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In 189,'!, when it was necessary to have a receiver to close ! up the business of the Children's Endowment Society of Minneapolis, the doctor was appointed to the position by Judge Russell. It took three years to complete the work, and he so managed it that the society paid fifty cents on the dollar, a much larger percentage than many persons expected, some declaring that it could not possibly pay over ten cents on the dollar. In discharging him from the receivership at the end of his work the judge complimented him for his excellent management of the trust and the fine result he had accomplished thereby.

In 1901 Dr. Lane was elected president of the Surety Fund Life company of Minneapolis, which was organized in 1898, and in 1901 had about $390,000 insurance in force and was at a standstill. This company now has some $13,000,000 insurance out in live policies and operates in six of the states and also largely in Canada. Its last annual report, published on December 31, 1912, and brought down to that date, showed its total assets to be $225,323.50, and to include $112,100 invested in first mortgage farm loans, $36,400 in municipal bonds, $60,410.64 cash in banks, and various other funds and property, the gain in gross net assets for the year being $70,251.31, and the income in excess of disbursements $60,089.35.

In January, 1913, the doctor was re-elected president of the company for another term of three years. He was married in 1881 to Miss Matilda Emmett, a daughter of Hon. Lafayette Emmett, the first chief justice of the state of Minnesota, formerly a resident of Faribault. Mrs. Lane died after three years of married life, leaving one son, L. Emmett Lane, who is now in the employ of the city. In his second marriage the doctor was united with Miss Adla M. Carlson of Minneapolis. They have three daughters, Bonnie, Eleanor and Charlotte, all living and all still members of the parental family circle.

In church relations the doctor is a Presbyterian and chairman of tlie board of trustees of Stewart Memorial church. He was elected to this office for a second term although he was not, at the time of the election, an actual member of the church. Fraternally he is a Freemason and belongs to Ark Lodge in the order. He is also a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine in this great fraternity. In politics he is a Regenerated Republican, and cast his vote for Woodrow Wilson for President at the election of 1912. But the only political or semi-political office he has ever held was that of United States Pension Examiner, which he filled for two years while he was living at Benson.

Alfred Hadley Lindley. M. D.

Dr. Lindley was a native of Chatham county. North Carolina, where his life began in May, 1821. He died in Minneapolis on February 16th, 1905, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. He grew to manhood and was educated in his native state, completing his academic courses at the Friends' School at New Garden, which is now 'called Guilford College, in which he taught four years and his professional instruction at the Jefl'erson Medical College in Philadelphia, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1827.

After completing his medical course the doctor returned to his native county and there practiced medicine until 1861. Having been reared a Friend, or Quaker, in the sect to which all his family connections belonged, he was strongly opposed to the Civil war, and as soon as North Carolina seceded from the Union he decided to remove to the North.

R. J. Mendenhall, one of his old friends and intimates, was living in Minneapolis at the time, and that fact induced him to select this city as his future home. His brother-inlaw. Dr. M. B. Hill, whose sister Eliza was his wife, came with him, and after their arrival they practiced medicine together here until the death of Dr. Hill in 1875, after which Dr. Lindley practiced alone until he retired, except that for a number of years one of his sons was associated with him.

He yielded to the genius of the place in another line of business also, and did what everybody else was doing - - dealt in real estate and put up buildings. In 1883 he erected what is now known as the Lindley block, an office building fronting 82V2 feet on Nicollet avenue, and others of value later. He also served as health officer for the city for some years, and bought the land on which the first pest house was built. This has since been converted into a public park.

True to the religious Sect in which he was reared, the doctor was through life a warm and helpful friend of its educational institutions. He contributed liberally to the support and advancement of Guilford College in North Ciarolina, his own Alma Mater, and also to Earlham College, at Richmond, Indiana, where Lindley Hall has been erected in honor of him and as a memorial of his serviceable interest in the institution. Penn College, in Oskaloosa, Iowa, also enlisted his aid and his donations to it were frequent, generous and cheerfully made. The Society of Friends, his home and his profession were the objects of his warmest devotion, and he was true to them all in every particular and at all times.

Dr. Lindley's wife was a zealous worker in Quaker circles, giving a great deal of time and energy to the service of her chur'ch as long as she was able. She was also zealous in behalf of the Women's Boarding Home, and for many years served as the president of its board of trustees or directors.

Her death occurred on February 18, 1913. after she had reached the age of eighty-seven. She and the doctor were the parents of four sons and one daughter. One of the sons died when he was but three years old and another when he was thirteen. The daughter lived to the age of thirtj'. The two sons who grew to manhood were Samuel and Clarkson. Samuel was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and was associated with his father in the practice of his profession until his death in 1887, at the age of thirty-five. He was a valued member of the Hennepin County Medical Society.

Clarkson Lindley, the last survivor of his father's family, and the only one now living, was graduated from the Minneapolis high Schools in 1874 and completed his academic education at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He was engaged in the real estate business seven or eight years in association with Corser & Company, and was secretary of the Minneapolis Trust company eight years. In 1896 he became connected with his father in the real estate trade, and in addition to what he handled for the firm while his father lived, he owned extensive and valuable properties himself.

Like all the other members of his family for several generations, Mr. Lindley belongs to the Society of Friends, and he has for some years been one of the trustees of the organization in Minneapolis. On Dec. 11, 1895, he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Gale, a daughter of Samuel C. Gale, of this city. They have three daughters and one son. Ella, their oldest daughter, is a student at Bryn Mawr

George P. Douglas

Prominent in professional life as a capable, energetic, resourceful and successful lawyer, and, during the last twelve or thirteen years, standing high as a real estate investor, George P. Douglas of Minneapolis has fully justified the confidence the community has in him.

Mr. Douglas exemplifies in his energy and ingenuity the salient characteristics of the section of country and race of people from which he came. He was born in Vermont in 1866, and is a typical New Englander in every commendable feature. He is a son of Christopher F. and Louisa (Perkins) Douglas, with whom he came to Minneapolis in 1873. when he was but seven years old. The father was a dry goods merchant in the firm of Camp, Douglas & Gold, and also operated a flour mill on Minnehaha creek. He was active and enterprising in business until about 1885, when he retired. He died in 1910, aged seventy-nine, having survived his wife by a number of years.

Their son, George P. Douglas, was prepared for college at the East Side Academy, Minneapolis, and in 1885 entered Yale University, from the academic department of which he was graduated in 1889. He then became a student in the law department of the University of Minnesota, obtaining his degree of LL. B. in 1890. During the next ten years he practiced his profession. But more promising fields of endeavor opened before him, and he entered tliem without hesitation, and has cultivated them with great enterprise and success for himself, and with decided advantage to the community.

The new fields were in tlie real estate business, and in this Mr. Douglas has been engaged with profit and a steadily rising and widening reputation ever since he, in a measure, gave it precedence over the law. He has mastered his business in this line, and made himself so well informed with reference to it that he has become an authority on every phase of it, and his opinion and judgment have great weight in connection with cverytliing belonging to it.

Mr. Douglas is also earnest and enthusiastic in his support of the social agencies at work in the community for the enjoyment and betterment of its residents. He is president of the Minneapolis New Athletic Club, which has now (July, 1914) 2,300 members, and also belongs to the Minneapolis, Minikahda, Lafayette and St. Paul University Clubs.

In his political relations Mr. Douglas is an ardent Democrat and a very hard, faithful and efficient worker for his party. He has served for some years as chairman of its local campaign committee, and as such has rendered it very loyal and valuable service. During the campaigns of the late Hon. James C. Haynes for tlie mayoralty he was particularly active, and his activity and the intelligence whicli guided it gave inspiration to the other members of the committee and kept up the courage and determination of the most faint-hearted and sustained the faith of those most inclined to be doul)tfuI of triumphant results. In another public service he has worked arduously as a member of the city charter commission.

Mr. Douglas was married on Oct. 19, 1899, to Miss Bessie Pettit, the only child of Hon. Curtis H. Pettit, a sketch of whom will be found on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas are the parents of three children, their daughters Deborah L., Elizabeth P. and Eleanor G. The mother is a member of Westminster Presbyterian church. She and lier husband are very fond of the enjoyments of social life as furnished by a select circle of congenial friends, and their home at 2434 Park avenue is an attractive and much frequented resort for such circles. The general welfare of their home city and its residents also has their earnest and discriminating attention, and they are zealous in their support of every commendable undertaking for its promotion and general advancement along all wholesome lines of progress, moral, mental, social and material. The city of Mnineapolia is well pleased to number them among its most useful, agreeable and representative citizens and forces fo"- good.

William H. Landis

ilr. Landis is a native of Pennsylvania, that great hive of industry in which almost every form of productive human endeavor is in fruitful activity. He was born near the Blossburg coal mine, in Tioga county, that state, on May 28, 1844. His father, Joseph Landis, was a farmer, and the son was reared on the farm and acquired habits of useful labor in assisting in cultivating the land. Near the close of the Civil war the father, a farmer, was drafted for service in the Union army. The son volunteered to go to the front as a substitute for his father, and was enrolled for a i)eriod of nine months. A regiment was formed of the conscripted men and Mr. Landis was made its adjutant. The regiment was never called to the field, however, as the war closed soon after it was organized.

Mr. Landis was less tlian twenty j'ears of age when he began his military service, and never had any opportunity for advanced education. What he could get in the common district schools of his native neighborhood was all the mental training he received from regularly appointed teacliers. But his mind was strong, active and inquiring, and lie acquired a considerable fund of general information by reading and observation, and also learned by doing things how best to employ his faculties to }iis own advantage and in the service of his fellow men.

The experience of this gentleman in the army quickened into determination his inherent desire to see more of the world than the hills and vales amid which he was born and reared, and when he quit the militarj' service in 1865 he came west to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and *as in that city when President Lincoln Avas assassinated. From La Crosse he journeyed by boat to St. Paul, and from that city went to Le Sueur, where lie taught school one term and studied telegraphy while he was doing it. At the end of his engagement as a teacher he became a telegraph operator for the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. He worked faithfully as an operator for this company for a year and a lialf at Anoka, Jlinn., and in 1S67 came to Minneapolis and o])eneil an office for it as operator and bill clerk.

Six months later lie was sent to the Big Woods region as a claim agent, and sometime afterward became interested in the publication of a newspaper, the one now known as the Delano Eagle, which he founded. In 1881 he was appointed auditor on the Great Northern Railroad, and he served the road in that rapacity ten years. At the end of that period he was made superintendent of the business of the Northwestern Elevator company between Minneapolis and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and later purchased a one-half interest in an undertaking establishment in 1891, which was then conducted under the firm name of Johnson & Landis, his connection with it lasting from 1891 to 1905, as member of the firm. In that year he acquired a large ownership in the business and the name was changed to the Landis Undertaking company. This company is interested in developing a forty-acre tract of land, in Cuba, ten acres of which are well wooded. The tract is located in a very desirable country and the climate of the region is as good as can be found in America. The company is also interested in building mausoleums and is erecting three this summer (1913). Mr. Landis is its secretary and treasurer with offices in the Lumber Exchange building.

Mr. Landis is of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction, and a fine tj'pe of the American manhood that has come from that source. He is a Republican in his political belief and adherence, but, while deeply interested in the success of his party at all times, and zealous in its service in his quiet way, he has never aspired to public office. On April 36, 1S67, he was united in marriage witli Miss Mary A. Cuttler, the daughter of a prominent lumberman. They have two sons living: Raymond F. and Willis E.. connected with their father's business in Minneapolis. The father belongs to the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum and the Grand Army of the Republic.

With a creditable record of forty-three years in the same line, during which time he has built up an extensive trade by square dealing and progressive enterprise, Levi Longfellow, head of the Longfellow Brothers Company, wholesale produce dealers, is justly regarded as one of the leading men in businesS, civic and social activities.

Mr. Longfellow was born at Machias, Maine, May 10, 1842, being a son of Jacob and ilartha .J. (Getchell) Longfellow, also natives of Maine. Machias Bay on which the city is located was the scene of a thrilling and unusual event during the Revolution. The British frigate "Margaretta" with four 4-pounders and 16 small cannon, entered the harbor and her commander, Capt. Moore, demanded that the Liberty Pole be taken down. The next day upon leaving he fired upon the town. The Colonists, led by Capt. O'Brien, on the "Unity," a much smaller vessel, followed the "Margaretta" which became wind-bound. They grappled with and boarded her, and after a severe hand to hand fight captured her, Capt. Moore being mortally wounded in the battle.

Mr. Longfellow's paternal great-grandfather Nathan Longfellow, was a First Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War and served on General Washington's stalT. Mr. Longfellow's maternal great-grandfather took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Jacob Longfellow was a lumber manufactiu-or operating two large saw mills. In 1851 the family came to St. Anthony Falls to join the mother's parents, Washington and Mary (Berry) Getchell, who had located here in 1848. Mr. Getchell erected the second frame residence built in the village. He took up land in Brooklyn Center and his Sons,

Jacob Longfellow pre-empted land at Brooklyn Center where he lived until after the Civil War. He then removed to Minneapolis where he died in 1884, surviving his wife four years. Mrs. Longfellow, the mother of Levi, was a member of Hobart Chapel, Methodist Episcopal Church. Of nine children but five are living. Elizabeth Ls the widow of S. D. Morrison, Levi and Daniel W. are the membeiis of the Longfellow Bros. Company. Charles is in the West, and Ansel is a contractor in Seattle.

In 1862 Levi Longfellow enlisted in Company "B" Sixth Minnesota Regiment under Capt. 0. C. Merriman, then mayor of St. Anthony - the regiment being under the command of Col. William Crooks. He became Principal Musician of the regiment and was discharged with the field staff at St. Paul on August 19, 1865. He then taught school in St. Paul for a year and clerked in Minneapolis until 1870, when he engaged in the wholesale Fruit and Produce business. Later his brothers, Daniel W. and Nathan, became associated with him in the business which has continued until the present time.

In 1906-07 Mv. Longfellow was Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in Minnesota, and following that was made Department Patriotic Instructor. He held this office till 1913, when he was appointed National Patriotic Instructor, under Commander-in-Chief, Alfred B. Beers.

The Longfellow Brothers have been active in improvements. They platted and incorporated the village of West Minneapolis where the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Works are located, Levi having been treasurer of that institution for nine years.

Levi Longfellow has always been deeply interested in the education of young men to full American citizenship. He is a pleasing speaker and is always heard with profit. F'rom the founding of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Hospital he has been one of its trustees and for many years has been the treasurer of the Board. He is the only survivor of the incorporators of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. For five years he has been the resident executive member of the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota Soldiers Home, and is at present its president. In politics he is a Republican but has never been induced to accept a public office. He is also a member of Hennepin Lodge No. 4 A. F. and A. M.

W. H. Lawrence

W. H. Lawrence, Secretary and Treasurer of the Model Laundry company, was born in Minneapolis on July 5, 1877, and is a son of Wesley and Elvira (Potter) Lawrence, natives of Vermont who came to Minneapolis in 1876 and started the first steam laundry in the city. They are still living, but tlie father is now retired from all active pursuits and enjoying a well-earned leisure.

The son was reared in this city and educated in the public schools. He began business in association with his father, and remained in this relation to the parent for a number of years, helping to conduct the laundry, but not in charge of its affairs.

In 1902, however, he was given the general management of the business as secretary and treasurer of the company, his father still retaining the presidency. He still fills this position and directs the business of the mechanical institution over which he presides in every particular; and it is nourishing and thriving under his vigorous management.

On Aug. 18th, 1910, Mr. Lawrence was united in maniage with Miss Ettie S. Webster, of Minneapolis. He is a member of the Order of Elks and since early in 1911 has been president of the East Side Commercial club, of which he was one of the founders. The family is of English ancestry, and in his business operations Mr. Lawrence exhibits the sterling and sturdy traits whicli distinguish the race from which he sprang, and which always command the success due to persistent effort and good judgment. Throughout the city he is well known, and among all classes of its residents he is esteemed as an energetic and enterprising business man and an excellent citizen, earnestly interested in the substantial welfare of his community and anxious to promote by every means at his command the enduring good of its people and its own material advancement and improvement. But, while he is earnestly interested in public affairs locally, he is not an active political partisan, although a loyal member of the Republican party.

Charles G. Gates

The sudden death of the late Charles G. Gates on Tuesday, October 28, 1913, in his private car, at Cody, Wyoming, ended the second generation of the most spectacular, striking and successful business enterprise in the same family the world has ever known. The career of the father, John W. Gates, and that of the son, Charles G. Gates, was each unique in its way, and distinct from the other, although there were many elements of similarity and many features that were common in the two. The father was a man of unbounded nerve in business, and by his unrivaled boldness and selfconfidence of the commendable kind, won for himself the familiar sobriquet of "Bet-You-a-Million Gates," and the son, through a liberality on all occasions that was almost unprecedented in human history, if not entirely so, became almost as familiarly spoken of as "Spend-a-Million Gates." These names were not, however, mere empty sounds, and much less were they terms of reproach. Tliey were but the expression in the popular mind of general admiration of substantial and fruitful qualities in the two men on which their respective fortunes and careers were founded and built up to Such impressive proportions.

Charles G. Gates was born in West Chicago, May 21, 1876, and was, therefore, only thirty-seven years old when he died. He was the Son of John W. and Delora R. (Baker) Gates, both born and reared in Illinois. The father was one of the most towering and stupendous of all captains of industry. His business career touched the industrial and financial world at so many points of contact that a recital of them all would be wearying. But he touched nothing Small, and was never connected with any business transaction, after he struck his proper pace and got fairly under way, but one of magnitude and prime importance. He began his industrial activity as a manufacturer of wire, but soon broadened his operations so that they took in large dealings in steel and grain, and in time covered almost the whole field of large transactions of every kind. He died in August, 1911, leaving a fortune estimated at about $30,000,000, the bulk of which he willed to his wife, who is still living in New York city. After the death of her husband she made an almost equal division of the estate witli their only child, the immediate subject of this writing.

The son obtained liis education in the public schools of Chicago, and his father earnestly desired him to secure a thorough college training of advanced scholarship, but he opposed the proposal and insisted on .going into business in his early manhood. The father argued, persuaded, and possibly even threatened dire results from his displeasure. But the son was literally "a chip of the old block," and firmly adhered to his own purpo.ses. Doubtless his own intuitions were guiding him in the right course, and they overbore all outside influences. At the age of sixteen he began his business life as secretary to the manager of a large wire mill, and during the next five years he performed the duties of that responsible position with great ability.

When Mr. Gates reached tlie age of twenty-one his father gave him $50,000 with which to go into business for himself. He at once bought an interest in the brokerage firm of Balwin & Gurney, dealers in stocks and bonds in Chicago. This step was also taken against the advice and wishes of his father, but subsequent events proved the wisdom of the choice, as the son became one of the most extensive and successful stock operators in the world. He carried on his business for some time in Chicago, and then moved to New York city and founded the firm of Charles G. Gates & Company, which was the largest Stock and bond firm in business on W'all street. The company consisted of twelve members, the elder Mr. Gates being one of the number, but the son retained a majority of the stock. The firm was very successful until its retirement from business in 1897. After his withdrawal from this firm he operated alone until his death and amassed a large fortune by his own efforts.

Among the numerous business projects Mr. Gates aided in creating and bringing to large fruition was the development of the Beaumont Texas oil fields, he being one of the first men of large means who became interested in them. He induced his father to invest heavily in that region also, and together they founded the town of Port Arthur, Texas, and contributed liberally to its growth and improvement. The younger Mr. Gates built a rice mill, started a bank, erected a large number of buildings of various kinds, gave the local Lodge of Elks a handsome home and aided in many other ways in making the place important and attractive for business and as a residence. At his death the entire town was in mourning for several days and its people paid him many touching tributes.

One of the largest enterprises in which Mr. Gates was interested was the United States Realty and Improvement company of New York. This company built the Plaza Hotel in that city and many other important structures tlicre and elsewhere. Mr. Gates was one of its largest stoekholdere and most influential directors. His widow still has an extensive interest in it. But he was interested in many companies in different parts of this tountry, and was known in every section of it. He belonged to the Minneapolis, Minikahda, Lafayette, Interlachen and Automobile clubs in this city, and many of tliose in Chicago and New York. In the latter city he was a member and at one time the commodore of the celebrated New York Yacht club.

On September 29, I'Jll, Mr. Gates was united in marriage with Miss Florence Hopwood, of Minneapolis, and at once decided to make his home most of the time in this city. With this end in view he bought whatever land he wanted on the Lake of the Isles front regardless of cost, and began the erection of a mansion that was to cost at least $1,000,000. The structure was not finished at the time of his death, but in accordance with his wishes, Mrs. Gates is having it completed on the original design. It will be one of the most magnificent residences in the country, when finished, but language pales before the task of fully describing it.

Like many men of robust physique and vigorous health, Mr. Gates overrated his strength. His extensive business engagements made enormous drafts on his resources, and in the fall of 1913 his private physician. Dr. Fellows Davis, Jr., advised him that in order to recuperate he must pass a considerable period in the open air, and agreed to accompany him on a trip for the purpose. In obedience to their wishes he went to Cody, Wyoming, arriving there on Friday, September 26. The whole population of the city welcomed him warmly and treated him with marked consideration.

From Cody Mr. Gates rode on horseback twenty miles through the mountains into Shoshone Canyon in one day. He spent a month hunting big game and returned to Cody on Saturday, October 25, to make preparations for his journey back to New York. His preparations were delayed by a derangement of the stomach, and on Monday night he began suffering from dizziness and an alarming weakness in the action of his heart. His ailment would not yield to treatment, and the next day he died in his private car, which was about to be attached to an Eastbound train. Even in the face of death, however, he did not lose his interest in his fellow men or withhold his unfailing generosity to them, and as the people of Cody had treated him with great cordiality and theirs was a good town, he ascertained the indebtedness of the different churches in the town and paid it. He also made liberal donations to the other churches, and was munificent in his generosity to his personal attendants, giving them various sums of money ranging from $100 to $10,000. His remains were taken to New York and buried in Woodlawn cemetery in that city.

Company. He is President of the North Star Malting Company, and associated in various capacities with quite a number of other financial organizations. A member of the Minneapolis, Minikahda and Lafayette Clubs.

Albert C. Loring

Albert C. Loring, son of Charles M. Loring and Emily Crosman Loring; born in Milwaukee, August 31, 1858. Educated in the public schools of Minneapolis, Minnesota, State University of Minnesota, and the West Newton English Preparatory School, West Newton, Massachusetts.

Upon returning to Minneapolis, he entered the office of L. Fletcher & Company, then engaged in general merchandising business and Hour milling; and became associated as Secretary and Treasurer of the Minnetonka Mill Company in 1877 - one of the earliest mills in the City. He has remained continuously in the milling business since that time. He was the organizer of the Galaxy Milling Company - its Secretary and Treasurer - afterwards, its President; was one of the organizers of the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, being for a long time associated as Manager, and for some years. President of that Company. Upon organization of the Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, he was made President of that

Almost from boyhood J. A. Latta has been actively identified with the world of banking and with banking business. Preparatory to his career as a banker he entered the employ of the County Treasurer of Ionia County, Michigan, soon after he graduated from the High School in Allegan, Mich. This was in 1882 and in 1883 he was made deputy treasurer with full charge of the office. In this capacity he served for two years. After some months in an insurance office, - in 1885, - became teller of the Second National Bank of Ionia, Mich. With this bank and with the banking firm of Webber brothers, its successor, he continued for seven years, then he went to Detroit to accept a position with the Penisular Savings Bank as assistant teller. Here he remained for only a short time as he was soon elected to fill the office of cashier in the First National Bank of Hurley, Wisconsin. Two years later, after having satisfactorily filled this position in Hurley, lie went back to Detroit to an advanced position and two years afterward was appointed State Bank Examiner, and when two years had been given to this service he went back to Detroit as assistant cashier of the Penisular Savings Bank, remaining here for six years.

Mr. Latta's first entrance into Minneapolis Banking circles was made as vice president of the Swedish American National Bank. This was in 1905, nearly four years before its consolidation with the Northwestern National Bank. When this consolidation took place on November 28. 1908, he was elected as vice president of the augmented Northwestern National Bank, which position he is now filling.

Miss Cristine Webber, daughter of John A. Webber, of Portland, Michigan, became the wife of Mr. Latta on January 15, 1902. Mr. Webber now deceased was of the banking family which is so prominently identified with a number of Michigan Banks. Two daughters have been born to them, Marian and Jeannette.

He and his family are membci*s of St. Mark's Church and he is a 32nd degree Mason. He is a member of the Minneapolis, the Minikahda and the Commercial clubs.

Mr. Latta was born in Ionia County, Michigan, April 23, 1865. He is the son of Patroclus A. Latta and Margaret (Just) Latta, natives of Michigan and New York.

He was reared and educated in Allegan, Michigan, and gi-aduated from tlie High School of that city in 1880. His father was engaged in the practice of law and educational work. He died at Saugatuck, Michigan, in 1911.

Cavour S. Langdon

Cavour S. Langdon, railroad contractor and a prominent business man of Minneapolis, is a son of Robert B. and Sarah (Smith) Langdon, a sketch of whose lives will be found elsewhere in this work. His business activity has been highly beneficial to this part of the country, and his career in the conduct of it has been very creditable to him in the upright and enterprising manner in which it lias been wrought out and the success that has attended his judicious, energetic and wisely applied efforts.

Mr. Langdon is a native of New Haven, Addison county, Vermont, where his life began on September 11, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of Minneapolis, and has been engaged in railroad construction work continuously since 1878, when he was but seventeen years of age.

In the public affairs of the community Mr. Langdon takes an earnest and helpful part as a Republican in political faith. But he has never been an active partisan and has never sought or desired a political office; but has served as secretary of the school board for tlic past two years and as a member since 1911, his term expiring in 1917. The industrial and fiscal agencies at work in this city and state also interest him practically, and he gives them serviceable attention, being a trustee of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank, president of the Minneapolis Syndicate and a director of the Minneapolis Trust company. He was also a member of the Minnesota National Guard from 1879 to 188G. In church affiliation he is an Episcopalian. In the organized social life of the city he is active as a member of the Minneapolis, Minikahda and Lafayette clubs. While his business is always the first consideration with him, he frequently finds relief from its burdens and recreation in golf and hunting.

Irving A. Dunsmoor

The old Pine Tree state has contributed an appreciable and valuable quota to the complex social fabric of tlie Gopher commonwealth, and of this number Mr. Dunsmoor is a representative. He was born in Franklin county, Maine, on the 25th of June, 1844, and has been a resident of Minnesota since his boyhood days, his father, .James A. Dunsmoor, having been one of the honored pioneers of Jlinneapolis, where he first made his appearance in the winter of 1852 and where he was joined by his family in tlie following spring. James A. Dunsmoor secured from the government a preemption claim of land on what is now Lyndale avenue, and his original domicile was erected at the present number, 5317, on this fine thoroughfare, which then crossed Minnehaha creek at a point about one-half mile west of his home, which was on the south side of the creek and five and onehalf miles distant from the court house of Hennepin county. James A. Dunsmoor reclaimed his land to cultivation and developed a productive farm, besides which he became one of the prominent and influential citizens of the pioneer community. He assisted in the organization of Richfiehl township and served for a number of years as its treasurer, besides having been for a considerable period of time the postmaster at Richfield and having also held the office of justice of the peace. He donated five acres of land, at the crossing of Minnehaha creek and Lyndale avenue, to a company which there erected a grist mill, and he also sold small tracts of land to other ])ersons, for the starting of stores, blacksmith shop and other business enterprises. He was one of the most liberal and public-spirited of the pioneer settlers of that section of the city and his attitude has been that assumed by his son. Irving A., who, as early as 1867, built a store at Richfield, and served as postmaster for four years prior to his going to California, the old grist mill previously mentioned having been constructed about the year 1854. The old homestead of the Dunsmoor family was a house of six rooms and in the same entertainment was given in the early days to settlers who came from points forty or more miles distant to avail themselves of the advantages of the grist mill. The capacity of the little house was thus often taxed, and the sons frequently slept in the hay-mow or on the floor, in order to provide beds for the guests, the home having served as a hotel or inn. The old liomestead is still standing and in excellent preservation, but many changes have been made, including additions to the original building. The place is now inside the city limits of Minneapolis and is one of the landmarks of the section in which it is situated. The old Dunsmoor farm is now a part of the Wasliburn Park addition. About the year 1872 .Tames A. Dunsmoor disposed of the portion of the farm which he had retained and he then removed with his wife and other members of the family to California. In Los Angeles, that state, his death occurred about one year later, and there three of his sons still reside, another son having been a resident of the same city at the time of his death, in 1912. Tlie devoted wife and mother, who likewise was a native of Maine and whose maiden name was Almina A. Mosher, survived her husband by a number of years and passed the remainder of her life in California. She was a zealous and devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church and her name merits enduring place beside that of her husband on the roll of the noble and honored pioneers of Minnesota. Of the six sons. Irving A., of this review, and Dr. Frederick A., reside in Minneapolis. Irving A. Dunsmoor was about nine years of age at the time when the family home was established in Minnesota and he was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days. He attended a primitive school two miles distant from his home and later continued his studies in a school at Wood Lake, but this discipline was irregular and somewhat desultory, so that his broader and more liberal education was that gained through self-training and through the lessons acquired in the practical school of experience. He assisted in the operations of the pioneer farm and also, until he was fourteen years of age. aided his mother in the domestic affairs of the household, as there were no girls in the family. When the Civil war was precipitated upon the nation Mr. Dunsmoor did not long wait to respond to the call of patriotism. In the autumn of 1861 he enlisted in the first Minnesota company of sharpshooters, under command of Colonel Pcteler, his elder brother, Frank, having enlisted at the first call of President Lincoln, and having taken part in the first battle of Bull Run. in which he received a wound that destroyed one of his eyes, so that he was granted his discharge on account of physical disability. Irving A. Dunsmoor. the second of the six sons, proceeded with his command to the front and with the same assisted in the capture of Fredericksburg, besides taking part in various engagements of General Pojie's campaign leading >ip to the second battle of Bull Run. He continued on active duty for thirteen months and then received an honorable discharge, having been mcapacitated as the result of sunstroke received on the march. In 1864 Mr. Dunsmoor gave further evidence of his insistent loyalty to the Union, as he enlisted in the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery. At Chattanooga he was detailed in charge of a one-hundred-pound gun that was stationed at a bend of the river, to guard against the advancement of the Con- federate forces under General Hood. The approach of Hood caused the Union forces at Chattanooga to be hard pressed for adequate food supplies, and the command of which Mr. Dunsmoor was a member went on half-rations for six weeks. He remained at Chattanooga until the close of the war, and his entire period of military service thus covered nearly two years. He made an admirable record as a faithful and valiant soldier and won promotion from the position of private to that of sergeant. He is a member of .John A. Rawlings Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in Minneapolis, and wliile a resident of California he became a charter member of the first Grand Army post organized in the city of Los Angeles; of this organization he served as deputy inspector and also as commander, and through his close and active association with the Grand Army of the Republic he vitalized and perpetuates the more gracious memories and experiences of his military career. While in California he Avas made Major and Inspector of the First Brigade of the National Guard of California.

After the close of the war ilr. Dunsmoor obtained a soldier's claim of one hundred and sixty acres of government land, near Sauk Center, Stearns county, Minnesota, but he disposed of the property within a few years and then engaged in tlie general merchandise business in the old home town of Richfield, where he continued to conduct a store for four years. He then, in 1872. accompanied his parents on their removal to California, where he engaged in the mercantile business and where he continued to reside for a period of ten years. He was a member of a volunteer fire department at Los Angeles, that state, and when running to a fire was taken ill, the result of his illness being his affliction with asthma. To find relief from this disorder he found a change of climate necessary, and accordingly he returned to ^linneapolis. For several years he had definite relief from his asthmatic trouble, but the disease again attacked him and with greater severity. He made a trip to Honolulu, where he found no relief, and he then returned to Minneapolis.

Mr. Dunsmoor has been successfully established in the realestate business for the past thirty years and he has platted twelve additions to the city of Minneapolis. One of the most important' and attractive of these subdivisions perpetuates his name, being known as Dunsmoor's Seventh addition and being in the southeastetn part of the city. He has recently platted Richfield Heights addition, which is a most attractive and eligibly situated district, one and one-half miles southwest of the old Dunsmoor homestead and extending from Humboldt avenue to Morgan avenue. His operations in the local real-estate field have resulted in adding two hundred acres to the improved sections of Minneapolis.

In politics Mr. Dunsmoor has been a stalwart supporter of tlie cause of the Republican party, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. He is past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, and has represented his lodge in the grand lodge of the state, besides which he is past grand guide and past grand master of the Minnesota grand lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

In the year 1867 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunsmoor to Miss Adeline Burns, of Sauk Center, this state, and concerning their children the following brief data are entered in conclusion of this sketch: Albert Irving is a resident of Los Angeles, California; Maude is the wife of Arthur

Armitage, of Minneapolis; Harry is manager of an extensive lumber business at Bottineau, North Dakota. Frederick is floor manager in the important Minneapolis clothing house of Browning, King & Company; and Eva is the wife of Robert H. Rose, secretary of the Northwestern Fire & Marine Insurance Company, of Minneapolis.

Neil S. Livingstone

Mr. Livingstone wis born on the Island of Mull, one of the Hebrides, in Argyleshire, Scotland, July 19. 1854. He comes of a very old and honorable Scotch family. His father, John Livingstone, was a fii'St cousin of the celebrated missionarj', Dr. David Livingstone, "the weaver of Blantyre," who died practically a martyr to his efforts for the conversion of the heathen of "Darkest Africa," and who was offered, but refused, knighthood in recognition of his exalted services. John Livingstone was likewise a man of fine intellectual attainments, having received a collegiate education, and he aided his cousin. Dr. David Livingstone, in the preparation of the latter's first volume descriptive of his travels and experiences in Africa. Their paternal grandfather was a gallant Scottish patriot and loyally supported the cause of Prince Charles. He participated in the historic battle of Culloden, in which he was severely wounded. Owing to political turbulence and unrest in Scotland various members of the Livingstone family became exiles In Norway, and others came to America, where one of the number, Robert, became a signer of the Declaration of Independence and known as a patriot of prominence and influence during the period of the Revolution.

Neil S. Livingstone, attended, in 1909, tlie great celebration held in Glasgow, Scotland, in honor of his distinguished kinsman, Dr. David Livingstone, and was invited to the celebration held in that city in March, 1913, when all Scotland and England gave further commemoration of the services of the great missionary and explorer.

Mr. Livingstone's mother was Catherine St. Clair, of the St. Clairs of Caithness, Northern Scotland, and She was related to Dr. David Livingstone. In his childhood, Mr. Livingstone spoke only the old Scotch Gaelic. When he was about five years of age, he accompanied his parents to America, where the first family home was established in the Province of Ontario, Canada; his parents passed the closing years of their lives in Canada and Minneapolis. In Ontario, Neil S. Livingstone was afforded the advantages of excellent private Schools, in which he acquired a good academic education. At the age of 19 he came to the United States, first locating in Wisconsin and later in Minneasota. In the latter State he attended the Minnesota State Normal School at St. Cloud, and graduated therefrom in the class of 1880. For a time tlieroafter he engaged in school teaching and was a successful and popular teacher.

After a brief time he foiind his principal life work sind became identified with railway and bridge construction, and chiefly in the building of railway bridges, he has won his greatest success and precedence. Utilizing the Howe-truss spans in bridge work, he began his career as an iiulependent 'contractor in 1893, and he did a large amount of important work on the lines of the Great Northern, the Canadian Pacific, and other leading railway lines of the northwest. His operations have been largely in British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada, and also in the States of the Nortliwest. For several years he was associated in business with O. M. CoUinB, under the firm name of Collins & Livingstone, but since the dissolution of this firm he has conducted his extensive operations in an individual way. He has constructed many important bridges and trestles in the Rocky mountains, besides viaducts and other forms of engineering work.

Mr. Livingstone has maintained his residence and business headquarters in Jlinneapolis since 1883, and his character and services have given him a high place in popular confidence and esteem, as well as prominence in business cir'cles in the Minnesota metropolis. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion he is a member of Westminster Presbyterian church. He has completed the circle of both the York and Scottish Rites of Masonry, and in the latter he has received the thirty-second degree, besides being identified with the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

In the year 1883 Mr. Livingstone married Miss Margaret E. LeVesconte, who was at the time a resident of Hastings, Minn. Mrs. Livingstone was born in Australia, was reared to the age of sixteen years on the Island of Jersey, in the English Channel, and then accompanied her parents on their removal to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Livingstone have two children, Robert, who is a bridge contractor and builder, and Helen, who remains at the parental home.

Charles B. Layman

One of the best known namt's in Minneapolis is that of Layman. The principal representative now living in Minneapolis being Charles B. Layman, son of Martin Layman, one of the pioneere. He was born in New York, May 30, 1838, the son of Martin and Elizabeth (Brown) Layman, themselves natives of the Empire state. In 1845, the family migrated by team to Illinois, settling in Peoria county. They improved a prairie farm, and in 1853, they came to St. Anthony.

Entranced by the new country, the Laymans took up a claim of 160 acres, its boundaries being now Lake street on the south. Twenty-sixth Street on the north, and Cedar avenue on the west. On what was then the farm now stands, among other industries, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway shops, the immense plant of the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company, and other large concerns^ presenting a far different aspect from that of the Layman homestead of the early fifties. The residence of the family, built by Martin Layman, about 1855 to 1856, is still standing, facing Cedar avenue. Later, in 1876, he built a larger residence, also facing Cedar avenue, and in this he lived during the declining years of his life. He died in 1886, past the age of seventy-five, his companion of fifty years surviving but three months.

Layman's Cemetery was laid out by Martin Layman in 1858, a'nd constituted during many years the principal place of burial for the city. It first comprised ten acres, extending from Twenty-ninth street to Lake street, with the main entrance on Cedar avenue. The tract was added to, until it contains thirty acres and is now, as always, conducted as a private cemetery. More than 24,000 bodies have here found the final resting place.

Martin Layman was the father of thirteen children, all of whom reached years of maturity. Three sons and four daughters of these are now living.

Charles B. Layman spent his early years helping to improve his father's farm, which was all prairie land. When he was twenty-two years old he bought a farm on the Fort Snelling prairie, some eight miles south of the old home, paying for it $11 per acre. He "bached it" there on the farm, broke the land, and raised a crop. He had got the trop In stack in 1861, when, moved by the patriotic fervor which was giving regiments of soldiers to the volunteer army, he enlisted in Company I, of the Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. He served three years, ten months and sixteen days, remaining constantly with his company, and being honorably discharged at the end of his faithful service.

Meanwhile his father had sold Charles' farm for him, and soon after his return from the war Charles went to California, where he resided for twelve yeaw. Returning in 1879 to Minneapolis, he built his present home, nearly opposite the old place on Cedar avenue. For twenty-one years he acted as superintendent of Layman's Cemetery, being succeeded by his son. Martin, so that for half a century the Laymans, through three generations, have laid in the breast of mother earth the remains of Minneapolis citizens.

Charles B. Layman married Anna Nolan in 1880. To them were born one son, Martin, superintendent of the cemetery which bears the family name; and two daughters, Edna, Mrs. L. W. Paul, and Ruth, who lives at her parents' home, 2822 Cedar avenue. Mr. Layman is a charter member of Morgan Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and is also prominent in the Knights of Pythias order.

Hon. Frank Mellen Nye

Hon. F"rank M. Nye, one of the most eminent of the representative professional men of Minneapolis, has achieved a successful career alike creditable to him and highly serviceable to the localities in which he has lived. Those who know him best recognize his worth and take pride in his honorable career and his service to his fellowmen.

Mr. Nye was born in the town of Shirley, Piscataquis County, Maine, March 7, 1853. He is a son of Bartlett and Eliza (Loring) Nye, and a brother of the late genial author and humorist, who was familiarly known to delighted millions as "Bill Nye." Benjamin Nye, the progenitor of the American branch of the family, came to America from England, in 1637, and settled at Sandwich, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod Bay. He was a young man at the time and remained at Sandwich until his death. Three brothers, descendants of Benjamin, removed to Maine, where each raised a family. They were active in service on the side of the Colonies during the War of the Revolution, and all the subsequent generations of the family have shown patriotism and devotion to their country.

Franklin Nye (son of Bartlett Nye), a name that has been handed down from many generations in unbroken succession, was a native of Maine and a lumberman and mill man in that State. He moved to Wisconsin in the latter part of 1853, the next year located in St. Croix County, near River

Falls, between tliat city and Hudson. He improved a tract of wild prairie and bush land into a fine farm in the beautiful Kinnikinick Valley, and in that region he passed the remainder of his days, dying in River Falls in 1887.

Mrs. Nye, the widow of Bartlett, is still living, and has her home with her son, Frank, in Minneapolis. She is of English ancestry of the higher class and belongs to families distinguished for intellectual force and social refinement for many generations. Her father, Amasa Loring, was a gentleman of the old school, courtly and considerate toward all men, and distinguished wherever he was known for his uprightness, sincerity and unwavering straightforwardness. His mother belonged to the Haskell family, and Mrs. Loring's mother, Frank's grandmother, to the Teague family, both prominent in New England history.

Three children were born and reared to manhood in the household of Franklin Nye, "Bill," the humorist, Frank M., and Carroll A. The last named has lived in Moorhead, Minnesota, twenty-six years. In 1910, he was elected District Judge of the Seventh Judicial District, which is normally Republican, but which he carried by a handsome majority, although he was a Democrat. Before going on the bench, he was a member of the State Board of Managers of the Normal Schools. The parents reared, in addition to their three sons, an adopted daughter, Josephine M. Nye, whom they took into their family in her childhood. She is now a teacher of elo'cution and a public entertainer in New York City. She has always been an object of special care and solicitude to Mrs. Nye, who, being highly intelligent and well read herself, was eager that her adopted daughter should make the utmost of her faculties and opportunities, and gave untiring attention to her education. Mrs. Nye is of the same ancestry as Charles M. Loring of this city.

Frank M. Nye grew to manhood on his father's farm in Wisconsin. He was educated in the district schools and at the River Falls Academy, with a short attendance at a collegiate institute. He and his brother, "Bill" Nye, both taught school and read law together at their home. Frank was admitted to the bar while he was still engaged in teaching, receiving his license to practice at Hudson, Wisconsin, in 1878. He at once moved to Clear Lake, in Polk County, Wisconsin, and began practicing, and the next year was elected district attorney, holding the office for two terms in succession. He had many important cases to try, and his reputation as a skillful lawyer and man of unusual ability grew steadily.

His election to the office of district attorney was the beginning of Mr. Nye's political career, and he was kept in office almost without a break thereafter until he retired from public life voluntarily at the end of his third term in the National House of Representatives on March 4, 1913. In the fall of 1883, he was elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature of Wisconsin, as a Republican, and when Hon. John C. Spooner was elected to the United States Senate for the first time by that Legislature, Mr. Nye was selected to make the speech which placed him in nomination.

During his service in the Wisconsin Legislature Mr. Nye introduced a resolution providing for submitting to a vote of the people an amendment to the State constitution conferring the right of suffrage on women. He made the only speech delivered in favor of the resolution, and succeeded in getting it through the House. He thus became a pioneer advocate of woman suffrage in the Northwest, his resolution having been the first ever introduced in the Legislature of Wisconsin, or any of its bordering sister states. The issue was much more unpopular than now.

In the spring of 1886, Mr. Nye came to Minneapolis to live and practice law. His start here was humble and obscure. He wore out his old clothes, a'ccording to his own account, but before he did this, as the record shows, he gained a high professional reputation, especially in the trial of criminal cases. In 1888 he was appointed Assistant County Attorney, under Hon. Robert Jamison, since one of the district judges.

In the fall of 1890, Mr. Nye made the race for the office of county attorney, but the political landslide of that year in favor of the Democratic party elected his opponent. In 1893, however, and again in 1894, he was chosen to this office. During his four years' tenure he had a great deal of hard work and many difficult cases. There were many murder and embezzlement cases which required his attention, and in the management of which he was very successful. One ease of national, if not international, importance and renown was that of the State vs. Harry T. Hayward, which involved the crime of murder in the first degree and resulted in a conviction.

At the end of his service as prosecuting attorney, Mr. Nye resumed his general practice, and soon found himself under almost constant requisition in connection with important criminal cases, not only in Minneapolis and Minnesota, but also in Wisconsin, North Dakota, and even Montana. He assisted in the prosecution of the noted Kent case at Mandan, North Dakota, where the first trial was held, and in Fargo, where the second was conducted. Both resulted in convictions and death sentences.

In 1906, Mr. Nye was elected to the Lower House of Congress by a flattering vote, and was re-elected in 1908 and again in 1910. In 1912, he declined to be a candidate. During his first term he was a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia and the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. By his work in the latter committee he secured the first appropriation for the erection of a new postoffice building in Minneapolis.

Mr. Nye's first speech in the exalted forum of his latest renown was in defense of President Roosevelt's special message after the panic of 1907. The Republican members who controlled the House, with Speaker Cannon in the chair, were not in accord with Mr. Roosevelt, and the Democi^ats taunted the whole party membership with repudiating the President. The conditions made it necessary for new members to defend him. In his second and third terms. Mr. Nye was a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House, one of the most important in the body, and requiring of its members an immense amount of detail work. Though a minority member during his third term in the House, Mr. Nye did his full share of this work.

As a public speaker, Mr. Nye has always been very popular and drawn large audiences. He won distinction of a special kind in a half-hour's address on Lincoln in Congress, on the one-hundredth anniversary of the martyred President's birth, and in another short address on one of the anniversaries of Washington's birthday. He has spoken often on national questions and in the councils of his party, as well as on the stump in important campaigns. He has also filled numerous Chautauqua lecture engagements. His speeches are extemporaneous, and have piquancy and interest and Show the in-

In his home city, Mr. Xye belongs to nearly all the social clubs and benevolent fraternities, including the orders of the Free Masons and the Knights of Pythias. He is fond of base ball and other athletic sports, as a spectator, and gives them liberal support. In religious affiliation he is connected with Park Avenue Congregational Church, but he is liberal in his theological views, believing that the Bible and the teachings of the lowly Xazarene contain all the basic principles of correct living in their spirit and tenets, independent of all sectarian interpretation and application.

March 27, 1876, Mr. Nye was united in marriage with Miss Carrie M. Wilson, of St. Croix County, Wisconsin. They have four children, Mrs. Belle Carter, Mrs. C. S. Laird, and Mrs. A. Berkhall, all of Minneapolis; and a son, Edgar W., who was named for his uncle, "Bill" Xye, and who associated in business with the Stone-Ordeen-Wells Company in this city, and unmarried; he was his father's secretary while the latter was in Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Xye have five grandchildren.

George H. Eastmax

More than half a century ago George H. Eastman numbered himself among the pioneers of Minnesota, and he has been a prominent and influential figure in the development of the resources and industrial enterprises of this favored commonwealth. He was long and conspicuously identified with the great flour-manufacturing industry of Minneapolis and did much to further the city's prestige in this line of enterprise.

George H. Eastman was born at Conway, Carroll county, X'ew Hampshire, on the 'Jth of February, 1839, and was reared to maturity in his native state, where he received excellent educational advantages in the common schools. In March, 1858, as a youth of nineteen years, Mr. Eastman came to Minnesota, while it was still a territory, and established his residence at St. Anthony, where his elder brothers, John and William W., had previously located. John Eastman was the first of four brothers to come to Minnesota and he was prominently concerned in the development of various industrial and commercial enterprises of the pioneer days. He was associated with his brother William W. in the control of many important business interests and he continued to maintain his home in Minneapolis until the time of his death, Dr. Arthur Eastman, a representative physician of St. Paul, being his son. On other pages of this volume is given a specific review of the career of William W. Eastman, and to this article reference may be made for further details concerning the Eastman family. Haskett Eastman, the oldest of the four brothers, came to Minneapolis several years later and at the time of his demise he was executive head of the wellknown lumber firm of Eastman, Bovey & Company. His widow and son Clarence still reside in the old family homestead, 20 Grove Place, Minneapolis. Four sisters of the subject of this review likewise became residents of St. Anthony and Minneapolis: Annette K. was the wife of Charles Thompson. Charlotte was the wife of Judge David A. Seacombe, who was a representative lawyer of Minneapolis and who also served as probate judge. Judge Seacombe and his wife are deceased and are survived by two children, Willis, a successful manufacturer and business man of Minneapolis, and Gary, the widow of Edward C. Chatfield, of this city. Caroline Eastman resides in Minneapolis, where she makes her home with her sister, Clara T., who is the widow of John DeLaitte, individually mentioned on other pages of this work.

George H. Eastman learned the paper-making trade in the establishment conducted by his father and upon coming to Minnesota he entered the employ of his brother, William W., who at that time conducted a grocery store on the site of the present Lockwood machine shop, on Main street, St. Anthony. In the year that marked the arrival of Mr. Eastman in Minneapolis was erected the Winslow House, which became the principal hotel of the town and which stood on the site later occupied by the Exposition building. In those early days but little money was in circulation here and scrip was the common circulating medium. After having been in the state about two years ilr. Eastman supplemented his educational discipline by study under the able preceptorship of Dr. Gray and was one of the first students of the University, one of the leading pioneer educators of Minnesota and a man of high attainments. About this time Mr. Eastman found employment in a paper mill that had been erected and equipped by his brother William, at the upper end of Hennepin island. In this mill wrapping paper was manufactured from rags and old rope, and employment was given to a force of ten men. The average output of the pioneer factory was two tons of paper a day. George H. Eastman continued to be identified with the operation of the mill about one year, at the expiration of which his brother disposed of the plant and business. He then returned to his old home in New Hampshire, where he remained about one year, and in 1861 he went to California via the Isthmus, where he gained varied and interesting experiences. He was made superintendent of the government tool road over the Sierra Nevada mountains, this road extending for si-xty miles. Prior to his regime as superintendent various Mexican sheep and cattle men refused to pay toll at the gates on the road and were persistent in their attempts to override authority. They would tear down the gates and were ever ready to shoot at those who interfered with tlieni. Under these depressing conditions Mr. Eastman was ridiculed for his temerity in assuming the position of superintendent of the toll road, but he convinced the belligerent Mexicans that they would encounter trouble with the government and that their live stock would be confiscated. He gained their good will, as he proved to them that he was ready to avoid dilliculty, and the tolls were paid without further trouble. In California Mr. Eastman also devoted one year to gold mining in the placer fields of Calaveras county, where he met with measurable success.

In 1866 Mr. Eastman returned to Minneapolis, and here he finally rented the Prescott flour mill, on Hennepin island. This was one of the older mills of the locality and had a capacity of about two hundred barrels. It had been unsuccessfully operated, but Mr. Eastman made the enterprise so prosperous within a period of six months that the owners of the property insisted on again assuming control, no lease having been signed. Mr. Eastman then assumed supervision of the erection of the first grain elevator built in Minneapolis, the same having been situated near the corner of East \\ ashington street and Ninth avenue and having been owned by the firm of Merriman & Wilder, of St, Paul. This elevator had a capacity of 150,000 bushels and long continued as the largest in the state, its grain supply having originally been drawn almost entirely from the southern part of the state. After the completion of the elevator Mr. Eastman was made its manager and of this position he continued the incumbent for eight years. Prior to his superintendency all grain had been transported in bags direct to the mills. He arranged to permit the wheat to flow into the wagon boxes, but the majority of those concerned still insisted upon the use of bags. He constructed a wagon box with a capacity of one hundred bushels, and in the facility of loading and unloading this saved in both time and expense, his innovation effecting a revolution in the handling of grain. His success encouraged others to erect elevators, and within his regime of eight years seven or eight such structures were built in Minneapolis. In 1870 he resigned his position and became associated with his brother, William W., in the erection of the "Anchor' mill, equipped with eleven buhr stones and having a capacity of two thousand barrels. While still in charge of the elevator he and his brother had engaged in the manufacturing of grain reapers, the same having been the first automatic rakers to be placed on the market and having been designated as the "Valley Chief." Defects in certain minor parts of the mechanism made the practical working of the machines unsatisfactory, and the manufacturing of tlie same was, therefore, discontinued. For two years Mr. Kastman had active charge of the operation of the Anchor mill, and under his able direction were installed improved purifiers, for the whitening and strengthening of the flour. His study and experimentation were carried forward with marked zeal and the result proved of inestimable and enduring value in connection with the great industry fhat has made the name of Minneapolis famous. Mr. Eastman learned that the "shorts" or gluten went into the bran, the while the starch was retained in the flour. He also found that the embryonic chits or sprouts contained the oil which yellowed the flour, as combined with the middlings. The result of his investigation was that he found that desired conditions could be gained by the utilization of rollers. In his preliminary experimentation he borrowed sugar-rollers from a local wholesale grocery firm. He thus tested the middlings through the primitive rollers and found that his ideas had been correct. He then arranged for the construction of two rollers to be attached to the mill machinery, but before lie had perfected liis plans for the improvement of the process he and his brother sold their mill to the late Governor Pillsbury, so that his idea of the roller process of flour manufacturing was left to be developed and perfected by others. In- connection with the selling of the Anchor mill the Eastman brothers accepted a hardware store and business, the headquarters of which were on Bridge Square. William W. Eastman sold his interest in this business to T. B. Janney, and the enterprise was continued by George H. Eastman and Mr. .Janney until 1875, when the firm became .Jannej', Brooks & Eastman, by the admission of a third member. Under these conditions the business was successfully continued until 1883, and the volume of the trade, both wholesale and retail in functions, was increased frctai two hundred thousand to one million dollars a year. In the year last mentioned Mr. Eastman sold his interest in this prosperous enterprise, which is still continued under the firm name of .Tanney, Seniplc, Hill & Company.

himself in extensive and appreciative travel, the interest of which was intensified by his previous careful and far reaching study of history. He made four trips to Europe, and extended his travels into Egypt, China, Japan and other parts of the Orient. In 1884 Mr. Eastman and his brother, William W., erected a fine and extensive hotel at Hot Springs, Arkansas, but from this line of -enterprise he soon afterward withdrew. For twenty years Mr. Eastman was associated in the operation of one of the leading baths of the great Arkansas resort, where he customarily passed the winters for a term of years. ' Though he has had no desire to enter the arena of practical politics or become a candidate for public office of any description, Mr. Eastman is found arrayed as a staunch supporter of the principles and policies of the Democratic party. He is a charter member of the Minneapolis Club. He is identified with the Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association and is essentially progressive and public-spirited as g. citizen. He is affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and was one of the organizers of its first lodge in Minneapolis, of which he was the first master workman. In Minneapolis, in the year 1869, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Eastman to Miss Caroline W. Holt, daughter of the late Edwin Holt, who was an honored pioneer and influential citizen of this city. Mr. Holt was a man of marked ability and was a prominent figure in civic and business affairs in Minneapolis. He came to this state in 1868, from Wisconsin, but formerly from New York City, in 1862, and became a large owner of valuable realty in Minneapolis, besides being specially prominent in the state organization of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Eastman has been a leader in church and charitable activities of her home city, where her circle of friends is limited only by that of her acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman became the parents of two children, Florence, who died in New Orleans, at the age of seven years, and Eugene Holt Eastman, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of his profession. He married Miss Lenora Snyder, of Dayton, Ohio.

Horace Lowry

Horace Lowry is the only son of tile late Thomas Lowry, former president and founder of the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. His mother is Beatrice M. (Goodrich) Lowry.

He was born in Minneapolis, February 4, 1880. He is a graduate of the Emerson Grade School, the Central High School, class of 1896, and the University of Minnesota, class of 1900, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Science. For nearly two years after leaving the University, he was emploj'ed aa an electrician in the company's shops, after which he entered the auditing department of the company where he remained for nearly a year, being chief clerk at the end of that time. Mr. Lowry then left. the company to look after his father's real estate and personal business interests, which up to that time had been in the hands of Several agents. In June, 1908, he accepted the superintendency of the Minneapolis division of the company, holding that position until December 10, 1910, when he resigned to give his entire time to the Arcade Investment Co., of which he was president. It was then that he built the twelve story Lowry Building in St. Paul, acting as his own engineer and general contractor of the construction. On .lanuary 1, 1912, Mr. Lowry was appointed general manager

Mr. Lowry is a member of the Minneapolis, Minikahda, Interlachen and Lafayette Clubs of Minneapolis, the Minnesota Club of St. Paul, University Club of Chicago, as well as the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. He is also a member of the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association, and the St. Paul Association of Commerce. He was married March 18, 1909, to Kate S. Burwell. They have two sons, Thomas Lowry and Goodrich Lowrv.

Charles F. Linsjlwer

Chas. F. Linsmayer, president of the McMillan Fur & Wool Company, was born in German)-, in 1872, and at the age of eleven came with his parents, who are still living, to Minneapolis, where he attended a public school for two years.

At different times and in various ways the company showed its confidence in his ability and judgment, one manifestation of this being that in 1906, he was sent to Europe to study the foreign markets and make extensive sales and purchases of rare costly furs. He has since made two trips abroad in the interest of the company, redounding in largely increased business.

Mr. Linsmayer is the president and treasurer; J. C. Wade is vice president, and C. M. Wiley, secretary, and among its directors are Miss C. E. McMillan, a sister of James McMillan, whose sketch and portrait are found elsewhere in this work, and A. C. Gebhart. Mr. Linsmayer is a member of the New Athletic club and the Civic and Commerce association. He is a Republican but not an active partisan. Sept. 11, 1894, he was married to Miss Helen Gilles of Minneapolis. They have two sons, Carl and James McMillan. One month each year is devoted by Mr. Linsmayer to hunting in the northern wilds, the home at the Lake of the Isles containing some fine trophies of such recreation. He and wife are members of Immaculate Conception Catholic Cliurch.

Gust Lagerquist

Having come to this country a young man, with habits of industry, and the Spirit of enterprise that characterizes his countrymen. Gust Lagerquist, an extensive manufacturer of elevators, has found conditions in the United States agreeable in every sense. He has made the most of the opportunities and has hewed out for himself a flourishing business.

Mr. Lagerquist was born in Sweden in 1855, and came to Chicago in 1878. There he was for some years employed in a manufactory of elevators when he in 1885 came to Minneapolis and started the present enterprise, removing after six years to First street and First avenue north, where he remained for five years.

north. This is two stories hign. 75 by 150 leet m dimension*, and gives employment regularly to about forty men. Under Mr. Lagerquist's progressive management the business has grown to very considerable magnitude, the products attaining wide popularity and a very extensive sale. His elevators are modern in every particular, made according to tlie latest and most approved ideas and contain none but the best materials, and have ever retained the high standard originally set, the principal buildings in the city being fitted with them.

While not a political partisan, Mr. Lagerquist has taken an earnest interest in local affairs, in good government and most rapid advancement for Minneapolis. He has also been active and serviceable in its fraternal life, being a Shriner in Masonry.

He was married in 1885, to Miss Emma Nelson, also of Sweden. They have three children, F. W. is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, for eight years being an ensign in the navy; Helen is a graduate of Sargent's Physical Culture College in Boston; Carl S. graduated from high school, and is a freshman in the University.

Few citizens of Minneapolis are better known and none is held in higher esteem in the community than the representative pioneer physician and surgeon to whom this review is dedicated. He established his home in Minneapolis in 1865, after having rendered gallant and distinguished service as a surgeon in the Union ranks of the Civil war, and here he continued ir the active and successful practice of his profession for virtually half a centurj-. He is unmistakably the dean of his profession in Minnesota, where he is the only survivor of the charter members of the State Medical Society, as is he also of the charter members of the Hennepin County Medical Society. A few years since he retired from active practice, but he is held in reverent affection by many representative families to which he has ministered in years past.

Dr. Owen Jason Evans was born in the town of Remsen, Oneida county, New York, on the 5th of February, 1840, being the ninth in order of birth in a family of ten children, of whom only three are now living. He is a son of Thomas T. and Mary (Lewis) Evans, both of whom were born and reared in Anglesey, an island and county of Wales, in the Irish sea.' and both representatives of the staunchest of Welsh lineage. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in their native laud and upon coming to .\merica they established their residence in the state of New York. When Dr. Evans was seven years of age his parents removed from his birthplace to Remsen, Oneida county, where the father became the owner and operator of a dairy farm. In 1858 the family removed to the city of Rome, New York, and there the parents passed the closing period of their lives, secure in the high esteem of all who knew them.

The rudimentary education of 'Dr. Evans was obtained in the little district school near his birthplace and was continued ill a similar institution after the removal of the family to Oneida county. Thereafter he continued his higher academic studies in tlie Rome Academy, and in preparation for his chosen profession lie finally entered the Albany Medical

College, in the capital city of the Empire state. In this institution lie was graduated in December, 1863, wiien he duly received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Evans, forthwith showed his intrinsic loyalty and patriotism by tendering his services in behalf of the cause of the Union, the Civil war being at this time at its height. On the very day on which he received his medical diploma the Doctor also obtained his commission as assistant surgeon of the Fortieth New York Volunteer Infantry, proceeded to the front, and entered service in the Army of tlie Potomac. He lived up to the full tension of the great conflict between the states of the north and the south, and made a record that will ever reflect honor upon his name. After the battle of Chancellorsville he was detailed as a member of the surgical operating staff of his brigade, and in this important capacity he continued in active and faithful service until the close of the war, when he received his honorable discharge. Nearly one and one-half years before his discharge a vacancy having occurred in the surgical staff of his regiment, he was commissioned and mustered as surgeon of the Regiment, this preferment having been given at the urgent request of all save one of the officers of the regiment. It is worthy of note in this connection that his associate, the other assistant surgeon, was a man twenty-nine years his senior and that his ability and personal popularity brought about his advancement.

At the battle of the Wilderness a request was made for volunteer surgeons to remain with and care for the wounded while the army moved to the left and prepared for the battle of Spottsylvauia. Dr. Evans was one of the four surgeons who volunteered for this exacting service, and the next day after the Army of the Potomac had moved forward to the left the Confederate ofHcer Colonel \Vhite, with his guerillas, effected the capture of the four surgeons and all of their wounded patients. They were held in captivity for two weeks and then, by a clever ruse, effected their escape to Fredericksburg. This result was accomplished principally through the versatility and efforts of Dr. Evans. He started for General Wade Hampton's headquarters for the purpose of obtaining needed supplies, but was met by the Confederate otticer of the day and halted, but he persuaded the Confederate officers to permit him to depart unmolested for Fredericksburg, and on his return to come in with such a supply train as he may have been able to secure. He at once sought the Federal lines under General Ferreros, not many miles distant, and after obtaining a goodly amount of food and medical supplies, together with about seventy-five ambulances, he returned to his stricken comrades. The next day he contrived to effect the removal and escape of about two-thirds of the wounded Union soldiers, and he also left adequate provisions for the remainder, as well as for about two hundred wounded Confederate soldiers. With his rescued comrades he returned in pafety to the Union lines.

After the surrender of General Lee, at Appomattox, Dr. Evans was detailed as chief medical officer of the department at FarmviUe, Virginia, where the Confederate hospital was situated and where many wounded Union soldiers, as well Confederate, were confined. In caring for these men the Doctor completed his service as one of the able and efficient surgeons in the Union army, and his career thereafter has mainly to do with Minnesota and its fair metropolis.

he has nuiintained his home during the long intervening years, which have been marked by large and worthy achievement on his part. He early made careful investments in local realty, and in addition to erecting many dwellings of excellent order he has built three business buildings. He still owns the Anglesey block, three-story block and three store rooms, at the corner of Hennepin avenue and Fourteenth street, all of these buildings having been erected by him.

He served two terms as city health officer, was a valued member of the city council, and also gave effective service as a member of the board of education. In 1885 he served as a member of the lower house of the state legislature. In this connection he takes just satisfaction in the fact that he was the author of the bill in conformity with the provisions of which the state condemned and assumed control of the property now known as Minnehaha Falls park. The city of Minneapolis later obtained from the state the ownership of this beautiful park, the state retaining the ground on which is now located the Minnesota Soldiers' Home. Prior to the assumption of state control the now beautiful park was unkempt and was the resort of tlie most undesirable class of persons, the ideal place having thus virtually denied its privileges to the better class of citizens. The Doctor was for many years a director of the Minneapolis Board of Trade. Both he and his wife are zealous members of Westminster Presbyterian church, with which he has been actively identified for practically half a century. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and, as before stated, is the only surviving charter member of each, the Minnesota State Medical Society and the Hennepin County Medical Society. Dr. Evans is one of the appreciative and valued members of Rawlings Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is a member and in which he served four terms as surgeon. He is also affiliated with the Minnesota Comraandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and he served as a member of the council of this patriotic organization. In former years he was an active member of the Minneapolis Club and the Nicollet Club, but he resigned his membership in both several years ago.

A specially interesting and valuable achievement has been that of Dr. Evans in connection with the raising of livestock standards in Minnesota. He has been a prominent and successful breeder of fine horses and cattle. He has brought out on his stock farm many admirable standard-bred horses, and was the first to introduce the high-class draft horses in the state, both Clydesdale and Perclieron stock. He has in his possession a fine Tiffany prize cup, valued at one hundred dollars, and this he won at the state fair on exhibiting the Wilkes trotting stallion "Red Chieftain," and four of his get. Another valued trophy is two solid silver cups captured by the Doctor's standard-bred "Mike Wilkes" in the ice races on the Lake of the Isle course. The Doctor has also become well known as a financier and successful breeder of fine registered Jersey cattle. At the present time he is interested in fruit ranches in the Bitterroot valley of Montana and on the Pinellas peninsula of Florida. In each of these localities he has made substantial investments in real estate, and his land in Montana is devoted to the raising of apples, pears, cherries and plums, while that in Florida is given over principally to the propagation of grape fruit. Dr. Evans is giving personal attention to the improving of

In the year 1869 Dr. Evans wedded Miss Elizabeth Dodge, of Princeton, Illinois, and she was summoned to the life eternal in 1879, leaving no children. In 1890 was solemnized the marriage of the Doctor to Miss Tamazine McKee, who presides graciously over their attractive home, no children having been born of this union. Dr. Evans is known and honored in the city that has so long represented his home, and it may consistently be said that his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.

Charles D. Lougee

Charles D. Lougee has borne the heat and burden of the day and is enjoying the beauty of its sunset or the milder glories of its late evening at his home, 1103 Fifth street, Southeast Minneapolis. But he is by no means oblivious of or indifferent to what is going on around him, and is as deeply interested in the continued progress and welfare of his home city and state as when he was one of the most active and potent factors in promoting their advancement.

Mr. Lougee was born in the village of Bainstead, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, a few years after the birth of the late Governor John S. Pillsbury in the neighboring village of Sutton, about 25 miles distant. They were lifelong friends, and were associated in business here for many years. The county of their nativity has produced other men who have attained distinction, among them former Governor Harriman, of New Hampshire, and former Governor Otway. of South Dakota,

Mr. Lougee grew to manhood and was educated in his native State, and he there learned the trade of carpenter. He came to Minnesota in 1857, and located at Faribault, where he engaged in carpenter work for ten years. In 1867 he came to Minneapolis to live, and in partnership with the late H, J. G. Croswell, operated a flour mill near the site of the present Pillsbury Mill A, which was destroyed by fire some years after he Sold his interest in it to his partner, with whom he was associated for about four years.

The milling business in which Mr. Lougee was engaged was profitable, and he invested his revenues from it in pine lands, in St. Louis County. Minnesota. Governor Pillsbury owned lands nearer the city, and they began to operate together. Mr. Lougee assuming charge of the details of the lumber business. They had their logs sawed in Minneapolis mills, belonging to other persons and then disposed of their lumber at wholesale. The business continued under their joint management for a number of years, and each accumulated a handsome fortune from it. Mr. Lougee finally sold his interest to C. A. Smith and Governor Pillsbury.

.M an early day Mr. Lougee became and still is a stockholder in the First National Bank. He also served for a time as vice-president of the Floiir City Bank, and has held considerable stock in other banks for many years, but has never cared for official positions in these institutions. Neither has he ever sought or desired public office of any kind. One reason for refusing official position was that once given by Governor Pillsbury when he was urged to be a candidate for Congress: "My business is worth more and it must suffer if I go into public life," and he resolutely put aside all efforts to induce

November 28, 1872. Mr. Lougee married Miss Catherine Sperry, in Minneapolis, where they were both living at the time. Miss Sperry was a young lady of unusual mental endowments, educational attainments, and personal cliarms. She is a sister of Rear Admiral Sperry. of the United States Navy, and of Mark L. Sperry, of Waterbury, Connectitut, the place of her nativity. She and her husband were the parents of three daughters: Mary, the wife of Hon. John C. Sweet, a prominent lawyer of Minneapolis; Helen, the wife of Dr. A. A. Law, and Catherine Louise. They are all graduates of the University of Minnesota, and Miss Catherine is a teacher of art in Oregon. The mother died in 1889. He was married the second time to Harriette L. Brown on .luly 12, 1894.

The home of the parents is at 1103 Fifth street southeast, Minneapolis, as has been stated, and there Mr. Lougee finds his greatest contentment and pleasure. He has helped to build, magnify, and adorn a municipality that is one of the glories of our country, and he has planted and cherished one of the finest of the many charming homes in the city, and given to it an example of domestic virtue and contentment nowhere sur-

Hon. John G. Lennon

In business affairs, in public service and in all the elements of sterling manhood the career of Hon. .John G. Lennon is creditable alike to him. to his family and to the community. He was born on Bridge Square, Minneapolis, September 2, 1858, a son of Charles and Margaret (Glass) Lennon, natives of Ireland, where they were reared and married. Soon after marriage they came to the United States, making the voyage in an old sailing vessel and being twenty-seven weeks on the ocean. The father's brother, John G, Lennon, one of the leading real estate men of Minneapolis, was at that time sutler at Fort Snelling,

Mr. Lennon's father died before the son was born and, in 1860, his mother married C. C. Hartley and moved to Lansing, Mower county, Minnesota, whence she returned to Minneapolis in 1895 or 1896, and here ])assed the remainder of her life, except when living at Kalispell, Montana. She died in Kalispell, Montana in September, 1912, aged eighty-two. For many years she was a member of the Territorial Pioneers Association, and from girlhood belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church. There were two children in the family. .Tohn (",. and his older sister, Mary,

Before John G. Lennon returned to Minneapolis, in 1895 or 1896, he opened a general store at Blooming Prairie, where he rendered the community service as a member of the city council, the school board and the postmaster. He was also for some years a justice of the peace. He has traveled extensively for clothing houses, which he has served thirty years as salesman. As a salesman he has been connected with one firm fifteen years, and is still selling goods all over the Northwest, making two six week trips a year. He belongs to the Church of the Redeemer and the United Commercinl Travelers' Association, and is a life member of Minneapolis Lodge of Elks No. 44.

been a member of the House of Representatives continuously for ten years, being elected in 1904, in the Forty-first legislative district, which embraces the Fifth and Sixth wards.