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With this end in view he formed a partnership with Levi Leighton. under the firm style of McDonell & Leighton. and together they carried on a steadily expanding lumber trade which in time grew to great magnitude and became very profitable. After Mr. Leighton retired from the firm. Mr. McDonell gave greater attention to dealing in timber lands and stumpage than to making and selling lumber. He also made investments from time to time in city real estate, and acquired several properties that proved to be very valuable. These are still owned by Mrs. McDonell, and one of them is a block on Eighth Street, between Nicollet and Hennepin Avenues, he was well qualified to lill almost any office with credit to himself and benefit to the public. He had a strong Scotch proclivity for attending to his own business, and he indulged it to the fullest extent. Yet he was by no means indifferent to the public welfare, and never withheld any effort he could make to aid in promoting it. He was an earnest, intelligent and energetic sui>porter of every undertaking designed to advance the interests of the city, and the people among whom he lived and carried on his business.

Bv birth and religious training Mr. McDonell was a Roman Catholic. But his mind was active, comprehensive, and inquiring, in religious matters as in all others, and during the greater part of his residence in Minneapolis he attended the Universalist Cliurch of the Redeemer. When, however, he realized that he was approaching the end of his earthly race, the spirit of his teachings in youth reawakened within him. and he ended his days as he had begun them, closely enfolded in the embrace of the Mother Churcli.

September 18, 1884, Mr McDonell married ^liss Linda Lord, a native of Skowhegan. Maine, whose family, running back in clear and unbroken lines to Colonial days, has produced many men of action and renown. The first member of this family that settled in Maine was a major in the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War, and his wife was a daughter of the celebrated Colonel Goff, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, The spirit of resolution and independence of this couple descended to their posterity, and has been manifest in every generation of the family since their day, although shown in many different walks of life and lines of work.

Mrs. McDonell became a resident of Minneapolis in 1880. Xo children were born of her marriage with Mr McDonell, but she has had so far an active, fruitful, and very useful life. Many agencies for the improvement of her home community have had the benefit of her zealous and effective aid, for, whatever her liand has found to do that would be helpful to others she has done with industry and energy guided by intelligence. She united with Mrs. T. B. Walker and another lady in keeping the old Northwestern Hospital in service for many years, and she has been potential in the support of many other institutions and organizations of great public utility.

In religious faith Mrs. McDonell. having experienced the benefits of Christian Science in her own restoration to complete health (after years of suffering) through the application of its tenents and teachings, became a convert to them, and is now numbered among the most devout, sincere, consistent, and inlbicntial followers of Mrs. >L-iry Baker Eddy in Minneapolis.and holds her membership in the Second Church of Christ

Mrs. McDonell has also been an important factor and an effective worker in literary, musical and social circles, and has been instrumental in founding several organizations devoted to the cultun- such circles foster. She is a lady of cultivated taste and wide attainments herself, always in quest of knowledge and doing a great deal of traveling to get it. Nothing gives her greater enjoyment than visiting strange or new localities, which are out of the ordinary in features, customs and suggestions. During a recent visit to Honolulu she toured the island in an auto she took with her, and found great delight in the beauties of nature there displayed in forest, field, and ocean. Later she found equal delight in the more bold. Weak, and nigg.d scenery of

Alaska But while Nature lies close to her heart and speaks to her always with a persuasive voice, the works of Man, (iod's liighest creation, afford her gratification to the same extent. In all the manifestations of Omnipotent power she sees proof that "the hand that made them is divine."

George Wrkjht Peavey

Although ardently and sincerely devoted to his native land and its civil, educational, social and religious institutions, the late George W. Peavey, of Minneapolis, was nevertheless a great traveler, and an industrious and fascinating writer on the natural beauties, material wealth, industrial activities and governmental theories of the lands he visited, and the manners, customs, employments, conditions and tendencies of their inhabitants. His articles of travel were published numerously in magazines of general literature and special works particularly devoted to this kind of writing, and they won for him a high place in the current literature of this country.

Mr. Peavey, whose very useful and interesting life ended on June 8, IQl,!, when he was but little over thirty-six years of age, was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on May 20, 1877. He was the only son of the late Frank H. and Mary D. (Wright) Peavey, a sketch of whom will be found in this volume. In that sketch the brilliant career of the father is shown somewhat in detail. The scm came to this city with his parents in 1884, and here he had his home from that time until the close of his life.

After obtaining an excellent education Mr. Peavey was associated with his father in the grain business until the death of the parent on December 20, 1901. and after that event his remaining years were passed in company with his l)rothers-in-law, Frank T. Heffelfinger and Frederick D. Wells, also Charles F. Deaver, in the management of the great business interests started and built- up by the father, which comprised the most extensive grain trade ever known in the world.

But. while Mr. Peavey never neglected his business, or any other work that came to him with the command of duty, he was enamored of travel and indulged his taste for it extensively. He did not travel, however, solely for his own enjoyment, and not even for his own improvement alone. He was keenly alive to the refining, harmonizing and expanding inMuences of general society - of intercourse with minds which have profited by a large comparison of nations, climates and customs - of the inspiration given by the grand, the wild, the picturesque beauties of nature, and well knew the value of comprehensive and accurate knowledge of the world in which he lived. But he believed that all he acquired through these channels of development he held in trust for the benefit of his fellow men, and that it was as much his duty to dispense the knowledge he gained for the good of others as it was to use his opportunities for his own pleas- 'ure and improvement.

Firmly fixed in this conviction, Mr. Peavey was, ns has been indicated a diligent, free and glad dispenser of what he learned among persons less favored, and many of them rejoiced in his advantages because they shared most helpfully and ])leasingly in the results of his work. The world of .Science and Lidters also recognized his value and accorded him the rank to which it entitled him. He was chosen a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of England, and his membership in many other organizations devoted to liberal studies was cordially welcomed and warmly appreciated. In his own city he belonged to the Minneapolis, Minikahda and several other clubs, and to a number of benevolent organizations and societies of different kinds and took a serviceable interest in them all.

Mr. Peavey was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 25, 1899, to Miss Katharine Semple .Jordan, a daughter oi" Hon. Nathan Edmund and Sarah (Sei*ple) .Jordan. The mother is a sister of F. B. Semple, one of the esteemed residents of Minneapolis. Both parents were persons of strong intellectuality and culture, and Mrs. Peavey is a lady of the same gifts and attainments. She is esteemed universally as an ornament to the womanhood of the city in which she Uvea.

John G. Robb

After a good record as a promoter of industrial and manufacturing enterprises and as a salesman of their products, John G. Robb, Alderman from the Fifth Ward, and the oldest member, in years, of the board, retired, intending to pass his remaining days in leisure; but in 1912 he was again elected and accepted the position. He finds this public service congenial, and gives it close and conscientious attention. In the council, he is a member of the committees on bonds and accounts of city officials, and taxes, street ear extensions, and health conditions. He is also chairman of the committee on licenses.

Mr. Robb was born at McConnellsville, Ohio, February 14, 1843, and at the age of thirteen with his parents remtived to Crawford County, Wisconsin, to aid two of his older brothers in improving a new 240 acre grub-land farm. He passed five years here at work on the farm, and during the time attended two terms of winter school.

September 18. 1861. he enlisted in the Twelfth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, helping to raise half of his company. He was appointed third sergeant and soon promoted to first sergeant. The regiment was ordered to Camp Randall, at Madison, and entered the Servi'ee October 31. In .January, 1862, it was ordered to Western Missouri and received its baptism of fire and blood in the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., March fi, following.

The regiment returned, via Fort Riley, and Lawrence, to Leavenworth. Kansas, winning the last day's march over the Thirteenth Wisconsin by accomplishing 45 miles in 13 hours, a most extraordinary military feat. The regiment was next .sent via Cobimbus Ry., to Humboldt. Tennessee, where it was placed on guard duty. Later it was assigned to General Hurlburt's division and took part in the battle of Hatchie River against the Confederates under General Price and Van Dorn. where .^.000 ITnion troops defeated 18.000 Confederates. It took part in the Mississippi campaign in the fall of 1862. passed the following winter at Memphis, and in the Spring of 1863 joined General Grant's army at Vicksburg, taking part in the long siege of that city and being present at (its surrender. Mr. Robb then secured a furlough and returned home, his trip, by steamboat being enlivened by a rebel attack on the boat as it passed the mouth of the Arkansas river. His health was so shattered that he was unable to return to active service and he was mustered out at the close of his term. After his discharge Mr. Robb conducted a general store at Seneca, Wisconsin, where he was nominated for County Register of Deeds, but was defeated at the election. The County Treasurer then made him a partner in his hardware store, at Prairie du Chien, where he was in charge for five years and was a traveling salesman for five years more. As a "drummer" he sold goods to the leading old-time houses of Minneapolis. In 1876 he formed a partnership in a soap factory at Prairie du Chien with an old friend, J. D. Humphreys, now of St. Paul, and their partnerehip still continues. With Humphreys as the manufacturer and Robb as salesman, the firm made a profit of $1,000 a month during the first three and one-half years of its existence. This result induced Mr. Beach of Dubuque, Iowa, to urge them to join him in the same line of trade in St. Paul. But as he had then an extensive trade in stoves as well as soap, he declined.

In 1873 the Minnesota Soap Company was organized, and in 1881 its management being taken to St. Paul, Mr. Robb acted as salesman. They operating the plant in Minneapolis until 1890. Mr. Humphreys had bought a factory in Omaha and consolidation was formed with the Newton Brothers of Sioux City, and in 1911 the Minnesota Soap company joined as Hoskins Bros. & Company, with a capital of $400,000. with plants in operation in St. Paul, Sioux City and Omaha.

Mr. Robb continued in charge of sales until January, 1912, being then sixty-nine years of age and a salesman for thirtyeight years. He was for six years president of the People's Bank of Minneapolis, which closed it doors during the depression of 1893. Mr. Robb was then one of the directors and being chosen president, had the bank opened and doing business again in thirty days. It has since been merged into the Scandinavian -American Bank.

In the organization of the Minneapolis Retail Grocers' Association, Mr. Robb also took a leading part; he is still being an honorary member. Fraternally he is an active and prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

June 22. 1868, he was married at Mt. Sterling, to Miss Harriet Gay. They have had nine children, eight of whom are living. Emma is the widow of Dr. M. P. Van der Horck, late of Minneapolis. Charlotte is the wife of Alfred Mc- Laughlin, lumberman. Laura is the wife of Dr. S. Baxter, of the Abbott Hospital. Alice died in childhood. Edward is a farmer in North Dakota. Ray is a fuel merchant. Walter is an insurance man. James conducts a thriving grain commission business in Calgary. Alberta, and Donald is a student at Yale University.

A resident of Minneapolis for more than forty years. Gen eral Reeve lias been conspicuously concerned with the development and upbuilding of the city along both civile and material lines, in which he has attained to distinction in various positions of trust. He is one of the essentially representative citizens of Minneapolis, and in his home state it may consistently be said that his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.

General Charles McCormick Reeve was born at Dansville. Livingston county. New York, on the 7th of August, 1847. and is a son of General Isaac V. D. Reeve, a distinguished oliioer of tho L'liiti'd States Army. In the great struggle for national independence were found enrolled many representatives of the Reeve family, ineluding Colonel Isaac Reeve, and many maternal ancestors likewise were valiant sohliers in the Revolution.

General Isaac V. D. Reeve graduated from the United States Military Academy, in the class of 1835, and continued in active service until 1870, when he retired, upon his own application. He served in the Seminole Indian war, in Florida, and was a gallant olUcer in both the Mexican and Civil wars. In the war with Me.vico he received throe brevets for gallant and meritorious service at Contreras and Cherubusco and after taking part in the brilliant battle of Molino del Ray he received the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel. At the close of the Civil War he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general, and his entire militarj- career was such as to reflect honor upon himself and upon the arms of his native land. During a considerable period of the Civil War he served as mustering and disbursing ollicer, and in 1862-3 he was the incumbent of this dual jjosition in New York city, where he had charge of providing for all soldiers passing through the metropolis and where he retained a clerical force of more than seventy persons. His preference was for service in the field, but the Secretary of War was insistent in assigning West Point men to the important details of executive and official service, to which General Reeve was thus called. He was in charge of the government military disbursing olTice in New York city at the time of his retirement from active service, in 1870. In 1871 he joined his son, General Charles McC. Reeve, in Minneapolis, and this city was his home thereafter until his death, which occurred in 1890. General Keeve was a num of impregnable integrity, of distinct and positive individuality and of most winning personality, so that his name is held in enduring veneration in the city and Btatc in which he passed the closing period of a noble and illustrious life. In Minneapolis he was one of the prominent and influential members of Plymouth Congregational church. 2R'hen the Minneapolis park system was initiated and a loulevard laid out around Lake Harriet, the court commislioners awarded to General Reeve the sum of for the itrip of land which had been taken from him and which rdered on the lake. With characteristic liberalitj', he prolosed to donate this land to the city in case the Same was tilized in the perfecting of the fine boulevard and park system, about nineteen hundred feet of lake frontage, of the original Reeve farm, of two hundred and fifty acres, on the south shore of Lake Harriet, the beautiful old homestead Ijeing situated on an eminence overlooking that lovely body «f water.

General Charles McCormick Reeve passed the period of his childhood and youth in the various military posts in which his father was stationed, and as a boy he accompanied his parents on a wagon trip of seven hundred and fifty miles from the Texas Coast to Fort Bliss, of which po.st his father assumed tommand. the same having been on the site of the present citj' of Kl Paso. The last western command held by his father was at Fort Buchanan built by him in New Mexieo. It is worthy of note that at this frontier post General Isaac V, D. Reeve had as his principal aide Captain Kwell, who later served as lieutenant general in the Confederate army under General Lee. General Longstreet, another of the distinguished officers of the Confederacy, likewise Served under him prior to the Civil War.

(Jeiieral C. McC. Reeve graduated at Yule University in the class of 1870, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1873 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Mauler of Arts. He was admitted to the bar in 1871. He made his first trip to Minneapolis, for the purpose of visiting friends, his expectation at the time having been to establish his residence in California. In .Minneapolis he fiiund an opportunity to purchase the Thornton farm of two hundred and fifty acres, on Lake Harriet, and he had the foresight to realize the ultimate appreciation in the value of the property. His father consented to join him in Minneapolis, and they purchased the land mentioned, - the same constituting the fine old homestead which has long been associated with the family name. The brick portion of the old residence was built in 1860, by Frances Thornton, and the house is one of the landmarks of this beautiful section of the city.

General Reeve was admitted to the Minneapolis bar in 1S71 and for a short time thereafter he was engaged in the active practice of his profession in this city. In 1872 he assisted in the reorganization of the City Bank, in which he became bookkeeper. Later he was promoted assstant cashier and finally he became cashier of the institution, with the executive affairs of which he was identified for a period of eleven years, during which perioil the bank never passed a dividend nor declared less than twelve per cent per annum, besides adding substantially to the surplus. He then became manager of the Hardwood Manufacturing Company, which was engaged in the manufacturing of fiour barrels and which operated four heading and stave mills in Wisconsin, more than two hundred men being employed in its cooper shops, in Minneapolis, and the output having at one time reached the enormous aggregate of si.xty-five hundred barrels in a single day, - a record never before or since equalled. A. R. Hall, of Wisconsin, was at that time president of the Company, and with the same was identified its present president, (ieorge H. Christian. General Reeve was manager of the Company's business, which included the manufacturing of hardwood lumber barrel stock and barrels. The General retired from the position of manager after the expiration of five years, and he then purchased the old Holly Flour Mills, the operation of which he continued until the plant was ilestroyed by lire, in 1893. Since that time he has not been actively engaged in business.

It has been a matter of special .satisfaction to General Reeve to aid in the upbuilding of the live-stock industry in Minnesota and he has done much to improve the grades of stock raised. On his original place, given the name of Sunnyside Stock Farm, he gave special attention to the raising of fine Ayrshire and .lersey cattle, ami his stock has been exhibited at Icailing western fairs, including that at St. Louis, where it has won many prizes. At one time he had a herd of more than two hundred registered Jerseys, including sixteen imported cows.

In association with his brotlu'r-in-law. .Tames W. Lawrence, now a representative member of the bar at Santa Monica, California. General Reeve purchaseil one hundred and sixty acres of the Wilson farm, on Chicago avenue and Lake street, and this tract was platted under the title of the I^wrence & Reeve's Out Lota, which were sold in five-acre tracts.

In politics the General is a Democrat, and in ISDO-lU he represented his county in the state lepislnturc. having tx-en elected in a strong Republican district. He was made chairman of the joint committee on appropriations for the State

University, and it was largely due to his earnest and indefatigable efforts that the University was not denied its much needed appropriations, including that for the erection and equipment cf the first building for the Medical Department. It will be recalled that this so-called "reform" session of the legislature was chiefly notable for its efforts to throttle advancement and even to deny proper support to the various state institutions. The General's experience in the Legislature proved all that he desired and he did not appear as a candidate for renomination.

General Reeve was appointed a member, and elected Secretary of the Minnesota commission for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893, and in providing a creditable showing for his state he labored with characteristic zeal and ability. He devoted eighteen months to preliminary work and thereafter was present at the fair in Chicago during a very considerable part of the time of its duration. He received no compensation for his efforts in securing the Minnesota exhibits' at the exposition, and at the close of the same, fifteen thousand dollars of the original appropriation was returned to the state treasury. In the winter of 1891-2 General Reeve was one of the three commissioners selected by the Governor of Minnesota to assume charge of the contributions of flour made by the millers of the United States for the starving peasantry of Russia. The Governor of Nebraska also commissioned him as one of those to take charge of its contribution of corn. The generous gifts were duly shipped to Russia, and General Reeve and the other members of the commission representing the two states met the relief ship at the Russian seaport of Libau, on the Baltic sea, after which he and his associates gave their personal attention to the distribution of the greatly needed supplies. About three hundred and fifty carloads of food were thus in charge of the commissioners; the Russian government provided transportation of supplies to the famine districts, and the commissioners worked in harmony with the various local committees in its distribution.

In 1899 General Reeve was made Warden of the Minnesota state prison at Stillwater, and he retained this office two years, during the administration of Governor Lind. He did much to bring about needed reforms in the management of the penitentiary and was insistent in urging the building of a new prison, though this was not effected until the management of the state institutions were severed from politics. His management met with the unqualified approval of the Governor and the Board of Prison Managers.

In 1883 General Reeve enlisted as a private in Company I, First Regiment, Minnesota National Guard, and in the same he passed through the various grades of promotion until he attained the rank of colonel. In 1898, the regiment tendered its services to the government and it was mustered into the Volunteer service as the Thirteenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. In command of his regiment General Reeve went to the Philippine islands, where he took part in the capture of the city of Manila and other important military operations and where he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. He was appointed the first military chief of police of Manila and in April, 1899, he was honorably mustered out of the Volunteer service. He resumed his office of colonel of the First Regiment, Minnesota National Guard, and in this position he continued the able and popular incumbent until his retirement, in 1911. He was then given further assurance of his secure hold upon the confidence and esteem of his comrades, in that they gladly welcomed his promotion to the office of brigadier general of the entire Minnesota National Guard, comprising three regiments of infantry and three batteries of artillery. He did an effective work in behalf of the state militia and his final retirement from active association with the same occurred in October, 1911. The General is a member of Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Aztec Club of 1847, the Society of Foreign Wars and the Society of the Army of the Philippines. He is identified with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Graduates Club of New Haven, the Yale Club of New York, the Commercial Club, the West Side Club, the Automobile Club, and the Lafayette Club. Both he and his wife are valued factors in the leading social life of the community and their attractive home has ever been a center of gracious hospitality. They are zealous communicants of St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, and the General was formerly a member of its vestiy.

In Minneapolis, in 1873, was solemnized the marriage of General Reeve to Miss Christine McLaren Lawrence, daughter of the late Captain James W. Lawrence, who was an honored and gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. Captain Lawrence was an officer in the One Hundred and Seventy-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry and he died while in service, at New Orleans. General and Mrs. Reeve have no children living.

Sydney Ii. Owen

It is to the everlasting honor of the late Sydney M. Owen, who was called to rest February 2, 1910, after an exalted service of twenty-five years as editor of "Farm, Stock and Home," the oldest and the leading agricultural paper in the Northwest, that he did one thing distinctive and individual in life, and did it well. He published an agiicultural paper that thoroughly covered the domain of sowing and reaping, and which also gave specific and expert attention to the larger field of economics, governmental policies, and the laws of business as they are related to farming, and was an educator, accurate and reliable, of its readers in these branches of knowledge. Conducting such a journal involved comprehensive learning, ready practical ability, close touch with the trend of the times, and a full understanding of basic principles, all of which he exhibited in a high degree, as many other men have done. But the work also involved clear vision, strict adherence to principles, great force of will and courage and these he exhibited in a high degree, as many other men with equal opportunities and resources have not done. He was always true to his convictions and brought all the power of his being into their service,

Mr. Owen was born in Ohio, August 11, 1838, and received the common school education of his time and locality. To this he added a higher course of study in Oberlin LTniversity. In 1860 he married Miss Helen A. Feagles, who is still living. They became the parents of two children, their daughter, Jessie A., who died in her eighteenth year, and their son, Harry N. Owen, who succeeded his father in the publication and management of "Farm. Stock and Home," with the avowed liope of making the paper "a living, useful monument" to the parent's memory, and who has been realizing that hope.

Sydney it. Owen began his long career of usefulness in the service of his country, during the Civil War, as a soldier in defense of the Union in the Fifty-fifth Ohio regiment. After the war closed he became a merchant in Toledo, Ohio, wlieix' he remained for a number of years, then moved to Chicago, and there followed the same line of business. But, while mercantile life was in many respects agreeable, and liis energy and ability made it profitable, his tastes and inclinations were all the time in the direction of literature, and his opportunity to follow his bent came in 1884, when his brother, Horatio K. Owen (who died in 1000), founded "Farm. Stock and Home."

In July, 1SS5, Mr. Owen came to Jlinneapolis and took editorial charge of this journal. In its very first issue under his editorial management the paper took a stand in favor of a revision of the tariff. Xotliing in Mr. Owen's whole record required more courage or showed more clearly his unyielding devotion to what he considered right than his taking this stand in Minnesota in 1885. If an editor is ever justified in carefully feeling his way and avoiding sources of controversy and unpopularity, it is when he is starting his paper. The side Jlr. Owen took was not the popular one in this state then, but he saw with great clearness of vision the logical outcome of our tariff system, and he could not keep from declaring the truth that was in him, even though to have done otherwise would have been the profitable course in a material way and for the period.

Mr. Owen did more than this. He discussed with great force and freedom in his paper all economic questions which have a bearing on agriculture, and all his views were based on fundamental principles and elastic breadth of view. This editorial policy made his paper uiiiijue among piiblieations of its kind, and gave it a novelty and potentiality which no other h;id. It also brought him into such close relationship with the FarnuMs' Alliance that, in 1890 he was selected as its candidate for (iovernor of Minnesota. The selection was made not only without suggestion or solicitation on his part, but against his expressed wish, for he was not then and never became an office seeker.

He bowed to the behest of his party, however, and became the leader of its fight, and in this, as in everything else he undertook, he threw- all his energy into the contest, and as a result made the campaign of that year nienu)rable in Minnesota politics. Without money, organization, or newspaper support of any kind, even his own paper making no reference to the State campaign, he polled over 58,000 votes and very nearly caused the defeat of the Republican candidate.

Between 1890 and 1895 the Populist or People's party enjoyed its period of prosperity, and in 1894 Mr. Owen was forced against his will to accept its nomination for governor. At this time the Democrats felt certain that a fusion with the Populists would bring the defeat of the Republicans, and were an.xious to give Mr. Owen their nomination also. His stern devotion to principle blocked the project. He declined to consider the proposition, and informed the committee that offered him the Democratic nomination that it was not office he wanted, but the development of a party of and for the people to combat the party of and for the "money power," as it was called in those days, and that he had no more faith in the development of the Democratic party than he had in that of the Republican party in the direction he desired. In this campaign he polled over 88,0000 votes, getting more than the Democratic nominee, and it is reasonably certain that if he had abandoned principle and allowed personal ambition to sway him, he would have been elected. His last active political work was as a candidate for Congress in the Fifth Congressional District in 1896. He made this race wholly as a favor to his friends, and, although he was not elected, he gave ample proof that the constituency would have been well and wisely represented if he had been.

It was not in political life, however, that he did his best and most lasting work. Agricultural education, as examplified in the State School of Agriculture and the columns of "Farm, Stock and Home" was his real life work. When he came to Minnesota there was practically no School of Agriculture in the State. What was called one was merely a skeleton organization with an ordinary high school course of study, and little more. No one then seemed to realize that a school course in farming was feasible. The prevailing desire was to have a school that would "articulate with the University." Mr. Owen declared that what was needed was "a school that would articulate with the farms," and he kept that idea before the people until a course of study was mapped out that made the Agricultural College such a school - one that would educate boys and girls toward the farm instead of away from it. He was also an earnest advocate of locating the school where it is, in close touch with the University and the cities, although the majority of his party associates were opposed to this; and it was chiefly through his influence and his writings in his paper that the present location was selected and the necessary appropriations to secure it were made.

In 1893 Mr. Owen was appointed a Regent of the University to fill out an unexpired term. In 1S9,") he was reappointed for a full term, which lasted until 1901, when he retired from the board. But in 1907 he was again appointed, through the solicitation of the graduates and faculty of the School of Agriculture, and under this appointment he continued to serve until his death, giving a great deal of time and energy to the affairs of the University, even after failing health made such work difficult for him.

Mr. Owen realized early in his residence in this State the necessity for conservation of forest areas, and the development of new growth. In his paper he advocated tree l>lanting and told how trees could be successfully grown on the prairies of the Northwest. He made a decided impression on the public mind and created a strong desire for forest conservation and tree culture, and there can be no doubt that many a profitable stretch of woods in this section of the country is the result of his efforts in this behalf. He was appointed a member of the Minnesota Forestry Board in 1901, and was its president for several years.

In the personality of Mr. Owen there was a wonderful and ever present charm. He was a man of quick sympathy and infinite patience, and he had a deep love for and confidence in his fellow man which always led him to think tlie best of everybody he knew Ills nature was optimistic and sunny, and its influence on others was always wholesome and inspiring. He grew with his work and the progress of events, keejiing his face ever toward the rising sun and his thoughts in the present as a period of preparation for the future. His death, even at the age of seventy-two. was universally deplored throughout this State, and in many others where he was known either in person or by his work, and his life's achievements constitute a proud heritage for the common-

Was born at Fryeburg, Maine, August 25th, 1832. He was the descendant of illustrious ancestors of the colonial and revolutionary times, his great grandfather and grandfather on his father's side being Colonel Andrew McMillan and officer of the French and Indian wars and General John Mc- Jlillan of the War of 1812. Through his mother Putnam McJIillan traces his descent from General Israel Putnam who stands as one of the most distinguished soldiers and patriots in the days of the founding of our country. Israel Putnam's grandson, Colonel Israel Putnam Dana, a soldier of 1812, was the grandfather of Putnam McMillan.

This remarkable record of military service and patriotism which dates from the beginning of American History was honorably sustained by Putnam McMillan and his brother in the crisis of 1861.

Andrew McMillan, Putnam's father, was trained for his heritage of Military service in West Point, graduating (from that institution in the early part of the last century. Later he resigned from the service preferring the activities of a civilian career, and settled in Danville, Vermont, when he engaged in business and farming. He was prominent in public life,- a democrat and a member of the state legislature of Maine and Vermont. Andrew McMillan died at seventy-two year^ of age.

Putnam McMillan was reared in Danville and at the age of sixteen entered his uncle's store where he was employed for several years. In 1852 he went to California making the journey by water around Cape Horn in a sailing vessel and landing at San Francisco one hundred and forty-one days after leaving Boston. He Spent about five years in the mining districts and San Francisco passing through many interesting and exciting experiences for which California during the "Gold Fever" was remarkable. The return trip was made across the Isthmus of Panama, during the period of Walker's Fillibuster.

In Vermont Mr. McMillan spent several years farming ami at the outbreak of the Civil war enlisted in tlie 15th Vermont and served as quartermajiter of the regiment. Upon the expiration of his service in the army not long after the battle of Gettysburg he went to South America to engage in a sheep ranch enterprise with his cousin. They located in Santa Fe, a province of the Argentine Republic near Rosario and about two hundred miles above Buenos Ayres on the Parama River. He then stocked their land with some five thousand sheep and for a number of years met with success and prosperity. Later, however, a civil war was waged between the provinces of Santa Fe and Buenos Ayres, Mr. McMillan's ranch being part of the time the contending ground. This was followed by a war between Brazil and Paraguay and then by a horrible scourge of cholera. These disasters wiped out Mr. McMillan's property interests and when his wife and several members of his household succumbed to the fatal pestilence he returned to the States.

In 1872 after two years in Vermont he i)aid a visit to Minneapolis and was so favorably impressed with the city that he decided to make it his future home. Soon after coming to Minneapolis he established himself in the real estate and insurance business. One of his first enterprises was the McMillan addition in Northeast Minneapolis. He made extensive investments in property erecting a number of houses on the East Side and the McMillan Block on Third Avenue and Third Street which he still owns.

His most notable project has been the reclamation of a large tract of swamp land in Freeborn County converting it into rich agricultural land. After buying the property he labored a number of years to secure proper laws for the drainage of the immense area and his efl'orts finally resulted in the present law under which millions of acres are being reclaimed. Hickory Island Farm, Mr. McMillan's estate, has been transformed from useless land covered with muskrat houses and cattails to a most valuable property and is a noteworthy example of what can be done with one sviamp land when properly drained. Mr. McMillan has had no desire to enter public life and has held but one public oflice, that of alderman of the second ward. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Rejiublic and the Loyal Legion. Mr. McMillan was married in 1858 to Helen E. Davis, daughter of the Hon. Bliss M. Davis, a noted attorney of Vermont. Her death occurred in South America leaving one daughter Emily. His second marriage was with Kate Kittridge, daughter of Judge Kittridge of St. .Johnburg, Vermont. They have two children, Margaret and Putnam Dana, Jr. Mr. McMillan is a member of the F'irst Congregational church of which he has held the office of trustee for thirty-three years.

James S. Porteous

The late James S. Porteous, for nearly thirty years a resident of Minneapolis and during the last two years of his life at Wayzata, on Lake Minnetonka, was born in St. Johns, New Brunswick, September 6, 1856. His parents were born and reared in Scotland, and one of his brothers, older than himself, was a minister of the gospel in Edinburgh. When quite young he went to work for the Stuarts of his native city, lumber merchants, and superintended shipments of lumber for them from that place, Quebec, and New York City to English ports. At the age of twenty-one he. was transferred to their New York City branch office, and while a-ssociated with them made several trips to Eiuope on business. In 1881 he was married in Poughkeepsie. New York, to Miss Loui.sa (i. McKniglit.

In December, 1887, he came to Jlinneapolis ]iartly for the benefit of his health which had been delicate for a number of years. Soon after his arrival in this city he entered the employ of Dorilus Morrison as a bookkeeper, but a little later became associated in the Same capacity with S. G. Cook & Company, and was with them in the erection of the Lumber Exchange Building and in its reconstruction after its partial destruction by fire in the winter of 1891. He was for a considerable time secretary, treasurer, and manager of the building company. He helped to organize the Edison Light and Power Company, which was afterward absorbed by the Minneapolis General Electric Company, and was its treasurer at the beginning. This company erected the Edison building in the rear of the Lumber Exchange, which Mr. Porteous and the late H. C. Akeley purchased some years ago and afterward sold to the Lumber Exchange interests. He spent two years in the successful litiuidation of the accounts of the Flour City National Bank when that institution was taken over by the Security National.

Mr. Porteous was one of the organizers and directors of the new' Commercial National Bank; an organizer and presi dent of the Federal Securities Company; an organizer of and active in the National Building Managers' Association, an energetic member of the Minneapolis Real Estate Board.

He was president of the Y. il. C. A. for si.\ years, a director for a much longer time, and his services to the organization were untiring and self-sacrificing. The completion of the new building of the Association, on the commodious and comprehensive plan followed, were in a measure due to him.

Mr. Porteous was a member of Westminster Presbyterian church, and for thirteen years one of its trustees. He was its iSundaj- school superintendent for fovir years, and for a long time was president of the Westminster Church Association. He was active in social life as a member of the Minneapolis and Lafayette Clubs. The unexpected death of this good and useful man occurred at Eitel Hospital, March 23, 1013, and occasioned deep and widespread grief, especially in Minneapolis and at Wayzata. In Wayzata he had lived for two years, and had been a member of the village council. Upon his death the whole community united in tributes of praise for the nobility and usefulness of his career, his fine business ability, and his elevated and sterling manhood. Mrs. Porteous is still living in Minneapolis, where she is highly esteemed.

Arthur R. Rogers

Nature spread her bounties in this section of the country, for business purposes and the service of mankind, with a lavish hand, and then waited with her imperturable patience through long ages for the advent of Man, the true lord of the heritage, to come with his commanding might of mind and turn tliem into useful and marketable commodities, and during her long wait she kept maintaining and multiplying her gifts, ^^^len the time was ripe, the developing spirit came, and its representatives were men of caliber and qualifications suited to the mighty task before them.

The interesting subject of this brief review was not among the first or even the early comers, but he has been among the most potential, farseeing and enterprising of them all, and has wrought out here a business career consonant in full measure with his large opportunities and his strong, active and productive mental faculties and business capacity. When he came he found the field white with a bounteous harvest, and with steady progress, even through difficulties, he rose within a few years to the first rank of the extensive and all conquering reapers.

Arthtir R. Rogers was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1864. His father was Alexander H. Rogers, an employe of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, and also a native of Wisconsin. The son obtained his early education in a graded school in his native city and afterward attended a high school there for two years.

In 1882 he left school and began his business career as second man in the lumber yard of the Edwards & McCulloch Lumber Company, at Valley City, North Dakota, of which C. E. Blackwell was Manager, which yard enjoyed a large trade. Mr. Rogers remained in the employ of this C<impany for about two years when he was made Manager of a lumber yard at Sanborn, North Dakota, belonging to what was known as the Gull River Lumber Company. Two years later sickness compelled him to resign his position at Sanborn temporarily and return to Milwaukee.

As soon as he was able to attend to business again through former Governor John S. Pillsbury Mr. Rogers became acquainted with C. A. Smith of the C. A. Smith Lumber Company and applied to him for a position in the office of that company which he .secured and about a year later was placed in charge of the retail yard of that compiiny in North Minneapolis; but he was soon afterwards recalled to the main office where he served for a time as Credit Man and then was given charge of the Sales Department.

In 18S8 in order to secure a broader mental development and business intelligence in a line with which he was unfamiliar Mr. Rogers became a student in the night school of the State University Law Department from which he graduated in 1891.

In 1892. at his suggestion, the Smith & Rogers Lumber Company was organized with Mr. Rogers as Secretary and Treasurer, and a line of retail lumber yards was established along the line of the "Soo" Railroad in North Dakota. In the following year, the C. A. Smith Lumber Company was incorporated, with Mr. Rogers as Secretary and Treasurer; and in 1901 lie was elected Vice President.

In 1904 the Rogers Lumber Company was organized with Mr. Rogers as president. Ln 1905 he sold his interest in the C. A. Smith Lumber Company to his associate, C. A. Smith, and purchased Mr. Smith's interest in the Smith & Rogers Lumber Company. One year later, Mr. Rogers severed his entire connection with the C. A. Smith Lumber Company and has since, as President of the Rogers LumbiT Com|iany. devoted his time and energy to the building up of that and subsidiarj' companies. In the management of this company Mr. George H. and .John J. Rogers were asso<'iated, the former being its vice-president, the latter its secretary and treasurer.

The growth of the Rogers Lumber Company has been rapid and it is today the largest retail lumber company in the northwest, having retail lumber yards in North Dakota, Canada and Jlontana.

In addition to the Rogers Lumber Company, Jlr. Rogers is (lie president of the Bend Timber Company, a company holding large timber interests in the Deschutes Valley. Oregon: is president of the Rogers-Voinnans Lumber Company, another timber company; and the Okanagan Saw ilills, Ltd., a sawmill company nuinufacturing lumber in British Columbia.

Mr. Rogers has always taken a keen interest in the growth and development of his adopted city, Minneapolis, as well as in the Northwest. At the organization of the Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association, he was (against his wishes) elected as its first presi<lent and served until the end of the first year, the association showing phenomenal growth in numbers and influence during that period.

Through Mr. Rogers' efforts the North Dakota Better Farming Assn. was established. This as.sociation is one of the most potent factors in better farming methods in the entire Northwest. It is retognized as the pioneer of its kind and is accredited with doing great work for the betterment of farming conditions, not only in North Dakota, but throughout all the northwestern states and even in Canada. This association is growing rapidly in influence and importance.

Mr. Rogers was also president of the Minneapolis Club, the leading social club of the city, and is a member of the Minikahda, Lafayette and University Clubs.

On February 8th, 1S94, Mr. Rogers was united in marriage with ifiss Dora Waite. and they have three children, Arthur Alan, Dorothy and Donald Waite.

Colonel Fraxcis Peteler

Serving as a soldier in the army of the United States in two wars, for one of which he enlisted when he was less than eighteen ; facing death in many engagements and undergoing hardships in various forms in botli: engaging in pursuits of peaceful and productive industry when ''grim-visaged War had smoothed his wrinkled front," and working out a highly creditable career in both military and industrial lines, the late Colonel Francis Peteler lived a life of very unusual incident, adventure, and variety, and one that was full of usefulness in his day and generation in many different ways.

Colonel Peteler was born in Bavaria, April 19, 1838. He died in Minneapolis, April 18, 1910, a few hours before his eighty-second birthday. His father was a soldier in the Fatherland, and passed many years in the army. During his military experience he fought both for and against Napoleon, according to the varying commands of his king, who was alternately a friend and a foe of the great conqueror. Five sons of the senior Peteler came to the United States while young, and passed the remainder of their days in this country. The colonel was but twelve years of age when he followed his brothers, Louis, Oiarles, and Joseph, to America, and he was followed in turn by his other brother, Phillip. Francis joined his brother Louis, a hotel proprietor in New York City, and remained with him for about six years. He landed in New York in 1840. and in 1846, although he was less than eighteen, he enlisted in the United States army for the war with Jlexico. He passed through the whole course of that conflict. The privations and hardships of his service in Mexico were numerous and oppressive, and he was discharged in such poor health that his life was despaired of.

When the war was over Mr. Peteler returned to New York. After his health was restored he visited the Middle and Western States, and in the spring of 1853 he located in Minnesota and took up a tract of government land four miles north of Anoka. He continued to live on and cultivate and improve his farm until in 1861. Then his patriotism impelled him to again seek an opportunity to serve his adopted country as a soldier in defense of the Union, to which he was ardently devoted. Mr. Peteler raised the First Company of Jlinnesota Sharpshooters, which he offered to the Government. The offer was gladly accepted, and the company was mustered into the service at Fort Snelling. October 5, 1861, by Captain A. D. Nelson of the United States army. It became a part of the First Regiment of United States Sharpshooters, and was soon engaged in active field work in Virginia, in connection with Auger's Brigade, which, because of its strong advances and staunch and unshaken conduct on all occasions, was soon called the "Iron Brigade," the first to bear the name in the Army of the Potomac.

for gallantry on the field of battle. Soon after his promotion he was sent to take command of Fort Abercrombie in the Territory of Dakota, where he remained until he resigned from the army after about three years' service in the war. His administration of affairs at the fort was so wise and judicious, and resulted in so much improvement in the discipline and general welfare of the men under him, that when he left the post strong resolutions commending his course Avere adopted by the officers and soldiers of the garrison.

One of the last, as well as one of the most notable events in the Colonel's long and distinguished life was the reunion of his old company of sharpshooters held at his Minneapolis home, 2726 Dupont Avenue South, on April 9, 1910, only nine days before his death. The reunion was held in observance of Appomattox Day, commemorating the day in 1865 on which the army of the Southern Confederacy under General Robert E. Lee grounded its arms in complete surrender. But twenty of the surviving members of the company could be located, and seventeen of these attended the reunion. They lunched on army-bean soup and hardtack. Just nine days later Colonel Peteler answered the last summons. The active pallbearers at his funeral were the old comrades who were present at the reunion.

When he returned from the Civil War Colonel Peteler bought a farm in Bloomington township, Hennepin County, eight miles south of the court house and three miles south of the present city limits, and that continued to be his home even after he established his great industry, the Peteler Car Works. This enterprise grew out of his inventive turn of mind, which led him to invent a dumping car and make preparations for its manufacture. In order to get his products on the market, he started the Peteler Car Works, about 1870, in a wheelwright shop on First Avenue South, between Washington Avenue and Third Street, employing at first but six men. He manufactured cars for railroad work and gave every detail of the business his personal attention. After several changes of location and expansions of the plant, the present site was secured and tlie plant now in operation, at Thirtieth Avenue and Fourth Street Southeast, was set up in 1890. By this time the business of the company had grown so great that a large equipment was necessary, and $50,000 was expended in the erection of the factory. It stands on five acres of ground belonging to the company and 100 men are regularly employed. Colonel Peteler was the sole owner of the industry until 1905, when it passed into other hands, his advancing age inducing him to dispose of it.

The Colonel never wavered in his loyalty and devotion to the Republican party, and he was equally true and devoted to Minnesota and Minneapolis. But the whole country had his strong, watchful, and serviceable regard, although he never held a public office or desired one. He was a zealous advocate and promoter of public improvements, doing all he could to help them along and always regretting that he was unable to do more. He kept in close touch with his old army comrades and was ardently attached to his intimate friends. One of the most cherished of these was George A. Brackett, and others were members of the Winston family. He enjoyed music intensely, belonged to no churdi. held membenship in no .societies, and was a total abstainer from intoxicants and tobacco. In his years of activity be was a suctessful and enthusiastic hunter of deer and other large game

He enjoyed a close friendship witli Thomas Edison, "tlie wizard of Menlo Park," and kept up with all the inventions of that vereatile and prolific genius. He had a large number of other intimate friends also among the prominent scientists and mechanicians of the country, with whose minds his own was in unison.

May 3, 18.53, Colonel Peteler wa.s married in New York City to Miss Margaret Hynes, a native of that city. Mrs. Peteler was born February 27, 1834, and died in Minneapolis February 8, 1U07. They became the parents of live children: Kdwin. wlio is a market gardener in North Minneapolis; Pliilip, who was general superintendent of his father's car works, and died at the age of forty-eight; Frank, wlio was also connected with the car works for a number of years, and who died in Te.\as when he was forty-two; Minnie, who is the wife of Edward EUingson, a farmer of Bloomington township, and Charles, who was in active connection with the car works.

EOWIX PKTELER, the oldest son of the colonel, was born on his father's farm near Anoka, Jlinnesota, October 6, 1854. As has been noted, he is a market gardener in North Minneapolis, and has lived in the neighborhood of his present residence, 4315 Penn Avenue North, for thirty-six years. He was married December 7, 1880, to Miss Ida M. Hooper, a daughter of Rev. .John Hooper, a sketch of whose life appears in this work. Mrs. Edwin Peteler is a native of Little Falls, Minnesota. She and her husband are tlie i)arcnts of one child, their daughter Gertrude M., who is now Mrs. E. L. Noyes, and also has her home in Minneapolis Jlr. and Mrs Peteler have occupied the dwelling they now live in for twenty-one years, and in his capacity of gardener Mr Peteler has served the Minneapolis markets with his products from their beginning. He is well known in all parts of the city, and is held in high esteem for his business capacity, elevated character, strict integrity, and useful citizenship.

the sale of farm lands. His business was started on a small scale, but through his great enterprise, industry and business capacity it rapidly increased until it grew to large proportions. It was managed with good judgment, carried on with energy, embraced all opportunities presented for advancement, laid all sources of expansion under tribute and gave its proprietor every advantage his openings and facilities allowed.

Mr. Preston was a progressive and public-spirited citizen, wherever he lived, and took an active part in all commendable undertakings designed to promote the advancement and imiirovement of liis community at all times. He never married, and so, having no family ties or duties, he waa able to put all the energy of his nature into service to the city of his home and work with ardor for the welfare of its residents. In business he was very successful, amassing a considerable fortune in his operations and building up a large trade and an enviable reputation for straightforwardness and square dealing in every jjarticular. His only relative in this country is his nephew, Alexander P. Drapes, who is carrying on the business founded by him, with an office in Koom 418, Andrus building.

Mr. Preston's life closed in Minneapolis on August 6. 1912, at the early age of fifty-three, and his death was universally lamented. H(^ was an Odd Fellow, a Freemason and a Woodman in fraternal life, a member of the Minneapolis Commercial club, and an Episcopalian in religious affiliation, holding his membership for years in St. Mark's church of that denomination. He was widelj- known in the Northwest and was everywln're highly esteemed as an upright, intelligent, genial and companionable nuiii and a very progressive and useful citizen.

Daniel F. Peck Arthur C. Preston

Mr. Preston was boin in the city of Enniscorthy, County L Wexford, Ireland, in 1859. He was reared and obtained I a common school education in his native land, in which he remained until he reached the age of twenty-two years, riien. in 1881, he came to tlie United States unaccompanied liy relatives or friends, to take up his residence and work his way forward in the world in a new country, amid unaccustomed scenes and associations and surrounded by strangers. The East in this country did not satisfy his desires. He sought the amplitude, openness and freedom of the west, and coming to Iowa, accepted employment on a farm near Lemars in Plymouth county.

Soon afterward Mr. Preston transferred his energies to the service of the Close Bros. & Company Development company, and in 1883 became its resident agent at Pipestone, which was the headquartei"s for its operations in Pipestone, Murray, Rock and Nobles counties in this state. He remained in the employ of this company at Pipestone until 1890, then changed his residence to St. Paul and was employed by the Farmers' Trust company, of which he acted as general manager for four years.

In 1900 Mr. Preston moved to Minneapolis and started a business venture of his own, as he had long desired to do. In this city he opened an enterprise in mortgage loans and

For many years one of the leading business men of Minneapolis and also one of the city's enterprising and influential promoters of the public welfare, the late Daniid F, Peck, who died on Oct. 29, 1912, after some years of failing health, held a high place in jiublic estimation and enjoyed the confidence and regard of all classes of the people of the community in a degree and with a steadfastness that proved him to be a man of genuine worth and ven' useful to his fellow men in his day and generation.

Mr. Peck's life began in Jackson, Michigan, on September 13, 1845, and was a son of Dennis L. and Fannie (Lewis) Peek, with whom he came to Minneapolis in 1859, when he was fourteen years of age. He comideted here the education he had begun in his native state, and as soon as he left school entered mercantile life as a clerk in a dry goods store. Being of an independent nature, and having some initiative of his own. he also kept boats for rent on Lake Cedar for a number of years, where he had preempted a quarter section of land.

In the dry goods trade Mr. Peck rose by steady promotions made on merit to a position of responsibility and influence, and then started an enterprise in that line of merchandising for himself, which he carried on for a continuous period of sixteen years, prospering in the business and winning extensive popularity as a merchant and as a man. His father, Dennis L. Peck, was engaged in the real estate business, and its demands on his time and energies became so oppressive that he was obliged to have help. The son, thereupon, gave up his own enterprise and joined the father in his.

Mr. Peck, the son, continued his operations in real estate until a few years before his death, when failing health caused him to retire from active pursuits.

Mr. Peek also took an earnest interest and a helpful part in the organized social life of the community as a zealous member of the Minneapolis Commercial club, of which he was one of the founders, and aided in giving strength and influence to its fraternal forces as a Freemason of the thirty-second degree, this degree in the order being conferred on him by the father of Dr. Ames. His membership in the Ancient Craft branch of the fraternit)' was maintained in Hennepin Lodge No. 4.

On March 31, 1907. Mr. Peck was married to Mii,s Nellie Graham of Minneapolis. A daughter of Mr. Peck (Mrs. Arthur Clark by a former marriage) is living and has her home in Los Angeles, California, and a sister of his lives in il'cMinnville, Oregon, Mrs. Frank SuUey, a widow.

In his career as a mercliant and real estate dealer ilr. Peck exemplified lofty ideals of business and established himself firmly in the confidence of the community. He was on the square in all his transactions of every kind, his word was as good as his bond, and he had excellent judgment in reference to all business and public affairs. His life in the community was an open book, and there was not a stain on any of its pages. He lived usefully and creditably, and his name is enshrined in the loving regard of the people among whom his activities were so long wisely employed.

George W. Pooler

ilr. Pooler possesses a genial and companionable disposition and manner, making friends wherever he goes. He takes an active part in social life as a member of the Rotary club, aiding in its entertainments and being helpful in all its activities. Fraternally he is an Elk and a Freemason, being a Knight Templar and a Xoble of the Mystic Shrine. His religious afliliation is with Gethsemane Episcopal church, in which he has been vestryman during nearly the whole of his residence in Minneapolis. He is also a musician, favoring the saxophone and the cornet for his own use. While living in Sioux City, he was a member of the Fourth Regiment band, as also band director.

At the age of twenty-one Mr. Pooler was married in liis native county, to Miss Pauline Van Ness. Se died in Iowa, leaving two children: Guy V., who is connected with the A. G. Spalding company's establishment; and Grate, who is the wife of Edward Schempf, and lives at Watertown, Wisconsin. The father's second marriage took place in Iowa and united him with Miss Kate Nickel of La Porte, Indiana. Thev have no children.

After a varied experience as a merchant for a number of years for others and for himself, George W. Pooler entered the employ of railroad and express companies thirty years ago, to which he has since adhered, now being general agent of the Western and United States Express companies, with office at 619 Nicollet avenue.

He was born in St. Lawrence county. New York, .\ugust 2, 1851, and acquired an academic education in the Normal School at Gouverneur. At thirteen he clerked in a store, and at nineteen started a general merchandising business at Richville. After conducting this store seven years, he went to New York 'city where for five years he was with an uncle importing Swiss watches. Returning to Richville he again engaged in merchandising, which he continued until his store was destroyed by fire.

In 1883 he came to Iowa, where he secured employment as a telegrapher. He soon became agent of the United States Express company at Sioux City, later serving as traveling auditor for the company in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri. South Dakota and Minnesota, making his first visit to this state in that capacity.

In 1901 he was stationed in Minneapolis as the general agent for the company which then had the largest business of its kind in this city, and its operations were increasing at the rate of 20 per cent a year. Mr. Pooler then had thirty-five employes under his supervision. The business of the company was later restricted to fewer lines of road, and hence did not so far outrank that of tlie other oiimpanies.

Andrew Bonney Robbins

By the death of Andrew B. Robbins, Thursday morning, June 16, 1910, at Robbinsdale, the town he founded and which was named in his honor, Minnesota lost a citizen of the highest type, the Northwest one of its most energetic, enterprising, and successful promoters, and American manhood one of its best and most comjnendable representatives. He had worked well for his State and country as a soldier, legislator, and Christian business man, governing his worldly affairs by his religion, which he always found of sustaining assistance.

Andrew B. Robbins was born at Phillips, Maine, April 27, 1845, the son of Daniel and Mary R. (Shaw) Robbins. The father was a leading business man in Phillips and the possessor of a considerable estate. The mother was a descendant of John Howland, one of the Pilgrim Fathers, and a lady of most exalted character. Some of his remote ancestors were prominent on the American side in the momentous Revolutionary war.

In 1855 Daniel Robbins brought his wife and six children to what was then the Territory of Minnesota, and took up his residence at Anoka. He built the first steam sawmill in that locality, and loaned money to men starting in business. Andrew continued in the public schools of Anoka the educational training he had begun in his native State, and afterward attended a private academy for two years. By the end of that period the Civil war was in progress, and in 1862, when he was but seventeen years of age, he enlisted in Company A, Eighth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, in defense of the Union cause.

The regiment to which Mr. Robbins belonged saw a great deal of active service in the field. In 1864 it was a part of General Sully's command in its famous expedition into Dakota against the Indians. This service involved, said General Sully, the greatest hardships suffered by any expedition he ever commanded. The troops had very limited supplies of food, and that of an innutritious character, and were often obliged to march for hours without water in a temperature of 110 degrees. When this expedition was over, Mr. Robbins Went with anotlier to escort Col. Kisk's parly Of Montana emigrants to safety, acting as commissary sergeant. Trials and hardships of more than ordinary severity were encountered on this expedition also. His regiment next went South and became a part of Ceneral Scliolield's 2;td Army Corps. It took part in the second battle of Murtreesboro (sumeiiiics called '"the Cedars") and contributed to the Union \ u tory at Franklin, Tenn. Later it was marched to Kingston and Raleigh, North Carolina, and formed a junction with siii'rman's army. It was continued in active service until the t\-AiS of the Southern Confederacy went down in everlasting iktVat at Appomattox. At the close of the war Mr. Kobbins \ias mustered out, having shown himself to be one of tlie lust as well as one of the youngest of soldiers.

I In his return to his former home, Mr. Robbins accepted till- first employment he could find, which was night work in a -;iwmill. But he soon became first ticket agent in the first .lr|Mit of the St. Paul & I'acific Railway (now the Great Xurthern), in old St. Anthony, on the river bank, just above the Falls. When the depot was moved to the west side of the river he was ticket agent, chief accountant, and telegra])h operator. When the railroad was extended to Willraar, Mr. Robbins was appointed terminal and general agent, and t>">k the first train to his new field of duty.

He became active in all the industrial and mercantile interests of Willmar, and soon engaged for himself in the lumber, the farm machinery, and the grain trade. His busi-

-- increased so rapidly that he decided to qtiit the service tlie railroad company and devote liimself wholly to his , :-.onal affairs. In 1879 he founded the Bank of Willmar, which, under his management, soon became one of tlie strongest financial institutions of its rank in the Northwest. He was also one of the founders of the First Presbyterian Church of Willmar, and for many years its Sunday school superintendent. To this school the children, by whom he was greatly beloved, came from many miles around.

When he was only thirty years old he was elected to the State Senate from the district composed of Kandiyohi and other counties. He was the youngest member of the Senate, but was made chairman of several important committees. During his term the grasshopper scourge visited this state, and he drew up the first seed-grain law to supply seed wheat to the destitute farmers, and canvassed the Senate to secure its enactment. He also invented the sheet iron "hopper-doser", to kill grasshoppers. It was very successful, and is still used to a limited extent. After the scourge had devastated his Senatorial District, he and Thomas I!. Walker took quantities of seed of rapidly growing crops througliout the country, and distributed it free to the farmers. Many of those farmers came to him in after years and told him that his interest in their welfare and the help he gave them had saved them and their families from destitution if not starvation.

While at Willmar Mr. Robbins became more and more interested in the elevator ami grain trade. He established a receiving store there, and often watched the long line of ox teams waiting their turn t& be relieved of their loads. The line often stretched out toward the west as far as he could see, and sometimes the men with the teams had to camp until their turn for unloading came. All the while his grain and elevator business was increasing, and by 1882 it had grown so great that he required more help to handle it. He then moved to Merriam Park, where lie organized and took the management of the Northwestern Klevator Company, which he conducted for fourteen years. During this period he was a leading member of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, and for four years afterward was general manager of the -Minnesota & Dakota Elevator company, which also carried on a very extensive business.

In 1890 he purchased a large tract of land north of Minneapolis, removed thereto, and expended a considerable amount of time and money in the development of the town now called Robbinsdale. He platted many blocks and beautified them by planting a great number of trees on them. I'pon the shore of Twin Lake he built a beautiful country home, with extensive grounds comprising more than 20 acres. From the road he planted, leading to the house an elm drive which is now considered the finest in the State. He took great delight in planting almost every variety of tree and shrub suited to the Minnesota climate. He also built the street railway to the town, made other extensive improvements in his country seat, which he made his home for the remainder of his life. While living here he served as State Surveyor General of Logs and Lumber, and was again elected to the Legislature as a Representative from Hennepin County. In his last years Mr. Robbins was actively engaged in the real estate business and the promotion of street railway building.

He was a member of tlie Masonic order (in which he had attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish rite), and of Butler Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was a Past Commander. In 1905 he was chairman of the Memorial Day Committee of his post. In religious affiliation in later life he was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, in Minneapolis. He was a director of the old Minneapolis Business Men's Union. He was fond of outdoor life and gave expression to his love of nature by planting trees extensively wherever he lived. In all the organizations to which he belonged he was prominent and active, and his membership was highly valued because of its usefulness.

In 1869 ilr. Robbins was married in Minneapolis to Miss Adelaide J. Walker, a sister of Thomas Barlow Walker, the great lumberman, and a niece of Judge Barlow, of Ohio. Mrs. Robbins is still living, as are live of the seven children born of their union; their only son and a daughter, Helen, died a number of years ago. The living children are: F.dith, the wife of Lester Daniel: Amy, the wife of John Roland Ware; Adelaide, the widow of Ralph P. Gillette: Ruth, who became the widow of Sterling Loomis and is now the wife of Dr. Fred C. Rodda; and Lsther, who is the wife of William Wright Scott. All the daughters are graduates of the University of Minnesota, and they all live at Robbinsdale, except Mrs. Gillette, whose home is in Minneapolis, and Mrs. Scott, who resides with her husband in North Dakota.

Mr. Robbins' death was not unexpected when it came, but the event shrouded the whole of this community and many others in gloom, and his funeral obsequies were very impressive by reason of the high tributes paid to his worth. During tlie funeral services business houses were all closed in Robbinsdale. and every tlag hung at half mast. Such was the esteem felt for the departed friend of the town and all its residents, that not a team nor an automobile passed in either direction, the long funeral procession in its progress from the home of the deceased to the city limits, all drivers waiting respectfully until it had passed.

Mr. Robbins lived in service to his God and his fellow men, and he died at peace with both. He felt throughout his life that he and his fellows were going the same way and had better go hand in hand. He loved the best in music and literature. He was passionately devoted to his family and his home, and was happiest at his own fireside. The beauties of nature brought him great enjoyment and peace, and he constantly looked up through them to their Creator, on whom his faith was always firmly fixed.

Frank Peck

For a continuous period of fifty-seven years this gentleman has been a resident of Minnesota, and during the last eighteen has had his home in Minneapolis and been engaged in the real estate business.

Mr. Peck was born October 1, 1854, near Galena, Illinois, and when he was but two years old his parents, Julius and Caroline (Child) Peck, moved to Goodhue county, this state, and located on a farm of 200 acres on the Zumbrota river, two miles and a half northwest of the town of Zumbrota. Frank was reared on that farm, and educated in the district school in the neighborhood. He assisted his father in cultivating it as soon as he was able, and he continued his management of it until 1895, when he moved to Minneapolis, where he has ever since had his home.

Julius Peck was a native of Vermont, where his life began in 1807. Wlien he was eight years old his parents moved to Genesee county, New York, and in 1831, when he was twenty-four, he came farther West and located in Pontiac, Michigan. In November, 18.38, he was married in Detroit to Miss Caroline Child. In 1847 they changed their residence to Jo Daviess county, Illinois, and in 1856 they settled on the Goodhue county, Minnesota, farm already mentioned. The first school taught in that neighborhood, which was a Subscription school and conducted by Charles Locke, was krpt in Mr. Peck's primitive shanty which he cheerfully gave uji for the purpose. He also suported the school in other ways. On this farm he died in 1889, in the eighty-third year of his age, just eight months after his wife passed away, ending a married life of over fifty years which they had enjoyed together.

In 1856, when the elder Jlr. Peck came to this state from Illinois he brought with him the first span of horses and owned the fii'St reaper used in bis township. When he and his wife died they were among the oldest citizens of the township. They were the parents of six children: William, Elijah, Charles, Louisa, Frank and Asa.

Of these six F'rank is the only one now living. Williaiii and Elijah served in the Union army in the Civil war. William was in the Firtt Minnesota regiment. He was wounded in its furious and heroic contest at Gettysburg, and died in a hospital July 27, 1803, at the age of twenty-three. Elijah was in the Seventli Minnesota, and took part in sujipressing the Indian outbreak of 1862. He was on guard the night before the thirty-eight Indian leaders of the insurrection were executed, and died at New Ulm, December 27, 1862, only eighteen years old. Charles moved to Minneapolis in 1893 from a farm in Sibley county, and during his residence in this city acquired the ownership of several pieces of valuable property, among them the site of the new Lake Harriet Bank.

He died near Lake Harriet, in January, 1911. His widow is now living at Hudson, Wisconsin. Louisa married Latimer Doxey and died young. Frank and Asa were partners in owning and cultivating the old family homestead in Goodhue county, until Asa died in 1894.

The next year after the death of his brother Asa, Frank was married to Asa's widow, who was Miss Carrie Rogers before her first marriage and a native of the state of New York. By her marriage with Asa Peck she became the mother of three children, Mary L., Charles Scott and William R., all of whom are living at home. No children have been born of her second marriage. Mr. Peck has dealt in real estate in a quiet way, and has had his home located at 4410 Upton avenue South, in the Lake Harriet district. He is a Republican in politics but not an active partisan.

Hon. Frank L. Palmer

This esteemed citizen, member of State Legislature and promoter of city extension and improvements has been a resident for twenty-five years, and during that period has been tireless in expending his energies in making Northeast Minneapolis a desirable and populous section, for both residence and business purposes.

Mr. Palmer was born in Brooklyn, Jackson county, Michigan, June 34, 1860. When twelve years old his father died, his mother also dying three years later, so that he was thrown on his own resources at an early age. He was able, however, to secure a good education, being graduated from the high school at Napoleon in his native county. At nineteen he entered the store of his brother in Kalamazoo, later securing a position in the postoffice, through the influence of Hon. J. C. Burrows, then in Congress.

When the estate of his father was settled in 1882, Mr. Palmer was married to Miss Mary A. Hogle, and the next spring took up a homsetead in Kidder county, North Dakota, on which they remained until title was secured. Repeated poor crops and severe wintei"s made it unsatisfactory, and in 1888 he moved to Minneapolis. He secured employment in tlie office of John D. Blake, an extensive real estate dealer, and spent a year at St. Louis Park, in the interest of Haywood & Boshert,

In 1896, Mr, Palmer opened a real estate office in Northeast Minneapolis, then New Boston, but which was without tranapoitation facilities and sparsely settled. This has since become well 'connected with the city, has fine street railway facilities, is a desirable residence section, has business interests of considerable magnitude, and schools, churches, paving, sewerage and other improvements which make it compare favorably with other new ])art3 of Minneapolis.

Mr. Palmer has been a potential factor in promoting every such advance. He has served as president of the St, Anthony Commercial club, is one of its directors, and is a member of its public imjjrovemcnts committee. In the fall of 1910 he was elected from the 39th district to the State House of Representatives, and re-elected in 1912, In his first terra he was chairman of the committee on temperance, and a member of the committees on towns and counties and elections. He was instrumental in securing the enactment of the law regulating the sale of malt, and was deeply interested in legislation on insurance, forestry interests, elections and labor.

In till' lattrr si'ssiun hf was iliaiiman of the coinmittic on cities, wliicli consists of seventeen members, and which passed upon all legislation relative to cities, and a member of the committees on insurance, legislative expenses, towns and counties, and labor and elections. He has made earnest efforts to secure greater economy and efficiency in the management of the legislature, and is the author of the law allowing railroad and commercial men, and others whose duties keep them away from their homes a great deal of the time, to cast their votes for presidential electors and state officials at any polling place where they happen to be on election days, and safeguarding the transmission and counting of the votes they cast. The initiative, referendum and recall have also earnestly engaged liis attention and been carefully studied by him.

When ilinneapolis decided to secure a better water supply, Mr. Palmer was one of a sub-committee of five selected from a committee of twenty-three, to visit a number of ditTerent cities to collect information on the subject, the recommendations made by this sub-committee being adopted by the city. Mr. Palmer's knowledge of real estate values has been frequently called into requisition in appraising property condemned for park, boulevard or other public use. He was one of the appraisers of the property designed for the Gateway Park, the Mall, the Lake of the Isles Boulevard, the Jlinnehaha Falls Park and the East River Drive. He has also served on the e.^cecutive committee of the Real Estate Board, and as one of the directors of the Xew Boston Commercial club, which he helped to organize.

In fraternal relations, Mr. Palmer is a thirty-second degree JIason, and his interests in the fraternity made him diligent in working for the erection of a Masonic building for Arcana Lodge, No. 187. His religious affiliation is with Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, serving on its official board for twenty-five years. His family consists of two daughters, Merle B., at home and Floy M., wife of D. G. Campbell, who is associated with him in his real estate business.

Cmxtox Morpjsox

Mr. Morrison died on March 11. VJUi, aged seventy-one years, one month and twenty days, and for fifty-eight years resided in Minneapolis. He was born at Livcrmore, Maine, on January 21, 1842, moved to Bangor in 1844, and lived there until he was thirteen, laying the foundation of his education in the famous Abbott school. His parents, Dorilus and Harriet Putnam (Wliitniore) Morrison, were of the same nativity as himself, and possessed, in large measure and controlling force, the New England characteristics. The father was the first mayor of Minneapolis, and gave the municipal bantling an excellent business administration of its affairs, starting it on a lirni basis of governmental wisdom, broad- viewed progressiveness anil financial strength.

In 185">, wlien the son, Clinton, was less than thirteen years old, the family moved to Minnesota and located on the banks of the Mississippi at St. Anthony Kails. For a few years he attended the old Union .school, which stood on the site nowoccupied by the present city hall and court ho\ise, later he attended siliool at Raeine, Wis., ami there completed his education so far as schooling and text books were ciineerned.

pupil uf an excidlent teacher, and soon showed an admirable grasp of business conditions and requirements. At the age of twenty-one lie united with his brother, George H. ilorrison, in an enterprise for outfitting lumbermen, and, as an outgrowth of this business, they became interested in the purchase of pine lands, mills and lumber. They operated a water power sawmill on the platform at the Falls and conducted a lumber yard in the lower part of the city. They did an extensive and profitable business until the death of <uM>rge H. Jlorrison in 18H2, after which Clinton turned his attention to the extensive business interests of his father and assisted the latter in managing them._

At this time the Minneapolis Harvester Works, which the father had assisted in organizing, and which had been run as a stock company, began to show signs of failure. He and his father took over most of the capital stock of the company, assumed charge of the business and started the resurrection of the institution.

Under the advice of the younger Mr. Morrison the company adopted the twine binder invented by Mr. Appleby, who was Connected with the Harvester Works, and this invention proved to be very profitable. The whole industry was sold in 1892 to the Walter A. Wood Harvester company, organized in St. Paul, and for years afterward continued to be a big producer of business.

Mr. Morrison was also a potential factor in building up the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank of Minneapolis. He was elected president of this bank in 1876, and several times while he was at its head it was brought face to face with great financial panics and' severely tried as to its soundness and strength. But it withstood every storm with Gibraltar like resistance, and came forth from each with millions to the good, proving itself to be one of the strongest financial institutions in the Northwest. Two or three times, also, it has withstood "run.s" generated by mi.schievoua tongues, but always with increased vigor, crcilit and popular approval. During Mr. Morrison's administration of its affairs as trustee and president the bank erected its handsome building on Fourth street near First avenue south. He was also extensiv<'l}' interested, in connection with his father, in the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

For some years before his death Mr. Morrison was occupied mainly with the management of his extensive private interests. But he continued to serve as president of the Great Western Elevator company, the Northwestern Knitting company and the North American Telegraph company, and vice president of the Xorth Star Woolen Mill company. His political affiliation was with the Republican party. In religious belief he was a Univer.salist, and his local connection in the sect was with the Church of the Redeemer, of which he was a regular attendant for many years. In social relations he was long a valued member of the Minneapolis club.

In February, 187,!, Mr. Morrison was united in marriage with Miss Julia Kellogg Washburn, a daughter of Nehemiah and Martha (Parniclee) Washburn. .She died in 1883, leaving two children, her son, Dr. Angus Washburn Morrison, and her daughter Ethel, who is now the wife of John R. Vanderlip. a Minneapolis lawyer. The father was alway.'* intensely interested ill the advancement of his home city and bore a large part of the burden of building it up anil improving it. ^lis public benefactions were numerous and various, and his private contributions to worthy persons in need of help, although alwaj'S entirely unostentatious and never mentioned by liim, were munificent. And when death closed his long and higlily serviceable record, warm tributes to his genuine manhood and sterling worth, to his great liberality and public spirit, to his unobtrusive way of living and doing good, were poured out in voluminous measure from all classes of the people.

One incident that brought him into greatest prominence here and made him known in artistic circles abroad was his gift of the site for the new Minneapolis Art iluseum, which is now in course of construction. With his usual modesty he estimated the value of the property he gave for this purpose at $200,000, when it was worth at least $50,000 more. It was his father's renowned residence known as "Villa Rosa," which has long been famous in local history and in which many notable men of the country have been entertained. The tract comprises ten acres and is admirably located for the new use to which it is to be devoted. Jlr. Morrison conveyed this property to the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, as he stated in his letter making the tender, "without cost or incumbrance, to be a memorial to my late father, Dorilus Morrison, the first mayor of Minneapolis, with the simple condition that it become one of the parks of the city, to be used only for the erection and maintenance thereon of such a museum." It will be a fine memorial to the first mayor of the city, but it will be no less an enduring monument of the filial affection, large-hearted generosity and elevated public spirit of his son, suggesting always the high traits of character of both and indicating in a Substantial manner the value of their citizenshp.

Edwin Page Stacy

The career of the late Edwin Page Stacy, who was, when he died, the head of tlie best known wholesale fruit and produce house in Minneapolis, was rounded out by consistent and steady advances from a humble and obscure beginning on a farm to prominence as the foremost merchant of his branch in this part of the country. His father, Isaac Stacy, was a tiller of the soil near De Kalb, St. Lawrence county. New York, and his mother, before her marriage, was Miss Orpha Page.

Edwin P. Stacy was the youngest son of his parents, and, was born on May 31, 1831. Farming in St. Lawrence county, New Y'ork, was much as it was elsewhere at that time, although an unusual number of the state's and nati(m's foremost men were native there. Mr. Stacy's father had been reduced in circumstances through illness, but the son managed to secure a fair education, and while getting it kept looking to the time w-hen he might enter remunerative business. He attended the public schools in De Kalb and the Gouverncur Academy until he reached the age of eighteen years.

In 1850, deeming it time for him to get to work, young Stacy secured emploj'ment with Stacy, Golden & Company, in Utica. So apt was he that he was selected a year later to go to Lafayette, Indiana, to take charge of a branch house. This move was but one of a series, each bringing him nearer the city in which the fruit of his business carter was to mature. In 1854, with an elder brother, he established himself in Dover, Illinois, where for seven years they operated a general merchandising, grain and lumber trade.

Edwin P. Stacy then passed four years at Stacyville, Iowa, and at the end of that period went to Mitchell, in that state, and entered upon a business which finally led to his becoming a resident of Minneapolis.

Mr. Stacy remained at Mitchell, however, for nearly twenty years engaged in general merchandising, and during this period was also active and prominent in the civic and political life of the community, serving four terms as mayor, and is remembered as Superintendent of the Congregational church for years. In 1879 his oldest son, Arthur P. Stacy, was taken into partnership with him, the firm becoming E, P. Stacy & Son. As the merchandising business and the produce commission lines were closely related, and they were doing a considerable amount of business in Minneapolis, they decided to establish a branch house here.

Another son, Harlan B,, then became a member of the firm, and he and the father, in 1883, came to Minneapolis and established a house which has constantly grown in commercial importance. The parent house and the branch kept up their relations as such for two or three years. By the end of that period the Minneapolis end of the business attained such proportions that the firm decided to concentrate all its interests here, and the youngest son, Clinton L. Stacy, was then taken into the partnership.