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After three or four years he began to cultivate his land and soon had sixty acres under the plow. When the Civil war was in progress he enlisted in Company K, Tenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, of which company he was the first lieutenant. In 1862 his company formed a part of General Sibley's expedition against the hostile Sioux Indians, and during during its continuance Mr. Byrnes slept in the same tent with George A. Brackett. He participated in the capture of several hundred of the Indians, including the thirty-eight braves who had been particularly infamous during the uprising and was in command of a company of guards at thenexecution in Mankato, where they were all hanged on the same scaffold.

In the spring of 1863 Lieutenant Byrnes was sent to the South with his regiment. The men in his company had enlisted largely through his infiuence. nearly all of them being of Irish nativity or ancestry. After much active and gallant service, he was discharged from the army in Aug\ist, 1865, and returned home in time to take part in the election of county officers for Hennepin County. He was elected sheriff on the "Soldiers' ticket" and took charge of the office in .Tanuary, 1867, but he did not live to complete his term. His health had been shattered by the hardships of his military service, and in November, 1867, he died at the age of 42, leaving to his widow the care of seven children, the eldest of whom was a daughter sixteen years.

Mrs. Byrnes assumed her great responsibility with courage and met all its requirements with constancy and fidelity. She retained the farm, kept her children together and educated them in the city schools, increased the value of her property, and added to the expansion and improvement of Minneapolis by laying out on her land Byrnes' Addition, of twenty-three acres. Her husband had sold twenty acres to the Episcopal Church for a cemetery, but the land was never used for that purpose, and at the time of her death, in 1906, the whole farm was within the city limits. She was a devout and zealous member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and was very charitable in her disposition, ever thoughtful of the poor and always had some person outside of her family under her special care.

six of whom are living. Kllcii is now the wife of Bernard iiarnurd, a clotliier in Minnvapolis. Anna is the wife of R. L. Whitney, and also a resident of this city. Mary married W. L. McCirath, of .St. Paul, and died in 1906 Theresa is Mrs. C. C. Schuyler and lives in Fargo, North Dakota. William J. is one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Minneapolis, a sketch of him appears elsewhere. Hugh is a ranchman in Idaho, and Celia is the wife of A. S. Hefl'clfinger, of Minneapolis.

Mr. Byrnes was always a zealous promoter of the cause of public education. The first school north of the center of Minneapolis was started on his farm and kept for a number of years in the front room of his house. Children from Crystal Lake, Golden City, and other localities attended it, and from it have developed all the schools in the western part of the city, the Harrison, Sumner, Bryn ilawr, and Lincoln schools all being located in the original district. After the Civil war he donated land for a school in District No. 89. The house in this district was burned down in 1ST2 and later a new one was built farther back.

J. Warren Roberts

.J. Warren Roberts conducts the business of a funeral director from his choice and well equipped establishment at 913 First avenue south, where he has been engaged in it during the last four years, after having followed it for an equal period at another location in this city, and for nearly thrice that length of time in other states in a distant section of the country.

Mr. Roberts was born in Granville, Massachusetts, on March 24, 1872, and until he was thirty-three years of age lived in New England, or that vicinity. He obtained his academic education in his native state, and there also acquired practical and technical knowledge of his calling, which he followed four years in Norwich, Connecticut, and seven in Burlington, Vermont. He also passed a short time in it in the state of New York. He became a resident of Minnca])olis in 1905, armed with embalmers' licenses issued in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New York, and at once began business here as a funeral director at 710 Hennepin avenue. where he remained until early in October, 1909.

With the fifteen years of active practical experience which he had enjoyed when he built his new establishment, enriclied with attentive study of the requirements of his work, Mr. Roberts constructed, arranged and equipped it with particular regard for completeness in every detail, and made it one of the most comprehensive, satisfactory and up-to-date in the Northwest. The interior is finished in mahogany and adorned in excellent t<aste for its purposes. There is (irst a reception room, and this leads into a large parlor that is used for a display room, and can also be converted into a chapel for funeral services when needed for that purpose. At the rear of the parlor Mr. Roberts has his private oflice and a room for the care of cases brought to the establishment for his attention. In addition there arc other large rooms for trimming and upholstering, and also sleeping roonn for the accommodation of assistants, who are in attemlance at all hours of the day and night.

in service. Wlilli- living in the East he conducted some of the largest static and military funerals in that part of the country, and he has also had charge of many large funerals since coming to Minneapolis. He lias been a student and a teacher of his work for years, taking a prominent part in state and national funeral directors' associations, and making addresses in their meetings wliich have bi>en highly appreciated and widely publisheil.

Mr. Roberts is an experienced embalmer and thoroughly understands all the sanitary requirements for the protection of the public in extreme ea.ses. Although independent in politics he has always shown an eager, practical desire for good government, and done what he could to aid in securing it. Fraternal interests have also engaged his attention in a serious and helpful way. He is a Freemason of high degree in both the York and the Scottish rites, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and is also a valued member of the Minnea])oIis Lodge of Elks. His religious afTiliation is with Geth-' semane Protestant Episcopal church.

Charles H. Robinson

Charles H. Robinson is not only a native of Minneapolis but one of its most loyal and patriotic sons and supporters. In the city's affairs he is a leading business man and a worthy representative of the best elements of citizenship among its people.

Mr. Robinson was born in Minneapolis, May 20, 1866, the son of Jabez M. and Martha B. (Day) Robinson, natives of Maine, who came to St. Anthony in \Hli6. They were married here in 1857, and here they reared a family and died after long j'ears of usefulness to the community. The father died September 8, 1U05, and the mother, October 1, 1908. The latter was a niece of the late Leonard Day. of Minneapolis, her mother having been a sister of his wife. Her father was also Mr. Da}''s cousin. She came to St. Anthony, with her parents.

While on a business trip. Jabez Robinson met Thomas B. Walker, and his description of the ])romise of Minneapolis so impressed Mr. Walker that he soon afterward became a resident and started the career here that has made him famous. After his arrival at St. Anthony, the elder Mr. Robinson worked for a time for the lumber firm of Hurlburt & Day, of which Leonard Day was a member. When he was prepared to go into business for himself he formed a jiartnership with William Ankeny and Curtis Pettit, and under the firm name of Ankeny, Pettit & Robinson they continued to manufacture lumber until 1886 or 1887.

Mr. Robinson was an expert and gave his personal altciition to the operation of the mills controlled by the firm, lie also engaged in the manufacture of fiour in association with Mr. Pettit under the firm name of Pettit & Robinson. He and bis wife were the parents of three children, Adeline U., Charles H., and Irene B. Adeline is the wife of Charles Morse, of Minneapolis, and Irene is unmarried. Their mother was one of the most energetic and valued workers of the Church of the Redeemer during her life.

Charles K. Robinson has so far passed his life in Minneapolis. He received a high school education here, and in his prst business venture was associated with his father in leasing iron ore lands. Subsequently he engaged in the leasing of cut-over pine lands on the Mesaba Range, wliicli contains a considerable amount of productive land. Mr. Robinson is still interested in the leasing business, but he has otlier lines which engage hira extensively, and is one of the directors of the Belt Line Brick Manufacturing Company of Minneapolis. It manufactures 10,000,000 brick annually as a regular output, and often far e.\ceeds that amount. Its plant is at New Brighton, in Ramsey County, where the raw material for the product is found in great abundance and of the finest quality, and it is one of the largest and most completely equipped brick factories in this part of the country. He is interested in Arizona copper mines and is president of the Calumet & Copper Creek Mining Company of that state.

Mr. Robinson from his youth has taken an earnest and helpful interest in the advancement and improvement of Minneapolis. All undertakings designed to increase the city's industrial and commercial greatness, all agencies for moral, educational, and social betterment, and all lines of public improvement have had his hearty approval and his influential assistance. He belongs to the Commercial, the Minneapolis, Interlachen, Lafayette, Athletic, Auto, and Dead Lake Clubs, the last named being an organization in the interest of hunting and fishing, to which diversions Mr. Robinson is and long has been an ardent devotee.

January 3, 1889, Mr. Robinson married Miss Jessie P. Smith, a daughter of Thomas J. Smith of Minneapolis, who is well known as a post office official of the city for many years. Mrs. Robinson was born in Charlotte, Eaton County, Michigan, but completed her education in a Minneapolis high school. They have four children; Charles J., the oldest, is a student in the Scientific School of Yale University, and belongs to the class of 1914. Elizabeth Irene is a student at Graham Hall, and the other two children are Martha B. and Jane S. Mrs. Robinson is a working member of Plymouth ( 'ongregational Church and also active in social work. She belongs to the Travelers' and Study clubs.' She and her husband have visited most points of interest in the United States.

Sumner C. Robinson

For forty-si.v years Sumner C. Robinson, who died in 1903, was a resident of Minneapolis, and one of the leading business men and manufacturers during more than half of the period, being engaged in contracting and building throughout the first twenty years after his arrival in this locality. He was born in New Jersey in 1831, and there was married to Miss Mary H. Dare, who was also a native of that state. They came West in 1856 and, after passing one year in Kansas, moved to Minneapolis in 1857.

Mr. Robinson was a carpenter and soon became a leading contractor and builder. Nfearly all the residences on the East Side, built previous to 1876, were erected by him. In that year, in company with Charles S. Bardwell, he began the manufacture of sash, doors and interior finishings. The firm of Bardwell & Robinson has been an important factor in the city's growth. About 1SS5 they bought at Second street and Twenty-second avenue north, building the plant now used at present operated by two sons of the founders of the business, which was incorporated in July, 1903.

Mr. Robinson and wife were among the original seventyfour persons who started the Hennepin Avenue Jlethodist Episcopal church. Mr. Robinson was a Sunday school worker, and a member of the official board of the church, from 1858 to the end of his life, rendering longer service of this character than any other man in the city. He was also active in starting the Asbury Hospital, furnishing a room in his own name, and was a member of its board of directors until death.

Mrs. Robinson, now living at the Hampshire Arms, has ever been active in all church eft'orts and particularly so in connection with hospital work. She has been a member of the controlling board of Asbury Hospital from its founding as she was long a member of the official staff of the Northwestern Hospital before Asbury was established. She is also connected in a highly serviceable way with the Deaconess' Home and other institutions of a beneficent character.

She and her liusband were the parents of two children. Charles N., president of the Bardwell & Robinson company, and Mary R., wife of William Wolford.

Frederick Weyerhaeuser

Frederick Weyerhaeuser, of St. Paul, died at Oak Knoll, his winter home in California, on Saturday, April 4, 1914, at the age of seventy-nine years, four months and thirteen days. This simple statement chronicles the passing away of one of the business men of our day. He was remarkable in the extent and success of his business operations; remarkable in the cleanness and regularity of his private life, and remarkable in his reticence concerning both and his strong aversion to newspaper comments, biographical notices and all other publicity touching him and his affairs.

His life story has been distorted and falsely colored, his wealth greatlj' exaggerated and his motives and methods misrepresented. The truth remains, however, that he was a man of high integrity, lofty purposes and correct business methods in every particular. But he was in reality only a minority stockholder in most of the large corporations with which he was connected, and hy no means so extensive a holder of controlling interests as has been popularly believed. In addition, he was liberal to approved agencies for good to an extent never made known and therefore vastly underestimated. And his refusal to talk for publication about himself was due to no ill-nature, unfriendliness to his fellow men or other censurable motive, but to the genuine modesty of real merit. He had .a stiong sense of duty and he obeyed its commands. It inspired him to make the utmost of his opportunities and he did it. For the rest, he preferred always to let his work speak for itself wherever it had a right or reason to be heard.

Frederick Weyerhaeuser was born on November 21, 1834, in a snuill village on the Rhine near the city of Mainz, in Germany. He was the son of John and Katharine (Gabel) Weyerhaeuser, and the only son of their eleven children who survived to maturity. The father owned a farm of fifteen acres, and the son was needed in the cultivation of this patrimony as soon as he was large and strong enough to work. His education in the schools was therefore cut short when he reached the age of eleven years, but prior to this time he attended a Protestant school, in which he acquired the fundamentals of learning and a considerable amount of information about the Bible and catechism. In 1848 he was confirmed in the Gprnian Ri'fornipd cliiirrh, ami after coming to tliin country joinoil the Lutlieran cliuioh, of which he was a mem ber for a number of years. He then united with the Presbyterian House of Hope in St. I'aul, with wliich he was connected until his death.

Times became hard in Germany and the spirit of emigration to the New World received a quickeninfj impulse tln'rcby. \\'hen Mr. Weyerhaeuser was eighteen, ancj an orphan through the death of his father, one of his sisters and an aunt came to the United States and located in Pennsylvania. They wrote back to the village on the Rhine glowing accounts of the new country, and the rest of the family packed up and came hither also. The family located at Northeast. Krie county, Pennsylvania, and there Frederick decided that he would become a brewer and went to work at .$4 a month. The second year lie got a raise to $9 a month, but he soon gave up brewing and turneil his attention to farming, in which he received a salary of $13 a month. He came of the thriftiest kind of German stock, and from his earliest beginnings his financial progress was steady. -

In 1S5C the family moved to Coal Valley, Rock Island county. Illinois, Frederick carrying with him his share of his father's estate, which had just been settled in Germany, and which he afterward described as "a very small amount of money," though he had his savings in addition to this.

Soon after his arrival at Rock Island J[r. Weyerhaeuser got a jiosition as night fireman in the sawmill of Mead, .'^mith & Marsh, but he was not otherwise, connected with the lumber industry until two months later, when there was an opening in the force of the mill and he was given a place as tallyman. One day while eating his lunch in this capacity he made a shrewd sale of lumber to some farmers. This pleased his employers, and they promoted him.. But not long afterward the firm went into bankniptcy, the sawmill at Rock Island of which he had been made manager was shut down, and he lost his position.

In this emergency Mr. Weyerhaeuser and F. ('. A. Denckman, who afterwards became his brother-in-law. decided to go into business for themselves. They di<l not have much money but their reputations were clean and they were able to get credit. They leased the silenced mill for a year, and by skill and energy in making sales they made some money, and then leased the mill for another year. Later they got together enough capital to buy the mill outright. The enterprise, piudence and economy with which they conducted their business involves too many details for enumeration. They saved every log and made the utmost of everything they handled. Their frugality was striking and their enterprise was on the same scale, and they prospered in full measure. It was a time of great activity along the Mississipiii, the raw material for the lumber industry seemed practically inexlia\istible. and every economy was used to their advantage.

.-\l)out 1870 or 1871, to cut out losses caused by duplication of work and delays in delivery, and al.so to keep the logs of various owners within accurate means of identification, Mr. Weyerhaeuser organized the Mississippi River Logging company, (if which he was president for forty years. This was really the genesis of his business in the himber trade. He saw the limits of the timber supply. He saw its frontier retiring rapidly. He saw also the inevitable result - increase in tlie price of timber - and the years that followed were employed in the acquisition of timber lands.

Chipiiewa Room and l.iimlier ciirnpaiiy, of which he was made jiresident, and operated at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, what was then the largest sawmill in the northwest. His comlianies also owned interests in dams, factories, warehouses and planing mills. He was a director in many banks. He and his associates also owned boats, rafts, railways for handling lumber, machine shops, lands and other properties. One of the banks of which he was vice president for some years was the National (ierman American of St. Paul, and in this bank's building, dviring the latter years of his life, he had his modest little ofiice from which he transacted his business.

On October 11, 18,')7, Mr. Weyerhaeuser was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Bloedel, who had come from his native town in Germany and settled in Erie, Pennsylvania. Slie died in November, 1911. and many tributes have been liaid to her genuine worth as a mother who wisely reared a family of seven children and conducted a home of refinement .and simplicity as successfully as her husband did his business. The seven children of the household are all living. .John P. is the oldest. Elise is the wife of Dr. William B. Hill of the faculty of Vassar College at Poughkecpsie, New York. Jlargaret is Mrs. J. R. Jewett. Her husband is a professor of Semitic languages at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. AppoUonia married S. S. Davis, who is head of the Rock Island Plow Co.. Rock Island, 111., and Moline Water Power Co. Charles A.. Rudolph M. and Frederick E. have been associated with tlieir father in biisiness, as .lohn P. also has, each beglnniiig the connection at the dawn of his manhood if not before.

Frederick Weyerhaeuser moved to St. Paul in 1S91, and during the twenty-three subsequent years of his life was a resident of this city. He had a comfortable home at 226 Summit avenue here, and during the last few years another for winter occupancy at Pasadena, California. He was deeply and serviceably interested in tlie welfare of his home city and state, and a liberal contributor to the religio\is and beneficial institutions in them and elsewhere. His religious connection was with tlie House of Hope Presbyterian church, and his benefactions to it were numerous and large. He also contributed liberally to the Yale Forestry school. But of his deeds of this character he seldom spoke, and no list of them has ever been compiled. He was a man of great mentality and force of character, and amassed a competence. But he always maintained his simplicity oi life and unostentatiousness of manner, resting ipilctly on achievements and forbearing all show of anv.

Andrew A. U. Rahn

Andrew A. 1). Rahn, vice-president of the Rainy River Timber Company, was born in Valparaiso, Indiana, on Oct. 8, 1877, and is a sim of Carl and Elizabeth (Snelling) Rahn, who moved to Minneapolis in 1880. where the father died in 1901 and the mother in 1913. Andrew was educated in the Garfield and Adams .schools and in the South high school.

Leaving school he was employed by the Hardwooil Manufacturing Company of this city for ten years when he opened an establishment of his own at Princeton, Minnesota, which he ctmducted for one year. He then became connected with the Shevlin-Carpenter Co., as manager of the Shoshone Lumber Company, a subsidiary torporation whose business was dealing in timber on a large scale in Northern Idaho, and in which Company he is still interested. Mr. Rahn is also, vicepresident of the Lake of the Woods Cedar and Tie Company and of The Lakes Company, Limited of Fort Frances, Ontario.

In 1905 he was chosen by state officials to superintend the taking of the census of that year. Funds failing the Minneapolis Commercial Club, through its committee on public affairs, raised the necessary amount and a thorough census was thus obtained.

Mr. Rahn is a Republican and in 1903 and 1904 was secretary of the county central committee in which position he showed such energy and capa'city as an organizer as to win praise from the part}' leaders. He is a member of the new Minneapolis Athletic Club, and the Athletic and Boat Club of Minneapolis, and the Spokane Club of Spokane, Wash. He is a Scottish and York rite Mason including membership in the Mystic Shrine, and is also a member of B. P. 0. E., No. 44 of Minneapolis and other fraternal organizations. In 1905 and 1906 he served on the Finance committee of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

Mr. Rahn was married Oct. 27, 1897, to Miss Annie Sophia Anderson of Minneapolis. They have three children, Carl Anderson, Robert Loren and Andrew A. D., Jr. The family residence is at Lake Minnetonka.

John H. Rihcldaffer was bom in St. Paul, in 1859, and is a son of Rev. John G. and Catherine C. Riheldaffer. The father was a leading and influential Presbyterian clergyman in the early days, and. is highly commended by those who remember him. He located in St. Paul in 1850, and left an impress on the religious life in organizing the Central Presbyterian church there, and erecting its first church edifice. He died at Redwood Falls, 1893.

John H. Riheldaffer was educated in the public schools of St. Paul and in the University, being a member of the class of 1882. After spending one year in the office of A. M. Radcliflfe, an architect, he entered the service of the St. Paul Warehouse Company, for which he became superintendent of elevator "B". He was then associated with J. Q. Adams of Minneapolis in the grain business, and in 1893 became connected with Commons & Company.

In 1907 he organized the Sterling Elevator Company, of which he was vice president and general manager until 1910, when he established the J. H. Riheldaffer Grain Company. He has served on the board of appeals of the Chamber of Commerce for eight years, and was a director of tlic Cummercial Club for years.

Athletic sports have always had an attraction for him, and for years he has been a leading spirit in the Minneapolis Curling club. He is a Republican, but not an active partisan, although he has ever taken an earnest interest in public affairs. His devotion to American institutions is shown by his long, serviceable membership in the Sons of the American Revolution, the Minnesota branch of which he served as president for one year.

In 1883, he was united in marriage with Miss Susan Timerman. They have six children. Helen is the wife of Carl E. Austin and Kathryn is the wife of L. II. Chmgh. All the family belong to the Grace Presbyterian church.

Charles W. Ringer

Serving in his thirty-first year in the city fire department, and having risen by successive promotions based on meritorious work to the position of chief, Charles W. Ringer has given long continuance of faithful and valuable service and made a record creditable alike to the city and to himself.

He was bom in .Wisconsin, January 1, 1861, the son of Rev. Adam Ringer, an itinerant circuit riding Methodist minister. In 1868, he located in Stillwater, preaching in and about that city till 1870 when he moved to Sunrise where the son obtained a limited country school education. His spirit was courageous, however, and the lessons of experience have richly supplied what no school could give, making him self-reliant, resourceful and ready for all emergencies.

In 1877, when he was sixteen years old, he came to Minneapolis. He began as a teamster hauling between Minneapolis and St. Paul, and afterward worked in the lumber woods, being advanced from the more laborious positions to that of -a scaler of logs. The work was hard, the life lonely, and filled with temporary privation and hardship. His fidelity and ability attracted attention and on April 26, 1884, he was given a place in the fire department as a pipeman on Engine No. 6, at Twelfth street and Third avenue south. In 1887 he secured his first promotion when Chief Stetson appointed liim lieutenant, and in 1892, he was made captain of Engine Company, No. 17, directly under the chief. He was appointed fire marshal in 1902, and chief of the department, .January 1, 1911, by Mayor Haynes.

In all public affairs, Mr. Ringer has ever been deeply interested and an energetic worker for progress and improvement. No worthy project has gone without his cordial and helpful support, his activiti«s in this respect having been guided by breadth of view and intelligence. He is a member of the Athletic club, the Civic and Commerce Association. In fraternal relations,, he is a Knight Templar and Shriner, an Elk, an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias. March, 1886, Mr. Ringer was married to Miss Fannie Marden, a native of the city. They have one son. Waller M.

William J. Burnett

^Manager and proprietor of the Northwestern Hide and Fur Company, was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1842, while the family were enroute to Terre Haute, Indiana. In 1638, his ancestor, Thomas Burnett, said to be of the same family as the celebrated Bishop Burnett of England, settled at Salem, Massachusetts, removing in 1643 to South Hampton Madison, New Jersey, the last town of importance planted by the Puritans, was settled by two of his descendants, and here William J.'s father, Virgil Justice Burnett, a blacksmith by trade, was reared. The panic of 1837 created general disaster, and he being financially embarrassed, joined the immigration westward, finally reaching Terre Haute with his last dollar exhausted. He operated a black smith and carriage-shop, and, being an expert workman, .soon was in good circumstances. He had been well educated, and, being inclined to literature, became widely known as the "learned blacksmith," quite similar to the famous scholar. Elihu Burritt. In 1856 he served in the State Legislature, being a. colleague of such men as Henry S. Lane, and was instrumental in securing for liuliaiiu tlic free school system aiul tlie important Indiana liijuor law. Maine's famous restrictions had but recently been secured, Indiana being the second state to attempt drastic liquor legislation. He died in 1S58, his widow, Harriet S., surviving to the age of ninety-four. As a boy, William J. Burnett learned, at Terre Haute, the details of the hide and fur business, to which he has been devoted for more than half a century. He operated at several other places before coming to Minneapolis in the fall of 1890. He then established at 417 Main St. South East, the Northwestern Hide and Fur Company. The growth of trade necessitating greater facilities, he finally erected the store and warehouse at First Street and Second Avenue North. By wise and original advertising, much of which is exceedingly educational, pertaining to the domestic and wild animals. - how to trap wild animals, how to properly take olT and care for the hides and skins of all animals so they will bring highest market value - he built up a large and lucrative business. His illustrations are used in the agricultural schools to teach farm-students. As an advertiser he is a past master, having a national reputation. His large shipping business direct from the farmer and trapper is largely the result of this unique and instructive advertising. Appreciating the vast unexplored and almost unknown region to the north, abounding in thousands of lakes, vast forests and rivers, Mr. Burnett, some twenty years ago, assumed the burden and responsibility of sending explorers into its wilds. Valuable information so acquired was then given the newspapers, also embodied by him in a "Hunters' and Trappers' Guide," which has done much to disclose an undreamed natural source of wealth. He derived financial returns in the North's increased yield of enlarged stocks of furs and pelts, and a higher satisfaction in the development now going on in agricultural resources, and its vast wealth in timber and minerals. By the information obtained thousands of homes now exist where, before his revelations, \Vere but wild animals and boundless forests. His interest in that region has enhanced with the increase of population. He has taken active part in extension of educational privileges and particularly so in the establishment and maintenance of Sunday Scliools. A Sunday School worker all his life, he is State Vice-President of the American Sunday School Union, has encouraged the missionaries in sparsely settled regions; he sees in the common schools, supplemented by Sunday .Schools, the solution of serious social and political problems, especially as affecting thinly settled comnuinities. Realizing the value of past efforts, as he approaches the end of a beneficial career, he has made in his will a liberal provision to the support of s>icli work throughout the Northwest. Sarah E. Tremble of Mattoon. Illinois, was the first wife, dying some fifteen years after marriage, and leaving one son, Warner F. Burnett, now in San Francisco. In .Tune, 18S8, he married AUeda Suits of Huron, South Dakota, and they have one daughter, Harriet Alleda, a student in La Salle Seminary, Auburndale, Massachusetts, With literary tastes, Mr, Burnett finds greatest enjoyment in the companionship of books, the master minds of the world, - being represented on the shelves of a well-chosen library. He is an official of Como Congregational Church ; a member of the Congregational club and of the Civic and Commerce Association and active in all good work pertaining to the rity, State and Society. Although now 71 years of age his average health is most excellent, and he feels that he is good for ten or twenty yeare more. He longs to sec the day when

Alonzo Cooper Rand

Eminently successful in life and mournfully tragic in the manner and suddeimess of his death, the late Alonzo C. Rand, one of the leading business men of Minneapolis for more than ten years, showed in his active and brilliant career the great power of a strong and well trained intellect and the utter helplessness of man in combat with the superior forces (if nature. He was one of the unfortunate passengers on the Afinnie Cook, a private jileasure boat, when she sank witli all on board on Lake Minnetonka in a sudden storm on Siniday afternoon, July 12, 1885.

This dreadful catastrophe ended the lives of ten persons, several of them numbered among the most prominent, influential and esteemed residents of Jlinneapolis, and threw the whole community into a universal grief too deep for utterance, and in which the only mitigating circumstances were that the tragedy could not be foreseen or prevented, and that some of those who perished in it had already achieved enough in life to leave shining records behind to keep their memory green in the hearts of the people among wliom they had lived and triumphed, and who were the beneficiaries of their great and useful work. The persons who went down on the illfated boat with Mr. Rand were his wife, his daughter, Mary, and son, Harvey, his nephew, Frenk Rand, aged nineteen, Mr, and Mrs, John R. Coykendall and their little daughter Luella, Master Hussey, a young friend of both families, and George McDonald, the engineer of the boat. She sank off Breezy Point only about 800 feet from the shore.

Alonzo Cooper Rand, at the time of his death, was the president and one of the principal owners of the Minneapolis Gas Light company. He had been mayor of the city for three j'cars from April 3, 1878, and had given the people an excellent business administration of their public affairs, manifesting a determination for the strictest and most impartial enforcement of the laws, and an admirable industry and clearness of vision in looking after and promoting the best interests of the city and all its residents. He was kind, benignant and generous in private life, benevolent* to the poor anil a helpful friend to many worthy families. But as a public official he knew neither friend nor foe, only the command of duty and the public welfare. And he must have impressed himself forcibly on the public mind of the community within a short time after his location in it, for he was a resident of Minneapolis biit four years before he was chosen its chief executive.

Mr. Rand was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1H31, and while he was yet a boy moved with his father to Buffalo, New York, where the father died on June 17, 1859, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. The son was educated in the common schools, and at the age of twenty was married to Miss Celina Johnson of Buffalo, About one year after the death of his father he moved to Union City, Pennsylvania, and for three years was very successful in the oil business there. From Union City he moved to the city of New York, where, prompted and guided by information he had acquired

Mr. Rand remained in New York four years working on his invention and preparing to commercialize it, then located at Aurora, Illinois, and there made a large fortune out of his valuable discovery. In 1874 he visited Minneapolis in the course of a pleasure trip through the Northwest, and was so favorably impressed with the city and its business outlook that he sold his interests in his Illinois home and became a resident here. He at once became connected with the gas industry in this city and before long owned a controlling interest in it. His new process revolutionized the manufacture of gas in this community, and proved of great benefit to the consumers as well as highly profitable to the company, of which he soon became the head and controlling spirit.

Mrs. Rand, whom death found at the side of her husband. a lady of great culture and refinement, and also possessed a vast fund of excellent common sense. Her sympathetic heart moved her to constant activity in benevolent work, her clear head and responsive brain found the easiest and most practical way for the execution of her wishes, and her hand was the obedient servant of both in carrying out her designs. She was greatly admired, warmly esteemed and fen-ently revered for her many excellent qualities, and her death brought lasting pain to many a stricken heart. For "None knew her but to love her." She was a native of Herkimer county, New York, and liad reached the age of fifty-one when her life ended.

John H. Rowe

John H. Rowe was born on May 15. 1860. at Downing Farm, Dutchess county. New York, seven miles south of Poughkeepsie, where the family has been domesticated for four generations. He is one of the eight children, five sons and three daughters, of Daniel Chase and Susan Ann (Townsend) Rowe, also natives of Dutchess county. One of his sisters, Hetty Morgan Rowe, is a teacher in Roberts college in Constantinople, Turkey, and three of his brothers are successful business men in New York city, himself and sister being the only ones outside of New York.

Daniel Rowe was the son of William Roe, during whose life the name was changed to its present form, and whose brother was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Daniel was one of eleven children and at the age of fifteen went to New York city, where he became a successful hardware merchant; and, after many years of activity as such, retired to the Dutchess county farm, on which he died at the age of ninety-two, highly respected by all.

John H. Rowe passed his boyhood on the farm, attended the public school and two years at Degarmo Institute at Rhinebeck and one at Mount Pleasant Military Academy in Ossining. At the age of twenty-one he visited at Cedar Falls, Iowa, where he met Robert A. Davidson, an Fast Side Minneapolis banker, accompanying him here to take a clerkship in the bank, and which he filled for a year and a half. He then became a clerk in the office of Captain John IMartin's Lumber company, with which he remained five years. He was next connected with E. W. Uackus & Company, first as bookkeeper and afterward as a member of the company, which was then running two mills. Mr. Rowe continue<l his

During the next two years he was a salesman over the same territory for' the Northwestern Lumber company, whose mills were at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. In 1899 he opened an office in the Lumber Exchange and started a wholesale lumber jobbing trade which grew to fine proportions, and in 1904 he started the retail yard which he is yet conducting. It is well equipped and fully stocked with all kinds of building materials required by the trade.

Mr. Rowe was married in 1895 to Miss Mabel Wyer, of Excelsior, Minnesota. They have three children, John H., Jr., Kenneth W., and Elizabeth. The parents attend Trinity Baptist church. Mr. Rowe is warmly interested in its Sunday school, and in the activities of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is also a member of the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association.

Dr. M. P. Austin

Dr. M. P. Austin, son-in-law of Mr. McDonald, former superintendent of the Homeopathic hospital and later on the stafi of the City hospital, is a native of Galesburg, Michigan, and was graduated from the Homeopathic Medical School of the State University. He practiced there until 1882, then came to Minneapolis, where he has since been in active practice. He was county physician of Hennepin county in 1883, 1884 and 1885, and also served as professor of surgery in the University of Minnesota. The doctor died in Mexico in November, 1913. By his marriage with Miss Mary McDonald he became the father of three children, two of whom are living. Reed S. is engaged in the real estate business and Lynn McDonald is connected with the Minneapolis Insurance Agency. Ned B., the third son, died when he was twelve years old.

Thomas Gardiner

Distinctively unique in its facilities and service is the finely equipped retail drug establishment founded and for many years conducted by the late Thomas Gardiner at 723 Hennepin avenue, which is not only the oldest specific homoeopathic pharmacy in the Northwest but is notable in the fact that it is confined exclusively to the handling of drugs and medicines. From 1869 to his death Mr. Gardiner was continuously engaged in the di'ug business in ^Minneapolis. His death occurred here on Mar'ch 29, 1914, his career in his line of trade in this city covering a period of forty-five years. A close student of materia medica and therapeutics, he was always well prepared for any requirement of his business, and his high reputation in it was the direct result of his according to his patrons at all times the best service. Having equipment for the grinding, triturating and mixing of root and herb products, he had, in addition to his retail trade, nearly one tho\isand customers outside of the city, who were wholesale buyers of his products.

Mr. Gardiner was born at Frederickton, province of New Brunswick, Canada, September 12. 1833. At the age of thirteen he obtained a position in a drug store, and from that early period of his youth he was deiieiuleiit on liis own resources. In 1857 he came to St. Anthony, and for three years thereafter lie had a precarious and uncertain e.\istence with a full allowance of adversity. Then Dr. W'illiam H. Leonard, one of the pioneer physicians here, desirinjj to devote his attention more exclusively to his practice, and knowing of Mr. Gardiner's former experience in the drug trade, gave him a position, and before the end of the same year an interest in the store on condition that he assume its active management.

For nine years Mr. Gardiner remained with Dr. Leonard, the store being located in the Central building, which was demolished by the board of park commissioners in 1913. This building then contained the Hales clotliing store and the (iardiner drug store was one of the first in it, and had entrances on both Nicollet and Hennepin avenues. For a number of years the drug store was in the rear of the Nicollet House, then at other locations on Nicollet avenue until 1909. when Mr. Gardiner moved to the present site, eacli removal taking him further on in the extension of the city as it expanded to the west and south.

In 1864 Mr. Gardiner purchased the residence property on which his life ended, and two years later the dwelling he occupied was erected. It is on Hennepin avenue opposite the City Library. For fifty-seven years he lived on this lot, and it has been authentically shown that no other citizen living in Minneapolis at this time has occupied for an equal period one and the same residence. Mr. Gardiner never courted publicity, but, in a quiet and unassuming way, devoted himself closely to business. Yet both he and his wife were well known and highly esteemed in a circle of friends coincident with that of their acquaintances.

In 1862 Mr. Gardiner was united in marriage with Miss Mary K. Knight, of Dundas, Ontario, who was his devoted companion and helpmeet for more than half a century. They became the parents of two children: Louise L., who is still a resident of the parental home, and Mary, who is the wife of Nathan L. Lenham, of Chicago. Mrs. Gardiner survives and still occupies the family residence, passing her days in quiet usefulness and rich in the cordial regard and good will of all who know her.

Lucian Aldon McReynolds was born at Boscobel. Grant county. Wisconsin, June 13, 1867, a son of James McReynolds. The father was a well known dealer in farm implements at Owatonna, where he had located during the boyhood of Lucian, and who died finally in the state of Washington. He was a kinsman of Hon. .J. C McReynolds. the present attorney general of the United States, and of ex-President Andrew .Johnson.

He obtained a full high school education, which he extended at Pillsbury Academy. He then became a traveling salesman for L. B. Wood, of Minneapolis, dealer in buggies and agricultural implements, covering the states of Minnesota and Iowa. A few years later he took up a general line of similar commodities for sale on the road, and continuing his efforts in this department of commercial life several years.

worker for the success of his party. He kept well pusti-cf on political affairs and was always ready to meet the arguments of the opponents and the requirements of any campaign issue, wherever he happened to be. Yet, devoted as he was to political events and contests, and forced by his employment to be absent most of the time, he was ardently attached to his home, finding greatest satisfaction with his family.

On September 16, 1900, Mi-. McReynolds was married in Minneapolis to Miss Matilda Lilleby, a native of Renville county, Minnesota, whose parents lived in St. Peter, until after the Indian outbreak of 1862, then returned to the county of her nativity. They were both born and reared in Norway, but were married in Minne.sota. Richard McReynolds, aged seven, is the only child. The family home is at 1600 Second avenue south.

Mr. McReynolds was fond of fine horses and always kept at least one of choice breed and good paces. He greatly enjoyed racing on the driveways and ujion the Lake of the Isles. But he engaged in the sport of racing only for the recreation and enjoyment, and not for profit or for any special feeling in the matter except the laudable pride of owning a good horse and being able to show its merits. In all respects ho was an excellent citizen and universally esteemed as such wherever known. His untimely death was widely deplored, and at his funeral obsequies just and discriminating tributes were paid to his worth and manhood.

From the humble and laborious condition of a foot pedler to the respectable and profitable station as the head of a large general merchandising establishment is a creditable record. The steps between these two grades of mercantile life are usually many, often rugged and, although inviting, are frequently insunnountable. Some men, however, by native force, persistent industry, and unflagging ambition, mount them steadily, and. in the case we now consider, in rapid succession. ( )ne man of this record and caliber who adorned the business life of Minneapolis and experienced a creditable career was the late Simon Ravicz, who died .laniiary 20, 1913. The story of his life is interesting, chiefly because of the illustration it furnishes of what is possible to pluck, persistency, and determined will.

Mr. Ravicz was born in Roumania (one of the Balkan states which have recently made so glorious a military record K .January 10, 1857: He came to the United States and to Minneapolis some twenty years ago. His coming to this city was more the result of chance than intention, but when here he was so well pleased with the place and its outlook that he determined to remain and cast his fortunes among its progressive citizenship. Mr. Ravicz started his mercantile career as a pack pedler. He was self-educated, and in his native land had been a bookkeeper. Going from house to house through the country the returns gave encouragement for such a business. He soon owned a fruit and tonfectionery store at 115 Nicollet avenue, which he conducted to advantage for five or six years. He then changed his location to 109 Washington .-Vvenue South. In his business his .success exceeded his expectations, and in 1902 he became a member of the firm of McClellan Bros. & Ravicz, wholesalers in general merchandise at 19. 21 and 2.'t Third Street North.

Here Mr. Raviez had personal supervision of the business, and the success and extension of the sales enterprising management, were considerable and gratifying. He continued his connection with this house until 1906, when he retired from merchandising and turned his attention to investment in real estate. He centered his operations at Twelfth Street and Hennepin Avenue, and erected a number of stores. He readily imbibed the spirit of American institutions, becoming a citizen and then financially aided several of his relatives to come to the United States, and they also became respected and prosperous American citizens. In political affiliation Mr. Raviez was a Republican, in religion a member of the Jewish Reform Temple, and in fraternal life a Free Mason and a Woodman. The camp of the latter order to which he belonged conducted his funeral, its members giving his memory consideration and honor by sympathetic presence. Many joined them out of personal attachment for the many excellent traits that had distinguished him.

Mr. Raviez was married in his native land at the age of twenty-one to Miss Rosa Koenigsburg, who survives him. Their three children are: Harry, a lawyer and member of tlie firm of Levy & Raviez; Louis, a student in the Mining Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota; and Anna, wife of Louis M. Frudenfeld. Harry was graduated from the law department of the State University in the class of 1911, and is engaged in a general practice, rapidly attaining distinction in the profession. The home of the family is at 1731 Elliott avenue, where the numerous friends find a congenial center of generous and gracious hospitality.

The interesting subject of this brief review, who is near the ninetieth anniversary of his birth, has lived in what is now Minneapolis sixty-four years, having been one of the very early arrivals at St. Anthony Falls as a permanent resident. He has the distinction of being one of the eight men now living who settled in this state before 1850, but two of whom preceded him by a year or more in time. The other seven are: Charles Stimpson, Eli Pettijohn, John Hingston, Caleb Dorr, A. L. Larpenteur, St. Paul, Mr. Durand, of Stillwater, and Mr. Randall, of Winona. Mr. Pettijohn settled at the Falls in 1842 and Mr. Don- in 1847. Mr. McMuUen became a resident here in October. 1849. Among his associates of the early days who are still living, but whose arrival in this region was later than his own, are James .1. Hill. Loren Fletcher, Thomas B. Walker and John B. Gilfillan. all venerable men now, and each with a record of great acliievenients to his credit.

Mr. McMullen was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, on .July 21, 1824. At the age of eight years he became cabin boy on the bark White Oak, and he continued to follow the sea on various vessels for seventeen years, in this long sea service visiting all parts of the world. During the last tliree years of his maritime experience he was captain on vessels engaged in the trade between this country and the West Indies. Strange as it may seem, and unusual as it is. he tired of the sea at last. But he did not locate in the crowded centers of population in the East. He had dwelt long in the wilderness of waters, and when he determined to diange the element under his feet, he chose a home in the wilderness on land.

After he came to St. Anthony Falls Mr. McMullen worked for a time at his bench as a carpenter. But he had never learned the trade by practical apprenticeship, and really knew but little about it. He was resolute and determined, however, and always willing to undertake any work that he could find to do. As a carpenter he took a contract to erect a barn for Major Rawlings. But in his ignorance of the trade, he put the roof on wrong, and it fell in. The major expressed his feelings on the subject in the most practical way by promptly canceling the contract and dismissing Mr. McMullen from the job. Some time afterward Major Rawlings saw him at work on the Steamboat "Gov. Ramsey" in which he was interested and asked the contractor, with no excess of

Finding himself not highly esteemed as a carpenter, Mr. McMullen decided to change liis occupation. He had his physical needs to provide for and abundant strengtli and energy for the work. He engaged for a time in moving houses, and even occasionally moved steamboats around the Falls. Then he turned his attention to merchandising at Pine Bend in company with H. G. Morrison. Next he built a flour mill and later a shingle mill at the St. Anthony Water Power company's dam on the site on which a big saw mill was afterward put up.

In the meantime Mr. McMullen took an active interest in public affairs locally and served several years in the city council. He was also once nominated for the office of county commissioner, but he refused to put up money for the campaign and was beaten by but twelve votes in a district ordinarily giving a Democratic majority of 1..300. He was married in 1849 to Miss Charlotte McKnight and has one child living, William. Mr. McMullen has lived for twenty-seven years in his present dwelling. Years ago he met with an accident which kept him on crutches and confined to the house for eight years and a half, during which he had to use an armchair to get about in.

Jonas Guilford

The legal fraternity in Minnesota, especially in Minneapolis, was dignified and adorned for over forty years by having among its members .Jonas Guilford, as American citizenship has been elevated and honored by others of the family through all the generations to Colonial times. He became a resident of this city in 1866, and died here May 9. 1909. During all this period he was a prominent and useful citizen, eminent in his profession, zealous for the good of the city, and representative, of the best attributes of elevatert and broad-minded manhood.

He was born in Spencer. Worcester county. Massachusetts, September. 1839, being the son of Asa and Mary (.\dams) Guilford, Asa was the son of Dr. Guilford of Spencer, whose father, John, founded the family there in the early colonial days and which was founded in America previous to 1650, the original one coming from Kent, England. Contemporary members of both the father's and the mothers' families took active parts in the Revolutionary struggle and the stirring events leading to it.

latter in 1864. Immediately afterward he enlisted, and served to the close of the Civil war. In 1866 he graduated from Albany Law School, and at once went to t>t. Louis expecting to there practice his profession. An old and prominent lawyer in that city advised him to come to Minneapolis, and he acted upon this advice.

He immediately began liis practice, and thenceforth, until failing health and advancing years obliged him to practically retire from business, he was reckoned among the leading lawyers of the state. His clientage included the most prominent residents and business tirms in the community. He carried many cases to the higher courts, state and federal, where he won many notable victories embracing principles of extensive application and which contributed largely to the future construction of legal questions.

ilr. Guilford had his office on the East Side his attention being devoted largely to matters pertaining to tliat part of the city. During the last twenty years his home was on the West Side, though old clients and friends continued to employ him and, till the end, his advice way eagerly sought. His parents came to Minneapolis in 1870 and both died here. The mother belonged to the Adams family, more prominently represented by John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams.

Nathan Guilford, an uncle of Jonas, was an eminent educator in Ohio, and commonly credited as the father of the l>ublic school system of that state. For some years he was prominent in the legal profession, which he abandoned to devote his talents to the cause of public education, and from then until his death was consecraated wholly to that great work, the greatest need in a Republic. In recognition of his services in this behalf Guilford School, Cincinnati, was named for him as an enduring testimonial.

Jonas Guilford was married in September, 1869, to Miss Helen Morrill, who was born in Danville, 111., and became a resident of Minneapolis in 1867. Their children are Paul Willis, Harry Morrill, Harriet. The sons arc both graduates of the University, the former being a lawyer and the latter a physician and a member of the health board. The daughter is a graduate of Carleton College, and is with her mother at 1820 Hawthorne avenue.

Mrs. Guilford is a member of the Minneapolis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Like her husband, she is also descended from Revolutionary forefathers, comprising several of the old, distinguished families of New Kngland. The home contains many interesting souvenirs, each having individual history and valuable as illustrating early conditions of life. The first deed given in St. Anthony is also found here. Both were early members of the Lowry Hill Congregational church. He took an active part in public a£fairg, but was not a politician and never sought or desired a public office, though he was ever ready to aid in securing the best attainable government.

Nelson H. Rekves

One of the most extensive and successful market gardeners, Nelson H. Reeves, 3410 Second street north, was born at Rochester, Wisconsin. January 4, 18.'j8, a son of N'incent and Ida C. (Kelleri Reeves, the former a native of Salisbury. Wiltshire, Kngland. and the latter of Columbia county, Pennsylvania, being born near Bloomsburg alKiiit ls;i,"). The father was born August 12, 1831, and came to the United States in 1850, locating near Hartford, Washington county, Wisconsin, where the mother had come with her parents three years before.

Vincent Reeves was a blacksmith and worked at his trade for a time in Chicago and also for ,1. I. Case in Racine, Wisconsin, at a time when horse power operated his factory. In 1863 he moved to Pierce county, Wisconsin, and in 1864 to Minneapolis. Here he worked for four years in the blacksmith shop of what is now the Milwaukee Railroad, then the Minnesota Central. In 1868 he began market gardening on the land now occupied by his widow and son between Second street and the Mississippi and north of Thirty-fourth avenue, and which was at that time all woodland. It is a part of the original Campbell Bell claim, and the oldest farm devoted to market gardening in or about Minneapolis. He worked 10 acres in garden crops, and continued his activity in this line until 1S83, when lie turned the business over to his son Nelson, lie was a member of the city council from the Tenth ward for ten yeans, during which period he labored arduously and faithfully for the general good of the city. In politics lie was a Republican and active in the service of his party. In religious faith he was a Spiritualist and in fraternal relations a Freemason, holding membership in Minneapolis Lodge, No. 19, and at his death was one of its oldest members. The lodge conducted his funeral obsequies in an imposing manner. He built the house in which he died and in which his widownow lives, in 1874, then being the finest in the northern part of the city. His death occurred on September 19. 1910, in the eightieth year of his age.

In the family four children were born. Three of whom are living. Nelson H., Martha E. and Julia A. Martha is the wife of J. A. Gillard, manager of a large saw mill at La Pas, Manitoba. Julia is the wife of W. J. Glenn, of Tacoraa, and who is connected with the Northern Pacific Railroad. His father, Robert Glenn, was one of the early butchers in Minneapolis. For a time he owned the original Colonel Stevens home where the old union depot now stands, but in later years moved to the vicinity of the Reeves home, where he died. Florence A. Reeves married Charles Roberts, and died at the age of thirty-seven. Her two children, Nellie and Horatio, are being reared by their grandmother.

Nelson H. Reeves has lived in Minneapolis since 1865 and on his present farm since 1868. He worked for and with his father until 1883, when he took upon himself the management of the business, his father retiring. He built his first large greenhouses in 1892, and to these he has made additions until he now lias about 38,000 square feet of floor surface under glass. In winter he devotes his efforts to raising lettuce, parsley, radishes and cucumbers. Most of hi» products are sold to commission men and sent out of this state. He also raises large quantities of rhubard by a forcing process, a large part of his land being given up to the production of this succulent plant, his anniuil output ranging from twelve to sixteen tons. His yearly sales of lettuce aggregate 12.000 to 15,000 dozen and of cucumbers 3,000 dozen. He also grows bedding llowcrs and plants, and keeps a stall in the Minneapolis market. His operations compel him to employ four men the year round.

Mr, Reeves was oiu' of the incorporators and is the vicepresident of the Market State Bank of Minneapolis. He w«« married in December, 1909, to Mrs. Anna O. Nelson, a widow with one son, George Herbert Nelson, who is a graduate of the State Agricultural College, of the class of 1913,. and associated with Mr. Reeves. By his marriage to Mrs. Nelson, Mr. Reeves has become the father of one child, Joseph N. The father is an Odd Fellow and belongs to North Star Lodge, No. 6.

John D. McMillan, president of the Osborne-McMillan Elevator company, came to Minneapolis in 1887, and lost no time, soon starting a venture which he has since been busily and successfully occupied in promoting to high development and profitable results.

Mr. McMillan wa-s born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1860. Immediately after leaving school he entered the employ of the Cargill Bros. Elevator company in La Crosse, where he remained ten years. Soon after his arrival in Minneapolis he united with Edward N. Osborne in the Osborne-McMillan Elevator company building a large elevator on the line of the Soo Railroad. They also built the Empire elevator on the Milwaukee Railroad: and the Northland at another location on the Soo, the latter operated by the Northland Elevator. They also own extensive holdings in the International Elevator company, which operates in Western Canada.

The aggregate of the interests with which Jlr. McMillan is connected are large, the management being with such prudence and enterprise that every factor contributes to progress and prosperity. Mr. McMillan is a director and ex-president of the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Minneapolis, Minikahda and Lafayette clubs, and other organizations engaged in uplift work, and is ever ready to give practical support to any undertaking for the general good. In political contests he has never taken part as a partisan, and has had no political aspirations. Mr. McMillan is married and maintains a pleasant home at 239 Clifton avenue.

The late Francis S. McDonald, who died in Minneapolis July 18, 1896, at the age of sixty-one, after a residence of forty-two years in the state, proved himself to be a useful citizen, rendering excellent service both in times of peace and in time of war. He was bom in Cumberland county, Maine. June 10, 1835, and at the age of seventeen worked in a cotton factory at Saccarappa, and later at Lewiston. After one year in Massachusetts, he in 1854, came to Minnesota and joined his uncle, John McDonald, in operating a saw mill at Otsego, Wright county. The uncle helped to build the first saw mill at St. Anthony, later building the one mentioned.

In 1861 Francis enlisted in the Third Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, being soon afterward promoted orderly sergeant. He had command of his company in Indian campaigns, and for his services and valor was commissioned second lieutenant. He re-enlisted in Hatch's Battalion and was detailed as draft clerk at Fort Snelling, where he remained until mustered out of the service in 1865. In 1866 he was appointed postmaster at Fort Snelling. and in 1868 moved to Minneapolis, still remaining in charge of the postoHice.

of Wright county one term and also as tax assessor of Otsego. In 1868 he took up his residence in the block containing the present home of his widow at 1212 South Eighth street. He was appointed deputy by County Auditor Mahlon Black, and when that gentleman retired succeeded him, and by successive re-elections was continued for twelve years. He was a Republican, and active in all undertakings designed to promote the general welfare of the city and county.

November 2, 1857, Mr. McDonald was married at Otsego to Miss Elizabeth Spencer, who was born in Bangor, Maine, February 7, 1838, and came to Minnesota at the age of nineteen with her parents, who located at Otsego. She and her husband were the parents of four children, two of whom are living: Mary, is the wife of Dr. N. P. Austin, and Nellie, is the widow of the late E. L. Fisher, who was a conductor on the Wisconsin Central Railroad for thirty years, and who was killed in a collision. Mrs. Fisher lives with her mother, and has two childi-en, William and Florence. Another daughter of the Fisher household. Frances, died when she was sixteen years of age.

Mrs. McDonald's sons were Fiank and Charles. Frank was deputy auditor under his father, and after the father's death, under Harry Minor. He died in California on Easter Sunday, 1891, aged thirty-nine. Charles was a locomotive engineer on the Milwaukee Railroad, and died March 2, 1899, aged thirtysix. The mother is a great lover of her home and lives a retired but useful and commendable life, manifesting a cordial interest in everything that pertains to the good of the city.

Mr. McDonald died July 18. 1896. His death was due to overexertion in making arrangements for an encampment of the Knights of Pythias, a fraternity to which he was ardently devoted, and was a brigadier general in the military rank of the order. He was also a Knight Templar and the Commandery to which he belonged attended his funeral in a body. Each of the other twenty-one fraternities or societies to which he belonged was also represented at the funeral, which was one of the largest and most imposing ever seen in Minneapolis, the procession being said at the time to have been five miles long. No man in the city ever had a wider circle of acquaintances or was more popular. After leaving the office of auditor he became tax agent of the Milwaukee Railroad. He was very e.xact and painstaking in his work, and his superior officer in the tax department of the railroad declared that his only mistake during his connection with the department was made on the day of his death.

Thomas Kennedy Cray

The late Thomas K. Gray was before his death, which occurred on December 24, 190<,), the oldest retail merchant in Minneajiolis and the oldest dealer in drugs in the state of Minnesota in continuous connection with the trade. His career was quiet and uneventful except for the length of its continuance, his constant fidelity to duty, his conservative adherence to the same location for more than half a century and the enterprise with which he kept pace with the flight of time and the progress of events in business and in local and general public affairs. His life flowed on in one continuous current of calm, unostentatious goodness, true to the duties ever at his hand, furnishing a lofty example of undemonstrative.

modest, meritorious manliooil. and working out results of enduring value to the eonimunity, and his record is enshrined in the admiring remembrance of all who knew him.

Mr. Gray was born of Scotch ancestry at Jert'erson, Lincoln county, Maine, on June 17, is:i3. His parents, Peter T. and Elizabetli (Ken edy) Gray, lived originally in Andover, Massachusetts, and moved from there to Maine. The father was a doctor, and died when liis son Thomas was only f(mi; years old. In 1842 tlio mother moved lier family to \\'aIdoboro, also in Lincoln county, Maine, and there the son passed three years at Wescosset Academy, completing his academic education, and in the meantime acquiring a general jireliminary knowledge of drugs by studiously reading tlic incdical l)Ooks in liis father's library.

The yoting student was employed as a clerk in a dry goods store for three years, then, at the age of twenty, came west to Toledo. Ohio, where he resumed his clerking, which he continued in that city until 1855, when he came on to Minneapolis in company with his brother Oliver C. They first went to what is now Hutchinson, Minn., and there assisted in platting the town of Hutchinson having walked from St. Paul. John D. Gray, who came on later, became a partner of Dr. M. R. Greeley in the drug business in Minneapolis and Thomas K. clerked in the dry goods store of D. \V. Ingersoll in St. Paul for half a year. Oliver C. Gray went to Arkansas, where he became principal of a boys' military academy, and at the beginning of the Civil war enlisted in the Confederate army. He was promoted in the service until he reached the rank of colonel, and after the death of his first wife married the wfdow of a Confederate general, and some years later died in the South. His second .son, Carl R. Gray, became connected with railroading early in his manhood and has risen to distinction in official circles in that great industry. He was president of the Great Northern Railroad and several other corporations embraced in the Hill systems.

Early in 1857 Thomas K. Gray bought the interest of Dr. Greeley in the Minneapolis drug store, and he and his brother .John formed a new partnership, under the name of Gray Brothers, to continue the business. It was carried oti in the firm name until 1874, when .John D. retired from the partnership and moved to the Pacific coast. The Gray Brothers' establishment was first on Bridge Square, but in 1858 it was moved to its present location on Hennepin avenue. The whole block in which it stood was destroyed by fire in 1864, and soon afterward the brick structure in which the business is now housed was erected. Mr. Gray conducted the business until a few years before his death, when he decided to leave the details to the care of his son Horace. But he continued his connection with the trade until the end of his long and useful life.

Not long after his location in Minneapcdis Mr. Gray secured a tract of land at the intersection of Nicollet avenue and Oak Grove street, and on this he built a store and an apartment house, the latter being the well known Winthrop tiat and stores. Near by, at the corner of Oak Grove and Spruce streets, he had his own home, and this home has been in the family for fifty-eight years, the widow continuing to make her home in the same dwelling since his death that she occupied HO long with him.

Mr. and Mrs. Gray were married in 1865. She was, before her marriage. Miss Julie Allen, a daughter of Rev. Lorenzo B. Allen, for some years pastor of the First Baptist church of Minneapolis. A brief account of his life will be found in this work. Six children were born in the (iray household, four of whom are still living. Horace A., the first born, succeeded his father in tlie drug business and is still engaged in it at the old stand. Edward L., the third son, died in early life as the result of an accident. The two daughters are Grace Elizabeth now Mrs. A. B. Choate of this city, and Marguerite. Mr. Gray was trustee and an active member of First Baptist church for many years.

For a continuous period of :ilmost forty years the late Alinus C. Matthews was connected with the Washburn-Crosby company of this city, and throughout that long term of service proved himself to be an expert and dependable workman in the line of his employment as well as an upright, enterprising and public-spirited man in connection with all the duties of citizenship. So valuable did his services to the company prove in his years of activity that when tlie advance of age rendered him less vigorous and alert the company insisled on his retiring from active work, but continued him on the payroll until death finally ended his labors.

Mr. Matthews was born at Mayfield, Fiilton county. New York, on February 1, 1832, and died at his home in Minneapolis, 1531 East Twenty-fourth street, on February 19, 1914. He was reared in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and learned the trade of mill wright under the instruction of his father. Before the Civil war he moved to Altona, Knox county, Illinois, and during that memorable conflict he served for two years in the Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. While in the service he was promoted from the ranks to the position of first lieutenant for bravery on the field, but his service in the army was cut short by wounds wliich he received in battle, being shot througli his right arm at Fredericktown, Missouri, and later through a leg at Shiloh.

On September 30, 1863, Mr. Matthews was married in La Crosse, Wisconsin, to Miss .Jennie Taylor, of Altona, Illinois. She was born in Pennsylvania and moved to Illinois as a child with her mother. For eleven years after liis marriage Mr. Matthews lived in Winona, this state, and worked at the carpenter trade. In 1874 he moved to Minneapolis, and after serving for a short time in the mills of George Christian, entered the employ of the Washburn-Ci-osby company as a millwright, making his engagement with that companj' his anchorage for the remainder of his life, and winning a high reputation with it for the superior skill and fidelity of his service.

Mr. Matthews was essentially a man of domestic tastes and devoted to his home. When he founded it the location was outside of the city limits and the family had very few neighbors. He witnessed the growth and improvement of the section and did his full share of the work of promoting its advancement. He always kept himself well informed as to current events, and took a helpful part in public affairs as a Republican active in the exercise of his citizenship, but never as a politician. On September 30. 1913. he and his wife celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. He was a genial and companionable gentleman, always fond of flowers and outdoor life, and with a warm heart and open hand for everything that was sunny and cheerful.

home. Of the twelve children born of their marriage six are living: Harry S., Frank M., Ernest L., Winnie (Mrs. W. H. Baxter), Adele (Mrs. Thomas M. Garland) and Myrta (Mrs. Fred W. Bursell), and there are sixteen grandchildren. Mr. Matthews was for many years a regular attendant of Grace Episcopal church. Fraternally he belonged to Cataract Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and Minneapolis Lodge No. 12, Ancient Order of United Workmen.

Charles Morse

Charles Morse, real estate dealer, with offices in the Oneida building, is one of the early citizens of Minneapolis, whose faithful support and successful effort have contributed to the present prosperity of the city. He was born at South Paris, Maine, December 30. 1845. and there received the excellent educational advantages offered by the Oxford Normal Institute. During the Civil war he entered the service of his country, enlisting in the fall of 1864. as a recruit in the Twelfth Maine regiment stationed at that time at Savannah, Georgia, and which participated in the Georgia campaign as part of the army of occupation until it was discharged in August, 1865. Soon after his return from the war, he engaged in the wood and lumber business at points along the Grand Trunk railroad in Maine and continued in this trade until 1875 when he joined his brother, Elisha in Minneapolis. Elisha Morse had located here several years earlier and he is found in the city' directory of 1877, indicated as a notary public, located at 180 South Washington avenue. He was a member for some time of the wholesale grocery firm, Stevens. Morse & Newell, but was largely identified with his brother, in the real estate business. He died in San Francisco p few years ago. For a number of years the brothers were associated in their business interests, constructing as owners, a number of the buildings that were erected in the early eighties, among them the old Kurnam hall on the corner of First avenue, south, between Washington and Third street, the five story section of the National hotel and business blocks on Second Avenue, south. Charles Morse then continued in this occupation for a few years in partnership with Mr. Charles F. Haglin. The trade of this firm expanded rapidly and they extended their operations to Duluth and other cities one of their contracts being for the erection of the court house at Brainerd. Minnesota. They also constructed the foundation for the municipal building in Minneapolis. Since 1892, Mr. Morse has confined his attentions to the real estate business and through his keen financial mind and careful concentration on these matters to the exclusion of all other interests, he has come to be recognized as one of the best informed men on land values in the city and his opinions are accepted as final. His success, he attributes in part to the confidence with which he has always regarded the future of Minneapolis, never hesitating on investments but relying fully on her great promises of development. He considers the remarkable growth of the city during his residence an ample justification of his faith and there is today no more optimistic and enthusiastic citizen within its borders. Mr. Morse has extensive property interests, largely in the resident sections of the city, although he owns valuable trackage property occupied by wholesale warehouses and has erected several prominent buildings. He has been instrumental in the laying out of various city additions, preferring in these enterprises to be a silent partner, his name having been used in but one instance, that of the Morse & Small addition. In consideration of his services as confidential adviser to the late Elder Stewart, he was appointed executor of the Stewart estate, and as such has the detail of the management of this property. His first wife, Ella Townsend Morse, died in 1893, leaving one daughter, Ella T., who is a student in the state university. He later married Adeline R. Barber. Mr. Morse is a trustee of the Universalist church, and a member of Lafayette and Automobile clubs.

Oscar 0. Martinson

Oscar O. Martinson, chief of police since .January, 1913, when he was so chosen by Mayor Nye, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, December 13, 1877, and came to Minnesota with his parents in 1881. The family located at Long Lake, and there the son, completed the course of instruction in the public school. He then learned telegraphy, and was employed as an operator for the Great Northern Railroad for about four years. He then became city salesman for the Crescent Creamery about five years. Mr. Martinson was appointed a member of the police force July 14, 1905, being detailed to do special work. He was soon promoted to sergeant on the plain clothes force, not long thereafter being named a lieutenant. His next step was to the rank of plain clothes detective, so continuing until he was chosen ciiief. Chief Martinson has met all demands in a thorough and satisfactory manner, and has given the city an administration of its police department that is creditable alike to it and to him. He attends to his duties in a quiet and undemonstrative but effective way, and thereby is securing the best results.

The welfare of Minneapolis has ever been an object of practical interest to Mr. Martinson, and he has been diligent in his efforts to promote it through every channel available, his services being recognized and appreciated. He was married December 8, 1899, to Miss Fannie Mousso, daughter of Barney Mousso of a family that was one of the first to settle in St. Anthony.

Although his life and usefulness were cut short at the age of sixty by long continued maladies which steadily sapped his strength, and ended before the ambitions of his aspiring spirit were realized and while they were still potential with him, the late Walter H. Gould of Minneapolis wrought out a very creditable career and made his impress on the body of the times here and in a distant Eastern community before he came to this part of the country, for all his time was well employed on progressive undertakings, and liis indomitable will carried him through them all with gratifying and profitable success.

Mr. Gould was a native of Heath, Franklin county, Massachustts, where his life began on July T, 1850. His ancestry in America runs back to 1650, when the progenitor of the

American branch of his father's family landed in New Kngland. Hia mother, whose maiden name was Martha Temple, also Ix'loiiged to old Colonial families of distinction in times long gone by and prominent in her day, Ave of her brothers being physicians and surgeons in Boston, and throughout Massachusetts and other representatives of the house adorning other lines of serviceable and productive endeavor.

Walter H. Gould was a cotton manufacturer. He began his connection with the industry as bookkeeper in a cotton mill, and by his energy, enterprise and ability soon became the half owner of one himself. He made the cloth for calicoes and other cotton prints in large quantities and prospered at the business. But after conducting his large establishment eight years he found life in the factory so seriously detrimental to his health that he was forced to give it up and seek a change of climate and occupation.

In May, 1886, he came to Minneapolis, and here his health improved so rapidly and steadily that he determined to remain, and even deliberated earnestly over the advisability of starting a manufactory of cotton batting in this city. The fear that the dust of a mill might again prove hurtful to him deterred him, however, and he never yielded to the temptation, although it was strong Avith him to the end of his life. Instead he gave his attention to handling real estate, insurance and probate work and acting as the executor of estates and guardian of minor heire. This gave him the benefit of an outdoor life in large measure, and as he was well informed on questions involved in the laws of his business and very particular and exact in attending to it, he was very successful and his operations were extensive in it.

In the course of his transactions Mr, Gould became mterested in Colorado mining and acquired large holdings in the Radium Mine company, of which he was vice president at the time of his death. The property of this company lies on the celebrated Moffat Rail Road not far from the entrance to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river. Vanadium is found on the property in commercial quantities and availability, and it promises to become very valuable, Mr, (!ould was in the habit of visiting the mine several times a year to push its development, and his services were so highly esteemed that he was continued as vice president of the company even when his health no longer permitted him to give close attention to his duties. He also owned Summit Park farm at Wayzata on Lake Minnetonka where he maintained a summer home and found considerable enjoyment in farming operations. In addition be had cottages at Ste. Albuns Bay, and there too the lake scenery and enticements gave him pleasure at times. In politics he was a Republican, but he never consented to be a candidate for office. He was, however, a strong advocate of just and equal taxation for all classes of the people, and proclaimed his views on the subject everywhere without fear or favor. Fraternally he was an ardent, enthusiastic and hardworking Freemason, and gave tlie fraternity, in all its activities, the best service of which he was capable. Although he was a charter member of Ark Lodge in Minneapolis, and Minnesota Lodge No. 324, serving as treasurer eight years, he did not confine his energies to the service of that organization, but spread them over all, even serving as a member of the state charity board of the order.

On August 30th, 1876, Mr. Gould was married at Bernardston, Massachusetts, in his native county, to Miss Martha Alexamler, who also belonged to old families domesticated at Dedliam, in that state, from early Colonial times. Her greatgrandfather. Dr. Stearns, was the author of "American Herbal," the first medical work published in this country. He was also a poet of .some renown, Mrs, Gould is still living. On her mother's side of the house she had several relatives who were prominent in the French and Indian war in this country. She was prepared for Holyoke College at the Powers Institute in Bernardston, Massachusetts, by one of the eminent educators of the period, Professor L, F, Ward, But she married young and gave up her expected course in college instruction. The questions of the present day interest her deeply, and she is a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, But she is constitutionally opposed to the woman suffrage movement, and is not pleased with the methods of the suffragettes. Two children have blessed and brightened the Gould household. Frances, the daughter, is an artist and lives at home with her mother, Frank, the son, is a member of the firm of Lee & Gould, in the livery business in Minneapolis, The father was fond of all kinds of animals, and greatly enjoyed driving a good horse.

Maurice P, Mclnerny, an inlluential member of the Minneapolis City Council, was born at Louisville, Kentucky, October 21, 1867, the son of Austin .1, and Mary C, fConnell) Mclnerny. His parents were natives of Ireland and came to this country in their childhood. They were married in Louisville and made that city their home until a short time after the birth of their son, Maurice, when they removed to Lake City, Minnesota, where they remained for nine years and then located on a farm in Swift County.

In 1882 the Mclnerny family removed to Minneapolis, and here the father engaged in general building and contracting \intil his retirement, a few years ago. He continues to make his home in Minneapolis and his three daughters and four son's are all residents of the city. At the age of sixteen, Maurice Mclnerny apprenticed himself to the plumber's trade, in the employ of Mr. E. Buffton, and served three years. At the end of his apprenticeship he was employed as a journeyman for a number of years, rising in his profession until in 1004 when he established an independent business which has prospered and steadily increased. In 1910 he removed to his present location, at 414 Sixth Avenue South, He employs a large force of workmen, and handles contracts for general plumbing and heating. He has alway.s championed the cause of organized labor. Possessed of gifts of the orator, and with an unbounded enthusiasm for the cause of his fellowmen, he is a favorite spokesman of the local labor organizations, representing them in many important meetings. In 1910 he was chosen alderman for a four-year term, from the Seventh Ward, one of the strong labor wards of the city. His membership in the City Council has been marked by an intelligent interest in every pha-se of eity government and by commendable achievements. He is Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Bridges and thereby is a member of the Park Board, He is also on the committees on the bonds and aecount.s of city officers, fire department, license, and salaries, \s Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Bridges and as a member of the Forestation Committee he has given most valuable services. His hearty cooperation with the Park Board Commission in the cause of good roads and of the boulevard system and play- ground extension has been of great assistance to the Commission. As a member of the Committee on Forestation he has obtained notable results.

Mr. Melnerny is a Republican but places good citizenship before politics. He was married in 1891 to Miss Margaret McHugh of Elroy, Wisconsin. They have had eight children: Raymond, a graduate of St. Thomas College of St. Paul, and who was killed on the Milwaukee Railroad July 13. 1913, aged 21; Helen, a graduate of South High School in 1912; Margaret, and Maurice, who are students in the High School; Genevieve, Austin. Clayton, and George. Mr. Mclnemy and his family are members of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church.

Minnesota Linseed Oh. Company

This enterprising and progressive industrial institution is one of the leading factors in the conditions which make Minneapolis the greatest linseed oil producing center of the United States, and is altogether worthy of the high rank it holds in the industrial world. It manufactures old process linseed oil and oil cake. The company was originally incorporated for manufacturing purposes in 1870, with a capital stock of $60,000 with G. Scheitlin, D. C. Bell and J. K. Sidle as incorporators. The capital stock at this time (1914) is $150,- 000, and the present officers are: W. A. Ramsey, president, and George L. Miles, secretary. It is strictly a home company, and an important industrial factor its products enjoying not only extensive domestic but also a large foreign sale.

The plant occupied, which was erected and equipped in 1904, covers an entire block at Third street and Eleventh and Twelfth avenues south, and is complete and modern in facilities and appliances. This company crushes about 750,000 bushels of flax seed a year, employs regularly about one hundred persons and has a pay roll that reaches about $1,200 per week. It stands in high estimation for the excellence of its products, the squareness and uprightness of its treatment of patrons, its thorough reliability in respect to the quality of its output and its business methods, and the enterprise with which it keeps pace with improvements. It is a credit to Minneapolis and an element of potency and influence in the city's industrial and commercial greatness.

Was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on March 27, 1856, and came to St. Paul with his father, Patrick McCoy, in 1869. The father and three of his brothers were soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war, having enlisted in Pennsylvania, where they were all then living. Patrick McCoy worked at railroad grading and for farmers for a few years after coming to this state, then located on i\ farm of his own in Dakota county. But he sold this a little later and moved to Colorado, where he died. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic from its organization to the end of his life, and was ardently devoted to it.

Peter McCoy remained with his father until he reached the age of eighteen. He then passed two years and a half in the Colorado coal fields in charge of the San .Juan coal mine.

He has lived in Minneapolis thirty-four years, and during that period has been variously employed. During the last fifteen years he has been a wholesale coal merchant, and during the last two has also carried on a retail trade in this commodity, operating two yards.

In 1898 Mr. McCoy was elected alderman from the Ninth ward, and he served in the city council twelve years continuously thereafter, giving the ward the longest term of service it has ever had from any one councilman. He is a Democrat in politics and the ward has usually a Republican majority, but he was elected time after time solely on his merit and because of his known devotion to the public welfare in general and the interests of his ward in particular.

When he entered the council there were no sewers and no gates at the railroad crossings in his section of the city. The service in these respects is now extensive and increasing. For four years he worked earnestly for street cars for his section, and his work was so effective that he finally secured what the ward wanted in this respect.

Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He also has the sporting element largely developed in his make up, and for some years was the owner of ''Billie Bobbs," the famous ice track racer.

At the age of twenty-six Mr. McCoy was married to Miss Mary Beckley, of Minneapolis. She and the six children born of the union have all died, the last one to pass away being a son named John, wlio died in March, 1913, aged twenty-seven years. Mr. McCoy's second wife was Miss Frances Kessier, also a Minneapolis lady. They have two children, their daughters Gladys and Marian.

Right Reverend Joseph Guillot

Prelate of the Papal Household in Minneapolis. Right Reverend Joseph Guillot, pastor of Notre Dame de Lourdes Catholic church, Prince street southeast, and the first Minneapolis priest to receive the title of Monsignor. has risen to the eminence he occupies in church relations by natural ability improved by hard study and zealous and unremitting service to the cause to which he has dedicated his life. He was born near the city of Lyons, France, about sixty years ago, educated at Meximieux, Department of Ain, and ordained to the priesthood on September 1, 1878, at Bourg. diocese of Belley. While a student he engaged to some extent in teaching, and after his ordination taught one year in ;in institution for the education of deaf mutes.