Minneapolis City (part 67 of 80)

Harry A. Tuttle

Harry A. Tuttle, now president and general manager of the North American Telegraph company, the Northwestern connection of the Postal Telegraph and Cable system, is a native of Oswego. New York, where his life began on September 19, 1846, and a son of .John and Mary Elizabeth (Perkins! Tuttle. The father was a pattern maker by trade but became a builder and passed the greater part of his later life in that occupation. The son spent his boyhood and early youth in Oswego, and was graduated from the high school m that city at the age of fifteen. He then entered the telegraph service at Adams, New York, as an operator on the I'nitcd

States Biancli Telegrapli com'pany's lines. He has been in this important and exacting service ever since, except during the period between 1876 and 1882.

Mr. Tuttle was manager of the Western Union office at Oswego from 1870 to 1876. But in the meantime he was transferred from Adams to Ilion and was manager for the company there until its consolidation with the Western Union and after that time until he was assigned to duty in Oswego. From 1876 to 1882 he was engaged in merchandising, and in the year last named came to Minneapolis, arriving on February 13, _ and at once assuming the management of the Western Union office here. He remained in charge of that office until February, 1886, when he resigned to accept the general superintendency of the North American Telegraph company. He superintended the construction of the lines of that com|)any. and was elected its secretary and general manager. Afterward he was elected vice president and general manager, and still later president and general manager, the position in the company which he now liolds. He has done excellent work in connection with this company, and his ability and enterprise in performing it have given him an enviable reputation as a telegraph man throughout the Northwest.

The club life of his home community has interested Mr. Tuttle and he has long been a potential factor in it. He belongs to the Minneapolis Commercial club, of which he was president in 1909 and 1910, the Minnesota club, of St. Paul, the Minneapolis Athletic, Rotary and Elks' clubs and the Chicago Athletic Association. He was married on June 15, 1870, at Ilion, New York, to Miss Amanda Carpenter. They had one cliild, a son, Charles W. Tuttle. Mr. Tuttle is a Republican in his political faith and takes an active and serviceable interest in local public affairs, but only as a good citizen, not as a partisan or seeker of any of the honors or emoluments of public office. He is also earnest in his support of all projects involving the advancement and improvement of the city and the welfare of its residents.

Jacob Kunz

Jacob Kunz began his career as a locomotive fireman on the Omaha railroad. This was soon after he was sixteen years of age. He had finished his common school education and the dream of his life was to become a locomotive engineer. To this end he sought the position as fireman. He tontinued in this work for five years, then he came to Minneapolis in 1878 and entered the employ of the Island Power Company, which was then under the management of W. W. Eastman. Mr. Eastman offered young Kunz the opportunity to work for the company as engineer and millwright. For some years he was connected with this company as an employe, but he finally acquired stock in the concern and became its first general superintendent and later general manager.

Almost from the first Mr. Kunz's business connections have been constantly widening. He became interested in a number of local concerns. Among them the North Star Malting Company and the Minneapolis Brewing Company. At present he is General Manager of the Minneapolis brewing company, also its vice-president and one of its directors. He is also vice-president and director of the North Star Malting Company, and president of the Kunz Oil Company, and a director in the German -American Bank. He gives personal attention to all of various business interests, and it is to this fact that the credit is due for a large measure of the success Avhich has come to all the great business concerns with which he is identified. He is public spirited and interested in everything that makes for the betterment of the city but he has never sought public office or political honors.

Jacob Kunz is of German parentage, and was liimself born in the old country in 1857. He passed his early boyhood in that country although he has been a resident of Minnesota for more than forty years. When he was only eleven years old he came with his parents to America and settled in Chaska, Minnesota. Here his father engaged in farming and the boy worked in the interval of his schooling on the farm. He has come to be one of the most prominent and prosperous of the German- American citizens of Minneapolis.

Dr. Jay Hughes Johnston, who died in Minneapolis on April 14, 1913, gave in his manliness and the career he wrought out a forcible illustration of the solid qualities, and their value for sustained, effective and successful warfare in the battle of life.

Dr. Johnston was born in the city of Northumberland, county of the same name, Pennsylvania, on May 11, 1842, the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Charrington) Johnston. Natives of Pennsylvania, they were farmers and both died in Pennsylvania. Early in his boyhood he was taken to Bucks county, in the same state, where he remained until he reached the age of sixteen. He was a poor boy and obliged to make provision for himself while he was still very young. He worked out to educate himself academically and professionally, literally digging his way through the district school and the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1870. It was his custom to attend school in the morning and work in a grocery store in the afternoon, and he kept on with this division of time between his studies and the labor for his livelihood until he received his dental degree and was ready to begin practicing his profession.

Directly after receiving his degree in 1870 he took up his residence in Washington, D. C, and there he was actively and successfully engaged in professional work for thirteen years. He was an expert workman in the mechanical department of his profession, and was also well versed in the technical knowledge belonging to it. He was always studious and made every effort to keep up witli the most advanced thought and discovery in connection with his work, and won recognition in Washington as one of tlie most knowing, skillful and progressive dentists in that city. When failing health forced him to visit Europe for a change of air and svirroundings he took with him scores of strong testimonials from the leading men and women of Washington of that period, among them high officials of the government and other persons of renown in this country and foreign lands.

While he was in Europe he visited Rome and all other places of interest, saw a great deal of the country and became familiar with the customs of the people in many places. His health was somewhat improved by his trip, but on his return to this country he deemed it unwise to again risk himself in the humid climate of the Atlantic slope, and so came to Minneapolis to live. He began practicing here, but continued for only a few weeks. The climate of California seemed inviting to him, and he moved to San Francisco, where he conducted an active and profitable practice for nine years.

The Pacific coast climate was a delusion in his case, however, and he found the salt air and excessive moisture there hurtful to him. So he returned to Minneapolis, where he had received benefit before, and again began practicing here, being located in the Masonic building for a number of years and then moving his offices to the Syndicate block, where he remained to the end of his life. His health was entirely restored; he had an extensive and remunerative practice, and he became active in all the dental societies in this part of the country.

Dr. .Johnston's diligent and reflective study of his profession led him to make many improvements in tlie tools manufactured for its work. These liave been found advantageous and been adopted generally throughout the domains of dental science.

Fraternal life interested the doctor intensely. He was an enthusiastic Freemason of the thirty-second degree, and an active participant in the doings of all branches of the fraternity. He stood high in Masonic circles far beyond the boundaries of his state, and wlien he died his Lodge, of which he had long been a member, piously bestowed his remains in their last resting place with the beautiful and impressive ceremonies of the order.

On June 4, 1889, Dr. Johnston was married in Minneapolis to Miss Anna C. Hang, the daughter of John Hang, a prosperous farmer of Carver county, Minnesota. Slie is a native of Milwaukee, but has long been a resident of Minneapolis. Edgar C. Johnston, the one child born in the family, is still living with his mother in her home at 3131 Stevens avenue.

Williaji A. Kerr

William A. Kerr, a prominent member of the Minneapolis bar and former municipal judge, was bom in New Brunswick, Canada, 1867, the son of William A., and Mary .T. (Loggie) Kerr. He received his education in his native city, attending the common schools and later the University of New Brunswick where he was graduated in 1887. He then began preparations for his professional career and for two years studied law in the offices of Weldon & McLeon, at St. Johns. New Brunswick. In 1889 he came to Minneapolis and in April of the same year was admitted to the bar and began tlie practice of law. At first he carried on his legal work alone but soon entered into a partnership with Russell, Calhoun & Reed. An appointment to the bench necessitated the retirement of Judge Russell from the firm and about this time Mr. Calhoun removed to Illinois, leaving the firm, Reed & Kerr, an association that continued for about three years. In 1894 Mr. Kerr was elected municipal judge. For six years he gave the city most efficient and honorable service in this position. At the end of his term of office he formed a partnership with Judge Fred V. Brown which was maintained for a number of years, with the exception of a term of four years when Judge Brown served on the bench. In 1909 Mr. Fowler became the third member of the firm and on the appointment of Judge Brown as western counsel for the Great Northern railroad company, it became Kerr & Fowler. The present professional associations of Mr. Kerr, formed in 1913, are with Kerr, Fowler. Ware & Furber. Mr. Kerr is a member of the order of Elks and affiliated with the Commercial Club the Minneapolis, the Minikahda, the LaFayette and the Republican Clubs.

George Henry Warren

George Henry Warren, who for more than forty-two years has been engaged in the land and real estate business in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Minneapolis, was born in Oakfield, New York on January 16, 1845. His parents were James and Sarah March Warren. His grandfather, Henry Warren, who was a descendant of the Varrennes or Warren(nel8 who landed in England with AVilliam the Conqueror, migrated from Devonshire and settled in Stafford, New York. He was the inventor Of the first grain separator then known in that state or, probably, in America. Mr. Warren's father was a farmer, but also a manufacturer of threshing machines, carriages, and sleighs. In this factory and in the rich forests of western New York, while assisting his father, Mr. Warren received an early training in the selection of kinds and qualities of woods, and of trees that proved invaluable in later years.

He attended the common schools of Oakfield which at that time were very good. Later, he prepared for college at the Cary Collegiate Seminary in Oakfield, and at the Genesee \Vesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York. He entered Genesee College, then at Lima (now Syracuse University at Syracuse) and graduated with the degree of B. S. in 1866. In 1872, after five years of teaching and of study, he received, from the same institution, the degree of M. S.

Immediately after graduation, Mr. Warren came to the West, and. in the school year of 1867-8, became principal of the High School at Hastings, Minnesota. Then for two years he was principal of the High School and superintendent of the public schools at Faribault, Minnesota. During those years, lie was one of the best known educators in the state.

During that period, also, he made several trips to Minneapolis, and because of his early training under hij father's direction in the forests of New York, he was impressed by the thriving timber and lumber interests there. In 1870, an attractive offer to enter the timber land business in the Northwest induced Mr. Warren to leave the teaching profession for one, more congenial and witli better prospects of financial success. His work as surveyor and timber land examiner began in 1871 in the pine forests of Wisconsin. He engaged in this work continuously for many years, and acquired experience and a knowledge of the resources of Wrsconsin and Minnesota wliich he put to practical use, when, , in 1S71, he entered the land business and acquired extensive pine and mineral land interests.

Since 1872. Mr. Warren has been a resident and loyal citizen of Minneapolis, actively interested in civic and eduoa-* tional conditions. In 1889. he was elected a member of the city council for the thirteenth ward and was made chairman of the committee on railroads. At that time the street railway was required to change its system of motive power from horse to electric, and, as cliairnian of tlie council committee,

Sir. Warren took a prominent part in the framing of ordinances relating to the electrification and to the control of the local traction system.

In the days of the Business Men's Union, the predecessor of the Commercial Club, and of the Athletic Club, Mr. Warren was active in promoting the civic and educational interests of Minneapolis. In 1892, because of an acquaintance with men of affairs in the northern part of the state that gave him inside information regarding a movement to secure the School of Mines for Duluth. he was able to do a most valuable service both to the city and to the state university. Knowing that the outcome of a light with Duluth for this school would be uncertain, Mr. Warren urged the Business Men's Union to appoint a committee to raise money for a building for an ore testing plant at the University. As chairman of the committee which the Business Men's Union appointed, he raised the funds for the building and kept the School of Mines at Minneapolis.

Mr. Warren is a member and supporter of the Civic and Commerce Association and of the Society of Fine Arts. He is also a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of the Masonic fraternity and of Psi Upsilon. He belongs to the University, Minneapolis, and Minikahda Clubs of Minneapolis.

On November 6, 1872, he married Jennie L. Conkey of Faribault. Minnesota. Their children were Aurie Sarah who was born September 13, 1873, and who died March 28, 1876; and Frank Merton who was born December 1, 1875, and who is now associated with his father in his various interests.

Thomas N. Kenyon

Thomas N. Kenyon. prominent in the manufacturing circles of Minneapolis as proprietor of the Kondon Manufacturing company, one of the leading industries of the city, was born in the Adirondack mountains in New York state. He came to Minneapolis in 1882 and was employed as salesman in a retail store and then accepted a position with an eastern specialty company and for over twelve years represented this firm in the northwest. During his travels he visited Rhinelander, Wisconsin, where he became acquainted with Mr. .J. .J. Reardon with whom in 1892 he formed a partnership for the production of Kondon's catarrhal jelly. After three years of this association in Rhinelander, Mr. Kenyon became sole owner of the business and removed to Minneapolis. For some years he worked in the basement of his home, putting all his resources and effort into the enterprise, experiencing much delay in getting the commodity placed on the market through lack of capital but confident in its ultimate success. Through his determination and progressive business methods lie won recognition for his remedy and with the help of its intrinsic merit has established a vast trade throughout this and other countries. Thirty-five thousand druggists now handle the article and distributing agencies are maintained in Toronto, London, Havana and Guadalajara in Mexico. When he met with his first successes, Mr. Kenyon moved from his modest quarters in the basement of his home to a double store building on Stevens avenue and in 1911 occupied his own building at 2608 Nicollet avenue where thirty-five workmen are employed, supplying the constantly increasing demand while eight traveling salesman are engaged in extending the business. The remarkable development and noteworthy success of the Kondon Manufacturing company is a striking example of what may be accomplished through the ability and perserverance of one man. Mr. Kenyon was married November 8, 1888, in Minneapolis, to Miss Ellie DeMille. They have two children. Norma R. who married Mr. Asa .J. Hunter of Minneapolis, and Donald D. Mr. Kenyon is a member of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist-Episcopal chufch and in Masonic orders has attained the rank of Shriner and the Thirty-second degree. He is a member of tlie United Commercial Travelers association and is prominent in the leading social and commercial organizations of the city, holding membership in the Minneapolis, Athletic, Interlocken, Lafayette, Rotary and Auto clubs and in the Commercial and West Side Commercial clubs.

Joseph Ramsdell Kingman

Mr. Kingman of Kingman & Wallace, attorneys, was born in Chicago April 15, 1860, a son of Benjamin F. and Adelaide_ E. (Ramsdell) Kingman, of old Massachusetts families. The father was a manufacturer; and, removing to Chicago in 1854, continued in business there until failing health induced him to seek different climate; and, in 1869 he came to Minneapolis, where he died in 1875, at the age of forty-three.

Mrs. Kingman, survived until 1902. She was an ardent and sympathetic worker in all the benevolent activities of Plymouth Congregational church, prominent and energetic in the undertakings of the Pillsbury Settlement, a zealous and effective force in connection with Druramond Hall and earnest in her intelligent and practical support of other improving and uplifting agencies. She and her husband were the parents of two children, Joseph R. and Susan H.

Joseph R. Kingman was graduated from the Central High School in 1877 when it was under the direction of Benjamin F. Knerr. He read law for one year in the oHice of Samuel R. Thayer, then a prominent lawyer and afterward L'nited States minister to Holland. Mr. Kingman then spent one year in the University and four years in the academic course at Amherst College, from which he was graduated in 1883. He immediately began anew the study of his chosen profession in the office of Charles H. Woods and William J. Hahn, the latter of whom was then attorney general.

He was admitted to practice in 1885, and soon joined his former preceptors, the firm becoming Woods, Hahn & Kingman, the firm continuing without change of name until 1908 when it became Woods, Kingman & Wallace. Judge Woods died in 1899 and John Crosby became associated with Mr. Kingman and Jlr. Wallace for two years, when he became Secretary and Treasurer of Washburn Crosby Co. Mr. Kingman and Mr. Wallace continued in business and have an extensive general practice although real estate, law, probate and corporation business demand most of their attention.

In political allegiance Mr. Kingman is a Republican; but, while loyal to his party and deeply interested in its success he has never been an aspirant for public office. He has, however, taken an active part in many things that make for the betterment of the community. He is a director of the Minneapolis Trust company, and a member of the Minneapolis, Minikahda and Six O'Clock clubs.

Associated Charities. He was chairman of the building committees in the erection of the new Plymouth Congregational church, the Young Women's Christian Association Building and the Pillsbury Settlement House. He was a trustee of Plymouth church for many years, and has also rendered valuable service on other boards of trustees and directors, and on public commissions.

In October, 1891, Mr. Kingman was united in marriage with Miss Mabel Selden, a daughter of the late Henry E. Selden, who died in 1903, after a residence of over forty years in the city, having located here in 1861. He was a general contractor; and, erected the Public Library and many other large and important structures. Mrs. Kingman is a native of Minneapolis and a high school graduate. They are the parents of three children: Henry S., a student at Amherst College, Joseph Ramsdell, Jr., and Eleanor.

Axthoxy Kelly

He was one of six sons born to Andrew and Alice (Durkin) Kelly, who were also bom in County Mayo, Ireland, and a grandson of Thomas Kelly, a merchant in that part of the Emerald Isle. The father died at the age of thirtythree. The mother married a second husband, and about 1843 the family came to America and located near Montreal, Canada, where the son passed ten years in school and clerical work. Soon after attaining his manhood he changed his residence to Savannah, Georgia, and in the neighborhood of that city engaged in planting.

In 1859 he came to the Northwest and located in Minneapolis, joining an older brother, Patrick H. Kelly, who had taken up his residence in this city a year or two before. Together the brothers started a retail grocery store on a small scale and conducted the business under the firm name of Kelly Bros.

The firm's first store was on Washington avenue one door south of what was then Helen street but is now Second avenue south. Their trade kept on expanding and they were soon forced to seek larger accommodations for it, and moved into a large room in the Woodman block at the corner of Helen street. When they started in business Minneapolis had a population of about 1,500, whose wants they supplied in part. At the time of Mr. Kelly's death his wholesale grocery was sending its goods over all the railroads radiating from the commercial and industrial center which he had helped so largely to build up and give it business life, social tone and a high moral atmosphere.

In 1861 they added pork-packing to the grocery trade, and in 1863 Patrick H. Kelly retired from the firm and started a wholesale grocery in St. Paul, while Anthony continued as proprietor of the Minneapolis store. The building in which he carried on his business was destroyed by fire in ISfiti. He immediately built a larger and better house, constructing it of stone instead of wood. This gave him better facilities and considerably more room, but as the trade of the city increased he formed a new partnership with Hiram W. Wagner and .T. I. Black under the name of Anthony Kelly & Company, and their quarters soon became again too limited for their trade.

The new firm started a wholesale business which grew 8o rapidly that it was obliged to discontinue retailing and take a still larger building. The commodious and substantial stone structure at Washington and Second avenue north was put up, and this continued to be the headquarters of the business until the firm was dissolved by the death of Mr. Kelly in May, 1899.

During the Civil war Mr. Kelly's political training and tonvictions made him an ardent sympathizer with the Southern side of the great contest. His brother John, who shared his views in this respect was killed in the Southern army, and they had another brother, Dudley, who served in the Union army. Anthony did not enter the military service, but he made no secret of his love of the South and his warm interest in its cause. He handled some munitions of war in his store, and one event in. his life that was always a source of deep regret to him, was that by chance he sold to the Indians the ammunition they used in the uprising in this state in 1862. But he knew nothing of their purpose and was guiltless of all wrong in making his sales to the savages.

Mr. Kelly was married on April 26, 1863, to Mrs. Anna (Haymond) Willey, the widow of U. S. Willey, an early and gifted lawyer of Minneapolis. She was a Virginian by nativity. Six children were born of the union, four daughters and two sons. The sons died in early life. The four daughters who are living are: Alice K. Corrigan; Annie, who is now Mrs. James F. Blaine; Agnes, who is unmarried, and Bernadette, who married F. W. Plant. The mother had two children by her first marriage: Robert Kelly Willey and Georgia, who is now the wife of E. A. Prendergast. The mother died in 1907 and the father in May, 1899. He met with a Serious accident in 1893, which greatly disabled him and almost put an end to his activity.

William B. Boardman, president of the Real Estate Board, was born in New Brunswick, March 1, 1862, and is the son of George A. Boardman. naturalist. George A. Boardman, who passed the years 1882 and 1883 in Minneapolis, expecting to make it his future home, was a genius and an interesting and cultured man. He was born in Massachusetts but became a resident of Calais, Maine, at an early age, and there grew to manhood, an ardent lover of natural history, characterizing him from boyhood. He rose to eminence &a 8 naturalist, collecting large numbers of specimens for the Smithsonian Institute, having spent twenty-one winters in Florida for that purpose. He maintained relations of cordial friendship with Professor Baird, secretary of the Institute, Professor Louis Agassiz, and many other eminent scientists. Calais, being located in the boundary line of New Brunswick, Mr. Boardman studied the natural history of the province and made a collection of 3,000 specimens of the native birds, wliich is still on exhibition in the parliament house at Frederickton. The only pair of a peculiar specimen of Labrador ducks, now extinct, in the Smithsonian Institute were supplied by him. His useful and interesting life ended at Calais, in 1901, his sons, soon after, publishing a well deserved memorial. When seventeen years old, William B. Boardman came to Minneapolis to attend the University, liis brothers F. H. Boardman, a prominent lawyer, and A. J. Boardman, a prosperous real estate dealer, being already residents. William B. passed two years in the University, returning to New Brunswick. He soon went to Florida as a member of the civil engineering corps for the Florida Southern Railroad. In 1884 he became a partner with his brother A. J. in real estate, this brother, in 1892, going to Tampa. Florida, to superintend the erection of a gas plant. He now lives in Los Angeles, California. Jlr. Boardman then began to take special interest in the development and improvement of the East Side, and his energies have since been largely devoted to that section. Besides having an extensive agency business he has important personal holdings, being particularly interested in railroad trackage properties. Jlr. Boardman, realizing shortage of track facilities in the jobbing district, conceived the idea of building a railroad spur between Washington avenue and Third street, from 4th to 10th avenues North; and, which has changed this section from the most dilapidated part of the city to what is fast becoming the most attractive business district. He has already located on this spur several of the largest jobbing and manufacturing houses in Minneapolis, not less than a million dollars being alreadj' expended in buildings. Among them are the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company, employing 500 hands, The Parlin & Orendorf Plow Company, The Roach-Tisdale Company, The Green & De Laitte Wholesale Grocery Company, The Pence Automobile and the Andrews Warehouses, The Cribben & Sexton Stove Company and the Acme Harvester Company and the plant of the George Diiensing Hay and Grain Company, which he erected individually and which he still owns. This was the initial movement to open many miles of trackage in the heart of the city ; and, which, being followed by others, will afford an unlimited supply of moderate priced houses for the growing jobbing trade. A more recent movement is the development of a new industrial center on the East Side covering not less than 1,000 acres. He conceived the idea of bringing the Belt Line into Minneapolis, the extensions of which make such a center possible. One of the industries in the movement, and located by Mr. Boardman, is the new plant, just being completed, of the National Lamp Company costing one half million of dollars and to employ 600 hands. For three years he was chairman of the Commercial Club committee to secure new industries, and is chairman of the industrial and development committee of the Civic and Commerce Association. He was for some years real estate agent for the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington Roads; and, secured the right of way from Minneapolis to Rochester, for the Dan Patch Electric line. Many other commissions, committees and organizations for improvements have had the benefit of his counsel and enterprise. It is in the extension and improvement of Minneapolis proper, however, that he has been most deeply and thoroughly interested. He laid out the William B. Boardman Addition at Minnehaha Falls, and joined in platting the Gilman & Boardman. the Taylor and Boardman and the Minnehaha Falls Second Addition, and has erected several business and residence properties His entire thought and attention are given to business, steadfastly refusing to accept political honors. He has not neglected social organizations nor enjoyment of outdoor pleasures, belonging to the Lafayette and Auto clubs; and, for recreation, makes frequent trips to northern Minnesota, in the development of which he is deeply interested. He was married in 1887 to Miss .Jessie P. Wilbur, a native of Vermont. They have one daughter Marjorie. who was a member of the first graduating class of the West Side High School and a student at Smith College. In 1912 she and her mother made a world tour visiting .Japan, China, the Philippine Islands and Honolulu. Th» family attends the Universalist Church of the Redeemer.

Albert H. Kenyon

F'or a continuous period of forty years this esteemed citizen has lived in this city and been actively connected with its business interests, public aflfairs, social life and general advancement. When he came here in 1873 he had the foresight to realize the wonderful possibilities and the enterprise to take advantage of the passing opportunities. His enterprise and public spirit made him a promoter of the development of the community, and by exercising business ability and a'cumen has made that development advantageous to himself.

Mr. Kenyon was born in Greenwich, Washington county, New York, thirty miles from Troy, September 14, 1842, working on his father's farm until the age of eighteen. He then began his business career as clerk, and in 1868 came to Chicago, and soon became a partner in a general store at Aurora and which is still doing business. The rapid restoration of Chicago following the fire soon drew much of the trade from Aurora, and in 1873 Mr. Kenyon sold his interests and came to Minneapolis. He had known A. C. Rand, later mayor and president of the Minneapolis Gas Light company, in Aurora, and acted upon the representations of that gentleman, who drew flattering pictures of the future of the Northwest. Mr. Kenyon bought the store of Thomas and Geo. Andrews on Bridge Square, next door to the hard ware store of Hon. John S. Pillsbury. The AndreAvs establishment was a general store with a trade of ,$100,000 annually. The management of it was a difficult undertaking for Mr. Kenyon. but his twin brother, Alfred F. Kenyon, joined him as Kenyon Bros., and they succeeded in handling the enterprise with the small capital they had.

L'nder the name of Kenyon Brothers they conducted the business until 1885. In the days when the Grange organization was potential it was their custom to open the store at 4 o'clock in the morning to meet the requirements of customers from the country. The farmers bringing their grain to the city would often fail to get unloaded until far in the night, when, after a few hours' rest, they were ready to start on their long joHrney home early in the moniing. It was thus necessar}' to have the store open at that early hour to accommodate them. It carried a large stock in almost everything but groceries, and was the leading dry goods store.

In 1885 Mr. Kenyon sold his interest to his brother and opened a carpet store, Me-ssrs. Folds & Griflith being the only firm already operating in that exclusive line. The brother continued to conduct the old Store with a constantly increasing trade, which in time reached a business of $200,000 annually. The new carpet store was opened on a small scale on Nicollet avenue where the Rothschild store now is. Later it moved to the old Sidle block, and in 1888 Mr. Kenyon. .JameS I. and W. S. Best united in building 'the Medical block, in which he now has his offices, ami which has been more especially devoted to the use of the medical profession.

This six story block fronts 110 feet on Nicollet avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets. When it was built some of Mr. Kenyon's friends said he must be demented to build so far from the business center. He moved his carpet store to the new building where it was continued successfully for ten years.

Mr. Kenyon also owns a business block on Washington avenue north, a four-story brick block on Washington avenue south and another on Third street, having kept his interests in the heart of Minneapolis. His old home at 89 South Tenth street is now occupied as a business block, and his present residence is at Twenty-second street and Blaisdell avenue. During the last twenty years he has passed winters in Southern California, New Orleans and at Palm Beach, norida. With abiding faith in Minneapolis property he is justified in taking some satisfaction in having been one whose efforts have materially contributed to its growth.

Mr. Kenyon takes no active interest in politics as a partisan, but is earnest in his advocacy of good government as a citizen, and zealous in securing it. In religious affiliation he is a Universalist, being a regular attendant at the Church of the Redeemer. In 1875, he was married at Aurora, Illinois, to Miss Belle Newlin, a daughter of Major Thomas Newlin, of that city. Mrs. Kenyon is a member of the Women's club, the Travelers' club and other similar organizations.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon have three children: Lewis N.. a graduate of the University of Minnesota, is now associated with his father. Alfred T. is a coffee broker in Los Angeles after having for some years been so engaged in San Francis'co. Raymond H. is a student at Columbia University, New York city.

Matthias Kunz

Matthias Kunz, vice president and manager of the Kunz Oil company, is a native of Germany, born near the Rhine, March 22, 1856. He came to this country in 1868, and located in Carver county, Minnesota. In 1882 he removed to Minneapolis and for several years was in the employ of W. W. Eastman as night engineer and watchman for the Island Power company. He then erected a livery barn and for six years engaged successfully in this business in company with his brother, Jacob Kunz. The latter was at this time employed as engineer by the Island Power company and in 1888 he established an oil business in which his brother was also interested, the firm being known as .Jacob Kunz & Brother. This enterprise met with such success and its rapid growth attested to possibilities which at length claimed the attention of Matthias Kunz to the exclusion of other interests. In 1892 the livery was disposed of and the following year the firm was changed to its present style, the Kunz Oil company. Matthias Kunz as manager of this company has been eminently identified with every phase of its remarkable development. From an original investment of $2,200 with .$5,000 covering the first year's sales, its success and growth is marked. In 1905 it was incorporated with a capital of $100,000 and in 191,3 the company tran.sacted an annual business of ovit $400,000, It has a force of thirty employees engaged in compounding and blending, producing a high grade lubricating oil. Through their salesmen they transact a large business throughout the northwest beside an extensive local trade. Aside from his interests as vice president, treasurer and manager of the Kunz Oil company, Mr. Kunz is associated with other important industries of the city and is a stockholder in the Minneapolis Brewery, and the North Star Malt House of which Jacob Kunz is the manager. Matthias Kunz was married in Waconia, Minnesota to Miss Emma Haback, daughter of William Haback, They have four children, Therese, Helen, William and Florence.

Henry N, Knott

Henry N, Knott was born at Bloomington, Hennepin county, Minnesota, on December 14, 1874, a son of E. W. and Tabitha (Little) Knott, the former having removed from Canada to Minnesota about 1855. and the latter born and reared in Pennsylvania. Her father was a merchant in that state, and about 1856 located near Glencoe, in this state. His daughter Tabitha was a young woman when the family moved to Minnesota, and soon after her marriage to Mr. Knott, the father of Henry N., they located on a farm in Bloomington township, Hennepin county.

Henry N. Knott passed his boyhood and early youth at Sauk Center and completed his education at the high school in that town. In 1893 he located in Minneapolis, anil here he supplemented his academic training with a thorough course of study in a good business college. In 1895 he was appointed stenographer and bookkeeper in the city clerk's otiite by C. F. Haney, at that time the city clerk. From this start he passed through all the intervening positions in the office until he reached that of assistant city clerk in 1900. which he continued to fill until 1909, when he was elected to the city clerkship as the successor of L, A. Lydiard.

Mr. Knott was elected as a non-partisan, and that he has been ever since. He was re-elected in 1911 and again in 1913. The volume of business requiring attention in the office is constantly increasing, and has grown to such magnitude that Mr. Knott is compelled to have seven assistants. In the fraternal life of the community he mingles freely and serviceably as a member of the Order of Elks and of Minneapolis Lodge No. 19 and Ark Royal Arch Chapter of the Masonic Order,

O, P, Briggs

President of the H. E. Wilcox Motor Company, was born on a farm in Maine, February 17. 1856, and came to Minneapolis in 1877, the directory of that year indicating him as clerk for O. A. Pray, Mill Furnishings and Iron Works at First Street and Fifth Avenue South. His father, W. H. Briggs, who was a life-long friend of the Hon. W. D Washbum, was a teacher for many years and became, at the urgent request of Mr. Washburn, the superintendent of the Children's Home, where he rendered valuable service till his death. He was also treasurer of the Church of the Redeemer, a warm attachment existing between him and Drs. Tuttle and Shutter, its pastors. O. P. remained Avith Mr. Pray till 18S6, and the following year, in association with .Tose])!! Oarbctt and W. H. Getchell, founded the Twin City Iron Works, It was at first a foundry and machine shop, gradually becoming devoted to the making of Corliss engines and transmission machinery. Several of the old employees of the Pray Company sought positions here under their former companion; and, the business experienced so rapid development that by 1903 it hiid outgrown its shop facilities, it becoming necessary to secure larger and better accommodations. Other citizens DOW becoming interested, united in the organization of the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company, erecting the finest plant of its kind in the Northwest, and whose operations soon demanded the employment of 650 mechanics. Mr. Briggs was vice-president of the incorporation. His services being repeatedly sought by the directors of the National Founders Association, who urged him to become its head, he finally yielded, and resigning his position with the above company, and his terms of activity in the association being readily accepted, he in 1903 assumed that important official relation, that of commissioner to the organization, a position he filled two years, was the vice-president for one year and president for seven years, till November 15, 1913, his successor being William H. Barr of BufTalo, N. Y.

The objects of this association are: "The adoption of a uniform basis for just and equitable dealings between the members and their employees, whereby the interests of both will be properly protected. Also, the investigation and adjustment, by the proper officers of the association, of any question arising between members and their employees."

His own wide experience reaching back to boyhood in adjusting the questions arising between employer and employee, thus extending over a long period, readily enabling him to recognize the rights of all concerned, justified his selection as the head of an important employers organization. Maintaining his home at Minneapolis, he had become interested as a director in the Wilcox Motor Company, to the presidency of which he was selected July 1, 1913.

He is a Republican, and when important matters demand attention of progressive citizens, his services are not withheld. For thirty-six years he has held active membership in the Church of the Redeemer, whose pastor was one of his father's warmest friends. Ever desirous of contact with the soil, he secured a part of the old Gideon homestead on Lake Minnetonka, where the Wealthy apple had its origin, and has found pleasant recreation in various industrial phases of agriculture.

In 1880 he married Clara Getchell. daughter of W. H. Getchell mentioned above. She died September, 1907, leaving one son, Hiram Kenneth, a student in Shattuck School, Class of 1914. In 1909 he married Miss C. L. Gaines of Wisconsin. He is identified with the New Athletic Club.

Edward Crane Chatfield

F.dward C. Chatfield practiced law in Minneapolis for more than thirty years. The Chatfield family to which he belonged came to this country in 1639, with the colony of Rev. Henry Whitfield, settling at Guilford, Conn. The family remained in Connecticut for several generations, until David, the great-grandfather of Mr. Chatfield, was given a grant of 800 acres of land in Onandaga Co.. N. Y. This was in place of money, as remuneration for his service in the Revolutionary War. Then the family removed thither, to establish a home upon the property, and remained there.

Edward C. Chatfield was born in Sharon Centre, October 24, 1849, In 1861, when he was nearly twelve years old, the family undertook, on account of the frail health of his mother, an overland journey by wagon to Minnesota, where relatives had preceded them. They started in the spring and traveled by easy stages, arriving in the autumn in Fillmore County, where the family lived for eight years upon a farm near Spring Valley.

Edward Chatfield attended the district school there, and then went to the academy in the town of Fillmore, to fit for the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1874. This was the second class to graduate from this institution, and consisted, as did the first class, of two members, the other member being the late Dr. George E. Rickcr.

He then took the law course of the University of Iowa, graduating with the late Judge Edward M. Johnson, with \vhom, after their return to Minneapolis, he formed a partnership, which, however, was of short duration, and after its dissolution, Mr. Chatfield practiced alone for the remainder of his professional career, occupying for many years the same offices with his father-in-law, the late David A. Secombe.

He was instrumental in the erection of the statue, by the alumni and personal friends, of Ex-Governor John S. Pillsbury. He proposed the project at an alunmi dinner, and was made chairman of the committee appointed to accomplish it. Throughout the entire undertaking, he worked with unusual interest and great satisfaction when his efforts resulted in obtaining the noted sculptor, Daniel Chester French, to design and model the statue.

Mr. Chatfield's great interest in this work led him to make quite a study of municipal art, in which subject he was greatly aided by his intercourse with Mr. French, d\iring his visits to New York while the work of the statue was going on, and Mr. French's visits to Minneapolis, vvitli the result that he secured the formation of an art commission for Minneapolis, of which he was made chairman, remaining in the office until his ill-health caused him to resign shortly before his death in 1910.

In 1895, he developed a serious ailment, which made the remaining fifteen years of his life a burden, although he continued to attend to his practice, and his duties in the council, up to the last year of his life. In the fall of 1909, his health was so impaired that he did not dare to remain another winter in the climate of Minnesota, and removed in September, to San Diego, California, hoping that that equable climate might add a few years to his term of life, but the change had been made too late, and he passed away .January 26. 1910.

He married in 1884, Carrie Eastman Secombe, the daughter of the late David A. and Charlotte Eastman Secombe, and four children were born to them, three of them surviving their father: William Edward, born Aug. 19, 1890;

William M. Knight

Having been one of the county commissioners continuously during the last eight years, and having previously filled another important office, William M. Knight has had abundant opportunity to demonstrate superior qualifications for administrative work to become intimately familiar with the public needs, and keep himself fully in touch with the spirit of enterprise and progress. He represents the Fourth district, which includes the Third and Tenth wai-ds and all of the Fourth ward lying between Hennepin and Franklin avenues.

Mr. Knight was born in East Machias, Maine, May 29, 1847, and came to St. Anthony with his parent's in October, 1854. He is a son of William and Bridget (Hickey) Knight, natives of England and Ireland respectively, although they were married in Maine. The father was a well digger, a stonemason and farmer; and in 1856 settled on a tract of government land half a mile west of where William now lives. He also owned another farm, which lay about three miles northwest of the present city hall, and there he died in 1892, aged seventy-si.x years. His widow survived him two years, dying in 1894 at the age of seventy-eight. They had a family of six sons and three daughters, eight of whom reached maturity and four of whom are living now. John lives at Thirty-third avenue and Fourth street, and of the two daughters one is a maiden lady and the other a widow.

William M. Knight worked for a time in the lumber woods, and then, in association with his brother John and Horatio and A. A. Day, took lumbering contracts, sometimes for driving logs down to Minneapolis. He was engaged in lumbering in this waj' fourteen or fifteen years, during seven or eight years of the time being a partner with his brother in cultivation of a large farm in Dakota county and in operating a threshing outfit. About 1876, William started farming independently, renting land in his old home neighborhood. For thirty-three years he has occupied his present farm, which comprises forty acres, lying within the city limits, and bounded by Penn avenue on the east and Yerxes avenue, or Osseo Road, on the west. This farm is devoted to market gardening, its principal crops being potatoes, onions and melons. The average yield is about 9,000 bushels of potatoes and 4.000 bushels of onions, and frequently twenty acres are devoted to melons.

In 1888 Mr. Knight was elected street commissioner for the Tenth ward, so serving in all for six years, and graded the first streets in the ward. In 1906, and again in 1910, was elected county commissioner. In 1906, running as a Republican and with five other candidates in the field, he received a majority of 2,970 votes, the large.'st ever given a candidate for this ofilce in the district. In 1910 a strong fight was made against him at both the primaries and the election; but, he was sustained by the people at the polls. He is positive in convictions and thoroughly alive to the best interests of the county. In his zeal in behalf of good roads he has visited Eastern states on tours of inspection, much of the extension of fine roads in Hennepin county, being secured through his support. In all official business he has stood firmly for what he has believed to be right and most conducive to the best interests of the public, and is not diverted from his course by partisan or personal considerations. He belongs to and takes an earnest interest in the Territorial Pioneers Association.

In November, 1872, Mr. Knight was married to Miss Mary A. Fewer, a native of St. Anthony and a daughter of Richard Fewer, who was the first judge of probate in Hennepin county and one of the early merchants in St. Anthony, where he settled in 1849, coming here from New Brunswick. Mr. Fewer also enlisted in the Civil war, Company K, 10th Minnesota, and was mustered out as Captain Richard Fewer. Mr. and Mrs. Knight have had fourteen children, eight sons and six daughters. Six of the sons and two daugliters are living. Walter W. is deputy clerk of the district court; Richard E. is chief bookkeeper for the gas company; Clement V. is manager of Bamaby's shoe department; Stephen E. is in the city fire department at Twentieth street; Willis A. operates the home farm; Otis R. is a meter tester for the gas company; Mary I. is deputy county treasurer, and Eleanor I. is living at home. The father has ever been fond of good horses, and has owned many of superior <iualities and high value.

Judge William Lochren

William Lochren was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, on the 3rd day of April, 1832. His father, Michael Lochren, died when William was little more than one j-ear old and his mother, Elizabeth, with her fatherless boy and other kinsmen crossed the Atlantic while the lad was not yet two years old to find with him a home on a farm in Franklin County, Vermont. At the age of eighteen, he went to Auburn, Mass., where manual labor alternating with assiduous study occupied the next four years and during whith time he was able to obtain a fair academic education. In 1854 he returned to Franklin County, Vermont, and commenced the study of law. He continued his legal studies for two years and in 1856, at the age of twenty-four, was admitted to tlie bar. Soon afterwards he moved to St. Anthony, Minnesota, where he entered upon his chosen life work, the practice of law, and where for more than half a century he continued to make his home. He continued in the practice of his profession, either in partnership with others or alone until April 29, 1861, when he enlisted in Company "E" of the First Minnesota Volunteers, the first regiment whose services were tendered to President Lincoln in response to his call for volunteers. Not long after the enlistment, he was made a sergeant in Company "E." As such he served until September 22, 1862, when he was commissioned Second Lieutenant and assigned to Company "K" of the same regiment; .July 6th, 1863, he was commissioned First Lieutenant and re-assigned to Company "E," From July 6th, 1863, to the latter part of October following, he acted as Regimental Adjutant. December 30, 1863, on account of illness brought on by his military service he resigned his commission and was honorably discharged on surgeon's certificate of disability. He reluctantly left the service and returned to St. Anthony after his discharge and resumed the practice of law. In 1868, he was elected State Senator from a strong Republican district and served two years. In the following spring he formed a partnership with W. W. McNair, and in 1871, J. B. Gilfillan became a member of the firm of Lochren, McNair & Gilfillan, a firm distinguished in the legal annals of the Northwest. In 1877 and 78, he was elected city attorney of Minneapolis of which the town of St. Anthony had then become a part.

The legal business of the city and county had grown so rapidly that a special act was passed by the Legislature in 1881, giving a third judge to the Fourth Judicial District and on November 19, 1881, he was appointed a district judge of the Fourth .Judicial District of Minnesota by Governor John S. Pillsbury of opposite political affiliations. At the election in November, 1882, he was elected to the district bench for a terra of six years, and in 1888 was elected for a second term without opposition. His nomination at each election having been made by both the Republican, and Democratic parties. Near the close of his second term as district judge. President Cleveland appointed him Commissioner of Pensions which position he held for over three years and on May 26, 1896. he was appointed by President Cleveland, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota to succeed Judge Nelson who retired at that time. In this office, he served until March 31, 1908, when he resigned, was placed on the retired list of federal judges and retired from active work. He died Januarj^ 27, 1912. He was married in 1871 to Mrs. Martha Denimon, who died in 1879, and in April. 1882, he married Mary E. Abbott, who with one son, William Abbott Lochren, born February 26, 1884, survives him.

During his active practice of law he was engaged on one side or the other of all of the important litigations of the Northwest and to review his record as an active practitioner would in a substance aiuount to a legal history of the Northwest. The affairs entnisted to him were always of the weightiest, both corporate and private, incident to the development of Minnesota during that period and his name was a source of strength to his clients and an ornament to his profession to the last. He possessed a rare combination of ability to quickly perceive principles of law and discern points of precedents with a power to make effective applitation of them to the ease in hand as well as a natural and legal judgment so sound and clear as to be an exceptionally safe guide in itself.

A careless perusal of the newspapers of the early days of Minnesota will give some conception of the high value placed even then by the citizens on his services, high-standing and integrity both as a citizen, a lawyer and a legislator, and history further shows that his sympathies and interests lay in many directions. He was actively identified with Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, serving for many years as a warden; he was also active in Masonic affairs until the time . he became a judge, being a member of Cataract Lodge and of Zion Commandery, Knights Templar. For this body he served a term as Grand Commander of the State of Minnesota. He was a charter member of the Minneapolis Club and Served actively with that organization in his younger ^ days. One of the business lines that received his attention was banking and he served for a long time as one of the 1 directors of the First National Bank of Minneapolis. i' In legislative and political matters he served as alderi'lnan of the old town of St. Anthony, and as already noted, served one term in the State Senate. He was elected City Attorney in 1877, and 1878. Before his appointment to the district bench in 1881, he actively participated in the political affairs of the state and the Nation for his party. He was for many years a member of "the Democratic National Committee until he retired on his own volition. In 1874, he was the Democratic candidate for judge of the Supreme Court of the State and in 1875, came within two votes of being elected L'nited States Senator from Minnesota although at the time the Legislature was strongly Republican.

Of his army record, the fact that he was a member of the famous "First Minnesota" and shared in all the battles of that regiment leaves nothing to be said. He served on battlefields whose names have become classics in American history and participated with that regiment in making the historic charge at the battle of Gettysburg of which General Hancock said, "there is no more gallant deed recorded in history." Of the two hundred sixty-two heroes who made that charge, he was one, and by the fortunes of war, he was one of the forty-seven returning unhurt, but none the less heroic.

He was a member of George N. Morgan Post, G. A. R., and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Minnesota Commandery, of which he served one year as Commander in 1890. He also served one term as Judge Advocate General of the Grand Army of the Republic by appointment of the Commander in Chief Wheelock G. Veazey. In 1889, he was appointed one of a commission under an act of the Legislature to prepare a historj' of Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars, other members were J. W. Bishop, C. C. Andrews, J. B. Sanborn, L. F. Hubbard, and C. E. Flandreau. Judge Lochren was chairman of this commission and C. C. Andrews, Secretary. The first fortyeight pages of the work are devoted to a narrative of the First Minnesota by Judge Lochren and its descriptions of army Service and especially of the charge of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg are frequently quoted.

Early in 1893, he resigned his position as District Judge to accept the office of Commissioner of Pensions under President Cleveland. This appointment as well as others came to him unsolicited and public appreciation of the sterling merit of Judge Lochren, independent of party affiliations, was shown by various organizations when it was noised about that he would probably receive this appointment. Both Houses of the Minnesota Legislature passed resolutions recommending him for the position in high terms and indicating his e.xact fitness to assume the duties of that office. His administration of this office was characterized by the same dignity, unswerving honesty and sense of justice that had characterized every act of his life coupled with the largest sympathy for the worthy veteran but with no compassion for the bounty jumper or deserter.

Upon the bench, both state and federal, were fully developed and displayed his peculiar fitness for and wonderful adaptation to judicial duties. His patience was proverbial, his self-control masterful, his courtesy uniform, his manner kindly and his personality, wholly impersonal. Clearness of perceiition, generosity of labor in research, accuracy in detail and statement, strength in diction, an intuitive sense of justice and a comprehensive and thorough knowledge of jurisprudence were the qualities of Judge Lochren predominating in a high degree. Nothing ever tried his equanimity or disturbed that serene composure and was natural to the man, bt-coming to a judge and most gratefully appreciated by those who were called to present their contentions in his court. Xo lawyer ever left his presence without the pleasant impression that he had had to the fullest extent his day in court and if mistakes were made by counsel, the generous and sympathetic disposition of Judge Lochren seemed to overlook them and the youngest members of the bar came to regard him with paternal respect. His consideration of every case was careful and thorough, but his decision once made was inflexible. No judge in Minnesota was ever more highly esteemed and loved by the bench and bar than William Lochren.

His personal characteristics have been briefly referred to in speaking of his work on the bench. He was kindly courteous, and a loyal friend. He sought and retained the friendship of all around him. With but slight opportunities for an early and thorough education he improved every later opportunity. He was a constant student and ever a lover of books. Gifted with a remarkably retentive memory, a clear and- analytical mind and unusual habits of thoroughness, he acquired a vast knowledge not only of the law but of history, literature and general information, and this was always at his command both in his judicial work and as a genial and entertaining companion.

Henry Webster

In a residence of nearly forty years in or near Minneapolis, during all of which time he has been actively connected with the lumber industry, Henry Webster, now president of the Webster Lumber Company, which he founded, has made a highly creditable business career. He has risen from the position of a day laborer to the head of one of the leading lumber corporations of the country and has won commendation for his ability and fidelity at every step of his ascent from the bottom to the top of the trade.

Mr. Webster was born in the town of Orono, Penobscot county, Maine, A])ril 4, 1852. His father, Paul Dudley Webster, a member of the firm of Paul D. & E. Webster, manufacturers of lumber for more than forty years at Orono. George A. Brackett, now and for many years past a leading citizen of Minneapolis, was in his youth an employe of this firm, and the late Hon. William D. Washburn lived in the family of Mr. Webster's father when he was a law student in Maine, before he came to the Falls of St. Anthony. Mr. Webster was educated in his native State, and in 1874, came to Minneapolis and as a common laborer went to work for Senator Washburn in a retail lumber yard where the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce now stands. After two years of faithful service in the yard he was sent to Anoka to take charge of the shipping from Mr. Washburn's mill at that place. He remained at Anoka for two years, then returned to Minneapolis with a view to starting in business for himself.

In 1880 he began business on his own account - at first contracting in getting out logs on Rum. River, and, while his operations were not very profitable, they were steady, and he continued them for fifteen years.

He then bccanu' a salesman for the Foley-Bedor Lumber Company, which had large mills at Milaca, in Mille Lacs County. He lived in Minneapolis and handled the sales of the output of these mills for eight years. In 1902 he again started in business for himself as the Webster Lumber Company. Eater, when he was joined in the undertaking by V. A. Whipple, of Saulk Center, the name of the concern became the Webster-Whipple Company, and so remained until Mr. Whipple retired, in .January, 1913, since which time it has again been known as the Webster Lumber Company.

The company has a city retail yard at Seventh Avenue Ninth Street Southeast, and a chain of thirteen country yards, the latter carried on as the business of the Rudd Lumber Company, but all located in Minnesota. The Webster Company's wholesale yards are at the Minnesota Transfer, at Midway. The Company has its lumber sawed at different mills and buys in the open market. It also conducts a hardwood department and sells extensively at wholesale to furniture factories and railroad shops. It is capitalized at .$150,000 and has fifty men regularly employed, and at times many more.

Mr. Webster is not wholly absorbed in his lumber business, however, great and exacting as that is. He has a farm of 100 acres at Richfield, Hennepin County, six miles and a half from the center of Minneapolis and half a mile from the city limits in a southerly direction. This is known as the Burweb Stock Farm, and is Mr. Webster's home. He is an extensive breeder and importer of Jersey cattle, of which he keeps a herd of thirty-five head. He exhibits at State, county and other fairs, and the Burweb herd from the Burweb Farm is to be seen in almost every contest. It is well known far and wide as a superior herd and a dangerous competitor.

Mr. Webster began his live stock industry by purchasing the Frank Peavy herd of 29 head in 1909, and he has won honors for his cattle from the start. He has also worked up a warm interest in this breed, and has made extensive sales at high prices from the products of his stables.

In the organized social life of the community Mr. Webster has taken an active and serviceable interest as a member of the Commercial and Lafayette Clubs, and in fraternal activities as a Freemason, holding membership in Minneapolis Lodge No. 19, for many years. He was married June 24, 1876, to Miss Clare A. Burbank, a native, like himself, of Orono, Maine, but living in Jlinneapolis at the time of the marriage, having come to this city with her parents. George A. and Caroline (Merrill) Burbank in 1867. Mr. Burbank was a miller in one of the Washburn mills at the time of the great explosion in 1878, and was killed in that disaster. His name is on the monument erected to the memory of its victims in Lakewood Cemetery. He was engaged in the lumber business in Maine for a number of years.

Mr. and Mrs. Webster have two children, George B. and Paul D. Both are associated with their father in the lumber business, and are energetic and highly capable lumbermen. They are also deeply interested in the live stock industry and earnest advocates of its largest and highest development. Paul is a gra<luate of the Central High School and passed one year at Dartmouth College. While George was at the University of Minnesota he was a member of its football team, was a skillful player, and made a good record. Both brothers are considered good business men, and potential factors in augmenting the magnitude and importance of their line of tr.nde. The otiices of the Webster Lumber Company are in the Lumber Exchange.

John Lohmar

Mr. Lohmar's life began August 6, 1860, in Carver county, Minnesota. His parents were Hubert and Regina (Kirsch) Lolimar, who came to Minnesota in 1854 and located on a claim in that county. The father was a native of Germany, and the mother was a widow with four children when she married him. They were married at Galena, Illinois, and came at once to this state, where they passed the remainder of their days. The father was killed in 1904 by a cyclone which swept his house away. He was then eighty yeai's old and had survived his wife a number of years. Of their four children John is the only one living in Minneapolis.

He remained at home until he reached the age of twentyone, working on the farm and attending the neighborhood school for a short time during the winter months when he could be spared. At seventeen he pursued a course of special training at the Curtis Business College, and at twenty-one began his business career as a clerk in a country store, in which he worked five years. In 1885 he came to Minneapolis in company with his brother-in-law, William .J. Vander Weyer, whose sister Louisa he had married, in 1884, she being at the time a resident of Wright county. Mr. Lohmar had saved the greater part of his earnings; and he and his brother-in-law had together a ready capital amounting to about $2,300.

Together they purchased the stock of dry goods, furnishings, millinery and kindred commodities in the store of B. L. Buck, at 1201 Washington avenue north, the inventory amounting to about $9,000. The expansion of trade continued to be slow for some time after Mr. Lohmar and his partner purchased the store; but its increase was steady and soon became rapid, requiring two rooms in addition to the first used. In 1909 Mr. Lohmar bought his partner's interest and gives his whole time and energy to the management.

Mr. Lohmar and wife are members of St. Joseph's Catholic church. They have nine children living, Helen, Mary, Veronica, Bernard L., Ester, Rudolph, Arthur, Leo and Jerome. Helen is a teacher in the Perham public school, Mary is employed in the store, and Bernard is connected with the North Side State Bank. While Mr. Lohmar has taken no particular part in public affairs and shown no special political activity, he has always been deeply interested in the welfare of the community.

purchasing agent in 1908. In 1911 he was made general superintendent of the mills, but still left in charge of the purchafsing department. He now has personal supervision and direction of all the details of the enormous business carried on by the company, which employs 1,100 persons and manufactures more than 20,000 barrels of flour per day. A narrow man, lacking in executive ability, would probably wear himself out over a multiplicity of details in such a position, while Mr. Lehman, depending upon others for detail, is necessarily employed in the larger supervision. In whatever situation placed, his ability to judge men, coupled with a sincere sympathy and fellow-feeling for the employes, has stood him in good stead, thus obtaining results with due consideration to the employes. The good will of the men under him is more to him than his position, and, knowing his attitude in this respect, they all hold him in high esteem, supporting him with genuine and unstinted loyalty. A strong proof of this was furnished during the great strike in 1903. As far as possible the mills were supplied with workmen from the outside, which were housed and fed in the mills. The hack drivers in sympathy with the strikere refused to bring in the necessary supplies, there thus being danger of a shortage of food for the marooned men. In this critical situation Mr. Lehman himself mounted a hack and led the way through the strikers, who offered him no violence. They realized that he was but endeavoring to do justice to his employers, and the respect of the men was not only maintained but heightened. One mill was started on the first day of the strike, the others being also soon in full activity, although the strike lasted four weeks. Mr. Lehman's experience as purchasing agent for the great milling industry induced Mayor Haynes, in 1912, to select him as a member of a commission consisting of ex- Gov. John Lind and Mr. Horace Hill to select a purchasing agent for the city of Minneapolis. He is a member of the University, Interlachen and Lake Harriet Commercial clubs, Traffic club, and the Theta-Delta-Chi college fraternity.

On Oct. 16th, 1903, Mr. Lehman and Miss Louise James, the daughter of Ralph James, an old resident were married. She was born in Minneapolis and is a higli school graduate. They have two children. They are members of Plymouth Congregational church, and Mrs. Lehman belongs to the Sunshine club, in which she is an active and effective worker. Mr. Lehman finds recreation and inspiration in golf, of which is an ardent devotee.

Max A. Lehman

Max A. Lehman, General Superintendent of the Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, was born at Lubbenau in the province of Brandenburg, July 31. 1876. He is a son of Ferdinand Lehman, who came to Minnesota in 1881, and located on a farm near Wells, Faribault county, but who passed the later years of life as a merchant in Blue Earth City, where he died. Max graduated from the scientific department of the University in the class of 1898. After one year as Principal of the public school in Kent, Minnesota, he became clerk in the Car accountants office of the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad. When this road was absorbed by the Northern Pacific, he went to the auditing department of the Soo in Minneapolis, and in September, 1900, joined the office force of the Pillsbury Milling company, as a clerk in the purchasing department. Here the most responsible duties of this whole branch of service soon devolved on him, his handling of them making him general

Frank F. Lenhart

Frank F. Lenhart, prominent manufacturer and ])roprietor of the Lenhart Wagon company, 2600 University avenue, is one of the pioneer business men of the cit}', having established the wagon industry in Minneapolis in 1878. He was born near the state line at Fountain City, Wisconsin, nine miles north of Winona, April 1, 1858. At sixteen he went to Winona to learn his trade, serving an apprenticeship of three years, with no monetary return the first year and but little the last two, so that at the end of this time he possessed no cash capital but had a thorough training as a wheelwright. He came to Minneapolis in 1875 and found employment with Driscoll & Forsythe, wagon manufacturers, where in a very few weeks his skill earned him the promotion to the position of foreman over thirty men. But ambitious to become one of the factors in the business life of the growing city and equipped with a good kit of tools and forty dollars, he established an independent plant in 1878 on Main street near the present site of the Exposition building, with Mr. M. J. Klop, a wheelwright, and Mr. J. Roberts, a blacksmith, as partners, their total cash investment being $150. With this unpretentious start in one room and with but one extra workman, they began to secure trade and in a short time were building wagons for many of the leading firms. They constructed the first spring dray and first police wagon in Minneapolis. After two years Mr. Lenhart bought Mr. Klop's interest and the firm continued for nine years as Roberts & Lenhart. Mr. Lenhart has always displayed sound business judgment and also confidence in the ultimate prosperity of his industrial ventures which was evidenced markedly in one of the early years, when a large stock of material, purchased against the advice of his partner, was justified by a remarkable increase in trade. When Mr. Roberts retired, they were employing about twenty workmen and Mr. Lenhart was left sole proprietor of a business valued at $16,000, and owner of the buildings occupied on the island. In 1893 the entire plant was destroyed by fire with a complete loss of stock, machinery and buildings. But the following year, Mr. Lenhart established the Lenhart Wagon company in cooperation with Mr. Woodbury and Mr. Horace Andrews, Mr. Andrews soon retiring. The plant was installed at "Little Pittsburg" on University avenue, its present site, and was the pioneer business establishment in this vicinity, which could not then even boast of water mains. The new company developed rapidly, Soon adding the manufacture of farm wagons and fire trucks. The demand for these lines became so great that they finally absorbed almost the entire output and were sought for by dealers throughout all the adjoining states. In 1907, after thirteen years of partnership, Mr. Lenhart acquired Mr. Woodbury's interest in the company. He now employs sixty men in operating the plant which covers two and a half acres, the yards provided with trackage, and equipped with every modern mechanical improvement, and docs an annual business of $100,000, the notable outgrowth of a forty dollar capital and years of efficient and capable management. The lumber used by the company is purchased 'in its native forests and dried and seasoned at the factory, certain woods being secured in Louisiana, while another especially adapted for the manufacture of spokes comes from Indiana and that for axles from Arkansas. Mr. Lenhart is besides a stockholder in several other manufacturing concerns. As a Democrat in a Republican ward, he takes an enthusiastic interest in public matters. He has been prominently identified «ith all civic progress and influential in securing various important factories for Minneapolis. He was married in North Dakota, in 1883. to Miss Johanna Piatt. His family have taken an active interest in the business, Alfred, the eldest son, being general manager and a daughter, Helen, the bookkeeper and stenographer. Tlie four younger children, Roy; Lillian; Willard and Frank, are students in the public schools. Mr. Lenhart takes great pleasure in out of door recreation and owns a summer home at Black Lake in the northern woods, where he enjoys his favorite sport with the rod an<l reel. He is a member of the St. Anthony Commercial club and for thirty-three years has held membership in the I. O. 0. F., No. 40, has passed the chairs in the subordinate lodge and the encampment and is now a trustee.

Herbert Flxler Chaffee

Among the chief characteristics of elevated American manhood and sources of pride and glory to the countrj- in which it is produced are the courage and self-reliant spirit which it exhibits in all its activities, and the deference it pays to women in all the relations of life and amid all circumstances, whether the requirements are energy and enterprise, the courtliness and grace of social intercourse, or fortitude in the presence of imminent danger. The late Herbert Fuller Chaffee, one of the leading citizens of North Dakota and most extensive farmers and live stock men in this country, displayed many of these characteristics in his long and successful business career, and the last came out prominently in his tragic and heroic death in the disaster of the unfortunate Steamship Titanic. He might probably have saved liis life in that disaster, but he followed sturdily the rule of the country, "women first," and cheerfully accepted his own death in order that he might help to save the lives of others.

Mr. Cliafi'ee was born in Ellsworth, Connecticut, on November 20, 1865, a son of Eben W^hitney and Amanda (Fuller) Cliaffee. who resided at the time on an old farm that had been in the Chafl'ee family from early Colonial times, the first one hundred acres of it having been granted to one of its American progenitors by one of the Georges when he was king of England. The earliest representatives of the family in this country came over in 1635, and their descendants have dignified and adorned almost every worthy walk in life in many sections of the country, as many of them are doing now.

Eben Chaffee, the father of Herbert, and some of his neighbors in Connecticut owned large blocks of stock in the Northern Pacific Railroad, and in return for their holdings, when a settlement had to be made, were given extensive tracts of land in what was then the territory of Dakota. Mr. Chaffee was selected by his neighbors to come to the territory and pick out the land for the whole number. He chose about forty-five sections in what is now Cass county. North Dakota, twenty miles from Fargo. They were alternate sections, and hence covered the larger part of three townships. The next year he brought to the land a car-load of workmen and other help to begin reducing the grant to productiveness.

In the meantime he formed the Amenia cSk Sharon I-and company, which was named for two townships, one in Connecticut and the other in New York, where most of the owners of the land lived. The purpose of this company was to improve its land and push forward judiciously the development of the county. As a result of Jlr. Chaffee's first year's efforts he raised and marketed a whole section of wheat and erected extensive farm buildings. He continued to come to the territory and extend the improvement and cultivation of the company's land every year, returning to his Eastern home for the winter, until 1886, when he abandoned Connecticut altogether and began a permanent residence in North Dakota. Mr. Chaffee was president and general manager of the land company, and he gradually bouglit out the interests of the other stockholders until he became practically the owner of the whole property and business. His son Herbert was associated with him in the enterprise from the time when he was but sixteen years of age, and remained with him until his d<>ath. The father started the village of Amenia and built it to a considerable extent. He died there in 1892, leaving the greater part of his immense acreage under culti-

This farm lies in two parts, with the villages of Chaflee and Amenia on it, and is located about eight miles from Castleton. As a means of marketing his crops to the best advantage Mr. Chaffee erected elevators at different towns in the region, in which he was able to store his grain until he was ready to sell it. For years he devoted his energies principally to raising wheat in large quantities. But early in the nineties he began to raise corn also on a large scale. His son Herbert was an industrious student of advanced farming, and he adopted a well thought out scientific system of it for his own use. He and his father operated for a long time with hired help, but in later years they instituted the tenant method, and this is still in vogue on the estate.

The son began the erection of mills, stores and other needed structures, not only for their own use but also for the benefit of the section of country in which they carried on their business. Their annual corn crop often covered 6,000 acres, and their wheat crop a great deal more. They also made specialties of seed wheat and corn, which they raised in large quantities to supply a very active and widespread demand in the new country around them and in localities far more remote.

Eben Chaffee, the father, also took an earnest interest in public affairs and was well qualified for service in helping to conduct them. He was a member of the constitutional convention, and in that body served on the committee on legislation. He had bj' this time become thoroughly attached to the Dakotas and always stood for the best that was attainable in constitutional and legislative provisions for their welfare, but after the division of the territory into two parts and their admission into the Union as the states of North and South Dakota, he gave his attention mainly to the affairs and needs of North Dakota.

In 1899 Mr. Cliafl'ee united with Hon. John Miller, the first governor of North Dakota, in organizing the John Miller Grain Commission firm, which had offices in Minneapolis and Duluth. Tlie firm carried on an extensive and profitable business, for it was well and vigorously headed and its operations were conducted with wisdom and excellent judgment. The men who composed it knew all about their business and ]»\t all tlieir knowledge under requisition in conducting it.

Herbert F. Chafl'ec owned extensive tracts of land not included in the pro[ierty of the Amenia-Sharon Land company's grant, and on all the land he used the tenant sj'stem. He made his own plans for the cultivation of the land, and his tenants found them satisfactory and profitable. There are now about ninety-five tenants on the lands, and they have the benefit of an ideal course of instruction in farming established by him. One is reserved for experimental work, and on this every new development in agriculture is thoroughly tested. He also built a 600 barrel flour mill at Castleton and named the leading brand of its products the "Nodak" Flour. This has an extensive popularity and sale, and has been found equal in quality to any flour on the market.

The father built a church, with parsonage attached, at Amenia, and started it on so good a basis that it has been self-supporting from the beginning of its history. In that village Herbert Chaffee had his home until after the demise of his father. The latter was an excellent citizen and deeply interested in the welfare and advancement of his state, and the steady improvement of the agricultural operations eonducted in it. In several visits to Europe and other lands also he studied the methods of farming in its various countries, and adopted for his own use whatever he deemed good in them that he was not already practicing. He had firm faith in the future greatness of North Dakota as an agricultural state, and bent his energies to give its farmers the benefit of all he knew or could learn in the business of high grade aii(T advanced farming.

In addition to raising enormous crops of superior grain, Mr. Cliaffee, for a number of years prior to his death engaged extensively in feeding sheep for the markets, often having as many as 40,000 head on his farm at one time. He believed strongly in young men, and was always ready to give them opportunities for advancement. Some of his tenants renting from him, for sixteen years, and after years of tenancy with him most of them preferred to continue that relation to buying and owning land.

At the time of his death this prominent and most useful man was a trustee of Fargo College, and for many years before that was deeply and helpfully interested in the Young Men's Christian Association and other educational and uplifting institutions. Every form of good for the people of all classes in his locality enlisted his interest and had his earnest practical support, and his activity and generosity in behalf of each sprang from the dictates of his elevated and progressive manhood, his breadth of view and his great public spirit. But he was unostentatious in his bounty and work in this respect, seeking no commendation for himself, only good for his fellow men.

On Dec. 21, 1887, Mr. Chaffee was married in Iowa to Miss Carrie Toogood of Manchester, Delaware county, in that state. Five of their children are living: Eben Whitney, who is on the farm and assists in managing its operations; Dorothy, who is the wife of P. E. Stroud, manager of the John Miller Commission company; Herbert Lawrence, a member of the junior class at Oberlin College, Ohio; Florence Adele, and Lester Fuller. The two last named reside with their mother in Minneapolis, where she bought a home in order to secure good educational facilities for her younger children. All the sons are preparing to take part in the management of the farm, as they desire and intend to keep the estate together in one big business enterprise.

Mr. Chaffee's life ended tragically when he was but fortyseven years of age and in the prime of his manhood and usefulness. His death was due to one of the great historical catastrophes of the world, and could have been prevented by no precaution on his part, or by any effort of his except an exhibition of selfishness of which he was incapable. The whole state of North Dakota mourns his early death and the manner of it, but rejoices at the same time over the manifestation of elevated manhood he made in it, and the credit thereby brought to the citizenship of the commonwealth. He died as he lived, deeply interested in the welfare of others and eager at all times to promote it by any sacrifice he might be called upon to make.

John T. Lucas

eighteen in liis native place and obtained his education in its public schools. At the age mentioned he made his patriotic devotion to the Union manifest by enlisting in the armies called into action by the Federal government for its defense when armed resistance to the mandates of the people threatened its dismemberment. He was enrolled in Battery H, First Ohio Light Artillery, and in 1862 this battery was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. It took part in all the campaigns of that great fighting aggregation from the second battle of Bull Run to the end of the war, and was in the midst of all its heavy fighting from the battle of Fredericksburg until the banner of the Confederacy went down in everlasting defeat at Appomattox.

At Chaneellorsville the battery lost four of its six guns, and, although it afterward recovered one of the four, the recovered gun was found to be spiked and temporarily useless. The battery's position at Gettysburg was on Cemetery Hill, where it was advantageously located to mow down General Pickett's men in their terribly disastrous but heroic charge. The battery, however, suffered heavily in losses of men, but it recuperated in time to take part in the campaigns of General Grant which brought the war to a close. Mr. Lucas was with his command through all its terrible experiences, but escaped without a wound or once being taken prisoner, and was one of the few men who enlisted in 1863 that were present when its final discharge from the service came. He was slender in build and not robust, but he came out of the momentous conflict in good health and with increased vigor.

After the war was over he returned to his old Ohio home, but in the autumn of 1865 came to Minneapolis, where his older brother, Charles, was established in business as a prosperous tinner. He had come to this city about 1857 or 1858, but had gone back to Ohio. In 1860, however, he returned to Minneapolis, and here he passed part of the remainder of his days. During his first residence in Minneapolis he worked for Edward Nash, but when he came again and to stay, he started a business of his own at First street and First avenue north, continuing in the tinning industry, with which he was familiar. His brother John joined him in the enterprise, working as a salesman in the store, and remained with him four years. Mr. Lucas then spent some time in traveling over the Western States.

It was in the fall of 1870 that Mr. Lucas came back to Minneapolis, and soon afterward his brother sold him his interest in the business and moved to California. Mr. Lucas continued in the tinning business until 1898, being the proprietor of his store for twenty-eight years. In 1866 this was on Bridge Square. Later it was moved to the corner of First street and Bridge Square, then the business center of the town. He put up a new house on his old lot at 25 Nicollet avenue, and in this he carried on his business until about 1886. By that time his operations had grown to such large proportions and his stock was so extensive, that he found it necessarj' to have more commodious quarters for them, and moved to lO'J Nicollet avenue. There he remained until IH'.tS, when he retired from business altogether.

Since 1898 he has built the business block he now owns on the site of his old residence. This block fronts 66 feet on Sixth street and contains four store rooms. It is on land that was formerly a part of the old homestead of John Jackins, and in it the business Mr. Lucas once conducted is still in operation by a younger brother. He also still owns his old

In political faith and allegiance Mr. Lucas has been a member of the Republican party from the dawn of his manhood. He is a member of Levi Butler Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and one of the few who still respond to its tattoos, many of its once large membership having foiever grounded their arms for earthly contests.

Dr. Lane was born on September 19, 1855, at North Perry, i Maine, and in 1863 came to Minneapolis with his parents to reside. They were Charles W. and Almira B. (Coulter) Lane, also natives of Maine. The father was a'farmer and practiced veterinary surgery in his native state, and after his removal to ' Minneapolis was ])roprietor of the Wilbur hotel on First street north for a number of years, and also operated a carriage > factory. He was interested in the Flathead Lake Lumber i Company, but kept his residence in this city, where he died on Februarj' 10, 1913, aged eighty-five years, surviving by only \ four months his wife, who passed away here in October, I9l2, at the age of eighty-eight.

The father was a Freemason, holding his membership in ; Ark Lodge at the time of his death, but formerly belonging to old Cataract Lodge. He was buried by the Lodge with full Masonic ceremonials, and his remains were attended to their last resting place by many of his fellow members and large numbers of other persons, all of whom respected him highly. In his political relation? he was always a Republican, but at I the last national election decided to vote for the Democratic candidate, Hon. Woodrow Wilson. He could not carry his intention into elfect, however, owing to his inability to get ; to the voting place. He enjoyed hunting and fishing in his years of activity, and was to the close of his long life a man of strong friendships and social inclinations. His family consisted of three sons and one daughter: Freeman, who is a lawyer in active practice; Leslie C, the immediate subject of this review; Frank S., now a deputy sheriff, and Cora, who died in childhood.

Dr. Lane obtained a good high school education and was graduated in medicine from Rush Medical College. Chicago, in 1877. He practiced his profession at Benson in this state two years and at Ortonville twelve. In 1890 he returned to Minneapolis, where he built up a good general practice and was rapidly rising to the first rank in the profession. The death of his wife three years after their marriage changed his line of action, and he became interested in life insurance work in the employ of the Fidelity Life Insurance company of Philadelphia, with which he was associated two years as a solicitor. ' At the end of that period he was made manager of the com- pany for the Northwest, his territory including Minnesota, i the Dakotas, Wisconsin and one-half of Iowa.