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The growth and expansion of the business have surpassed all expectations, the firm now having twelve branches in North and South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota, through which it makes available to the great farm states of the Northwest the products of this and foreign countries. The firm stands in the front rank among the fruit and produce houses of America.

Early in his business life in this city Mr, Stacy became actively connected with business organizations. He was a leader in the .Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association from its organization, and was equally active in the Produce Exchange, and a member of the Commercial club and other business and social organizations. His membership in all was highly valued, for he was a gentleman of great breadth of view and progressiveness, and conspicuously and wisely energetic in whatever he undertook or was interested in,

Mr, Stacy was tAvice married. His first wife was Miss Elizabeth E, Leonard, of Gouverneur, New York, whom he marrried on December 10, 1856, Her children are the three sons mentioned above. She died on January S, 1S74, and six years later Mr. Stacy married Mrs, Amelia Wood Kent, in Naperville, Illinois. She was a native of A'ermont and a descendant of William Bradford, one of the Pilgrim Fathers and Governor of Plymouth colony. Mr. Stacy died in Minneapolis on March 11, 1909, she dying a few months later.

Since 1885 he spent each winter in Los Angeles, Cat., and there formed a wide acquaintance among men especially m his line of business. The first car of oranges brought to Minneapolis from California was shipped by him in 1885, This was one of the first cars of fruit shipped east from California. One of his characteristics was to make warm friends and was of a congenial optimistic nature. From early life he made it a practice of keeping a diary in which he persisted till his very last months.

Washington Peirce

Washington Peirce was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, Kobriiary 22, 1831. April 21, 1855, he arrived at Minneapolis, joining his brother, Thomas W. Peirce, who had come hither two years earlier, pre-empting a tract of land on Lake Calhoun. Their father, Levi Peirce, being a carpenter, all of his six sons learned the same trade.

Soon after his arrival ilr. Peirce pre-empted a claim on Cedar Lake, and which bordered also on the Lake of the Isles. He then went back to his old Pennsylvania home, and on February 20 following was married to Jliss Caroline JI. Paxson, a lady of English ancestry but of the same nativity as himself, and born May 30, 1834, a descendant of one of three brothers who came to this countr)^ in early days and each of whom used a different spelling of the family name.

They arrived in Minneapolis on June 7, 1856, being met by her brother-in-law, Thomas W. Peirce, who took the new arrivals out to his home, now the location of the new Warner Home.

Mr. Peirce worked at his trade and built a dwelling at what is now the corner of Hennepin avenue and Twelfth street, meantime living in an old law office at Helen street near Second avenue south.

They moved into their home in April, 1857. and occupied it sixteen years, Mr. Peirce meantime becoming a contractor and builder. During the next winter Mrs. Peirce kept boarders at Seventh and Hennepin avenue. One of them was the late Thomas Lowry, who came fresh from Knox College with a letter of introduction to Rev. Dr. Tuttle, of the Church of the Redeemer, who directed him to her house, where he secured his meals but sleeping in his law oHice.

The Peirces occupied four years a new residence at Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street, removing to the intersection of Portland and Franklin avenues, where they lived until 18H0, when they took possession of the home in which Mrs. Peirce is still living, at No. 155 Seventeenth street north, and in which she has resided continuously for thirty-four years.

Mr. Peirce continued contracting and building until 18S0. when he was appointed to a position in the municipal court. This he held until March 5, 1902, an unbroken period of twenty-two years, the longest term of service ever enjoyed by any official in the court house. He had an extensive acquaintance and was popular, being much sought as ii violinist, and was in great demand for balls and other social entertainments. He began playing the violin when he was ^_eight years old and kept it up until his death, which occurred March 5, 1902.

August 8. 1862, Mr. I'eirce enlisted in the Sixth Jlinnesota Volunteer Infantry, and servc<l in the I'nion army three years and two (lays, until his regiment was discharged. He left tlic service with the rank of second lieutenant, to which he was promoted for meritorious service. He was Commander of Morgan Post, Grand Army of the Republic, for one year, and when he died his remains were consigned to their last resting place by his old comrades in arms with the honors due to a faithful and gallant soldier.

Mrs. Peirce is a charter member of the Univcrsalist Church of the Redeemer, and was a teacher in its Sunday school for twenty-one years. She still retains her membership in the church and her helpful interest in all its uplifting and benevolent work. For sixteen years she was an active worker in the Humane Society, and about 1880, in association with

Mrs. Russell, of the Kussell CofTee House, she started the first Rescue Home for girls, on Eighth avenue north, which later became the Florence Crittenden Home. She has also been zealous in the work of the La<lie8 Auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic and that of the Women's Christian Relief Corps.

Mr. and Mrs. Peirce became the parents of two children. Flora K., who was born Dec. 8, 1856, on the shore of Lake Calhoun, is the wife of H. K. Lawrence, a leading official in the city water works and who served as a member of the Court House Commission. Carroll Washington Peirce, was born December 12, 1862, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, his mother having lived at the home of her father during the Civil war, and died .July 17, 1913, He served in the Thirteenth Regiment in the Philippines, He was a member of the First Minnesota regiment fifteen years, was a civil engineer, and helped make the survey for the Northern Pacific Railroad, under the direction of Colonel Clough. Later he was employed in the Minneapolis postolfice for thirteen years.

John P. Peterson

Secretary of the Metropolitan Milk Company was born in Sweden, and is a Son of R, H. Peterson, a tailor now of Vancouver. John P. came to Minnesota in 1891, and obtained his education in country schools and at Glenwood Academy. His first engagement was with the Pine Tree Lumber company for four years. He served as deputy sheriff of Morrison county, but soon resigned and w-orked for the Great Northern Elevator company, at Superior, Wisconsin, until 1900.

Coming to Minneapolis he worked for the McLane-Bovey Lumber company, and then opened a small milk establishment on F'ranklin avenue until he joined the Minneapolis Milk company, as its treasurer. He was secretary of the Company four years and holds the same relations to its successor, the Metropolitan Milk Company.

Mr. Peterson has taken an active |iart in [)ublic affairs but not as a politician or oflice seeker, being content with discharging his duties to the community as a good citizen. In 1899, Mr. Peterson was united in marriage with Miss Annie Peterson. They have three chihlren: Evelyn Helen, Elinor Hilda and Milton. Mr. Peterson is a member of the Order of Modern Woodmen, and the Swedish Lutheran church.

Giving assiduous attention to one ni the most useful professions; taking a helpful part in public affairs; aiding in advancing social activities, and striving to promote the substantial and enduring welfare of all in moral, educational, political and material interests, Dr, Albert H. Parks is a serviceable and progressive citizen.

He was born near Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1880, passing the first fovirteen years of life on his father's farm, lie attended a preparatory school and entering Albion College, was gradimtod from the U, & M. with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1904. He afterward received his Master's degree from the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, and in 1906 graduated as an M. D. from the same institution. Dur-

In 1907 the doctor selected Minneapolis, and locating here, began a general practice with surgery as a specialty. For a time he ignored all inducements to take part in action outside of his profession, and, as it was making extensive demands on his time and energies, he was inclined to devote himself exclusively to it; but, conditions and circumstances, in combination with his natural interest in public and social affairs, determined another course.

There was a strong demand for Something definite and influential in the way of a business organization in the Lake Harriet section of the city, and the doctor heeding this, joined with others in organizing the Lake Harriet Commercial club in November, 1901). He was president for two years, during which a fine club house, costing $30,000, was erected. The club has enjoyed great prosperity and made rapid progress, and now has over 450 members.

Dr. Parks has Served as assistant city physician, superintendent of Hopewell hospital and assistant superintendent of the City hospital, of which he is associate surgeon. He also being on the surgical staff of Asbury Hospital. He is a skillful physician and surgeon, and his superior ability in his professional work being generally recognized and appreciated, while his activity in other lines has won him regard and well established popularity. For a time he was zealous in the work of the Good Koads Commission of the Civic and Commerce Association.

His industry, and breadth of view soon won recognition, particularly in his own ward, the Thirteenth. He showed himself to be alert, enterprising and capable, so that in the fall of 1912 they elected him alderman, and his record in the council has fully justified their faith. The campaign was made on the good roads issue, where his stand was clear and his fidelity and ability had been proven. He is chairman of the committee on good roads and a member of the committees on ways and means, health and hospitals, street railroads and electrical franchises.

Dr. Parks is an enthusiastic Freemason, being a charter member and was the first Worshipful Master of Lake Harriet Lodge, No. 277. Is an Elk and has served as national president of the Phi Beta Pi. The College Medical Society. The doctor's religious affiliation is with the Congregational church, and his principal recreations are hunting, fishing, automobiling and other outdoor enjoyments. He was married in 1910, to MisS Catherine Barrett, of Staples, Minnesota. They have one child, Jean. The doctor is a Republican, but in local elections is strictly non-partisan.

Heman W. Stone

Mr. Stone was a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the old Badger state, which he claimed as the place of his nativitj'. He was born at Waukau, Winnebago county, Wisconsin, on the 7th of July, 1849, his parents having emigrated from the Dominion of Canada to Wisconsin in the early '40s, and having there passed the residue of their lives. Heman W. Stone passed his boyhood at Eureka, a pioneer village of Winnebago county, Wisconsin, and there he received his early educational discipline in the public schools. This was supplemented by an effective course in

Lawrence University, at Appleton, that state. In 1870, shortly after reaching his legal majority, Mr. Stone came to Minnesota and established his residence at Beaver Falls, Renville county, but one year later he removed to Montevidio, the judicial center of Chippewa county, where he erected the first business building in the town, and in the same became associated with his brother. Lane K. Stone, in the general merchandise trade, in connection with which they conducted a banking business. When the railroad line was built through Benson, county seat of Swift county, the brothers there established a general store, in the meanwhile continuing their business operations at Montevidio. Their partnership alliance continued until 1886 and about a decade previously they founded a bank in Benson, this proving a valuable adjunct to tlie business activities of the county and being the pioneer financial institution of that section. Heman W. Stone was appointed receiver of the United States land office at Benson, and of this office he continued the incumbent until Cleveland was elected president of the United States, this change in national politics bringing about his retirement. He continued in the banking business at Benson and his principal associate in the same was Senator Z. B. Clark. The institution was known as the Swift County Bank, and its operations were developed from modest limitations until it became one of the strongest and most influential of the small-town banks of the state, with assets of fully a million dollars. Of this bank Mr. Stone continued to serve as president until his death, and his personal integrity and able management did much to make the business one of such substantial order. His elder son, Frank L., succeeded him in the jiresidency and still retains this office, in which lie is well upholding the high prestige of the family name.

Commanding secure place in popular contidenee and esteem, Mr. Stone was naturally called upon to serve in various offices of public trust, and he was a zealous and effective worker in behalf of the cause of the Republican party, though he made no pretentions to ability as a public speaker. He served as president of the village council of Benson and as treasurer of the board of education, and he made an admirable record of service in both the house and senate of the state legislature, in which his efforts were manifestly dominated by a high sense of civic loyalty and progressiveness. He made special efforts to further the improvements of public highways, but his work in this direction did not bring about the practical results which he desired, thjugli at the present time the goodroads movement in Minnesota is being successfully promoted.

Mr. Stone became the owner of a large landed estate in Swift county, and on a fine farm near Benson he found great pleasure and profit in the breeding of high-grade live stock, as one of the leading representatives of this important line of industry in that section of the state. He was a progressive and successful breeder of short-horn cattle and none was more enthusiastic in the raising of standard-bred horses. A number of horses bred on his farm gained distinction on the trotting turf, and he also became prominently concerned with the raising of thorough-bred horses in Tennessee. He was a genuine lover of good horses and greatly enjoyed driving the fine animals which he himself raised. He exhibited horses at the horse shows in New York city, and one horse bred by him was purchased by the well known capitalist, George Gould. He accumulated a large estate and was known as a business man of mature judgment and utmost circumspection. In addition to his extensive interests in Minnesota he was largely concerned in the manufacturing of yellow-pine lumber, with mills in Texas and Oklahoma, besides which he had valuable timber holdings in British Columbia.

For a number of years prior to hi> death Mr. .Stone was a prominent figure in the commission grain trade in Minneapolis, and in this field of enterprise his principal coadjutor was n. G. Atwood, who is now a resident of Peoria, Illinois. In 1907 was adopted the firm name of Atwood, Stone & Company, and under this title the business was continued on a very extensive scale, the enterprise being exclusively on a commission basis and no elevators being owned by the firm. Mr. Stone was a stockholder in a number of banking institutions aside from those already mentioned, and was one of the resourceful and representative bankers of the state. He was associated with his elder son, Frank L., in the ownership of valuable real estate in Alinneapolis and its environs, and they platted several additions to the city, including the Mississippi Park addition and the Carter & Stone addition, besides which they gave attention to general real-estate operatii>ns. with which the son is still identified. The finely iinjiroved farm of Mr. Stone adjoining the village of Benson < Miitinued to be his place of residence imtil 1908 and the li'uutiful homestead is now occupied by his son Frank L. In tilt' year mentioned he removed to Minneapolis, and here he -tablisliod his residence in a home at 407 Oak Grove -tret, wliere his widow still resides. During the latter i-sed the winter seasons either in Florida or California, and iH- died at his home in Minneapolis, on the 7th of April, 1913, liis remains being interred in beautiful Lakewood cemetery. Ill Minneapolis Mr. .Stone was a member of the Chamber of I nmmerce, the Civic & Commerce Association, the Minneapolis I lub. and the Minneapolis Automobile Club, besides which he « as atliliated w ith the Masonic fraternity. He was not inrmally identified with anj- religious organization but was lilicral in his support of church and charitable work, his wife and children being communicants of the Protestant Episcopal rliiirch, in winch Mrs. Stone is a devout communicant of tlie parish of St. Paul's church in Minneapolis, where also she is a popular figure in the representative social circles in which ?lic moves.

As a young man Mr. .Stone was united in marriage to -Miss Clara L. Lowell, of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, of which >late her parents were pioneer settlers. Tliree children survive tlie honored father, - Frank Lowell .Stone, concerning whom more specific mention will be made in an appending paragraph; Albert I.ane Stone, who resides at Benson and is assistant lashier of the Swift Covmty Bank; and Pauline, who is the "lie of .lohn M. Dillon, a prominent iron and steel manufacturer at Sterling, Illinois.

FRANK LOWELL STOXK was born at Benson, Minn., on the 5th of April, 187G. and his early educational advantages were those afTorded in the public schools. Under the efTective direction of his father he received the most careful training and excellent opportunities in connection with practical business affairs. He entered the Swift County Bank, at Benson, in 1892, and in the same he held the position of cashier until the death of his father, when he was advanced to his present olTice of president, besides which he is vice-president of the commission corporation of Atwood, Stou't & Company, of Minneapolis, of which his father was president, as already noted in this article. He gives close supervision to his various eapitahstic interests in Minneapolis, but still resides in the fine old homestead at Benson, as has been previously stated. He is president of the State Bank of De OralT, .Swift county, and a stockholder in banks at other points in the state. In the Minnesota metropolis he holds membership in the Minneapolis, the Interlaclien. and the Athletic Clubs, and his political proclivities are indicated in the staunch allegiance which ho accords to the Republican party.

In 1900 was solemnized the marriage of Frank L. Stone to Miss Frances Eleanor Thornton, who is a daughter of Frank M. Thornton. Jlr. Thornton was identified with the building of the old St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, and later became one of the prominent and inlluential citizens of Benson. .Swift county. His father was a sterling pioneer of Minnesota and owned the fine farm of three hundred and twenty acres later ]iurcliased by (leneral McC. Reeve, on Lake Harriet, much of the tract being now located within the city limits of Minneapolis, as may be noted by reference to the biography of General Keeve, on other pages of this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have three children, - Lowell Thornton, Elizabeth Eleanor, and Ileman Ward.

Leonard Paulle

Accepting the lot of common labor when a boy. by his sagacity, industry and integrity, Leonard PauUe has climbed high on the ladder of success in the business world. Take him all in all he is a unique man and his counterpart would be diflRcult to find. Coming to Minneapolis wholly unknown and without money, i)restige or friends, he worked at manual labor until he had saved enough to go into business for himself. When this was accomplished he still worked at his bench until the success of his venture was assured, and business was established upon satisfactory financial basis. His first investment in the show case and store fixture business was the five hundred dollars he had saved by hard labor in the employ of .Jesse Copeland and Sons. His present investment is .$100,000. He has branches of his business all over the west, beside the extensive business he carries on through his Minneapolis headquarters, at 26 North 2nd Street. When he first went into business he employed three men; he now employs from 90 to 12,5. His annual output was about $5,000, now it runs from $1(10,000 to $l.><0,00n. At present he has three large buildings with a floor space of 90,000 square feet, devoted to the business. It is still growing and promises to be one of the big enterprises of the city. All this for a poor boy who came into Minneapolis. 41 years ago with nothing in his pocket.

Leonard PauUe was born fifty-seven years ago in IS.'Jj. April 2."!, in Bufl"alo, New York. He is of French decent, his father having served in the wars of France in the campaign of Napoleon 1. The father lived to be over ninety years old, thus fullilling the record of longevity of the family. The mother of Leonard Paulle had a family history of a like peculiarity. On both sides the original stock was German. The boy received his early education in the parochial schools of Buffalo, and when he was but twelve years old began his industrial career by being apprenticed to a trade at $2.50 a week. Later he was raised to three dollars a week and then to four. In 1865 the family moved to St. Paul and remained until '69 when tluy returned to Bulfalo, but Leonard returned in 1H72.

^Vhen but seventeen years old }ie came to Minnesota with the intention of buying land and raising cattle. He took a tract of land in Sherburne County, but after three months came to Minneapolis. His first factory was at 311 Nicollet avenue. This was on the site of the Loan and Trust building. One of the interesting things connected with the history of Mr. Paulle's business career is that the first show case purchased by William Donaldson when he first went into business in Minneapolis, was made by the Paulle Show Case and Store Fixture establishment. This was bought on credit.

In politics Mr. Paulle is a Republican, not of the demonstrative type, but always firmly and quietly adhering to his beliefs. He has had no time for seeking political honors and no inclination. He is not a politician.

Simple and unostentatious in his mode of life, his democratic inclinations have made him popular in the circles in which he moves. He is particularly prominent in Masonic circles being one of the oldest 32nd degree Masons in the city, having belonged to the order here since 1876. He is also one of the board of directors of the Masonic Temple having been one of the original promoters of the building project. He is a member of most of the clubs of the city including the Commercial club, the Elks club, the Athletic club and the Automobile club. His chief amusement is hunting. In this way he gets most of his relaxation from the press of business cares. He has built and owns a number of business buildings. \Vlien John Lind was governor Leonard Paulle held a colonel's commission on his staff. He is one of the vice-presidents of the Germania Bank.

Mr. Paulle's spirit of good citizenship has given him a part in every public enterprise that make for the betterment of tlie state and municipality. He is a self-made man. but very humble in the matter of the credit he gives himself for his achievements.

Lunian C. Pryor was born .January 8, 1864, at Milwaukee, Wis. His father came west from Rochester, N. Y., in the early fifties, thus being one of Wisconsin's pioneers. His homestead was located a short distance from the townsite of Milwaukee and is now included within the city limits. Here Mr. Pryor was born and lived until twelve years of age. In that year both his mother and father passed away and lie removed with the family to Waupun where two years later he commenced work in one of the printing offices and there learned the printer's trade. On leavinj; Waupun ho located first at Madison. Wis., and later at Minneapolis, arriving in the latter city in April, 1882. He resided in Minneapolis for several years, then removed to St. Paul, where he remained until 1891. In that year he returned to Minneapolis and early in 1892 took the management of one of the important printing firms. He resigned that position a few months later, having meanwhile acquired possession of the business of the Farm Implement Pub. Co., publishers of "Farm Implements" a trade paper devoted to the interests of the implement bu.siness in the northwest. This business was taken over by him in March, 1892, and ho has ha<I charge of same continuuiislv since that lime.

Jlr. Pryor's education was obtained in the graded schools at Milwaukee and later in the high school at Waupun. His training in the printing trade he regards as a most liberal education in itself.

Mr. Pryor was married in 1888, while residing in St. Paul, to Miss Lulu Marion Judd of that city. They have one daughter, Marion Georgia, wife of Walter H. Gooch of Minneapolis.

Mr. Pryor is a member of the Minneapolis Club, but is not associated with any of the religious or civic organizations of the city. In politics he is republican, but takes no active part in political afi'airs. Some four years ago he took up his residence on a fann at Wayzata, Minn., near the beautiful resort. Lake Minnetonka, and has since made that his home. He continues, however, his active business pursuits in Minneapolis.

In the twenty-three yeai-s during which he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Minneapolis, Dr. Hugh N. McDonald has won an enviable reputation as a physician and surgeon and a high place in the confidence and esteem of the people. He ever aimed at high ideals, and having attained tliem at an early period, his chief practice now is as consulting physician individually and in connection with various medical institutions.

Dr. McDonald was born in Ontario, being reared and educated in the Dominion. He graduated from McGill University, Montreal, as an M. D., in 1889, then served one year as interne in the Montreal General hospital.

In April, 1890, he came to Minneapolis and for several years was professor of diseases of the chest in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which became the medical department of Hamline University.

He is an active member of the American Medical Association, the Minnesota State Medical Society, the Hennepin Coimty Medical Society and the Western Surgical and Gynecological Society.

John B. Eustis

Although not born in Minneapolis, but in a locality that was at the period of his birth far distant from this city in both length of way and the time required to traverse it, but is now not far away in time though still as remote as ever in stretch of country, .John B. Eustis, president of the Eustis Loan and Realty company, has lived here from his infancy and has no recollection of any other home. He has shown his intense and practical interest in the community, too, by his intelligent cfTorts to aid in promoting its progress, improvement and welfare in every way. So that he is, to all intents and purposes, as much a Minneapolitan as if he were native here and all his family history had been enacted in this region.

Mr. Eustis came into being at Kingfield, Franklin county. Maine, on November 12, 1S.'>2, and is a son of Samuel S. and Emily S. (Clark) Eustis, the former a native of New Hamp- sliirf mill the liittcr of Maine, nnil hoth (li'steiuleil from olil F.iifjlisli families which settled in this country in early Colonial ilays, the father's ancestors in the state of New York and the mother's in New Enfjlaiid. They were themselves pioneers also, coming to Minneapolis in lHr)4, when their son .lohn was but one year and a lialf old. They located on a farm in what is now Midway, and this has since been converted into trackage and freight yards for the railroads' to a considerable extent, leaving only a small part devoted to residence and farming purposes.

The parents were farmers in Jhune. and they turned their attention to the same industry after their arrival in this city, but they did not buy their Midway farm until 3 864, ten years after they came hither. On it, however, they passed the remainder of their lives, the father dying on it in 1887 at the age of sixty-nine years and the mother more than twenty years later at the age of ninety. She came of a family distinguished for mental force and business capacity, and for a time after the death of her husband, managed the estate he left successfully and profitably.

The eight children born to her and her husband were: Warren C, a graduate of the University of Minnesota in its first class, the only other members of the class being H. F. AVilliarason. now a resident of Washington. Warren w'as a physician and surgeon at Owatonna. Minnesota, and died there in May, 1913, aged sixty-seven. Samuel S., Jr., is a retired farmer living in Minneapolis. John B. is the immediate subject of this review. Fred and Frank (twins) were formerl}' both partners of John B. in business, and Fred is still associated with him in that way. Frank was actively connected with the Loan Company until his death in 1903. Kiimia 10. is the wife of E. F. Talbot and has her home in South Fast Minneapolis. Nellie, the wife of John Uccke, lives at Seymour. Wisconsin; and Ida, a maiden lady resides in Minneapolis. John B. Fustis was educated at the I'niversity of Minnesota, as all the other children were. His father's death obliged liim to aid his mother in managing the estate at an early age, and as an assistance in this work he organized the Fustis Loan and Realty company, which was incorporated in 1S94. Originally this company had charge of all the family interests. It laid out a large part of the old farm in streets and lots and sold a considerable extent of it to the railroads for trackage and switching service. The freight yards of the Great Korthern cover a portion, and many lots have been devoted to residences and small farms. The company has also laid out additions to Minneapolis and St. Paul and been interested in building thr'm up into desirable residence or business sections, and has, in addition, been interested in projjerty in Duhith.

This company originated and developed the Eustis Park at Midway, one of the attractive breathing places for the residents of that picturesque and rapidly growing locality, and has also erected ninnerous residences, apartment houses, business blocks and other properties for renting purposes. Its business has long been extensive and active, and almost all its energies and financial resources have been employed in expanding and improving the choice and valuable section of the state in which the Twin Cities are located. It has assisted in securing the location of many factories in this section, and in many other ways has contributed substantially to its ailvancemcut. In addition to his interest in the business of the company of which he is the head, they own several farms near the Twin Cities and other valuable property. For twenty-eight years he was actively engaged in farming, but has not beer, now for some years. Until his mother died ho maintained a residence with her, which was the old family home. He is active in local public alTairs but not a politicnin, although he is a firm and loyal member of the Kcpublican piity and sujjports it in all national elections. His religious afliliatiou is with the Presbyterians, and he is an elder in St Andrew's clmrch of that sect, having filled this office in it for a continuous period of over thirty years. The members of the Eustis family have belonged to that church from the beginning of its history.

Mr. Eustis was once fond of hunting and fishing, but he does not indulge in them or other sports now. Neither is he a society man. He is unmarried, and lives quietly, modestly and serviceably, and he is everywhere highly esteemed as an excellent citizen and a man of genuine worth in every respect.

George Herbert Price

The late George Herbert Price, who died at his summer residence at Manitou, Lake Minnetonka, on Sunday, May 12, 1912, after an illneSs of only a few hours and in the liftyfirst year of his age, was cut off in his prime, but had already achieved far more in actual and substantial results than many men of twice his years of activity. He was a resident of Minneapolis about thirty years, and during the greater part of that jicriod was a large and potential factor in the lumbering industry. In his later years he turned his attention to building, and in that line also contributed largely and directly to the expansion and improvement of the city.

Mr, Price was born in New Brunswick, October 19, 18G1. He obtained a common school education and at the age of twenty located at Hayward, Wisconsin, where he worked in the lumber woods, as he had done in his boyhood and youth in his native land. About 1881 he came to Jlinneapolis. where his first work was hauling building material for the Soo Railroad shops. In a short time, however, he entered into partnership with his brother Elijah, who had accompanied him. and they took contracts to get out cedar timber at Grand Rapids. Tlie lirm name was Price Bros., and the partnership lasted until Elijah's death which occurred about 1903.

The operations of this firm were extensive. They included supplying logs from the pine woods on Prairie river for C. A. Smith, H. C. Akeley and other Minneapolis lumbermen, sometimes for many as a dozen at a time, and often required the regular employment of 500 men. The Price Bros, were, in fact, the heaviest operators in their line in this locality. Both members of the linn were trained woodsmen and went into the forests to- give the business their personal attention. While they were contracting for the delivery of logs they also made purchases of pine lands and carried on lumbering extensively on their own account. The greater part of these lands were sold prior to the death of Mr. Price, who continued the business three years after the death of his brother Elijah, finally retiring because of failing health. He then turned his attention to building, erecting several residence structures near his own home, at 2207 Polk street northeast. These are still owned by his widow and are valuable for renting purposes.

takings. He began operations with almost no capital, but made every day and every opportunitj- tell, his prosperity being progressive and continuous. He gave his attention almost exclusively to business, never taking an active interest in political contentions and never holding, seeking or desiring a public office of any kind. But he was alive with the keenest interest to whatever was designed to promote the public welfare. In politics he gave his allegiance to the Republican party.

On October 1, 1890, Mr. Price was married in his native land to Miss Grace Murphy, who was also there born and reared. They had two 'children, George Wilber and Phyllis Grace, both of whom are living with their mother. The father was a wide-awake, progressive and patriotic Christian gentleman and business man. He was a member and for years a vestryman of St. Matthew's Episcopal church and a Freemason of high degree in the Scottish rite, belonging also to the Mystic Shrine, with membership in Zurah Temple. In his Lodge, which was Arcana, No. 187, he was president of the board of directors; and he was also president of the Masonic Temple Building Association taking a very active part in the erection of the new Masonic Temple. His club membership was confined to the New Boston Commercial club. His death was due to apoplexy, with which he was suddenly stricken while making garden at his summer home at Manitou about twelve hours before he died, and his early demise was sincerely and very widely lamented.

16. 1848. He was the son of prosperous parents, but it may lie truthfully said of him that he is a self made man. He married Jlrs. Ella Sturges Lawlcr of St. Paul, and one of his stepdaughters, Jersuha, is the wife of .John Pillsbury.

Edmund Pennington

Choosing his life work just after he had attained his majority, Edmund Pennington has climbed from the lowest to the highest rung on the ladder of success in railroad circles. He began his active career as warehouse-man in 1869. He remained in that position for one year and from that moved steadily upward through the various grades of work until he came to be assistant superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. The young man was particularly well constituted by nature for the advancement that, came to him so rapidly, for he has patience, good nature, bodily health and powers of physical endurance which at times during his business 'career have seemed tireless. His capacity for W'ork and his executive ability have always been a marvel to his associates.

It was these valuable characteristics which won for him the position of superintendent of the Minneapolis, St. Paxil and Sault Saint Marie Railway, which position he held until June, 1888, after which he became general manager of the same road. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Saint Marie has proved the sphere of his active business life for after acting as vice president and general manager for a number of years be was elected president of the road in rebruary, 1909.

Those who have long been associated with Mr. Pennington in a business way are the readiest to bear witness of his splendid qualities of heart and head. His kindly disposition makes him a great favorite in the social world although he is of retiring and modest tendencies. He and his family are actively Socially and his beautiful home on Summit avenue is frequently the scene of some handsome social functicm.

Charles N. Robinson, president of the Bardwell-Robinson Manufacturing Company was born in New Jersey, in 1853, and is a son of S. B. Robinson, who became a resident of Minneapolis in 1858, and founded a profitable business in the manufacture of doors, sash, moldings, and kindred products, of which he was the head for many years, and of whom further mention is found elsewhere. Charles N. Robinson was educated in the public schools and early learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked until 1892, when he entered the employ of the company of which his father was then and he is now the head. He acquired a thorough practical knowledge of the details of production had when his father died he succeeded him as president. This company has Ijeen an important factor in the building of Minneapolis. Its products being used with wood work and finishing of most of its leading buildings public and private. Mr. Robinson has also taken an earnest interest and practical part in the general building up and improvement and in all efforts to secure the best government. He is not an active partisan but an earnest citizen, whose zeal and activity in this behalf, have proven of some benefit. He belongs to the Masons, the Elks and the North Side Commercial club. In 1872, he was married to Miss Kate Eveland. Their three sons are Frank S., Levi C. and Howard.

Suell J. Baldwin

As a farmer, a L^nion soldier, a mechanic, a dairyman, an enterprising and successful man, Suell J. Baldwin, president of the Metropolitan Milk company, has put in fifty-three years of active manhood, forty-eight of them being in Minnesota and all but one of that number in this city, except portions of seven years, Avhile acquiring a homestead in Chijipcwa county, Wisconsin.

Mr. Baldwin was born in Sandy Creek, Oswego co\inty, N'ew York, January 14, 1839. He is the eldest of five childreu. of Sidney and Mary (Maxham) Baldwin. One of his brothers is still living in New York. .Jabez C. Baldwin was foreman in B. F. Nelson's paper mill, where he met with a fatal accident. His widow, son, and three daughters are still residents of this city

Mr. Baldwin's mother died early. Sidney Baldwin had come to New York from Vermont with two of his brothers. Zebulon and George Baldwin, and there Sidney died at the age of eighty-seven. Suell grew to manhood on the family homestead and securing a common school education began his o'*D business career as a farmer.

In obedience to the first call for volunteers to defend the Union he enlisted in Company G, Twenty-fourth New York Volunteer Infantry. His regiment reached Washington July 4, 1861, and he heard the cannonading during the disastrous first battle of Bull's Run. The day after that battle the regi iiient was ordered to the front and reached Bailey's Cross Konds in one day's march, witli all its guns and ammunition soaked with water and rendered useless. The command was kept on railroad guard along the Potomac, and passed its first winter in a camp on L'pton's hill. During the winter all of a party of foragers sent out from this brigade were captured.

In the spring of 1862 the regiment was in tlie advance on I'ledericksburg, and this division of the army drove the Confederates out of that city. It was kept in that neighborhdod and used to strengthen weak places. It was in the j-ciund battle of Bull's Rim, but Mr. Baldwin being on special detail duty did not participate. He was wounded at South Mountain, Maryland, August, 1862, and sent to General hospital at Washington from where he was transferred to Elmira. New York, and was disduirged with his regiment at the end of his term, bearing such evidence of service that kept him from re-enlisting and gave him enough of war.

He returned home and resumed work on the farm. In the fall of 1865 he came to Minnesota, arriving in Minneapolis October 22, in the midst of a severe snow and hail storm. Two of his wife's uncles were living thirty miles farther up the state, but the roads being reported impassable, he and iiis wife, remained in this city a few days, then went in an open stage to Rockford, where he bought a farm and built a log house in which he lived that winter, the ground not freezing and potatoes being dug from the hill in the spring.

In .July, 1866, they returned to Minneapolis and he worked as a carpenter. That summer he took a trip to St. Louis on a lumber raft. He then worked two years in the livery stable of Deshon & Levi on Bridge Square. Mr. Baldwin has lived in Minneapolis since except during the years on a homestead in Wisconsin. While there lie was elected township supervisor and served as chairman of the board.

For seven years before previously he operated a dairy at his present home at Twenty-first avenue soutli and Tliirtysixth street, and On return resumed this industr}- continuing it three years longer. lie helped organize the Minneapolis Milk company some twenty years ago, and served long as its vice president and secretary. When it was reorganized in 1913 as the Metropolitan Milk company he was elected president.

Mr. Baldwin has taken an active interest in public affairs in behalf of good government, and has frequently been solicited to become a candidate for city council. But being averse to official life he refused the use of his name as a candidate. lie was married in New York to Jliss JIarion A. Harmon, who died here in 1877. Their only son died in childhood. May 25, 1881, Mr. Baldwin married Miss Jlelissa II. Osmer, daughter of Datus and Esther (Green) Osmer, who came from Watertown, New Y''ork, in 1867. Mr. Osmer was a cattle dealer, and soon after his arrival bought ten acres of the Nathan Roberts homestead, where he and his wife died, she in her seventy-fourth year and he in his eighty-eighth. .\ part of this place is the present home of Mr. and Mrs. lialdwin.

The coming of this family was due to the keenness of Mrs. Osmer. who overheard remarks which led her to believe this I ity was destined to become large and important. She pos- ^isse<l a strong mentality and remarkable business sagacity. Slic bought propertj' on her own account with full faith in the future of the city, and lived to realize handsomely on her investments. She and husband were the parents of eight children, seven now are living, and six being in Minneapolis. Thomas Osmer, is a builder of homes. Jane is the widow of the late David Howlaud, a fanner at Medicine Lake. Cornelia is the widow of the late dairyman Egbert Monroe. Antoinette is the wife of Harry Bady, a machinist, and Ida married Albert Rliunke, late president of the Minneapolis Milk company.

-Mrs. Baldwin, whose portrait we present, ablj' illustrates the value of excellent parentage, the business traits that distinguished her mother being prominent in her own life. It was she who turned the meagre rill of income from the old style of home butter-making into abundant stream fed by the modern dairying operation. She despite the warnings of the mere conservative sought customers for milk and finding such disposition of milk more satisfying, continued till they had ready sale for the product of twenty-five cows. Her example led others, including Mr. Rhunke, to set their boat out on the same stream to the end that hundreds of people are now receiving benefits from this determination of this woman to find a more satisfactory way than to merely follow the path so long trod by others. For 15 years she also has been actively and successfully engaged in building homes and operating in real estate. She has either erected new or rebuilt about a dozen homes in that part of the city where tliey live and is recognized as a capable manager, an agreeable neighbor and a loyal friend.

Mr. Baldwin is a iiioiMl)er and Past Commander of Appomattox Post No. 72. Grand Army of the Republic, and also belongs to All Saints Episcopal church, of which he is one of the original members. Mrs. Baldwin was led, some thirteen years ago, by personal experiences and direct benefits to become a Christian Scientist. She is active in the First Orthodox church of the sect in this city, at Second avenue south and Fourteenth street, which has about 200 members imdcr the leadership of .Abbott E. Smith. They have one daughter, Marion B.. wife of James Wilder, who also has a daughter, Dorothy Carlson Wilder.

Alfred Peterson

Although his life ended before he reached the age of fifty years, the late Alfred Peterson, one of the enterprising and progressive builders and contractors of Minneapolis for sixteen or seventeen years prior to his death, made a record for himself as a business man and citizen in this comnninity that is highly creditable to him and was of substantial and enduring benefit to the city. He was born at West Jutland. Sweden, February 3, 1866, and died on March 28, 1912, at Albuquerque, New Mexico.

At the age of fourteen, Mr. Peterson was apprenticed to the cabinet making trade, and at the close of his apprenticeship came to tlie LTnited States accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Anna .Johnson. They located at Lake City, Minnesota, where he worked for three years on the railroad as a section hand and for two at house carpentering. He then moved to Minneapolis, and, for a time after his arrival here, was in the employ of C. W. Lundquist, afterward becoming foreman for Eric Rhode.

About 1895 he began business for himself as a contractor and builder, and in this line of useful endeavor he passed the rest of his life. His work was all done in Minneapolis. It in- eluded two new apartment houses at Twenty-ninth avenue and Tyler street, both double structures, and both belonging to him at the time of his death. He took a cordial and helpful interest in the welfare of the city, and for four years had the street sprinkling contract for his ward, in conne'ction with which he performed his duties in a manner satisfactory to the people of the ward.

jVIr. Peterson was married on March 20, 1893. to Miss Julia Bang, of Austin, Minn. Three children were born of the union, Agnes G., Elvin N., and Alfred P. R. The father was a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church at the corner of Monroe and P'ifteenth streets, and also belonged to the St. Anthony Commercial club. He lived for a number of his last years in the house he built for himself at Xo. 1523 Jefferson street Northeast, which is still occupied by his widow and children. Ho was devoted to his business, but periodically sought recreation and relief in hunting and fishing trips, although he never allowed these to interfere with his serious duties in life. He was a sturdy and serviceable citizen, and was well esteemed as such in all parts of the city.

About ten (10) years ago he built the .Swedish Baptist church on Madison and 13th avenue Northeast. Dnring the year of 1911 he erected the Norwegian Lutheran church on Monroe and 15th avenue Northeast. This was the last structure built by him and also one of the finest structures that he ever erected and for which he deserves great credit.

Charle.S A. Quist

Charles A. Qui.st was born in Denmark, on the 5th of May, lSfi6, and was aft'orded the advantages of the home schools and there he also gained practical experience in landscape gardening. At the age of sixteen he came to the United States in company with his elder brother, .Julius, who is now a successful railroad contractor at Everett, Washington. Landing in New York City on the 27th of April, 1883. they came to St. Paul, where Charles A. secured employment as a landscape gardener. Remaining three years in St. Paul and with a capital of thirteen dollars, he opened an oflice at the Union depot, Minneapolis, and tvuned his attention to the handling of western lands. He directed special care to protecting and making provision for immigrants, particularly those of his own nationality. John H. Thompson, then the leading merchant tailor took a deep interest in Mr. Quist and his work, and through him the latter formed the acquaintance of Judge Vanderberg, of the Supreme Court. This distinguished jurist secured to Mr. Quist free privileges of the Athaneum, then the principal library of Minneapolis, and it is needless to say that he fully profited by the advantages thus afforded.

By degrees, he finally developed a substantial and profitable real-estate business, in which line of enterprise he has continued to be identified. He aided greatly in the establishing of a Danish colony in Redwood county, where he obtained for the settlers lands from the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company. His reputation became established and finally immigrants of all nationalities sought his advice and aid in securing land.

Mr. Quist is well fortified in his political views and is a stalwart Democrat. He has been specially active in connection with municipal alfairs. Being impressed by the statement of a school-girl that Minneapolis had no parks for the use of the people, the "keep off the grass" signs being in evidence in the various parks, and policemen were stationed to enforce this and other stringent rules, Mr. Quist believed that such restrictions defeated the very ends for which public parks exist, and he determined to bring about a reform, if possible, by opening the parks to the full use of the public and also by providing band concerts therein during the summer months. He finally brought the appointment of a private civic commission, he being one of the three members, appointed by the mayor, the others being Walter Boutelle and Edward P. Capen. Through public subscription provision was made for band concerts in the parks, in the evenings, and soon the obnoxious signs of "keep off the grass" were removed. He has served as delegate to city, county and state conventions and while he has been zealous in the promotion of the party, he has not sought personal preferment, although he was made the nominee for the state senate. As foreman of the grand jury, Mr. Quist was active in investigation of municipal affairs several years ago. He was a staunch supporter of William J. Bryan, and also supported Hon. John A. Johnson for governor. He has served as a member of the state central committee, and in 1912 was a member of the Democratic national committee, having done much to swing Hennepin county into line in support of President Wilson. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1895.

Mr. Quist was the leading spirit in the organization of the Minnesota Danish society formed for the purpose of informing prospective immigrants concerning conditions and advantages in America, and the building of this society, in Minneapolis, was saved largely through his liberality and efforts in 1893, when foreclosure was theatencd. He was the first president of the Danish Aid Assotiation of Minnesota, organized for the promotion of Danish customs, language, etc. He was a leading factor in the organization of the Odin Club, being one of its fifteen charter members. Of these he was the only Dane, seven being Swedes and seven Norwegians.

On the 14th of .June, 1899. was solemized the marriage of Mr. Quist to Miss Helen C. Ryan, of Columbus, Ohio, They have no children, but in their home they are rearing as their own, a son and a daughter of Mr. Quist's sister, Leo L. Quist, a student in the high school, and Helen Alberta Quist.

Franklin Steele

It was natural that Franklin Steele should be a leader of men. For he came of distinguished lineage, of a line of leaders. For three generations before him the Steeles had been residents of Pennsylvania, his native state. His grandfather, William Steele, a native of Wales, settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1750. Mrs. Steele was of Scotch parents of the name of Kerr. And the William Steeles reared a remarkable family. Two, Archibald and .John, were officers in the Revolution, and men of distinguished bravery and leadership. William, another son, was high in the councils of his native state. James was a general in the war of 1812, being inspector general of the Pennsylvania state troops throughout the war.

was born May 12. 1816, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and passod )iis early life in the association of the leading families of the time. That he was one of the representative young men of the state is attested by the fact that he was chosen by his associates to go to General Andrew Jackson, when that doughty warrior became presiilent. and to pay the respects of his associates to the president. It was during this visit that young Steele attracted more than piussing notice on the part of the president, who, noting Mr. Steele's fine ((ualities, both mental aiul physical, counselled with the young nmn that he go west and take a part in carving commonwealths out of the rich wilderness. The young man acted upon this advice, and in 1837 came to the territory that iu)w includes Wisconsin and Minnesota. lie came, early in that year, to Fort Snelling.

First of his enterprises was his settlement at the Kalis of St. t'roix. To this point he pmcceded by canoe from I'ort Snelling, down the Mississippi to the mouth of the St. Croix and up that river to the falls. He laid claim there to the waterpower site, and erected a claim cabin of logs. Meanwhile General Dodge was making a treaty with the Indians, to cover cession of land about the two rivers. And in Sejitember of that year, while Mr. Steele was at St. Croix, the Indians went to Washington and there signed a treaty which ceded lands about F'ort Snelling. Mr. Steele was one of the first to take advantage of the opportunities which the treaty opened up. One story has Iiim hurrying by canoe in 1838, from St. Croix down the river of that name and up the Mississippi to Fort Snelling. and thence, by night, up the Mississippi farther, even to Meeker's Island. It is the account which has him pacing out the boundaries of his claim on the east side of the river, along the Falls of St. Anthony, and erecting a claim cabin by moonlight, before the dawn. Other accounts of the first Settlement are not so dramatic, but seem to be better accepted as facts. It is definitely stated, at any rate, that it was on .Tune 20, 1838. that news reached I'ort Snelling that the United States senate had ratified the treaty with the Indians, but it was not until July 15 that official notice arrived. And it was in September that Mr. Steele became definitely identified with St. Anthony to the extent of disposing of his holdings at St. Croix and centering his fortunes at St. Anthony. Land which is now the principal part of the military reservation of Fort Snelling came into his possession; and it w-as at the Fort or adjacent to it that he made his home.

For the first decade of his life in the west, with the exception of visits to the Fast. Mr. Steele gave his attention to trading. F'or a long time he was the greatest trader of the region; indeed, his business came to be of such a volume that it exceeded the combined business income of the merchants down the Mississippi as far as and including Galena. It was not until 1848 that Mr. Steele began to develop the holdings on the east bank of the Mississippi river, near St. Anthony F'alls. He erected there the first sawmill on the east side of the river.

Beside his leadership in commercial alVairs. Mr. Steele was one of the foremost men of culture and refinement, who looked to the creation of the finer institutions of the state. It was he who, in IS.Il, obtained a site for the preparatory department of the University of Minnesota, and he was the largest contributor toward the erection of its first building.

foremost soldiers and t)tlicrs who had a part in making Uie territory out of the wilderness. His business extended from Lake Superior to Galena, and from the Mississippi river to the Missouri. He traded in great volumes of commodities of the time, with the Indians. And he clung to his principle that it was given to him to lead men in the development of a great manufacturing city at the Falls of St. Anthony, with their enormous possibilities in water power.

During this decade following the Indian treaties in 1838, .Mr. Steele held fast to his claim and to ownership in lands adjacent to F'ort Snelling. The government was slow to open it or at least to give title. And at times it was only as a squatter that Mr. Steele held to his land, but his pertinacity was rewarded at last by the giving of complete o\niership. His foresight was no greater than his grasp of things of the time. It was when he decided to erect a sawmill at the F'alls that he sent east to Maine for Ard Godfrey to come west and, as a millwright, to direct the building of his mill and waterpower. But Mr. Steele did not wait for Godfrey; he had the work started and well under way as to the waterpower dam, before Godfrey arrived.

To the west side of the river, in 184!), came John H, Stevens. At fir.st he lived at F'ort Snelling. and was employed by Steele, the Sutler and trader. Then he came up the river, and in partnership with Steele he establislied himself on the west side. It .is worthy of note that the two men went into partnership here, and the fourth store which bid for the trade of the settlers was that of Steele and Stevens.

It was Franklin Steele, who. beside heading the movement to erect the University, likewise, after running a ferry for many years at the F'ort, set about to have a bridge constructed linking St. Anthony and Minneapolis. The suspension bridge was built - the first bridge to span the great river between Lake Itasca and the Gulf of Mexico. And this, too, even when Jlr. Steele did not know whether full title to the land on the west side of the river would be given by the government. But he went ahead with the suspension bridge work, and it was to his energy that the people of the young cities by the Falls owed its completion, to the joy of the people who used it and to the pride of the people who lived at its terminal on either side of the river.

So continued Franklin Steele's life until the time of the Civil War. And it was when the Sioux Indians rose to massacre the whites that Franklin .Steele placed himself fearlessly at the head of an expedition sent out to the relief of the fugitives and refugees.

Meanwhile the institutions of the primitive city and the good interests of the territory attracted Mr. Steele's attention. Beside helping to build the first school or college building erected at the University, Mr. Steele was the first president of the board of regents of that college. He took an active part in affairs connected with the public ofiices, though never accepting office himself, except for the regency oflice. He gave generously to the churches, not limiting himself to the Presbyterian church, in which he had been brought up and educated. From the time of the early sixties, and e.specially as soon as the country had begun to recover itself after the terrible years of the Civil War, Mr. Steele was one of the first citizens of Minneapolis in every movement for the upbuilding, for the bettermi'nt of the city.

Mr. Steele's life was marked not merely by industry and by public spiritedness as well as by the hardships that characterized existence in the wild country, but by romance that made life in the new country the finer for its companionships. In 1843, after he had passed the better part of four years in the wilderness and at the fort, Mr. Steele went east and married, in Baltimore, Miss Anne Barney, daughter of William C. Barney and granddaughter of Samuel Chase, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His bride was in her eighteenth year; she was a reigning belle of Washington, Baltimore and the East, and her family connections were among the most aristocratic in the land. Mr. Steele brought his bride to Fort Snelling, and there for a time they lived, figuring in all the brilliant social events - brilliant for the time - that marked life at the frontier post. To them were born five children. And as these grew up, they played a prominent part in the social life of the community. Mr. Steele's Sister had married General Henry H. Sibley, one of the early officers in the new territory. Another was the wife of Gen. R. W. Johnson, famous among the nation's soldiers. And naturally the Steeles were among the first families of the fort and of the settlements at the Falls.

F'or four decades Franklin Steele's hand was one of those which guided the destinies of the settlement, of the villages, of the city, at the Falls of St. Anthony. He took part in the large councils of the times; he was sought out for business as well as political advice; and he became one of the great real estate operators of the period. He amassed two fortunes; and when he passed away he left what was estimated at the time to be <\'orth two millions of dollars. He has been honored by the giving of his name to one of the counties of Minnesota, and in his city there is a beautiful park which is known as Franklin Steele square.

Mr. Steele's death occurred September 10, 1880, in the city for which he had done so much, and in which his Interest centered. True, he had become a resident of Georgetown, a suburb of Washington, but this was in order that his family might have the advantages of life in the East. Mr. Steele himself continued to speak of Minneapolis as his home, and it was while he was on a business trip to this city in 1880 that he was fatally stricken, while riding down Hennepin avenue with an old friend, Captain John Tapper, the man who ran the first ferryboat across the river at Minneapolis. He was buried in the beautiful Oak Hill cemetery at Washington. His wife followed him there within six months.

Daniel S. B. Johnston

In the personality of Daniel S. B, Johnston, of St. Paul, long one of the leading citizens of Minnesota, all who have knowledge of him recognize a remarkable force, and none is surprised that he has had an influence notably broad, deep and far-reaching in the development and progress of the city and state of his home and their institutions. And if his exceptional intellectual power, readiness in resources and unyielding firmness of fiber are inherited, he is deserving of no loss of credit on that account, for he has used them to the best advantage for himself and the community around him, and made their fruitage all that his circumstances have allowed.

Mr. Johnston's progenitors in the paternal line were early New York and New Jersey colonists of Revolutionary service and rank and of Scotch and Dutch origin. He was born in the state of New York on May 17, 18.32, and from his very boyhood a vigorous ambition distinguished him from most of his associates. He was educated at the Delaware Literary Institute, at Franklin, New York, and at the earliest possible age began teaching school as a means of earning his living and making his way in the world. The West seemed to hold out an inviting hand to him and he came to Galena, Illinois, at the time a transportation center and a place of considerable im])ortance, and from there he made a trip to St. Paul on the '"Lady Franklin," arriving on July 21, 1855. From St. Paul he came to St. Anthony, and here he soon afterward opened a school which became the germ of the present State University.

In 1856 the .young pedagogue, whose vision swept regions of constructive action and development far beyond the range of ordinary country school teaching, undertook, in company with four of his friends, the project of starting a new town in the wilderness, where the Bois des Sioux and Otter Tail rivers unite to form the Red River of the North, which they designed to call Breckenridge, and near which the town of that name has since been built. Only three of the five adventurers made the trip to the proposed townsite, and they and the oxen which drew their wagon suflfered untold hardships, joui-neying for thirty-one days in an extremely cold season through snowdrifts often eight feet deep, fifteen rods wide and crusted to a depth of four inches. The experiment was altogether disastrous except in its psychological eflfect upon Mr. Johnston's development in judgment and financial acumen. The next encounter with Fate which Mr. Johnston experienced was as conspicuous in success as his former one was in failure. Journalism was one of his especial talents, and he turned to it with ardor. He was first associated in this field with Judge Atwater, who later sold his interest in the enterprise to him and C. H. Slocum. They were together for about three years, and during this period their paper. The St. Anthony Express, became very successful and widely and favorably known. Next Mr. Johnston investigated the possibilities of the milling industry, but, instead of engaging in it he accepted a position aS bookkeeper for Orrin Curtis, who was agent of a steamboat company on the levee, and also a prominent insurance agent in those days.

In that position he gained a broader business experientee, and it fitted him well for the next post he assumed, which was that of state agent in Minnesota for the Phoenix Life In>iurance company of Hartford, Connecticut, the salary attached to which was $1,000 a year, a good one for the year 18fi4. His success in the work brought him an advance to $2,500 a year as state agent for the same company in Kentucky. He worked in Kentucky until he had the affairs of the company in that state in good condition and then resigned to take the position of special agent for the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York, with headquarters in St. Paul.

In 1808 Mr. Johnston was made Western superintendent of the Widows and Orphans branch of this company's business at a salary of $5,000 a year. His field was at that time enlarged to twelve states, which rendered a central location at Richmond, Indiana, the most advisable. In that region fever and ague so impaired his health that he was compelled in 18T2 to return to St. Paul. He then became vice-president and general manager of the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance company, of which General H. H. Sibley was president and some of the most prominent men in Minnesota were directors. But his health did not materially improve.

and in 1875 un aecount of it he was obliged to resign liis j>osition. He then started a t'aim loan ageney, and in that business he loaned nearly $2,500,000 for Kastern investors. This loan ageney was the foundation of the land business in wliii'h he and his sons are now engaged.

In the fall of 1S98 Mr. Johnston and his sons bought 470,000 acres of land east of the .James river in North Dakota. Their holdings previous to that mammoth purchase, together with what they have since acquired, have aggregated about 200,000 acres more. Since 1898 they have disposed ol about all but 140.000 acres and have placed a jiopulation of more tlian 30,000 persons in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Mr. Johnston is president of the Urm, which is known as the D. S. B. Johnston Land company. Its other successful enterprises include a large lumber yard, a bank and two grain elevators (70,000 bushels capacity) at Marion, North Dakota.

Mr. .JolmstonNi activities are not bounded by his business atl'airs. but extend into many spheres of religious, benevolent, litrrary and municipal work. He is one of the founders and zealous workers of the People's church, was co-worker with his first wife in organizing the Woman's Christian Home of St. I'aul, built the Mary .Johnston Memorial Hos- [lital in Manila, and donated to the Young Women's Christian A.ssociation of St. I'auI tlie costly site on which its imposing building now stands. Among the most .valuable of the publications of the Minnesota Historical Society is his elaborate and accurate "History of Minnesota Journalism," a highly important work which but for his inteiest and diligence in its |)roduction would have been neglected until too late for its accomplishment. Many other lines of useful public service have been made vital and efficient tlirou;,'h liis efforts.

Mr. Johnston's lirst marriage was with Miss Hannah C. Stanton. To them were born two sons, Charles and A. D. S. Johnston, who are now their father's closest associates in liusiness. Their mother died in 1879, and two years later the father married Miss Mary J. King, of Canandaigua, New York. Her death occurred in 1905, and in 1909 Mr. Johnston contracted a third marriage which united hira with Miss ICda Worth, also of Canandaigua, New York.

Hannah Collin Stanton, who bciume the lirst wife of Daniel S. B. Johnston, of St. Paul. Minnesota, on .January 1, 1859, and whose name is reverc<l as that of one of the noblest and most useful women who ever lived in this state, was born in North Carolina October 10, 1839. She was of Quaker lineage and the daughter of Dr. Nathan and Ruth H. (Coffin) Stanton. Soon after her birth her parents moved to near Richmond, Indiana, and from there they came to St. Anthony in the summer of 1855. In August of that year Miss Stanton was a pupil of her future husband in the preparatory department of the T'niversity of Minnesota, the building in which the school was kept being on the site on which the Minneapolis Exposition building was afterward erected.

The life work of this noble woman culminated in the organization of the Women's CIirLstian Home, one of St. Paul's most beneficent charitable institutions. To its establishment she devoted so much of her physical strength, mental energy and nervous force that her life was ended on January 10, 1879, at the early age of thirty-nine, but she lived long enough to see the creation of her foresight and benevolence and child of her ardent hopes lirmly fixed on a solid foundation, from which it has since grown to large proportions.

The Woman's Christian Association was started by Mrs. Johnston in June, 1872, and organized on July 22, the same year, and she was elected its first president. The membership soon numbered 117 and was made up of active lady members of the different churches of St. Paul. An industrial school, said to be the first in the city, was organized, and there were about fifty girls in attendance at various times during the first year. A Helping Hand Society also was started, and some thirty women and children were assisted before the close of its first year.

These enterprises opened the way to another, the great need of which soon became manifest. One day in December, 1872, a girl of sixteen went to Mrs. Johnston for help. Her father had died when she was six months old and her mother when she was two years old. She was homeless, with no kin on earth that she knew, betrayed, and a vicious outcast, untruthful, foul-mouthed and thievish. Mrs. Johnston helped and saved her. One by one other tempted and fallen girls came, until in August, 1873, five inmates of houses of ill fame came in a body, seeking help to turn from their evil ways. Then Mrs. Johnston saw that either a refuge for such girls had to be provided or they had to be told that the Christian women of St. Paul could do nothing for them. Her line of duty lay plain and open before her, and without hesitation she determined to enter upon it at once.

On August 27, 1873, at a meeting of forty members of the Woman's Christian Association called for consultation, over which Mrs. .Johnston presided, and which her mother. Mrs. Ruth H. Stanton, addressed, steps were taken for the selection of a board of managers for the Christian Home of Minnesota, the board to be composed of twelve ladies. At the election of officers which followed on August 31, Mrs. D. H. Valentine was chosen president of the board, but she declined to serve and Mrs. Johnston was obliged to take Iicr pl.ice. She could not do justice to both positions, and feeling Specially called to rescue work, she resigned the presidency of the Woman's Christian Association.

The Home was opened October 20. 1873, with two inmates. Soon another applicant for help eamv from one of the dens of the city, then another and othei^ until the little house was crowded. Aid came in financial contributions from business men and other sources. Init still the drains on the treasury were heavy, and by February. 1874. it was empty. I'nder the advice of William P. Murray, whose wife was a member of the board of managers, an appeal was made to the state legislature, then in session, for aid, the appeal being based on the ground that the institution was statewide in its aims and helps. The pleadings by this band of devoted women brought a state appropriation of $1,500, which, with the sum of nearly $400 made by selling meals at the state fair. lifted the institution temporarily out of its difficulties.

On November 5, 1S74. Jfrs. .Johnston was re-elected president. In December, at the solicitatiim of her husband, who saw the disastrous etfeet of the strain on her health, she tendered her resignation, but the managers opposed her retirement from the office so earnestly that she was induced to remain in it. Another year of increased work and responsibility followed, and as the next annual meeting and election approached, Mrs. Johnston again resigned and made her action imperative. She got no vacation, however, for she was placed at the head of the board of managers, and her work went on.

On July 14, 1877, Mrs. Johnston and Mrs. C. D. Strong were appointed a committee to go out into the state, present the interests of the Home and establish auxiliary societies where they were most desirable. Such societies were established at Mankato, St. Charles, Farmiiigton, Stillwater, Lake City, Northtield, Hastings, Wabasha, Rochester, Reed's Landing, Red Wing and Winona. From this long tour the committee returned with a bill of only $11.73 for traveling expenses. Mrs. Johnston was again elected president January 3, 1878, although she protested against the action, and December 5, 1878, she was once more chosen. But she was already engaged in a desperate struggle for life in her last illness, and on January 10, 1879, she died, a martyr to the work of founding and building up the St. Paul Woman's Christian Home. As a mark of respect for her worth her place as president was not filled by election until the next annual meeting in November. 1879. On January 14. that year, at a special meeting of the members of the Home, the following resolutions were adopted, with many expressions and manifestations of grief and heavy personal loss:

"Resolved, That in the death of our beloved president, Mrs. D. S. B. Johnston, the Woman's Christian Home has lost a most zealous and earnest supporter and untiring friend.

"Resolved, That while we recognize the hand of God in removing this valued friend and co-worker from our number we sincerely mourn the loss of her example in the exercise of that loving charity and Christlike forgiveness and forbearance, which ever emanated from her life, and that it shall be our prayer that her death be Sanctified to our good in the exercise of greater zeal and faith and to the eternal good of the inmates of the Home and of that class for whom she so faithfully labored and prayed.

"Resolved, That we extend to the bereaved family our warmest sympathy in their affliction; that while they mourn the light and joy gone out from their family circle, they mourn not as those without hope, knowing that their loss is her infinite gain.

"Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the bereaved family, and that copies be sent also to the city papers for publication."

Richard .Junius Mendknhall

Surveyor, land agent, banker, horticulturist, florist and promoter; zealous in church work and active in efforts to advance the welfare of others, and an exemplar of elevated and useful citizenship, the late Richard J. Mendcnhall, who died in Minneapolis October 19. 1906, when he had almost completed his seventy-eighth year, contributed to the growth and improvement of this city in many ways.

country with William Penn. His great-grandson was Richard Mendenliall, an extensive tanner at Jamestown, North Carolina, whose wife was Mary Pegg, a member of a Welch family that came to America in early Colonial days. They were the parents of Richard .Junius Mendcnhall. He was born at Jamestown, North Carolina, November 25, 1828. He attended a boarding school at New Garden, and a Friends school at Providence, Rhode Island, passing his vacations in the White Mountains, where he met Cyrus Beede. A warm friendship resulting they later became partners in business in Minneapolis. He taught for a time at West Falmouth, Massachusetts, and there first met the lady who became his wife.

Richard Fox, of Jamaica, Long Island, employed him to go to Ohio to take charge of the books, time records and supplies of a crew of men building a railroad tunnel, and he was later engaged on similar work in North Carolina, in association with his brother. Dr. Nereus ilendenhall. His next engagement was with a surveying company in Iowa, carrying the surveyor's chain, but in one month was at the head of the party. In 1856, he came to St. Paul by river and thence to St. Anthony by stage, his baggage being brought across the river in a wheelbarrow.

Cyrus Beede came to Minneapolis a year later, and tlie firm of Beede & Mendenhall, loans and banking, was then formed. This firm passed the panic of 1857 successfully, preserving its credit without abatement, and continued business on an expanding Scale. In November, 1862, Mr. Mendenhall became prtisident of the State Bank of Minnesota. This was later merged into the State National Bank of Minneapolis, of which he was also president until 1875. The State Savings Bank of Minneapolis was started in 1866, with him as president. In 1873, owing to the panic, it was forced to suspend, and was then merged in Mr. Mendenhall's private bank. He assumed all its liabilities and in time paid off nearly all the claims against it. In 1862 he was town treasurer, and he also served as secretary and treasurer of the board of education for four years, and was trustee of the Minneapolis Female Seminary.

February 11, 1858, he married Miss Abby G. Swift, a daughter of Captain Silas Swift, of West Falmouth, Massachusetts, and on his wedding tour visited his old North Carolina home. Mrs. Mcndcnjiall was one of the corps of ladies who collected and distributed clothing and other supplies to the victims of the Indian outbreak. She assisted in forming an aid society, out of which has grown the Women's Christian Association. The Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children had its origin in the Friends' Meeting of which she was a member, and in 1875, in company with Mrs, T. B. Walker, Mrs. Van Cleve and other ladies, she helped to establish the Bethany Home, of which she was a ti'ustee, guardian and treasurer until her death. Slie was also for many years clerk of the Friends' Quarterly Meeting and one of its delegates to district and national conferences. There were no children, but the home was ever open to all comers, and an abiding place of the kindliest sympathy. The lady of the household was full of cheer and an exemplar of all that was good and beautiful in the social amenities of life. Her death occurred .January 9, 1900.

Mr. Mendenhall passed the last twenty years of life at his home at Stevens avenue and Kighteenth street. There he had a block devoted ,to the cultivation of flowers, and at other places had fifty greenhouses for the same work, rais- ing their products for tommercial purposes and employing.' reguliirly thirty to fifty persons. During one severe winter his eoal bill was about $8,000. He was the pioneer llorist of the Xorthwest and his sales extended all over this part of the country. One of his greenhouses was given up entirely to palms and anotlier to orchids. Of the latter he had an excellent variety, sparing no expense to make it as complete and choice as possible, even paying as much as $1,000 for a particularly desirable specimen. He continued his extensive operations as a lloriculturist until about a year before death, which came on October 19. 1906. Throughout his life he was deeply and practically interested in all advanced ideas, helped to organize and build the Milwaukee and the Minneapolis cS: St. Louis railroads, contributed to all clubs and musical and literary societies, and, although he and his wife were Quakers of strong conviction, even the Catholic churches reserved pews for them.

In February, 1.S8-4, he and wife made a trip to old Ifexico, and while there visited a mission thoy had establislied at Gomez Farias, and which they supported until her death, lie afterward made a second trip to Mexico and Yucatan in company with his brother, Dr. Nereus Mendenhall, of North Carolina, and, while in Merida, Yucatan, they were guests of the American consul. lie became interested in old Aztec history in connection with his favorite Studies of entomology. horticulture and floriculture. But he was an omniverous reader and had a wonderfully retentive memory. He was a member of the State Horticultural Society and, at one time owned a farm of 4,000 acres near Hector.

Mr. Mendenhall claimed descent from Pocahontas, and lie had some traits of the Indian character. His feelings toward the red men were cordial and their chiefs held councils in his ofTice. He was also an intense opponent of human slavery, and, at one time bought a slave boy of fourteen from an uncle in North Carolina in order to free him. After the Civil war he brought other negroes north and some of them lived with and worked for him. He was one of the fcmnders of Lakewood cemetery, in which his remains were intered.

Mr. and Mrs. Mendenhall had no children, but they reared Abby Wiggins, a daughter of Mrs. Sarah C. (Swift) Wiggins, a sister of Mrs. Mendenhall, whom they took into their family when she was eight years old. She is now the wife of George S. Murtfeldt, who was manager of Mr. Mendcnliall's greenhouses for many years, but now is in credit department of Donaldson's store. His sister. Miss Mary Murfeldt, of St. Louis, was a celebrated government entomologist and the author of several text books on the subje'ct. She died in February, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Murtfeldt were married in October, 1889, in the Friends' meeting house at Eighth street and Hennepin avenue, according to the rites of the Society of Friends. They have one daughter, Gertrude, a student I in the high school.

Clarence M. Rawitzek

ICIarence M. Rawitzer is the son of William Kawitzer a ivil War Veteran who won honor and promotion from the Inks in the Forty-First Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers, iter the war he engaged in the mercantile business at naha. His wife was Sophia Erdiiian. i)f I'lattville, Wiscon-

Their son, Clarence M., was born in Omaha, Nebraska, November 2, 1868. He was educated in the public schools of Omaha and while he was still young engaged in the tent and awning business. He organized a company in 1886, and operated a factory there for several years and until he decided to come to Minneapolis, in 1897.

The American Tent and Awning Company (then at First avenue, North and Second street), which is one of the prosperous concerns of the city, at once engaged his attention and he assumed its active management. Six years later the capacity of the plant had been so thoroughly outgrown that it became necessary to secure the present location at 307, 309 and 311 Washington avenue, where a three-story building, 66 by 70 feet in area, is wholly utilized. The business extends over the West and Northwest and has become one of the largest in the line west of Cliicago. The trade has so expanded that a force of traveling salesmen is necessary, so that the American Tent and Awning Company stands in the front rank of Minneapolis business enterprises.

Jlr. Rawitzer is of domestic tastes and thoroughly demooratic in disposition. He is popular among business associates and is an active member of the Minneapolis Athletic Club. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, and an active Shriner. He is also a member of several social clubs, including the Rotary, the Interlachen, the Auto, and the Minneapolis Uoat and Athletic. He is also past commander of tlie Minnesota Division of the Son of Veterans of the Civil War.

For a man to enter an untried business or craft for whifeh he has had no training and of which he has neither practical nor technical knowledge and yet make a striking success of it is very unusual in human experience. And yet. that is in brief the business record of Ernest Rubbert of Minneapolis, secretary and superintendent of the Flour City Ornamental Iron Company, whose progress has been phenomenal and whose business is now one of the most extensive of its kind in the Initcd States. What this company has achieved and the expansion it has enjoyed is set forth at some length and with details in a sketch of William Burns, its vice-president and sales manager, which will be found elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Rubbert's work in connection with it, besides being an essential element in its success and highly treditable to American art and enterprise in general, is particularly creditable to him and worthy of special mention.

Ernest Rubbert was born in Niagara county. New York, on July 17, 1865, and is a son of August and Fridiricka Rubbert, natives of Germany. In 1873 they brought their family to Minnesota and located on a farm in Washington county, where his father died; his mother M still living there. Their son Ernest received a common school education and at the age of twenty, began learning the carpenter trade. In a few years he became a building contractor and carried on a profitable business as such until he tame to Minneapolis to become connected with his present business.

who married his wife's sister, being president of the company and eager to give the new comer every advantage he could for liis advancement. To state tliat Mr. Rubbert has been the secretary of the company during the last nine years and the superintendent of its work for nearly the same length of time would give some idea of his importance in connection with it.

It was through his efforts that his company established a night school for the use of its employees. In this school instruction is given in drawing and mathematics which are very essential in the work of the company. This instruction is of great value to both the employee a.nd the company and a large class is now attending. There are no tuition fees and any employee may attend, but it is especially intended for the instruction of the apprentices.

The company encourages all its employes to offer suggestions for the advancement of its interests and the perfection of its work, and has in use a system of profit sharing for its employes which adds substantially to the wages of many of them, some drawing salaries that would be tempting to many professional men. The detail production work of the multitudinous designs and articles of manufacture passes directly under Mr. Rubbert's supervision, but he has able assistants in each department.

Mr. Rubbert was married twenty years ago to Miss Augusta Haase, a native of Washington county, Minnesota, and a sister of the' wife of his partner, Eugene Tetzlaff. They have three Children, Adolf, Myrtle and Clarence. The parents have been careful in rearing their offspring, giving them the best attainable practical education and impressing them with the value of warm interest in the welfare of their community and of square dealing in all their transactions.

Mr. Rubbert himself is a very progressive and publicspirited man, and his citizenship is highly valued by the people around him. He is not an active partisan in political affairs, although firmly attached to the Democratic party in national elections. In local affairs he considers first and almost solely the welfare of his city and county.

William Bvrnks

The late William Byrnes, who died on his farm within what i.s now the limits of Minneapolis, in 1S67, was one of the best educated and most inlluential residents of St. Anthony and Minneapolis in their early history. He helped to organize the township in which he lived, served it well in several local offices, put the forces in motion for the founding of its schools and gave the land on which some were conducted, and in many other ways contributed essentially and liberally in time, labor, and material assistance in laying the foundations of its civil institutions and starting it on its career of rapid progress and vast industrial and commercial power. He was well known and highly esteemed by all the residents of the township in his day, and enjoyed extensive and well deserved popularity throughout the county.

Jlr. Byrnes was born in Ireland in 1825 and obtained a very good education in his native land. In his young manhood there- he was employed in making government surveys as a civil engineer, and during the progress of this work in the County Kilkenny he became intimately acquainted with Miss Catherine Campbell, who according to a previous mutual agreement, afterward followed him to America, and became his wife. He came over in 1849 and located at Rome, New York, where he again engaged in civil engineering. The next year Miss Campbell joined him at Rome and their marriage took place in that town.

While living in the State of New York, by a lucky chance or in the order of Providence, Mr. Byrnes formed the acquaintance of Judge Isaac Atwater, later the renowned Minnesota jurist and brilliant historian of Minneapolis, and by' that eminent man was, in 1850, persuaded to transfer his residence from the banks of the Mohawk to those of the Mississippi and become a resident of St. Anthony. For a time after his arrival in this locality he was employed as a log scaler and lumber salesman by Farnham & Lovejoy. In 1851 he pre-empted 160 acres of land on what is now Humboldt Avenue and West to Penn Avenue, around the intersection of Chestnut Street and Sixth Avenue North. He made his home on his claim in a little log shanty, and was always there on Saturday night, although absent most of the time. About 500 Sioux Indians camped in the neighboring woods, and on one occasion killed a deer in his cowpen and gave his wife some of the venison it yielded.