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Nicholas Mauren was born June 25th, 1842, in Prussia. le came with his parents to America and located at Chicago, Illinois, where be re- mained nine years. In October, 1861, he came to Minnesota and the year following enlisted in Company I, Sixth Minnesota Volunteers. He was promoted to corporal and served three years,
being discharged with the regiment in August, 1865. On his return he located in Minneapolis, and has since resided here, engaged in the manu- facture of barrels, and is the business manager of the East Side Co-operative Barrel Company. In October, 1871, he married Anna Thielen. They are the parents of five children.
E. M. May, a native of New York, was born February 25th, 1829. in Madison county. When comparatively young, he learned the confection- ery business at Troy, New York, and has fol- lowed it ever since. In 1874 he came to Minne- apolis and has become very popular here as a confectioner and caterer. His marriage with Lydia Smith took place in 1851. at Oxford, Che- mango eounty, New York. Their family consists of two sons and one daughter.
J. B. Maynard was born in Montreal, Canada, January 19th, 1845. Ile learned milling at home and in 1869 moved to Rochester, New York, and worked at his trade there five years. After a residence of two years in Illinois, he returned to Rochester, thenee to Toronto, Canada, and in January, 1879, came to Minneapolis. Since June, 1880, he has had charge of the North Star mill. HIis wife was Ilarriet Grieve, whom he married in 1875. She has borne him two children.
S. MeAninch was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 6th, 1846. He accompanied his parents to Valparaiso, Indiana, in 1855. In 1861 he enlisted and served three years in the war of the rebellion, participating in the battles of Nash- ville, Altoona, Atlanta, Datton and many others. After leaving the army he lived in Indiana five years, then went to Michigan and was employed in a barrel factory there three years. In 1873 he came to this city and was in a planing mill, and worked for Bisbee and Moses untit 1877, since which time he has been running stationary en- gines for different parties. He married Ida IIun- ter in 1870. Their children are: Harry and Orvil.
William Mc Ardle was born in Ottawa, Canada, October 5th, 1848. He moved to the state of New York in 1865, and lived there two years. In 1867 he spent a short time in Kansas in the cattle herding business. Ile came to Minneapolis and engaged in lumbering until May. 1880, since then has been in the saloon business with Mr. Walker. July 28th, 1879, he married Miss Kate Rice, who has borne him one child, Susan Kate.
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Joseph MeCartin. a native of Lonsdale, Rhode Island, was born November 26th. 1857. When a boy, he came with his parents to Minneapolis. and since 1866 has been in the Union mill. with the exception of two years that he was employed in the North Star woolen mills.
Rev. Thomas MeClary. pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Canada in 1811. Ile was licensed to preach in 1859, and appointed to Eureka in 1860, on a salary of fifty dollars: to Glencoe one year, having a revival and making many additions to the church. At Shelbyville one year. St. Peter and Cleveland one year, at Morristown for two years. then to Anoka for three years. Red Wing two years. Then to the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal Church for three years, during which time the member- ship was increased from about sixty to three hundred. During that time, organized the Wash- ington Avenue Methodist Church, which is now in a flourishing condition. Organized and built a mission chapel on the corner of Cataract and Third streets. also organized and built a mission chapel on the corner of Eighteenth Avenue south and Twenty-second street. From the Seventh street church he was transferred to the upper Iowa conference as pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church at Davenport. Then trans- ferred back to Minnesota and stationed at Man- kato for three years, paying in that time fifteen hundred dollars of the floating debt, and adding by conversion. some two hundred members to the church. Commenced about that time a course of temporanee and literary lectures. Among his popular ones are: "Diana of the Ephesians." "Henry Wilson." "Struggle for a Home," "Joan of Are." and "Sunshine in Labor." Among the many incidents of his eventful life we cannot re- frain from mentioning the following: Weary of traveling on foot over his large circuit. he bought a horse for thirty-seven dollars, paying ten dollars down, then a harness had to be improvised : some scraps of leather were obtained and with low strings for buckles and using an old piece of the britching of an old harness for a breast plate and a bod cord for rems and a jumper for a sleigh. with a white hat on his head and a pair of green goggles on his rose, our here in the cause of Methodism started, carrying with him in his primitive rig at times, all there wasof Methodism.
At another time, the ladies made out of an old three cornered blanket, a coat for him. with the broad stripe around the bottom. When at an- other place a broken merchant gave him a eut- away coat with the sleeves much too short for him. which he wore for a while and then traded with a Pennsylvania farmer for a capacious shad- bellied one, which was afterwards ent up and made into a vest for him. At another place he received for a year's preaching one hundred ears of corn and two chickens, and had to catch them himself and carried them six miles on horseback to get them cooked. At one collection on a very important occasion. after the contents of the con- tribution box had been carefully examined and finding only a few pennies and a button or two in it. he with much gravity of manner told them it was not worth a benediction. and dismissed the congregation without it. Married Miss Lizzie Fowble of Ohio. They have four children: Clar- ence ( .. Clara II., Ella Zue (the elocutionist ), and Corrine.
S. J. MeCarty was born in Ireland, April 7th. 1841. He came to America with his parents in 1817, and located at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of seventeen, he commenced learning the machinist's trade, and in 1857, moved to Meeker county. Minnesota, but in about three years he returned to Pittsburgh and worked at his trade until 1862, when he came to Minnesota and taught school in Mecker county. In the spring of 1869, he came to this city and was employed four months in the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad shops, then worked six years as foreman of the North Star Iron Works, and for over two years was O. A. Pray's foreman. Since June, Isso, he has been working at mill machinery, forging and general blacksmithing. He was mar- ried in 1855 to Lizzie Campbell. who died in 1878, leaving four children.
A. S. MeCulloch was born in 1836. in Cumber- land county. Pennsylvania. Until twenty-five years of age. he lived on a farm. then engaged in mercantile Imsiness six years, and was for a time, treasmer and collector for the Harrisburg and Potomac Railroad Company. He came to Min- neapolis in 1874, formed a partnership with D. M. Gilmore, and engaged in the manufacture of furniture. Their factory is located in South Min- neapolis.
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M. McCune, a native of Ohio, was born in 1837. He moved to Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854, and work- ed at farming twenty years; he then went to Aus- tin, Minnesota, and resided until October, 1880, when he came to this city, and started in the res- taurant and lodging-house business at 18 Washı- ington Avenue north.
Ernest McDonald was born December 14th, 1848, in Maine. He came west when a child and located at Brooklyn, in 1853. He removed to Minneapolis in 1859; was in the grocery business and working in the pineries until 1875, when he opened a restaurant on Nicollet Avenue; he re- mained there about three years, then moved to his present location, Boston Oyster House No. 200 Hennepin Avenue. Ilis wife was Annie Lewis. Their children are Nellie and Minnie.
Francis S. McDonald was born June 10th, 1835, in Cumberland county, Maine. At the age of seventeen he went to Saccarappa, and worked in a cotton factory through the summer, and in the fall removed to Lewiston, where he was employed in the same way. After spending one year in Massachusetts, he came to Minnesota. Served one term as county commissioner of Wright county. and was assessor of Otsego. In 1861 he enlisted as private in the Third Minnesota Vol- unteers, and was promoted to orderly sergeant. Ife had command of his company in the Indian campaign, and was commissioned second lieuten- ant. He re-enlisted in Hatch's Battalion, and was detailed as cleik in the draft rendezvous at Fort Snelling untit 1865, when he was mustered out. In 1866 he was appointed postmaster, which office he held about five years, when he resigned. In IS68 he come to this city, and was employed by different parties until 1874, when he was ap- pointed deputy and afterwards elected, county auditor. He was married in 1857, to Elizabeth Spencer. Their children are: Mary, Frank, Charles, and Nellie.
James MeDaniel was born in Madison county, New York, December 1st, 1847. Ile went to Manlius, Onondaga county, in 1864, to learn the milling business, and worked there fourteen months. Ile then returned to Madison county for one and one-half years. and after residing in Oneida county about a year, he went to Cazenovia. His next move was to Dexter, Michigan, where he remained two years, and in March, 1874, came
to this city. He worked several years in the A and B mills, and now ocenpies the position of head miller in the C. In 1878 he married Fannie Robie, who has borne him one child. Albert.
John MeDonald was born November 2d, 1830. in Maine. In 1847 he went on a whaling expedi- tion. After two years experience he gave up this business, and sailed for San Francisco. They were totally wrecked on the coast of Panama, but were picked up by another vessel and continued their journey. Ile traveled about from Califor- nia to the Sandwich Islands, China, Cape Horn, and Columbia, until 1850, when he went to Bos- ton, thence to Mobile, and in 1852 he came to Minnesota and made a claim of 160 acres in Wright county, which he sold two years later, and came here. In 1861 he enlisted, and since being honorably discharged has divided his time between running as pilot on the upper Mississippi and lumbering. Ile married Mary J. Wood, in 1862. Of their three children but one is living, Addie C.
John W. McDonald, born January 17th, 1842, in Canada. Ile worked at milling there five years, and in 1866 moved to Faribault, Minne- sota, continning in the same business. lle then spent two years at Clinton Falls, nine months at Mantorville. one year at Northfield, and in 1871 came here. Ile was employed at the Washburn B, the Zenith, the Palisade and the JIumboldt mills until the explosion. since which time he has been at the Pettit. Ilis marriage with Mrs. Sarah Coburn took place in January, 1871. Their children are: Agnes and Irving.
P. McDonald, a native of Canada, was born April 4th, 1848. Ile went to Maine in 1864, and remained six months, then followed lumbering eiglit years in Michigan, and was two years in Wisconsin, engaged in the saloon and lumber business. In 1877 he came to this city, continu- ing in the lumbering business until he opened his sample room on Hennepin Avenue.
Father James MeGolrick. the subject of this sketch, is a native of Tipperary, Ireland, where he received a thorough theological education in All Hallow's College, Dublin. Upon the com- pletion of his studies in 1867, he came to America, remaining one year in St. Paul, where he was engaged as assistant priest at the Cathedral. In 1868 he came to Minneapolis, and soon there-
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after secured the grounds on which his house is Jorated: first erected a small frame building in which services were held until his new church the first Catholic church on the West Side. was Imilt and dedicated. He has been foremost in every good work connected with his society, and is universally esteemed by the citizens of Min- neapolis, irrespective of sectarian association or religious views.
S. N. MeGaughey was born in 1827. at Mount Carmel. Indiana. In 1547 he went to Decatur county, and was in the saw-mill business nine years: then moved to Minnesota and worked at farming six or seven years. Ile then passed some months at Red Wing. dealing in wheat, and in 1863 came to this city. For a while he was employed in manufacturing pumps; afterward spent two years with the North Star Iron Works. and one year in the fence works. Since 1875 he has been in the Union Planing Mill. In Isi8 he married Isabella Wynn. Their children are Vi- ola. Margarette and Cora.
William MeGregor was born in Montreal. Can- ada. March 6th. 1:52. After receiving a liberal education in his native place. he embarked in the grocery business in 175 and continued it until coming to Minneapolis in 1879, when for one year he was in the oil business. In 1850 he bought an interest in the meat market of Sallada and Company, 727 Washington Avenue south.
A. G. Mckenzie, born November 11th, 1821, in Beaver county. Pennsylvania. From 1810 until 1550, he acted as pilot of a steamboat on the Ohjo river, and then came to St. Anthony and was in the omploy of Benson and Patterson in the stage line. He was in a hotel near Fort snelling about two years; then returned and opened a restaurant in St. Anthony. In 1663 he went Fast. It came here again in 1865, and went into the suffer's department at Font Spelling. He passed eighteen months at the Black Hills, and traveled from 1571 until 150, when he opened a restaurant at 113 Central Avenue. His wife was Joanna Chostmas; their marriage took place i Anne. 1502. Three children have been born to 1lem: Don Carlos, Isaac and Harry.
8. 11. MeLaskey, a native of New Brunswick, was kom in 181. He hved two years in lowa. and m 1872 removed to Minneapolis. He was in the lon.bering business three years, and for the
past five years has been connected with the mills of this city. July 18th. 1865. Mr. MeLaskey married JJosephine Kildea. They have had five children: Henry, Frank. Willie, Cora and Ernest.
Prter MeKernan was born in Ireland. Decem- ber, 1833. He came to America in 1848, and re- ceived his education in New York .. In 1857 he came to Minneapolis and worked at farming until 1861. when he enlisted in Hatch's battalion and served until honorably discharged in 1865. He returned to this city, and from 1872 acted as street commissioner, until he entered the police force. in which he serves as patrol. In February, 1557, he married Ellen Rochford. They have had five children. Ellen, Margaret, Ferrel, Peter and Mary. Only Mary survives.
James McMillan, a native of Maine, was born October 24th. 1856. in Oxford county. In 1872 he came to Minneapolis and was employed in the North Star woolen mill, in the wool and sheep- skin department, until 1876. when. with a part- ner. he started in his present business. They are at 109 First Avenue south, and deal in hides, , wool. tallow. ole.
James McMullen was born July 21st, 1821. af Reading, Pennsylvania. When ten years of age he went as cabin boy on the bark White Oak. Hle followed the sea, on various vessels, until 1849, visiting all parts of the world, and the last three years being captain of vessels in the West India trade. On leaving the water, in 1849, he moved to St. Anthony, with his family. He worked several years at carpentering, and then went into the general merchandise business, with 11. Morrison, at Pine Bend. He Imilt a shingle mill on the St. Anthony Water Power Company's dam. In 1878 it was moved and his present saw- mill erected. Mr. MeMullen was several years a member of the St. Anthony city council. In 1819 he married Charlotte MeKnight, who has borne him three children: the living are Albert and Willie.
Albert E. MeMullen was born June 30, 1851, in Minneapolis.and was one of the first white children born in this city. He attended the public schools and University, and assisted his father, who was a contractor, until twenty years old, when he en- gaged as book-keeper and teller in the Exchange and Savings Bank. He occupied the same posi- tions and that of cashier, in different banks until
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1879, since then he has given his whole attention to the lumber mill in which he is a partner ; he is also one of the firm of Wilcox and Co., who own a general store at Big Stone Lake. In 1878 he married Minnie Wilcox ; she has borne him one son.
George MeMullen was born in March, 1819, at Ottawa. Canada. Ile learned the trade of con- tractor from his father. In 1857, he left his na- tive city, came to Minneapolis and has since fol- lowed his trade here. As an evidence of his popularity and worth, we mention some of the leading buildings of the city which he erected. In 1860 he built Harrison's block, the oldest cut stone building here; Mendenhall's bank, resid- ence and green house; T. A. Harrison's house ; the Centenary Methodist Church; St. Mark's Episcopal Church; the Athenæum ; City Hall ; Church of the Immaculate Conception ; Wash- burn A and C mill, two stone elevators belonging to the Washburn mills, the dam wall for Wash- burn and Company, foundation for the Millers, Association elevator, and Taylor's mill ; also the anchors for the suspension bridge and finished the towers ; he built the stone arch bridge ; North Star Iron Works; the Pillsbury A mill ; and is now at work on the James Hill canal.
R. S. MeMurdy, M. D., was born July, 1824, at Albany, New York. He received his education there, and graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1846; for several years he was city physician of that place. 1le practiced for a time in Ohio, and since the spring of 1873 has been in Minneapolis. Dr. MeMurdy married in 1847. Ilis wife died, leaving one child, Robert C. Ilis second wife was Mary Pease. whom he married in 1873. They have two children.
W. W. MeNair, of the law firm Loehren Me- Nair and Gilfillan, was born in 1836, in New York. In 1854. he went to Wisconsin, and March, 1857, removed to this city. Soon after his arrival in Minneapolis, he was admitted to practice in the United States territorial court. He has re- peatedly been nominated by his party, but has never held office, with the exception of being county attorney in 1861-2, mayor of St. An- thony two years, and several times a member of school boards. In 1862, he married Louise, sister of llon. E. M. Wilson. of this city. They are the parents of two children.
W. D. MeNiece, a native of Vermont, was born October 3d, 1845, in Orange county. In 1861, he went to New York city, remained eight years. Ile was four years in the drug trade in St. Lawrence county, and then returned to New York city, where he resided until 1878, when he came to Minneapolis and became a partner of Mr. Bohan, in the boot and shoe business, 104 Central Avenne.
William Mcveigh, a native of Ottawa City. Ontario, Canada, was born June 5th, 1839. IIe came to Minneapolis in 1872, and was in the car- pet and dry goods business with McConnell and Company, six years. In August, 1880. he became a partner of Mr. Kenyon in an extensive whole- sale and retail carpet business.
Daniel MeWaters was born in Muirkirk, Ayre- shire, Scotland. 1le came to America in 1866. and to Minneapolis in 1875. He engaged with the North-western foundry as foreman, and re- mained with the company until the spring of 1880, when he formed a partnership with R. Peet in an establishment known as the Minneapolis Brass Works. January, 1875. he married Sarah Pan]. They are the parents of two children:
J. O. F. Meagher was born in 1852, at St. Paul. Ile went to Troy, New York, and learned the laundry and dyeing business. Ile returned to Minnesota and in 1879 bought the place where he is now in business, No. 26 Second street north. The works are run by steam, and it is in every way a first-class institution.
George H. Mead was born at Waukegan, 1lli- nois, in 1847. Ile became a resident of Minneap- olis in the fall of 1865. IIe was in the omnibus company twelve years, then formed a partnership with Mr. Robinson. They are now proprietors of a livery, boarding and sale stable at 220 Third street sonth.
Henry Melstroh was born in 1833, in Germany. IIe came to the United States in 1864, locating in Carver county, Minnesota, and worked one year at tailoring. In 1865 he came to this city, and the next year went to Stillwater, where he resided until 1873, when he returned to Minne- apolis. In 1876 he removed to his present loca- tion in the American House, No. 800, Marshall street. East Division. January, 1869, he mar- ried Rachel Macks. They have three children; the living are: Joseph and Katie.
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R. J. Mendenhall, loan agent. was born in Guilford county. North Carolina. November 25th. 1528. Ile attended school a few years in New England. then went to Ohio. and in 1853 re- turned to North Carolina. The next year he went to New York. and in 1855 to lowa as civil engineer: the year following he came to this city. and has since been in business here. On his arrival in Minneapolis he could not find a dray to hanl his trunk and was obliged to get a wheel- barrow. Mr. Mendenhall was married February 11th. 1858, to Abby Swift, of Massachusetts. They have no children.
J. C. Menor. born December 21th, 1847, in Ashland county. Ohio, He learned the mill- ing business in his native town. and came to this city in 1573; he remained only about three months, and went to Red Wing. where he was employed as second miller. He returned to Min- neapolis in June. 1574. and was with E. V. White two years. lle then went to Lanesboro. and remained until July, Isis, when he returned and fitted up the Standard mill, where he has since occupied the position of head miller.
Gregor Menzel was born in Bielendorf. in the province of Silesia, Prussia, August 21st. 1826. For his family record. see volume eleven. page 397, of American Cyclopedia. His father died Ixfore Gregor's birth. but his last request was that if his offspring was a boy, and lived. he should learn a trade. When five years of age he nearly lost his life in a flood. which swept away their little home and nearly all the property his mother possessed. When ten years old he went on foot across the mountains to Friedeberg, Austria, to live with an uncle, and fulfill his fa- ther's last wish. In July, 1812, having learned the blacksmith's trade, he returned on foot to Prussia, and went to work in a large machine shop. near Glatz, to learn the machinist's trade. After this he considered it necessary to travel and work in different places, in order to perfect him- self as a mechanic. He walked to Breslau, Frankfort. Berlin, Hamburg, and Bremen, being employed in different shops. While working near the latter place. he became acquainted with Henrietta D. Roesner, whom he married. Soon after. they started for this country, stopped A short time in London, and arrived at New York April 7th, 1517. He at once commenced work
with James Bogardus, the celebrated inventor (see volume two, page 780. American Cyclopedia) and worked for him until August. 1850. when he removed to Milwaukee. Ile was given the posi- tion of foreman in the machinery department of the Menominee Locomotive Manufacturing Com- pany. and held the situation until December Ist, 1854. when he went into partnership with L. Kenck, and under the name of Menzel and Keuck, carried on steam engine building. In 1855. M. and M. Stone bought Mr. Keuck's interest. and the new firm name was Meuzel. Stone and Com- pany. They were also extensively engaged in manufacturing threshing machines, and in 1855, made the first threshing engine used in the west. The following year he took an active part in poli- ties. helped organize the Republican party, and was the presidential elector from the first district of Wisconsin, and cast his vote for John C. Fre- mont and Dayton, in the electoral college. On the first of February, 1857, Messrs. Cummings and Goodrich bought the Stone interest. The shop was moved and enlarged, and carried on un- der the name of Menzel, Cummings and Good- rich. The same year the first elevator was built in Milwaukee. by Angus Smith and Company. For this he manufactured the engine. boiler, and all the other machinery and iron work. Ile also made the first mash machine driven by power in that city. for V. Blatz's brewery. After years of prosperity, came reverses. The financial crisis of 1857, which swept the whole country, relieved him of all his hard earnings. He then devoted his time to inventions. He obtained a patent on a steam boiler, April 5th, 1859 (see Patent Office Report of 1859, and for ent see Scientific Ameri- can of October Ist, 1859), and also on a fire and burglar-proof safe, April 21th, 1860 (see Patent Office Report of 1860). One of his large safes was bought by J. Dean and Company of this city, in 1866. In the spring of 1860, he took an eight- stamp steam quartz-mill to Colorado, put it in operation, and returned with the intention of building another quartz-mill to work the elaims he secured in Colorado; but the rebellion broke out, and his plans were frustrated. In the fall of 1861, he took charge of the elevator and engines for Angus Smith and Company, and remained with them until June 11th, 1864, when he accepted ed the position of superintendent of the Bay Stato
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