came to Minneapolis as attorney, under contract,
for a large building and loan association, but re-
signed on account of radical differences as to
policy, and engaged in the practice of law chiefly
relating to corporations. Since 1900 he has, to
avoid too close conlinement to his office, given
larger attention to outside matters and has oper-
ated in realty in Minneapolis and St. Paul and
in timber lands in California and British Colum-
bia. He is president of Fraser River Tannery
in llie latter province, and treasurer of the Ur-
ban Investment Company of St. Paul. Among
the substantial public services of Mr. Dwinnell
may be mentioned his agency in securing the con-
sideration and passage of the Direct Primary
Law by the Legislature of 1899 and the passage
of the Anti-trust Law. Mr. Dwinnell has been
and is a strenuous champion of good government
and does not spare himself in the work of secur-
ing the nomination of worthy candidates for
municipal, state and federal offices. He was for
several years a member of the public afifairs com-
mittee of the Commercial Club and was vice-
chairman of that committee for the year 1906.
He holds membership in the Minneapolis, Mini-
kahda. Commercial, Six-O'clock Clubs, the Amer-
ican and Minnesota Bar associations and the
American Economic Association. Mr. Dwinnell
is a member and vestryman of St. Mark's Epis-
copal Cluirch. He was married on April 24, 1889,
tu Virginia Ingman, and they have three chil-
dren — Stanley W., Katherine and James Bowen.

McNAIR, William Woodbridge. ime of the
pioneers of Minneapolis, and for many years a
clistin.guishe(l member of the Hennepin ccjunty
bar, was born at Grovcland, Livingstone county.
New York, on J.uuiary 4, 1836. He was the old-
est son of William W. McNair, whose family
was of Scotch- lri-.li lU-^cent, while his mother,
Sarah Pierrepont. wa> a descendant of Rev.
James Pierrepont, one of the founders of Yale
College, and of a family which traced its line
back til the lime uf William the ( '(ini|uer(ir. ,Mr,
.McN'air's talented mind received frnni private
iiilfirs and the academies of (ienesee and Canan-
daigua education and cullvn'e. When nineteen
years old. lie canu- w 1 - t .iiiil iiilrn-d the- law
office of Jiid^e J. I'. DndbllK' al Kaciiie, Win-
consin, but after t\V(i ye.ir^ eauie ti> .\linne.ip-
olis. in TS57. Ill- ua-i adniiUicl lo tlie liar durin,!,'
llir s.iuu year, and for lwenty-se\en yiars re-
mained in active practice in this city. Lnmi iXOi
to 1868, Mr. McNair was associated with thi- late
l*",u.gcnc M. Wilson under the firm name ni Wil-
son & McNair. and npnn Mr. Wilson's election
to Congress in 18O8, he fcinned a partnership with
Judge William Lochren as Lochrcn & McNair.
J. 1!. Gill'illan was later admitted to this firm,
which for m.inj- years was the leading law firm
ui tile city. After Judge Lochren's appointment



to the district bench in 1881, the business was
continued by McNair & GilfiUan until Mr. Gil-
tillan's election to Congress in 1884, when, on
account of impaired health, Mr. McNair retired
from practice. During his long practice in Min-
neapolis, he was connected with much important
litigation and was considered one of the strong-
est lawyers at the bar. Ahhough much engaged
with his practice, he was deeply interested in
public affairs, but though frequently importuned
to accept office, on only a few occasions con-
sented to public service. For four years prior to
1863, he w'as county attorney, and in 1868 was
elected one of the school directors of St. An-
thony. In 1869, he was elected mayor of St.
.Anthony and continued at the head of the city
government until the consolidation of St. An-
thony and Minneapolis in 1872. He affiliated
with the democratic party and, against his wishes,
received the nomination for Congress in 1876 and
was complimented by a vote which largely re-
duced the usual republican majority in the dis-
trict. In 1883 he was tendered the nomination
for governor, but positively declined. A busi-
ness man of unusual ability, Mr. McNair's name
was connected with many of the successful en-
terprises of his time, including the Minneapolis
Gas Light Company and the Minneapolis Street
Railway Company, in each of which he was one
of the original incorporators. He was also an
original stockholder and director in the Minne-
apolis & St. Louis Railroad, and was extensively
interested in lumbering and contracting for tim-
ber supply for the northwestern railroads. P.e-
ing strongly impressed with the future of the
city, he invested very largely in real estate in
and about Minneapolis. Mr. McNair possessed
fine social cjualities and the most genial and gen-
erous disposition. Mr. McNair was married on
August 21, 1862, to Miss Louise Wilson, daugh-
ter of Edgar C. Wilson of Virginia, and sister
of the late Eugene M. Wilson of Minneapolis.
They had two daughters, Agnes O., now Mrs.
Louis K. Hull and Louis P., now Mrs. Francis
M. Henry. Mr. McNair died on September 15.
1885, leaving many devoted friends who mourn
their great loss.

REED, Frederick Watson, was born at Fow-
ler, Ohio, on November 7, 1853, the son of Ben-
jamin Franklin and Susan (Dewey) Reed. The
family moved to Iowa and Mr. Reed's boyhood
was spent on a farm in that state where he at-
tended school and fitted for college, making his
iiwii way during most of his school and college
life, lie was graduated from Iowa College, Grin-
nell, Iowa, in 1879 and immediately went to
iMontana where he was principal of schools dur-
ing the next two years. He then engaged in
business in Montana but after two years came
to Minneapolis and began the study of law in
the office of Shaw, Levi & Cray. In 1886 he
was admitted to the bar and has since been con-
tinuously in active pr.actiee in Minneapolis. He is
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State, and American bar associations and of the
Commercial and Six O'clock clubs. In political
faitli Mr. Reed is a republican though independ-
dcnt in thought and action, especially in local
matters. He takes a very active interest in
municipal afTairs and has been prominently iden-
tified with all movements of the past twenty
years looking to the promotion of good govern-
ment and better municipal conditions. Con-
spicuous in this work has been his participation
in the campaigns for a better city charter. Mr.
Kced was married at Cincinnati on December
,10. iSgi, to Miss Selina Brown, daughter of the
late Charles E. Brown of the Cincinnati bar.

G.A.LE, Edward Chenery, son of Samuel C.
and Susan (Damon) Gale, was born in Minneap-
olis, August 21, 1862. The father, Samuel C,
came to Minneapolis in 1857 from Massachusetts,
educated as a lawyer; but he early engaged in real
estate in which business as well as in the general
civic life of the community he has long taken an
active part. The family are of English descent, the
forebear in this country being Richard Gale, who
settled in Watertown, JMassachnsetts, in 1636. Ed-
ward C. attended the public schools of Minnea-
polis and .graduated from the high school in
the class of 1878. He attended the state uni-
xersitv fnr two vcars and then went to Yale





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University where he graduated with the class of
1884. After a year abroad he studied law in the
office of Shaw & Cray, Minneapolis, and sub-
sequently took the degree of A. M. at the Law
School of Harvard University. Mr. Gale has at-
tained a most worthy and honorable position in
the profession he has chosen. He is at present a
member of the law firm of Snyder & Gale, his
associate being Fred B. Snyder. Mr. Gale is
a director in the Minneapolis Society of Fine
.Arts, of which society he has also been presi-
dent; treasurer of the Minneapolis Academy of
Sciences; director <>{ tlie Minneapolis Athena-uni':
secretary as well ,is a member of the Municipal
Art C"niniis^t(iii of Minneaimlis. and active in
nianj- ollur nmvemenls niakint; for the better
things in life, civic as well as individual. Mr.
(jale was married to Sarah Pillsbury. daughter of
Ex-Governor John S. Pillsbury, June 28, 1892.
They have one child living — Richard Pillsbury.

GJERTSEN, Henry John, (Henry J. Gjert-
sen) though l)orn in Norway, October 8, i86r, has
lived in Hennepin county ever since 1868, and
has been a zealous worker for the state which
adopted him. His father was Herman J. Gjert-
sen, a Norwegian sea-captain who came to Min-
nesota in 186S and after a generation spent in
farming, retired from active labor some years
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There the family has long been prominent, as
was also that of his wife, Albertina B. Gjertsen,
whose family name was that of Wulf, also of
old Norwegian history. On both sides the mem-
bers of the two families have followed the pro-
fessions, more or less. Henry J. Gjertsen grew
up on a ^Minnesota farm when farming in Hen-
nepin county knew nothing of agricultural col-
leges. He worked summers and went to the
district schools in winter. These last schools,
and Red Wing Seminary later, made his prelim-
inary training for the study of law. For this
latter purpose he spent two years in study in
Minneapolis, was admitted at twenty-three, and
lias since been successful in his profession to
more than the ordinary degree. Under the ad-
ministration of Gov. Lind, he held the post of
Brigadier General for two years; under Gov.
Van Sant, he was Judge Advocate General for
four years. His politics being republican, he has
had a good chance to render effective public
services as a member of the Minneapolis Charter
Commission and as state senator from the forty-
second district in 1902. In the latter position he
drew up the bucket shop law, which was passed
in 1905. He also took an important part in the
legislation that resulted in the new code. Mr.
Gjertsen is a member of the Odin Club, the Elks,
K. P., and ^lasonic bodies. He attends the
Lutheran Church. He is married to Gretchcn
Groebel, of Red Wing, and has one daughter,
now studying music in Berlin.

H.ALE, William Edward, son of Isaiah Byron
Burr and Mary E. Hale, was born at Wheeling,
West Virginia, May 11, 1845. His father was a
lawyer and was descended from Samuel Hale,
who came from England and settled in Glasteii-
bury, Connecticut, in 1637, making a record in
the early Indian wars, while the family did patri-
otic duty in the War of the Revolution, in later
3'ears appearing with favorable conspicuity in
public life — as James T. Hale, of Pennsyl-
vania, in congress, and the great naval
secretary, Gideon Wells. William, who had
visited Minnesota with his father when he
was a boy, returned in i860 and resided
in Plainvievv where, in 1861, he enlisted
in the Third Minnesota Infantry and served three
years during the war for the Union, receiving an
honorable discharge. He then entered Hamlinc
University, at that time located in Red Winp.
and. after taking a collegiate course for three
years he studied law in the office of Judge Wilder
of Red Wing, and was admitted to the bar in
1869. He located in Buffalo, Wright county,
where he practiced his profession and was elected
county attorney and held the office two years.
In 1872 he came to Minneapolis where he has
since lived. He was elected county attorney for
Hennepin county in 1878. and re-elected for a
second term. He has made a notable record in
the practice of the law. He has been in partner-
ship with Judge Seagrave Smith O877S0) and



subsequently with Judge C. M. Pond (Hale &
Pond), and with Charles B. Peck (Hale & Peck),
and latterly the head of the firm of Hale & Mont-
gomery. Mr. Hale is and has always been an
active, loyal member of the republican party, but
he has never yielded to the allurements of office-
holding, except in the few instances when he has
held the office of county attorney.

HARRISON, Alexander M., was born in Ven-
ango county, Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1847,
the son of Charles Harrison and Catherine E.
(DeWitt) Harrison. The father was descended
from English stock and was a successful farmer;
the mother was of Dutch descent. During his
boyhood he received excellent school training,
first attending the district school in Perry, Ven-
ango County, and later an academy in the same
place and afterwards the academy at Pleasant-
ville, Pennsylvania. He completed his education
at Fredonia academy in Chautauqua county. New
York, where he graduated when he was twenty-
one years of age. Before graduation he had com-
menced reading law and after leaving Fredonia
he worked for a time in the oil fields of Penn-
sylvania to earn money with which to complete
his law studies. Having secured sufficient funds
to pay his expenses during the law course he
entered the law department of the University of
Michigan from which he graduated in 1870.
Judge Harrison came west and first established
himself at Charles City, Iowa, w-here for three
years he practiced alone and then became asso-
ciated with Samuel B. Starr and John G. Patter-
son under the firm name of Starr, Patterson &
Harrison. After the death of Mr. Patterson in
187S the partnership was continued as Starr &
Harrison until December i, 1886. when Judge
Harrison came to Minneapolis. In 1898 Judge
Harrison was nominated by the republican party
of Hennepin county as one of its candidates for
the district bench, and was elected by a large
majority at the election that fall. He served
upon the bench until the expiration of his term in
January, 1904, After retiring from the district
bench Judge Harrison resumed active practice.
On August 1.1. 187.1, he was married to Miss Lizzie
O. Chapin. They have three children, Merton E..
Ruth, and Helen. Judge Harrison is a member
of the ^linneapolis Club and the Elks.

HERTIG, Wendell, was born August 1.1, 1868,
on a farm in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, son
of L'lysses and Emily P. (Litman) Hertig. .-Mter
having received a good rudimentary education he
graduated in June, 1884, from the state normal
school at California, Washington countj'. Penn-
sylvania, and taught a country school the same
winter. Coming to Minneapolis in 7887 he became
connected in an official capacity with several finan-
cial corporations and was a bank cashier from
1892 to 1895. fn 1891 he entered the Law School
of the University of ^linnesota, and, after having
taken the full night law course, graduated in
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prdfession, combining with the same a real estate
and mortgage loan business. Mr. Hcrtig is a re-
publican in politics and was elected alderman of
the Fiftli Ward in 1905. He is a member of the
Commercial Club, the Roosevelt Club, the Mini-
kabda Club, the B. P. O. E. No. 44 and of all the
.Masonic Bodies.

JACKSON, Anson Blake, was born in Brook-
lyn, New York, February 17, 1850, the son of
William B. and Elizabeth Blake Jackson. The'
father was a manufacturer and banker and the
family trace their ancestry through several
generations of Connecticut farmers, who took
part in the War of the Revolution. Mr.
Jackson's early life was spent in Brooklyn,
Foresport and Utica, New York. He gradu-
ated from Hobart College, Geneva, New York,
in 187a, and from Columbia law school, New
York, in 1873, having been a student in the office
of Roscoe at Utica during the year 1871. Mr.
Jackson practiced his profession in New York
City for about five years. During most of the
year 1878, he was employed in Kansas City as
attorney for the Bondholders Committee of the
Kansas Pacific Railway, and, on the absorption
of that road by the Union Pacific in 1880, he re-
moved to ^linneapolis where he has since been
engaged in private practice, from 1880 to 1883
as a member of the firm of Jackson and Pond,
and from 1885 to 1893 of the firm of Jackson and
.Vtwater.

Mr. Jackson is a republican in politics, and was
ni.-irried in 1881 to Eugenia Cheney Adams. They
Iiavr t\\ii cliildren living — Anson Blake Jackson,
Jr., a graduate of Yale University, class of '07,
and Margaret E. Jackson, who graduated from
Kcisem.-irv Hall. Greenwich, Connecticut, class
of '06.

HAl.I,, .XHurl II., senior nuinlicr of the law
firm of Hall iSd Kolllncr. of this city, was born
on July ir, 1858, at .\le\andria. Licking county.
()liiu. His family on liolh sides were early set-
tlers in tli.-it state, liis nialern.-il grandf.'il her briuL;
tlic first white child born witliin tin- cimlines of
Union county. f.evi TTall, Iiis f.itlur. w.is fur
ni:iny years a Methodist F.piscopal clergyman.
\\'\ui Liter entered the medical profession and
moved to Minneapolis where he has for more
than a (|uarter of a century been a pracliein.g
physician. His mother's n.anie lieforc her niar-
ri.age was l.ucinda Alilchell. Mr, Hall received
his education in the public schools, first in ()hio.
and later atlendin.g the high school at .\ustin,
Minnesota, where the family moved in 1872.
Three years later he came to this city and en-
tered the University of Minnesota, supporting
himself while in college by night work in tele-
graph and telephone service. At the end of his
junior year in i8Sr, he left school and cntere<l
the law office of the late Judge Frederick Hooker.
A position in the treasury department at Wash-
ington was offered him wliich he acceiited, and



at the same time attended the Columbia Law
School, from which he graduated in 1883. Re-
signing his position, Mr. Hall returned to Minne-
apolis, and since that time has been engaged in
the practice of his profession. Soon after return-
ing here he formed a partnership with N. F.
Hawley, wdiich continued for several years, Mr.
Hall severing the connection to accept an ap-
pointment as assistant city attorney of Minne-
apolis in 1889. During the two years which he
served he conducted successfully several impor-
tant cases, including the well known garbage
dump cases. He resumed his general legal prac-
tice until 1893, when he was selected by the grand
jury and appointed by Judge Seagrave Smith,
special assistant attorney for Hennepin county,
and filled that office for eighteen months. He
tried many important criminal cases for the
county and made a record as an able speaker
and efifective trial lawyer. Among the cases with
which he was coimected were the notable Scheig
and Floyd cases; the Harris murder case which
Mr. Hall successfully prosecuted; and the famous
Hayward trial in which his unceasing eflforts se-
cured the admissions and evidence which made
possible the conviction of the guilty parties. At
the expiration of his term Mr. Hall again took
up his practice and has since been engaged in
general practice, both in this city and throughout
the Northwest. He formed in 1902 a partnership
with Robert S. Kolliner under the firm name of
Hall & Kolliner — an association which still con-
tiinics. From his earliest manhood Mr. Hall has
taken an active interest in politics and has been
an efficient worker for the republican party for
many years. In 1904 he became a candidate for
the republican nomination for congress, but was
defeated in a strong campai.gn against Hon. Loren
F'letcher, who had been the incumbent for a num-
ber of successive terms. Mr. Hall was again a
candidate in 1906 and made an even better run
against a larger field for opponents. Mr. Hall was
married in 18S3 to Miss Nellie J. Pearson. They
have one daughter, Faith. The family attends,
the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Cluirch. Mr.
Hall is a member of the Commercial Club and
other organizations of a social character,

JOSLYN, Colin C, is a native nf the state of
Illinois, the son of De Witt C. Joslyn and Philura
1., Joslyn. His father was a farmer at Cortland,
Illinois, where Ci.Iiii C, was burn ■■n December
0. 1857. He grew u\> ■ m the farm and attencted
the graded school at Cortland, .\fter completing
the necessary preparatory work he entered Ripon
College, in Wisconsin, wdiere he took the »ca-
dcntic course rcceivin.g his degree with the class
of T8S3. He studied law. was admitted to the
bar and commenced practice in Minneapolis, in
1885, where he has since continuously practiced.
Mr. Joslyn is a member of the Minneapolis Com-
mercial Club and attends the Universalist Church.
In 1899 l\lr. Joslyn was married to Miss Marie
.\, Rich and thev have three children.




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KOON, Martin B., one of the most prominent
men of the Hennepin county bar, was born on
January 22, 1841, at Altay, Schuyler county, New
York. His ancestry on his father's side was
Scotch and through his mother he was descended
from Connecticut pioneers. His father, Alanson
Koon, was a farmer in Schuyler county New
York, a man in moderate circumstances but of
highest integrity and enjoying the respect of the
community. While his son was yet quite young
.Manson Koon removed with his family to Hills-
dale county, Michigan. It was on a Michigan
f.-irm that Judge Koon spent his boyhood studying
at the district school in winter and doing farm
work in summer. His advantages were those of
the average farmer's boy at that period. At the
age of seventeen he had by diligent study pre-
pared himself to enter Hillsdale College. During
his college course he mainly supported himself
by teaching and had, in 1863 when he graduated,
so impaired his health that 'it was necessary to
seek a change of climate. He went to California
by the old Panama route and spent two years on
the coast holding a position as teacher. Having
regained his health he returned to Michigan and
tuok up the study of law, in the office of his
brother, E. L. Koon. In 1867 he was admitted
to the bar in Hillsdale, Michigan, and soon after-
ward entered into partnership with his brother,
which association continued until 1878. While
he did not go actively into politics he held the of-
l^ce of prosecuting attorney in Hillsdale county
from 1870 to 1874. In 187.? he spent four months
in travel in Europe. He had become persuaded,
however, that Hillsdale did not offer a promising
held and in 1878 he moved to Minneapolis, where
he formed a partnership with E. A. Merrill, to
which firm A. M. Keith was afterward admitted.
This firm enjoyed an extensive practice until the
fall of 1881, when, owing largely to overwork, Mr.
Koon fell a victim to typhoid fever, and on his
partial recovery he went to California in search
of health. In 1883, after his return. Judge J. M.
Shaw resigned from the district bench, and Gov-
ernor Hubbard appointed Mr. Koon to fill the
vacancy. This was entirely without Mr, Koon's
solicitation and wholly unexpected. He accepted
the office with much reluctance, doubting his
qualifications for the position. He filled it with
such eminent satisfaction, however, that in the
following fall he was unanimously elected to the
same office for the term of seven years. But he
did not find the duties of the office congenial to
him, and May l, 1886, he resigned. During his
occupancy of the bench he tried a number of im-
portant cases, among them the Washburn will
case, the St. Anthony water power case, the King-
■ Remington case, the Cantieny murder case, and
others scarcely less notable. This work involved
an enormous amount of study and research. On
his retirement from the bench he resumed the
practice of his profession and has been for years
the senior member of the firm of Koon, Whelan



& Bennett. The practice of the firm is mainly in
the line of corporation law. They are attorneys
for the Minneapolis Street Railway Company.
Judge Koon is a member of the Minneapolis Club,
the Commercial Club, the Chamber of Commerce
and a trustee of the Church of the Redeemer. He
was married November, 1873, to Josephine Van-
dermark and has two daughters, Kate Estelle,
now Mrs. E. C. Bovey, and M. Louise, now Mrs.
Charles Deere Velie.

LAYBOURN, Charles G., was born at Spring-
field, Clark county, Iowa, March 23, 1851, the
son of Joseph Laybourn and Ann (Kirkley) Lay-
bourn. His father was a native of Clark county,
and was descended from an old New York family
which counted among its members one of the
early mayors of New York City. His mother was
of English descent, her parents' family having
settled in central Ohio when she was but a child.
Mr. Laybourn's schooling was had in the district
school near his father's farm, supplemented by a
course at a private school in which he made such