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Ernest and Bernard Bachuer, twin brothers, were born in Prussia, February Ist, 1841. They learned the gunsmith trade in their native conn- try, and in 1865, came to America, landing at Baltimore. Ernest secured a position in a gim manufactory at Washington, D. C., and Bernard came west, securing a position at EauClaire, Wis- consin. They remained in their respective places about a year, and then met by appointment at Minneapolis; since then they have been identi- lied with the interests of this city. For deserip- I tion of business, see other portions of this work.
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ยง. Harlan Baker, civil engineer, office In Cen- tral Avenue, was born fifty miles west of Phila- delphia. Pennsylvania. May 30th. 1846. He fol- lowed farming at home till 1565. when he entered the State Normal school, at Millersville. Pen- sylvania, and graduated in the fall of 1567. after which he lay siek for two years. In 1869 came west for his health and located in Minneapolis. In the spring of 1570, went railroad surveying under Colonel Clongh. remained a short time and engaged on Government survey on the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. where he remained until the spring of IS22. when he opened his present office. In 1576 was elected county surveyor, and served two terms. Mar- ried in Minneapolis. November. 1875, to Miss Laura Mixer. They have one child, Jessie .
George Bagley, a native of London, England. was born March 17th. 1550. At the age of two. he moved with parents to Kingston. Canada. and settled on a farm. When seventeen. he began an apprenticeship at the confectioners trade in London. Canada, and served three years. In 1-72 he removed to Chicago where he worked at his trade until 1575. when he came to this city, established a candy manufactory, and has since remained in that business. now located at 316 Nicollet Avenue. He married Mary Burge of Chicago. December 25th. 1571. They have one child. Ettie lola.
Miner Ball was born December 15th. JS38. at Berne. Albany county. New York. Remained on farm until the age of sixteen : came to Min- Desota in 1-57, and lived at Caledonia one year, thener to St. Paul, and in 1550 engaged in mer- cantile business at Rockford. Wright county, be_ ing the only trader there. In 1861 soll ont and came to Mineapolis and bought a photograph gallery of Charles Robinson. and conducted it un- til the following spring, when he sold out and moved to Lake city and opened the ginseng trade. In 1-63. moved to Menomonee, Dann county. Wisconsin, and run a livery stable, store and faim for three years. Then returned 10 Box Mford, and wood into trade. Built a saw mill opposite Greenwood and nim it two years : it burned and he moved to Delano and built the Delano Flour and Saw Mills: remained there in- ul 170, and was formed in building up the town. Came to Minneapolis in November, 1879.
and entered into real estate and commission business. In 1880, sold his Delano property and in the fall opened a real estate office in the Clark House. Was married February 18th. 1862. to Miss Kate P. Powers. of Greenwood. Their children are Willie F., Robert Leslie. Ruth A., Frank P .. and Firman G. Mrs. Ball died De- cember 17th, 1875, and Mr. Ball married for his second wife Mrs. Sallie W. Jackson, of Pennsyl- vania, Inly 16th, 1879. She had one daughter, Viola Jackson.
Daniel R. Barber was born at Benson, Ver- mont. in 1818, lived with his father on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age. when he embarked in mercantile life, which he followed for thirteen years, twelve of which he was post- master. In 1856 he closed his business in Ben- son, and came West, locating at the then small town of St. Anthony Falls. For several years his business was dealing in real estate and loaning money, large sums of which were intrusted to him by Eastern parties, and on which he never met with a loss. le assessed the town and city foreleven years, and was once census enumerator. In 1872 he bought the Cataract Mill (described elsewhere in this work), which he has operated successfully since. Mr. Barber was married in February, 1545, at Orwell, Vermont, to Miss El- len L. Bottum, with whom he has since lived. The fruits of this union are: Julia B., born in May, 1846, and Edwin R .. born in November, 1852. In August, 1865. Miss Julia was married to J. Wells Gardner, of this city, who died in San Francisco, California. in 1876, Edwin R. married Miss Hattie E. Sidle, a daughter of H. G. Sidle. banker, in October, 1873. They are now living at 11 South Seventh street. Both Edwin and Mrs. Gardner are partners with their father in the mill. After the death of Mr. Gard- Her. Mr. and Mrs. Barber left the home they had Imilt up and occupied for twenty-one years, cor- ner Fourth street and Second Avenue south, and now live with their daughter at Second Avenue south between Fourth and Fifth streets.
Ed. (. Barber was born in Franklin county, Illinois, June Ist, IsJ9, and was brought up in his native state, and worked four years in the post-office at Cairo ; also engaged as mail agent on mail train for eight years. After some time spent in various other pursuits, he came to Min-
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neapolis in July, 1880. and started a meat-market at 1224 Western Avenue. Married in 1871. Pres- ent family, wife and one boy.
Charles S. Bardwell was born in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, November 19th, 1836. Lived with his parents on the farm until the age of eighteen, when he came to St. Paul, Minneso- ta, and at once went to work in a sash factory, remaining but a few months ; then went to Ex- celsior, and engaged in carpentering until 1863. Enlisted the following fall in the Second Minne- sota Cavalry, serving two years and one month. Was on the frontier among the Indians, near the Bad Lands. and engaged in mimerons conflicts with the red-skins. Was discharged in the fall of 1865, and returned to Minneapolis and engaged as foreman with J. Copeland and Company, in the sash, door and blind business. Remained with them six years. In the fall of 1872, went into business with L. C. Bisbee. Sold out in 1875, and moved to his present location. Married Miss Eliza Green, in 1858, who died May 8th, 1864. Mr. Bardwell bas one son, who is now in the senior year at the university. In 1867 he was married again, to Miss Nettie Jenks, who died in 1872. They had one child, Lamont J.
D. H. Barker was born in Cumberland county, Maine, March Ist, 1844. In 1862 he located in Pennsylvania, and engaged in the lumber busi- ness. Came to Minneapolis in 1865, and followed lumbering seven years. Started a meat market and route in 1872, on Central Avenue, E. D., where he continued until he was burned out, in January, 1879. Next opened at his present loea- tion, where he is doing a growing business in meats, salt and fresh, canned goods, fish and oys- ters, at No. 717 Washington Avenue south. Mar- ried in 1870, to Miss Katie Lammer. They have three children : Nettie, Gracie, and Edna.
S. Barker. born in Ripley county, Indiana, An- gust 16th, 1844. Came to this city in 1866, and worked four years in a saw-mill. as millwright, and has assisted in building nearly all the mills in the city, and hasalso worked at repairing. For the past three and a half years, has been with Pillsbury exclusively. as a mill-wright. Married Rachel Jerman. November 17th, 1868. They have three children : Warren E., William E .. and Mary.
Jacob Barge, is a native of Germany, born in
1839. Established business in Minneapolis in 1863. First year's business was two thousand dollars. In 1880 it amounted to thirty thousand dollars. Mr. Barge is at present one of the alder- men of the city. Married Miss Louisa Gessart. They have two children: Louisa and Emma.
Thomas G. Barnard, of the furniture mannfac- turing firm of Barnard and Cope, was born in 1826, at Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Island. Remained there until the age of nineteen, when he went to Boston and learned the cabinet ma- kers trade. After this, worked four years in Bos- ton. Thence to Norway, Oxford county, Maine, engaging in the manufacture of furniture for five years. Came to Minneapolis in 1857, and engaged in the furniture business. Ilis ripe ex- perience, covering a period of thirty years, has made his present establishment one of the insti- tutions of the city. Mr. Barnard has a pleasant home where he resides with his family, on Tenth street, corner of Mary P'lace.
E. G. Barnaby was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1839. Ile remained there for sixteen years, then he moved to Chatham, Canada West, where he remained till 1857, thence to New York city, entering the mercantile establishment of Lord and Taylor, where he remained until 1863. lle then went to Memphis, Tennessee, engaging in business about a year. During the same year, took charge of a dry goods house where he re- mained till May, 1867, and then started a gents' furnishing store under the Overton Hotel, and in 1872, started another store in the same line, under the Peabody Hotel. Hle contimmed busi- ness till 1879, when he came to Minneapolis and opened a gents' furnishing store, at No. 2, Nicol- let llonse block. Was married in Brooklyn, New York, March, 1865, to Miss Mary Finley. They have three children : Carrie, Minnie A., and Mary B.
John T. Barnum. of the firm of Barmum and Goodrich, trunk manufacturers, was born at Rochester, New York, March 5th, 1857. Re- ccived his education at the Rensselaer Polytech- nie school, Troy, New York, in 1879 and remained in Rochester one year. Came to Minneapolis in April 1880, was with D. D. Whitney in his trunk factory. September Ist, 1850, took possession of the business in company with Mr. Goodrich.
1. C. Barrows was born in Orino, Maine,
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March 29th. 1>32. Ile was reared in the lumber region of that state: after reaching manhood. en- gaged in that business until 1555. when he moved from the "Pine Tree State" and came direct to St. Anthony. He at once entered the ranks as a lumberman, first for Dwight. Woodbury and Company. in building a mill and dam at St. Fran- cis. above Anoka, on the Rum river. In les he formed a partnership with Jonathan Chase, in the winter of 1869-70. he and his brother be- came partners, the firm known as " Barrows Bros." For several years they did job work for J. Dean and Company. during which time they accumulated quite a stock of logs, which they were two years in converting into lumber. In March. 1578, he entered the firm of which he is now a member. Merriman. Barrows and Company. Ile was married to Miss Sarah J. Swain. at Min- neapolis. October 25th. 1861. They have had five children: four of whom are now living: Nellie. Freddie. Harry, and Frankie. Mrs. Barrows died in March. 1573. He remained a widower until March, 1877, when he was united to Mrs. Sadie E. Jones, of Stillwater.
W. M. Barrows, born at Augusta, Maine, Sep- tember Ist. 1:30. moved with his parents to Orino, Milford and Lincoln. finally to Chester, where he remained till 1855, following lumbering. Moved to Old Town. and remained till the fall of 1556 : came to st. Anthony and for seven years worked in the woods winters and on the river sum- mers, Run a freight train from St. Anthony to St. Paul from 1863 to 1865. In the fall of 1815 started the lumber business with a Mr. Spafford. under the firm name of Barrows and Spafford for one year, then alone for one year. In the fall of 1867 took as partner Andrew Hall. for one year. Fall of 1sos the firm of Barrows Brothers was formed. Married Nancy Fernold, July 3d. 1855. They have six children. William 11 .. Melvin P' .. Wyley R .. Lydia F .. Eddie P. and JJessie.
1. 11. Bates, was born at Cohasset. Massachu- sett4. November 26th, 1552. He was educated principally at Boston, Massachusetts, alsostudied dentistry in the sune place and practiced his pro- fession there. Has practiced dentistry eight years. Came to Minneapolis in May. Isso, and is how permanently located at 327 Nicollet Avenue, Family consists of himself and wife.
John W. Bates was born in Brattleboro. Ver-
mont. Jannary 5th, 1849, where he lived for four years, then moved with parents to Troy, New York, and remained about two years. In 1855, came to Minnesota with his mother and settled in St. Anthony. From 1868 to 1873 taught school in Henry county, Illinois, and from 1873 to 1877 engaged in coopering at St. Joseph. Missouri. Returned to Minnesota, and in August. 1879, he was appointed on the police force, which position he has since held. His mother died in 1873 in this city.
A. L. Bausman was born in Pennsylvania. March 25th. 1834. Educated at Pittsburg and studied dentistry at the same place for three years. Came to Minneapolis in 1856, and has been in continuous practice of his profession since. The doctor is the oldest dentist in prac- tice in the city. Was married to Miss Fannie R. Abraham, of Minneapolis, November. 1863; she died in 1876. Married again, January, 1879, to Rebecca Fenby, of St. Louis. They have three children-Bertha, George and Fenby.
Joli Bayer. proprietor of Bayer's hotel, located at 109 First street north. Mr. Bayer, was born in Germany. in 1831: came to America in 1851; came to Minnesota in May, 1855, and located in Scott county. where he remained for three years, thence to Wisconsin and lived three years. In 1861. enlisted in the First Minnesota Regi- ment Volunteers; served three years, when he re- turned to Scott county, and remained until the spring of 1865, when he came to Minneapolis. Married Annie Berndgen, July 21st, 1865. They have five children; John R. 11., Lucy, George G., Anthony M., and Frank X. M.
James Baxter, firm of Downs and Baxter, was born in Westmoreland, England, August 10th, 1535. At the age of sixteen commenced the trade of stone cutter and mason: came to Ame- rica in 1551, and finished his trade in Chicago, where he remained until 1857, when he came to St. Paul. In 1859, went to Carrollton, Indiana. where he was employed as foreman for quarries and eut stone used in the Portland locks, for Bar- ton, Robinson and Company, contractors for Louisville and Portland canal and locks, In 1565. came to Minneapolis, and until 1877, was employed as foreman for R. B. Langdon, Sauls- Laugh and Company. St. Anthony Falls Water- Power Company, and others, also took some con
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traets on his own account. Was married at St. Anthony, November 20, 1859. to Miss Catherine Ryan, of St. Paul. They have five children liv- ing; William C., Mary, Bridget, Eleanor and Cath- erine.
J. Flanders Beaumont, eye and ear surgeon, was born in Freeport, Illinois, March 29th, 1859; educated at Freeport and Montrose, Illinois, and at Princeton college. First studied medicine with his father Dr. I. II. Beaumont, and Dr. Constantine IIering, of Philadelphia, Pennsylva- nia. Graduated from the IFalmemann Medical Col- Jege. of Philadelphia in 1876, with the degree of M. D. Ile next entered the New York Ophthal- mic Hospital and studied diseases of the eye and ear, was afterwards assistant surgeon in the same hospital. Was also an attending physician of the New York Homeopathic Dispensary. He came to Minneapolis in August, 1880, and confines his practice solely to the treatment of eye and ear diseases ; is a member of the American Ophthal- mological and Otological Societies; Illinois Homeopatie Association, and Hennepin county IIomeopatie Society. Dr. Beaumont was mar- rieg in 1878 to Miss Ella Jenifer, of Cincinnati. Ohio. They have one child: Alice J.
Franklin Beebe, of the law firm of Beebe & Rossman, 112 Hennepin Avenue, was born at Lincklaen, Chenango county, New York, October 2Sth. 1825. Remained with parents until 1843, attending Oxford and DeRuyter Academies. He then entered the State Normal School at Al- bany. New York, and in 1818 began the study of law at Traxton, with Alanson Coats, and finished in the office of John Waite at Norwich, New York. Was admitted to practice in 1851, and formed a partnership with JJohm Waite, and practiced law at Norwich, until the fall of 1855, when he came West and located at Minneapolis in 1856. Opened an office near the old land offlee, and soon after removed to the building then owned by T. Chambers. near the suspension bridge. Has since been elected three times to the office of probate judge, in the meantime fol- lowing his profession. The present firm was formed in the l'all of 1879, and is a successful one. Was married first in Norwich, New York, April, 1858, to Miss Lavinia. daughter of Dr. James Thompson, of that city. who died JJanuary 13th, 1868, leaving two daughters now living-
Mary Frances and Harriet Lavinia. Mr. Beebe was married again to Dora II .. daughter of D. G. Thompson, of North Warmouth, Maine. They have one child now living-Daniel G.
Alonzo 11. Beal was born in Saco, York county, Maine, July 10th. 1833. When fourteen years of age he began studying photography, but left that business and went to Buffalo in 1852, engaging in the furnishing business two years. In 1854 he returned to Maine, as a photographer, and has continued as such ever since. In April, 1855, he was married to Ruth Clark, of Hollis, Maine. They have two children, Eugene and Charles. Mr. Beal moved to Boston, in 1857, thence to St. Anthony Falls in 1860. After having made sey- eral attempts to get a fine gallery, each of which was destroyed by fire, he finally established hin- self at No. 18 South Fourth street, where he has since remained and prospered.
Jacob Becker was born in Stark county, Ohio, November 18th, 1841, and was married to Eliza- beth Moarls, in 1867. They have had five child- ren, three of whom are living-Mary, Anna and Ida. Mr. Becker enlisted in 1861 in the One Ilundred and Seventh Ohio volunteers. Ile served one year only, and removed from Wooster, Wayne county, where he at that time lived, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin; thence to Winona, St. Louis and Minneapolis. Ilere he erected, in 1873, the Island Saloon, and has since been proprietor.
S. N. Bell is a native of Ohio, and was born January 4th, 1831. He married, in 1854, Rosetta Bowers, of New York. They have six children: Minnie, Eva, Carrie, Milton, Grant and Colfax. Ile lived in Racine, Wisconsin, a member of years, engaging in farming while there; also after re- moving to Faribault county, Minnesota. In 1875, he engaged in the grocery business in Min- neapolis, 416 Nicollet Avenue, where he is still found.
Karl Bendeke, a native of Norway, was born April 21st, 1841. After graduating from the medical school of Christiana, Norway, in 1865, he came to the I'nited States, 1867. At Chicago he again graduated from the medical college in 1869, and practiced in that city until he removed to Rushford, Minnesota, in 1870. He practiced there five years then came to Minneapolis. Ile was married to Josephine Fanske, from Bergen. Norway, in 1869.
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F. Benjamin was born in Conectient in 1839, and at the age of twenty-two went to California and engaged in mining for two years, when he re- turned to Connecticut. In ISTI he came to Min- neapolis and opened a saloon. He and Ella MI. Spaulding were married in 1872. Their children are Frederick and Gracie.
C. Henry Benton. of the firm of Benton. Ben- ton and Roberts, attorneys at law, was born at Lunenburgh. Essex county, Vermont. in 1841. Ilis parents and family moved to Guildhall, Ver- mont, and the same year his father came west to secure a home, but soon died at Rockford. 1- linois. In 1860, C. 11. entered the Vermont I'niversity at Burlington, and in 1861 enlisted in the Fifth Vermont volunteers. being promoted to first lieutenant and mustered out September 19th. 1664. Soon after, he entered the Albany law school. from which he graduated in 1866 and commenced practicing in Troy. Vermont. He married Miss Flora Hadley, who died in 1869. Two years later Mr. Benton came to Minneapo- lis, where he was married to Jeanette Graham of this city, who hore him two children. Christine and Harry,
Webster Benner was born in Lincoln county. Maine. He came to Minneapolis in 1870 and was in the drug business until Isso, when he origin- ated the Minneapolis Soap Works. He has a partner in Inisiness, the firm name being Pomeroy and Renner. They make shipments throughout the north-west. Mr. Benner was married in Maine, and has one son living at Waldboro. Lin- com county.
Col. R. C. Benton was born at Waterford. Cale- donia county. Vermont, May 13th. 1830, At Twenty-one he entered the I'niversity of Ver- mont, and graduated with the class of 1551. le taught school at Johnson, Vermont, two years and was There admitted to the bar in 1556. Hle practiced law until Is61, when he entered the army as captain of company " D." Fifth Vermont infantry. In ISE he was promoted to the office of lieutenant colonel of the Eleventh Vermont and remained in service until 1561. He participated in some of the principal battles, being wounded June 9th. at the battle of Savage Station. After the war he returned to Vermont and again pirae- Beed his profession. In 1867 he removed lo SI. Alleans, Vermont, and in 1875 located in Minneapo-
lis. He was assistant secretary of Vermont state senate in 1856-57, county attorney of Lamoille county in 1860-61. and a member of Vermont state board of education in 1871. He married Miss Sara Leland in 1856. Their children are. Lucy and Mary. Two children have died.
S. J. Bennett, born at Mineral Point, Wiscon- sin. He lived at that place until sixteen years of age, when he went to Colorado. After spending three years there he returned to Wisconsin : thence to Minnesota, and in 1874 settled in Min- neapolis, engaging in the coopering business. Ile married Nancy King. in 1872. Enlisted, in Au- gust. 1862, in the Twenty-first Wisconsin, served one year. and was discharged for disability.
A. Bermann is a Russian by birth, and was born May 29th, 1853. le came to Minneapolis in November, 1879, and was engaged in peddling until 1880, when he became a partner of L. Blou- stein. They are now known as the firm of Ber- mann and Blonstein, and deal in new and second- hand goods. He was married October 10th, 1877.
A. C. Berry, captain of police, was born Feb- ruary 21st. 1830, at Pittsfield Maine. He settled in Minneapolis in 1866. and being a carpenter, at once commenced that business, and continued in it until appointed on the police force. in 1867. Since his promotion to the rank of captain, in 1877. he has discharged his duties with credit to himself and to the general satisfaction of the force at his command. He was married in Pe- nobseot county, Maine, to Jennie M. Whitcomb, November 30th 1854. Their two children, Ida and Charles, have died.
Herman Bidwell was born in New York, March 20, 1851. He commenced in the milling business at Galesville, Wisconsin, in 1870, and remained there five years : then removed to La Crosse. re- maining four years. He became a resident of Minneapolis in July. 1879, and and has since been engaged in milling. His marriage with Lne Cur- lis, occurred November 7th, 1875. They are the parents of one child. Julia.
John Berry, deceased.one of the pioneers of Hen- nepin county, was born in Buxton Maine, in 1801. Was engaged in farming and carpenter work until he came to St. Anthony. in 1851, and has followed farming most of the time since. He was the first man to raise a erop on the west side, having made a claim on section 31, east of Cedar Lake, in
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April, 1851, and resided there until 1857. since which time he has lived in the city. Mr. Berry fell, while engaged in carpenter work at Bangor, Maine. and shattered his right arm, and by a similar accident. twelve years since, his right leg was injured. He married Hannah Bunker, Feb- ruary 12th, 1826. The children living are : Mrs. W. A. Rowell, of this city, Mrs. D. L. Paine of In- dianapolis, Indiana, and Mark T., surveyor and superintendent for Dean and Harrison. Mrs Ber- ry died April 23d, 1879. Mr. Berry lived with his son, Mark T., until his death, which oceurred in April, 1881.
Frederick G. Berry was born in Brooklyn, HIen- nepin county. Minnesota. in 1857. At the age of sixteen he commenced teaching. He entered the State University of Minnesota in 1874, and grad- uated after a six years' course. In July, 1880, same year, he was taken as book-keeper in the money order department of the Minneapolis post- office. He commenced studying law, in the office of Morrison and Fitch, in September, 1880.
Jonathan C. Berry was born and lived in Bux- ton, York county, Maine, until twelve years of age, when he removed to Grove, Allegany county' New York, and learned blacksmithing. He spent six years in the Galena. Illinois, Jead mines : then started for California. with team and wagon, in 1852, and succeeded in reaching there August 27th. He engaged in teaming and mining until 1854. During that year he bought and run the first threshing machine in the state. He came to St. Anthony in 1855, and purchased an interest in a plow factory and made the first plow manntac- tured in the state. He was married at White Oak Springs, Wisconsin, in 1858, to Miss Amanda Beckwith, who was born at Noblesville, Indiana. They have two children : Frank and Flora.
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