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In 1905 Mr. Lennon fathered the law providing for state inspection of hotels. He was the author of the law creating the state free employment bureau. Its activities at first were confined to Minneapolis, but since extended St. Paul and Duhith and so enlarged in scope that it now includes several lines, not at first embraced. He has kept in close touch with labor legislation and supported what he deemed judicious and helpful to the working classes.

In the session of 1907, he ardently supported the bill creating the State Farm for Inebriates, which is now in operation at Willmar, and which is supported by 4 per cent of all saloon licenses in the state. After the law was put into effect, the citj' of Morris contested by refusing to pay the tax, but the law was fully sustained when the case was carried to the Supreme Court.

In the session of 1911 Mr. Lennon was elected Speaker pro tem,- and for three weeks, during an illness of the Speaker he served as Speaker. His presence in that session was due to his triumph over the advocates of County Option in the liquor traific who made a bitter fight on him at the election. In that session he served on the special committee appointed to investigate the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, and wrote the report submitted by the joint committee of the two houses. The investigation was renewed in the session of 1913, when Mr. Lennon was dean of the House, and he took a prominent part in the discussion it awakened.

On December 26, 1877, Mr. Lennon was married at Portage, Wisconsin, to Mrs. Amy Giddings. They lost one child at the age of three and a half years, and have one living. Captain Bert M. Lennon, adjutant in the Minnesota National Guard and deputy state hotel inspector. By her first marriage, Mrs. Lennon had a daughter, Grace, now the wife of F. .1. Schisler of Winthrop, Minnesota, where her husband is a merchant and mayor.

Dr. Cyrus Northrop

Dr. Cyrus Northrop, late president of the LTniversity of Minnesota, did not attain his elevation to the first rank of educators in this country without difficulties of a weighty and at times oppressive character. But he met the obstacles in his pathway with a serene, self-confident and determined spirit that kept him always moving toward the goal for which he was destined. In early life his mind was omnivorous in its appetite for knowledge, but his physique was frail and scarcely able to sustain the intellectual force that dwelt in and controlled it. He suffered much from uncertain health at times, but during most of his boyhood and youth kept on with his studies and making decided and permanent progress in them; and his field of operations, after he began to exert his force in the management of human affairs, covered many lines of thought and action, but was always in the educational domain.

Dr. Northrop was born in Ridgefield, Fairfield county, Connecticut, on September 30, 1834, and is a son of Cyrus and Polly B. (Fancher) Northrop. He attended the common school in his native town until he was eleven years old. During the next five years he was a day student at a boarding school taught in Ridgefield by H. S. Banks, a graduate of Yale College. In 1851 he was entered as a student at Williston Seminary, Earthampton, Massachusetts, where he passed one year, and after leaving that institution entered Yale College in 1852. At the end of his second term, however, he was obliged to leave the college on account of illness. In the spring of 1853, having recovered his health in large measure, he re-entered Yale, and from tliat great seat of learning he was graduated in 1857. The next two years were passed by him as a student of law in Yale, and during this period he supported himself by teaching in a boarding school kept by Hon. A. N. Skinner in New Haven, which is even now well remembered by the older residents of that famous old city.

By the end of the period last mentioned the political agitation that resulted in the election of Abraliam Lincoln to the presidency of the United States and the great Civil war was in full activity, and engaged the attention of all thinking men. North and South. Dr. Northrop took an active part in the campaign for Lincoln, making many speeches in behalf of the candidacy of the great emancipator in Connecticut and New York. After the election, which resulted in the choice of a legislature favorable to his views, he was assistant clerk of the Connecticut house of representatives in 1860, and clerk of the same body in 1861. The next year he served as clerk of the state senate, and at the close of the session became editor in chief of the New Haven Daily Palladium, one of the most influential newspapers in Connecticut at that time.

But the newspaper field of endeavor was not the one best suited to his temperament and abilities. His Alma Mater recognized his special fitness for her service and in 1863 elected him professor of rhetoric and English literature, a position which he held for a continuous period of twenty-one years, or until he was chosen president of the University of Minnesota in 1884. He voluntarily retired from the presidency of the University on April 1, 1911, after an honorable record extending over twenty-seven years and a half. While occupying the chair of rhetoric and English literature at Yale College he delivered hundreds of addresses on political, educational and religious subjects in the Eastern and Middle states, and after coming to Minnesota he was in very frequent requisition for the same purpose throughout the whole period of his connection with the University, and the same demand for his services in this respect continues to the present time.

Dr. Northrop has always been devoted in his loyalty to the Congregational church, of which he has been a member from his boyhood. In 1889 he was moderator of its national council, which assembled at Worcester, Massachusetts, and in 1891 assistant moderator of its international council, which held its sessions in London, England. He has been. president of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, and was for several years president of the American Missionary Association. He is vice president of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society and of the American Bible Society. He is also a corporate member of the A. B. C. F. M. - the Congregational Foreign Missionary Society. He is president of the Minnesota Peace Society and is deeply interested in the world movement for peace.

The doctor has always been a warmly welcomed orator at college commencements and other college celebrations. He delivered one of the principal addresses at the Yale Bicentennial celebration in 1901, and, although he is not a clergyman, he has filled pulpits of almost all tlie church denominations on important occasions. His life in Minnesota has brougiit him into association with most of the leading citizens of the state, and for those of his eminent intimate friends who have passed away - Governor John S. Pillsbury, Senator W. D. Washburn, Judge Martin B. Koon, Governor A. R. McGill, and many others, he cherishes a very tender memory. His work in this state lias lieen mainly that of building up the University of Minnesota. But he indulges the hope, and with good reason, that the by-products of his industry have also been of some value. He is one of our state's most esteemed citizens.

S. K. Forest

Vice president and cashiei of the National City Bank of Minneapolis and the founder and president of the Commercial National Bank of this city, during its existence has had a very creditable business career, covering several different localities and lines of effort, in all of which he has been progressive and successful.

Mr. Forest was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1867, and graduated from the Brooklyn Collegiate Polytechnic Institute in 1884. Went to St. Paul, Minnesota, 1886; left St. Paul in 1889 and associated himself with Charles Hamilton under the firm name of Hamilton and Forest, lumber and coal, with a line of yards on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway.

At the end of that period he removed to Britton. South Dakota, having accepted a position with the Dakota Lumber Company. While a resident of South Dakota he sened one term as treasurer of Marshall county. He then organized the Citizens' Bank of Britton, which later became the First National Bank. In 1911 he went to Portland, Oregon, returning in the fall of that year, and organized the Commercial National Bank, over which he presided, until it was merged into The National City Bank. Under his enterprising, progressive and judicious management the bank flourished and grew rapidly, steadily increasing its business and strengthening its hold.

Mr. Forest was married in the state of New York on June 24, 1900, to iliss Frances C. Hall. They have one child, their daughter, Margaret E. Her father is a son of Samuel A. and Lydia E. (Mortimer) Forest, natives of Brooklyn, New York. They had four sons and three aaughters. Three of the .seven children are living. The father was a pioneer in Winona, having been a merchant and manufacturer there and elsewhere. He died in St. Paul in 1906 at the age of 76. In fraternal relations. S. E. Forest is a Freemason, and has risen in the order to the rank of a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and in church affiliation he is a Presbyterian.

Mr. Forest is highly respected as a progressive and public-spirited citizen, with a warm and practical interest in the welfare and improvement of his home city. In all projects for its advancement he can be depended on to do his part to help the cause along, and his views in this connection are always guided by wisdom and good jvidgment, and his efforts are always duly proportioned to the importance of the matter in hand. Minneapolis has no better citizen, and none who is more highly esteemed.

Hon. Wai.Lace G. Nye

Mayor Nye was bom at Hortonville, Wisconsin, on October 7, 1859, a son of Freeman James and Hannah (Pickett) Nye. He traces his descent from Benjamin Nj'e, who came to America from England in 1635 on the ship '"Abigail" and settled at Sandwich, Massachusetts. Benjamin and his descendants shared with other colonists the hardships and privations of pioneer life and the stress and storm of the Colonial wars, the War for Independence, the War of 1813 and the Mexican war. And when armed resistance threatened the dismemberment of the Union, the mayor's father showed the same patriotic spirit by promptly enlisting in the Federal volunteer army, remaining in the service to the close of our memorable sectional conflict.

Wallace G. Nye passed his boyhood on his father's farm and obtained his elementary education in a district school. When he was sixteen years old he took up the battle of life for himself as a school teacher, and with the proceeds of his first industry in this occupation began a more systematic course of academic training at the normal school in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He completed the course at the normal school, teaching at intervals to get more funds, and for a time after leaving the institution.

He learned the retail drug business in Chicago, and in September, 1881, came to Minneapolis and opened a drug store in the Northern part of the city. This store he continued to carry on until 1893, when other duties required all his attention. He was, from his youth, an active Republican in political faith and allegiance, and in 1888 served as a member of the campaign committee of his party. His services in this capacity showed him po.ssessed of such superior ability for administrative duties that in 1892 he was elected city comptroller, an oflice he held through three successive terms.

In 1898 lie served as chairman of the Rejiublican city campaign committee, and managed the campaign with admirable vigor and skill. Previous to this time, however, he was chosen secretary of the park board, beginning his service in that position in 1889 and continuing it for four years. In 1894 he was elected a member of the board to fill a vacancy, serving three years, and in 1904 was chosen to membership on the City Hall and Court House commission. He was also for some time chairman of the public affairs committee of the Commercial club, and in that position rendered the city notably effective .-service in the promotion of its commercial and substantial interests, being elected mayor of Minneapolis Nov. 5. 1912.

Mayor Nye has been active in the fraternal life of tlic city as a Freemason of the thirty-second degree and a member of the Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of I'nited Workmen and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His principal activity in these connections has been in the Order of Odd Fellows. He was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the state in 1890. Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment in 1893 and a representative to the .Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Order for ten years. He is not a member of any church organization but is interested intelligently and practically in all good agencies for the advancement and improvement of the community. In 1881 he was married at New London. Wisconsin, to Miss Etta Kudd. They have two sons, Marshall A. and George M.. both of whom are in business in this city.

Dr. Charles Henry Norred

A Virginian with some of the best blood of the south in his veins Dr. Charles Henry Norred has proved through his long and honorable career in Minneapolis, his right to his proud inheritance. Dr. Norred is a man of tine enthusiasm and high principles. Taken together with his splendid integrity and fearless in all matter pertaining to his profession these characteristics have won for him the enviable place in the esteem of his fellow citizens. His name is lastingly identified with the sanitary interests of the city.

His father was William Norred and his mother was Elizabeth Ellen (Dowdell) Norred and the son Charles Henry was born in Loudon county, Virginia, .January 19, 1842. While he was still a young boy his father moved with his family to Springfield, Hlinois, where he acquired large tracts of land, a flour mill and a lumber yard. It was during his boyhood and early manhood that he acquired a scientific knowledge of farming and stock raising and also a practical working knowledge of lumbering, engineering and milling, and he went into the business of buying and selling stock quite extensively.

It was in the public schools of Springfield that Dr. Norred received his early education, attending first the graded schools and later attending the Illinois State I'niversity. He was not yet twenty when he began his medical studies with Dr. R. S. Lord of Springfield. Later he went to Pope's Medical College, in St. Louis, Missouri, finishing with the class of 1865, and also to the School of Anatomy and Surgery in Pennsylvania. It was from the last named institution that he was graduated. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1886.

Added to all his other honors. Dr. Norred was also a soldier having served his country through the tivil war. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the 114th Regiment Illinois Voluntary Infantry and organized the first regimental hospital for the soldiers at Camp Butler. After passing an examination as senior assistant surgeon before the Illinois State Military Examining Board he received a commission as Captain of Cavalry. Throughout the war he served in the varioas hospitals in charge of the medical department, saving many lives and alleviating much suffering, having charge of the surgery on board of the floating hospital "Nashville" which was a receiving boat at the siege of Vicksburg. Later he was placed in charge of the medical department of the 7th Illinois Cavalry, in which service he remained until the close of the war.

Before coming to Minneapolis he had practiced in Dawson, Sangamon county. Illinois, and in Middletown, Illinois, and also in Lincoln, Illinois. He came to Minneapolis in 188a. It was five years after that the smallpox epidemic swept over the city and it seemed for a time that the physicians would be unable to cope with the situation. Dr. Norred was appointed special quarantine officer and in a short time presented the city with a clean bill of health. It was at hia suggestion that three large quarantine hospitals were constructed and people of Minneapolis raising about thirty thousand dollars for the purpose. It was as special quarantine officer that he first came into prominence in Minneapolis, winning in this capacity the respect and approbation of the 'entire community. In 1892 Dr. Norred was made consulting surgeon and in 1902 surgeon in chief of Soldiers' Home.

Many of the improvements for the Minnesota State Soldiers' Home in the matter of sanitation and management were due to Dr. Norrcd's skill and judgment while he was consulting surgeon there. Under his direction many changes were made that resulted in the betterment of the inmates there. He left the institution in splendid sanitary condition, after devoting a number of years of his active career to that end.

He held the office of United States Examining Surgeon under President Harrison and was at one time medical director of the Department of Minnesota Grand Army of the Republic and he also acted on the board of United States Examining Surgeons, being president of Board No. 1 at the present time. For a time he was consulting surgeon of the Minneapolis City Hospital.

He is prominent in G. A. R. circles, being a member of the John A. Rawlins Post, Number 126, and the military order of Loyal Legion of the United States. He is also a Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner and a member of the Wesley M. E. Church.

When Dr. Norred becomes reminiscent he likes to tell how his father at one time consulted Abraham Lincoln on legal matters and how the great man took notice of the young man who went with him. Charles was taken in office of the lawyer who was then comparatively unknown and who afterward became so great. This created a wonderful impression upon him and had a permanent and determining influence upon his ambition during his future life, especially after Lin'coln had become so great. He advised him as to his future life and conduct.

In 1900 Dr. Norred was selected special quarantine officer by the city to clean it of smallpox and after a few months of active work gave it a clean bill of health and also erected five modern quarantine hospitals at an expense of over $30,000 which was contributed by the citizens of Minneapolis.

Orlo Melvin Laraway

The late Orlo Melvin Laraway, who died in Minneapolis on April 18, 1909, after a residence within the present city limits of more than fifty years, was one of the founders of the municipality.

Mr. Laraway was born on September 7th, 1832, in Chardon, then Trumbull, but now Geauga county, Ohio, and came to Minneapolis to live before the city, or even the village which has grown into the 'city, was founded. He was one of the earliest merchants in this locality, opening a general store in 1857. In 1864 he was a member of the board of township trustee's, Cyrus Aldrich and George A. Brackett being the other two, and as such helped to lay the foundations of the civil and educational institutions of the region. He also served as Treasurer of Minneapolis about that time.

Mr. Laraway was a builder from his advent in thi's section. In 1868, in association with C. K. Perrine, he established the Minneapolis Plow Works, an important industrial enterprise in its day, which did a large business and gave employment to a large number of men. He was also instrumental in founding and building up the Mechanics and Workingmen's Loan and Building Association, which helped greatly in providing the newcomers into the locality with homes, or the means of building them. He was secretary of this association twenty-six or twenty-seven years, and there is ample proof of the wisdom and prudence of his management of its affairs in the fatt that at the end of its long and useful activitj' it liquidated its business at one hundred cents on the dollar.

Mr. Laraway was also one of the directors of the old Bank of Commerce until it was consolidated with the present Northwestern National Bank, and because of his zeal, energy and intelligence in working for the good of the city, he was appointed its postmaster in 1882. He served in this office until 1886, and during the four years of his incumbency in it the foundation of the present postoffice building was laid. It was a period of rapid growth in the history of the city, the postoffice receipts being doubled during his four years' term of office.

The next year after he left the office of postmaster Mr. Laraway became the successor of .John G. McFarlane in the oldest insurance company in Minneapolis, whose history dates back to 1857 or 1858. He continued to do business on a large scale and with great enterprise until the asthma, from which he suffered from early life, so weakened him that he was obliged to lay aside his activity and rest from his arduous labors.

For more than a generation of human life, Mr. Laraway was an active and honored member of Hennepin Lodge. No. 19, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons. He was married on November 8th, 1857, to Miss Abbie F'. Clark, a native of Warren, Ohio. Born in 1837, who is still living. They became the parents of two children, both of whom are also living: Floyd, who now has charge of the father's former business, and Grace, who is the wife of Arthur Von Schlegel, and has her home in Detroit. Michigan.

Matthew J. Peppard

Mr. Peppard was born in the city of Fredericton, the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, on November 10, 1846, and when lie was four years old was taken by his parents to the neighboring province of Nova Scotia. There he grew to manhood and obtained a common school education, leaving his books at an early age to begin learning his trade as a carpenter under the direction of his father. When he attained his majority he left his native land for the United States, and chose the state of Minnesota as liis future home, locating first at Castle Rock, Dakota county. Here he became a contractor for building houses and continued as such for a short time, until he could mature his plans and find a way to work them out.

In 1869 he entered the employ of George W. Sherwood, the railroad bridge contractor, as a workman on the bridge over the Cannon river at Hastings, this state, and within a few weeks afterward was given charge of all bridge construction work then in progress on the St. Paul Railroad in that division. His wages exceeded his expectations, and he was kept in Mr. Sherwood's employ for six years, during which he was always assigned to important duties, among them laying the foundations of the bridges now spanning the Mississippi at Hastings and La Crosse, and other large jobs of great public utility.

At the end of the period last mentioned he decided to undertake similar contracting and construction work for himself. He secured contracts on the H. & D. division of the St. Paul Railroad, now the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and built the bridges between Glencoe and Ortonville, making his home at Hutchinson, McLeod county. For a number of jears thereafter he was associated with Henry &, Balch, the well known contracting firm, and during this period he began building docks on the Great Lakes, a line of work that is still in progress and has been growing in importance from the beginning of its history. One of his most important jobs in this department of enterprise, in magnitude and usefulness, has just recently been completed at Ashland on Lake Superior.

Mr. Peppard remained with Henry & Balch from 1878 to 1897, and for three years after that was in partnership with Mr. Balch. Since 1900, however, he has been operating alone. He built the great railroad docks at Marquette, Michigan, Escanaba, Gladstone, Ashland, and other progressive and growing lake ports. In addition he has never hesitated to take a contract for building an entire line of railroad, and at times has had more than 2.000 men in his employ. During the last twenty years he has done all the dock construction work required by the Northwestern Railroad, and, in company with Bernard & Record, built some of the largest docks on the Great Lakes in addition to those named above.

His extensive work as a buildinj; contractor has kept Mr. Peppard busy, but he has still found time to give attention to other lines of business. He has loaned money to farmers, bought and sold pine lands, farm lands and other real estate, and built large business blocks and . residence properties for renting purposes. The fine business block at First avenue and Tenth street, south, Minneapolis, was put up by him and in addition he owns several desirable lots and dwelling houses near his own home on Third avenue south, and is still extending his acquisitions of this kind.

While living at Hutchinson Mr. Peppard joined actively in the movement to secure railroads to that town, and largely through his efforts the Great Northern and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul were extended to it. In recognition of his services in this respect he was nominated by his party, the Democratic, for membership in the state house of representatives, and his nomination was cordially indorsed by the Republican nominating convention. But he declined the honor and did not make the race, preferring to devote himself wholly to his business, which had by that time grown to large proportions and was steadily increasing.

While the greater part of his activity has been given to Minnesota enterprises since he became a resident of this state, he has acquired interests elsewhere also. lie has a large addition to the city of St. Charles, Missouri, in which he is laying out streets and making extensive improvements, pushing the work forward with the energy and dispatch which he has always displayed in his undertakings, and with the confidence and self-reliance which have always characterized him in all things.

In the public affairs of every community in which he has lived or with which he has been connected he has taken an intelligent and helpful interest, and to the progress aful improvement of Minneapolis in every way he has been especially devoted and a liberal contributor. In its social life he has been useful as a member of the Auto, Commercial and New Athletic clubs. He has also been very fond of fine horses, but has not found his liking for them profitable. In 1893 he was married at St. Charles, Missouri, to Miss Maniye Redmond. They have three sons living, Melville, George and Edwin. Another son, wliose name was Royal, died in childhood.

On May 19, 1875, Mr. Leighton was united in marriage with Miss Sarah L. Heaton, of Machias, a native of same. Seven children have blessed their union and brightened their family fireside, Mabelle E., Addie L., Maude A., Lizzie A., Lewis L., George E. and Sarah L. The attractive and popular home of the family is at 1509 Fremont aveime, north.

Horace Newell Leighton

Mr. Leighton was born on January 8, 185.S, in the city of Machias, Washington county, Maine. There he grew to manhood, and obtained his education in the common schools. Tlie shop, the mill and the business office were his Schools in his preparation for his business career, and they did their work well, as his career has been an eminently successful, creditable and useful one.

In 1876, when he was twenty-three years old, he came to Minnesota and took up his residence in Minneapolis. He began contracting and building, and to this line of effort he has adhered throughout the thirty years whith have passed since he came to this locality. His progress in it has been steady and continuous, and he now stands in the front rank of his business in the Northwest. He is the head of the H. N. Leighton company, and among the notable structures which it has erected in this city are: The Metropolitan Life building, the Palace Clotliing house, the Catholic Pro-Cathedral, the old and new postoffices, the Northwestern and the Farmers and Meclianics bank buildings, the Pilgrim Congregational, Trinity Baptist, Westminster Presbyterian. Wesley Methodist and Lyndale Congregational churches, and the Great Northern, Advance, Newton & Emerson, Tibbs-Hutehins and Loose, Wiles & Company warehouses. Many other imposing and artistic structures stand to Mr. Leighton's credit in this community and elsewhere, and as enduring monuments to his skill and enterprise as a coirtractor and builder.

His life here has been a very busy one. but its activities have been by no means confined to his private enterprises. On the contrary he has been very zealous and serviceable in his attention to public affairs and in efforts to promote the city's welfare by helping to secure for it the best government attainable. He has never been fond of official life and lias never sought public office of any kind. But he consented to serve, under the importunities of his friends without regard to party lines, as a member of the city council, from 1898 to 1902, representing the Third ward, in which he lives, as its alderman.' He is also a member of the city board of education, and in its work he is deeply, intelligently, and helpfully interested at all times.

The cause of education lias always had Mr. Leighton's cordial support. For years lie has been one of the trustees of Windom Institute at Montevideo, Minnesota, an educational institution fostered by the Congregational church denomination of the state, and he occupies the same relation to Carleton College at Northfield. Socially he is connected with the North .Side Commercial and Athletic clubs. His political faith and allegiance are given to the Republican party in national and state affairs, but in local matters he is not a partisan, but gives all questions a good citizen's consideration, and is impelled in reference to them by no other influence. In religious affiliation he is connected with the Pilgrim Congregational cluirch. but he is liberal in his support of other de-

This valued citizen of Minneapolis, who has been a resident of the city and engaged in business here for a continuous period of twenty-nine years, is the senior member of the firm of Nicholson Brothers, merchant tailors, with their prmcipal establishment at 709-711 Nicollet avenue. The business in which the}' are engaged was started by him in 1884, and the partnership between him and his brother, Murdock Nicholson, was formed in 1885. Theirs is one of the leading merchant tailoring establishments in the city, and has had a prosperous career with a growing trade from the start.

S. J. Nicholson was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, on June 29, 1860, and came to this country in his boyhood. He was educated and learned his trade in Ohio, attending what in his student days was Wooster College, in the city of the same name. He became a resident of Minneapolis in 1884, and has since built a handsome home for his family and himself at 5703 Nicollet avenue, where he owns forty acres of land and gives a great deal of attention to raising choice peonies, astei's, daisies, and other flowers, and make a specialty of producing the finest growths of Japanese Iris, all for the market.

Mr. Nicholson's American ancestors came to Prince Edward Island from the Highlands of Scotland, in 1820. and the family is one of the oldest on the Island. As soon as he was able to look the country over and select a place for himself he made Minneapolis his choice, and he has never since found fault with his judgment in this particular. He has fallen in completely with the genius of the locality and has prospered here, having built several residence properties for sale or renting purposes.

Mr. Nicholson has also taken a very cordial and helpful interest in the affairs of his home community in public, fraternal and sporting lines, and although quiet and retiring to an almost excessive degree, has established himself firmly in the regard and admiration of the people here as a very commendable and useful citizen. He was one of the pioneers of field sports in this city, having been one of the players in the foot ball game of 1886, the first ever played in Minneapolis, the foot ball grounds being at the time at Thirteenth street and Nicollet avenue. Fraternally he is a Free Mason of the Royal Arch degree, and holds his membership in the order in Ark Lodge. Minneapolis, to which he has belonged twenty-seven years, and in Royal Arch Chapter.

S. J. Nicholson was married on January 15, 1890, to MiSs Antoinette Clarke, a daughter of Hon. Charles H. Clarke, a sketch of whom will be found in this work, and a granddaughter of Charles Hoag, the gentleman who gave Minneapolis its beautiful name. She and her husband are active in many organizations for the promotion of the welfare of their community and its residents, she being especially active as a member of the Women's club of the city. They have one bhild, their son Clarke, now eighteen yeare old and a student in the high school class of 1914.

Mr. Nicholson is sedulously attentive to his business and omits no effort to expand it and make his work satisfactory to his numerous patrons. The firm employs regularly thirtyfive to forty persons, and keeps them all busy. He is a Eepubliean in political faith, but in the last presidential election, cast his vote for the electors of Woodrow Wilson, his desire for the public welfare then, as always, overbearing all personal or party considerations, however firmly fixed or long adhered to.

George R. Newell

Among the early arrivals in Minneapolis, although not one of the first, was George R. Newell, now head of the wholesale grocery house of George R. Newell & Company, and he has been one of the most enterprising and successful of the business men in this city. He began his career here as a young man of twenty-one, and in a humble capacity. He has lived among this people nearly half a century.

Mr. Newell was bom in Jay, Essex county. New York, on July 31, 1845, and there obtained a limited public school education, his attendance at school being short because he was ambitious and eager to get into business at an early age. He is a son of Hiram and Phebe (Bush) Newell, also New Yorkers by nativity, but able to trace their American ancestry back to early New England Colonial times. The father was a drj- goods merchant, and the son was therefore in touch with the mercantile life from the dawn of his intelligence.

At the age of twelve he left school to become a clerk in a general store, and during the next eight years followed this occupation under various employers and in various lines of trade.

In 1866 he came to Minneapolis, where his first employment was as a clerk in the Nicollet hotel. A short time afterward he accepted a position as clerk in a retail grocery, for his inclination was still strongly in the direction of merchandising, and in 1870, when he was but twenty-five years old, became a member of the firm of Stevens, Morse & Newell, jobbers in groceries, this firm being the beginning of the present extensive wholesale business of which Mr. Newell is the head.

This partnership was dissolved in 1873, and for one year thereafter Mr. Newell continued to do business alone. At the end of that period he entered into partnership with H. G. Harrison, the firm name being Newell & Harrison, and doing business on a steadily widening basis and in constantly augmenting volume until 1882. In that year the personnel and name of the firm again changed and that of George R. Newell & Company was formed. Sometime afterward the business was incorporated with Mr. Newell as president of the company and his son, L. B. Newell, as secretary and treasurer. The company now enjoys a trade surpassed in extent by that of no house in this section of the country, and the business is one of the oldest under one continuous management in the city.

no department of it to escape his notice. But he has, nevertheless, found time to take part in the management of other institutions of magnitude and mingle freely in the fraternal, social and civic life of his community. He is one of the directors of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad and a member of the National Grocers' Association and the Minnesota State Grocers' Association. For many years he has been a Freemason with strong devotion to the fraternity. He also belongs to the Athletic and Minikahda clubs. In political faith and allegiance he is a Republican, but has never sought or desired a public office.

Edmund J. Longyear

Having been a resident of Minneapolis for twelve years, and of the State of Minnesota for twenty-three, Edmund J. Longyear, head of the E. J. Longyear Company, engaged in the development of mineral lands, has become closely identified with the industrial, commercial, civic, and social activities of this city and state, and enterprising and efficient in helping to promote their welfare.

The company of which Mr. Longyear is the president and controlling spirit was organized by him in 1911 and incorporated on July 1, of that year; its capital stock was $335,000. It is a close corporation and is engaged in the investigation and development of mineral lands and properties on the Mesabi and Cuyuna Iron Ranges in this State and the mining regions of Wisconsin, Michigan, and many other states, including also the Arizona Copper district, in this country, and the pyrites deposits of t\iba.

Although the Company devotes itself primarily to diamond core drilling on a 'contract or commission basis, using machinery of its own manufacture for this work, it frequently explores promising mineral lands, on its own account, with a view of lease or purchase. A well equipped geological department cooperates in this branch of the Company's activities and in addition, makes geological examinations and reports on mineral properties in any part of the country.

Mr. Longyear was born in Grass Lake, .lackson county, Michigan, November 6, 1864. After due pr.eliminary preparation and study in the lower schools, he entered tlie University of Michigan to pursue a full course in civil engineering, which he intended to make his life work. At the end of his junior year in that institution, however, he found liis health giving way, and therefore took employment in the Northern woods, on a railroad survey for the Iluluth, South Shore & Atlantic line.

Mr. Longyear's cousin, .lohn .M. T^nngyeur, of Marquette, Michigan, was engaged in the mining and development of iron lands as an associate of tlie Pillsburys and Russell M. Bennett, of Minneapolis. Through the inlluence of his cousin, Mr. Longyear was induced to turn his attention to this new line of endeavor and as a preparation therefor, to take post graduate work in the Michigan College of Mines at Houghton. He afterwards received his degree in the first class that gniduated from that institution, which was then new and at the beginning of a notable career.

drill into the Mesabi Iron Range. He has made his career eminently successful and highly profitable for himself and largely useful to the localities in which it has been worked out.

For a time he acted as superintendent of other companies in the same line of development, but in 1895 he began contracting in this line for himself, and he continued this work until 1911, when he organized the company of which he has been president from the beginning of its existence. In 1901 he became a resident of Minneapolis, but for six years before that time he lived on the Mesabi Range. Among the regular and continuous employes of the company he now controls are ten mining engineers and geologists, graduates of various well known colleges and mining schools.

In his religious preference, Mr. Longyear is a Baptist, and he holds his membership in Trinity Church, of which he is one of the trustees. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association and belongs to the Minneapolis Club and the Civic and Commerce Association of the city. His beautiful home is on a farm of ninety-two acres fronting on Smithtown Bay, Lake Minnetonka. Here he has an orchard of 400 trees producing many kinds of fine fruit. His is one of the attractive residences in a region renowned for numerous elegant and artistic homes.

Mr. Longyear was married at Charlevoix, Michigan, April 16, 1890, to Miss Nevada Patten, of that city. She is now active in the work of her church, in the Woman's Club, the Clio Club, and in other improving organizations in Minneapolis. They have six children, Clyde S., Robert D.. Philip 0., Margaret, Richard P.. and Edmund J., Jr. The father has long been earnestly interested in the cause of education, and for a number of years has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Pillsbury Academy, at Owatonna, Minnesota. He is, however, deeply and helpfully interested in every undertaking for the improvement of people in general and those of his own community in particular. No public enterprise of value goes without his active and effective support, and all his efforts in this behalf are governed and guided by intelligence and breadth of view. Minneapolis has no better citizen and none whom its residents more highly or generally esteem than Edmund J. Longyear.

Floyd Melvin Laraway

Floyd Melvin Laraway, the only son of Orlo M. Laraway. who is now in charge of the insurance business, built up 'by his father, was born in Minneapolis on September 5, 1858, on the site of the old Pence Opera House, where his father kept one of the first stores in the city for many years, at the corner of Hennepin avenue and Second street. His life has been passed in this city and his education was obtained in it.s Schools. In 1882, when he was twenty-four years of age, and while his father was postmaster of the city, he was made superintendent of the free mail delivery, and he remained in charge of this branch of the local postal service until 1888, serving two years under his father's Sueceasor as postmaster, A. T. Ankeny.

After Mr. Laraway left the ])OstaI service, he joined his father in the insurance business, and to that he has devoted him'self closely ever since, his connection with it covering a period of twenty-five years. Like his father, he has been intelligently and serviceably interested in the growth and general welfare of the city, and has been an ardent, practical supporter of every commendable undertaking involving its betterment. He has, however, taken no direct part in political contentions, and has held aloof from participation in public aft'airs except as a good citizen zealous for the best government of the city that could be secured. He was married on October 25, 1888, to Miss Elizabeth Sophia Oswald, a daughter of the late John C. Oswald, and also a native of Minneapolis. They have two children, their son, Oswald Melvin and their daughter, Elizabeth. The father is a member of the Minneapolis Commei'cial Club, and is devoted to automobiling and pleasures on the lake as his principal recreations.

William Ouile Northup

William Guile Northup was born in Salisbury Center, Herkimer County, New York, July 21, 1851. His father was Daniel A. and his mother Louisa (Guile) Northup. Mr. Northup senior was a merchant, a member of the State Legislature for a number of j'ears and prominent in business and social circles in northern New York. The boy was a baby under two years of age when his mother died and when he was less than sixteen he came to Minneapolis to make his home with his uncle. Rev, James H. Tuttle. The first constructive thing he did when he arrived in Minneapolis was to take a course in business college. Then he went to work for the Minneapolis Tribune. Here he was brought into daily contact with Hugh G. Green, then editor of the paper, and Jacob Stone, who was the business manager. This was a fine association for a boy of his age and did much for his development. When Mr. Green left the paper young Northup went to work for the J. S. Pillsbury hardware company. Again he took a short venture into the newspaper world, working for a time on the old Times which afterward became The Journal. After a few months of newspaper work he resigned to go back to the Pillsbury store to learn the hardware business. He remained in the employ of this company until 1874, when he was engaged by Paris Gibson to take charge of the office of the company, which afterward became the North Star Woolen Mills. It was two years after this that Gibson and Tyler failed in the business and Mr. Northup was placed in charge of the company's affairs by R. B. Langdon. the assignee. Ever since that Mr. Northuji's hand has been at the helm to direct the fortunes of what has come to be one of the principal manufacturers of woolen blankets in the United States. The New York City oflice of the company which Mr. Northup represents is at Twenty-first street and Fifth avenue. The great business which has been built up is illustrative of the value of Minneapolis as a distributing point for merchandise.

Mr. Northup is a director of the Northwestern National Bank, vice president of the Minneapolis Trust Company, vice president and a trustee of the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank and a director of the North American Telegraph Company. The holding of all the positions of honor and tnist are eloquent of the high esteem in which he is held as a business man and as a citizen.

Socially his connections are of the same enviable character. He is a member of the Church of the Redeemer and a member of tlie Minneapolis. r>afayctte ami Minnetonka Beach Clubs.

In 1874 Mr. Northup was married to Leia Tucker, daughter of Henry C. Tucker of Providence, Rhode Island. They have two children. Marjorie and William G., Jr.

William S. Nott

William S. Xott was born in Dublin. Ireland, on .luly 9, 1853, the son of Henry and Louisa (Nott) Nott, and in 1858, when he was but five years old, was brought by his parents to the United States. He obtained a limited academic education in the schools of Chicago and entered upon his business career as an employe of E. B. Preston & Company, manufacturers of belting and rubber goods. He remained with this house and rendered it excellent service until 1879, learning the business and showing unusual aptitude in seeing its possibilities and devising means to develop them in serviceable and profitable ways.

But he was not born to be a workman for others all his life. There was that within him that called him to a mastership in whatever work he was engaged in, and in the year last mentioned he came to Minneapolis and founded the firm of W. S. Nott & Company, of which he has been the president from the beginninpr of its history. His energy and capacity in business have called him to leading positions in kindred enterprises, and he is now also president of the Xott Fire Engine company; vice president of the Minneapolis Threshing Machine company; a director of the Security National Bank of Miniipapolis, and connected in a leading way with other industrial and financial institutions of ..rreal value to the community in which he lives.

The Nott Fire Engine company was organized in 1900, and has been made one of the most successful and impressive institutions in the Northwest. It manufactures steam fire engines and gasoline pumping engines of high quality and great power and popularity, which are known and commended from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The combined companies do a large and profitable business, and their business is steadily on the increase.

Mrs. Nott was Miss Jessica Cory, a native of Iowa. They have one child, their daughter Charlotte, who is now the wife of Conrad G. Driscoll of St. Paul. The father has mingled freely in the social life of his community as an active member of the Minneapolis and Commercial clubs, and has been a liberal patron of healthful recreation as a devotee of golf, fishing and traveling. He has given in his own case an impressive example of the value of these recreations in relieving busy men from the exacting cares apd burdens of a strenuous every-day life of toil and efl'ort.

The excellent and broad-minded business man. whose life story is briefly indicated in these paragraphs has also given a due share of his energy and attention to promoting the general welfare of his community by taking part in its governmental affairs and all commendable undertakings for improvement along lines of enduring usefulness, moral, intellectual, social, commercial and material. He has been a very progressive citizen, with a mind ever alert and active in behalf of the best interests of his city, county and state, and a hand ever open and skillful in advancing them. No resident of Minneapolis stands in higher personal and general public regard among the people, and none deserves to.

Edwin Winslow Herrick

Closely connected with the development of Minneapolis is the name of Edwin Winslow Herrick whose knowledge of men, rare executive abilities and affable social qualities won for him the high respect and confidence of his fellow citizens. Edwin W. Herrick descending from the English family of that name, located originally at Beaumanor Park, Leicestershire, England, and represented later in Massachusetts and New York state, was born in Sheridan, Chautauqua County, N. Y., on the 13th of June, 1837. the son of Alfred M. and Caroline Ambler Herrick. He spent his early years with his brother and two sisters on his father's farm near the shore of Lake Erie. His father was a man of great strength of character and prominent in all the progressive movements of his time. After his father's death in 1846 young Herrick, then nine years of age, lived with his grandfather, Hon. David Ambler in Oneida County, N. Y.. and later with his uncle. Haven Brigham, his guardian, in his native town. The common schools of the county and two terms at the "Old Academy" at Fredonia comprised all his school education. Realizing that his success in life must depend solely upon his own efforts he, at the age of Seventeen, started out to make his own way - and at the same time to avoid being railroaded into the ministry by his family - a calling for which he felt he was not fitted. He turned his hand to anything that offered and, having been taught that whatever was worth doing at all was worth doing well, progressed rapidly, accumulating gradually the wherewithall to go into business for himself. This, put with the inheritance turned over to him by his guardian, permitted him in 1860 to embark in business when he and his older brother, William W., under the firm name of Herrick Brothers, established a wholesale and retail Dry Goods Business in Ashtabula, Ohio. This business progressed steadily during the next eight years during which the Civil war began and ended. His heart was always with the Union and the cause of humanity and though prevented from enlisting himself, his means were ever ready to relieve the soldier's widow or orphan.

After the war his spirit of progressiveness and expansion seconded by the hope that a 'change of elimat^ might benefit the health of his wife, whose tendency to bronchial trouble was increasing, induced him to spend the summer of 1867 prospecting throughout the West where new fields and drier atmosphere might offer double inducements for a change of base. He visited many cities before reaching Minneapolis, then a village claiming eight or ten thousand inhabitants, where both the business prospects and resources and the dry, wonderful climate appealed to him as being the ideal place to "drive his stake." He returned to Ohio and by his enthusiasm induced his brother to sell their joint business in Ashtabula and on the first day of .Tune, 1868, the two brothers arrived in Minneapolis. The real estate firm of Herrick Brothers was immediately established and in the early 'seventies engaged in many transactions of magnitude and iniportante among which was the creation of "Groveland Addition" to Minnea[)olis comprising nearly one thousand lots now lying in the center of the residence portion of the city. He also became a member of the lumber firm of Jones. Herrick & Company, and later secured large tracts of timber land in Northern Minnesota which were sold some fifteen years later. Another important purchase was the real estate and building known as "The Academy of Music," then the most important building m the city, situated on the site now occupied by Temple Court. The building was thought to be far in advance of the city's needs and as it contained a spacious auditorium above the second floor, at that time the finest theater in the Northwest, Mr. Herrick was forced to take the management of it and for the next ten years devoted untiring efforts to bring to this far western point the best talent to be had in the dramatic and musical world. His constant aim was to cultivate the public taste for music and the drama by booking only the very best companies. It is needless to say that this was often accomplished in the face of the most discouraging circumstances and at personal pecuniary loss. Nevertheless it can be truly said that owing to the untiring efforts and oneness of purpose of Mr. Herrick, Minneapolis saw the dawn of a new era and a higher moral tone in the history of her amusements.

During the seven years of financial depression from 1873 to 1880 when many good men were forced into bankruptcy, Mr. Herrick never for one moment lost faith in the city of his adoption and during these years did much to Stimulate the growth of the city by the erection of business blocks. On Christmas day. 1884, the Academy of Music was partially destroyed by fire. Upon the site was ei'ected in the following year under Mr. Herrick's personal supervision the splendid fireproof office building known as Temple Court, one of the very first of its kind in the city. Mr. Herrick was one of the first subscribers to the stock of the Soo Railway, recognizing the great benefit its completion would bring to Minneapolis; and during the period of its construction was one of its directors and for a time president of an auxiliary railway of that system.

Mr. Herrick's love of nature and keen appreciation of human nature made him an intelligent and ardent traveler which pleasure he gratified liberally throughout his life. In politics Mr. Herrick was always a republican, though not a partisan, always desiring to see the best men in ofli'ee. He never aspired to official position but was idealistic in his ideas of the simple duties of citizenship. In religion he was liberal minded and though expected by his relatives to become a Congregational minister, he found a more congenial and satisfactory home in the Universalist faith. Since 1869 he and his family have been identified with the Church of the Redeemer in Minneapolis, in the west transept of which he placed a beautiful memorial window in memory of the three members of his family, his wife, youngest son, and his daughter who died respectively in 1880, 1881, and 1883.

On .July 29. 1861, Mr. Herrick married Miss .Tuliet C. Durand at Westfield, N. Y., and their early married life was spent in Ohio. Three children were born to them: Dora G., in Ohio, in 1862; Roy Durand, in Minneapolis, in 1869; and Edwin Lowry in Minneapolis, in 1875. Mrs. Herrick was graduated at Wadawannuc Institute, Stonnington, Conn., in 1860. She possessed a brilliant literary mind, was practical in deed, and in thought was progressive in advance of her times. Her mental strength was too great for her frail physitjue and while at Jacksonville, Fla., jn 1880, in search of better health, passed Suddenly away. Mr. Herrick remained a widower until his death in 1911 when he succumbed sudilonly on May 2d to pneumonia, contracted, it is believed, in the northern passes of the mountains on his way home from California where he had, as usual, spent the winter.

In reviewing the character and career of Edwin W. Herrick wo nolo particularly his just and active mind, his cordial simplicity of manner, and his unswerving loyalty to any cause he might espouse, especially to the welfare of the city of his adoption where he lived the greater part of his life and in whose future he had such sublime faith.

Frederick D. Noerenberg

Frederick D. Noerenberg, president of the Minneapolis Brewing Company, is a son of Carl and Wilhelmina Noerenberg, and was born in Bietzicker Provinz Poomern, Prussia, in 1845. The family came to America in 1860 and located in St. Paul, where Mr. Noerenberg earned his living by working on farms and as a day laborer. Later he was employed in Stahlman's Brewery. From 1870 to 1875 Mr. Noerenberg kept a hotel in St. Paul. In 1875 the family made their home in Minneapolis, and Mr. Noerenberg engaged in the brewing business under name of Zahler & Noerenberg until 1891, when several breweries consolidated and formed the Minneapolis Brewing Company. Mr. Noerenberg was elected vice president of this company at the time of organization and later became president.

Frank H. Nutter

Frank H. Nutter is a native of New England, having been born at Dover, N. H., April 20, 1853. His father, Abner J. Nutter, was a school teacher. It would be hard to estimate the breadth and scope of the father's influence during the fifty years which he devoted to teaching, for the boys and girls, who came under his care at the time when character was being made and habits were being formed, are now scattered from Maine to California, and have passed on to the second and in many instances to the third generation, the principles and ideals with which he inspired them. Hannah (Roberts) Nutter, the wife and mother, was the typical New England woman of the cultured type. Both she and the father were particularly ambitious for tlie fullest mental development of their son Frank. The son sjicnt much of his early boyhood in and around Boston. He attended the public schools there and entered the Eliot High Schools. It was after finishing highschool that he formed his first association with the eminent specialists like Joseph H. Curtis and F. L. Lee and began his career as a civil and landscape engineer. He learned all that these men had to teach him and after engaging in his profession for a few years on his own account there in Boston, he came to Minneapolis. This was in 1878. For ten years, from 1880 to 1890, he was in partnership with Frank Plummer and the firm was known as Nutter and Plummer. Since the dissolution of this partnership, Mr. Nutter has been alone as a landscape engineer. For 23 years from 1883 to 1906, Mr. Nutter held the appointment of Park Engineer, under the Board of Park Commissioners. This position he resigned because of the press of private business, and his son Frank Nutter. Jr., was appointed to fill his place. Mr. Nutter's in- fluence is almost as far reaching as his father's although in an entirely different way. He has designed beauty for the inspiration of humanity in many of the states of the union and also in Canada. Civic work is Mr. Nutter's specialty although he has designed private grounds in as many states as he has parks. Cemeteries are another angle of his work in which he has been particularly successful.

Mr. Nutter is an active republican and devoted to all civic interests. He is a pioneer member of the Minneapolis Society of Civil Engineers, and one of the prime movers in the State Horticultural Society. He also belongs to most of the principal clubs of the city, including the Commercial Club. His church affiliations are with the Congregationalists. and he is a member of the Congregational church. His wife was Miss Carrie Alden, before her marriage, which took place in April, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Nutter have three children, Frank H., Jr., Williard A., and Hannah A.

Hon. Willis L Norton

Hon. Willis L Norton, lawyer, son of Austen and Eunice M. Norton, born in Plainwell, Michigan, April 28-, 1880, at the age of seven, with his mother, brothers and sister (his father having died when he was four years of age), became a resident of Lyon county, Minnesota, spent his early boyhood days working on the farm, then removed to Marshall, Minnesota, where he went to graded and high school, working his way, and in June, 1899, graduated from the high school. In September, 1899, he entered the University of Minnesota, continuing to work his own way. In his junior year at the University he became interested in business and continued in business during the remainder of his University course. He is a graduate of the Academic and Law department of the University, class of 1906.

While in the University, he was a member of the Intra- Sophomore debating team in a successful contest for a cash prize of $75.00. In his junior year he was a member of the Inter-collegiate debating team of the University, which defeated the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, in 1902, and won the championship of the Interstate debating league for that year. His success as an orator and debater secured him membership in the Delta-Sigma-Proe, an honorary forensic society limited in its enrollment to interstate debaters and orators selected on demonstrated merit and ability,

Mr. Norton is engaged in the general practice of law in association with his brother, F. E. Norton. He has taken an active part in public affairs. In 1912, he was elected by 1,000 majority to the House of Representatives from the Thirtyninth legislative, or University, district, comprising the Second and Ninth wards, as the nominee of the Republican party, having been selected as such over two competitors at the primary election.

In the legislature of 1913, he was a member of the committees on Judiciary, Appropriations, Reapportionment, Temperance, University and University Lands and Public Libraries, and rendered conspicuous service in drafting and passing important legislation,

Mr, Norton was married in June, 1903, to Miss Lottie O'Urien, of Amiret, a graduate of the Marshall High School. They have one daughter, Eunice Marie,

Colonial and Revolutionary patriots were the American forefathers of Leo Melville Crafts, M, D., his early ancestors" in this country being among the founders of Boston, while his parents, Major Amasa and Mary J. (Henry) Crafts, were among the founders and builders of Minneapolis, having come to this locality in 1853, The father, in 1857, built the first brick liouse ever put up in Minneapolis, which stood on the site of the present Century building at the corner of Fourth street and Marquette avenue.

The ancestors of Major Amasa Crafts on his mother's side were the Stones, who for more than 200 .vears owned the beautiful estate "Sweet Auburn" on the banks of the Charles river at Boston, which afterward became a part of Mount Auburn cenjetery in that city, A portion of the ancestral home near Boston is still occupied by a branch of the family. One of the early members of the Stone family was one of the first graduates of Harvard College, and Mrs. Crafts' male ancestors were East Indian traders at a time when the merchant marine of this country was of great importance.

The historical Boston Tea Party started from the house of Col. Thomas Crafts. He presided at the meeting in the State House when the Declaration of Independence was first read in Boston. He commanded the Regiment to which Paul Revere belonged. He was also in command of the Artillery at the siege of Boston driving the British ships from the harbor. His portrait was hung in the old State House at Boston in 1913, the subject of this sketch being chieHy instrumental in having this done.

Dr. Crafts' father, Major Amasa Crafts, was a major in the Maine militia about the time of the Mexican war. The major's father, Moses Mills Crafts, was a captain in the War of 1812. The major's grandfather, great-grandfather and five other members of the family took part in the battle of Lexington in the Revolutionary war, and the major's greatgreat-grandfather was a soldier at the siege and capture of Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in the French and Indian war in 1758. Seven out of nine generations of the family have given military men to the service of their country on this side of the Atlantic. In 1793 Lieut. Moses Crafts settled at .Jay Hills, Maine, and the house built by him at that time is still standing and in a good state of preservation.

Major Amasa Crafts engaged in lumbering extensively here for some years after his arrival, but he suffered a heavy loss in 1857 W'hen the spring floods carried thousands of his logs down the river. These logs piled against the piers of the bridge about where Fourteenth avenue south is now and carried the whole structure away only a few minutes after he crossed. The loss he thus suffered and the following panic of 1857 compelled him to sell his fine old home, which had been the center of social life in the community. But under the persuasion of his wife, whose faith in Minneapolis never wavered, he became possessed of a considerable body of real estate, which he continue<l to hold, and lived to realize good values from it. One of his tracts was a claim near Powderhorn lake, which others have, since his time, platted into several additions to the city.

Earlier in life the major was a member of the (inn of Crafts. Perham & Company, woolen merdiants in Boston. He advanced large sums to mills which failed, and their failure crippled him seriously for a time in a financial way. About 1868 he began to ship fruit into Minneapolis, handling

1,000 to 1,300 barrels of apples a year, which he brought up the river from Missouri, supplying grocers and other dealers as required, thereby becoming the first wholesale truit dealer in Minneapolis. He also took an active part in local public affairs, there being no civic enterprise in the early history of the city in which he was not prominent. He died in August, 1893, aged eighty-six, and liis widow passed away in 1896 at the age of seventy-six.

Leo Melville Crafts was born in Minneapolis in 18(5:!. His education was obtained in the public schools and at the University of Minnesota, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1886. While attending the University he won distinction as a student and public speaker, representing his class in senior oratorical contest, and, being active and skillful in athletics, carried off several championships.

Dr. Northrop and others urged him to study for the ministry, but from boyhood he was ambitious to become a physician, and accordingly he attended Harvard Medical college, from which he was graduated in 1890. During that year and the next he was house physician at the Boston City hospital. Since then he has been active in his profession in Minneapolis, and for a number of years was connected with the Hamline Medical school, at one time being dean of its faculty. He has made a specialty of mental and nervous diseases, in reference to which he is an authority, and is now visiting neurologist on the staff' of several of the Minneapolis hospitals.

In addition to his professional activity the doctor has been active in church and Sunday school work, serving from 1893 to 1896 as president of the Minnesota State Sunday School Association. He has been treasurer of the Hennepin County Medical society and chairman of the nerve section of the State Medical society. He is also a member of the American and Mississippi Valley Medical associations, the American Association of Railroad Surgeons and the Board of Censors of the Soo Railroad Surgical Association. In addition he is consulting neurologist of the Soo Railroad system. In 1911 he was president of the Minnesota Neurological Society and in 1913 a delegate to the International Medical Congress held in London, England. He is, besides, a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Association and a member of the Harvard Medical College and Boston City Hospital Alumni associations. He has also been a member of the Minnesota National Park and Forestry Association and president of the Native Sons of Minnesota. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, also of Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts.

Dr. Crafts has written extensively for the magazines of his profession and on Sunday school topics, forestry and state history. He is a member of the Athletic club, and, having been an athlete himself, is keenly interested in legitimate sports, but of late years has enjoyed his vacations next to Nature's heart in the pine woods of Northern Minnesota. In political affiliation he is a Progressive, and is at this time (1914) president of the Progressive club of Hennepin county; and his religious connection is with the First Congregational church. In 1901 he was married to Miss Amelia I. Burgess, a native of Portland, Maine.

One of the great pine land companies of tlie Northwest, localizing its interests in Minneapolis, is the Northland Pine Company, whose activities are extensive in cutting timber, and manufacturing it into lumber. This company was organized in May, 1889, by Jolin B. Kehl, of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and William Deary, of Duluth, the first idea being to confine its activity to dealing in timber lands. The new company was incorporated in 1904 to engage in the active maViufacture of lumber, purchased the old Backus-Brooks mill and later the Carpenter-Lamb mill. It acquired considerable stumpage from the Indian Reservation, bought up everything that looked desirable and obtainable and soon had a supply for eight years cutting in sight. The aggregate capacity of the mills was 360.000 feet in ten hours, and covered an area of sixty acres. When operating at full capacity the company employs 750 men, with a payroll of over $45,000 a month. Added to this there were from 500 to 1,000 men employed in logging in the woods in winter, and four traveling men were employed to dispose of the manufactured product in Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and North and South Dakota.

Frederick Weyerhauser of St. Paul was the president of the company; R. H. Chute of Minneapolis, vice-president; F. S. Bell of Winona, secretary; R. D. Musser of Little Falls, treasurer, and C. A. Barton of Minneapolis, general manager. The B. B. Fuel Company is a branch and is operated by the same management. This company handles all the fuel turned out by the great mills, and is capitalized at $20,000 and employs about thirty men.

C. A. Barton

The managerial head of this great company is C. A. Barton, whose ability has been recognized by a number of big tirmsv He came to Minneapolis in 1888, and entered the employ of the Minneapolis Furniture Company, later being with the- Bradstreet-Thurber B^irniture Company until 1893. when he. became identified with the lumber business. He was bookkeeper for the Nelson-Tcnny Company for five years, when he went to the Mississippi River Lumber Company, later in the same capacity. In 1904 at its incorporation, he became the general manager of the Northland Pine Company. He has recently become identified with the Boise Payette Lumber Company of Boise, Idaho, one of the largest concerns recently organized in the Inland Empire. Becoming vice-president and general manager.

Mr. Barton is the owner of the Nashwauk Realty Company, of Itasca County, with John A. Redfern of Hibbing. as partner. He is a director of tlie Merchants and Manufacturers State Bank of Minneapolis and 1st vice-president of the Northern Pine Manufacturing Association.

Socially, Mr. Barton is democratic and genial and is much devoted to philanthropy and church work. He is a member of the Plymouth Congregational Church and is an Kx-Sunday School Superintendent. He is a director of Drummond Hall. Northeast Minneajjolis. and also of the Plymouth Club. He is also a member of a number of other of the principal tlubs including the Minneapolis Club, the Civic and Commerce Association. He was married in 1892 to Cora E. Riddle, of Dodge

Henhy Oswald

Henry Oswald was born in Oberach, Canton-Thergau, Switzerland, March 17, 1832, and came to the United States in 1854. His brother, John C, had been in Virginia for six years, where Henry joined him soon, coming to a farm n'ear Galesburg, Illinois. In 1857, John C, having come to Minneapolis, Henry came also, bringing John C.'s family. He worked for Gottfred Scheitlin, a brother-in-law of .John C, buying ginseng root which was shipped to China. Then he was in company with John C. in conduct of a store at Twentyt^rst avenue north and Second street. Jolm C. soon moving to what is now the location of Northrup, King & Co., on Bridge Square, Henry became toll keeper and tender of the Twentieth avenue north toll bridge, a draw bridge which opened for passage of river boats engaged in logging. He held this position during 1859 and 1860, when high water carried out the bridge. Then, in company with Matt Nothakor. he bought John C. Oswald's general store, continuing its operation until spring of 1872. He then bought a half interest in the Crystal flour mills at Camden Place, on Shingle Creek, operating it in partnership with Jacob Bingenheiraer. In the fall of 1872 Mr. Bingenheimer died and Mr. Oswald, a year later, buying his partner's interest. Thus continued his business for nearly thirty years iintil the mill was destroyed by fire in 1890, thus losing about $20,000. The mill was not rebuilt.

Mr. Oswald was a Democrat in his political affiliations. He held public office several times, the first being as alderman of the First ward, about the time St. Anthony and Minneapolis were united. He was alderman again in 1886. when Camden Place came into Minneapolis, he representing the Tenth ward in the council. It was largely through his instrumentality that the pumping station and workhouse were erected in that section. In 1890 Mr. Oswald was elected a county commissioner of Hennepin county, a position in which he did excellent service. He was an important factor in the political councils of his party, a frequent delegate to its conventions and in all instances loyal to his friends.

In 1857 Henry Oswald married Theresia Sieber, a native of Heidelberg, Baden, Germany, who had come to Lancaster Co., Penn., in 1849 with her mother, and to Minneapolis in 1856. For some years she was employed in the family of the late K. I'. Russell. To them were horn three children. Henry A., - lohn \V. and Anna Lena, the latter dying in childhood.

Henry A. Oswald was born May 14, 1859, when the family was living on the banks of the river and the father was toll bridge tender. He worked for some years in his father's store and in the mill office, acquiring thorough knowledge of the ilour milling industry. He attended the high school and a commercial college, was in the county treasurer's oHice for four years, and in February, 1S07, joined the business forces of the Minneapolis Brewing Company, being at first in the collection department, then becoming cashier and afterward assistant treasurer. In ISS.! he married Antonie Hciiirlcli. a

Fraxk Pershing Hopwood

Frank Pershing Hopwood, one of the best known and most successful business men in Minneapolis, was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1854. He is a son of R. G. Hopwood. for years a prominent lawyer of Uniontown, whose ancestors came to this country from England and Settled in Virginia in the seventeenth century. Frank's grandparents moved to Pennsylvania at an early day, being among the first white persons to cross the Alleghany mountains as emigrants from a Southern colony. They settled on a large tract of land, which they received as a government grant, and founded the town of Hopwood, named in their honor and still a flourishing village located a few miles from the city of LTniontown, in Fayette county.

Mr. Hopwood's early education was obtained in the public schools, but his father was instrumental in founding Madison College before the Civil war, and Frank's older brother attended that institution. It was extensively patronized by the sons of Southern planters, which was discontinued during the war and before he had a chance to become one of its students. At the age of fourteen he became a clerk in a general store in Uniontown kept by R. H. Newlon. In accordance with the custom of that period he was obliged to work from 6 o'clock in the morning until 9 at night.

After working for Mr. Newlon for a time Mr. Hopwood secured a position in the store of Skiles & Hopwood in the same city. In 1873 the proprietors decided to take a trip through the West, and informed their clerks that the one who showed the best record during their absence would receive a handsome prize. Mr. Hopwood proved to be the fortunate one, and was given a large silver Waltham watch with a silver chain attached, which he prized very highly.

On the trip mentioned Mr. Skiles visited ilinneapolis, and he was so well pleased with this region that he determined to locate here, which he did in 1875. and tlie next year Mr. Hopwood joined him in this city. After passing some weeks with Mr. Skiles he entered the employ of G. W. Hale & Company, whose store was at Nicollet avenue and Third street. Two years later he received an offer of $1,000 a year for his services in a dry goods store in Erie, Pennsylvania, and, M the salary seemed large, he decided to accept the oiler. In a short time, however, he returned to Minneapolis and re-entered the emploj' of Mr. Hale, with whom he remained until 1881.

In the year last mentioned Mr. Hopwood took a position in the wholesale dry goods house of Coykendall Bros. & Company, located at Second street and First avenue north, and was with that firm until 1885. In the summer of that year lie was sent by the firm to New York to buy goods, and while spending a Sunday in Uniontown. Pennsylvania, his former home, he received a telegram announcing the sudden death of Mr. Coykendall by drowning in Lake Minnetonka. with a large jiarty of other jiersons. The business was bought by Messrs.

He then helped to organize the dry goods firm of Harrison, Hopwood & Cross, which started in business at Third street and First avenue north. The firm suffered by the financial panic of 1893. and the next year Mr. Hopwood sold his interest in the business to Mr. Harrison and went back to the employ of Mr. Wyman, the firm then being the Wyman-Partridge company, as it is now. He remained with that company until a short time ago. as a buyer. In 1907 he was elected first vice president of the National Wholesale Buyers of Dress Fabrics, which was organized that year, serving three years in all and twice re-elected. When he left the employ of the Wyman- Partridge company he was presented with a complete set of mahogany office furniture by the company and his associates in its employ as a testimonial to the excellence of his services and the high appreciation in which they were held.

ilr. Hopwood is a charter member of the Interlachen club and belongs also to the Minneapolis, Minikahda, Lafayette, Commercial and Athletic clubs and the Civic and Commerce association. He was married in 1880 to Miss Mary E. Walton of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., who died in 1883. In 1885 he contracted a second marriage, which united him with his present wife, who was Miss Margaret E. Corriston of Minneapolis, Minn. They have three children, Florence E., Robert G. and Wairen J. Florence married the late Charles G. Gates and resides in her beautiful home on Lake of the Isles boulevard. Robert G. and Warren J. are associated with their father in the real estate, loan and investment business, with an office in Room 638 McKnight building. The family residence is at 3667 Lake of the Isles boulevard. Mr. Hopwood is a member of the First Presbyterian church of this city.

C. 0. Alexius Olson

C. 0. Alexius Olson is the Son of Anders and Maria S. (Pehrson) Olson, and was born on his father's farm in Long Parish in the province of W>st Gothland. Sweden near the village of Vara. This was on April 5. 1872. A few months later his father died and when the boy was two years old, his mother brought him to America and went to live with relatives on a farm near Waconia, Minnesota. The following year his mother married John Swenson - from her old liome in West Gothland, Sweden. The family then moved to Minneapolis, but two years later they went to live on u farm near Watertown, Minnesota. In 1880 they returned to Minneapolis and the son Alexius has been a resident here ever since. He began his education in the country schools and continued it in the Franklin. Sumner, and North High schools of Minneapolis. During his senior year in the North Side High School he won the German-American Bank prize for oratory. He entered the Minnesota State University in 1891. and was graduated in 1895. receiving the degree bachelor of science. He received the degree bachelor of laws a j-ear later from the same institution, and in 1897, the degree master of laws. Being naturally of a studious turn of mind, Mr. Cllson has taken advantage of every opportunity to acquire knowledge, and from 1S97 to IS99, and 1904 to 1907, he took post graduate work in the law department and in political science and economics. During his student years at the University he was much interested in College affairs and was always generous with his time in serving these interests. He acted as president of his class, then as editor of The Ariel and later as cadet major of the University battalion. He was one of the prime movers in securing for the University a chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity and was one of the charter members. He is also a member of the Delta Chi (law) Fraternity.

While he was still a student at the University, he took a trip abroad spending some time in Europe. Then he was employed at the World's Fair in Chicago. After being admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1896, he entered practice in Minneapolis devoting his time to real estate- law and to Probate court practice. In connection with his legal work he also became interested in the real estate business and since 1909 he has been connected with David P. Jones and Company, investment bankers and real estate brokers of Minneapolis, and is at present attorney for this company.

As a student of political science and economics he has been keenly alive to all political matters. He has always been a republican. From 1899 to 1901 he served the State in the legislature, and was appointed by the judges of the district court as a member of the Minneapolis Charter Commission and served during the years 1903 to 1907. He was defeated by a narrow margin when he entered the race for the legislature for the second time in 1908.

Horatio R. Owen

The late Horatio R. Owen, who was an influential character in Minneapolis for many years, performed his life's best work in this community as the founder and proprietor of the agricultural journal known as "Farm, Stock and Home," and in connection with that publication left the record for which, doubtless, he would best like to be remembered if he could make known to us his wishes.

Mr. Owen was born in Huron county, Ohio, May 4, 1849. The story of his early life is uneventful and soon told. He was reared on a farm and obtained the common school education available to farmers' sons in his day. As soon as his age permitted, he entered a drug store as a clerk, and rapidly mastered all the details of the business. A few years later he became a traveling salesman for a wholesale drug house, and for several years thereafter pursued that calling with pronounced success.

Mr. Owen was always earnestly and sincerely in sympathy with the farmers of the country, and his choice of life work was as a journalist in their interest. After a good deal of experience with journals and journalism, he turned his attention to that vocation, and in November, 1884, he founded "Farm, Stock and Home." His management of this journal, which became so able and influential a voice in behalf of the agricultural interests of the country, and so strong and sure a light for the men engaged in them, was the feature of his career that he was most pleased with.

This paper was conceived by Mr. Owen. Ho named it ; he gave the titles to its several departments of work; he contributed to each at times and to some at all times, and he directed the course of each in every particular. It was his inflexible determination that the |)aper should be both clean and useful. This was his supreme condition: "Every mother must know that her daughter can ojien and read any number of the paper witliout danger of her seeing, in advertisements or elsewhere, a single line that would be improper for her to read." Another of his inflexible rules was: "Let other papers furnish news and amusement, but let us give practical, useful, helpful matter only." He was also scrupulously watchful of the advertising department. He insisted that the income of the paper from this source must always be subordinated to the interests of the subscribers.

One of the most unusual characteristics of Mr. Owen as a publisher was that he regarded every subscriber as a personal friend, and w<is as desirous of protecting and helping him as if he were in fact personally acquainted with him; and if the object of his regard was worthy his friendship became real and enduring. The cordial warmth with which the unknown caller at his office was received was not feigned. It was the sincere greeting of a genuine man for another whom he believed to be genuine and for whom he felt a personal regard. This personal interest in and feeling for each subscriber made it easier for him to refuse contracts involving large sums of money for advertising schemes which might take money from his friends without giving full value in return or lead them into doubtful or questionable investments.

It is not easy in these days of intense competition, of tireless pursuit of money at the behest of naught bvit greedy selfishness, to inspire confidence in the sincerity of such a business policy as was framed for "Farm, Stock and Home." Undoubtedly apparent want of appreciation made many difficulties for the paper in the first years of its career and created misgivings for its future among its friends. But through all these the faith of Mr. Owen was unfaltering. "We may make less money, but we shall build up an institution to be proud of, and that will do good for the world after We are gone," was the sentiment that inspired him to hold to his original designs. His idea of a successful paper was not one that would merely make money, but one that would be helpful, that would exercise an influence for good, that would be highly regarded in the home and ever a welcome visitor there ; one that could be depended on as a guide, counselor, and friend, a protector as well as an educator. In these respects Mr. Owen could justly feel that his paper was a success, and he was proud of it and of his connection with it because it was in conformity with these ideals.

After this it seems needless to say that Mr. Owen was an unselfish man. He was in fact generous to a fault, if there be any fault in generosity. This rare characteristic in these "degenerate days" inspired and aided him in the execution of his meritorious policy in the management of his paper and influenced his whole business career. His temperament was sanguine and sunny. He was ever genial, seldom impatient, and never despondent. But ho was also resolute and persistent. Obstacles did not daunt him. On the contrary, they rather urged him to greater effort. To know him in life was a pleasure, and since his death the memory of association with him partakes of the nature of a benediction.

March 28, 1893, Mr. Owen married Miss Minnie McMillan, of Sparta, Wisconsin. She is still living but no children Were bom of their union. Their home life was an ideal one, and all their acquaintances were attached to them by the strongest ties of admiration and esteem.

Horatio N. Owen died April 23, 1900, only eleven days before the completion of his Slst year. He had not been in rolmst health for five years or more before his death.

and during his last year failed rapidly. Death never met a more valiant foe. The grim monster was not resisted by him for personal reasons, but in the hope and belief that more life for him would mean more happiness and good for others. The general estimate of his character was well expressed by one of his intimate friends immediately after his death, who said of him: "He was worthy of admiration, of confidence, and of the sincerest of all tributes - an earnest following of his noble example."

Edward N. Osborne

Edward N. Osborne, vice president of the Osborne-McMillan Elevator company, and a prominent factor in the business activities of Minneapolis, has been connected with the grain and elevator trade for many years, his force of character, business ability, studious attention to the grain interest? having given him a commanding position and personal success.

Mr. Osborne was born in Madison County, New York. He grew to manhood in La Crosse and there obtained his education. There also he began his business career with the American Express company, for four years. When he went to W. W. Corgill & Bro., grain dealeils, remaining until 1887. He came to Minneapolis that year, forming a partnership with J. D. McMillan as the Osborne-McMillan company. The business was incorporated with Mr. McMillan president and Mr. Osborne in the office he now holds. The company is managed with prudence and judgment and is recognfeed as an important factor in the grain trade.

Mr. Osborne is also president of the JSmpire Elevator company, the Northland Elevator company and the International Elevator company of Canada. He is found earnest and helpful in the support of every worthy undertaking, being ever guided by intelligence, and knowledge of conditions. He was married in Minneapolis to Mrs. Williams, and they have two sons. He is a member of the Minneapolis, Minikahda, Lafayette and the Auto clubs.