and Barre Academy. His parents had died in his infancy, but a well-to-do and generous uncle gave him a pleasant home, reared him with parental care and provided liberally for his education. Through life the recollections of the years passed in that home were among his chief sources of pleasure, cherishing the memory of the uncle with gratitude and appreciative aff'ection.

At twenty-two Mr. Jennison came to Janesville, Minnesota, where Warren Jennison, his much older half-brother, was engaged in business. He clerked in a store for a time and then for five years conducted a retail lumber yard at Waseca. In 1882, in partnership with Stokes Bros., he built a flouring mill at Watertown, South Dakota, which he managed for five years. Returning to Waseca he devoted the next six years to looking after his interests in a large mill at Janesville, a few miles distant.

He became a resident of Minneapolis in 1893, and for some three years thereafter gave his attention to mills outside the city. In 1896 he organized the W. J. .Jennison company, which acquired a large mill at Apjileton, Minn. Mr. Jennison served as president of this company and head of an extensive wholesale flour business until his death.

For some years he was also interested in Gregory, .Jennison & Company, grain dealers in Minneapolis, and in the Powers Elevator company. He was thus interested in .several flourishing mills, and as long as able gave his personal attention to their direction. He also was a stockholder and director in a bank at Janesville, but his energies were centered principally in the grain and milling business, and in those lines of industrial and mercantile enterprise he was an important factor.

After a residence of three years at Janesville, Mr. .Jennison returned to Hinesburgh, Vermont, and was there married in 1877 to Miss Florence Beecher, a daughter of Dr. Elmer Beecher, and a descendant of an old and distinguished New England family. They have one child, Helen, who is with her mother at the pleasant residence, which was erected in 1900. Mr. Jennison was a great believer in young men, and was ever ready to assist them, not only with encouraging words, but also with sympathetic deeds and, when necessary, with financial aid. He was one of the most highly and generally esteemed men in the community.

Because no small niinilvr of his former pnjiils have come to be enrolled in the lists of musicians of more than ordinary accomplishment, the name of C.ustavus .Johnson stands high among the instructors of the West. For more than thirtyfive years Mr. .Johnson has been one of the foremost musicians of the Northwest. It was early in his youth, in Stockholm, Sweden, that his musical talents pointed the way to an illustrious career, and his realization, in a great measure.

of early predictions of success have fully borne out the childhood promise. It was in Stockholm, in conjunction with his education in high school, that he gained his first training, studying the piano and theory of music under the leading masters of the art in that seat of music in Northern Europe. He added to this schooling in the Schartau business college in Stockholm and was graduated from there in 1874. A year later he emigrated to America and after looking about him in the East concluded the West held fine opportunities of which he preferred to take advantage. He came direct to Minneapolis, and here for the most part of the time he has remained. He rapidly attracted a following of appreciative people in musical circles, and soon came into more than ordinary prominence, both as an instructor in music and as a concert pianist. His talents likewise took the direction of original composition, and throughout the long period of his residence in Minneapolis he has from time to time produced not only for the piano but for other instruments as- well as for the voice. His most noteworthy works are a trio for piano, violin and cello, and a concerto for piano and orchestra. He has taken a prominent part in musical organizations, and his influence has been more than state-wide, partly through his leadership in the Minnesota Music Teachers' Association, of which he was president 1905-6.

Mr. Johnson is a son of Peter Johnson, a native of Sweden, and Henrietta Hole, a daughter of that Admiral Hole who had so glorious a record in the annals of the English navy. The Holes were an old English family, and the youth who first distinguished himself as a lieutenant under Lord Nelson entered the navy about 1795, served through the battle of Trafalgar and several other notable battles, and won his way to the rank of admiral. At the time of his death in 1870 Admiral Hole was the oldest officer - and admittedly one of the most gallant - in the English navy.

The boy Gustavus Johnson was born in Hull, England, and lived there until he was three years old. It was then that his parents moved to Stockholm, and it was in Stockholm that the son remained until he was nineteen years old, when he came to America. Mr. .lohnson was born November 2, 1856. He was married in 1882 to Miss Caroline Frances Winslow, a direct descendant of that Governor Edward Winslow who was so prominent in the events of colonial times in America. They have a daughter, Laura Louise. Mr. .Johnson now gives the greater part of his time to conducting the Johnson School of Music, Oratory and Dramatic Art, which he established in 1898 - the second large and important school of its kind to be founded in Minneapolis.