came t" Minneapolis. Me came here in the fall of
iXiji) and established the firm name of the North-
\\ (â– ,11111 lliilr iS: I'ui- (."11., renting a two-story
Imilcling at ^17 .Main .Slreel Southeast. In the
fall of 1805, he i)nrcha>e(l tlie property at 400
Main Street Southeast but Iiis business soon
outgrew this warehouse and he moved to the west
side where he built at the corner of First Street
and Second Avenue North a warehouse of five
times the capacity and equipped with all modern
facilities for handling the business. Mr. Bur-
nett's pronounced success is largely due to his
progressive methods in advertising and to .1 num-
ber of devices of his own invcntinn pertaining tj
tlie hide and fur trade. lie has displayed un-
iiNiial enterprise m the conduct of his business.
In 1897 he sent men to e.xi>lore the almost un-
known regions of tlie nortliern part of Minnesota
to secure information as to the resources of the
coimtry. The facts showing the richness of the
territory he gave to the |)ublic through the pro-
and his publication called "Hunters and Trappers
Guide." and he has Ijeen a consistent advocate of
the development of the region wdiich he believed
would become one of llie richest parts of the
state. The rapid advance of the railroads to the
north in the past fc'w years has proved the
soundness of his contintion .md settlers :ire rap-
idly filling the great north ei>iinlry. .Mr. Bur-
nett married Miss Alida Suits of Huron, S. I),
in June, 1888. They have one daughter, Harriet
Alleda, age sixteen.
Minneajjolis and arc
grcgational Church,
wife, W. V. Burnett,
fornia.
They reside in southeast
members of the Como Con-
He lias one son by his first
who lives in Rodonda. Cali
Ct)( )I,II)(',K. .Maislial! 11. president of the
.Marshall II, t'oolidKr ( â– oini>.iiiy of Minneapolis,
is a native ol Wisconsin .iiid w.i^ born on July
J7. l8tx), .at Dotyvillc. .md was the son of John
II, Cooli<lge and i'.lix.ibeth (Coleman) Coolidi^r
His father was .a r.ailro.ad tie contractor and
maniifaclnrcr of lumber .md tin- son. after re-
ceiving a common school i-dncition in Iiis na-
tive state, came to Minneapolis sonic- yen - ago
and established himself in the same line of Inisi
ness. He has been very successful and his cimi-
pany h.'is ;i very extensive trade in railroad ties,
cedar poles, piling .-iiid oilur forest products. Mr.
Coolidgc afiiliates uilli the republican party, is
.\I,\ I:.S|1AI 1, II I IMII IDOI-:. BRUSH. PHOIO
a tliirly-seeond de.yree .Mason and Sliriiu-r and .'i
member of the .M iinu-.ipolis ;ind .Minikahda clubs.
He w.is marrird in iS8,i to Miss Jennie .-X.
Holnu-s They have three children. —Harry H.,
liyron II,, ami .Marsh.-ill H,, Jr, Tlu- family at-
tends the l'.|iisci â– ji.-il church.
1)1'.. \N, \Villi,-mi J.. \\.-[s born July 19, 1843. at
l-'i>it Hop,-, Can.ida. wliillier his parents, Matthew
and .\nn Dean, had gone from llu-ir n.itive Ire-
land. The father was ;i farnu r .mil. in th.it yc-;ir
of great mi.yr.'ilii ni w estw.ird. 1S55. he came to
the tcrritorx- of .Mniiu-sota .md settled on .1
l.irm. The son William spent his e.iily lifi- on his
lather's farm .-ind as the splendid common selioid
sjslem was only a process of development in
.Minnesfila territory, educatimial advantages were
not mail}- in the f.innini; connliy, hut the Imiv
learned to do mo.mI u(.rk on the farm and siih-
sequelltly showed his ability to make up lor any
educatii>n;d <leficiencies on his part. Whin he
was nineteen ye.irs old he responded to the call
for volunteers and left the harvest field where
W'HULESALK IRADE
437
lie was working to enlist in Company I, Nintli
Minnesota Volunteers, and went to the from,
serving for three years as a private soldier and
eorporal, his rejjinu-nt participating in many
battles of the Civil War. Returning home in
iiS()5. Mr. Dean began business life as a clerk
in a country store and, after four years service
he spent seven years as bookkeeper and super-
intendent of agencies in a wholesale implement
business. In 1877, he commenced the implement
trade in Minneapolis, his being the first jobbing
hciuse in agricultural implements in the city, and
lie has since ccntinued in the business with
marked success. Mr. De.in adhered to the re-
publican party until 188&, after which he became
a conscientious champii>n of the principles of the
prohibition party and has been a candidate for
various offices, state and municipal, on the ticket
of that party. He was a member of the Board
of Charities and Corrections for four years and
a director in the Children's Home Society for
thirteen years, and was a director of the Young
Men's Christian Association for seventeen years
and president of that organization nine years, and
is well known as an active promoter of many
other institutions for the moral and intellectual
good of the people. Mr. Dean has been a mem-
ber of the Methodist l-^piscopal Church for forty-
two years an<l has held every office in that
church to which laymen may be called upon to
II I.IAM J. UliAN
hll. Mr. I lean was m.irried in 1X07 lu Cordelia
Riluic.i I'r.iid and four childri'U lia\'e been born
III Ihrni.
I'WKRINGTON, Samuel I'utnam, was born
â– in January 29, 1819. The ancestors of the family
settled in this country before the Revolutionary
War, and the grandfallur nf Samuel P. fought
with the Colonial troo])s and was the first per-
son to erect a frame hou.se in Concord, New
llamijshire. a building which was still standing in
1896. Benjamin E. Farrington, father of Samuel
P. was living near Concord at the time of his
son's birth. The latter passed the early days of
his life in Concord. He attended the public
schools and later the Gilmonton Academy, gradn
ating from that institution in 7836. He went to
I'.oston about ,1 year later, and there entered the
x\ holes.ile dry goods business. After three years
he became a member of Clark. Sweet & Company,
wliolesale dry goods dealers in Boston. He sev-
ered liis rel.-ition in 1850 and moved to Chicago
where he entered the wholesale grocery business,
first as a partner in the tirm of Day, Allen &
Company. For thirty-five years Mr. Farrington
was engaged in that business in Chicago, estab-
lishing alter a few years the firm of Farrington
& Schnall and later organizing the firm of S. P.
l-'arrington & Company, of which his interests
formed the major part. In 1884 he sold out his
establishment in Chicago and moved to Minne-
.-â– polis, where he reorganized the wholesale gro-
cery business of H. G. Harrison & Com])any as
Harrison, Farrington & Comjiany. By his e.xec-
ntive ability and capable management he put this
business on a solid basis, and built up one of the
largest wholesale houses of the Northwest. In
1893 his senior partner, Mr. Harrison retired, Mr.
1". G. Winston purchasing the interests of Mr.
Harrison and the firm name was changed, becom-
ng Winston, Farrington & Company. Mr. Far-
rington was the head of this company and re-
tained its management until his death in 1897,
making it one of the nmst successful business
concerns of the city, .\fter his death his place
was taken by his son L. H. Farrington, wdio.
\vhen the conip.my was incorporated in 1904,
under the name of Winston, Harper, Fisher
Company, was made secretary of the organiza-
tion — a position which he still holds. Mr. S. P.
I'arriugton was prominent among his business
associates, both in Minneapolis and other cities
where he resided and connected with numerous
trade and social organizations, being for eight
years president of the Chicago Wholesale Gro-
cers' .Xssociation while in that city. He was
also a well known member of the Presbyterian
Church and during his life was an active worker
and supporter in a number of charitable and
benevolent institutions. In 1853 .\lr. h'arrington
was married to Miss H.arriet 1,. McKay, daughter
of Henjamin McKay.
43S
A HA 1.1' Cl'.NlURV Ol'- MINNEAPOLIS
I'l.SlillK, lilnicr F..,- was Ijoni jJuccinlicr ii,
1S62, at Boston, .Massachusetts, son of Freeman
A. and Marion W. Fisher. His father was a large
contractor who built such structures as the Bos-
ton Block, Temple Court, Masonic Temple, the
old Chamber of Commerce building and others
which marked the earlier advance in modern
business building construction. Mr. Fisher, who
was head of the firm of F. A. Fisher & Company,
died in 1902. His son, E. E. Fisher, came to
Minneapolis in 1879 from Chicago. He had his
earlier educational training in the common school -
and received a thorough business training in a
business college and in practical mercantile life.
In 18S.3 he organized the hardware and saddlery
manufacturing firm of Dodson, Fisher. lirock-
mann Company. The firm first located at Nos.
J47-249 Hennepin avenue and three years after-
ward ihey found their business was rapidly out-
growing their quarters and removed in May, 1886.
to their present location, 15-17 and 19 North Third
street. In July, 1883, when the firm began busi-
ness, they operated in western Wisconsin, Min-
nesota, and a portion of North Dakota and today
they do an increasing business in northern Michi-
gan, Wisconsin. Minnesota, the Dakotas, Mon-
tana, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada and the South-
western country to the Pacific Coast. The firm
employs from 175 to 200 men and fourteen travel-
ing men. They have installed an up-to-date plant
WII-I.IAM r, flAl I "W i-i 1.
r<ir the manufacture of saddlery harness and col-
lar-. .Such .1 reciird of Inisiness and industrial
expansion is one of the gratifying evidences of
the mighty growth of Minneapolis as a business
center. Minneapolis men have made the growth
and made the center. Mr. Fisher is a member of
the Commercial Club. He was married on Jan-
uary 3, 1883. to .Miss Carrie Wliiltier, who was
born in Minnesota. They ha\e one son — I-'ree-
man G. Fisher.
HA 1. LOWELL, William Penrose. Jr., for
nearly twenty-five years a resident and for many
years a well-known fuel dealer of Minneapolis, is
a native of Pennsylvania, having been born at
Germantown i>n .N'c.veniher 30, 1863. He is the
son of William P. Hallowell, Sr., and Elizabeth
D. Hallowell, his mother having been before her
marriage Miss Elizabeth C. Davis. When Wil-
liam P., Jr., was a few years of age the familj'
moved to Philadelphia and he there passed the
early years of his life and obtained his educa-
tion. Commencing his studies in the Cheltenham
•Academy he later continued his preparatory train-
ing in the Friends' Central School at Philadel-
phia. His college education he also received in
Pennsylvania, at Swarthmore College, where he
remained until 1883 when he left to come to
Minneapolis, arriving in September of that year.
He was variously engaged for a few years in this
city and then about 1888 he entered the fuel busi-
ness in which he has since been continuously en-
gaged. Mr. Hallowell has always had his head-
c|uarters in this city, and at the present time he is
a member of the Holmes & Hallowell Company,
liiilding the ol'fices cif vice president and treasurer
in that organization, its other officers being A.
J, Holmes, president, and H. L. Murray, secre-
tary. The firm has oflices in both St. Paul and
.Minneapolis and handles a large and increasing
business in c^al and wood both in the Twin
Cities and in tlie surrounding northwestern terri-
tory. Mr. Hallowell has for many years been
a member of the larger club organizations of the
city, among them the Minneapolis Club, the Mini-
kahda Club and the Lafayette Club. Shortly af-
ter coming to the city in 1883 he became con-
nected with Company I, N. G. S. M. and was a
iiu iiiber until 1888. Politically Mr. Hallowell has
alw.iys liren a re])ublican but is not an active
parly wnrkc r .iud has never desired public prefer-
nunt. On June 5. i8W,S. he was married to Miss'
.\gnes Hardenbergh. ( )ne sun li.is lueu born,
William Penrose llalhiwell. Ill, The f.nnily at-
liniN St .Mark's Iqiisci ip.il Cliurcli
J.\ .\ .\' h'A', TIkmii.i-. I'.,, president of Janney,
Seniple. I I ill X: C'onip.iux. wholesale hardware,
was liMrii ,il Siliaiu\ ille. (Iliici, October 5. 1838,
the sun (il I'liirieas .\l. and I'ranees (Smith)
Jannev. His p.irents mnxed from ( )hio to Van
linren eiiunl\, luw.i, in 1.S31J, and to Henry, II-
liuiiis. in 1S51, and their son received his educa-
llnn in the common schools of Iowa and in the
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439
academy at Henry. His first business experience
was as clerk in a general store. He came to
Minneapolis in July, 1866. and entered the re-
tail hardware business with bis brothers. In
1875 Mr. Janney bought the hardware stock ot
Governor J. S. Pillsbury (tlie business wbicli
had been established in 1855) and a new linn
was formed under the title of Janney, Brociks &
Eastman, In 1S84 this firm was succeeded by
Janney, Semple & Company, an<l in i8g8 was
changed into a corporation under the present
name. The business is the largest wholesale
hardware business in the Northwest as it is the
oldest. During his long business career in Min-
neapolis, Mr. Janney has taken a very prominent
part in the commercial and public life of the
city and has been connected with many of the
leading business corporations and organizations
for the benefit of the public or of a philanthropic
character. He took a prominent part in the
Minneapolis E.xposition project and has from
time to time done effective work in tlie public
organizations of the city. He is a director of
the Northwestern National Bank and the Farm-
ers and Mechanics Savings Bank and a member
of the Minneapolis, Commercial, >'inikahda and
Lafayette clubs. Mr. Janney was married at
Minneapolis to Miss Mary Wheaton.
LYM.'\N, Frederick Wolcott, for many years
prominent in the jobbing trade of Minneapolis,
was born June 18, 1849, at Plymouth, Connec-
ticut. His father was Ephraim Lyman, a Con-
gregational minister one of whose ancestors was
Lord Mayor of I,ondon. His mother was Han-
nah TX Richards whose ancestor. General Hun-
tington of the war fif the Revolution, was a
member of Gencr.'il Washington's staiT. Mr.
Lyman's early life was spent in Plymouth and
Washington, Connecticut, and in Norlhaniptdii,
Massachusetts, lie attended the Gunnery .Sclioul
and public schools, and at Northampton, .Massa-
chusetts clerked in a dry goods store. On Sep-
tember 15, 1871, he arrived in Minneapolis wliere
he entered business first as a partner of Dorilus
Morrison in the Minneapolis cotton mill. I^ater
he entered into partnership with his brother,
George R. Lyman, as Lyman Bros., in the whole-
sale drug business, and became treasurer of the
Lyman-Eliel Drug Company when it succeeded to
the business in 1883. In 1905 he withdrew from
this corporation to give his attention to his pri-
vate interests. Mr. Lyman has been vice-presi-
dent of the Lyman Bank at Sanford, Florida:
president of the Winter Park Florida Hotel and
Town Site Company, and president of the board
of trustees of Rollins College, of which he was
one of the organizers. In political belief Mr.
Lyman is a republican, although of independent
attitude in local matters. He is deeply interested
in the promotion of good government and has
given his influence to all movements in this di-
rection. He has served as a member of the Min-
neapolis Charter Commission, as treasurer of the
Citizens' League, and as eli.iirnian of the Busi-
ness Men's .Association. He is a member of the
Minneapolis. Lafayette. .Si.x O'CIock, and Com-
mercial clubs. He is ,1 member of Plymouth
Congregational Church, and is chairman of its
board of trustees. Mr. Lyman married Miss
Elizabeth H. Clark on Alay 9, 1876. They have
three children — Katheritu- II,. .Margaret Iv and
h'rederick C.
L\ MAN, George K., lor many years a prom-
inent wholesale merchant of Minneapolis, was
born at Plymouth, Connecticut, December 27,
1844 Me was the son of Ephraim and Hannah
\). (Richards) Lyman. His father was a Con-
gregational clergyman, wIkj graduated from
Vale College in 1832 and from Yale Theological
.Seminary in i8.?5 and was settled in Plymouth
and Washin,gton, Connecticut, from 1835 to 1864.
He subsequently came to Minneapolis where he
died in 1880. (Jn his mother's side Mr. Lyman
is descended from revolutionary ancestors, his
grandfather. Gen. Jedediah Huntington, having
been on General Washington's staff and a warm
friend of Washington and Lafayette. Mr. Lyman
was the eldest of eight children of whom four
are still living. One brother. Hart Lyman, is
editor-in-chief of the New York Tribune; Frede-
rick Lyman has been for years a resident of
Minneapolis, as has been Miss Ellen Hart
Lyman. Mr. Lyman received his education at
The Gunnery, Washington, Connecticut; Wil-
liston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts;
Pliillips Academy, Andovcr, Massachusetts, and
Yale Scientific School. Soon .after leaving Yale
he came to Minneapolis in March, i868, and en-
tered the retail drug business, succeeding the
firm of Leonard & Gardiner, and later estab-
lished what has since grown to be the second
Largest wholesale drug house in the Northwest,
from wliich he retired in iQO.s. During this
long perioil the firm name was successively
Lyman & Tucker, Lyman & Williams, Geo. R.
Lyman, Lyman Bros., and the Lyman-Eliel Drug
Company — now the Minneapolis Drug Company
— of which he was the president. He was also
a partner for years in the retail drug firm of
.Melendy & Lyman. .\lr, Lyman's entire busi-
ness career has been one of uninterrupted suc-
cess during more than forty years. During his
mercantile life in Minneapolis Mr. Lyman ac-
ipiired large interests outside of the house which
he founded and since his withdrawal from whole-
saling continues the care of these and related
interests in association with his brother Frederick
under the names of Lyman Bros, and the Lyman
Bros. Company, of which he is president. Mr.
Lyman has taken a lively interest in the affairs
of the city, though never becoming prominent in
politics or official life in any way, but has been
.1 member of the republican party since he came
of age. He has been especially prominent as
a member of Plymouth Congregational Church,
which he joined in 1868. For thirty-five years
MO
A HALF CliNTUKV OF iMlNNEAPOLlS
lie was oflicially cuniKcted vvilh the cliiircli in
tlic various ofliccs of deacon, trustee nml iiuiii
bcr of tlie prudential and music comuiitlees and
other working bodies in the cluucli. lie has
alwajs been interested in music, and was for a
long time a member of the Plymouth churcli
(|nartelte and choir, and was nne of the organiz-
ers and the lirsl president of the Minneapolis
Chor.il Society, one of the earlier nnisical as-
sociations of the city. He was also the bass in
a noted Minneapolis (|uarlette iif the se\enties.
'if which Mr;.. AK'NandiT r\lir was soprano,
Miss Httii' I'lallon, alto, and Mr. Henry Tucker,
tenor. I'lir many j'cars he h;is been a trustee of
the Voung Men's Christian .\>sociation and was
its president from iS'ol to iNij?. during whicli
years the present building was erected. He has
been a trustee nf Cirleton College, Northfield.
.\linnesiil,-i. since i.Scjj. He was a charter mem-
ber iif the .Minnesot.L Congregational club and
its lirst secretary; and is a member nf the
Lafayette Club at Lake Minnetonka. Mr. I.\inan
was married on August lo, 1875. to Miss Marietta
P. Ives of Minneapolis, only daughter of Solon
F.. and Emma (Crockett) Ives, who came to
the city from Newark. New Jersey, in 1S71. They
h.i\e li.id >even cliililren uf whom ^i.\ are >till
iii;]tr.i:i!T 11. .M.Mtii.N.
living — Mrs. Mabel I.xinan b'locken, l''lorence R.
Lyman, Marietta, .Mice, Henry De Forest and
Marjorie. The eldest son. George IL, died in
Decenib -r. moj.
MARTIN, Herbert H.. northwestern manager
for the Columbus Buggy Company, is an Ohio
man, born in Columbus in 1867, and of a family
which li.is resided in that city since 1818, Mr.
Martin w.is educated in the pulilic schools of
Colund)us and at an early age entered the em-
ploy of the Columbus Buggy Company and re-
mained in the e-.l.iblivhnienl for about seventeen
years, working up tlirou.L;h various departments
until he h.id tlun-oughly mastered the business.
This concern i - ilie largest builder of high class
pleasure vehicles in the wcndd. It w;is founded
in 1S75 by C. I). F'irestone. who is still at its
head, .md at one time maintained branches in
all the lar.ge cities of the country. The Minne-
aiiolis hou^e was established in iSgt and is the
only branch house of the company still main-
tained, a change in the policy having led to the
closing of all the other agencies. The Minne-
apolis house has, however, been so successful
that it ha> been continued and is, perhaps, the
• nly exclusive vehicle house in the northw'est. Its
territory covers Minnesota, North and South Da-
kota and parts of the adjoining states. The com-
pany has recently commenced the manufacture of
a power carriage —a \ehicle which has a feature
of both an automobile and a horse carriage and
which is <.x|ic.cted to revc dutionizc the road trans-
portation nu till ids. .Mr. .Martin was appointed
northwestern manager in 1Q02 and has resided in
Minneapolis since that time, taking an active part
in the business .iff.airs of the city but devoting
liinisilf cbiscly to the dex elo]inient of his trade.
MARTIN, J.-mu-s II., h,is been for about lif-
teeii yars, ideiililied with the commercial devel-
opimnt of Minneapolis, and in that lime has
achieved rapid and substantial success. The J. H.
.\ I. art in Leather Company is now recognized as
c ne of the leading jobbers of shoe-store supplies
ni the Northwest. Mr. Martin is a descendant of
one of the oldest families of Illinois, his mother's
f.imily. the Harrells, having been among the first
liioiiier settlers at Decatur. His f.ather. Capt.
Isaac N. Martin, fought in tin- beder.il army dur-
in.g the Civil War .ind .Lt the end of his service
retnrnnl to Illinois, x\ lure lie engaged in business,
bor many years In- conduct nl .1 contracting busi-
cas^ .It llee.itnr, doiii^ work from that i)lacc as
headquarters on an extensive scale. He has now
retired friuii active business life. Shortly after
the close of the w.ar he became one of the lirsI
members of Post I of the (i. .\. R. .\t the time
of his son's biith. oil Aii:_iust o. 18O0, his home
was ;,| Dic.itin-. ;md in that city James H. M.arlin
passed his boyhood. He attended the public
school, of Decitur until iKSi. when he entered the
employ of a leather h.indling est.ablishment, and
with tli.al linn .•u'i|nireil his first knowledge of the
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JAMES II. MAKTIN.
luisincss witli which he h;is since been iilcntificd.
He remained with tlie Decatur liouse fur tliree
years and thenvvcnt to a Springlicld concern m
the same line. In 1887 he returned to Decatur as
cashier of the branch office of the Standard Oil
Company. He left this company in 1893, with the
intention of entering business on his own account,
and appreciating the advantages of JNIinneapolis.
came to this city. Owing, however, to the h-
nancial panic of 1893, Mr. Martin postponed the
organization of his business until 1894. He then
formed the firm of J. H. Martin & Co., to engage
in the leather business in which he had acquired
experience in Decatur and Springfield. A store
was opened on First avenue south and Si.xth
street with a small stock, and to the development
of his business, from this beginning to its present
proportions, Mr. Martin has devoted all his
energy and ability. The business grew rapidly
and in 1902 was moved from its original location
to the building it now occupies, which was es-
pecially designed and constructed for it at 20 and
22 North Fourth steet. This building was put up
liy Major C. B. Heflfelfinger. who had observed
the growth of Mr. Martin's business and believed
in its future success. Here the firm occupies four
floors, and has the best facilities possible for
handling its trade, which extends not only over
the local territory, but the whole Northw-est. And
this successful growth has been due, in l.nrgc
measure, to Mr. Martin's conservative yet enter-
prising methods and reliable policy. In 1896 Mr.
L. G. Adams was taken into the organization, and
at the present time is the manager of the Martin
& Adams Leather Company at Spokane, of which
Mr. Martin is president. In addition to his other