Minneapolis City (part 77 of 80)

Annie E. is the wife of Edwin E. Nourse, of Minneapolis, who is here actively identified with the lumber business, and they have four children, - Edwin E., Jr., Viola May, Maude E., and Leon F. Hannah P. is the wife of Peter Schuck, a representative business man of Minneapolis, and their children are: Lillian, Carrie, Myrtle, Viola and Lee, the eldest daughter, Lillian, being now the wife of Harry Johnson. Georgia P. is the wife of Charles Kleopfert, of ^linneapolis, and they have four children, - Carrie, Ruth and Grace Esther. Albert Lee, the next in order of birth, became a .successful and popular business man of Minneapolis, where he whs engaged in llie retail cigar and tobacco trade at the time of his death, which occurred on the 23d of August, 1912, the date of his birth having been November 17, 1871. On the 10th of November, 1910, Albert Lee wedde* Miss Delia Schmidt, of Winona, this state, and she survives him, no children having been born of this union. Sarah became the wife of Charles M. Hazelton and her death occurred Se[)teniber 28, 1905, her children being Jennie, Chester A. and Earl E. Frank J. Lee died in 1907 and is survived by one daughter. Myrtle.

Garkett .1. Somsex

The late Garrett J. Somsen, who died in Minneapolis, October 3, 1912, had been a resident of Minnesota for many years and of the city for twenty-three. He was successful in business, wide awake and progressive in advancing the progress and improvement of his home city, elevated in his citizenship, and devoted to American institutions, although not a native .\nierican, having come to Minnesota with his parents from Holland as a lad of nine years.

He grew to manhood on a farm near New L'lm. Minn., and acquired his education in the common school. He operated as a horse dealer for a time, then went to Lime Spring. Iowa, where he was engaged in merchandising until 1890, when he came to Minneapolis to give his sons better educational facilities. He became a produce dealer, especially in butter and eggs, continuing as such for a number of years. The latter part of his life was devoted largely to buying and selling land, a;id by general sound ju<lgment and good management he accumulated a handsome estate.

I<"or some years after leaving Lime Spring. Mr. Somsen retained the ownership of his stores there, and also acquired two farms in Minesot.a and large acreage in the Dakotas, Canada, and the Panhandle of Texas. He kept the greater part of his own land until a short time before his death, when he sold a considerable quantity, as well as the Iowa property, retaining, however, his Minnesota and North Dakota farms..

Mr. Somsen was married to Miss Emma CuUen, and they had two sons, Henry and Stephen. Both were graduated from the law department of the University of Minnesota, and Henry began practicing in the office of John Lind, in New LTlm. Mr. Lind was an old friend of the family, and when he was elected Governor turned much of his practice over to young Mr. Somsen, who is now city attorney.

Stephen Somsen is in the firm of Brown, Abbott & Somsen, in Winona. He is a capable and energetic lawyer: his services are particularly valuable in the management of outside business, and he is often sent to the Eastern cities and even to Ein-ope; to attend to important legal matters.

In ]?95 the senior Mr. Somsen married Miss Anna Marsh, who was an esteemed friend of the family in Iowa, his first wife and mother of his sons having passed away some years before. Jlr. Somsen was a zealous member of Olivet Pn'sbyterian church, an excellent citizen, and had great faith in the future of the imperial Northwest.

Citizens in all parfs' of Minnesota, and alumni and students of its great University in many parts of the United States and some of other countries, fully realize and cheerfully acknowledge that Professor Maria L. Sanford is "the best known and best loved woman in Minnesota." For almost thirty years she was a teacher in the State University, and for more than half a century connected with the teaching faculty of the country, giving to the public in continuous extent and an exalted degree of untiring and unselfish service that few have either the strength or the opportunity to give.

Maria L. Sanford was born in Saybrook, Connecticut, December 19, 1836, into a family of three daughters and one son. She attended a country school in her home town until she was eleven, when the family moved to near Meriden, three miles distant from the academy in that city. But during the three terms of her 14th and 15th year she attended the academy, walking the distance to and from the school, and helping her mother with the housework nights and mornings. By heroic determination and self-sacrifice she was able to pursue the three years' course at the New Britain Normal School. She was employed five years as a teacher in her home town and other Connecticut towns. During the next five years she taught in the grade schools of New Haven, where she made a new home for her invalid mother and younger brother, and did all the housework in it.

From the end of that period her record as a teacher covers continuous activity and many fields of labor, including Middlefield, Connecticut; Parkersville, Coatesville, and Swathmore College, Pennsylvania, and the University of Minnesota, while her activity on the platform as a lecturer and in the pulpit as a preacher, has taken her to almost numberless places in many far apart localities. In Coatesville she was superintendent of schools and principal of the high school; at Swathmore College she was Professor of History for ten years; and in the University of Minnesota she was Professor of Rhetoric and Public Speaking. Her work here began in 1880 and continued to 1909, when she was retired, on a Carnegie pension.

Miss Sanford has been a great living and inspiring force on the lecture platform, and also a profoundly impressive preacher of the gospel in the Christian pulpit. During the more than twenty-nine years of her connection with the University she averaged at least one lecture a week, in addition to her school work and preaching, and in doing this always, when it was possible, traveled at night so as to be in her classroom on time in the morning. She has also been potential in the work of forest conservation; she started the anti-spitting crusade and the movement for the removal of ladies' hats in public places, and helped to organize the Improvement League in Minneapolis, which has brought about great activity in cleaning streets and alleys, beautifying boulevards, keeping weeds cut on vacant lots, and raising flowers on the grounds of homes. Her interest in elevating work of this character and her great kindness of heart are strikingly shown by one incident in her history. Some years ago she moved into a new neighborhood. There the boys stole lier apples, and when she found out who they were she gave them apple trees to plant for themselves, and she also gave roses and other plants to everybody in the neighborhood who was willing to pay a small price for them, and that whole neighborhood now has a fine showing of apple trees and flowers. One resident has declared that "Miss Sanford has done more for the good of the neighborhood in five years titan all the good it received in the preceding twenty-five years put together."

Miss Sanford has always been actively interested in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Young Women's Christian Association and the work of the Northwestern Hospital, although .she has not found it possible to be a regular, active member of anv club. With all her interests and duties away from home, her work at home has never been neglected. From the time when, as a young girl, she made a home for her mother and small brother, she has always had some one or more of her own family with her. She has made a home for orphaned nieces and nephews, and within the last few years has made one for two grand nephews and a grand niece from Syria.

This record of the life of a genuinely heroic woman is necessarily brief and fragmentary, but it is enough to beget and stimulate a more extended inquiry into the years of service it but suggests. Such an inquiry will lead to admiration for the noble womanhood the story embodies, as well as for the immense and long continued usefulness of its subject. It will show that with all the far extended and intense popularity Miss Sanford Justly enjoys she is entirely without ostentation in her home, her dress or her manners. The plain living and high thinking of her Puritan ancestors have been nobly exemplified in her life work, and her practical common sense, delightful liumor and rare social charm have redeemed them from ruggedness and given them grace and beauty beyond tlie power of art to compass or words to fitly and fully express.

Vader Harmanus Van Slyke

Vader Harmanus Van Slyke, the president of the Metropolitan National Bank, was born in Eureka township, Dakota County, Minnesota, on April 21, 1864, and is a son of Vader G. and Isabella Ann (Clague) Van Slyke, the former a native of Ft. Plane, N. Y., and the latter of the Isle of Man. Tlie son was educated in the public schools at Hastings, Minnesota, and at Carleton College, Northfield. In 1884 he began his banking career in Western Minnesota, where he remained, so occupied, until 1888. From that year until 1896 he handled farm mortgages and life insurance, and from 1896 to May, 1907, he was state manager of Minnesota for the Union Central Life Insurance company of Cincinnati, Ohio, with headquarters in Minneapolis, Since the date last mentioned he has been president of the Metropolitan National Bank, which has prospered greatly under his management of its affairs and through his influence.

In politics Mr. Van Slyke is a Republican, but he has never sought or desired a political office. His religious connection is with the Protestant Episcopal Church ; fraternally he is a Free Mason of high rank including membership in the Mystic Shrine, and in club association he belongs to the Minikahda Club; the Interlachen Country Club, the Elks Club and the Commercial of Minneapolis. September 7, 1898, Mr. Van Slyke was married at Kimbolton, Ohio, to Miss Ella M. Yoe, who then resided in that city. He manifests his cordial and serviceable interest in the commiinity of his home by zealous activity in behalf of its progress and improvment and the welfare of its residents, and is esteemed as one of its most useful, progressive and representative business men and citizens.

Marcus Miller

Living in retirement at his pleasant home. 1610 Lowry avenue, after a residence of thirty-eight years in Minneapolis, Marcus Miller can look back over his long term of usefulness in this community with satisfaction.

Mr. Miller was born in Schaffhausen Canton, Switzerland, December 14, 1854. In 1868, he came to tliis country with his older brother, Henry, expecting to join him in business in Philadelphia. Later he went to Chicago, and was in that city at the time of the great fire of October, 1871. Soon afterward he moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he finished learning his trade as a butcher, which he had begun in Philadelphia.

In 1875. while he was still a little less than twenty-one, Mr. Miller became a resident of Minneapolis, and here he has ever since had his home. In 1878 his brother Henry followed him to this city and engaged in the meat trade for himself. Marcus worked two years for A. L. Sump, at 117 Washington Avenue North, then at 308 same avenue, started a meat market of his own, which he called the Philadelphia market and which he conducted five or six years, part of the time at a stand directly opposite on the same street, whicli he bought and' took possession of in about 1880.

In 18S:! he built the block in which the Jlinneapolis Packing Company is now located. He started this company and conducted all its operations until about 1907, when he retired from all active pursuits, turning the affairs of the Company over to his three sons. Wliile in charge of tl>e business lie liad branch markets at different places in the citj', one on Western avenue, wliere lie owned tlie property. For fifteen years he slaughtered his own stock in his own slaughter house, located on a five-acre tract of land on which his residence now stands.

During the decade of 1880 he butchered on an average a carload of cattle a week. He supplied meat to hotels and restaurants all along the lines of travel into and through Dakota, making a specialty of railroad and eating-house trade outside of the city. Locally he always had a large retail trade, and this his sons still have; some of the customers of the market having been such for thirty years. The business was started on a small capital and at a time when money was very scarce. But prudent management carried it safely until it lias become one of the leaders in its line in the Xorthwest.

Wliile Mr. Miller confined himself mainly to the meat business he also gave attention to other lines as opportunities presented themselves. He is a stockholder in the (ierman American Hank of Minneapolis, and he lias done a very creditable amount of building to the advantage of the city as well as his own. He has put up apartment houses, separate residences, and store buildings, and has al.so taken an earnest and practical interest in other lines of improvement. Some twenty years ago, however, his party thrust upon him its nomination for the office of alderman from his ward. At the election he was defeated by eight votes, for which he has ever since been thankful.

December 1, 1879, Mr. Miller was married in Minneapolis to Miss Louisa V. Korn, a daughter of the late Adam Korn, a well known resident of this city, and for many years proprietor of the old Crow River hotel, on First Street between First and Second Avenues North. He brought his family to Minneapolis from Buffalo, New York, in 1857, and afterward moved to Rockford, Minnesota, where he was the first postmaster. Mrs. Miller is the only daughter of her father's family. When she was 13 they returned to this city, and then the father opened the hotel, which he kept for fifteen years. He died in 1900. at the age of 65.

living. Otto G., the oldest son, is at the head of his father's former business house, the Minneapolis Packing Company, and Marcus, ,Ir., and Walter H. are associated with him. Klizabeth is the wife of J. J. Boyd, who is in the commission business for himself. Louise is the widow of Dr. A. E. Brimmer, of this city, and Bertha is the wife of Earl Coe, a prominent fruit grower at White Salmon, State of Washington. All the members of the family arc connected with Fremont Congregational church.

Mr. Miller is a member of the Order of Elks, th.' Itoyal Arcanum, the Modern Woodmen and the Royal I^eague. He has been "up to date" in other ways. Raised the fastest ice pacer ever bred in Minneapolis, and was one of the first men in the city to own an automobile. Since coming to the I'nited States he has visited his old home in Switzerland twice; his wife accompanied him on both trips.

George Henry Tennant

Mr. Teniiaiit was born on .luly 31, 1845, in County Clare, Ireland, where his forefatliers were domesticated for many generations. When he was but one year old he was brought by his parents to this country and found a new home in the state of New York, where he grew to manhood, obtained his education and made himself useful during his boyhood and youth by working on his father's farm and in his father's shingle mill, and doing whatever else presented itself as requiring attention and effort.

When he came to Miniieaiiolis in 1866, Mr. Tenant was just about twenty-one. He began working here in an old shingle mill on the Falls, which also had a saw mill in joint operation with it. At the end of the second season passed in this mill he moved to St. Louis and there started a wooden cave spout factory. This he operated two years, then returned to Minneapolis. In this city, on May 15. 1870, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Elizabeth Blakeney, a daughter of Mrs. .lane Blakeney. who is still living and is now eightyfour years of age. She was born and reared in the provini-e of New Brunswick, Canada, and came to Minneapolis to live in 1865. She came with her hsuband, who died of tuberculosis two years later. After his death she sold the farm at Eden Prairie on which he died, and came to Minneapolis where she reared her family of eight children, the oldest of whom was eighteen when the father died, and was the only one able to render her any assistance in the arduous work of providing for the household.

The three daughters who are still living resitie in Minnea|>olis: Eliza, who is the wife of A. W. (iriswold; .Margaret, who married M. A. Cribb, and Sarah Elizabeth, who is Mrs. Tennant. Only two of the sons are living, .lohn S. and William S. Blakeney. Both are residents of Milwaukee. The oldait son died in his boyhood. The. mother became connectod with the Central Baptist church soon after her arrival in .Minneapolis and still belongs to it. She has long been active in all church and church society work. Notwithstjinding her advanced age and the struggles and privations through whieh she has passed she is well preserved, and throughout the oity she is well known and most highly esteemed.

After his return from St. Louis. Mr. Tennant was made foreman of a planing mill at the Kails, and continiieil to fill that position two or three years. At the end of that time he started a planing mill of his own at the Falls, and afterward conducted another in North Minneapolis on the West Side, and still later he operated a third on the East Side near the site now occupied by Messrs. Barnard & Cope. Ross Russell, the son of R. P. Russell, was in partnership with him in these enterprises. He suffered heavy losses by fire, but immediately reorganized his business, and prepared to carry it on in greater proportions than before.

Later he followed the lumber mills to Thirteenth and Central avenues and located on the site of the present Andrew Carlson factory. Mr. Carlson had been one of his employes for some years and he wished to help him to a business of his own be'cause of his fidelity. Another fire swept over the Tennant plant, and Mr. Tennant then sold Mr. Carlson all the machinery in it that had not been badly damaged by the fire, and in this way the present large enterprise of Mr. Carlison was started.

After his second fire, which was not as disastrous to him as the first, Mr. Tennant established the present plant of the Tennant business at 920 Sixth avenue southeast. Circumstances led him to begin dealing in hardwood products, and his mill was gradually converted into a hardwood floor factory, the first one ever conducted in this city. Mr. Tennant designed new machinery to meet the requirements of the hardwood flooring work, and his business grew rapidly to great magnitude. He began making hardwood flooring about 1900, and on August 3, 1908, he was once more burned out. The buildings were of wood and the insurance rates very high. So he was not carrying much insurance at the time of the fire, and the plant was wholly destroyed, as was also a large amount of stock, one warehouse alone containing $20,000 worth. The fire occurred on the day of a picnic, which he and most of the membei"s of the fire department attended, and but one of his warehouses was saved. The rest of the property was a total ruin.

Mr. Tennant was then past fifty years of age. But with all the energy of his youth he immediately set about rebuilding his factory of brick, and in Sixty days had it in full operation. He was a staunch Republican in politics, but he never sought prominence politically or an oflace of any kind. He gave his attention strictly to his business until about six weeks before his death, taking no vacations, but enjoying considerable relaxation at his summer home at Wildhurst, on Lake Minnetonka.

Mr. Tennant wa-s a Baptist in religious faith, and for thirty years Served as one of the trustees of Olivet Baptist church, and for many years as its treasurer. Fraternally he was a Freemason of high degree - a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He belonged to old Cataract Lodge in the fraternity and for many years was its treasurer. The lodge presented him with a handsome testimonial for his fidelity and ability in serving it, and when he died his remains were buried with Masonic ceremonies. He was also a charter member and one of the directors of the St. Anthony Commercial club. Through life he was a very benevolent man, and always very modest and reticent about his contributions for the relief of others.

Mr. and Mrs. Tennant were the parents of three children. Their son William, their first born, died at the age of seventeen. The two daughters are living. Grace M. is the wife of Charles E. Adams, a lawyer in Duluth. Lois A. is the wife of E. McMaster Pennock, vice president and general manager of the 0. H. Tennant company, Mr. Tennant's former business,

Robert W. Turnbull

Robert W. Turnbull was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, on the 28th of January, 1834, and his death occurred, with slight premonitory illness, at Bowden, North Carolina, on Sunday morning, March 28, 1909, - two months subsequent to his seventy-fifth birthday anniversary. In his native land Mr. Turnbull was reared to the age of fifteen years and he then accompanied his parents on their immigration to America, the family home being established in the province of Ontario, Canada, whence, a few years later, he removed to the state of Michigan. Mr. Turnbull gained his early educational discipline in England and supplemented the same by somewhat irregular attendance in the schools of Canada, though his broad and liberal education was principally the result of self-application and the experience gained in the course of a long and Signally useful career. In Michigan Mr. Turnbull became identified with the lumber industry at the time when in this line that state held precedence over all other sections of the Union. His energy and ability enabled him to make substantial progress toward the goal of definite success and he became one of the representative factors in connection with the great lumbering operations in Michigan, where he operated mills at Muskegon and Big Rapids during the years immediately following the Civil war and when that section of the state was the center of the most extensive lumbering operations in the United States. During this period he was also an interested principal in the operation of a large mill at Manistee, ilr. Turnbull continued his residence in Michigan until 1882, when he removed with his family to San Jose, California, but in the following year he establshed his permanent residence in Mimieapolis, Minnesota. Here he became one of the original stockholders and executives of the Itasca Lumber Company, in which he owned one-third of the stock. He disposed of his interest in this compaify a few yeais later, and was engaged in the manufactiiring of lumber at Stillwater, the judicial 'center of Washington county, though still retaining his residence in Minneapolis. The mill at Stillwater was erected in 1885 and he became a factor in the dcvclo])ment of a large and prosperous lumbering business. In ISDl Mr. Turnbull's only Son, Albert R., became associated with him in the prosecution of this business, under the firm name of R. W. Turnbull & Son. and in connection with the mill at Stillwater they also operated, for one year, the Plymouth mill, in Minneapolis. The mill and business at Stillwater were sold by the firm in 1904, and Mr. Turnbull, basing his plans upon his broad and intimate experience, decided to continue lumbering in a field where timber resources were of adequate order to justify operations upon an extensive Scale. In 1906 he and his son purchased all of the stock of the Rowland Lumber Company, with mills at Bowden, North Carolina, and general offices at Norfolk, Virginia. Of the 'company Robert W. Turnbull became president, an office of which he continued the incumbent until the close of his life, about three years later. His son became secretarj', treasurer and general manager of the company, and since the death of the father has been president of the corporation, the stork of which is all in the hands of the TurnbuU family. Operations are continued upon an extensive scale and have fully justitied the confidence and judgment of the veteran lumberman who assumed control of the business in company with his son, the latter proving a most able and progressive coadjutor and one well equipped for carrying forward the enterprise since the death of his honored father. The company controls e.\- tensive tracts of choice timber land in North Carolina, the supply of timber being sufficient to permit and justify extensive manufacturing operations for many years. The company owns it's own railway lines, for the facile handling of logs and products, and also owns at tidewater, two hundred miles distant from the mills, adequate dock facilities, in tlie city of Norfolk, Virginia, so that it commands the markets of the world in its sale of lumber. The manufacturing plant is one of the largest in the south and the business, as etreetively advanced by Albert R. TurnbuU, constitutes one of the most important industries of Nortli Carolina.

In the year 1900, Robert \V. TurnbuU erected at 27:!0 Park avenue, Minneapolis, one of the many fine residences in that attractive section of the city, and licre his widow still maintains her home. The domestic chapter in the life history of Mr. TurnbuU was one of ideal order, and his devotion to his family and home was of the most insistent and appreciative type, with every relation and association of the most idyllic order. He was reared in the faith of the English or Protestant Episcopal church, but in tlie later years of his life attended services of the Central Baptist cluirch in Minneapolis with utmost regularity, his widow being a devout member of this church. One of the dominating cliaracteristics of Mr. TurnbuU was his abiding interest in struggling young men, and many successful and honored men to-day are ready to do him honor and to accord lasting gratitude for the advice and tangible aid given by him. At the time of his death an appreciative tribute appeared in the Mississippi Valley Lumberman, and the article closed with the following words: "He was a genial, whole-souled gentleman whose loss will be keenly felt, not only by his family but also by a large circle of friends and neighbors.

At Port Huron, Michigan, in the year 1865, was solemnized the marriage of Jlr. TurnbuU to Miss Julia A. Wilson, w-ho was born at Ann Arbor, that state, and who is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. TurnbuU became tlie parents of four children, aU of whom survive the honored father. - Minnie A.. Minerva A., Rosa Bell and Albert R. The only son has the general management of the business of the Rowland Lumber Company, in North Carolina, as has already been stated. He wedded Miss Lucy Gale, daughter of A. F. Gale, of Minneapolis.

Mre. Walker was born in Brunswick. Medina county, Ohio, on September 10, 1841, and is a daughter of Eletdu'r and Kannie (Granger) Hulet, who were luitives of AFassachusetts and descended from good old English stock. Her paternal grandfather, .Jolm Hulet, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and fought in the battle of Bunker Hill; and his father, also named .Tohn llulet, was a zealous patron of Methodism

When Harriet Granger Hulet (now Mrs. Walker) was six years old, her parents moved to Berea, Ohio, in order to secure for their children the educational advantages offered by Baldwin University. Tliere their daughter Harriet grew to womanhood, remaining in her father's household until her marriage, and cultivating her natural gifts for vocal and instrumental music and her love of languages, through which she became mistress of the Latin, the Greek and the (ierman tongues. She was also a frequent contributor to periodicals, and her early ambition was to write a famous book. Her ambition in this direction has never been realized, but her literary tastes and ability have found vital and fruitful expression in lectures and addresses in behalf of her numerous philanthropies.

In 1856 Miss Hulet became acquainted with Mr. Walker. They were in school together, and later, when Mr. Walker was employed as traveling salesman, the daughter was her father's bookkeeper and secretary, and so tliere was ample opportunity for frequent and continued intercourse between the young couple. Their ac(|iuiintance ripened into a more tender feeling, and on November 19. 1863. after an engagement lasting five years, they were married in her home city of Berea, Ohio. Mr. Walker then came on to St. Anthony and prepared the way for establishing a home here, after which he sent for his bride. Six years later he built a new residence in Miimeapolis. at Ninth street and First avenue south, which was then so far up and out of town that he felt obliged to keep a horse for transportation between the city and his home.

During the first twelve years of her married life Mrs. Walker devoted her energies to her growing family and gave little time to any work outside her home. Her husband was engaged in surveying for the government and the new railroads planned for this region, and was absent from home for months at a time. Their means were limited, too, and the letters that passed between them reached their destinations with difficulty. In addition to her burdens, of privations and responsibilities, the constant danger of Indian outbreaks in the region where her husband was working gave Mrs. Walker a heavy and continual weight of uneasiness to bear. Hut she accepted her lot with fortitude and cheerfulness, and performed her every duty with fidelity.

About the end of the period mentioned above, Jlrs. Walker began to observe closely the condition of the poor and the oppressed, and to engage in active work for their relief and betterment. Since then her philanthropies have been so numerous, far-reaching and voluminous, that only a brief sumniary of them can be given here. She has founded benevolent and helpful institutions and established them on pernnment bases, investing considerable sums of nioiu>y in their maintenance and development. These institutions annually give succor in sickness and misl'ortiine to hundreds of men. women and children, and do it in the quiet and unostentatious way which true benevolence always seeks to follow.

Afis. Walker was a member of the first organization of the Women's Christian Association of Minneapolis, which at the time of its inception was given the care of all the poor of the community. A few years later she joined with other ladies in organizing and numaging the Sisterhood of Bethany, an association for the care of erring women and their infant chihiren. which has become a wonderful power for good thr(iM"h<int the whole Northwest. She has served as its secretary or president since its organization thirty-five years ago. Oiii of this institution grew the Northwestern Hospital Association, which was organized to care for the worthy poor who are ill. Mrs. Walker has been its president from the beginning of its history. The association began operations without a dollar in cash or credit. Its hospital was started in a poorly furnished house, and its facilities were meager, primitive and of very limited utility. Today this hospital is fully equipped and skilfully conducted, it has capacity for one hundred patients and carries on a training school for imrses with thirty pupils. The buildings are now free of debt and the association has an endowment fund of $40,000. Since 1901 the hospital has been open for men as well as women. The success and growth of this institution alone is sufficient to fix Mrs. Walker's fame as a lady of great business ability and strong devotion to the service of her fellow beings who are in need.

Other philanthropies with which this noble woman has been actively connected are the Women's Christian Union, the Newsboys' Home, the Kindergarten Association and the children's Home, the last named being an outgrowth of the Sisterhood of Bethany. In her temperance work she conducted meetings in lier church and publislied the data she gathered in tracts. This and her lecture on the Keeley cure for inebriates, which she read at the World's Temperance conference at the Columbian E.\position, have been widely copied and distributed in this country and many others. Her philanthropic work is done systematically. She has regular office hours and employs a stenographer to assist her.

One of the most beneficial results of Mrs. Walkers' great public spirit and intense devotion to the wants of the needy, especially of her own sex. is the establishment of police matronship in connection with the city government of Minneapolis. Through investigations in the Eastern cities she became fully convinced years ago that all women prisoners in the tustody of the police ought to be under the care of a woman. Great opposition was encountered to the movement for this beneficent reform when she started it, but she was not to be called off or frowned down, either by ^ the police authorities or by other Christian workers who did not approve of the suggestion. She kept warm in the pursuit of her purpose, and through her persistent and well directed etforts the office was established. The police could not but know her singleness of desire and loftiness of aim in the matter, for she had long been on call at their headquarters at any time of the day or night for the assistance of young women and girls.

In emergencies, Mrs. Walker acts promptly and wisely. When the terrible cyclone swept over Sauk Rapids witli such disastrous results and so mudi loss of life, she received notice from the mayor's office at 10 o'clock one morning that there was urgent need of more nurses in the stricken territory. At 3 o'clock that afternoon she went to the front with twelve nurses, all but one or two from the training school of the Northwe>stern Hospital. She remained at the i)lace of the dreadful visitation two weeks, taking charge of one of the hospitals, and several of the nurses remained two and some three months, doing all they could to relieve the suffering.

It is not to be supposed tliat because of this generous lady's attention to outsiders who have needed her help she has neglected her home or its duties. She has been a close and sympathetic comi)anion of her hu.sband in all his undertakings, and she reared her eight children to honorable manhood and womanhood. In fact, if her work outside of her own household has had any effect on her conduct within it, it has only intensified her devotion to her home and its duties and made her more zealous and diligent in attending to their requirements. She has given Minneapolis one of the noblest and loftiest examples of Christian womanhood and motherhood it has ever had, and in all sections of the city "her works praise her in the gates."

Rev. Isaac Wilson Joyce, D D., Ll. D.

Rev. Isaac Wilson Joyce, D. D., LL. D., the father of Col. Frank Melville .Joyce, and one of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, was one of the most eminent and conspicuous clergymen of that denomination. He was born in Hamilton coonty, Ohio, October 11, 1836, the Son of .James W, and Mary Ann Joyce, natives of Dublin, Ireland. As a youth the doctor found many obstacles in the way of his education, but he Avas an enthusiastic student and persevered in spite of them. He taught school to pay his way at Hartsville, Indiana, the denominational school of the United Brethren church, and finally secured the degree of A.M. from De Pauw {then Asbury) University. Some years later Dickinson College conferred on him the degree of D. D., and he received that of LL. D. from the University of the Pa'cific. He was licensed to preach as a United Brethren minister, but in 1857 united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and in 1859 was admitted to the Northwest Indiana Conference.

As a very young preacher Dr. .Joyce became pastor of some of the leading churches in the Conference, and at the age of thirty-three was Presiding Elder of the East Lafayette district. He was next pastor of Trinity church in Lafayette. Failing health necessitated a change of climate for him, and he Avas induced to fill the pulpit of Bethany Independent chui'ch, Baltimore, for one year. His health improved, and, although Bethany earnestly solicited him to become its settled pastor, he returned to Indiana, and in 1877 was appointed to old Roberts Chapel, in Greeneastle. Here he built a commodious church edifice which is a monument to his zeal, energy and fine business ability.

In 1880, at the close of his pastorate in Greeneastle, he was elected to the General Conference, which was held in Cincinnati. This led to his transfer to the Ohio Conference and first appointment to St. Paul's church in Cincinnati. In 1886 he was official representative to the Methodist Episcopal General Conference of Canada, which met in Toronto, and in 1888 was elected Bishop by one of the largest votes ever given for a candidate up to that time. For eight years his Episcopal residence was in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he made a deep impression by his power as a preacher and his skill as a leader. During this period he was Chancellor of Grant University for five years, and of the Epworth League for four, and also presided over conferences in Europe and ilexico. The General Conference of 1896 transferred him to Minneapolis, which was his home until his death in July, 1905, following a stroke of paralysis suffered by him on Sunday morning, July 2, 1905, while preaching at Red Rock Camp Meeting.

During the first two years of his residence in this city he was under appointment to visit and supervise the churches in the Orient. His duties led him through Japan, Korea and China, and into many regions never before visited by a bishop.

His administration in China resulted in a spiritual quickening unsurpassed anywhere in modern times. On his return trip he visited Malaysia, made a zigzag journey across India and met tlie Central Conference at Lucknow. He was married in 1861 to Miss Caroline Walker Hosserman, of La Porte, Indiana, who died at tlie home of their only child. Col. Frank M. -Joyce, in Minneapolis, in 1907.

Gkorck Citlkr Storkr

Mr. Storcr was born in Portland, Maine, on September 29, 1860, and died in Minneapolis on March 13, 1913. As a child of seven years he was taken by his parents to live in Boston, the father was a wholesale dry goods merchant and busy operator in financial affairs. Eight years later the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin. Later he was a student for four years at the Shattuck Military school in Faribault in this state.

When he finally left school he inclined to farming as his occupation, and with this in view he moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota. But during the next two years his views as to employment were entirely changed, and at the end of the period mentioned he changed his base of operations to Chicago and his occupation to merchandising, becoming connected with the wholesale coal trade in the city last named. He remained in Chicago until 1893, when he came to Minneapolis and organized the Commercial Loan and Adjustment company, over whose destinies lie afterward presided, and which he conducted to a high rank in the business world, considerable magnitude in its operations and pronounced success in all its undertakings.

In the course of a few years this company was doing business all over the Northwest and also in California and other Pacific coast states. Charles Fowler was associated with Mr. Storer in the management of it, and its requirements received sedulous attention from both these gentlemen. But Mr. Storer in particular watched and worked for the progress and expansion of its business with sleepless vigilance and tireless energy. The company's transactions occupied his time and powers largely, and they opened the way to other avenues of prosperity for him. Througli the opportunities they laid before him lie soon began investing in city property, and on parts of wliat he bought he erected business blocks.

In the purchase of real estate Mr. Storer exercised good judgment, buying only in localities making or capable of rapid improvement and sure of speedy enlianccment of values. He did not hold all the property he purchased, but turned a considerable amount of it over rapidly at ready profits, and with the fruits of his slirewdness and business uciiiiien he still further enlarged his operations and augmented his revenues. At the time of his death, however, he still owned a number of income producing properties and left an estate of large value.

It is easy to infer from what has been stated that Mr. Storer was a very busy man. Hut he was never indiircrent to tlie substantial improvement of his home city, and never withheld his support from any worthy undertaking in which that was involved. He also took an active part in public affairs locally, not as a political partisan, but wholly as a good citizen animated by a strong desire to aid in securing the best government and the greatest good for the people around him. Fraternallj- he was a Freemason and a member of the

Mr. Storer was married at Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1883, to Miss Fannie King, a native of Monroe in the same state. Three children were born of their union, all of whom are living. They are: (k-orge L., a lawyer, who has charge of the collections for the company of which his father was the head; Catherine, who is the wife of Ivan .1. Kipp and a resident of St. Paul, and Mary, who married with Raymond M. Gillette and has her home in Minneapolis. Like their parents, tlie children are well esteemed for their genuine worth and have a strong hold on the confidence and good will of the people where they live. The force of character and strict integrity for which their father was distinguished and the graces of manner and purity of life for which their mother is revered are exemplified in them in all their daily activities and all their relations with their fellow beings.

His parents, George L. and -Mary F. (.Johnson) Storer, natives of Sanford and I'ortUind, Maine, both died at Madison, Wis., the father in 1906 and mother in 1908. They had two song and three daughters, all living but our subject. The father was a prominent man and was a son of .John Storer, a pioneer of Sanford, Maine, and one time mayor, and was in lumber trade. He endowed Storer College at Harper's Ferry, a colored college.

Eugexe L. Trask

Eugene I^. Trask, an extensive and prominent dealer in Minnesota lands, has been a resident of Minneapolis continuously since 1876, except during a few years which he spent in Montana. He was born in Springfield, Maine, in 1864, the son of Albion K. and Melissa (Nettleton) Trask, the former a native of Maine and the latter of Ohio. She came to Minneapolis with her parents in the sixties when DubiKnie. Iowa, was the terminus of the railroad. Her father was ."^amuel D. Nettleton, whose old home was on the site of the present block at the corner of Nicollet avenue and Fourth street. He died early in the seventies at the age of sixty. His widow survived him many years, and in 1877 was living at 913 Hennepin avenue.

Albion Trask came from Maine to Minneapolis ami engaged in lumbering on Rum river, sending logs to the Minneapolis mills. He was married in this city about 1860, and then returned to Maine, where he followeil luml>ering until 1876, when he came back to Minneapolis and resumed his lumbering operations, which he continued until his death in February, 1902, at the age of sixty-eight years. He was not a lumber manufacturer, but bought timber lands and worked cutting crews year after year until 1900, by which time the timber was nearly all cut and the lumber well nigh exhausted in the Rum river country. After his purchases were denuiled of their trees he sold them, disposing of land at $3 to $4 an acre which is nowworth $f>'> to $7.") an acre. He attended religious services at the Church of the Redeemer.

Mrs. Trask, the mother of Eugene, is still living. She and her husband were the parents of four sons, three of whom are living: Eugene L., Herney E., who is a gradmite of the engineering <lepartment of the University of Minnesota and was for some years professor of engineering in Eastern colleges but is now engaged in merchandising in Minneapolis; and C3arenoe, who is a resident of the state of Montana. The other son, Charles, was cashier of the West hotel until his death in 1898.

Eugene L. Trask obtained a high school education, and at the age of nineteen went to Montana, where for a few years he was employed in office work, principally as bookkeeper in a wholesale house. In 1895, having returned to Minneapolis, he started a produce commission business in the old Bridge Square district, which he carried on there for five years, until the business operations of that character were transferred to another location. About 1900 he began dealing in land, handling farm and mineral tracts in large quantities aggregating over 200,000 acres, the greater part of his dealings being for homes in Northern Minnesota. He still has control of several thousand acres, some being mineral lands, and owns a great deal of the expanse himself.

Mr. Trask belongs to the Commercial, Minikahda, Lafayette, Interlachen and Auto clubs. He was married in 1886 to Miss Anna C. Deatherage, of Illinois. They have two children: Marian, who is a graduate of the Ely School at Greenwich, Connecticut, and Louise, who is a student in that school.

Swan Johan Turnblad

Proprietor and publisher of the Svenska Amerikanska Posten, probably carries a more potent influence throughout the State and the Northwest than doe.s any other foreign born citizen. His newspaper is the recognized mouthpiece of Swedish-American thought: and. being published in the Swedish language covers an important field not otherwise cultivated.

Mr. Turnblad was born in Tubbemala, Sweden, Oct. 7, 1860, being the son of Olaf M. and Ingjard Turnblad; who brought the boy to a farm near Vasa, Goodhue Countv, Minnesota, when nine years old.

While yet in school Swan became interested in and learned the printer's trade, soon buying a small printing plant. When but seventeen he had printed an arithmetic, of which his school principal P. F. Lindholm was the author. Looking for a wider field of activity. Swan came to Minneapolis becoming a typesetter on the Minneapolis Stats Tidning.

In 1887 he was asked to take the management of the Svenska Amerikanska Posten, a weekly newspaper established primarily as an influence in the prohibition work throughout tlie Northwest. Without sacrifice of its original purpose, it was broadened in scope, being made such a paper as is needed in every household.

Its pages were filled with not only general domestic news but also gave due attention to world happenings, especially to those matters directly interesting the Scandinavian population. It soon became an influence that did much to shape conditions, ever laboring for what was elevating and tended to better citizenship. Independent in politics, it has not served to advance its editors personal political fortunes; but with absolute loyalty to American institutions, has been a power for good in the development of the best citizenship.

Mr. Tuniblad's abilities ai-e generally recognized: and he has been accorded suitable honor. Governor Lind in 1895 naming him a member of the State Reformatory Board, where he did valuable service. Abuses that had crept into management of its institution were eradicated, incompetence replaced and a line of policy adopted whereby the aim is to turn out citizens rather than confirmed criminals. His services were of such moment that Governor Johnson placed him upon the State Board of Visitors to all the state institutions, an honor continued by Governor Eberhart. An ardent temperance worker, his advocacy by pen and voice has done much to advance prohibition, every other movement for clean living, as well, finding in him a champion.

Every movement for business, social or moral progress has received his approbation. He was one of the founders of the Odin Club, the leading social organization in the Northwest of Scandinavian-Americans. He is a Mason, Shrinen and an Elk and belongs to the Civic and Commerce Association and the Athletic Club.

James Alvah Bull

Mr. Bull was a native of .Jefferson county. New York, where his life began February 25, 1834. He died on his farm iust outside the city limits of Minneapolis April 27, 1908, after a residence of almost fifty years on the land which is now a material proof of his skill as its cultivator. He was the son of Alvah and Louisa (Packer) Bull, natives of Vermont. On his father's farm he grew to manhood and, in the district school of the neighborhood, and Belleville Academy he began his education, which he completed at the academy in Norwicli, after which he clerked for a few years.

About 1858 Alvah Bull, the father of James, who had relatives at Anoka came accompanied by James to Minnesota to look the country over. They then bought the farm on which the son afterward lived, of William Marvin, who had preempted the land, and who received a patent for it .June 10, 1857. The land was deeded to Mr. Bull, Sr., March 5, 1859, who then returned to New York, where he passed the remainder of his life. His son .James took possession of the farm in the spring of 1859, and some years later was followed west by his brother, Henry C. Bull, now a banker at Cokato.

^\Tien James A. came to Minneapolis he was married but had no children. He settled on the farm of 160 acres, determined to pass his subsequent years on it, which he did. At the time of his death he had it nearly all under cultivation and well improved.

Mr. Bull early became an enthusiastic member of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, and was called upon to give a great deal of attention to its work. He was one of a committee of three to provide for rendering the agricultural school of the state more directly and practically beneficial to the farmers. This committee was first selected by the Hennepin County Grange and afterward endorsed by the State Grange. By years of effort with the board of regents and the state legislature the committee finally succeeded in making the Agricultural College what its name indicates - a real source of advanced practical instruction in farming.

In political affairs Mr. Bull was always independent of party ties and party influence, but never indifferent to the welfare of his county or the state. His religious life was nearly that of the Friends or Quakers, but latterly his views rather accorded with the Unitarians. His first marriage took place in New York and was with Miss Mary E. Comstock.

8I10 liieil on the farm February, 1865, leaving one child, Mary L. Bull, who has been an instructor in the State Agricultural College lor seventeen years, beginning her work in the institution in the department of domestic science and continuing it now in that of agricultural school extension.

September 20, 1866, Mr. Bull contracted a second marriage, which united him with Miss Amie I^. Cooper, a daughter of Milton and Zillah (Preston) Cooper, and born near the village of Coopersville, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. She came to Minneapolis with her parents in 1857, arriving on May 11. There were seven children in the family, of whom she was the second in the order of birth. The others who are living are: Preston, who is a resident of Edina; Elvira S., who is the widow of the late Edward Lamborn; and Barclay, who both live in this city. Anna and Morrissa died in early life and Mahlon at the age of thirty-one years. The father was a carpenter and died in Minneapolis, in his ninety-first year, having, on August 12, previously celebrated the ninetieth anniversarj' of his birth. The mother's death occurred February 20, 1879.

Before her marriage Mrs. Bull was a teacher in the Minneapolis and Hennepin county schools for seven years. At one time she was chairman of a committee of five appointed by the State Grange to secure the opening of the State Agricultural College to girl students on the same terms that were offered to boys. It took years of effort to accomplish the desired result, and great striving with regents, legislators and other officials, but it was finally successful. Since her marriage Mrs. Bull has passed all except two years of her life on the old homestead. This is located a little south and west of Minneapolis, just one mile from Lake Harriet. It has recently been sold and is to he used hereafter as a home for women and children.

Of this marriage throe sons reached maturity: James Harry is a farmer near Stacy, Cliisago county; Alvah Milton is assistant professor of Agricultural Engineering in the State Agricultural College. He was educated in a high school and at the University of Minnesota. Coates Preston, who graduated from the agricultural school and from the College of Agricultuio as Professor of Agronomy, served one year as such in the Illinois College of Agriculture then becoming Assistant Professor of Agronomy in our own Agricultural College, specializing in the line of Plant Breeding, and is at this time (1913) on leave of absence to perform the duties of superintendent of the National Corn Exposition, wliich is to be held in Dallas, Texas, in February, 1914. Tn religious faith Mrs. Bull is a Universalist. She is a member of the Church of the Redeemer, but her zeal for the good of her community is not confined to her own church channels. It embraces the welfare of the whole people and is applied generally, without regajd to sectarian lines or other narrow considerations.

Well known and highly esteemed as a grain operator in Minneapolis for a continuous period of twenty years, the late Thomas N. Taylor, whose useful and stimulating life ended October .'JO, 1910. passed away at the height of his Biiccess. He was but fifty-one years old. and according to all indications until a sliort tinu- before his end came he was destined to many years of still greater productiveness.

Ohio, where his life began on .lune 19, 1859. He was the son of Robert and Mary (Walker) Taylor. The mother died in North Dakota and father in Minneapolis, they were natives of Philadelphia. He was reared in that county and educated in its district schools and the graded schools of his native city, and after leaving school engaged in teaching in the county for a year. During the last year of his attendance at school and while he was teaching he learned telegraphy, and at the age of twenty came West and located at Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he worked several years as a telegraph operator, and afterward as paj'- ing teller in a bank in Devil's Lake and Laramour, N. D.

From Grand Forks, where he was employed by the Great Northern R. R., he went on to a claim in Grand Forks county, also drove stage one winter. Mr. Taylor went to Duluth, in about 1886, and at that great terminal point he began his business career as a dealer in grain in association with C. C. Wolcott, by whom he was employed two years. In 1890 he changed his residence to Minneapolis and entered the employ of the George Spencer Grain company. He remained with this company only a short time, however, and then became associated with the firm of A. M. Woodward cSc Company, with which his connection was also short, for he was eager to have a business of his own and making preparations to gratify his desire.

In 1891 Mr. Taylor fornu-d a partnership with W. E. NichoUs, creating the Nicholls & Taylor Grain Company, with which he was associated until death. It was a potential factor in the grain trade and the men at its head were forceful and serviceable in public affairs, although not politicians or belonging to the oflice-seeking class.

Mr. Taylor was married on February 1st, 1893, to Miss Louise F. Wall of Minneapolis, a daughter of the late ,Iohn Wall, who became a resident of this city in the early sixties, coming from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Mr. Wall became prominent in business, and for a nun\ber of veal's was a leading business man of the city and died here in 1906. Mr. Taylor and family were members of the Catholic Church and for 20 years a member of the board of appeals of the Chamber of Commerce at the time of Ins death and charter member of Interlachen club.

Mr. and Mrs. Taj'lor became the parents of four children, all of whom are living and still have their home with their mother at 3343 Elliott avenue south. They are: Lillian, Thomas, Robert and John. While her husband was living. Mrs. Taylor shared his interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of Minneap(dis. and since his death has contituied active support of all comendable projects. Like him, she is quiet and undemonstrative in her activity in this behalf, and Seeks no credit for work, which is inspired by high sense of duty, but which is not unappreciated, as she is held in high regard for her geiuiine worth in every way.

Charles John Trvon

Charles .Tohn Tryon was born September ,S, 1859, in Batavia. New York, His father, A. D. Tryon, was a prosperous bookseller and a druggist: his mother was Amanda H. Tryon.

.After attending the public schools of Batavia, he entered Columbian university, Washington, D. being graduated from its law eoni-se. He came to Minneapolis to practice his profession ami for a number of years he was in partner- ship with Wilbur F. Booth until the latter became a judge of the District Court. Mr. Tryoii enjoys a fine general practice and is recognized as one among the ablest attorneys, taking an active part in politics.

In June, 1901, Mr. Tryon entered into an alliance with one of the oldest and most respected families in the city, when Isabel Gale became his wife. She is a daughter of the late Harlow Gale, one of the pioneer residents of Minneapolis. They have a most interesting family of seven children. Mr. and Mrs. Tryon attend the Congregational church. Their handsome home on Girard avenue is frequently the scene of social functions. Mr. Tryon is also affiliated witli some of the principal clubs of the city.

Harlow Gale was a brotlier of Samuel C. Gale of whom extended mention is made elsewhere and was associated with him in a real estate office as early as 1860. He was a leading man of the time and at the banquet at the opening of the Nicollet House, May 20, 1858, at which Judge E. B. Ames presided, Mr. Gale was toastmaster. He is best remembered in having established the first city market at First street and Hennepin in 1876. Mr. Qale was an early County Auditor and was found active in almost every movement for advancement.

Charles Jerome Traxler

In his varied and interesting career as a lawyer, editor and author of legal treatises and text books, Charles Jerome Traxler has made an enviable reputation for ability, careful research, correctness and felicity of expression and exhaustive and accurate knowledge of law and public affairs.

He was born on the homestead near Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, being the son of John Traxler, a farmer, brick manufacturer, contractor and builder. The son attended the public school, continuing at Howe's Academy, and finished his academic course in Iowa Weslcyan University. He was graduated in 1882 from the Iowa State University with the degree of LL. B. Then becoming associated with a prominent lawyer in his native town, he began the practice of law. Later he drifted into newspaper work as an editorial writer, and in the fall of 1883 became city editor of the Daily Tribune-News at Evansville, Indiana, a few months later being advanced to the position of associate editor-in-chief.

In 1885 Mr. Traxler resumed the practice of law in Western Kansas. Minneapolis became his home in 1889; here he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession, and, while he has had a wide general practice, he is doubtless best known as a corporation counsel.

In this connection his experience and observation led him to a careful study of the regulation of freight rates. In 1906, he originated a plan for the regulation of such rates, which won approval from Federal authorities, and was admitted as highly meritorious by leading railroad managers. The chief features of this plan which may be here mentioned, are that it left the power of making rates with the railroads, subject to regulation by judicial proceedings in the Federal courts. It placed upon the railroads the burden of proof in most cases of alleged violation and made unnecessary the demand for special tribunals, such aa the Federal Commerce Court, which has since been tried and abandoned.

science, Mr. Traxler has delivered numerous lectures on legal subjects. He has been identified with the University of Minnesota as a lecturer in the School of Law, and is the author of works on special Subjects of the law.

He is a member of the State Board of Law Examiners, to which position he was appointed some years ago by the Supreme Court. He takes a keen and serviceable interest in public affairs. He is a member of the Minneapolis Athletic, the University, and the Six O'Clock Clubs.

He has also taken an earnest interest and an active part in agencies as a member of the leading clubs and civic organizations, and belongs to Several fraternities, including the Masonic orders, and the Mystic Shrine. His college fraternity is the Delta Tau Delta. In 1886, Mr. Traxler was united in marriage with Jliss Mary Comstock, daughter of Colonel Austin W. Comstock, of Mount Pleasant. They have three children, Marian, now Mrs. Spencer S. Bernan, Jr., of Chicago; Hazel, and John Austin.

The subject of this narrative was born in Fayette, Iowa, on October 28, 1856. He is the son of the Rev. E. Hartsough, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of German parentage. D. M. Hartsough was educated at the Cornell University, passing through the scientific course with credit, and for twenty years was a minister of the Congregational Cliureh. During his work as a minister he would usually take his vacations on the prairies of the two Dakotas and while on those vacations, observing the privations and hardships 'of the pioneers in building homes on the prairies with the priiiiitive tools then in use for such work, brought to the surface a dormant ability which later predominated over all other accomplishments he had mastered up to that time, and that was a God-given gift of inventive construction. He readily saw where he could lighten the burdens of that army of pioneers; in constructing a labor Saving device that would convert the raw. wild prairie into a civilized state for the reception of seed and the growing of crops, the conversion of a boundless wild prairie country into comfortable homes for many millions. The result of his investigation very soon developed into the building of the first farm gas tractor engine that was ever built in the United States and put it in operation, breaking prairie sod in what is now the state of North Dakota. Its operation in breaking prairie sod convinced him that he was on the right track to do more good to humanity than any one man of that day and age.

The next production was what is called the Big Four Gas Tractor which, during the years of 1910 and 1911, was -exhibited at the world's field trials, Winnipeg, Canada, and took the gold medal from all competitors world wide.

Being a close student of conditions and the advocation of economics to handle conditions, showed him f«r in advance of all others that when the prairie countiy of the great Northwest was once broken and under cultivation it required a different type of machine to intelligently, economically and successfully cultivate it, so he designed the Bull Tractor, a machine especially adapted for the economical cultivation of the small farm and the large farm, and the success of the Bull Tractor in the fields today is of such proportion that within the next two or three years its growth will be beyond the

In the beginning of his development of labor saving devices he first had to familiarize himself with a thorough knowledge of the farm and power reipiirements, a condition necessary in the successful manufacture of a machine to become popular with the farmers who are its only users. To acquire this knowledge he secured large tract's of prairie, plowed and croped large acreages thereby gaining a knowledge of his future work from actual experience, a school that has no peer, and his devices stand out today in the agricultural world without competition.

Within the past five or six years he had occasion to spend a part of the winter in Texas. Looking conditions over and the primitive methods they had of draining that vast country along the coast, he immediately designed a ditching machine that is in operation in large numbers there now, doing great work in the large drainage ditches necessary to reclaim that country, -^nd in the past two or three years has designed a smaller machine to construct lateral ditches, necessary in the drainage and reclamation of millions of acres of that fertile country. In fact, every place he goes he finds employment for that active and inventive brain, in constructing and producing labor saving devices that have caused millions of the tillers of soil in the whole world to shout his praises. He is energetic and continually at work modernizing farm implements, and in the next few months the agricultural world will lie again startled by the result of his gift in the construction of harvesting and threshing machinery.

He formed the acquaintance of a progressive farmer in the state of Xorth Dakota, Mr. P. .1. Lyons, when he first designed the Big Four. He invited Mr. Lyons to join him in exploiting the proposition resulting in the selling of the Big Four to tlie KniersonHrantingliam Company nearly two years ago for about two million dollars, which is the bt-st evidence that Mr. Hartsough, although an inventor and genius in his way, is also a good judge of human nature for he selects men to exploit his product who are able to do things, and Mr. Lyons is now exploiting the Bull Tractor, his latest invention, which will eventually make millions for both Mr. Hartsough and himself.

Mr. Hartsough has been a resident of Minneapolis for the past twelve years and is a member of the new Athletic Club. He was married in IHH'2 to Miss Lucy Beebe, who died in July, 19i;!. Mr. Hartsough, since that time, has been a resident of the West Hotel in this city. There were two sons born to his family: Waldo, who died at the age of twentysix, and Ralph B., who possesses much of the inventive genius of his father and is associated with him in his work, and is also a resident of Minneapolis. Mr. Hartsough at present is in the prime of his life in the work he has before him and has more knowledge of his work than is usually found in a man of his profession. He has a sunny nature and is a companionable man, both in his home and in his walks of life, and a success both as a minister and inventor, which gives ample evidence of what a man can accomlplish by persistency and industry if gifted with the sense of application of his powers.

One of the highest types of the German-.-Vnicricun business men which Minneapolis boasts of today is the (lernian born product who has brought his native thrift and his (ierman enterprise and caution to the land of hi* adoption. Such a man is William J. Von der Weyer. He was liorn near Coblenz, Khein province, Germany. November 5. 1858, and came with his parents Henry and Helen \on der Weyer to America in 1864. - They came directly to Minnesota, s<'ttling on a farm near Butfalo, Wright county. The mother died on the farm and the father now lives retired with his son William .1. Henry had seen service in the German army and before he had been in Minnesota a. month he was taken to the county seat of Wright county with the idea of getting him into the I'nited .States .Army, but it was soon found that he was not an American citizen.

William J. was on the farm until he was 16 years of age, when he was sent to Minneapolis to enter the public schools, later supplementing the instruction there by a course in a business college. He clerked for two years, in a grocery store, starting at a salary of ten dollars a month and his board, then later going to twenty-five dollars a month and board. In 188.3 young Von der \\'eyer entered the dry goods store of B. B. Buck, at a salary that began at $30 and mounted to $40, and then $50 a month. With characteristic thrift he set about laying aside the foumlation for his own capital and saved his money, until he had about $500. In company with his brother-in-law, .lohn Lohmar, in 1885 he bought out the Buck Dry (Joods anil Millinery store, the partnership enduring for twenty-four years, or up to 1909. At the start they had between them for investment and working capital the modest sum of $2,;!00. The business later represented an investment of $25,000. Sales increased steadily - from about $10,000, to from $40,000 to $50,000 per annum. .\ business reipiiring one clerk waxed strong until sixteen clerks were necessary. And when failing health moved him in 1909 to sell his interest to his partner. Mr. Von der Weyer had the satisfaction of knowing that his habits and thrift and business judgnumt had fully justified predictions of his earliest business life.

As his grasp of commercial affairs broadened. Mr. Von der Weyer looked about with an interest in other commercial lines. He became a director in the German -American bank, and looked, too, to civic and political matters. In 1898 he was elected to the house of representatives of the legislature, being chosen. tho\igh a Denu)crat, to represent the strong Republican Forty-fourth district. It was the .tame year that .lolui Lind was chosen governor, and Mr. \'on der Weyer was one of a group in the legislature whose counsel was prized by the governor. In the legislature he took a prominent part, and some of the most important legislation of the session either bore his name or were enacted In-cause of his lending Iheni his earnest support. For example, .Mr, Von der Weyer introduced the law whicli requires paynu-nt of two jier cent interest on deposit balances of state money: as up to that time the state had received no interest on such balances. He was one of the foremost advocates of the measure to riMpiire the railroads to pay a gross earnings tax of five pen'cnt. He served on the committee which authorizeil the building of the state hospitals for the insane at Hastings and Anoka: on the committee of visitors of the state nornuil schools, and the schools for the feeble-mindeil at Faribault, and which recommended the appropriations for those institutions. Mr. Von der

Mr. Von dcr Weyer has continued to take a prominent part in public affairs. For instance, he is a member of the e.xecutive committee that has most to do with the building of the magnificent new pro-cathedral, the finest church edifice in the West and with the exception only of the St. .John's cathedral in New York, the finest in America. In St. Joseph's Catholic church he is one of the most active and prominent laymen.

In 1898 he was married to Miss Gertrude Dietrich, daughter of Peter Dietrich, the well known real estate dealer who, as a young man, came to the United States to escape the rigors of the war. Mr. Dietrich came direct to St. Anthony, becoming one of that sturdy group of early citizens who helped to ground firmly the city which was later to attain leadei-ship in the West. The family consists of two daughters, Eleanor and Lucille.

Ruf'Us Porter Upton

Rufus Porter Upton, prominent citizen and pioneer of Minneapolis, of whom further mention will be found in the general history of the early settlement of the city, was born in Dixmont, Maine, December 20, 1820, and died in Minneapolis on Thanksgiving day, 1893. He was educated in Portland, Maine, but spent his long and useful career in the interest and development of the northwest. Throughout the many vicissitudes of the early days he never lost his vision of the future and ultimate development of Minneapolis and in latter years he received ample justification of his faith, never realizing however one of his most cherished projects, the establishment of river transportation which he saw superseded by the railroads. In the directory of 1877, Mr. Upton is designated as the proprietor of spice mills on South Washington street with his residence in Grove Place on Nicollet Island. Beside the enterprises indicated by him in his personal reminiscences, he was also the promoter of a flouring mill project at Kingston, Meeker County, near the present Dassel, where he erected a plant at the cost of $10,000. At this time it was expected that the Northern Pacific railroad would build through the town but the route was changed, touching a point twenty miles distant and destroying the future of Kingston and its business enterprises. He also acquired some experience as a miner in Nevada in the days when that state was attracting the fortune seekers. Mr. Upton was an influential member and faithful supporter of the First Congregational church. He was married three times and of his first marriage with Miss Gaslin, one daughter survives, Gertrude, widow of M. D. Clapp, who resides at 3111 Newton avenue, Minneapolis. His third union was with Ellen A. Nourse, and their sons are W. A. Upton, in the employ of the Smith Hardware company of Minneapolis, and Rev. Rufus P., of the Congregational Church at Freeborn, Minn. In 1870 Mr. Upton was married to Miss Emeline Aleda Harshberger, a teacher in Marietta, Ohio, who now resides in Pasadena, California. They had six children, T. Park, born September, 1871, and a resident of Pasadena, California; Edson K., of Minneapolis; Howard B., born May 3, 1876, ticket agent at the Union station in Minneapolis; Helen Aleda, born September, 1878, the wife of Mr. George

H. Brinkerhoff, living in Spokane, Washington; Albert F., born in August, 1881, andnow engaged in the theatrical profession, and Harry C, born in July, 1883, is traveling car agent for the Great Northern railroad.

Edson K. Upton, the second son, was born in Minneapolis, in October, 1873, and for a number of years has held a responsible position with the North Western Fuel company, one of the largest fuel firms of the city. He was married to Miss Eflie M. Miner of Iowa, and tliey have one son Edson Irving, who is six years of age.

Jesse Van Valkenburg

His parents Joseph and Harriet (Seeley) Van Valkenburg were also natives of the Empire state, and farmers by occupation. In 1870 the family emigrated to Minnesota locating at Farmington, and later removed to Canby, Minnesota, where they now reside.

Jesse Van Valkenburg attended the public schools of Farmington and completed his scholastic training by a course in the state Normal school at Mankato, graduating with the class of 1887 and he later entered the University of Minnesota from which he was graduated as a classical student with the class of 1894, and graduated from the law school the following year.

Like many of the better class of western boys, he partly paid his way through college by doing newspaper work. He was taken on the staff of the Minneapolis Tribune, while he was yet in college, and continued his reportorial work some time after he had graduated. Soon, however, the call to his profession was so strong that he entered into active practice. His personality is of the sort which wins many warm friends, and during his membership of the Hennepin county bar, he has made a large acquaintance in the city and state and has built up a wide and varied practice. He takes a keen and active interest in good government and civic betterment> although he has never any political aspirations. He is a republican, but is independent when it comes to placing m?n in city affairs.

Paul H. Knoll

Although a young man yet the interesting subject of this brief review is connected with several industries of importance and extensive operations, and is a forceful factor in the business life of Minneapolis. He was born in 1880 in Illinois, a son of Rev. Robert H. Knoll, who came from Europe to the United States in 1854 and settled in Illinois, where for many years he continued to follow his sacred calling. The son obtained a high school education and soon after his graduation secured employment in the hardware trade, with which he was connected for a number of years.

pany of St. Louis. In 1907 lie came to iliiineapolis to represent that company as its credit man in this community. He remained with the company twelve years, and at the end of that perioil, became associated with the Gas Traction company, and was one of its officials until it was sold to the Emerson- Hrantingham company.

Ifr. Knoll then formed a partnership with P. .). Lyons and started the Lyons-Knoll Investment company. The Bull Tractor company, which manvifactures gas traction engines for farm and draft work, was organized in 1913, with Mr. Knoll as treasurer. This company turns out a large number of tractors a year, and its tractor is sent to all parts of the United States and has a high reputation for power and adaptability of practical service.

In addition to connection with the Bull Tractor and the Lyons-Knoll Investment companies, ilr. Knoll has other business associations important in character and useful in productiveness. He is secretary and treasurer of the Consolidated Liquid Gas company and secretary and treasurer of the Milligan Stock Ranch company. He is unmarried but takes an active interest in local pubilic affairs and exercises material aid in promoting local jirogress and improvement. He is a member of the Jlinneapolis New Athletic Club, tlie Masonic order and other organizations of a social or benevolent character. While living in St. Louis he was member of Battery A, Missouri National Guard. His Minneapolis home is at 116 Oak Grove street.

In the vast develoimient of our industries and all other activities in this highly progressive land the matter of transportation has risen to the firet rank in importance and now requires men of an advanced order of ability to conduct it and so conserve its forces as to make them yield the best and largest returns for the outlay devoted to it. In this connection W. P. Trickett of Minneapolis has shown ability and made a record that is well worthy of special mention and consideration.

Mr. Trickett is a native of Kansas City, Missouii. wlure his life began on .January 9, 1873.' He grew to uianlioud and obtained his edti'cd'tion in his native city, and there also he Started the bii'siheis career that has given him the high reputation he ' liaS as a man of exceptional administrative power and success. He began his apprenticeship in the business which now occupies his attention in 18S7. when he was hut fourteen yeare old. In that year he enlcriMl the employ of the K. C. E. S. & M. R. R., in its freight traffic department, and four years later became chief clerk of the Kansas City Transportation bureau.

His aptitude for the business was marked and his promotion in it was rapid. In 1897, on April 1, he was appointed commissioner of transportation for Kansas City, being at the time only twenty-four years of age. In this position he succeeiled the late A. .T. N'anlandingham, a recognized traffic expert who had made a creditable record in. it and set its standard of efficiency high. Mr. Trickett, howeS-er, showed himself equal to all requirements, and filled the office with great acceptability to its patrons and the general public until the close of 1907, when the bureau wius consolidated with the Commercial club.

During the next two years, after he left the city service, Mr. Trickett was engaged in special traffic work for large industrial interests, terminal work for carriers, and he also performed duties of the same character for the United States government. On October 1, 1909, he entered the employ of the Minneapolis Traffic association as executive manager, and when the Minneapolis Traffic association was amalgamated with the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce association, he was appointed traffic direfctor of the combine. In this position, which he still holds, he represents tKe allied industrial, wholesale, retail, grain and milling interests of the city of Minneapolis.

Mr. Trickett has been a resident of Minneapolis only four years, but this period has been long enough to give him a warm and helpful interest in the welfare of the city and its residents and business institutions, and this he shows in every way open to him. He also manifests a deep and intelligent concern for the full growth and usefulness of all educational, moral and social agencies at work in the community for the good of its people, and a constant willingness and readiness to aid them by every means at his command. His attitude here is what it has been wherever he has lived - that of a good citizen eager at all times to do whatever he can to advance the best interests of his home community, and he is esteemed highly for the genuine worth he displays in all the relations of life.

Kobekt J. Upton

Robert J. Upton, junior member of the firm of G. L. Upton & Company, wholesale and retail dealers in grain, flour and feed, is a native of St. Anthony, now Minneapolis, and born March 22, 1868. He is the son of esteemed pioneers, C. H. and Maria (Fenton) Upton, the former a native of Maine and the latter of Nova Scotia. They were married in St, Anthony in 1838, the motlier having come to the town with her mother soon after it was laid out, and the father came from his native state in 1855. He was one of the organizers of the Union- Iron Works, which were started in 1879, and prior thereto was foreman in the St, Anthony Iron Works until the plant was Inirned, The elder Mr. Upton and .James K. Lockwood started the Union Iron Works, and Mr. Upton was the first president of the company and the superintendent of the plant until his death on May 27, 1910. He was a very progressive and resourceful business man and an excellent citizen. He was a Republican in politics but not a imlitieian or active partisan. He was not remiss in performing tlie duties of citizenship, whatever form they took, and without regard to where they led hira. When the Sioux Indians broke out. in 1862, he was one of the first to enlist for the expedition against them. He was a man of decided domestic tastes and correct habits. His first wife, the mother of Robert .1., died in 1888; afterward he married Mrs. .lulia Kennedy, a widow, who is still living. The children of his first marriage numbered five, four sons and one daughter: Horai'c C, a machinist connected, with the Union Iron Works; Harvey a plumber in North Dakota; Robert J., and George L,. who compose the firm of G. L. Upton & Company, an.l Mabel, now the wife of Harry Merriman, a dealer in automobiles in Minneapolis and the son of the late Hon. Orlando C. Merriman, who was twice mayor of St. Anthony and once mayor of Minneapolis.

Robert J. Upton began his education in the common schools, and completed it at an academy. He learned the trade of machinist, and was employed nine years in the Union Iron Works. In 1895 he went to Sandstone. Minnesota, where he remained one year as master mechanic of the Minnesota Sandstone Company. Returning to Minneapolis from a trip to El Paso, Texas, in 1896. he and his brother-in-law, Mr. Merriman, started a box factory, which they conducted until 1900. Mr. Upton then took charge of the Commercial hotel on Nicollet Island, which he conducted until 1909, when he united with his brother, George L. Upton, in organizing the firm of G. L. Upton & Company, with which he is still connected.

Mr. Upton was elected County Commissioner of Hennepin county in 1908, and held the office until 1913. During his tenure the bridge over the Narrows in Lake Minnetonka, and the Crystal Bay and Orenbery bridges at the lake were built, and the macadamizing of Superior boulevard was started. He served as chairman of the board in 1911 and 1912.

Mr. Upton has been married three times, first in 1893 to Miss Flora E. Wood; next in 1900, to Miss Laura Morgan, who died in 1906, and like the first wife left no children. In 1908 he married Miss Anna Hollister, his present wife. They are members of tlie First Congregational Church, and Mr. Upton belongs to the Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Knights of Pythias.

Thomas Voegeli

Heck had been employed in the drug store for a number of years and had both made their start in the capacity of errand boys. The former is now confidential clerk and bookkeeper for the company while Mr. Heck is the manager of the Nicollet drug store. Mr. Voegeli has a noteworthy conception of good citizenship and endeavors to discharge the civic duties that have come to him in recognition of his ability and interest, in accordance with this standard. He cherishes the ambition that Minneapolis may be celebrated not only for its scenic beauty but also for that high class of citizenship that ma.v be produced through attention to the modern note of warning that is sounded for municipal improvement. With this end in view, as a member of the park board, he has bent all his energies to provide every part of the city with the proper hygienic conditions and attractive surroundings through park extension and improvement. He is an active member of the Commercial club and served as chairman of the committee on public affairs. He has been a prominent member of the board of park commissioners and was elected its president. His first wife, Mary Fyfe Voegeli was of Scotch descent. She died at Fountain City, Wisconsin, leaving one daughter, Ethel, who is the wife of Mr. Geo. Riebeth of Minneapolis. In 1887, he married Mrs. Charlotte Yule, whose only child, a son, died soon after the marriage. They have one daughter, Marguerite. Mr. Voegeli and his family are communicants of the Westminster Presbyterian church. He is a Shriner and Knight Templar and a Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason. He also holds membership in tlie Civic and Commerce association.

Thomas Voegeli, president of the Minneapolis Park commission and senior partner in the firm of Voegeli Brothers Drug company, is a native of Wisconsin, born at New Glarus, a Swiss settlement. September 24, 1856. His father, Tobias Voegeli, came to Wisconsin in 1853 and was one of the early members of the New Glarus colony, where he engaged in the trade of carpenter. He is now residing in Minneapolis after retiring from several 3'ears of association with his sons in the drug business. Thomas Voegeli was instructed in the carpenters' trade by his father but after attending the Plattville Normal school, he chose to enter the teaching profession for a while. His first experience was in the country schools but he soon advanced to the position of principal of the schools in Alma, Wisconsin. His successful career as a teacher was closed with four more years spent at Fountain City, Wisconsin. In 1883, he made his first venture in the drug business, joining his brother, Fred, in LaMoure, North Dakota, where they conducted a store for five years. They came to Minneapolis in 1887 and opened a drug store on the corner of Washington street and Hennepin avenue, the present location of their main establishment, where they occupied a small room, which had been used for a drug dispensary for a number of years. In 1892, Mr. Fred Voegeli. who now resides at Bozeman, Montana, retired from the firm and another brother, Henry, entered the partnership with Thomas Voegeli, an association which has continued to the present time. The success of their business enterpri.ses has been marked and the Voegeli Drug company lias long been an important factor in the commercial life of the city. Tlie extensive trade of the company has demanded the establishment of two branch stores, the corner of Seventh street and Nicollet avenue and in the West Hotel. The firm was incorporated with W. F. Ralke and Mr. R. S. Heck becoming stockholders. Mr. Ralke and Mr.

David Lloyd Owens

Tlie late David Lloyd Owens, treasurer of the American Grain Separator Company, who died in Minneapolis September 25, 1913, was born at Cambria, Wisconsin, November 23, 1862. He was a son of John L. and Winnie (Roberts) Owens, and inherited from his father his natural bent in the direction of mechanical ingenuity. The father was a native of the North of Wales, bom in 1832, and came to this country with his parents at the age of thirteen. He was of an inventive turn of mind and made many improvements in windmills and invented a churning machine of unusual utility. In 1860 he opened a general machine shop at Cambria, Wisconsin, in which he made wagons, plows and other farm implements. In 1871 he invented a harvester and a self-acting grain and grass rake. These he manufactured at Cambria until 1874, then sold the rake rights and had the harvester manufactured on a royalty basis.

In 1878 the father came to Minneapolis and entered the employ of the Minneapolis Harvester Company as an inventor. He made several improvements in the "Dewey" harvester, manufactured by that company, and was made superintendent of its wood shop, and while acting in that capacity invented many improvements in woodworking machinery. In 1885 he formed a partnership with his son, John J. Owens, for the manufacture of a cockle eliminating machine which was afterward combined with a fanning mill. One year later another son, Robert J., tame into the firm, and it then erected a plant on the site now covered by the establishment of the J. L. Owens Company, an extensive manufacturer of grain ch^aning machinery, turning out about 10.000 machines every year. This company was incorporated in 1894 with David L.,

Uavid L. Owens worked for the Minneapolis Harvester Company eight years while his father had chal-ge of its woodwork department. He became a first-class mechanic and rose to the position of superintendent of the factory, remaining with the company until 1898, when the plant was sold. During the ne.\t eleven years he devoted his time and energies to the affairs of the J. L. Owens C'oni])any in company with his father and brothers, and aided jTrcatly in extending and improving the business of that company.

The American Grain Separator Company was organized in 1909 with Robert J. Owens as president and David L. as treasurer. In 1911 the company started a branch establishment at Orillia in the province of Ontario, Canada, of which David L. took charge. That branch turned out several thousand fanning mills, smut mills and grain cleaners annually, Mr. Owens remaining in charge of it until May, 1913, when he returned to Minneapolis, where he passed the remaining six months of his useful and productive life. He is survived ty his widow, two sisters and four brothers. The sisters are Mrs. J. T. Evans, of Minneapolis, and Mrs. .Jennie .Jones, of Chicago. The brothers are Robert J., John J., Richard L. and Owen L., all members of the J. L. Owens Company.

David L. Owens was a member of the South Side Commercial Club. His father was the founder of the Welch Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, and all the members of the family have belonged to that organization. David L. was also active in the Welch Society of Cambria, Wisconsin, and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He "was devoted to his home and fond of good horses and Scotch collie dogs. On November 26, 1902, he was united in marriage with Miss Dora Rittenhouse, a daughter of Dr. Richard and Elsie Agnes (Rhoades) Rittenhouse, of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

The parents of Mrs. Owens were married in that city and she was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was their only child. Her father was a physician in active practice in Prairie du Chien. and was killed in a railroad wreck when he was about thirty years old. Her mother was a daughter of Josiah Rhoades, who came to St. Anthony from Macoupin county, Hlinois, in 1858. He engaged in contracting in Minneapolis, he died Jlay 19, 1905, aged seventy-eight, after a residence of forty-seven years in this city. He was born in Kentucky and his wife, wliose maiden name was Martha Wilson, was a native of Cairo, Illinois. Mrs. Rittenhouse, one of their nine children, died in Minneapolis at the age of thirtyseven. One of her sisters, Mrs. Peter Munkler. makes her home with Mrs. Owens. Mr. and Mrs. Owens had no children.