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Dr. Moore traces his ancestry on his fatlier's side to Scotland, on his mother's to Germany. He was born at C'larksville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, March 3, 185:2. His father being a Methodist clergyman, the family migrated in accordance with the customs of the church. His early education was in the public schools and in the home, till at fifteen he entered Poland Union Seminary in Poland, Ohio, where his scholarship won a recommendation to General Garfield, then in congress, that he be appointed to a cadetship in West Point, which was not done because of objection of his parents. Becoming a teacher he aspired to a further education, and \X'hile so engaged began the study of medicine, soon entering the medical department of the University of Michigan, where he continued during the years of 1871 and 1872. He then became a student in Bellevue Hospital Medical college, graduating in 1873. He located at Fort Wayne. Indiana, where the practice was largely among the laboring classes and others who could not pay their bills. He then took a course at the New York Polyclinic and studied. He then entered practice in Emlenton, Venango County, Pennsylvania, until 1883, when he came to Minneapolis becoming a partner for five years with Dr. A. A. Ames. Attending Dr. Bergmann's Clinics in Berlin and the clinics in the Cliaring Cross and the Royal Orthopedic Hospitals of London he decided to devote his entire energy to the practice of surgery. In addition to general surgery he has specialized in orthopedic surgery and he is the author of a recognized treatise on that subject. He contributes constantly to the better class of medical publications and during the year 1906 was the editor of the Chapter on Surgical Technique in ''American Surgery."

Dr. Moore is a Fellow of the American Surgical Association, the only living American Honorai-y Fellow of the American Orthopedic Association. He is ex-president of the Western Surgical and Gynecological Association and ex-chairman of the surgical section of the American Medical Association. Later honors which have come to him are Southern Surgeons and (gynecological Association, is one of the founders of the American College of Surgery, and one of its Board of Governors.

Dr. Moore's political principles are republican, and although he has sought no office is much interested in civic affairs being generous with his time when it is of public service. He is a member of a number of medical clubs as well as of the New Athletic. Minneapolis. Lafayette and Minikahda clubs. His church relationship is as a member of the Church of the Redeemer. In 1874 Dr. Moore married Miss Bessie Applegate who died in 1881. In 1884 he married Miss Clara E. Collins who died a year later leaving him an infant daughter who is now Mrs. Bessie Moore Forssell. The present Mrs. Moore was Miss Louie C. Irving, who became his wife in 1887.

Holland. When he was eight years old he canu- with them to America, and with five other families in their party they bought a section of land in Silver Creek, Wright County, Minnesota, and set to work to wrest their fortunes from the soil. This meant hard work for every member of the family; and school attendance was only in the intervals so that in his first twelve years, Frank had only parts of two years of schooling. In 1870 he became a printer's devil in the office of the St. Cloud Times where he spent eighteen months, then, going to St. Paul, he entered the employ of one of the faculty of that greatest university, the newspaper business. This was Harlan P. Hall, then director of the St. Paul Newspaper I'nion, publishers of ready-printed portions of country newspapers. Thus began twenty years' association with Mr. Hall, whose name is inseparably linked with the fortunes of the publishing business in Minnesota. For some years Mr. Meyst continued with Mr. Hall while the latter was at the head of the Daily Globe, holding some of the most responsible desk positions on the paper, which was for many years the principal organ of the Democratic party in Minnesota. This association of the two men was ])ractically continuous with the exception of intervals in which Mr. Meyst made excursions into country journalism, founding the Brainerd Dispatch and the Osakis Observer, thus adding to the variety of experience in the publishing business. When Mr. Hall sold the Globe to Lewis Baker in 188.5. Mr. Meyst joined him as secretary in the establishment of the Mutual Benefit Publishers' Association, an organization which made ready printed sheets for newspapers. Two years later the business was sold to the A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Company. Mr. Meyst eventually becoming resident manager. He so continued until the company was merged with other interests into the Western Newspaper linion, of which he was also chosen resident manager. Throughout his association with the jiublishing business, Mr. Meyst has been one of the leading sjiirits in organizations of publishers and employes. For many years he has been a member of the executive board of the Minnesota Editorial Association, enjoying, with such a-ssociates as David Ramaley. H. P. Hall, C. C. Whitney, Frank MacDonald. the Days. Easton, Masteruuin. I.eicht. the Eastmans. Huntington, Pease, and others, a remarkable acquaintance among newspaper men. and so among all the public men in the Northwest. Mr. Meyst is prominent as a 32 degree Mason, as a Knight Templar and Shriner, in Masonry, and is an active member of the New Athletic Club, and other civic and business organizations. May 26. 1881, Mr. Meyst married Lena Furch of Minneapolis. They have three daughters. Lillian D.. May E.. and Bessie L., and one son, Frank J. Meyst, Jr.

Mrs. Meyst died October 10, 1913. She was highly educated and was active in literary and social clubs, her own home being a .social center. Ever 'con8i<lerate for others, her friends extending all over the northwi'st have expressed warmest sympathy and acknowledgement of her endearing character.

Frank Jay Meyst

Lack of space confines the story of Mr. Morison's eventful life to a mere outline. He was born at Belfast. Waldo County. Maine. March 6, 1885, the son of A. .1. and Christiana I Philbrook 1 Morison. The father was a hardware merchant, in Belfast and after his death the business was continued in the

In 1875 Mr. Morison went to sea as a common sailor, making his first voyage from Maine to New Orleans. From the latter port he sailed with a cargo of cotton to Eeval, Russia, on the Gulf of Finland. The ship in which he sailed was on the Atlantic 93 days and was given up as lost; a year and a half later it was lost, with all on board, in an East Indian typhoon.

For a few years after his perilous experiences at sea Mr. Morison worked for his older brother, in the old hardware store, at Belfast and finally in 1882 he became its sole owner. He induced a number of country stores to put in small stocks of hardware in addition to their other goods, and to buy their supplies of him, and the result was an immediate and considerable expansion of his trade, and his became the leading store in Belfast.

In 1880 Mr. Morison was married to Miss Evelyn Pendleton, the daughter of Captain John G. Pendleton, of Searsport, Maine, who came to Minneapolis in 1874, lived here two years, made some investments in tlie city, and then returned to Maine and his seafaring life. In 1886 Mr. Morison purchased a retail hardware store in Minneapolis under the firm name of W. K. Morison & Company. The store had been the retail department of Janney & Semple and was originally established by Gov. John S. Pillsbury. He organized the firm of W. K. Morison & Co. with a capital stock of $100,000, Janney & Semple retaining a one-half interest in the firm, but in 1892 Mr. Morison bought their interest. The hard times of 1893-94 crippled the business to such an extent that Mr. Morison had to start practically anew in 1897, and is now the sole owner of the business. In 1900 he secured the premises he now occupies, but which he will have to vacate January 1, 1915. In this he has what competent judges consider the finest hardware store in the country. It is one of the six largest in the United States. In October, 1905, and again July 2, 1907, fire caused a loss in the aggregate of over $250,000 in his stock, and each did $25,000 to $30,000 worth of damage to the building; yet after each he opened up for business at 8 o'clock the next morning. In 1888 he sold all the hardware used in the Guaranty Loan building, and this sale amounted to more than the whole of his first year's business in Belfast, Maine. Later he sold the hardware for the City Hall and Court House, and made other large sales.

The first Mrs. Morison was a leader in the benevolent and evangelical work of Plymouth Congregational church and a director of its home for children and aged women. .She died on June 17, 1907, leaving an adopted daughter, Ruth P. Morison. In July, 1909. Mr. Morison contracted a second marriage. Mr. and Mrs, Morison have as members of their household Miss Ruth P. Morison, .lohn S, Pendleton, a grandson of Captain John G. Pendleton, the first Mrs. Morison's father, and Alton B. Jackson, a nephew of Mrs, Morison, and who is associated with Mr. Morison in business as vice president of the W. K. Morison & Co.

Mr. Morison is an enthusiastic yachtsman and a skillful sailor. He is a member of the Minnetonka Yacht Club, and has been one of its directors for years. He is fond of shooting and is a member of the Long Meadow Gun Club. He also belongs to the Minneapolis Club, and the Minikahda, Commercial, Lafayette, Auto, and Athletic clubs, the Civic and Commerce Association and the Masonic order, in which he holds the rank of a Knight Templar. He has gone in for aviation, has made several notable ascensions and undergone some thrilling aerial adventures.

Pioneers who locate in the wilderness of a new country, redeem it from its wild condition and plant and people it with beneficent activity and enduring happiness and prosperity are always entitled to high regard by those who follow them and have the benefit of their hardihood, enterprise and daring. Pioneers who establish a new industry and open new avenues of trade, giving employment to many workmen and comfort to hundreds of patrons; who thereby expand and magnify the industrial and commercial influence of the community in which they operate and awaken dormant energies among its residents, and who give it a name and standing in lines of traffic and marts of merchandising where it was before unknown, are also deserving of strong commendation and grateful remembrance.

The late James McMiUan of Minneapolis was a pioneer of both kinds to some extent, and the cordial esteem in which he was held by all classes of the people of the city in its more youthful days showed that his worth was justly measured by them, and the high place his name still occupies in the memory of Minueapolitans of everj' rank and condition proves that the estimate of him in his own day and generation was a just one. He died in this city on March 24, 1909, in the fifty-third year of his age, and after a residence here of more than thirty years.

Mr. McMillan was born in the village of Fryeburg, Maine, on October 24, 1856, the son of James Osgood and Caroline (Gibson) McMillan. His ancestors on both sides were prominent in the early Colonial history of New England and in our Revolutionary struggles. The mother was a sister of Hon. Paris Gibson, one of the leading business men of Minneapolis in its early days, later a United States Senator from the State of Montana, and now a prominent merchant in the busy and progressive city of Great Falls in that commonwealth. Mr. McMillan obtained his academic education at an excellent academy in his native town, but left it at an early age because he was eager to begin his business career and start making his own way in the world.

Soon after he left school he came to Minneapolis, where his uncle, Mr. Gibson, was then operating the North Star Woolen Mills. He accepted a place in the employ of the uncle, and remained with him about five years. He then determined to start a business of his own and founded the firm of .James McMillan & Company to deal in hides, furs, wool, pelts and kindred articles of merchandise, and also to operate the Minneapolis Sheepskin Tannery, which at that time had a very small and rather languishing business.

Mr. McMillan put his heart into his work and applied all his fine business capacity to it. His trade began to make big strides forward within a few years, and soon laid many sections of the country under tribute to its extensive and rapidly giowing activities. The firm, which was one of the first in the city in its line, bought goods from all parts of the United States, and in all other regions where they were for sale, and built up the most extensive business of its kind in this part of the world. The sheepskin tannery was en- largeil from time to time, and kept eciuipped with the latest and best machinery, and finally reached a capacity of 2,S0O pelts a day. Every variety of fur which had a commercial value was to be found in the McMillan lofts in the winter season, even the rare sea otter and black fox, sometimes running in value upwards of $1,000 per skin, being numbered among the treasures stored in them.

Mr. McMillan located his establishment on Uridge Square in 1877, and it was the first of its kind in the Northwest, as has been noted. In 18S1 he moved his business to the old Harmonia building on First avenue south, and in 1K',)2 l)uilt the McMillan block, a large brick structure, substantial in construction, commodious in size and imposing in appearance, which is still an ornament to the locality in which it stands and a monument to its builder's enterprise and foresight,

Mr. McMillan's first partner in business was Charles S. Gibson, who afterward moved to Fort Benton. He was next associated with J. F. Radclifle, who died in California in April, 1886. His sister, Miss Caroline E. McMillan, was also associated with him in business for about twenty-nine years. He never married, but lived at 1728 Nicollet avenue with his mother and sisters, to whom he was warmly devoted. His religious leaning was to the Universalist sect and he was a regular attendant of the Church of the Redeemer of that denomination. In politics he was not a partisan and never took an active part, but in conviction he was an ardent protectionist and a leading Republican.

Great foresight and breadth of view characterized all Mr. McMillan's business operations, as they did his activity in reference to public improvements and local public afTairs. He had extensive real estate interests in various places at the time of his death, some of his investments in this line being considered chimerical by numbers of his friends. Among these were his holdings at International Falls. Minnesota, Chelan Falls, Washington, and Great Falls, Montana. The first is on Rainy river, which forms a part of the international bomidary between this country and Canada, the second on the mighty Columbia, and the third on the fierce, reckless and headstrong Missouri. These rivers are all great highways of commerce, and Mr. McMillan considered the towns named localities of wonderful promise. Recent developments in each have shown that his judgment was correct and that in it he was far ahead of his time.

In 1877 he came to Minnesota to invest in farm lands, and William Patrick, a cousin, came with him, P. Frost Spalding, also accompanied him, forming a partnership for the purchase and cultivation of a tract of 8,000 acres in the Red river valley. They converted this large expanse into wheat farms, the tract being still intact, Mr. March keeping the West farm as his portion when the land was divided. The farms lie near Warren, Minnesota, and although maintaining his home in Minneapolis, Mr. March personally had charge of the farming operations, the improvements and everything connected with tlie business proving profitable and congenial. Mr. Spalding's son is now living on his father's part of the original tract.

The farming operations were extensive and exacting, but Mr. March still found time to take part in important matters in Minneapolis. In company with Dorilus Morrison, S. A. Harris, and several other well known men, he engaged in street lighting in the outlying districts and had charge of the work connected with the undertaking until his death.

In the line of public service Jlr. March was In-lpfiil t.i tlie city. He served as a member of the park board for a number of years, and was one of its inspiring and directing forces when Kenwood Boulevard was laid out and improved. He also served two terms in the .State Senate. In all his public service he was most deeply interested in the general welfare to which he devoted conscientious energy. In politics he was an active and effective working Democrat, but being a modest man never claimed credit for what he did in a public capacity. He was a colleague of Dr. John Bell in the legislature, a warm friendship growing out of this intimate relationship.

About 1884 Mr. March located his home where his widow is now living, at 2207 Fremont avenue, which was far out at the time and in the woods. In fraternal relations he was a Freemason and in religious faith an Episcopalian holding membership in Gethseniane church, of which he was long a vestryman, and from which his remains were laid to rest in Lakewood cemetery. He found greatest enjoyment in his farm and there passed the greater part of the summer seasons. In 1861 he was united in marriage with Miss Adelaide L. Church at Clarendon, New York. They had five children, two of whom are living, Louise is the wife of E. .S. Gaylord of Minneapolis, and lives near the family home, and Samuel A., a real estate man. Another son, Harry .1, March, died in August, 1911, aged forty-four years, leaving hesfde his widow, a son.

Hon. Samuel A. March

One of the extensive and progressive farmers of Northwestern Minnesota, and also a vigorous, resourceful and enterprising promoter of the general well being and a stimulating force in the progress of ifiTineapolis. the late Hon, .*<aniuel A. March, who died .luly 1K'.)4. was a useful citizen, respectid. and admired for genuine worth and !-ervices.

Mr. March was born at Oakfield, (ienesee county. New York September 4, 1840. and came to Minneapolis in I.s77. His father died when Samuel was eight years old ami the latter passed his boyhood and youth as a clerk in an uncle's store. He was educated at Carey Seminary and fieneseo College, and in young manhood engaged in merchandising at Oakfield in partnership with Geo, C, Church under the firm name of March & Church.

Mr, Mahoney's life began in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, on October 17. 1851, and came to a elo.se in Minneapolis on March 31, 1914. and the circumstances of his family were such that at an early age he was obliged to begin looking out and providing for himself. For a few years he worked in the lumber woods of his native country, and lived frugally, saving his earnings so as to be able to take advantage of expected opportunities for advancement when they came. In 1873, when he was twenty-two years old. he moved into the United States and located in Minneapolis. From here he again found employment in the woods for three years as a chopper and a scaler.

Hills, he and one of his brothers started for that region. But the Indians in the Hills and on the way to them were troublesome, and the argonauts from Minneapolis changed their plans. They secured contracts in Montana to supply cord wood on the banks of the Yellowstone for the steamboats that then plied that long and picturesque water highway. Hostile Indians were numerous also in the neighborhood of their work and their outrages were frequent, the carriers of the United States mails being picked off at short intervals. Their depredations made mail carrying so hazardous that the government paid a carrier $200 a month for the service.

The little band of wood cutters with which Mr. Mahoney was connected was in continual peril from the savages, but the two years they passed on the Yellowstone proved very profitable to them financially.

On his return to Minneapolis Mr. Mahoney secured employment from Caleb Dorr, the superintendent of the Boom company. After a time he was given a contract to take railroad ties from the river, pile them up along the track and load them on trains.

Then, in company with .John Woods and Stephen Lovejoy, he began taking railroad grading contracts, and he continued this line of enterprise for a number of years, his final work in it being in connection with E. F. Comstock, with whom he became associated in 1886.

Some twenty-one or twenty-two years ago Mr. Mahoney became associate<l with former Senator McGowan, who, in company with Henry Schultz, had some years before founded a general real estate, loan and insurance business. Soon after the death of Mr. Schultz Mr. Mahoney became connected with the business, as a member of the firm.

Mr. Mahoney was united in marriage with Miss Katie White, a native of Minneapolis and the daughter of James White, an esteemed pioneer who came to this city about sixty vears ago, and died in Minneapolis in 1893.

Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney were the parents of seven children. all of whom are living. .James. William and Francis, the three oldest sons, are in the insurance business, and William is still a student in the University. The other children, John, Edward, Inez and George, are living at liome with their mother and still attending school.

Arthur William Selover was born in Flatbush, Long Island, on July 9, 1871. He is a son of Peter and Jennie Selover, and his childhood was spent in the modest home of a family whose head was an energetic contractor and builder. They came West, in 1879, and made their home in Lake City, Minnesota. The son Arthur entered the graded schools of the little city on the Mississippi, and in 1888 was graduated from the high school.

In the fall following his graduation from the high school, he entered the University of Minnesota, taking up first the course in the academic department, as it was then known - the college of .science, literature and the arts. In the class of 1893 he was graduated, with the degree of B. A., and at once entered the law school. It was in the following year that he was graduated with the degree of LL. B., his commencement honors being the highest in his class for excellence in

Graduation from the law school in 1894 had been followed by the selection of Mr. Selover for an important post as an editor for the West Publishing Company, in the compiling of law books. With the West company Mr. Selover remained for several years, chieliy in the post of legal editor. It was in this time that he became interested in the authorship of law text-books, and himself wrote several such books. Especially important was his book on negotiable instruments, which Yale, among other universities, has adopted as a textbook. He has also written a work on bank collections.

Mr. Selover's activity in civic afl'airs as well as legal led to his becoming a participant in political afl'airs. He is a Republican, and has been among the foremost young men in the councils of the party. In 1908 Mr. Selover was elected alderman from the Fifth ward. After the first half of the term of four years had passed, Mr. Selover won higher recognition by his election to the presidency of the council - a post which has often pointed naturally to the mayor's chair. In the primarj' election of the campaign of 1908 he became a candidate for nomination for the mayoralty, but in a large field he was defeated.

However great his interest in civic and municipal afi'airs, Mr. Selover continues his prominence in the councils of his church. He is a leading member of the First Presbyterian Church. Mr. Selover was married December 10, 1900, to Miss Bessie S. Warner of St. Paul, and they have two children, both sons.

Schuyler H. Mattison

The late Schuyler H. Mattison, in his day one of the best known and most successful real estate dealers in Minneapolis, died in this city on April 15th, 1898, at the age of ninetyone and after a residence here extending over thirty-seven years. His long and vigorous life in this region and the great age he attained are tributes alike to the firmness and virility of his physique, the excellence of his constitution, his good habits and the superior healthfulness of the climate of this part of Minnesota; and the achievements in the way of business success for himself and advantages to the community which stand to his lasting credit were the fruits of the sturdy, resourceful and all-daring New England ancestry from which he sprang and the atmosphere of self-reliance and farseeing shrewdness in which he was born and reared.

Mr. Mattison was a native of Bennington, Vermont, where his life began on March IS, 1807. Aside from the historical interest which will ever distinguish the city of his nativity because of the heroic triumph of the Colonial army over the British there on August 16, 1777. when gallant General Stark commanded the frontiersmen, there is a large amount of traditional and historic matter of general interest in the early record of the family, the careers of some of its other later members and the fruitful activity of the subject of this brief review himself.

Mr. Mattison became a resident of Minneapolis in 1861, and here he passed all his remaining days. Few men, up to the end of his useful life, ever did more to advance the development and improvement of the city tlian lie. Throughout his residence here he bought and sold real estate, guiding home seukei'S tiiid businet^s institutions to desirable locations and helping them to secure what they wanted in that line. He laid out Mattison's first, second and third additions to Minneapolis, and through the multitude of his transactions in real estate his name probiiblv appears more frequently on the records of deeds and transfers for Hennepin county than that of any other man of his time. For a number of years he owned the whole block on which tlie West hotel now stands, and he frequently offered to sell it for .fl.dOO. Later he built his home on the corner now occupied by that liotel. and tlie removal of the house from tliis site is of c<)iii[i:uatively recent date.

The three principal additions to -Minneapolis which were made by Mr. Jfattison were bounded by Fifth and Eighth avenues and Seventh and Tenth streets but he also made other extensions to the building territory as they were demanded, and it was through his influence and activity that First avenue was graded and Third avenue south was laid out. The whole expanse of the city, present and prospective, was like a map in his mind, and the trend of residence and business inclinations was fully known to him at all times. He was therefore able to advise his patrons intelligently and be of great service to new comers and old residents alike, and was always at their command with excellent judgment and expert knowledge,

Mr, Mattison's work was not, however, confined to real estate transactions. He owned at different times blocks of stock in several banks and other institutions, and himself handled commercial paper and other securities. In all his -lealings he *as a man of the strictest honor, whose word was liis bond, and whose hand was ever open for the aid of his friends and with generosity for those in need. He passed by no deserving charities, and would always rather contribute in a case of doubtful propriety than risk withohlding assistance in one of real merit. He preserved his vigor and continued his activity in business until five or six years before his death, and even during the period of his retirement was as energetic and active mentally as many men forty years younger. During the earlier years of his residence in Minneapolis he held several minor offices, although he was never enamored of jiublic station or official life. Before the incorporation of the city he served as town supervisor, and in the late sixties and early seventies he was a member of the board of aldermen and was chairman of the board.

In 1840 Mr. Mattison was married in New York city to Miss Mary E. Overton, who survived him until Sept. 22, 1M2. Two children were born of their union: Lucy, who died .July 22, 1910. and Ida M., who is Mrs. W. F. Phelps. In September, 1894. the father of these ladies was thrown from his carriage in a runaway and .seriously injured in one of his hips. As a consequence of this accident he was never able afterward to leave his home, and during the greater part of the time was confined to his room. But his mental faculties continued strong, clear and active to the last hour of his life, and his deep and intelligent interest in the affairs of men and the welfare of Minneapolis never waned. He died as he had lived, full of consideration for his fellow men, and alert to their well being individually and in the mass. The people of Minneapolis revere him as one of the community's most useful, high-minded and representative citizens while he dwelt and labored in it.

Since 1883 .lames Duncan Shearer has been a resident of Minneapolis, and lincc 1884 a member of the Minnesota bar an<l a lawyer in attivc general practice, covering almost every branch of work in his profession and always with plenty of business to keep him liiligcntly occ\ipicd. He came to this city in 188,S, a young man just twenty-one years old, having been born in .Janesville, Wi.sconsin, on March 25. 1862, a son of Robert Bruce and Elizabeth Eliza (Campbell) Shearer. His father is a de'scendant of Robert Bruce, one of the heroes of Scottisli history, and his mother is related to the Duke of .\rgyle and a granddaughter of Dr. .lohn Lawson of Edinburgh, physician to Sir Walter Scott.

Mr. Shearer was reared on a farm in central Iowa, from the age of three years, and, after completing the course of study available to him in the country school in the neighborhood of his home, became a student in the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames. From this institution he was graduated in the class of 1879, being at the time the youngest student to get a diploma. He then taught school in Iowa until he decided to take up his residence in this city. He was admitted to the bar in Minnesota in 1884, and from that year until the present has devoted himself almost wholly to his profession.

For a number of years, Mr. Shearer was a member of the law firm of Belden, .Jamison & Shearer, but since leaving it he has been practicing alone. In March, 1907, he was appointed receiver for the Minnesota Title Insurance and Trust company, and settled up its business. He is a Republican in political faith and allegiance, and as such was elected to the -Senate House of Representatives in the fall of 1902. serving tlirough the Sessions of 1903 and 1904, with credit to himself and advantage to his district and the people of the state in general. He is active in the social life of the tity as a member of the Minneapolis Commercial club and the Six O'Clock club. On September 18, 1888, he was united in marriage with .Miss Emma Evans, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They have four children.

Mr. Shearer is an excellent citizen and takes a deep, practical and serviceable interest in everything that involves the welfare of Minneapolis an<l Minnesota and their residents. He is not an active political partisan, but always has his energies at work in commendable ways for the promotion of the general well being, and all his activities in this behalf are impelled by a broad and strong public spirit and guided by l)rudence and intelligence. And his efforts are appreciated by the people around him, all of whom hold him in the highest esteem.

Rev. Joseph R. M.'Vnton

Rev. .losepli K. .Manton. whose spirit, on the 17th of January, 1912, after more than ninety years of earthly existence was transported to its original source, and one whose life was filled with love and effort to exalt the minds and souls of his fellow men was himself exalted to the honor place beside his God. Born at Providence. Rhode Island, September 28, 1821, he was the son of Shodralh and .\ugtie (Randall) Manton, With a desire to practice law he entereil Brown I'nivcrsity from which in due time he was honorablv graduateil. Whi'thiT or not he actually entered the legal profession we are not informed; but, even then his mind in its keenness and avidity demanded more than the ever delicate physique could furnish and he became a teacher.

Reared in that center of theological discussion he early embraced Christianity and being impelled by a sense of duty to the world and to his Maker he prepared for the ministry, being ordained in 1849. The important Baptist Church at the old and stable city of Gloucester called liira and during the three years he served it his reputation as an able orator, a close student of the Bible and an admirable pastor was established. Yielding to demands of a tender constitution he went south and became the principal of the "Xavy Sharp" Female College at Nashville, Tenn., his standing as an able instructor and organizer being widely recognized. Xever in accord with the Southern view of public questions, lie, wlien the clouds of Civil w-ar began to gather, assumed the pastorate of the first Church at Quincy, 111.

In 1860 he came to Minneapolis, his church then standing at the corner of Nicollet and Third Street, being under his conduct the most important in the town. During the four years' labor in this church he occasionally preached to tlie Society at Richfield. The period of 1864 to 1868 was served in the pulpit at St. Joseph, Mo. Ever treaclierous health led him to return to Minnesota and on the 39th of August, 1S69. he preached the dedicatory sermon of the Riclifield Church of which he soon after became the first resident pastor.

Purchasing a tract of land bordering Wood Lake he found enjoyment and improved health in its cultivation, his tastes for choice fruits, rare plants or Howers having more ample scope for satisfaction than oppoitunity liad before presented. For a quarter of a century he here plead the cause of his master, endearing himself to the people, his circle of admirers not being circumscribed or limited. With charity and tolerance, his teachings and influence touching every home, his life made for the general betterment till no more intelligent, liberal or progressive neigliborhood is to be found in the State of Minnesota.

October 16, 1S50, he formed a union witli Ann Heliue whom he survived some ten years. With a strength of intellect out of proportion to the strength of body he by the exercise of judgment, careful living and sheer will power survived all youthful companions. Yet tlie nearer to the end of this life tlie clearer his vision of another, and with profound resignation he finally "Walked with (!od."

Karl Schwerdfeger

Tlic life of Karl Schwerdfeger closed on February 18, 1912, after an illness of but a few days and a surgical operation in St. Barnabas hospital, when he was not yet fifty-two years of age. His life began at Abbecke, province of Hanover, Germany, on .June 3, 1860, and he was reared on a farm in that neighborhood. At the age of fourteen he started learning the butcher trade, and when his father died three years later,, he took charge of the farm in connection with his mother and sister Herminie.

On March 5, 1885, he was united in marriage with Miss Herminie Schwerdfeger, his second cousin, familiarly called "Minnie" by her friends, Pi'ior to his marriage, however, he served a few months in the heavy cavalry of the German army in accordance with the legal requirements of the empire, but the government permitted him to leave the servifeeand return to his home to care for his mother and sister. His wife was nineteen wlien they were married and he was twentyfive. They remained on the home farm five years, then it was sold, the mother was properly provided for. and Mr. Schwerdfeger determined to visit his younger brother, who liad then been a resident of Minneapolis and engaged in keeping a meat market five years.

The young tourist intended to purchase a larger farm in Germany, but he was so well pleased with Minneapolis, its surroundings and its business prospects, that he decided to remain here, and sent for his wife and one son. who came over and joined him three months later. After six months' employment the new comer located on a farm in Carver county, Minnesota. Two years later he bought a hotel at Meyer in that county, which proved to be a good investment. He conducted the hotel four years, having a large trade and making money steadily and saving it. But his health failed, and he sold the hotel and returned to Minneapolis,

In 1897 Karl joined his younger brother, August, who had been keeping a meat market here for several years. They continued to do business in this line as' partners until Karl's son August F. bought his uncle's interest in the market and trade and became his father's partner. The market was at 358 Monroe street northeast, and the firm was known as the Monroe Packing company. When the father died Louis A., hi* second son, took his place in the firm and the business was and is still continued under the old name.

Mr. Schwerdferger had a fine liome at Fifteenth avenue and' Adams street, and had planned to erect an apartment house the year he died. He was a member of the Lutheran church,, a man of quiet domestic tastes, fond of his home and family.. Of the three children born in the family one died in infancy. The other two. August F. and Louis A., are still living with, tlieir mother at 635 Fifteenth avenue northeast.

Lawyer, farmer, stock breeder and financier, and having operated extensively and successfully in three states, Charles Hall Wheeler, one of the leading business men and most substantial citizens of Minneapolis, has had an interesting and varied career, in every part of he has shown strong mentality, great enterprise, fine business ability and a ready adaptability to circumstances and requirements. He was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, .lanuary 21, 1843, the son of Warren W. and Catherine Hall (Brewer) Wheeler. The late Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme Court was a cousin of his mother, and other men of mark in the country have also been related to the family, which is an old one in this country, descended from Tliomas Wheeler, who came from Wales and settled at Concord. Massachusetts, in 1640.

Thomas Wheeler was a captain in the early Indian wars, and died of wounds received in them. His son, Sergeant Thomas Wheeler, settled at Marlboro, Massachusetts, and Benjamin Wheeler was one of the first settlers at New Marlboro. Berkshire county, where the old homestead has been in the family for five generations, Zenas Wheeler, another member of the family, was an able officer in the Continental army in the Revolution, and Warren W., the grandfather of

H.. built a paper mill on Mill river in ISSO. This mill was operated by his son Warren, the father of Charles, until not long before his death in 1846, when his son Charles was three years old. He was in partnership with Cyrus VV. Field, wlio laid thi' first successful Atlantic 'able.

After the death of his father Mr. Wheeler's mother took him to a farm near Potsdam, New York, where she died when he was fifteen. lie attended St. I.^xwrence Academy at Potsdam, and afterward went to Williams College, Williamstown. Massachusetts, from which he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1866. One of his classmates was Virgil P. Cline, attorney for .John D. Rockefeller, and another was Eugene Delano, a New York city banker. He read iaw at Potsdam in the oHice of Judge Henry L. Knowles, and became his partner and son-in-law. being married on October 13, 1868, to Miss Frances Spencer Knowles, who died on November 6, 1912, after forty-four years of married life.

His health requiring a change Mr. Wheeler in 1872 moved to a large farm near Council Bluffs, Iowa, which he operated in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henry B. Knowles. they being live stock breeders and making a great success in tliis line. In 1883 he moved to Minneapolis and became an extensive money lender and dealer in real estate. The crash of the nineties caused heavy losses to him and his patrons. But he weathered the storm, made still further investments, and has since prospered. His son. Walter H. Wheeler, who was born April 13. 18S3, a graduate of the raining engineers' department of the State University, is his partner, and also conducts a large business in structural and reinforced concrete construction operating principally throujrh the western states. The son's wife was Miss Eva Blasdell, of Minneapolis. They liave one son. Frank Knowlei Blasdell Wheeler.

Michael .T. Sullivax

The late .Michael .T. Sullivan, who died March '.). 1911. at his Minneapolis home. 609 Main street northeast, which was founded by his parents in 1867, will be long and favorably remenilicred by the people of this city as an enterprising, upright and successful business man and as the representative of the Thirty-eighth legislative district, comprising the First and parts of the Third, Ninth and Tenth wards, in the State legislature in the sessions of 1907, 1909. 1911 and 1913. As a legislator he worked in accordance with old and tried Democratic princijiles. avoiding freak legislation and striving to secure for every man a free and untrammeled chance in life, and to the end that the people might have as large and controlling a voice as possible in the management of their affairs of state he favored the initiative and referendum in legislation.

Mr. Sullivan was born on November 4, 1868, in the Iiouse in which he died. He was a son of Cornelius and Jolianna (O'Neill) .Sullivan, natives of County Cork, Ireland, where they were reared, educated and married, and whence they came to the United State* in 18,5.'). The father worked as a laborer ill New York and Massachusetts until 1867. when he moved to Miiineapcilis, founded the home lately occupied by liis son Micliael, and engage<l in plastering in association with Michael Lyons, who is still living. When the home was built it was in the business center of St. Anthony, near the hotels and other conveniences of the town, and there the father lived until his death some twenty years ago. For a time he was in partnership with S. G. Cook in the lumber trade at First avenue north and Third street. He was a member of St. Anthony de Padua Catholic church and one of the builders of the present church edilices and priest's residence, having been to the end of his life one of the active workers in the parish and among its main supporters.

The mother, who still belongs to that church, is one of its oldest members, being one of the half dozen of those who founded it, who arc yet among its communicants. Her dwelling place is still the old family residence, whose domestic shrine she consecrated by wifely devotion and motherly care. There are two sons and two daughters of the household living. Cornelius is a horse dealer and James P. is general manager of the Diamond Boiler Works. Their .sisters are Joliana. wife of John O'Brien, a Minneapolis stone mason, and Mary, wife of Christian Neary, engineer at the Consolidated Mills.

Jlichael .1. Sullivan's public service was creditable to him and benelicial to the state, and his business career is also worthy of notice as indicative of stalwart and self-reliant manhood. He obtained a common school education, which was amplified through a business course conducted in a correspondence school. In 1884 he started learning the trade of a stone cutter, at which he first worked as a journeyman on the old McNair residence. During the last ten years of his life he was a cut stone contractor, employing at times fifty men, and supplying building contractors with whatever stone they demanded. His principal stone yard, at First street and Twenty-second street north, is still in operation, as is also his plant at Bedford, Indiana. From these two centers of industry he conducted a business which covered the whole Northwest, including Minnesota, Iowa. Nebraska, Montana, the Dakotas and Southern Canada.

Mr. Sullivan was a member of the Minneapolis Builders' Exchange. In religious afliliation he adliere<l to the mother church of his parents, St. Anthony de Padua, near wliich his home is located. He was married in 1891 to Miss Millie Pratt, daughter of William Pratt, of the Pence Auto company. One son was bom of their union, William F. Sullivan, who is a student in the dental department of the University of Minnesota.

John P. Shumway. a pioneer citizen of Robhinsdale, a suburb of Minneapolis is a native of Connecticut, born in Mansfield, Tolland county, June 22, 1830. He was reared on a farm and received his early education in the public schools, later attending an academy. In 1855 he came to Minneapolis where .Judge E. S. Jones and Dr. William H. Leonard, whom he had known in his old home, had located. He spent a few months in the employ of Judge Jones and then took a claim in Wright county, about thirty miles from the city. He cleared live acres and erected a small bark covered shanty. Farming without a team he put in small crops and made what improvements he could on the claim and then sold it and went back to Connecticut whVre he remained for a sliort tiuu'. On his return to Minneapolis he purchased of Mr. John Pembroke the forty-five acres where his home now stands, paying twenty-five dollars per atre. It was then wild land and as a protection against the winds it was necessary to reinforce the little shanty, which was his home for several years, with props. He bought a yoke of oxen, adding to his debt, finding himself at the end of the first year with a financial deficit of $1,100. But he worked amid all the hardships and difliiculties of the new country with sturdy perseverance, setting out posts and building fences by moonlight and soon had twenty-five or thirty acres of the land ready for cultivation; and, with oxen and a few farming tools raised good crops of grain and corn, receiving sixty cents a bushel for wheat and twenty-two cents for corn. In October, 1858 he was married at Mishawaka, Indiana to Miss Louisa A. Russ, daughter of Dan and Mary A. (Brown) RuSs, natives of Connecticut, for whom Mr. Shumway had formerly worked. Mr. Russ had visited Minnesota in 1854, and invested in land. The follo-iving year, with his family, he again started west with the intention of making that their home; but, on reaching Mishawaka, Indiana, he was persuaded by a brother to locate at that place. After his death, his wife and children came to Minnesota, settling near Robbinsdale and here the death of the former occurred. The son, Mr. N. F. Russ is a resident of Robbinsdale and the daughter. Mrs. Ellen M. Bisbee has made her home with her sister, Mrs. Shumway for a number of years. During the Civil war when the demand for men in the service was so urgent, the citizens of Minneapolis offered a bounty of $300 to men who would enlist. Mr. Shumway and several of his neighbors enlisted at this time and received this sura. He was assigned to the Eleventh Minnesota regiment which was Stationed until the close of the war as guard at Tunnek Hill on the Louisville & Nashville railroad. After receiving his honorable discharge he returned home and soon after began to buy adjoining property, extending his purchases until his farm included seventy acres where the village of Robbinsdale now stands. About twenty years ago he sold this land to Mr. Robbins and it was platted into the town site of Robbinsdale, which has grown into a prosperous and attractive suburb of Minneapolis. Mr. Shumway donated the land for the Congregational church of which he is a member, and for its parsonage. He retained a part of his farm, which is a very desirable tract of land extending into the village, and his home is beautifully situated on a knoll overlooking the lake. Mr. Shumway is a Republican; and, though he has never taken an active part in political affairs, served for twenty years as township treasurer. Mr. Shumway and his wife had two sons, Ernest J. and Royal, both graduates of the state university. Ernest J. Shumway is an electrical engineer, residing in Robbinsdale. He married Miss Alice Preston and they had four children, Clyde, Caroline Louise, Evelyn Russ and Esther Ross. Royal Shumway, who married Miss Susan Pitblado, is assistant professor of mathematics in the University of Minnesota. The wife and mother passed away in the spring of 1914.

Jacob Stoft, a well known hardware merchant and eminent citizen of Minneapolis, is a native of Germany, born in Hesse Darmstadt, May 8. 1855. As a lad he was apprenticed to the trade of locksmith and served three years. He came to this country in 1871 locating at LaCrosse, Wisconsin, where an uncle resided. There he engaged as a tinsmith which occupation later proved such a surcessfiil branch of his business enterprise. In 1878 he came to Minneapolis and opened the first hardware and tin shop south of Tenth avenue south. Tills business venture was made with $1,000 capital and developed rapidly to its present proportions as one of the leading hardware stores of the city. For several years he employed a number of men in the tin shop making a specialty of this branch of the business, but lately he has discontinued this department and has devoted his entire attention to the hardware trade. His present manager, Mr. Peter Beentsen, has been identified with the concern for thirty-five years. He has been associated with the civic interests, ever exerting his influence and effort in behalf of the general welfare and progress of the city. He served as a member of tlie first Charter Commission. In 1884 he was elected alderman from the Sixth Ward and owing to a division of the Ward, during his term, he had the unique distinction of representing a Ward in which he was not a resident. During the nine years of his membership on the Board of Park Commissioners he bent every effort to secure the large acquisitions of park property, which were largely made during this period.

As president of the Minneapolis Savings and Loan Association Mr. Stoft has taken a great interest in the purpose of the institution, which provides an opportunity for the investment of small savings, thus enabling many wage earners to obtain homes. He has been a director of the Metropolitan National Bank and of the Flour City Ornamental Iron Works since their organization. He is a director of the Northwestern Marble & Tile Company and director and treasurer of the Simonson Brothers Manufacturing Company.

He was married in LaCrosse, Wisconsin to Miss Elizabeth GaSt. They have two daughters, F'rieda B., wife of Mr. L. C. Robinson, of the lumber firm of Bardwell & Robinson, and Esther A., who married Mr. G. A. Heinrich, manager of the business interests of his father, Mr. .Julius J. Heinrich. Mr. Stoft has ever retained an afi'ectionate regard for his fatherland and its literature, an interest which is shared by his wife and daughters who are prominent in the German literary societies of the city. Finding great enjoyment in travel, Mr. Stoft and wife have toured extensively in this country and elsewhere and he has the fullest appreciation of the wonderful resources and scenic pleasures of his adopted country. He is a Knight Templar and a Shriner and with the others of liis family, is an active member of the Universalist Church.

James H. Miller

The late James H. Miller was for many years one of the foremost flour mill men of liis time. The details of his work, and of all other work that was allied with it, were set out in his mind as if on the pages of an open book, and his knowledge of them was complete, accurate and at all times ready for immediate use.

Mr. Miller was bom in the city of Fulton, Oswego county, New York, on December 10, 1854, and at the age of thirteen began his life work in a flour mill in his native place. He was orphaned at the age of nine by the violent death of his father, whom he saw run over by a team in the streets of New York city. Yet, notwithstanding this disaster, the son had some educational advantages, having been able to attend for a time the excellent school known as Fowler Seminary in his home city. But his opportunity was cut short by the circum-

After three years of studious industry and conscientious fidelity in the mill in l-'ulton, where he lirst found employment, Mr. Miller left that city and went to Oswego, New York, where there were larger mills and more active milling enterprises, and where he remained until 1873, all the while making a close study of his work and acquiring thorough knowledge of its every feature, detail and requirement. In the year last mentioned he was nineteen years old, of an ambitious and daring spirit, and with his eyes wide open to the trend of industry and the outlook for progress in his occupation. Great things were told of the milling business in Minneapolis in all parts of the country at the time, and this alert and inquiring man heard much that set him thinking and intensified his longing for the West.

Accordingly, about this time he came to Minneapolis, and soon after his arrival in the city he was appointed night miller in the old Taylor mill, which stood on the site of the present Pillsbury B, which was then one of the mills belonging to Cliarles A. Pillsbury. Its capacity was 175 barrels of flour a day. Its successor of the present time turns out 6,40(1 barrels in tlie same period. In 1S78. when Mr. Pillsbury secured control of the E.xcelsior mill, he placed Mr. Miller in charge of it as head miller; and when, during the next year, it was equipped with the roller process and its capacity was raised to 800 barrels a day, he found his responsibilities vastly increased, and himself and the mill objects of intense curiosity, widespread and insistent, because of the innovation, and the enlarged output it made possible. The new process proved successful from the start, and it has been so generally adopted in this country that it has wholly revolutionized the industry of manufacturing Hour in the United States, making it far more prolific than it was under the old burr process, and also laying under tribute to its advantage elements of profit unknown to milling prior to the introduction of the rolls.

Mr. Miller remained in charge of the Excelsior mill until it was destroyed in the explosion and fire of December 4, 1881. The Pillsbury B mill was destroyed at the same time, but was immediately rebuilt, and Mr. Miller had charge of the work of reconstruction. During the next three years he was a salesman of mill macliinery for the firm of Edward P. Allis &. Company of Milwaukee, and when he quit its service he went into the employ of the firm of Jones & Company of New York as head miller, liut the West and the Minneapolis milling industry needed liini and called him back into service here. In 1885 C. A. Pillsbury decided to equip and put in operation his I? mill, which had stood idle three years, and he asked Mr. Miller to again take the place of liead miller in it.

In 1888 he was made manager of tlie Anchor mill also, and in 1889 the Pillsbury A mill, the largest in the world, was placed under his supervision. This rendered his position the most responsible held by any man in the whole milling industry, but he met all its requirements with great ability, readiness and fidelity. Still, the duties were very burdensome, exacting and wearing on liini. About 190!) he began to feel the pressure severely and asked to be relieved of the B and Anchor mills, but retained the management of the A mill until his death on Kebruary 28, 1910.

of any of them. In emergencies or the presence of serious problems in his work the best that was in him cume into service. He threw his whole soul into his business, and never stopped in his pursuit of a purpose until he accomplished it, and spared himself neither day nor night in his efforts. In 1891 the Northwestern Miller offered prizes to head millers who would receive the greatest number of votes. One was a trip to Europe, the first prize, which was won by Mr. Miller, who received over 100,000 votes. 22,60(5 more than any of his competitors, although some of them were men of the highest standing in their employment as to skill, knowledge, aptitude and general ability.

On July 5th, 1901, Mr. Miller was married in the Cliurch of the Redeemer, Minneapolis, to Miss Lucy May Green, who had come to Minneapolis as a child and lived here with a sister. No children were born of the union. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Miller has built a handsome home overlooking the Lake of the Isles, at which she now resides.

Gottlieb Schobek

Gottlieb Schober, president of the Phoenix Mill company. Third avenue and Main street, southeast, has been prominently associated with the milling interests of Minneapolis since 1865 when he established the Phoenix Mill company in partnersihip with Carl Stamwitz. This company has become one of the leading milling enterprises of the northwest, conducting a large wholesale business throughout the country. Gottliel) Schober was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, Nov. 27, 1834, and came to St. Anthony Falls in 1855 after spending several months in Philadelphia with his brother, .John Schober, who later removed to a farm in Hennepin county, Gottlieb Schober also taking a claim near Maple Grove. He was employed for a time in the Prescott mills in St. Anthony and then operated a small steam mill at Waconia. In 1861 he removed to Sparta. Wisconsin, where he remained until 1865 when he returned to Minneapolis, becoming a partner with Carl Stamnitz. Mr. Stamnitz is a native of Alsace, France, now Germany, and like his partner had become a miller before emigrating. They opened their first plant on the river bank near Barnard's Furniture factory, where a two run mill was erected by Noble & Walker. In 1870 under the name of Noble, Schober & Company they acquired a half interest in the People's mill and the following year bought Mr. Noble's interest. For a year they operated the two mills under one management and then sold their original plant which was destroyed by fire shortly afterwards. In 1875 near this site, they erected a five run mill with capacity for a daily output of 150 barrels, the building being a part of the present plant. In March, 1876, this mill was opened under the old name of Phoenix mill and the People's mill was dismantled. The capacity was doubled through the installation of the roller system in 188! and the estimated investment at this time of $100,000 compared with the original capital of $2,000 marks the rapid growth and success of the enterprise. The Phoenix Mill company was incorporated in 1893 with a capital of $200,000. with (Jottlieb Schober as president, Carl G. Schober. vice president, Carl Stamwitz, treasurer and E. T. Schneider, secretary. .Soon after the |]lant was remodeled and equipped with new macliinery and in I.S99 the cciinpany further increased their facilities by the purchase of a mill at Herman, Minnesota, making a total daily production of 875 barrels, and employing a force of forty-five men. Mr. Stamwitz retired in 1899 after thirtyfour years of partnership and the entire stock of the company became the property of Mr. Schober and his sons, with Gottlieb .Schober as president, Carl G. Schober, vice president, William F. Schober, second vice president and Ed E. Schober, secretary and treasurer. For several years Mr. Schober has resided in Sawtelle, California, and although he retains an active interest in the business, the details of its management have been successfully placed in the hands of his sons. Throughout the years of his long and active career. Mr. Schober has won esteem and merited popularity in the business and civic circles of the city, and for over fifty years he has been a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was married in Minneapolis in 1866 to Miss Mary Goehringer, sister of Christ Goehringer, a well known liquor dealer. They have five children, Carl 6., vice president of the Phoenix Jlill company; John E., secretary of the Standard Furniture company at Seattle, Washington; Mary, the widow of Dr. T. L. Laliberte; William F., second vice president of the Phoenix Mill company and local manager of the Herman Mill, where he resides, and where he is an active Elk and Mason, being Worshipful Master of the local lodge, and Ed. E., secretary and treasurer of the mill company and director of the Metropolitan National Bank. Ed. S. is a member of the New Athletic and Interlacken clubs as of the B. P. 0. E. Mr. Carl Schober received a thorough practical training in the trade of his father and has the superintendeney of the manufacturing branch of the business. He was married to Miss Jennie Gluek, a sister of Mr. Charles Gluek of Minneapolis, and has two children, .Jennie and Edmund. Mr. Schober is prominent in the social and fraternal organizations of the city and holds membership in the St. Anthony Commercial club, the Auto club, Teutonia Bowling club, the Turn Verein, is a member of the Elks and in the Masonic order is a Knight Templar and Shriner.

Lewis H. Selden

Lewis H. Selden, president of the Selden Roofing & Mfg. Co., was born in this city in 1863. and was educated in the public schools, including the high school. He at once entered the business of manufacturing fireproof roofing, windows and doors, and all kinds of sheet metal work. The Selden Roofing and Manufacturing company, of which he has been the president and treavjurer, since its organization, was incorporated in 1910. W. C. Clark is vice-president and E. T. Stensptt, secretary. The business was established in 1878 by Frank Grygla and Henry E. Selden. father of Lewis H., at 114 Third street north, the present location being at 76 Western avenue. Henry Selden, a native of New Haven, Connecticut, was formerly a building contractor. He came to Minneapolis in I860 and died here in 190.3. The business of this company is extensive, operating about 75 employes, and all its products and work are approved and labeled by the National Board of Underwriters. The excellence of the work is proven by the many monuments to its skill and industry which are to be found in all parts of the business section of the city. It made and installed all the work in its line in the Syndicate, the Public Library, the Hartman Furniture, the State University buildings, the Dayton Department Store, the new Central High School, New Union Station, New Art Mi^eum, New Gates Residence, tlie New State Prison at Stillwater, and many other important and imposing structures. Mr. Selden has not only given the business close and careful attention, but has also been a potential factor in the general life of the community and an intelligent, and energetic supporter of every worthy undertaking. He is no politician, and has no inclination to hold public office. He is widely known in business circles and in the city is recognized as an enterprising and highly useful citizen.

Hiram A. Scriver

Hiram A. Scriver, the president of tlie St. Anthony Falls Bank from its organization, was born in the province of Quebec, Canada, in 1860. He is a son of John A. and Kate (Rich) Scriver. The father founded the old First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, one of the famous fiscal institutions of this part of the country, and died in that city. His ancestors came to this country from Germany and first located in the state of New York. Afterward some of them moved to Canada, and it was this branch that gave direct descent to John A., the father of Hiram. He brought his family to Minnesota in 1870, and located at Northfield, where he died. He also founded the Exchange Bank in that city, and had control of it for a number of years.

His son Hiram began his career in banking in the Citizens' Bank of Northfield. In 1887 he bought the bank at Cannon Falls, this state, and managed it nearly seven years. In the summer of 1893 he moved to Minneapolis and aided in the organization of the St. Anthony Falls Bank. He is also president of the Citizens State Bank of Cannon P'alls and vice president of the Northfield National Bank. In politics he is a Republican, in church connection a Congregationalist, and in social relations a prominent member of the St. Anthony Commercial club. Mr. Scriver was married in 1887 to Miss Mary V. Tup])er, a native of Ohio. They have five children, Albert, Helen, Arthur, Eugene and Hiram T. Albert is employed in the St. Anthony Falls Bank and Arthur in the Northfield National.

Jonathan H. Pond

The late Jonathan H. Pond was one of the pioneers of this city and for nearly half a century one of its leading business men and most influential citizen. Although he lived to the advanced age of ninety-three years, he retained his mental faculties and much of his physical power to the last, and throughout his long life conducted all his business and personal affairs according to the requirements of the strictest integrity and rectitude. In all his business transactions he exacted everything he was entitled to. but at the same time insisted on giving to others the last cent due from him to them according to the strictest accmmtability.

Minneapolis in Oct. 16, 1902. He came to this city in tlie later lifties and passed the remainder of bis days here. And tliat his interest in the expansion, improvement, ^and general welfare of tlie coramunity remained with him to the last and wa.s potential when all other ordinary claims were ignored is proven by the fact that in 1900, when he was ninety years old, he had platted the Pond and I'ettibone Addition to Minneapolis, which is now one of the choice residence sections of the city and fast filling up with imposing dwelling houses.

In liis native state Mr. Pond obtained a common school education according to the standards in vogue in New England in his boyhood. In his young manhood he was united in marriage with Miss .lane A. Lyon, a daughter of Haivey Lyon, a prominent citizen of Auburn, X. Y., and soon afterward became a farmer in Cayuga county.

After farming for a number of years in the state of \ew York, and succeeding as he did in almost ever}' other venture he made in those years, he found his iiealth failing and d<termincd to seek a change of climate, and a new locality in which he could continue in business to advantage, but without the excessive physual strain to which he had long been subjected. The fine opportunities for investment and big business transactions and the healthful climate of this region, which were attracting general attention in the Northeast, brought him hither between 1855 and 1800, and he goon found that the locality was all it had been pictured as a land of promise in trade and an invigorating one for the human frame.

Mr. Pond arrived in Minneapolis with a considerable amoimt of capital for his day, and finding the people here greatly in need of money and olTering attractive rates of interest for its use, he began loaning as his regular business, and liy this means he added largely to his resources. He also became possessor of real estate from time to time and held it for the advances in value that seemed inevitable. His career was not, however, one of unbroken triumph. He lost heavily through the failure of some men and through the dishonesty of others. But he did not suder beyond his ability to stand the losses without inconvenience and all the while his property was growing in value.

Within a few years after he came to Minneapolis Mr. Pond lost his wife by death, and for a number of years following that event he lived largely to himself, frugally and unostentatiously, and showing in his daily walk many of the salient characteristics of the typical New Englander. He was then vigorous and energetic, and devoted himself wholly to business pursuits and efforts to push forward the development and improvement of the city in which he had cast his lot.

During this period he kept in close touch with Augustus Pettibone, his brother-in-law in Oswego, New Y'ork, and manifested a cordial and appreciative interest in Miss Florence Pettibone, a daughter of that gentleman. In 1893 she came to Minneapolis to give him companionship, care and comfort, and they then set up an establishment, and through his declining years he had all the enjoyments of a comfortable home. In addition to being the guiding spirit of his hovisehold his niece became his aid, adviser, and staff in his business operations, and together they placed the Pond and Pettibone Addition to Minneapolis on the market in 1900. Miss Pettibone now has her home at 1917 Stevens avenue.

Miss Pettibone was Mr. Pond's principal beneficiary in the disposition of his extensive property. She is a careful business Woman, with no fondness for display or public notice.

In fact, she has many of the traits of character and habits of life that distinguished her venerable uncle, and has proven herself to be altogether worthy of the confidence and affection he bestowed on her while he lived. Like him, she is earnest and practical in her devotion to the welfare of the community in which she lives, and is always ready to aid in the promotion of any Commendable undertaking to advance its interests. But she is wise as well as public-spirited, and is never caught by projects of doubtful value, or overborne by considerations of sentiment without substance beneath them. She is a lady of strong rommon sense and good judgment, and is universally esteemed for her genuine worth and usefulness.

Eujene .T. Stilwell

Eugene .1. Stilwell. ])resi(lent and treasurer of the Minneapolis Paper eom])any and a prominent and progressive citizen, was born in Washington county, Wisconsin, .June 27. 1849, the son of Hiram and Elizabeth S. Stilwell. who were both natives of New Y'ork state. His parents were married in Milwaukee and settled in Washington county in 184r), where they made their home for six years and then removed to St. Paul. For a period of thirty years. Hiram Stilwell was activel}' identified with the business life of that city as a successful building contractor, erecting many of the principal structures, including the Merchants' Hotel. He died in St. Paul at the age of seventy-six. E. .7. Stilwell was reared in St. Paul and there attended the public schools, graduating from high school. He then completed a course of study in a commercial college and in 1871! became engaged in the paper business, entering the emploj' of Averill, Russell & Carpenter and has devoted his efficient services to this same firm and their successors during the forty years of his notably successful career. His first position was as traveling salesman and for thirteen years he assisted in building up the rapidly increasing patronage of the company. In 1886 he became a partner in the firm which was known at this time as Averill, Carpenter & Company. Two years later the Minneapolis Paper company was established as a branch hou.sc and in 1893 Jlr. Stilwell assumed the personal management of the Minneapolis company. The firm was incorporated in the same year with a cajiital stock of .$50,000, which has since been increased to $150,000 with a surplus of .$75,000. Mr. Stilwell was chosen president and treasurer. Mr. (Jeorge H. Christian, vice president and Mr. W. E. Swartwood, secretary. The business comprises several departments, producing printers' stock, wrapping paper, building paper and stationery, the latter including the manufacture of tablets and mercantile ruling paper. The remarkable growth of the trade has more than exceeded the expectations of its promoters and necessitates the employment of about eighty workman, with a force of thirteen salesmen who cover a constantly expanding territory throughout the northwest beside handling an inunen.se local trade. As a public spirited citizen. Mr. .Stilwell is extensively identified with all matters touching the welfare of Minneapolis and actively interested in politics and the Republican party. In recognition of his valuable political services he has been fre(|nently urged to accept public oflice but has continued to decline these honors. He is a member of the Civic and Commerce association and first vice president of the Commercial club and his hearty cooperation may always be relied upon, in any movement for the advancement and general prosperity of the city. As vice president of the state fair board, his influence is state wide in the promotion of the affairs of this body with notable results for Minnesota. In Masonry he has attained the ranks of Kniglit Templar and Shriner. and is a member of the Minneapolis, Lafayette and Automobile clubs. He was married to Miss Kittie M. Goewey of Chicago, in 1878. They have one daughter, Grace, who is the wife of Mr. L. R. Boswell, a department manager in the Minneapolis Paper company. Mr. Stilwell is an enthusiastic huntsman and finds great enjoyment and relaxatiton in the pursuit of his favorite sport and recreation in the native wilds of northern Minnesota.

Charles H. Scott

Beginning his business career at an early age, and making every place ho filled a means of access to a better one, and patiently biding his time until he could be in his own, Charles H. Scott, vice-president and treasurer of the Strong- Scott Manufacturing company, has at the age of forty a record of well filled undertakings and creditable achievements. Mr. Scott was born at Gardner, .Johnson coimty, Kansas, on July 17, 1873, his parents, James and Ellen died in Gardner. He completed his academic education at a high school in Kansas City, and in 1893 when he was but twenty years of age, was assistant superintendent of the Calumet street railway company in Chicago, after so serving for a time becoming superintendent of the American Malting company of Chicago. In 1899, he came to this city being variously engaged until 1903 when he acquired an interest in the Strong-Northway company. Soon afterward he purchased Mr. Northway's interest and the business became the Strong-Scott Manufacturing company of which he has for some years been vice-president and treasurer with a potential voice in its management. He is also one of the directors of the Bruce-Edgerton Lumber company and president of the Sleepy Eye Dry Process company. He holds active and serviceable membership in the Interlachen and the Long Meadow Gun clubs, and has given helpful attention to the public affairs. On June 16th, 1909, he was married to Miss Blanche Edgerton of Minneapolis. They have three children.

Hans Simonson

Hon. Hans Simonson, for many years actively identified with the manufacturing interests of Minneapolis as president of the Simonson Brothers Manufacturing Company, is a native of Norway, born February 23, 1844. He came to this country in 1865 and joined his brother, Peter, in Minneapolis. Peter Simonson had left his native land several years previously and was engaged in the trade of cabinet maker, and for a time Hans was employed as a house carpenter.

In 1870 the brothers establi.shed themselves on Tenth and Washington streets as stair builders and are so designated in the City Directory of 1877. They were remarkably successful and their patronage grew rapidly, soon requiring a force of ten or twelve assistants. In 1883 they removed to the present location on South Seventh street. The brothers first organized their company in partnership with Mr. Julius Newgaard and

Mr. Jacob Stoft, as Simonson Brothers, Newgaard & Company. The firm was incorporated in 1886 with a capital of $50,000, which was soon increased to $80,000. In 1907 the plant was struck by lightning and destroyed. The present buildings are substantial brick structures representing a floor space of 50,000 square feet. The company engages principally in cabinet work, manufacturing sash, doors, and moldings, employing 125 workmen and has an immense business extending throughout the Northwest to the Coast, beside supplying a large local demand. The two men whose efforts and efficiency have been rewarded by the marked prosperity and success of the company are no longer actively connected with its interests, although Hans Simonson, who has made his residence in Norway for the last eight years, and the heirs of Peter Simonson, whose death occurred in 1893, continue as stockholders.

In addition to his manufacturing interests, Hans Simonson was prominent in the affairs of the city and State. He is a Republican and for two terms represented his district in the State Legislature, where he faithfully discharged his duties. He was an organizer and is still a director of the South Side State Bank and a founder and vice president of the Minneapolis Savings & Loan Association. He was president of the Simonson Brothers Manufacturing Company from the time of its incorporation until his departure for Norway, in 1905, when he left his business affairs in the management of Mr. Ole Bjerke.

ilr. Bjerke became president of the company in 1907 and has competently filled the position since that time with Martin Simonson, a brother of Hans, as vice president and L. Monasch as secretary.

Mr. Bjerke was born in Norway, July 6, 1860, came to America in 1886, and located in Minneapolis. He had known the Simonson brothers in the old country, and found employment with them in their office as bookkeeper. He became a stockholder in the firm and was notably associated with the successful growth of the company. He was married in Minneapolis to Miss Carrie Anderson, a native of Norway, and they have two children, Helen, a student in the high school, and Ruth.

Nels Albin Matson

Mr. Matson was a native of Sweden. Born September 30th, 1865, and died at Minneapolis June 28, 1908. His parents Mattes J. and Anna (Pearson) Matson, were also natives of Sweden. Mr. Matson came to this country for the enjoyment and the advantages offered here by the unbounded opportunities for advancement available to ability, industry and thrift.

He came to the United States in 1884, when he was just about nineteen years old, and took up his residence at Roseville, Illinois, where he worked on a farm for a few years. He had been fairly well educated and trained for usefulness in many ways in his native land, and with a self-reliant nature was ready for any call to duty when he moved to Minneapolis in 1888. His first engagement after coming to this city was as a nurseryman, but this only lasted a short time. He had a turn for mercantile life which induced him to become a salesman for Lillebridge Bremer, a wholesale confectioner, in whose employ he worked faithfully for a few months.

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Mr. Matson'3 aim was high, however, and he was determined against being long diverted from it. His great desire was to have a business of his own, which he couhi conduct and build up for his own advantage, he gratified tliis Uiiuiable ambition by starting a bakery in 1893. He carried tliis on with increasing patronage and popularity in ordinary lines until 1903. In that year he made a radical departure from established lines by putting on the market a special brand of bread wliich he called the "Baby Label,"' and which contained the trade-mark of his business.

Tlie Matson bakery was started at C<?ntral avenue and Twenty-fifth street northeast, which he bought of Mr. Eggensbcrger, but in 1902, when he decided to put more life and progress into his business, he bought land, and moved his combined plants to a large brick building at Tenth street and Third avenue northeast. Here he built up a trade tliat required the employment of fifty to sixty ]ier,soiis, used eleven delivery wagons regularly and laid every section of the city under tribute to its revenues. He also incorporated his business under the name of N. A. Matson Baking Co. This company is still in active operation, its present officers being: D. Engstrum, president; Miss C. S. Larson, secretary, and Mrs. Xels A. Matson, treasurer.

Mr. Matson was married in Minneapolis on September 29, 1893, to Miss Tillie Eckberg of this city. Two children were born of their union, their sons Clarence W., who is now (1913) eigliteen years of age, and Irving F., who is twelve. Mr. Matson showed his interest in the fraternal life of his adopted city by active membership in the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Foresters. He was also a serviceable factor of its organized social activities as a valued member of the Odin club. In religious faith and allegiance he was a Christian .'Scientist.

\\niilc the life of this capable and enternrising business man and excellent citizen in Jlinneapolis was not an extended one. it was a very useful one. He took an earnest interest and an active part in all projects for the improvement and expansion of the city, used his influence and his suffrage in eilorts to secure the best possible government for the community and was liberal in his contributions of time, energy and material assistance to the work of all good agencies organzied and laboring for the welfare of tlie people in all lines of advancement, moral, intellectual, social and material. The people of the city knew his worth and esteemed him highly, and his intimate associates felt his influence for good, his stimulus to exertion and the improving force of his example. He served his day and generation well, and his memory remains in the community an abiding well-spring of benefaction to its residents.

Wlio became Lieut. Governor Septcmbei' UM, 1909, upon accession of Lieut. Governor Eberhart to the governorships, at the death of Governor Johnson, and one of the leading members of the Minneapolis Bar. was born May 5. 1861, at Spring Valley. Minn., liis parents being Dryden and Elizabeth Anne (Hines) Smith. His early educational advantages were confined to the public schools. He began the study of tlic law at Charles City, Iowa; an<I upon his admission. located at Minneajiolis.

His practice has assumed large proportions, and his standing at the Bar is second to few. He early became interested in political work, and, in 1894, was elected to the legislature, being re-elected two years later. In 1898 he was sent to the Senate and was twice re-elected, so, that his services in the legislature covered a period of si.\teen years. He was Instrumental in establishing the Minnesota Tax Commission; being, during the greater part of his service as legislator, Chairman of the Committee on Taxes and Tax-Laws.

In the session of 1907, he was President pro tern of the Senate, thus becoming Lient. Governor when the vacancy oc^curred. He has long been recognized as a party leader, ever standing for regularity; the overwhelming success of the party in this state in 1912, when the Republicans in many states met defeat, owning to entanglements in a many skeined National contest, was largely accredited to his enthusiasm and giiieialship as chairman of the state Central Committee. Yet through all the strenuous maneuvers of a political campaign, he is to outward appearances the most retiring, modest unassuming man in the party; and this quality, linked with great personal magnetism, is credited with advancing him ia leadership. He is a member of the Minneapolis, the Lafayette, Interlachcn and the Athletic clubs, and of the Civic Commerce Association. He is identified with all the local Masonic bodies.

Married in 1884 to Esther E. Leonard, at Charles City, Iowa. The daughter is Mrs. Harriet Leonard Waters and the son Rollin L. Smith, Minneapolis.

Fred Richardson Salisbury

Fred R. Salisbury, the pioneer manufacturer of mattresses, bed springs and iron and brass bedsteads in Jlinneapolis, is entitled to distinction. He was the first man to engage in the making of these articles of universal use and necessity in this city, and he has expanded his operations and trade in the industry to very large proportions. He has also taken an active and very serviceable part in the general life of the city in many ways, and has filled many positions of importance in connection with its business and social organizations and activities.

Mr. Salisbury is a native of Madison county. New York, where his life began on January 18, 1861, and a son of Thomas G. and Marian (Richardson) .Salisbury, who were of the same nativity as himself. The father was a manufacturer. He died October 29, 1898. The mother is still living at Minneapolis, and the son was therefore in touch with industrial life from his boyhood. His grandfather, Daniel Salisbury, during his life was engaged in farming.

Fred R. Salisbury obtained his scholastic training and his preparation for business at Cedar Falls, Iowa, where he passeil through the elementary grades and was graduated from the high school. He then pursued a course of special training for business in a commercial college. This he completed before he was seventeen, and after doing so immediately began his business career, coming to Minneapolis in 1877 for the purpose. As soon as he arrived in this city he began preparations for starting his present business, and soon had it under way and moving forward toward high prosperity. There was no manufactory of mattresses and his other products in the city then, and he had the field to himself. His superior business acumen and enterprise enabled him to take full advantage of the situation and found his business on a film foundation which no upheaval in trade circles in the community has ever since been sufficient to shake.

For some years Mr. Salisbury was associated in the business with W. P. Washburn and W. T. Kolph. Then the Salisbury & Satterlee company was formed, and in 1904 the business was incorporated under this name. Mr. Salisbury is the president of the company, and William E. Satterlee, a sketch of whom will be found in this- work, is the vice president. The business carried on by the company is the most extensive of its kind in the Northwest, and has other sections of the country also under tribute to its trade. The factory is one of the leading industrial enterprises on the Eastern side of the river, and is nowhere surpassed in the excellence of its output, every article it places on the market being of the best quality in material and first class in workmanship and style according to its class.

For many years Mr. Salisbury has been a very busy man, but he has never neglected the duties of citizenship or turned away from any call to duty in connection with the industrial and mercantile interests of the city of his home. He has served as treasurer of the Firemen's Relief Fund, the Minneapolis Credit Men's Association, the Twin City Merchants' Association, the Minneapolis Furniture Manufacturers' Association and the Minneapolis Commercial Club. He is at this time (1914) president of the National Association of Credit Men. He has also taken a cordial and serviceable interest in the civic afl'airs of the city, although he has never held a political office or desired one, his interest in public affairs being only that of a good citizen earnestly desirous of tlio best government attainable.

The social life of the community around him has engaged Mr. Salisbury's attention and energies to a very large extent. He is a member of the Minneapolis, Minneapolis Athletic, St. Anthony, Rotary, Minikahda, Interlaelien, Lafayette and Minnetonka Yacht clubs, and is zealous in his devotion to the welfare, good government and widest usefulness of them all. In fraternal life he is a Freemason of the highest degree, having ascended the mystic ladder of the fraternity througli the Knights Templar degree in the York Rite and into the thirty-second degree in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. In Masonic relations he is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, holding his membership in this branch of the order in Zurah Temple in Minneapolis. His political affiliation is with the Democratic party and his religious connection with the First Methodist Episcopal church.

On August l.'J, 1885, Mr. Salisbury was married in Minneapolis to Miss Nellie F. Barrows, a daughter of Frederick C. and Sarah J. (Swain) Barrows. Four children have been born of the union, all of whom are living. They are Maurice, Willis, Kenneth and Emmet. All the members of the family are held in the highest esteem in all parts of the city, and are representative in an admirable degree of its most elevated and useful citizenship, the uprightness of their lives being creditable alike to it and to themselves.

Sawyer county, Wisconsin, where he worked in a lumber mill one year. He then went to Blair, Nebraska, and there he attended Trinity Seminary one winter. Returning to Hayward, he resumed his labor in the sawmill. The next winter, working for his board, he attended school in Hayward, and later clerked in a. grocery store.

In 1889 he came to Minneapolis, and, after pursuing a course in the Curtiss Business College, became bookkeeper for the Flour City Transfer company. For eight years he held a similar position for the Pioneer Fuel company, his next engagement being with the Bovey DeLaittre Lumber company, where for three years he had charge of the fuel department. He then started the Skellet Fuel company, it later, becoming the EUiott-Skellet Fuel company. In five years it had grown to handsome proportions, and, selling, bought the O. G. Peterson Transfer business, forming The Skellet Transfer and Storage company. He has since had active personal control of this business showing such enterprise and energy as have made it one of the leading transfer and storage institutions of the city. Without neglect of business he has given an active and helpful part in public affairs under the impelling force of intelligent, cordial and discerning interest in the public welfare. His political allegiance has always been given to the Democratic party, in which he is an important factor. He was candidate for register of deeds in 1904, and in 1911 a member of the Board of Corrections and Charities. He is Chairman of Salvation Army Industrial Home on Nicollet Island, where social derelicts are given a chance to regain lost self-respect and once more hold up their heads among men.

He is a member of the Civic and Commerce Association and the Athletic club and ex-president of the Odin and of tlie North Side Commercial clubs. He is a zealous Mason and Elk. Living a quiet, unostentatious life, his genuine merit as a man and 'citizen and his fine business capacity have w-on the universal esteem and a host of warm and appreciative friends. In 1895, he was married to Miss Molly Thone. They have four children, Oliver and Thomas, Evangelyn and Rosslvn.

Thomas J. Skellet

When Dr. Kimball S. Morgan paid the last debt of nature, December 20, 1912, the oldest dental surgeon in years in Minneapolis passed away after many years of continuous and active practice in the city.

Dr. Morgan was born at North Armett, near Portland, Maine, in 1849. He entered mercantile life as a commercial salesman, continuing in this employment for a number of years. His business duties brought him to the Northwest and becoming enamored of Minneapolis determined to make it his home. He luid previously, however, acquired a technical and practical knowledge of dentistry, and at once began practicing his profession.

He adhered steadfastly to his profession, won high reputation as a skilled dentist, and accumulated a competency. He was active, energetic, and enterprising and gave careful attention to his pursuit to the last. When he came to Minneapolis he brought with him his mother, who was his housekeeper until her death August 7, 1894, at the advanced age of eightytwo. They lived in a handsome new residence wliich the

The doctor was deeply interested in boj's and young men. Several dentists now prominent in the profession owe their start to his kindly advice and encouragement. He would see alertness and aptitude possibly in a new immigrant who might be doing chores, would give him a cot in his ollice, arrange for his board, and show him how to do for himself. His interest in his proteges was lasting; in a few instances he left legacies to their children.

Doctor Morgan possesed a valuable estate, and in its disposition acted with jvidgment and discrimination. He remembered a Methodist church in his boyhood home to which he was attached, provided for a niece and an intimate personal friend, and left the bulk of his property, including the home in which they lived, to his widow. This lady, for four years before the death of the Doctor's mother, had assisted her in her household duties, which her advanced age made burdensome. And after the mother's death the Doctor made the former assistant his wife. Her maiden name was Emma J. Westeburg, and she was born and reared in Sweden. When the Doctor died she accompanied his remains to his old home in Maine and saw them laid to rest in Walnut Hill Cemetery, at Xortli Armett.