Minneapolis City (part 74 of 80)

Father Guillot remained as a teacher in the seminary at Meximieux until 1883, when he came to the United States. Bishop Grace, of the diocese of St. Paul, at once assigned him to work at Watertown, Minnesota, but the next year he was placed in charge of the organization at Waverly, Wright county, where he remained until 1898, a period of fourteen years. He erected the church and school house at Waverly and raised the parish to a prosperous condition. Other pioneer work requiring his services, he was sent to Marshall, Minnesota, where he organized a parish of forty-five families. This grew so rapidly that by 1900 it had 200 families, making it one of the leading and most prosperous churches in the diocese. In 1910 he came to his present charge, the church of Notre Dame de Lourdes, wliere much

This church dates from 1S77. when, under Rev. W. Brunelle, the parish bought the buildin-; of the First Universalist Society of St. Anthony. Kevs. L. Chandonnet, P. S. Da^'nault and .1. A. Souniis succeeded, the church embracing some 450 families, with about 2.200 communicants. It conducts an excellent parish school, with an enrollment of .300 pupils on the average, and is ardent with zeal and activity in all good work properly included in its field of useful and beneficient endeavor.

From the time when Fatlier Hennepin visited and named the Falls of St. Anthony de Padua in 1680 to the present time France has contributed liberally of her priesthood to advance the cause of Christianity in this section of the New World. In 1830 St. Anthony was included in the diocese of Milwaukee, and Archbishop Henny sent Father Galtier as a missionary to look after its interests. Two years later the site of the present church of St. Anthony de Padua was purchased by Father Ravoux, then stationed at Mendota. In 1849 a frame church edifice was erected, and in 1851 Father Ledon became the first resident pastor of the parish.

Father Ledon came from France and the same seminary that gave the world Fatlier Guillot, Meximieux, upon the invitation of Bishop Loras, of Dubuque. He was a noted spiritual adviser and did a great work in building up the parish. In 1855 he was removed to St. Peter, and some years later returned to France. There, although he had been absent a long time, he was again placed in charge of his first parish. He was succeeded at St. Anthony by Father FayoUe. a college companion and intimate friend of his young manhood. In 1860 Father John McDermott took charge of the parish, and he was succeeded in turn by Father Tissot, who left a lasting and beneficient inflvience in the community. He came from France in 1854, was ordained in 1858 ana given charge of twenty-four missions, and assumed control of St. Anthony de Padua in November, 1S66. For twentytwo years he consecrated and devoted himself to the needs of his parish, resigning in 1888 and retiring to the Doniinleaii convent in South Minneapolis.

Father Guillot was appointed by Pope Pius X, in March, 1913, prelate of the Papal Household in Minneapolis and received with his appointment to this office in the church the title of Monsignor. On Sunday, April 6, 1913, he was invested with the insignia of his office, the purple cassock, the mantelletta and the rochet. Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, conducted the investiture and presided over the ceremonies, and clergymen from all over tlie Northwest took part in the solemn and impressive proceedings. The pontificial mass celebrated in honor of the event by Right Reverend .1. -!. Lawler, auxiliary bishop of St. Paul, was largely attended. The procession, led by acolytes of the church, comprised seminarians, priests, bishops and Monsignor Guillot with Archbishop Ireland attended by his chaplains. Rev. Paul Perigonl. of St. Paul Seminary, read the brief from Rome announcing the appointment, which was signed by Cardinal Merry del Val.

In the sermon preached by him on the occasion Archbishop Ireland paid high tributes to the zeal and services of Father Guillot as a missionary and pioneer priest. Sixty priests participated in the rites, among them Father Chandonnet, the first pastor of the church of Our Lady of Lonrdes. A complimentary dinner at the St. Anthony club gave opportunity for several congratulatory addresses by visiting clergymen and laymen, and a public reception at Holy Cross hall. Fourth street and Seventeenth avenue northeast, was eagerly utilized by a large throng of admiring friends of the new Monsigrnor in extending to him their expressions of high personal regard and good wi.shes. The occasion marked a lofty altitude in the progress of the church in this locality and was one that will always be pleasantly remembered by all who took part in the unusual and highly interesting exercises, everybody feeling that the honor conferred on Father Guillot was most worthily bestoweS.

One of tlie founders of the Minnesota Loan & Trust Company, and at present chairman of its board of directors, was born at Byron, Genesee county. New York, on August 26, 1847, the son of Daniel P. and .Jeannette L. (PoUay) Merrill, both of the same nativity as himself. The father was a farmer and prosperous in his occupation. The farm lands of Genesee county in the Empire state are very fertile and fruitful, and the elder Mr. Merrill was industrious, enterprising and far-seeing in cultivating them. But the vivid accounts of the superior richness of those in the Mississippi valley which flooded the East soon after that section of the country became somewhat settled and populated, led him to seek the larger opportunities they seemed to offer. Accordingly, when his son Eugene was .ibout ten years old the family moved to Genesco. Illinois, in Henry county. In and around Geneseo the son grew to manhood, and there he continued, in the primitive country schools of the prairie, the education he had begun in the more advanced ones of his native county. At the age of twenty he entered Hillsdale College in the city and county of the same name in Michigan, where he pursued a full four years course of study and was graduated in 1872 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. The same institution afterward conferred on him the degree of Master of Science in regular course, and in 1888, that of blaster of Arts.

Immediately after his graduation Mr. Merrill made an extended tour of Europe, and on his return entered the office of E. L. & M. B. Koon. prominent attorneys of Hillsdale, Michigan, as a student of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1874. and was soon afterward appointed master of chancery. Early in 1875 he came to Minneapolis, and in March of that year formed a partnership Avitli .Judge Charles H. Woods, the style of the firm being Woods & Merrill. It was as a member of this firm that Mr. Merrill virtually began his practice as a lawyer.

The partnership mentioned continued three years, and wag then dissolved on the arrival in this city of the late Judge M. B. Koon, when the law partnership of Koon & Merrill was formed. Two years later Arthur JI. Keith was admitted to the firm and its name beeame Koon. Merrill &, Keith. The business of the firm was large and profitable from the beginning, and it soon became one of the leading law firms in the city, its members being called into almost every ease of prominence or magnitude.

On January 1, 1883, he ipiit the law firm aiul gave nji the profession, at that time uniting with Edmund J. Phelps in organizing the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company, which by his aid and largidy through the wisdom he has displayed in its management has become one of the most successful and widely useful institutions of its kind in the country. He was elected president of the company when it was founded, and this position he held with great advantage to the institution for a continuous period of twenty-seven years. At the end of that long service he resigned tlie presidency, to become chairman of its board of directors, the position he has ever since held in connection with its affairs. He is also vice president of the Associated Realty company; treasurer of the Monadnock Realty company, and financial otiicer of various other corporations that have great weight in the localities in which they operate and help to magnify the value of the utilities around them.

Mr. Merrill left an enviable record at Hillsdale College, where he obtained his higher education, and that institution has watched his career with justifiable pride and pleasure. The college authorities elected him some years ago as a member of its board of trustees. He has filled the position with commendable attention to its duties and been of great service to the college in doing so. He has been for a number of years also one of the trustees of Parker College at Winnebago City in this state. In the social life of the city of his residence he takes an active and serviceable part as a member of the Minneapolis, Lafayette and Minikahda clubs. On September 6, 1876, he was married in Minneapolis to Miss Adelaide Keith. They have four children, Birdette, May, Keith and Eleanor.

David Adams Secombe

David A. Secombe was the fourtli lawyer to practice in the village of St. Anthony, arriving in .June of 1851, and being admitted to the bar the next year. Those who preceded him were: Ellis G. Whitall, J. W. North and Isaac Atwater.

Mr. Secombe was born in Milford. N. H.. May 35, 1837. He was the son of David and Lydia (Adams) Secombe. On his father's side, he was descended from a long line of Secombes in this country, the first of whom came in 1660, from the west of England, and settled in Falmouth, Mass. (now Portland, Maine), removing later to Lynn, Mass., where he died. His will is still on record in Salem. He was Richard Seoombe, and the different branches of his family have adopted different spellings of the name, as: Seccomb, Secombe and Secomb. David Secombe's mother, Lydia Adams, was descended from the same immigrant ancestor as the two Adams Presidents, viz. Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass.

Mr. Secombe attended the public school of his native town, and fitted for college at the academies of Hancock and Pembroke, N. H. He entered Dartmouth College in 1847, but did not remain to graduate, leaving in his junior year to go to Mancliester to read law in the office of the Hon. Daniel Clark, who was at that time an e.\-l'nited States senator, and later a United States district judge.

In June 1851, Mr. Secombe arrived at St. Anthony, and began the practice of law, which he followed continuously for the remaining forty-one years of his life.

He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, which met at St. Paul in 1857, and was a representative from Hennepin County in the state legislature in 1859 and 1860, and in the latter year was a delegate to the national

In 1884, just thirty-five years after leaving college, his Alma Mater confen-ed his diploma upon him. This was without any solicitation on his part, and was a great surprise to him. It was in recognition of the success he had made of his profession, and the credit he reflected upon his college.

He was for nine years local Minneapolis attorney for the Northern Pacific Railway, and at the Directors' meeting following his death, the following tribute was read:

"Whereas, This Board has been informed of the recent demise of Mr. D. A. Secombe, the Company's Local Attorney at Minneapolis, and desires to place upon its records, a suitable expression of respect, therefore. Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Secombe, this Company has sustained a loss that causes sincere regret, and removes from the field of usefulness, one who during his long connection with the Company, commanded the highest appreciation of his associates for his personal worth, and his efficient and satisfactory attention to tlie important interests in his charge."

The funeral was attended by nearly all of the Hennepin county bar, and all the judges of the district court, they having met in the city and marched in a body to his home on Nicollet Island.

"We, the members of the Hennepin County Bar, deem it proper and appropriate that we should place upon record, an expression of our sense of the great loss to ourselves and to our profession, caused by the death of Hon. David A. Secombe, which occurred on the 18th day of this month.

"For more than forty years he has been a resi<Ient of this city, actively engaged in the successful practice of the law. He had emphatically what is called a legal mind; his marvelous instinct as to what the law ought to be, doubtless saved him much labor, which was necessary to those less intellectually great. With the principles of the science he was familiar; with their resources, he was scarcely less so. He was not a 'case' lawyer, hunting for cases and then for principles; for he first determined the principles and then offered the cases as illustrations. He never mistook the grooves and rules of the law for the law itself. He looked at the law from above and not from below, and di^ not cite precedent where citation was not necessary.

"He stood among the brightest and ablest lawyers of the state. His integrity was never questioned, he was kind and courteous towards his brethren, although his keen sarcasm and brilliant repartee often-times, to those who did not know him well, made him appear otherwise. He never burdened the trial of his cases with immaterial matter, he endeavored to determine in his own mind, like a great general upon the eve of battle, where the real fight was coming, where the day might be lost or won, and then to this point he centered all his skill and strength.

In the statement of a legal proposition, or of the facts in a case, he was certainly a master, not surpassed by any one in his profession. His arguments were always clear, concise and logical; no matter how much the court might differ with him, he always commanded its undivided attention.

"He was never in a hurry and never did anything in a hurry. He was dignified and polite under all circumstances, aever forgetting tliat he was a gentleman.

"But he lias been called before the bar of another tribunal to answer for his life here on earth. We shall all miss him, for he was admireil, respected and beloved by us all.

Mr. Secombe married February 27, 1855, Mrs. Charlotte A. Eaton, daughter of William K. Eastman, who survived him, pas.«ing away January 30, 1912. Mrs. Secombe came to St. Anthony with her brother, Mr. William W. Eastman, in 1854. Mr. Secombe left three children: Carrie, Eastman, wife of the late Edward C. Chatfield, and Willis D. Secombe of Minneapolis, and Frank Adams, who died in 1909.

Col. .Tohn Harrington Stevens

The lat« Col. .John Harrington Stevens, was the first settler on the west side of the Mississippi river at St. Anthony Falls in what is now Minneapolis. When he arrived at the Falls he was a young man of twenty-nine, of sturdy New England ancestry, trained in the school of self-reliance in the new West and seasoned in the Mexican war - a born pioneer and promoter. He reached St. Paul on April 24, 1849, and the Falls of St. Anthony three days later.

Some of the party accompanying Colonel Stevens became discouraged and returned to the East. But he remained, and within a month perfected a plan for making a .claim on the west side at the Falls. Before the summer was over the -consent of the Secretary of War was obtained, the land being a part of the Fort Snelling military reservation, and the colonel occupied the domain he had selected. During the succeeding autumn he began the erection of his house, which he completed and occupied on August 6, 1850. It was a story-and-a-half frame structure with a wing of one story - a. simple and unpretentious farm house, built as a home for a young married couple, and without a thought of the varied purposes for which it would be used, or that it would be preserved in a public park in after years, as a memorial of the early days of a great city.

For six years the occupant of this home had not a line of writing to support any claim of ownership to the land on which it stood. He had nothing but the consent of the Secretary of War to occupy it on condition that he would Lmaintain a free ferry across the Mi-ssissippi for government troops and supplies. There was, however, an understanding ' that when the lands west of the river were thrown open for settlement his claim would be recognized, and in the course of a few years it was. In the meantime he had put some of his land under cultivation and begun raising crops of wheat, oats and corn which would have done credit, he said, to central Illinois. These crops, his fields of waving grain, settled the destination of many an immigrant by demonstrating the fertility and productiveness of the region, his farm being the first on the west side of the river north of the Iowa line. He also introduced the first herd of cows west of the Falls except those held for the use of the troops at the fort.

John Harrington Stevens was born in Lower Canada on June 13, 1820, the second son of Gardner and Deborah (Harrington) Stevens, natives and long residents of Vermont. All the immediate ancestors of the family were New England people, and many of them occupied prominent positions in the national and state governments. The mother was the only daughter of Dr. .John Harrington, who served in the Colonial army during the Revolution. His father was a man of wealth and unusually respected by the community in which he lived, and the doctor stood equally high in public estimation. He died in Brookfield, Vermont, in 1S04.

Before young Stevens was of age he became a resident of the lead mining region near Galena, Illinois. In 1846 he enlisted in the United States army for the Mexican war and served through that short, sharp and decisive contest. At its close in 1848 he returned to his early home in Illinois, and from there came to Minnesota in April, 1849, before the organization of the territorial government. On May 10. 1850, he was married at Rockford, Illinois, to Miss Frances H. Miller, a daughter of Abner Miller of Westmoreland, Oneida county. New York. Her parents were from New England and descended from Puritan ancestors. The mother, before her marriage, was Miss Sallie Lyman, of the Lyman-Beecher stock, and her grandfather was a brother of the grandmother of Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Harriet Beeeher Stowe. .

It is difficult to fully realize now the conditions under which Colonel and Mrs. Stevens began housekeeping on the site of Minneapolis but little over sixty years ago. Theirs was the only dwelling inhabited by white people between the Falls of St. Anthony and the Rocky Mountains, but the Indians were numerous around them and at their very door, the camp of one tribe being about on what is now known as Bridge Square, the foot of Nicollet and Hennepin avenues. They did not molest the colonel's stock, but made sad havoc with his garden. As a rule they respected the private property of the whites living outside of their own lands.

In his "Personal Recollections" of the early months at the first home in Minneapolis Colonel Stevens says: "The only way we could reach the house from St. Anthony was by taking a small boat, with two sets of oars, above Nicollet Island. The volume of water was so great, and the current so strong, we were fortunate if the landing was made any considerable distance above the rapids. Pioneer housekeeping was not new to me, for I had long kept bachelor's hall in the lead mines, but it was a novelty to my wife, who had been accustomed to the refining inlluences and conveniences of a well regulated New York household. Sometimes for weeks we would not see a white person, our only visitors being Indians. Mosquitos surrounded the house in such swarms that smoke would not banish them. We usually received our letters and papers once a week. Fortunately I had a pretty good library, and Jfrs. Stevens had a piano and other musical instruments, which had a tendency to banish from the little house most of the lonesomeness naturally incident to pioneer life so far from neighbors,"

In this remote and lonely habitation in the wilds six children were ushered into being for the household. They were: Mary Elizabeth, the first white child born in original Minne- apolis, who died in her seventeenth year; Catherine D., who became the wife of the late Philip B. Winston; Sarah, who died at the age of 24; Gardner, the only son, who is a civil engineer: Orma, who married with William L. Peck, and Frances Helen, who is now Mrs. Isaac Henry Chase, Rapid City, S. D.

During his long residence in Minnesota Colonel Stevens held many high positions of trust in both civil and military fields of official duty. In 1890 he published a volume of over 400 pages entitled ''Personal Recollections of Minnesota and Its People, and Early History of Minneapolis." This book contains more information about the people who made Minneapolis and their labors in its early history than any otlier work. Its material was drawn from his retentive memory and voluminous memoranda, and all its statements are undoubtedly true and authentic.

The colonel was ever busy with his pen during his period of activity, and a potent force in shaping and directing public opinion in this locality. He wrote many papers and delivered many addresses on the early history and agriculture and horticulture of this region, and was the proprietor and editor of several newspapers, among them the St. Anthony Express ; the Chronicle; the Glencoe Register; the Tribune; tlie Cataract and Agriculturist; the Farmers' Union; the Farmers' Tribune, and the Farm, Stock and Home. He was also connected with and president of most of the state and local agricultural and horticultural associations. He was the first register of deeds of Hennepin county and was several times elected to the legislature. Always, in every position, he was a most effective influence in promoting the progress of the state.

The Stevens home "was not only the first established in this city, where an example of domestic virtues, contentment and industry was given, but it was also a fountain of hospitality and kindly helpfulness, as well as headquarters for all neighborly conferences and primitive organizations," says a writer on tlie subject prior to the colonel's death. "Here was held the first court in Hennepin county. Here were organized lodges, boards and societies; and here travelers, prospective settlers and tourists found a cordial welcome. The latchstring of the humble abode was always out, and even the untutored savage entered freely for refreshments, or suffered his little ones to flatten their noses against the window panes while they gazed at the wonders of civilized life within."

Colonel Stevens was a patriarch and sage as well as a helper of all who were in need. During his residence in Minneapolis lie aided its gi'owth and shared with a fond enthusiasm in most of its public and private enterprises. In the beginning he was very liberal in the disposition of his lots, .selling many at low prices and even giving some away as inducements for settlement or business, never allowing gain for himself to stand in the way of improvements. At the end he did not retain even a homestead on his original possessions, while other persons grew rich from the large pecuniary fruits they yielded long before he died.

Charles W. Hastings

This enterprising, useful and highly esteemed citizen, who died in Minneapolis November 2, 1906, in the sixty-sixtli year of his age, after a residence of almost fifty years in Minnesota and eighteen in this city, left an excellent name and fine business record as a priceless legacy to the members of his family.

Ml'. Hastings was born near the city of Elmira, New York, March 25, 1839, the son of Samuel and Abigail Hastings. While he was yet a young boy his parents came West to Kendall county, Illinois, locating near the village of Oswego. Tliere the family remained until 1856, when all its members traveled by teams to Steele county, Minnesota, where the fatlier look up a preemption. Charles then being seventeen years old soon as he reached the required age, took a homestead in that county.

The parents both died in Owatonna well advanced in years, and one of their sons, H. M. Hastings, was a well known miller and man of influence in that city, serving for a time in the state legislature. As a young man Charles was in the habit of hauling wheat to Hastings, sixty miles distant in the winter and taking loads of lumber back. His clothing was often so covered with patches that it was difficult to tell which was the original cloth of which his garments were made. This was a common occurrence of pioneer days, and nobody found fault witli the condition.

Mr. Hastings married young Miss Mariette Gould and engaged in farming on his homestead. After farming for some years they moved to Owatonna, where he was occupied in the livery and stage business for a time. While he was so occupied his wife died, leaving three children, Sarah E., who is now the wife of William Soper, of Owatonna ; Charles F., who is a resident of Los Angeles, California; and Luella, who is the wife of Charles E. Aiken, of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, the cashier of the bank there founded by his fatherin-law.

January, 1871 Mr. Hastings contracted a second marriage, ffhich united him with Miss Esther Sheldon, a school teacher in Owatonna for three years. She was born near Ogdenshurg, New York.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hastings bought the Arnold Hotel in Owatonna, and won such popularity and patronage that the owner of the Park hotel asked them to take charge of it almost on their own terms, and keep it going or close it, as they thought best. Mr. Hastings was an excellent landlord and very popular with traveling men. many of whom made his house their regular Sunday stopping place. He got an excellent business start in the hotel but was inclined to broader fields. About 1880 he sold all and moved to Brookings. South Dakota, then a new towu just starting but full of promise, the State Agricultural College being established there.

There Mr. Hastings became interested in real estate as an owner and dealer and also engaged extensively in selling horses, having many shipped to that locality for the benefit of farmers. In the fall of 1888 he disposed of his holdings in South Dakota and moved to Minneapolis, and soon afterward took charge of the Windsor hotel at Washington avenuf and First avenue north, the site of the Gayety theater of the present day. His popularity as a boniface returned to him. His house was full of patrons, and they all became his friends. The writer well recalls this hotel us one of the most pojiular eating houses in tlic city in those days. Its dining room was filled with the best people in the city who took their dinners there especially on Sunday.

While keeping this hotel Mr. Ha.stings turneil his attention to banking, starting this cnterpri.se in tlie town of (Irand Rapids, this state, and gradually adding banks in other places until he had ten. of which he was the president. lli^ plan was to interest young men in the business and take them into association with himself. Among others he secured 1'. 1*. Sheldon, a son of his wife's brother, P. ,1. Sheldon, of Owatonna, and who soon took charge of the detail work in tho banks, and in time he succeeded liis uncle in tlie presidency of all of them. Some of them have been sold, but Mrs. Hastings still has interests in six. When her liusband died she became the sole executor of his estate, and she has since managed the property with sagacity and enterprise and with very gratifying success.

After his banks were well under way Mr. Hastings gradually retired from the hotel business and gave his attention wholly to them. He continued to be the final adviser and arbiter in connection with all important matters of business growing out of their transactions, and kept himself fully posted in order that he might advise his force intelligently. He was always active and zealous in behalf of public improvements and all other undertakings in his community for the good of its residents, an<l never withheld his support from any project he deemed worthy of promotion or involving the general welfare in any way or degree. He passed many of his later winters in California, but was always eager to get back to Minneapolis in tlie spring. His strong devotion to his home, his love of trading, and other characteristics, led some of his intimate friends to see in him a resemblance to Pavid Harum. and to sometimes jestingly call hira by that name.

By his second marriage Mr. Hastings became the father of one child. Clyde C. Hastings, who is a prosperous farmer in Wright county, ilinnesota. The hitter's wife died three months previous to the death of his father, and his mother has taken his three daughters to rear and educate. They are: Marie, a student at Carleton College, Northficld: Ferol, a student at the Pill.sbury Academy, Owatonna. and Margaret. Mrs. Hastings has also much interest in a niece, who is now the wife of N. C. Larson, of Owatonna. In addition to managing the estate of her husband she is also the executor of that of her late brother, Horace Sheldon, who lived with her a number of years prior to his death Her business cares are numerous and weighty, but she carries the burden with ease, being a lady of fine business ability, great force of character and a broad sweep and comprehensiveness of vision.

Frank L. Morrison

Kor nearly forty years the life of this gentleman has been passed in responsible connection with the flour milling industry in Minneapolis, and it is high praise but only a just tribute to well demonstrated merit to say that he has met every requirement of his long, varied and oftentimes burdensome duties in a masterly manner and to the entire satisfaction of his employers and their patrons. He is now head miller of the Pillsbury .\ mill, the largest flour mill in the world, and is directly responsible for one-half of the whole output of the Pillsbury Milling company. No part of the ilirecting responsibility of the enormous enterprise, is ilelegated to subordinates, Mr. Morrison giving eveVy detail of the work his personal attention and direct an<l studious inspection.

The ordinary daily output of Pillsbury A mill aggregates 11,000 banels of flour. The working force includes one hundred bolters, oilers, grinders and sweepers, and the total number of operatives is regularly aliout 450. Mr. .\Jorrison handles this large force with the skill of an accomplished general and his demeanor toward all the employes is that of a courteous, considerate gentleman. He is true and loyal to the interests of his employers to (he limit of requirement, but he is also fair, just and ecpiitable to the workmen uniler him, and always strictly upright and straight -forward toward the purchasing and general public.

Frank L. Morrison was born at Pickwick, Winona county, Minnesota, on May 11, 1HG.">. a sun of .1. C. and Emily (Bingham) Morrison, farmers who came from Pennsylvania to this state in the early days, the father having driven a stage between Winona and Rochester before the railroads were built. Frank's milling career began in the capacity of a laborer in a mill at Stillwater when he was sixteen years old. He worked in mills in Stillwater and at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, until 1S8.5. Before the end of that year he became an oiler, at $1.75 a day, in Pillsbury B mill, Minneapolis. Under the supervision of that prince of flour millers, J. H. Miller, he progressed steadily through all the stejis of advancement, in 1891 being made a bolter in the B mill, and was assigned as second miller two years later in Pillsbury A mill. His promotion to his present place came on May 1, 1911, his old superior and instructor having died on February 28, 1910.

Mr. Morrison was married in .Minne.npolis in 1903 to .Miss Belle Franklin, a native of Michigan. They have one child, their da\ighter Vellita. The parents are members of the First Congregational church in Minneapolis. While always deeply and intelligently interested in the welfare of his home community and its residents, and doing what he can to promote that in all quiet and unostentatious ways, Mr. Morrison has never taken an active part in political contentions, and has given but little attention to the clubs and fraternal societies so numerous in the city. But he neglects nothing in which the general well being is involved.

Ellery 0. Mead

The late Ellery O. Mead, during his lifetime one of the leading builders of Minneapolis, "was born in Hinesburg, Vermont, on November 16, 1844, and died in this city on April 16, 1911. In his young manhood he was in the mercantile business at Shelburne in his native state.

Mr. Mead went to Aberdeen, S. D., in 1881 and for many years conducted a hardware store on tho corner now occupied by the Abci'dcen Ilardw,are company. After doing business for some time in a small frame building on that site, he moved the structure and replaced it with the building now known as the Wells block, which was called the Mead block until W. O. Wells bought it a dozen years ago. He aold his hardware business at the same time and thereafter devoted his time to his increasing property in this city. He owned the Ilagerty block for some time, selling it to the present

When Mr. Mead came to Minneapolis he bought land on Lowry Hill lying between Aldrich and Bryant avenues, and reaching from Hennepin avenue to Franklin, to which Bryant avenue had not yet been extended. He looked the city over to secure the best location for an apartment house, and by the thoroughness of his search found what he wanted. He then put up the Vermont Apartment, containing twentysix flats, and the next year, which was that of 1910-11, erected Aberdeen Court, containing thirty-six flats.

The locations of these buildings are unsurpassed, and both were built in modern, high-class style. The last was just about finished when he died. He had built both as an investment for himself, and had made them to suit his own elevated and exacting requirements in their line. His business always interested him, whatever it was, and had his close attention. Nevertheless, he was a man of strong domestic tastes and devoted to his home. Social life did not interest him to any great extent, and he was never active in making acquaintances. The persons he cherished as friends were comparatively few in number, but his attachment to them was strong and sincere.

Mr. Mead was a great believer in the Northwest and cordial in his devotion to it and its welfare. He felt great satisfaction in the knowledge that he was permitted to be one of the builders of its greatness and promoters of its progress and development. He also had great confidence in the future of Minneapolis, and was earnest and constant in doing what he could toward its advancement and improvement. He was an industrious reader. His books and his home were the sources of his greatest enjoyment. His widow is living, and has her home at the Aberdeen Apartments. She, also, is warmly attached to Minneapolis, and greatly favors the city as a place of residence.

Albert Massolt

Albert Massolt, president and controlling spirit of the Massolt Bottling company is a native of Minnesota and Avas born in Stillwater. .June 11, 1863. The company of which Mr. Massolt is the head was organized by liim; but its business was started by his father. Frederick William Massolt. who was born in Germany, emigrating to Pennsylvania in 1850. Two years later he came to Minnesota locating at Taylors Falls, where he remained ten years, being there nuirried, March 29. 1861. to Miss Mary Kostman. who was born in Prussia.

In 1862 Mr. Massolt moved to Stillwater, remaining three years, when he went to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and began the manufacture of mineral water. In 1867 he came to Minneapolis in order to secure a better market and increased facilities and started the business which is now beinfj conducted so successfully.

The father died February 29. 1892. He was an active member of the Odd Fellows, a good business man and a highly respected upright, independent and serviceable citizen, and true to every duty in all the relations of life. His wife survived him ten years, passing away in 1902. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom six are still living.

Albert Massolt early went to work in his father's establishment, and when his father died he took charge of the business, incorporating the Massalt Bottling Company in 1907^

The present officers are: Albert Massolt, president; P. A. Benson, vice president; Edward Massolt, secretary, and J. L. Michaels, treasurer. The business is the most extensive of its kind in the Northwest, manufactures all the leading mineral waters, its principal product being "Whale Brand" ginger ale. The plant at 116, 128 Plymouth avenue is large and well equipped with the latest machinery and devices.

Mr. Massolt is a member of the Odd Fellows, the Elks, the- Foresters and the Knights of Pythias. In 1886. he was married to Miss Glendora Bowlby. They have one child,. Gertrude, at home.

J)r. Otis M. Humphrey, who was one of the oldest physicians in Minneapolis at his death July 8, 1911, was born at Victor. Ontario county, New York, April 26, 1832, much of Ids youth being passed in Steuben county, Indiana, with his parents. At sixteen he returned to New York attending academies at Bloomington and Geneseo preparatory for college. Failing health, however, compelled him to forego a college course, but he later studied medicine under the direction of an uncle, a physician in New Y'ork. He attended medical college in Philadelphia and the Long Island Hospital College in Brooklyn. He practicd in Natick, Massachusetts, until the outbreak of the Civil war. when he enlisted in the renowned Sixth Massachusetts Regiment as assistant surgeon.

The doctor soon received his commission as surgeon and . was placed in charge of general hospitals to which th& wounded were sent from the battlefields. For a considerable time he was in charge of such a general hospital in New Orleans, and near the close of the war was director of the army medical corps. Then he was staff surgeon with General Reynolds and General Herron, and served as such until Lee's surrender at Appomattox, being soon after discharged with the rank of brevet-colonel.

He resumed practice in Boston, where he remained until 1870. when health necessitating a change he came to Minneapolis, locating at the corner of Eighth street and Nicollet avenue. He continued in active general practice until 1892, when yielding to failing health he gave up practice and all other active pursuits. He was an active and helpful member of the leading medical organizations and served as president of the state and local Homeopathic societies. He was educated as an allopath but adopted homeopathy of his own initiative. His religious adiliation was with Plymouth Congregational church; and while he took an active interest in public affairs never held or sought a public office. He had a superior education, academic and professional, and in his life illustrated the sterling New England qualities of character and manhood.

Dr. Humphrey was married in Lowell, Massachusetts, in l.sfi2, to Miss Sarah F, Dennis, a native of that city, and who for over forty years has been a highly respected and' useful member of Plymouth church. Their three children are; Otis L., of Boston; Frances H.. wife of Lester C. McCoy, and' Richard D., of Minneapolis. The doctor erected the present home in 1889 at First Avenue and Fourteenth Street and which is one of the choice ones in this section of the city.

Om. Humphrey

His life devoted to liis liome and liis piolr.ssioii, wus ricli in lofty ideals, his activity in all that made for a better citizenship redounding to the general good, his memory being cherished by hundreds who knew his ability as a. physician, his character as a citizen and his loyalty as a friend.

Dorilus Morrison

All honor is due to the men who laid satisfactory foundations and built them of ample dimensions for future needs. Among these men none rendered more substantial, intelligent or far-reaching service or aided more in giving character and stability to the city government than the late Dorilus Morrison, the first mayor of the city, who assumed the control of municipal affairs in 1807, immediately after the place put off the swaddling bands of village infancy and dunned the more ambitious habiliments of city dignity.

Dorilus Morrison was of Scotch ancestry and was born at Livermore, Oxford county, Maine, on December 27, 1814. He was one of the six children, four sons and two daughters, of Samuel and Betsy (Putnam) Morrison, pioneers of Maine and New Englanders by nativity.

Mr. Morrison of this sketch obtained his education in the district or common schools of his day and location, eiubracing every means of opportunity for mental improvement that came his way, but being neces.sarily limited in the range of the facilities available to liim. His parents were sturdy New Englanders with a keen sense of the value of industry and thrift, and it was in consonance with the atmosphere of his honu' that the youth began to earn his own livelihood and make his own way in the world at an early age.

The son began his business career as an outfitter of lumbermen in Bangor In his native state and remained there until 1854. In that year he came to Minnesota and the next year located at St. Anthony. He took a contract to supply the mills on the east side of the river with logs, and for this purpose employed crews of loggers. During the winter he o])erated on Rum river, delivering his product in the spring.

After passing a number of years in this work, Mr. Morrison operated a sawmill and conducted a lumber yard in Minneapolis. He became a director of the Minneapolis Mill company an<l aided in the construction of the first log dam on the Mississippi, which this company erected at a cost of $60,000 for the purpose of supplying water to the numerous mills along the river. Mr. Morrison's lumber business expanded rapidly and the management of the mill company passed more and more completely into his hands as time went by, and it continued to receive his sedulous care and intelligent direction until it was sold to an English symlicate.

In the meantnie Mr. Morrison took an active part in the general business interests of the coniuiunity. In IS.'ili lie was elected the lirst president of the I'nion Board of Trade of St. Anthony, and served that organization for some years afterward as a director. This board of trade was organized t" stimulate the business interests of St. Anthony and the newborn town of Minneapolis on the other side of the river. Mr. Morrison, also, with loyal devotion to and fond meiuorio of his native region, took a leading part in organizing and <lirecting a New England society eomi)osed of settlers from that section of the country.

affaii-s also, and in 1864 was elected to the state senate. In the legislature his colleagues were such men as Hon. John S. I'illsbury, afterward three times governor of the state; Hon. Cyrus Aldrich, later postmaster of Minneapolis and useful to the community in other official capacities, and Judge F. R. E. Cornell, and in a gathering of men of their caliber he was recognized as an equal in force, intelligence, judgment and breadth of view.

Events were shaping themselves, however, for the employment of Mr. Morrison's abilities in a more restricted though not less important sphere. Early in the legislative session of 18G7 Minneapolis was incorporated as a city, and on February I'J following he was elected its first mayor, and on February 20 was inducted into the office. He was re-elected in 1869, and during the four years of his tenure of the ofTice he showed himself to be verj' wise and judicious in shaping the city government and giving it substance as well as good form and firm legal standing.

With the keenness of vision that always distinguished him Mr. Morrison saw at an early dale the great need of increased transportation facilities for this section of the country. He becauu> earnestly interested in the matter and was a member of the company organized to build the lirst section of the Northern Pacific Railway. In this company he was associated with Messrs. Brackett, King, Eastman, Washburn and Shepherd of Minneapolis; Merriam of St. Paul; Payson and Cauda of Chicago; Balch of New Hampshire, and Ross and Robinson of Canada. The first section of the road extended 240 miles and was completed in 1872. Mr. Morrison was ehoseii one of the directors of the company, and was tontinued in the office until the reorganization of the road after the failure of Jay Cooke.

In 1873 he again becauu' a member of the construction company and helped to build the second section of the road, which extended from the Red river to the Missouri. There was no money to pay for this work, so Mr. Morrison took up the stock of his associates, paid off the indebtedness and received from the company as his compensation a large tract of pine lands in Northern Minnesota.

In 1871 Mr. Morrison's interest in the general welfare of his community led to his election as a member of the city school board. He was elected for a Second term in 1878, and during this term was president of the board. He was also a prominent and influential member of the lirst board of park commissioners, and for years was deeply interested in the Athenaeum and in promoting plans for the expansion and improvement of the Minneapolis public library.

Mr. Morrison was lir.st married at Livermore, .Maine, to Miss Harriet P. Whitmore. They became the parents of three children, George H., Grace and Clinton. The last named was the only member of the family living in Minneapolis. A sketch of his life will be found in this volume. His mother (lied in Austria in 1881. and his father was married a second time, being united on this occasion with Mrs. H. C. Clagstone, a widow lady of great culture and refinement. In political relations he was a pronounced Hepiibliean and in religious faith a Universalist enrolled in the membership of the Cliurch of the Redeemer of that sect. He died in ISltO. and his second wife passed away some years later. His name is hehl in grateful remembrance among all t-la«ses of the people of the city for whose advancement he did so much, and he is regarded on all sides as one of its most worthy, estimable and -erviceable citizens and highest types of nun.

Harry L. Moore

Harry L. Moore, alderman from the Seventli ward, is a forceful factor in public life, whose ability has been variously tried in different capacities, found equal to every requirement, and in all the relations of life has been clean, strong and helpful.

He was born in Minneapolis, May 31, 18G8, and is the son of Winchester E. and Nellie (McKeene) Moore. His grandfather, Joseph Moore, came to Minnesota in 1851 and located on a farm at Brooklyn Center, where he died in 1898 at the age of ninety-three. Winchester Moore came to Minneapolis in 1855, was for many years engaged in the Plaining Mill business, and was for a long time engineer of the city water works, being now practically retired.

Harry L. Moore was educated at the Washington School and the Central High School, and in 1886, at the age of eighteen, passed the civil service examination and was appointed to a clerkship in the postoffice. After three years of such service he became an employee in the oflice of Fred S. Swisher, agent of the Michigan Central and the Monon Railroads. In 1891 he was appointed agent of the Monon route, having filled that position with credit to himself and to the company ever since. He is also the local agent of the Western Assurance Company and the Insurance Company of North America.

Mr. Moore's public service lias been characterizeil by enterprise, progressiveness and breadth of view. He was elected alderma'n by a handsome majority in 1912. although the honors came unsought.

In the council he has had abundant opportunity to show his mettle and render service, to the full satisfaction of his constituents. He is chairman of the committees on railroads and street railways, and a member of those on public buildings and grounds and of good roads construction.

Mr. Moore has also taken an active part in eivic life as a member of the Traffic, Minneapolis, New Athletic, East Lake Street Commercial, Athletic and Boat and Powderhorn Clubs, and in the fraternal lines by membership in the Masonic order, the Royal Arcanum and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, He was married January 1, 1900, to Miss May N. Martin of Crawfordsville, Indiana. They have one son Stanley L. They are Methodists in religious affiliation and active in church work.

James H. Martin

James H. Martin, a leading leather merchant and progressive business man was born at Decatur, 111., in 1860. His father, Captain I. N. Martin, was one of the pioneer settlers of Decatur where he was a well known contractor and builder. He was among the first to respond to the call for troops in 1861 and at the end of the three months' service, reenlisted and served throughout the war, receiving honorable discharge with rank of captain. When the Grand Army of the Republic was organized in 1867, Captain Martin's name was one of the first to be placed on the roster of the first post, and he is still an active comrade in the fast thinning ranks of veterans. James H. Martin attended the public schools in Decatur and at the same time engaged in carrying newspapers and in working in a photograph gallery in the morning and evening.

Leaving school, he secured employment with Nebinger & Reeser, a leather firm, and during the six years in their employ, mastered the business. For the ne.tt seven years he was with the Standard Oil company. In 1893 he came to Minneapolis and established himself as a leather merchant, jobbing in leather and .shoe findings, his success being beyond expectations, liis goods finding market throughout the northwest. For eight years the location was at 609 First avenue, south, but on the erection of a four floor brick building for the firm by C. B. Hetfelfinger, it removed to its present quarters, 30-22 North Fourth street, the building becoming the property of Mr. Martin in lull. Aside from the management of this establishment, Mr. Martin established the Martin & Adams. Leather Co. at Spokane but later sold his interest. He is vice president of the I. N. Martin Dry Goods company at Peoria, 111., and in 1909 he organized the Progressive Shoe JIachinery Manufacturing company, whose remarkable growth necessitated the building of a new plant at 32nd street and Snelling avenue at the cost of $40,000. Mr. Martin is a member of Wesley church, and superintendent of the Sunday school, and is president of the Minnesota Sunday School Association. He is a Shriner and member of the New Athletic club and the Civic and Commerce association. He was married to Miss Ida Kain of Decatur, 111. They have two children, Edith, and Russell. The family residence is at 1917 Colfax avenue, south.

Everett F. Irwin

Now enjoying the evening of life after a useful career, Everett F. Irwin, of Richfield township, is highly esteemed for his sterling manhooil and enterprising and public-spirited citizenship.

Mr. Irwin was born twenty-two miles from Buffalo, Erie County, New York. February 2. 1840. and at sixteen came to Minnesota with his parents, George W. and Meribah L. (Webb) Irwin, both also probably bom in that state. They located in what is now Edina, but was then. Spring of 1856, Richfield township, seven miles from the court house. They paid $1,200 in gold for 160 acres of Oak Openings, which he made into a fine farm, and where he died.

The eastern line borders what is now Penn avenue, which was laid out soon afterward and became the principal road into the city. George W. constructed the buildings which are now standing, including a fine two-story barn. The first dwelling house erected was built in a hurry and So loosely that during storms it leaked, necessitating moving the bed to the middle of the room.

Mr. Irwin died February 21, 1885, in his seventy-fourth year. His widow survived him ten years, being about the same age. They were among the eleven original membere of the First Baptist church of Richfield, which was organized in 1858, and of whom their .son Everett is the only survivor. The father was chiefly instrumental in establishing the congregation, and during life this worthy couple retained an active and productive membership, many deeds of kindness and words of sympathy attesting the nobleness of lives grounded in Christian faith. For eleven years church services were held in the school house and until the erection of the present building in 1869.

iiig it as clerk for twenty and as deacon for fifteen years. The original Irwin family were three sons and one daughter. Levina became the wife of Clinton K. Reynolds, a pioneer sash manufacturer of Minneapolis. George H. Irwin is a real estate dealer. Judson D. Irwin has for twenty-five years been a physician in St. Louis, Missouri. Everett F. Irwin remained with his parents until twenty-one. He as a boy grubbed out a considerable quantity of land, becoming inured to all other kinds of farm labor.

He attended the first high school in Minneapolis, Prof. Stone being principal; and himself taught three winter terms. Securing eighty acres of prairie in Bloomington township, he put in his first crop while living four miles distant, carrying food from home. His team consisted of a yoke of oxen and a span of colts. This crop netted him, however, a profit of $1,.300.

One year later he exchanged for another tract on Lyndale avenue, where his son John B. now lives. There were new buildings, and about forty acres was under cultivation. A leading feature of his business was to buy young cattle, feed them through the winter and sell at advanced prices. Meanwhile he kept clearing until he had seventy-five acres under lultivation, and buying more as circumstances permitted.

He was among the first breeders in Minnesota of Holstein cattle, and for fifteen years exhibited them at the state fair. The Wood-Lake Stock Farm herd of fifty head took one season premiums amounting to $700 in competition with thirteen herds from other states. Two years Mr. Irwin wa.s elected President of the Western Holstein-Friesian Association. His son .John B. finally assumed charge of the herd, not only maintaining but extending its former importance and reputation. As a young man Everett served as Qviarter Master in Capt. E. B. Ames' Company of state militia, being an active participant in its annual musterings. At the Indian outbreak, in August, 1862. he enlisted in Ansen Northrup"s Company of cavalry, making a forced march from St. Peter to the relief of Fort Ridgely.

Mr. Irwin wius married in 1867 to Miss Martha Borland, of Iowa. She was born in the same town in Erie County as himself, graduated from the state university of Iowa, in which her l)rother was a professor; and was for a time herself engaged in teaching. The brother's health failing, .she accompanied him to the then noted St. Anthony Water Cure, located on the site of the Exposition building. After marriage she entered heartily into all local movements for social betterment, was an earnest worker in Sunday school, her natural grace and endowments, emphasized by an excellent education and intercourse with cultured people, endearing her to the hearts of a wide circle of warm friends. She died August IS, 1900.

Mr. Irwin's second marriage. .lanuary 15, 1902, united him with Miss Minnie Manton. <laughter of Rev. .Joseph R. Manton. Mrs. Irwin graduated from Burnett's Ladies' Seminary, the then leading girls' school of the Northwest, taught for four years in the Minneapolis schools; and. at her mother's death, devoted herself to the declining age of a loved father.

When .lr)hn B. took charge of tlie old farm and the cattle indu.stry, Mr. Irwin began more actively to improve the pleasant farm on which he now lives. He was town supervisor eight or ten years, a part of that time being president of the board. He was clerk of the school district twenty-four years in succession, and was township assessor fifteen. In politics he is a working Republican. In all relations of life he has been esteemed as a true, useful and representative citizen.

Frank Leonard Morse

Frank Leonard Morse, who died in Minneapolis on April 22, 1898, was an early arrival and a potential force in helping to lay the foundation and build the superstructure of the city. He was born at Jolmson, Vermont, January 18, 1837, and came to Minneapolis in 1858. His first arrival, however, was in 1857, when he came with his father, Moses Morse, who was a resident of Burlington, Vermont, and sought this locality as one in which he could loan money to advantage. Frank passed a few months in Kansas, but returned to Minneapolis in 1858. He became a farmer near Minnehaha and also owned a farm near Minnetonka, from which he sold wheat at $3 a bushel. He too loaned money and made investments.

His luotlier Henry joined liim in ISOG and passed the remainder of his life here. They were both small farmers and living in North Minneapolis. The father also came to Minneapolis each summer until 1867. then remaining and died lierc in 1872, Frank was one of the first members of the city council, beginning his service in that body in 1867 and continuing it several years. In 1871 he was elected a member of the legislature.

During liis first service in the council he was its vice president and was known as the "great objector," being constantly on guard against injudicious expenditures of the public monej'. His last service in the legislature was as senator from the Thirty-first district from 18'J3 to 1895. He was a Republican originally but became a Greeley man in 1872, and afterward a Democrat, which he continued to be although the free silver issue of 189G caused him much dissatisfaction.

On June 11, 1878, Mr. Moi-se was married in Chicago to Miss Catherine Agnes Cummings. of Burlington. Vermont, who came to Minneapolis in 1867. The}' had no children. Mr. Morse was a devotee of hunting, fisliing and other outdoor recreations. He was warm in his friendships and keenly felt the loss of those to whom he was closely attached, and others had the same feeling toward him. During the last ten years of life he was rather closely confined to his home but was free from financial and mental cares. He took life easy and enjoyed the companionship of old friends. His home was the center of neighborhood societj' for the few persona with whom he was on intimate terms. They were mainly old whist players and choice companions. The Fiat Poker club was organized in his home with a membership made up of such well known men as Joseph W. Thompson. R. B. Langdon, Colonel Benton, Judge Welch, George Cadwell. t). M. Laraway. B. L. Perry. Major Hellel finger. Dr. A. Barnard, Judge William Lochren, S. B. Searles. John Harrison. Edward Clement, Horace Henry and Mr. Hubbard.

This club was locally famous and its members probably got as much enjoyment out of its gatherings as any body of men ever did in Minneapolis. They became warmly attached to one another in bonds of friendship which nothing but death could sever. The young peojile of the neighborhood also made the Morse home headquarters, and not a day passed but it was the scene of rich enjoyment. Mr. Morse was an invalid for some years but had little physical suflTering. His greatest and almost his only source of grief was the death of old friends before him, ealch intensifying to him the fact that the circle was narrowing year after year. His widow is still living at 1819 Hawthorn avenue.

John H. Musgrave

John H. Musgrave comes of an old Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, family, where he was born October 31, 1871. After attendance at the Western Reserve University, he entered Yale, where he was graduated from the Law School in 1893. He began his practice at Pittsburg, but in 1900 came to Minneapolis. His father, Samuel Musgrave, had bought, in 1898, the old Buell block at Seventeenth street and Nicollet avenue, had converted it into fiats, and had decided to live retired in Minneapolis, dying here 1910. He had formerly been a successful hardware dealer in Pittsburg.

John H. Musgrave has enjoyed a fine general practice, being recognized as among the ablest counsellors at the local Bar. He is a stockholder in the Pittsburgh Steel Company, and has other important financial interests in that city.

He finds relaxation from professional cares especially in the diversion of driving high class horses. He has owned several fine horses, and takes keen delight in participation in gentlemen's driving races, such as those on the ice, at Lake of the Isles. In politics he is a Democrat, and though he has never sought public office, he has been active on campaign committees in state and local contests. He is a Knight Templar, a Scottish Rite Mason, and a Shriner.

In 1903 Mr. Musgrave married Elmina Johnson of Pittsburgh. They have two children, John and Zabina Brindley. The family attends the Episcopal church.

Weed Munro

For a continuous period of twenty- four years the late Weed Munro was a resident of Minneapolis and engaged in the practice of law here. He rose to high standing at the bar and attained wide and well founded popularity among the people. As a lawyer he was able, resourceful and industrious, and these qualities brought him a large and remunerative practice and made him successful in the trial of his cases. As a citizen he was enterprising, progressive, publicspirited and knowing, earnest and serviceable in his support of projects for the advancement and improvement of the city and the benefit of its residents, but always keen in his analysis and clear in his judgment as to the value of what was proposed. And as a social factor he was genial, companionable and winning. But for the fact that he was on the wrong side of the political fence for this locality he would undoubtedly have been honored with high official stations and gained an extended reputation for his knowledge and wisdom with reference to public affairs.

Mr. Munro was born in the village of Elbridge, Onondaga county. New York, on June 22, 1856, a son of John and Evaline (Page) Munro, also natives of the state of New York. The father was a prominent farmer of the progressive type, giving studious attention to his business and conducting it on the most approved modern methods of his day. He was a well educated man, a graduate of the University of Rochester and a trustee of an excellent academy at Elbridge. He was deeply interested in the cause of education and practical in his views concerning it, and through his activity in connection with the science he rendered the people of his county and state valuable and highly appreciated service.

constant touch with lofty ideals, it is not surprising that the son became a man of superior attainments, high aims and sterling worth. He began his academic education in the Elbridge Academy and completed it at the University of Rochester, as a member of the class of 1875. He then studied law, and after a due course of preparation was admitted to the bar. He began the practice of his profession in Syracuse, New Y'ork, and remained there until 1883.

Mr. Munro was doing well in his professional work in Syracuse, but for some years the great Northwest beckoned him with persuasive hand, and in the year last named he yielded to the magnetism and came to Minneapolis to live. It was not long before he became well established in a good practice here, and as he was also active in the public affairs of the city and county, he soon rose to prominence and influence in the councils of his political organization, the Democratic party. He was the nominee of his party for a district judgeship and made a strong campaign for the office. But the tide was against him, and although he reduced he was unable to overcome the large majority the opposing party had long had in the district and throughout the state.

After this election Mr. Munro continued to practice law, as he had done before, and remained active in liis profession" until his death, which occurred on January 30, 1907. Mr. Munro was twice married, first in June, 1887, to Miss (Jertrude Daniels, of Minneapolis, who was very prominent in musical circles. Her death occurred September 9, 1894. On July 2, 1901, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Georgie F. de Camp. Mrs. Munro is still living and maintains her home at 1608 West Twenty-fifth street.

John B. Irwin

Within the last twenty or twenty-five years wonderful progress has been made in improving the breeds and breeding of cattle in the state of Minnesota, and great credit is due to the far-seeing and enterprising men who started the movement for this improvement and have kept it in action with steadily increasing benefit to the state. One of the pioneers in the movement, especially in breeding Holstein-Friesian cattle of superior quality, has been Everett F. Irwin, of Richfield. Hennepin county, and one of the leaders of those who have kept up and expanded the industry is his son, John B. Irwin, also of Richfield, and now living on the farm on which he was born on February 16, 1874, the only child of Everett F. and Martha (Borland) Irwin.

.lohn B. Irwin, who is widely known as one of the great breeders of Holstein cattle mentioned above, and also as the proprietor of Wood Lake and Clover farms, was educated at the Pillsbury Academy and the University of Minnesota, and was graduated from the latter institution in the class of 1898. While attending the Univpi'sity he was a member of the Delta Epsilon fraternity, and still holds an active membership in the Delta Upsilon Club.

Two years after leaving the University Mr. Irwin purchased his father's old homestead and began raising early potatoes. The venture was frowned upon and derided by the knowing ones in the neighborhood, but when they saw the returns they began to raise the same crop. It has proven to be an excellent crop for this locality, and the industry has increased to such an extent that it is now the principal source of income for

In 1885 Mr. Irwin's father bt'gan the breeding of Holstein- Friesian cattle and thereby liecaine a pioneer in what is now one of the state's most important industries. When the son bought the farm in 11)00 the Wood Lake herd passed to him, and he, starting with a basis of about twenty registered cows, in thirteen years has nuide himself an international reputation as a scientific and judicious breeder of this line of dairy stock, his herd having not only brought renown to Hennepin county, but also to the state of Minnesota.

Mr. Irwin lias three important ideals in mind all the time in developing his stock. First, <iuantity ami (|uality of milk and Imtter jiroduction; second, animals of strong constitutions; and third, a large, smooth, uniform type. His success in competitive exhibitions is largely attributable to the last named characteristic, for which the Wood Lake herd is notable. It has been shown with credit at the Minnesota and other state fairs almost every season since its establishment, the (piality of the cattle being constantly improved and the number increased.

The reputation gained for his herd by Mr. Irwin in local contests has been high, and he has also exhibited it in fields of international magnitude. At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis in 1904, in competition with some 200 animals from ten of the leading Holstein breeders. Wood Lake herd led by a good margin, winning the Grand Premier Exhibitor's Championship and the Grand Premier Breeder's Championship, Again, at the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon, in 1905, where the competition was with a better quality of animals than those of the year before, this herd carried away the Grand Premier Breeder's Championship; and at the Alaska-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909, in competition with imported animals, representatives of the herd won highest honors in several classes, first, second and third prizes going to bulls bred at Wood Lake farm.

During all the years of the public history of this herd its reputation has been well maintained. In 1911 it took the first prize at Waterloo and also at the National Dairy Show in Chicago. Individual animals bred in the herd and exhibited by others than Mr. Irwin have also won important honors at numerous state fairs and expositions, and breeding animals from Wood Lake have found purchasers in almost every state of the American Union, and many have been exported to other countries.

The Wood Lake herd stands also in the front rank in butterfat production tests made under the supervision of the State Experiment Station, 'cows from this herd having exceeded the world's records of production in different classes. Another evidence of the pre-eminence of the herd is furnished by the fact that Mr. Irwin was the first to supply Minneapolis physicians and hospitals with certified milk, the Hennepin County Medical Society taking the initiative in the matter of securing pure milk and choosing the Holstein milk of this herd for certification. As recognized by the medical fraternity and chemists, Holstein milk is peculiarly adapted to the needs of infants and persons of delicate health, it being more readily assimilated than any other milk from cows.

In 1907 Mr. Irwin purchased another farm, which now contains 480 acres, and is located in Bloomington township, seven miles from Minneapolis. On this he is developing the select Clover Farm herd.

charter member of the Minnesota State Cattle Breeders' Association, and has been its secretary-treasurer from its organization. He was one of the organizers and the first president, for two years, of the Minnesota State Holstein-Friesian .Association, and is now serving his second term of three years as a director of the National Dairy Show held in -Chicago, and was one of the three first stockholders of this show in Minnesota, and one of the first three delegates from the National Holstein- Friesian Association to the National Dairy Conference in Chicago, in which representatives of twenty-eight national associations and industries allied with the dairy interests were assembled. At this conference was organized an association representing the whole dairy industry, which, including production, is the most extensive industry in the I'nited States.

In 1902 Mr. Irwin presented before the National Holstein- Friesian Association, in session in Syracuse, New York, a strong argument showing the special adaptation of Minnesota to the breeding of Holstein-Friesian cattle, and secured an appropriation for use by the Minnesota State Fair, in addition to its regular fund for prizes, for the development of this breed of cattle. This appropriation has been renewed every year since. This Association is chartered in the State of New York, and Mr. Irwin has served it as vice president, and director, which position he is still filling.

Mr. Irwin married, on September 22, 1900, Miss Bernite Hennings, of Willmar, who was educated at the State University, and a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. They have two children, their sons being .John B.. Jr., and Everett Hennings. Mrs. Irwin is a school official in Richfield and is a member of the State commission to investigate rural schools.

Henry Luther Martin

Mr. Martin was brought to Minneapolis when he was less than a year old and has since lived at 521 Fourth Street Southeast, for a continuous period of 53 years or more. He was born in Danville, Caledonia county. Vermont, on July 10,

1857, the son of Harmon M. and Mary A, (Morrill) Martin, who were members of old New England families that settled in Vermont in early Colonial days, and members of which were prominent in the struggle for American Independence before and during the Revolutionary war. In the spring of

1858, when their son Henry was but a few months old, the parents came to the village of St. Anthony, then but a straggling hamlet in the wilderness.

Harmon Martin, the father, conducted a meat market for a time, in association with Moses Hayes, and later they united in founding the first iron works in this community, the establishment now known as the Union Iron Works, After a number of yehrs, Mr. Martin sold his share in the business and bought the Island Flour Mill, in partnership with Edward Brown and William F. Cahill. the name of the firm being Cahill. Brown & Company. This mill was destroyed by fire about 1871 or 1872. Then, with William Dunwoody and a Mr, Tiffany, Mr. Martin leased a mill on the West Side. He had a general oversight of all the mechanical and office work of this mill and remained in charge until his death, in March, 1878, at the age of 62, His wife survived him about two years. They were members of the First Congregational church, of which Rev. Charles Secombe was the first pastor.

Henry, now resides, in 1859 or 1860. There was a small house on the lot at the time, and this he afterward enlarged. The dwelling honse now on the lot was built by the son. The father was one of the original stockholders of the Northwestern National Bank, and retained his interest in the institution to the end of his days. Early in the decade of 1850 he and his two brothers went to California as gold-seekers, and as they were all resolute, hard-working men. eacli of them secured some of the precious metal and took it back with them to Vermont. These three members of the family, Harmon W., John and Chester, came to Minneapolis about the same time. While Harmon Martin was in Vermont after his trip to California, he married Miss Mary A. Morrill, who his second wife and the mother of Henry L., their only child. The father had a son by his first marriage, Lyman S. Martin, who served in the Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war.

Henry L. Martin attended the public schools, and took a partial course in the University of Minnesota in one of its early classes. For some years after leaving the University he was in the grocery trade in partnership with Frederick Johnson, the present .J. C. Johnson & Co., wholesale grocers, and in 1879 was employed by the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad when W. D. Washburn was its president. After two years in railroad service, Senator Washburn appointed him clerk of the Steamer St. Louis, in service on Lake Minnetonka, to take charge of the money taken in on it and direct its office work in general.

In the fall of 1881, Mr. Martin was appointed assistant ticket agent of the Great Northern Railroad in the Minneapolis depot ticket office, under W. P. Ives. Mr. Ives resigned in 1883 and Mr. Martin succeeded him as agent, and remained in the office until 1903, when he retired from all business. During some of the yeai-s when he was ticket agent the ticket sales amounted to more than $1,000,000 per annum. Since his retirement from the office he has given his attention to his lands, live stock, securities, and other property.

May 13, 1884, Mr. Martin was married in Minneapolis to Miss Blanche Woodmansee, a daughter of Daniel and Kate (King) Woodmansee, who came from Dayton, Ohio, to Minnesota in 1870, and located in Ramsey county, soon after their arrival the daughter entered the State University. Her father operated the .stock farm, which later became the Commodore Kittson farm, located near this city. He moved to Minneapolis in 1877 and managed the Commodore's stables until the death of their owner, in 1888, after which he leased the estate. He afterward passed several years in California, and in that state his wife and one of his sons died. He spent the last years of his life in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin, where he died at the age of seventy-eight.

Mrs. Martin is the only Survivor of her father's family. By her marriage with Mr. Martin she became the mother of seven children, all of whom are living. They are: Dean, a graduate of the forestry department of the State LTniversity and now forest examiner for the Federal government in the White Mountains; Ruth, a graduate of the University and a teacher in the high school at Mountain Lake; Kate, a graduate of the University; .lohn, a student at the University; Mary and Blanche, students in the high school, and Henry, a student in one of the graded schools.

Lucian Swift

This esteemed citizen of Minneapolis, in the decade following 1885 made an honorable and commendable record in American journalism. He was manager of the Minneapolis Journal, and one of its four owners until September 1, 1908, when the paper changed hands and he retired from the management. His career was not begun in the field of journalism, nor did it appear to tend in that direction. His relation to it was rather accidental than designed, and his success was entirely due to strong natural endowment and adaptability, impelled by a persistent determination to make the most of any situation.

Mr. Swift was born in Akron, Ohio, July 14, 1848, a son of Lucian and Sarah C. (West) Swift. The father was a native of Connecticut, where the family was established in 1635 by an English colonist, who, early in the nineteenth century, located in the Western Reserve of Ohio. He was a lawyer and one of much force of character, taking an active part in public affairs, serving as clerk of the courts of Summit County for a number of years and was also State Senator. His father, Hon. Zephaniah Swift, was Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court of Connecticut for nearly twentj- years and was the author of a legal digest and of standard treatises on several branches of law.

After several years in Akron the senior Lucian Swift, removed to Cleveland, where the son had the advantage of excellent educational facilities. He graduated from the high school and then entered the Department of Mine Engineering in the University of Michigan, graduating in 1869, His roommate at the University was Charles F. Brush, whose name has been immortalized by the electric ai'c-light which he invented, and which is now in univei^Sal use.

After completing the course at the University, young Swift returned to Cleveland, where during the next two years he was employed as a salesman. But this occupation not being congenial he determined to come West, where, in the multitude of opportunities amid the undeveloped resources of a new country, he hoped to find employment more in accord with his taste and education. His intention was to locate at Duluth, but the prospects in the Zenith City were not then inviting, and he came to St. Paul through Hon. Charles Mcllrath, then State Auditor and his kinsman. Mr. Swift, secured a position with George B. Wright, of Minneapolis, then a surveyor of government lands, but who soon became land agent of the Northern Pacific Railroad company.

The young engineer remained in this employment for five years, making plats and land grants, rights of way, and other transfers of property, visiting various land offices for the necessary information. While so engaged he once camped on the present site of the city of Fargo. At Georgetown, then a promising village, on the Red River, he attended an editorial convention and banquet, over which the talented literary wanderer. Bayard Taylor, presided.

In 1876 he resigned his position and revisited his boyhood home and friends in Ohio. Upon returning to Minneapolis he secured a position as bookkeeper at a meager salary, but his ability being soon recognized, he was asked to become bookkeeper and cashier for the Minneapolis Tribune. He renuvined in the employ of this paper for a number of years, becoming thoroughly conversant with all the details of newspaper production.

and VV. H. Hawley in the purcliase of the Minneapolis Journal at a cost of $130,000, and was at once chosen manager. Within six years thereafter the daily circulation of the paper increased from 10,000 to 35,000 copies, a gain of 250 per cent, while the population of the city in that period increased but 75 per cent. September 1, 190S, the paper passed to new ownership and Mr. Swift retired from its management. He, however, retained the presidency of the Housekeeper Company, which he and his associates had purchased in 1895. This magazine became deservedly popular attaining a circulation of more than 400,000. In 1910 it too was Sold and tlie proceeds from these two publications were invested in Minneapoli.s real estate.

Mr, Swift is a member of the Minneapolis, Lafayette, Minikahda, Minnetonka Yacht, the Klks and the Commercial clubs, having been one of the original members of the latter. For several years he was a member and director of the Board of Trade and of the Business Men's tJnion. In 1891 he was a director and treasurer of tlie Exposition. This was the banner year in the history of that enterprise, the attendance exceeding half a million. In 1877, Mr. Swift married Miss Minnie E. Fuller, a native of Ashtabula, Ohio, and a daughter of Rev, George W. Fuller. Their only child living is Grace F.. wife of A. W. Strong.

Mrs. Swift died in 1903. She was blessed with natural charm, enhanced by culture and intercourse, ever radiating beneficent influence and exemplifying to a degree, a domestic life devoted to service. Her interest in charitable efforts never ceased; hundreds cherish her memory in grateful affections.

Hon. Silvanus Albert Stockwell

Born at Anokii. .hine 8, 1857, and having passed tlie whole of life in the state, and been active and enterprising in business and public affairs from the dawn of manhood, Hon. Silvanus A. Stockwell has made a record that is creditable alike to the commonwealth and to himself. He is a son of Silvanus and Charlotte (Bowdish) Stockwell. He a native of Worcester county, Massachusetts, and she of Hartwick. Otsego county. New York, where they were married, and whence they came to Minnesota, in 1856.

They engaged in farming at Anoka and lived in that town until death of the mother in 1889. when she was fifty-eight, and the father in April, 1908, when he was eighty-five. He was the first treasurer of Anoka county, and so served several years. He was also an alderman and filled other public offices. The mother was a member of the board of education for twelve years, being the first woman to so serve, and was its president at her death. She began teaching at the age of fourteen, and taught in New York and in Ohio until her marriage. She also taught in Anoka in both public and private schools, and ever maintained a warm interest in the cause of education. She was besides a public speaker of more than local renown and an earnest participant in the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Methodist Episcopal church.

Silvanus A. Stockwell remained in Anoka until the age of eighteen, being educated by home training and in schools sometimes taught by his mother. At eighteen he began teaching in Sherburne county, afterward continuing this work for several years in country and village schools in Anoka and

Hennepin counties. In 1878 he came to Minneapolis as an employe in the office of the American Express company, and three or four years later became railroad train messenger, remaining with the company eleven years. In 1889 he entered the life insurance business as agent for the Provident Life and Trust company, with wliich he remained about four years, then became general agent for the Penn .Mutual, completing his twentieth year of such service October 21, 1913, Nearly one-half of the business done by this company in Minnesota is transacted through his office.

The Penn Mutual has extensive loan interests in Minneapolis, At one time one-tenth of all its mortgage loans were placed in this city, and they then exceeded in amount those of any other company doing business here and much of this business has been secured within the last twenty years.

When he was but nineteen he began active work in political campaigns, he and another young man organizing and conducting a campaign for the mayoralty of Anoka against Captain Cutter, in opposition to the saloon interests, their candidate being easily elected.

He has been keenly interested in politics ever since, and was himself elected to represent the Thirty-third district, including the Seventh, Eleventh and Twelfth wards of Minneap(dis and the towns of Ex'celsior, Eden Prairie. Bloomington aii<l Kichlield, in the House of Representatives in 1890. He was the Democratic candidate endorsed by the Farmers' Alliance. In the session of 1891 he was chairman of the committee on labor and author of the present anti-Pinkerton law, requiring that all recognized legal officers must be residents of the state, imported officials having no authoiity. He also served on the committee on education and introduced the free text book bill which later became law. In 1892 he was defeated, but four years later was again chosen from the same district, being the Democratic and Populist candidate. In the ensuing session was a member of the committees on education and taxation and secured the repeal of the law exempting mines from taxation when they were not in operation. He made this question a campaign issue and got the Repiiblieaiis in thi' legislature to endorse and work for it, keeping himself in the background, and so succeeded in getting it enacted.

In 1898 he was elected to the Senate from the same district, but as his party was in a minority he could accomplish little in constructive legislation, yet was fully alive in preventing much that was vicious. In 1901 he won the establishment of the Torrens system of Land Title for Hennepin, Ramsey and St, Louis counties, and this over the opposition of thirty lawyers. The constitutionality of the measure was afterward savagely attacked, but was sustained by the Supreme Court, He was a member of the tominittee on legislative expenditures, began the fight against the payment of reporters for reporting the proceedings of the legislature for their papers, which ended in a complete victory.

In 1900 he was the Democratic nominee for Congress making the race on a platform of anti-imperialism, and receiving 2,000 more votes in the district than Mr, Bryan. He served in the extra session of 1902, but was defeated for re-election that year, although reducing the Republican majority by more than 1,800 votes.

Mr. Stockwell is a recognized advocate of the single tax system of taxation, so forcibly elaborated by Henry George. In 1891 he introduced the first constitutional amendment to provide for the referendum, and has ever stood for advanced legislation, including the initiative and recall. He was a delegate from the state at large to the Baltimore convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson, and having even previously organized a Wilson movement, he campaigned vigorously on the stump as a member of the Democratic county executive committee. He was also a candidate for alderman favoring municipal ownership of the gas plant, but was defeated at the polls. He is a dose student of modern social questions and holds advanced views on all matters relative to educational, moral, economical, social or religious advancement.

In October. 1887. Mr. Stockwell was married to Miss Maud Conkey, a daughter of De Witt C. Conkey, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this work. She was born in Milwaukee and brought as a child to Minneapolis, was a member of the first class graduated from the old Central High School and a teacher in the city until her marriage. For ten years she was president of the Women's Equal Suffrage Association and is widely known as an ardent supporter of the cause. She is a member of the Women's and Coterie clubs. Three daughters were born. Ruth died at the age of nine. Charlotte is a graduate of the University in the class of 1913. Elizabeth Conkey is a graduate of tlie high school, attended Graham Taylor's School of Philanthropy in Chicago and is now connected with the probation office of the juvenile court.

Dr. James Eugene Manchester

Dr. Manchester was born on a farm at East Pitcairn, St. Lawrence county, Nevr York, on August 16, 1855. He died at his home in Minneapolis of Bright's disease on January 24. 1913, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. His parents were Carlos and Lydia (Gleason) Manchester, both school teachers in early life, and later the father taught in the public schools of Steele county, this state. The.v came to Minnesota in 1862 and took up their residence at Udolpho, Mower county. There the father developed a tract of wild land into a fine farm, became a man of prominence, held a number of township oflSces, and died past seventy years of age. The mother's death occurred about a year later on the old farm.

His son, James Eugene Manchester, attended the Winona Normal School and afterward the University of Minnesota, being giaduated from the latter in 1884. He was principal of the Blue Earth high school from 1885 to 1890, and superintendent of the schools at Alexandria from 1890 to 1893. In 1893 and 1894 he pursued a special course of study in mathematics and physics at the University of Michigan.

The five years following his work in the University of Michigan were passed by the doctor and his wife in Europe. On that ccmtinent he gave special attention to the study of pure and applied mathematics at Goettingen, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Tuebingen. and received the degree of Doctor of Science. During the same period Mrs. Manchester studied modern languages at the seats of learning named above. On their return to the United States in 1890 the doctor was elected professor of mathematics at Vincennes University, Indiana, and his wife to teach modern languages and literature in the same institution. From the chair of mathematics Dr. Manchester was elevated to the presidency of the University, and in that office he served it with distinction three years.

At the end of that period he became a member of the mathematical faculty in the University of Minnesota. He resigned his professorship in our state institution in 1909, and after that he and his wife taught for three years at Moore, Montana. The doctor was a constant student, always working for higher mental development and greater attainments. He was one of the best mathematicians who ever lived in this state, and his superior mathematical ability was recognized all over the United States and in many foreign countries. The Indiana Academy of Science and the American Mathematical Association were proud to have his name enrolled among their members, and so much was he in demand among men and women of high attainments in his line that he received a special invitation to attend the International Congress of Mathematical Societies held in Heidelberg, Germany but he was unable to do so.

The doctor's specialty was "Function Theorj'," and he acquired distinction in connection with it. He was so energetic, resourceful and persuasive in liis work that he infused new life into institutions of learning with which he was connected, and his services to them were highly appreciated. His relations with his associates in the faculties and the students in his classes were always pleasant and helpful to them, and his enthusiasm was so abundant and contagious that others were lighted by its torch and became enthusiastic themselves. He was a good Latin scholar, a master of German, the language in which he wrote his thesis for his degree, a pleasing and illuminating speaker, though not an orator, and held a fluent pen, writing many articles for publication on educational subjects. He was also a teacher in Sunday schools for many years, and his purse was as open as the stores of his learning to worthy students in need of assistance. Withal, he was a very modest and retiring man, and never sought public notice, either through political channels or any other. He was a member of the First M. E. Churcli and an officer of the same at his death.

Walking and fishing were the principal recreations of this great student, and he indulged his taste for them freely. Fraternal life interested him deeply, and his interest in it found expression through his active membership in the Masonic order, the lodge of which at Austin, where his remains were buried, conducted the funeral services when he was consigned to his long rest after his active and productive life. He was married in Windom township, near Austin, Minnesota, on September 3, 1879, to Miss Margaret Smith, a daughter of the late David L. Smith of that township. No children were born of the union, so Mrs. Manchester was free to indulge her own passion for teaching and assist her husband in his labors. She taught modern languages and literature at the University of Vincennes and other branches in other schools and made an excellent record in her work. She is active in club life, having been for five years a member of the Ladies' Coterie Literary club and during the year 1913 president of the St. Anthony Falls club.

Edward Jloore, M. D., F. A. C S.. is oiii' of the best known surgeons in America, partly from the fact that he was one of the tirst specialists in surgery west of New York City. His is an established position of distinction and authority, and his skill has won him recognition in the various associations of surgeons.