552
A HALF Century ov Minneapolis
â– iiii; .\ias(pMi' ri;\ii'r,H
iiHiiiis ill llio l'".vanstiin Imii liii;^ al Sixth
street and Srcmul axciuie soutli, airl lli'
Roosevelt (hill has (|iiartcrs at Seventh
street aiiil lU'iinepin a\einie. The Six
( )'clock L'hil), orijanizeil in IS' '4. has a nieni
hership of one hinidrt-d men wh.o meet fort-
nii^hth for the diseiissioii of iminiei]ial and
soeial i|nestioiis. These are some eif the
leading orL;anizatioiis o| the city.
MAsoxir Axn oriii;k oni)r;KS.
The Masiiiiie Tem|ik-. erected in t8S8
and 1881;, and one of the tinest hnildins^s
of its class in the west, marked the L;reat
growth of the orders and fraternal or.i;ani-
/atioiis at lliis period in the history of .Min-
neai)olis. .\lasonr\ had had its l)eginninsj;s
ill the eite in 1851 when Cataract Lodjje
was organized by Dr. A. E.
Ames. Col. Stevens, .\rd
< lo(lfre\-, I'jiiaiuiel Case.
1 saac At water. A n s o n
Xorthnip. John 1 1. .\lnrphy,
Robert Ctimmings and other
]ironiinent pioneers were
among its early members.
The passage of thirty-five
\ears fomid .Masonry \ery
strong in .Minneapolis, and
in ISS.T the first steps to-
wards a temple were taken
through the organization of
the Masonic I'einple Asso-
ciation of Minneapolis. The
corner stone of the building
was laid in 1888. and the
building was completed dur-
ing the following year at a
total cost of over $3C0,000.
Masonr\' has continued to
llonrish, the membership is
\ el'}' large, and in the higher
degrees, and the Scottish
Kite and the Mystic Shrine
includes in its ranks many
]iri uniiunt business and pro-
fessional men. .Minneapolis
Lodge .\'o. 1''. which has
rcceiuK' celebrated its semi-
centennial, is one of the
largest blue lodges in the
c( luntry.
The ( )dd l'\dlows and
( iood Ti.'m|ilars also organized \ery early
in llie history of the city aiul both arc
strong orders. The Knights of Pythias are
exceptionalh' ]irosi)erous ;ind ]\n\v ([uarters
in the Ma-onic Temple. ,\ll the other
prominent uiders ;n'e well established.
I'osts of the Grand Army of the Re[nd)lic
wen' formed in ?ilinnca])olis in the autumn
of 18(1(1. I )iie on the east side did not sur-
\\\v for long, but that on the west side,
of which I )r. I.e\i I'.uller was the coni-
in;inder, coutimied and later assumed the
name of the ( lenrge X. .Morgan I'ost. under
which it llourished and became for years
the largest jiost in the slate. ll has been
tlu- i)arent jjost from which nine others
have gone out. John \. K.awlins Post has
rooms in the Masonic Temple, which are
SUNDRY nr^GWIZ \iu;.\s AXlJ .\CTI\IT1 1.S.
53.?
;.\TUA.\CK TO i.AKi;\viioi> ^l:^[I:^I:l;^
said ti) he the finest oi any Post rocmis in
the country. The au.xiliary and related
nrdcrs of the \\'omen's ReHef Corps, La-
ches of the G. A. R., Sons of \'eterans. etc..
aie well organized in the city. Minneajiolis
has twice entertained the« national encamj)-
inent of the G. A. R.
L.\KEWOOD CEMETERY .\SSOtl A TIO.V.
Public spirit in Minneapolis has not con-
fined its endeavors to the commercial ad-
\ancement of the city. One of the most
notable e.xamples of untiring effort for the
general good is found in the histor_\' of tli'v'
I.akewood Cemeterv .Association, which
was organized in 1871 by a grouj) of men
who realized the importance of the early
establishment of an e.\tensi\e and suitable
cemetery. The original property, consisting
of 80 acres lying between Lakes Calhdun
and Harriet, was purchased from Col. \\ m,
S. King, who, with H. C]. Harrison, W . 1 ).
Washburn. George .\. Rrackett. D. Morri-
son. Dr. C. G. Goodrich. W. P. ^Vestfall.
Levi lUitler and R. J. Mendcnliall. consti-
tuted the first board of trustees. Of these
only Messrs. P.rackett and AXashbnrn are
now li\ing: they have given the work thirty-
seven years of constant service. .Adopting
the most ajiproved plans th'.' trustees .grad-
uall\- developed the cemetery until it iie-
can:e one of the most Ijcautiful in tiie coun-
tr\'. It now comprises 2-10 acres. At the
entrance is a gateway Intilding erected in
ISS') at a cost of $.i.=^,000. Xearl)y is the
receiving vault, and in course of erection is
a modern crematory. The association i-^
l)er])elual. and belongs to tiie stockholders
who are the owners of the lots: while no
stockholders or trustees receive any divi-
dends or anv other compensation. The re-
cei])ts from sales of lots are devoted to main-
tenance and improvements and additions.
and are now also creating a ftuid which will
have reached three and one-half millions when
all lots are sold, and will be then sufficient to
jirovide a perpetual income for maintenance.
A. W . Hobert has long been secretary and
superintendent.
(;.\RI)XKK. Cli.irlc.> \V.. :ui.lilor ..f tlu- Min-
no.ipoli'^- ^'- '^-ni' :>'"' S^'"'' -'^'^â– - ^l-'"''^" R-ii'r"a<l.
w.-is born on Fcbni.Try i". iW'i. .it Rnslivillc, New
York. III? i^^ till- son of Iliirvty R. G.irfliicr .iiid
Maiictia (Mills) Ciirdncr. who niovoil while their
son w.is still a child to St. Paul. MinnrSot.i.
There Charles \V. spent his hoyhood and attend-
ed the pnhlic schools. .After his graduation he
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A HALF CENTURY OF MINNEAPOLIS
(â– iiA[ti.i;.s \v. (:ai:iim;i;
coninicnccd an active Inisiiicss career and alter a
few years of cunscieiitious work was appointed,
in 1886, anditor of the Minneapolis. St. Paul and
.Sanlt Stc. Marie Railroad. This po.sitiou he still
liiilcls. so he has hecn in the employ of the Soo
Line for twenty-two years. Mr. Gardner was
president of the Minneapolis Commercial Club
during 1906-7 and has been one of its most inter-
ested members since its inception. He was one
of the nriKinal jjromoters and secured the first
members for the organization. He was elected
as the lirst secretary of the cliil) and served in
that capacity without remuneration. He was
elected president of the elub in igo6. Mr. Gard-
ner was married in i.S,'<_> tu Miss Helen M. Con-
nolly of St. I'aul, and lliey have one boy, Elmer
Valentine. The family are niem])ers of the
Trinity l'apti-.t ('liurch.
LF.SLIlv. Jcdin. president of The John Leslie
Paper Company of .Minneapidis. is ;i native of
Ireland hut of Scotch descent, lli^ family is of
ancient Scottish lineaj^e, iironiinent in the his-
tory of Scotland. Mr. Leslie's father was lames
Leslie, a merchant. John was educated in the
national schools of Irel.md and was then bred to
the book, stationery and printing; business, serv-
ing an apprenticeship according to the custom of
the country. After concluding his term as appren-
tice he was connected for a time with the Duldin
branch of the largest paper manufacturing and
distributing company in Great Britian. In 1888
he came to .\merica and entered the employ of a
wholesale paper house in St. Paul. He rose
rapidly in the business and very soon was put in
charge of a branch establishment in Minneapolis
wdiere he remained as manager for three years
when he resigned to commence business on his
own account. With H. J. McAfee he organized
the lirm of Leslie & Mc.'^tee which at once took
a leading place among the paper jobbers of the
northwest. Upon the death of Mr. McAfee a
few years later, Mr. Leslie became sole proprietor
of the business which he soon afterwards incor-
porated as The John Leslie Paper Company.
.\fter two successive moves to accommodate the
i;riiwing business the company erected the mas-
sive warehouse now occupied at the corner of
Third avenue south and Fifth street. Mr. Les-
lie has taken no active part in politics except to
\ise his influence for the best things in state, na-
tional and municipal government, hut has been
\ery active in municipal affairs. In the jjublic
affairs work of the Minneapolis Commercial Club
he has been a hard worker and has served as
director. viee-i)resident. president and member
i>f the |)iildic afTairs committee, of the club. He
w ,1-. m.irried in 18S8 to Bessie May McAfee of
Minneapolis and has four-sons. The family at-
teiuN the I'owler M. 1'".. Church.
LINTON, Alonzo Herbert, for more than lifly
years identified with the development of the
Northwest, was born in Johnstown, Pennsyl-
v;inia, November 4, 18,^6. He was the son of
John Linton, a merchant and iron manufacturer.
His mother w.is .Adelaide Lacock of Virginia.
Mr. Linton wa - the third of eight children. .\t
fifteen ye.irs of age he left school to enter the
employ of Joseph and Selah Chamherl.iin of
Cleveland. i)r(jminent railroad contractors from
whom he le.irned the business which was to be
his life work, .\liout 1854 he came to Wisconsin
with Selah Chamberlain ,ind a few years later
came to Minnesota where Mr. Chamberlain had
extensive contracts. Besides having a p.irt in
these inidertakings Mr. Linton acted for ,1 time
as mana.ner of .Mr. Chamberlain's hanking inter-
ests, then returned to .Milwaukee where he ob-
tained further railroad experience and in 1860
went to (ub.-i to lake charge of the construction
of a rai!ro.-id fidui llav.ina to Pin.-ir 1 >el Kio,
.After his return to the L'nited Slates. .Mr. Lin-
ton \\:is sent t<i Minneapolis, in 186,^ to take
charge of the local ofTice of the Chamlierl;iins
and about the same time began contracting on his
own :iccount, taking the section of the .Minnesota
Central railroad from Ovvatonna to .Austin. In
187(1 Mr Linton fornu-d a partnership with the
late K. L l.angdon .'ind iluring the next twenty
years eoiistrncleil some live ihcnis.-md miles of
railroad, including the river division of the Mil
waukce, other jjortions of the same system, of
the Northwestern, Northern Pacific, Omaha, Soo
Line. Mimie.-tpolis iSj I'.-icillc. St. Patil. Minneapo-
iL^ ' c/Z^ ^o^-^
.S,<6
A HALF CliNTUKV OF MINNEAPOLIS
AI.(iN/,ll II I.INIilN
11^ iv M iinilolKi, .iiiil Cni.Mli.in r.n'ilic railro.ids.
I In y liiiill seven luiinhcil iiiiU-. of the CaiKidiaii
racilie uesi of WiiiiiipeL;. Phey also executed
contracts iii ()liio, Indiana, Illinois and other
more distant slates. I'jion Mr. I.angdon's death
ill liS'^.S. till- liusines^ was contiiuu-d l)y Mr. Lin-
Ion witli wlioni Cavonr S. l.angdon has been
associated in recent years. Mr. Linton was mar-
ried in 1(S66 to Miss (ierlrude Darra.tih of Heaver
county. Pennsylvania. Mrs. Linton was a de-
scendant of John llart, one ot llie signers of the
1 )ecIaralioii of I iide|ieiideiue. Tliey have lour
daiiKlilers. I'nr iiiaii\- years .Mr. Linton has lieeii
iilentilied wilh Si .Mark's h'.iiiseopal Church and
has taken a |iroiiiiiu-iil part in the business af
fairs of tile cily aside fnun his eNleiisive opera
lions in conlractiiiK.
X'FLSON, I'.eiijaniiii I'lanklin. for many years
closely ideiiliried with the public affairs anil
eommereial inieresis ..f .Minneapolis, was horn
ill Keiitiuk\ on .\l.i\ (. iSp^, 111- \s,is the sin
of Williiiii and i'jiiiliiie ll'iens,,ii) .\elsoii. both
of whom wire natives nf .M.aryland. The cir
inmsi.incis of the family were such th.it the
boys early took up a jjart of its support and
after brief terms nf scbo(dint; in the public
sclh'oK of Ijri'eiiiip .iiid l.rwi^ comities. .Mr. Nel-
son, .it the a'_;e of -.evellteell. had his tir-.t e\-
])erieiice ill the lumber business, ciiltiii.i^ timber
ami raftiny it down the Ohio. This work was
interrupted by the war. At nineteen he en
listed in the .Second Kentucky Cavalry and
served under the famous Confederate leaders,
( iencrals Morgan, h'orest and Wheeler. The
close of the w;ir found him .a iirisoner ;it Camp
Dou.glas. near Chicago. lie returned to Ken-
tucky but soon decided to try a more proinis-
in.g region, and in September, i.Sdq, arrived at
.\l inne.'ipobs, where his experience in liiniberin;j
ll^"l|^l|| liiiii into immediate employment. \iid
â– â– iiue that iime he has been continuously in the
Imsiiu-ss, becomin.g after a few years one of the
leading Imnliermen in the Northwest. During
the lirst year Mr. Nelson worked as a 1,-ihorer
in woods ,ind nulls and on the ri\'er. In the
second winter he took .1 contract to haul loj.;s.
a little later .a contract for the mannf.acture of
-liin.gles, .mil. in 1S7J, formed a |iartnership witii
Warren C. Stetsnn in the idaning mill business.
This led directly to lumber nianufacturing. lii
l.S.Si he formed, with W. M, Tciiney and 11. W.
.McX.iii", the lirm ol Xelson, Tenney i^ Com
|iaiiy. and next year purchased the Clarke saw
mill. .\t lirst the business was small, but it
ile\eh ipid ra|iidly with the progress of the city
.mil the iioilli west ilurin.i; the eighties, .iiid the
roiicern siioii bec.ime one of the heaviest in
.\l 111111 apiilis. II. H, h'rey soon succeeded .\lr.
McX.iir in the lirm .ind Liter W. 1". P.rooks held
,111 interest for some years. .After llu- withdraw ;il
i.f W .\l Tenney. S, ( i. Tuthill became inleiested
.and llie concern became the XcIsmii -Till hill
l.iunlier C'oinp.iny, retaining this style until a'l
it^ pine boliliiiL:s li,[d been cut o\er and its mills
were sold and it withdrew Irom in,iimlactnrin'-;
in li;o.s. |)iiriiiu ,ill this Inii',: period nt o\ er
forty years in the lumber business .Mr Xe'soii
had ;icipiireil interests in many other connected
lines and alliliated coin])anies, besides taking part
in the (Kwelopment of other clashes of manu-
facturing .and in the linancial affairs of the com
nnmily, lie is president of the f.eech Lake I uin
her ('oiii|i:iny. the Xelson S.ish & Door Com
p.aiiw llie llennepin l'a]ier CoiU|i.any, the Xel-
son I'.iper Comp.any, 1'.. h'. Xelson tv .Smis Com
]i.iiiy. the Leech Lake Land Conipin\'. .and \'ice
president of the .Spnk.ine l.iiiuber Comp.any. lie
i, ,1 ilirerlor of the .Swi'ili^li ,\ineric:m N.ational
|;,iiik of ,\l iiiiiiMpoli, .mil of the I'irsl X.ational
I'.aiik of W.ilker. .\l iiiiiesi .1,1. and trustee of the
Swedish Savings |',:iiik of Minneapolis Me is
.also Largely interested in miner.il lands in north
em Minnesiita
.Xot witli^landiiig the exteiil of his business ill
leresi-, .Mr. Xelsnii has .also fnimd lime for pub
lie seiwice. when il was .asked of him. .mil ha-
l.aken .a Large p.irl in ibe phikint li ropic, eiluca
lioiial and reli.L;ionâ– ^ work of the city. lie served
111 the cily council fnun i.'^^i) to iScS5 and was
(iiie i,f the Inst liiiaiil of p,irk commissioners,
taking a pn .miiieiit p.iil 111 l,i\iiii; the founda-
liiin>, nf the ,\l iiiiicipolis p,iik system, ,\ most
valuable s.ivice to the city was that on the
school bo.nd from 1SS4 lo oSiji- a time during
enuSn, PHOTO
(J3 ^L/Ui^Z^f^
538
A HALF CENTURY OF MINNEAPOLIS
which the unparallelled growth of the school
population made heavy demands upon the abil-
ities of the members of the board. A prominent
Methodist he was long ago called to take part
in the aflfairs of Hamline university and is a
trustee and vice-president at the present tiiiir
His experience in educational affairs and lii -
recognized Inisiness ability led to his appoint
nient to the board of regents of the state
university in 1905, and since then he has served
the state with conspicuous success in this capac-
ity. Elected vice-president of the Minnesota
State Agricultural society in 1902 he became at
(Mice one of the most valued of the members of
the board and in 1907 was made president and
was elected again in 1908. In this position ho
has large responsibilities in connection with
.Minnesota's very successful state fair. I'^r :i
number of years he served on the board nf man
agers of the Minnesota state prison.
In the semi-official work of the organization-
of business men for the promotion of the pub-
lic good. Mr. Nelson has taken a most active
and efficient iiart. He was for many year - a
member of the old Board of Trade and its
president in 1890-91. He was one of the directors,
and treasurer, of the Business Men's Lhiion in
1890. Upon the incorporation of the Minne
apolis Exposition in 1885 he was named one of
the directors and continued prominent in the af-
fairs of the institution, taking heavy financial
responsibilities and incurring subsequent losses
for which he never received compensation. In
1904 he became a director of the Minneapolis
Commercial Clul) and at tlie same time was ap-
I>ointod chairman nf the ]iublic affairs committee
and during two years in this position acdmi-
ii^luil notable commercial development work. In
M)07 Ik- was elected president of the club and is
iK.u in that office. He i> also connected with
many otlier organizations including the .Minne-
apolis, Lafayette and .Minikahda Clubs, the Min-
nesota State Historical Society and the Masonic
order— a member of the ,?Jnd degree and a Shrill-
er and Knight Templar. Mr. Nelson was mar-
ried in 1869 to .Martha Ross who died in 1874,
leaving two scnis, William Edwin and (iuy H.
He was again married in 1875 to .Mary 1-redcn-
biirg of Nortbfield. Minnesota. Tliey have one
daughter, Bessie E. Mr. Nelson's sons are as-
sociated with biin in many of liis business inter-
ests. .'Xlthoiigli a lifelong democrat Mr. Nelson
has never held an office by partisan election, his
selection for service being principally by appoint-
ment and in recognition of particular fitness
rather than for i)olitical considerations, lie has
frequently been requested to stand for high po-
litical positions but has never consented tn l)c-
conie a candidate.
NYE, Wallace G., was born at Hortonville,
Wisconsin, October 7, 1859, the son of Freeman
James and Hannah Pickett Nye. His father was
a soldier of the Union army in the Civil War
and traces descent from Benjamin Nye, who
w .M.i,.\ri;
came from luiglaiid in 16.35 on tlie sliip ".-Mngail"
and settled at Sandwich, Massachusetts. The
Nyes shared the storm and stress of the colonial
wars, the war for independence, the second war
with Great Britain in 1812, and the Mexican war.
The son, Wallace G., after his boyhood spent on
the paternal farm, and gathering initial knowl-
edge at the district school, showed his apprecia-
tion of the virtue of self-help by teaching school
wdien sixteen years old, and, with the iiroeeeds.
.-itleiided the )i(>rnial school at Oshkosb. Wiscon-
sin, al intir\als teaching to secure funds. He
learni'd tlie retail drug business in Chicago ami
came to .Minneapolis in September. 1881, iqien-
iiig a drug store in Norlli Minneapolis and oper-
ating it nnlil 189,5. .\n active member of the
republican party, he served on the campaign
committee in 1888 and was chairman of the city
committee in 1898, In 1892 he was elected city
comptroller and was twice re-elected to that im-
portant oMlce. He was elected secretary of the park
board in 1889, served four years, and was elected
a member of that board to fill a vacancy in 1894
serving for three years. Mr. Nye is a member
of the board of court house and city hall com-
missioners to which he was elected in 1904. Mr.
Nye has given notably effective service as com-
missioner of the public affairs committee of the
Commercial Club, a position which he still re-
tains. This organization is recognized as a
SUNDRY ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES.
539
where he has made a specialty in his practice of
the hiw of patents and trademarks, lie is the
iiuthor of a work on the law of trademarks,
wliich was puhlished in 1903. Mr. Paul is a
member of the Minneapolis Commercial Cluh, of
which he was president for two years.
PHELPS, Edmund Joseph, since 1878 one of
the progressive and successful citizens of Min-
neapolis, was born in Ohio, at the town of
Brecksville, Cuyahoga county. His ancestors
were English, the family being descended from
William Phelps, w-ho came from Tewsbury, Eng-
land, to America and settled at Dorchester, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1630, later moving to Windsor,
Connecticut. Joseph Edmund I'help.s. father of
Edmund J., emigrated from Massachusetts to
Ohio, as did Ursula (Wright) Phelps, and located
on a farm, where their son was born on Jan-
uary 17, i>^-l5. He grew up at the place of his
l>irth, and began his education in the public
schooLs of Brecksville, and later entered the
preparatory department of the Baldwin Univer-
sity at P>erea, Ohio, and continued his educa-
tion with two or three terms in Oberlin College.
When about eighteen he left college for a time
to teach school, and then prepared for an active
business life by taking a course in the business
BRUSH, PHOTO
.\M.\S.\ C. I'.U. L
w^ideavvake promoter of the commercial and
other substantial interests of Minneapolis, and
Mr. Nye is closely identitied with its progressive
spirit. He is a member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows; A. F. & A. M.; A. O. U. W.,
and B. P. O. E. He is a 3^d degree Mason. To
the I. O. O. F., he has given most active fraternal
work. He was grand master of the Grand Lodge
in 1890 and grand patriarch of the Grand En-
campment in 1893 and representative to the Sov-
ereign Grand Lodge for ten years. Mr. Nye is
not a member of any church organization. He
was married in 1881 to Etta Rudd at New Lon-
don, Wisconsin, and to them have been born two
children— Marshall A. and George M. Nye. both
of whom are engaged in Inisiness in the city.
PAUL, Amasa C, a leading specialist in law
in Minneapolis, was born in Wakefield, New
Hampshire, September IJ, 1857. .\fter two years'
attendance at Dartmouth College he taught in
the Franklin school at Washington, D. C, from
February, 1877, to January I, l88r. when he was
appointed .^ssistant Examiner in the United
States Patent Office. He attended the law school
of the National University and that of the Co-
lumbian University, graduating from the former
in 1880 and from the post graduate course of the
latter in 1882. He was admitted to the bar in
1880. In 1884 Mr. Paul came to Minneapolis
ED.MINU J. IMIKI.I-S
540
A HALF CENTURY OF MINNEAPOLIS
college at Obcrlin, Ohio. An appointment as
instructor in the Northwestern Business Col-
lege of Aurora, Illinois, was offered him, which
he accepted, retaining it for about two years.
He then entered the banking business with the
lirm of Valentine & Williams, at Aurora, and
there gained his first practical experience in
banking. In 1870 Mr. Pliclps resigned his po-
>ition with the bank to organize the tirm of E.
J. Phelps & Co. and engage in the furniture
business. In 1878 he moved to Minneaoplis,
having disposed of his business interests in
.\urora, and has since that year been continu-
ously in business in this city, and has taken an
energetic part in its dcvelnpment and progress.
.\fter locating here Mr. I'lielps purchased the
furniture business of J. B. Hanson, later forming
a partnership with J. S. Bradstreet as Phelps &
I'.radstreet, and commenced to manufacture and
trade in artistic furniture and house furnishings,
and when, in 1883. Mr. Phelps withdrew from the
firm and retired from the furniture business, the
company's trade extended through the whole
Northwest. He then directed his energies, in
company with E. A. Merrill, to the organization
of the Minnesota Loan & Trust Company, cap-
italized at $200,000, at the time the business was
founded, the capital stock later being raised to
a much larger amount. Mr. Phelps retained his
interest in the corporation for several years, and
line of the foremost financial institutions of the
city was built up. After a decade of active finan-
cial business Mr. Phelps withdrew from the
loan and trust company to engage in the grain
business. He became associated with the Peavy
interests, and for a number of years has been
the president of the Belt Line Elevator Company.
Though these have been the principal enterprises
with which Mr. Phelps has been connected, his
other business interests have been large and
varied. He has been a director of the Minne-
apolis Threshing Machine Company, of tlie
Bnivvn & Haywood Company (now merged in
the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company), of the
.Vorthwestern Elevator Company, and of the Na
tional Bank of Commerce, and has long been
an officer of the Moore Carving Machine Com-
pany and is its president at the present time.
Notwithstanding his commercial activities. Mr.
Phelps' part in the public life of Minneapolis has
been an active one, and for years he has been
a member of the prominent commercial organiza-
tions. He became a member of tin- Bo.nil ..i
Trade in 1879, and was its president in 1884 ,niil
1885, and was one of the promoters nf the .Miii
neapolis Business Union. Among llu- public
services liave been llic suggestion nf the gre.it
harvest festival held in Minneapolis in 1891; the
supervising as one nf the commissioners of the