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A. Christian. Ilis wife was Miss Eliza French, whom he married in 1874.
Levi Christlich, born in Cumberland county. Pennsylvania. July 8th, IS41. He went to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1869. and the same year re- moved to this city. Until the spring of 1870 he worked with Greeley. Loye and Company. har- ness-making : then with Davis and Met'allin, and the Trades Manufacturing Company, until August. 1874. when he went inio partnership with John II. Arnell, and has continued to do a pros- perous business since. They are located at 108 Central Avenue. Mr. Christlich is unmarried.
Richard Chute was born at Cincinnati, Ohio. September 23d. 1820, and moved to Columbus at the age of seven years, and four years later to Fort Wayne. Indiana. In 141, he formed a partnership with William G. Ewing in the fur trade; from that time until 1854, he visited in the autumn of each year. Minnesota. lowa and other western points. He was at St. Anthony in 1814 and built a house, which was used for several years as a trading post. After the death of his partner in 1851. Mr. Chute located in Saint An- thony. and until Is65, had charge of the property, since owned by the Saint Anthony Water Power Company: he sold lots lying east of Main street. but was restricted from selling between that and the river: since that time he has been engaged in real estate business. While traveling in the fur business. Mr. Chute was present at the forming of several treaties with Indians. He wasat Agency City. Iowa, when the treaty was concluded with the Sar. and Fox tribe by which they ceded to the government all their lands in lowa territory:he was also at Washington when the treaty was made with the Winnebagos in 1856. In early days he took a lively interest in railroad matters and was among the incorporators of some of the compa- nies. Mr. Chute was commissioned by Gen. Sibley as Colonel of the Seventeenth Regiment Militia, and in 1862, he was quartermaster of an expedition from Fort Snelling to the Chippewa country. under Gen. Dale. In 1563, he was ap- pointed regent of the State University. He is an older in the Andrew Presbyterian church. and has been superintendent of the Sabbath-school for many years. He married Mary Young, of Indiana, February 28th. 1850. They have three living children; Charles, Willie and Grace.
C. W. Clark. a native of Delaware county, New York, was born March 3d, 1827. Until seventeen years of age. he lived on a farm, then learned the back-smith's trade. In 1847, he went to South Wilbraham, Massachusetts: thence to Illinois, and in 1860, came to this city. in 1867. Mr. Clark built a shop near where Goodfel- low and Eastman now are, and in 1875, bought his present shop which is 20x66 feet, and two- stories high. situated on the corner of Third street and Third Avenue south. He was mar- ried December 19th, 1852, to Eliza Bliss, of Mass- achusetts, who has borne him nine children, seven of whom are living.
1. B. Clark was born in Brockton. Massachu- setts. March 7th. 1841. He received his early ed- ucation in his native town and worked for his father until 1859, when he went to California. Ile returned in 1861, and worked at the whole- sale grocery business in Boston, Massachusetts, until 1869, when he came to Minneapolis. The following year he opened a meat-market. and has been in that business since, with the exception of two and one-half years which he spent in charge of the National Hotel of this city. He removed to his present location in July. 1880.
Isaac B. Clark was born in Effingham, Illinois, October 20. 1556. When two years of age he moved with his parents to Missouri, and lived on a farm until eighteen years old. In 1874. he removed to Galesburg, and two years later went south; he visited Memphis, New Orleans and Saint Louis. In 1878, he came to Minnesota and settled in this city. In the spring of Isso. he traveled through Dakota and Montana, but re- turned here in the fall of the same year and opened his photograph gallery on Washington Avenue south.
Professor John Sinclair Clark was born at Saint Marys, Nova Scotia. in 1849. After teach- ing for a few years he came to Minneapolis, in June 1870. and entered the classical course at the l'niversity. Acting as assistant librarian of the institution for four years he thus furnished himself with the means necessary to carry through the full University course, and grad- uated in June, 1876. He was immediately ten- dered. and accepted. the position of instructor in Latin and mathematics. This place he filled until the spring of Isso, when he was appointed
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assistant professor of Latin, and still remains as such.
John Clark, a native of Norfolk, England, was born November 13th, 1827. He came with his parents to America in 1834, and located at Gene- see, New York; remained there three years, and then removed to Kishwaukee, Illinois. where he resided until 1867, when he came to this city, and has since lived here, with the exception of eight- een months passed in Florida. While at Kish- wankee he learned the trade of carriage-making and blacksmithing, and has been in that busi- ness nearly all his life. He was married in Illi- nois to Miss Esther Palmer. They are the par- ents of five children: Ella. now the wife of J. W. Crockett. Walter, Frederick, Luther and Charles.
Jolin W. Clark was born at Minneapolis, Jan- uary 5th, 1861. lle is engaged as book-keeper for his father, F. P. Clark. at his saw-mill on the corner of Main street and Fourth Avenue N. E.
Gilbert Clough is a native of Lyme, New Hampshire; he was born August 26th, 1839, and came to Minneapolis with his parents in 1857. He worked at logging from the time of his arriv- al, and in 1866 went into the business with his brother, D. M. Clough; their cut the first year was one and one-half million feet; it now amounts to about eighteen millions annually. Mr. Clough's wife was Fannie Shereton, whom he married May 28th, 1873. They reside on Fifth street near Fourth Avenue S. E.
Rev. Daniel Cobb, A. M., was born November 7th, 1818, in Onondaga county, New York, where his father was a preacher for forty years. The subject of this sketch was converted May 5th, 1839; educated in the Onondaga institute, teaching school at different times; entered the ministry in 1843, at the Oneida annual confer- ence. First appointment for one year to El- bridge and Sennet; next to Freetown. Then for two years each at the towns of Owasco, Mor- avia, Asbury, Cortlandsville, Norwich, New York Mills, Utica. Was transferred to the Min- nesota conference in 1857, and appointed presid- ing elder of the Winona district for two years; from there to the Red Wing district as presiding elder for four years; after that, stationed in Min- neapolis, in what is now the Centenary church; then appointed chaplain for the Sixth Minnesota Regiment, remaining in the chaplainey until the
close of the war: was present at the last battle at Fort Blakely, Mobile. On returning home in Angust, 1865, was mustered out of service, and the September following, was appointed to the Jackson street Methodist Episcopal church, St. Paul for three years; thence to Rochester two years; then to the Minneapolis first church for one year; at the end of that time, took a super- numary relation and went east on a visit for one year,preaching at the Ashgreen Methodist Episco- pal church, Albany, New York, for seven months, and the Wall street church, Auburn, two months. Returning to Minnesota at the end of the year, was appointed presiding elder for the Minneapo- lis district for two years, and presiding elder for St. Paul distriet for two years; thenee to the Cen- tenary church for two years; then appointed pre- siding elder of the Owatonna district for four years; when he came to Minnesota in 1857, as presiding elder of the Winona district, there was twenty-two thousand square miles of territory to look after. Providing himself with a pair of fl- dian ponies and a buckboard, drove for four years organizing quarterly conferences; establishing elmurches, preaching, and in one year, preached two hundred and eighty-six sermons, taking wheat for pay, throwing the sacks into his wagon and carrying it to Red Wing to sell. He has taken charge of forty-nine camp meetings, extending from the Iowa line to Breckenridge; was elected chaplain in the Minnesota legislature for two years. First candidate for governor on the pro- hibition ticket in 1860. For thirty-seven years this veteran of Methodism has preached every Sunday excepting the time he was in the army, and one Sabbath out of the desk, on account of sickness. The honorary degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by State University at Atlı- ens, Ohio. Married April 22d, 1858, in Red Wing, to Louisa M. Sherman, who was educated at Fort Edwards, New York, and for three years was preceptress in the Hamline University. They have three children; Alonzo W., Temper- ence Trene. and Ida May.
11. J. Cobb, a native of Harmony, Somerset county, Maine, was born in 1837. He came to St. Anthony November, 1853, and engaged in lum- bering. In the summer of 1855 he brought the first cattle on a steamer from Rock Island, H- linois, and has since that time been engaged in the
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cattle trade. with the exception of three or four summers. Mr. Cobb is the pioneer cattle dealer of this county. He is now a member of the firm of Smith. Cobb and Brackett. stock dealers. Ile is also in the grocery business on Fifth Avenue south. In 1857 Mr. Cobb married Miss Mary Monel of Harmony. Maine. Their children are. Edward. George and Gracie.
W. C. Colbrath was born in Adrian, Michigan, in August, 1548. He came here in 1861 and worked for leading druggists of the city until 1×72. when he went into business with a partner: after two and one-half years he bought his part- ner's interest and has carried on the business alone since that time. He keeps a fine line of artists' and carriage painter's materials and occupies the floor and basement of his store. No. 43 Washing- ton Avenue south. Mr. Colbrath was married in 1-74 to Iney C. Russell. daughter of R. P. Rus- st.H. one of the pioneers of this county.
Emerson Cole. a native of New Hampshire, was born in Milan in 1539. He came to Minneapolis in 1sil and engaged in the milling business, which he has followed to the present time. His wife was Agnes O Neill of St. Paul. He is a member of the firm of Cole and Hammond, manufacturers of lumber.
Thomas Coleman is a native of Ireland ; he was born in 1836. In early childhood he came with parents to Kingston. Canada : be removed to Chicago, Illinois, and thence to Galena. where he learned the shoemaker's trade and worked until IsAs : he then removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and from there to California, but finally settled in Minneapolis in 1563. He worked for different boot and shoe houses here until 1878, when he started in business for himself, and has since lwen doing a good trade. In 1865 he married Margaret T. Williams, who has borne him two children.
D. F. Collins. M. D .. was born in Cork, Ireland. September 10th. 150, and was educated at St. Vincent's Seminary of that city. He came to the United States in 1566. and lived in New York city one year, when he went to London, England. and studied fm two years; he returned to New York and went to the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where he graduated in 1973 ; during the same year he was elected a member of the News York Medico-legal Society, and in 1875 he was
appointed one of the physicians connected with the board of public charities and corrections of New York city. Dr. Collins removed to Minne- apolis in February. 1879; since coming here he has been appointed consulting physician of the orphan asyhun. and medical examiner of the Catholic Mutual Insurance Association. He was married in Paris, France, May 16th. 1874. to Miss Frances Brown. They have two children, Mark and Jerome.
Jesse Collom was born at Meadville, Pennsyl- vania, and when a child came to Saint Paul with his parents. In 1865 he came here and attended school for a time, and in 1870 went in Mr. Mar- shall's store and learned the jeweler's trade, re- maining two years. He then went to Towa and to California. but returned to this city in 1876. and has since kept a jewelry store at 29 Fourth street south. In 1874 Mr. Collom married Ada Needham. Their children are Willie and Verney.
N. E. Colstrom. a native of Sweden, was born May 9th. 1834. Ile emigrated to America in 1869 and located in this city. In 1870 he married Martha Britha. They have four children: Annie, Charles, John and Frank. Mr. Colstrom is the inventor and manufacturer of the Minneapolis slab-press brick machine, also brick moulders and trucks. This machine was perfected in 1876, by Mr. Colstrom, who is the sole proprietor. Twen- ty-two thousand bricks can be turned out in ten hours, by this machine. His place is 142 Twelfth street north.
1. 11. Conkey was born at Plattsburg. New York, December 25th, 1820. He came west in 1850, and located in Wisconsin. It was he who laid the first iron on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad between Milwaukee and Waukesha. In 1859, in company with R. B. Langdon and others, he did the first grading on the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, and after- ward engaged in business in Wisconsin until 1865, at which time he removed to Faribault. where he remained six years. He came to this city in 1872, engaged in business in company with R. B. Langdon at the Union planing mill, and has since continued in the same. Mr. Conkey was married in ISIS to Martha A. Langdon. She has borne him six children, only three of whom are living: Frank, Robert and Jennie.
Elias Il. Connor was born at New Sharon,
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Maine, August 23d, 1824. He lived in his native town until twenty-one years of age, then spent three years on the Penobscot River. In 1848 he came to Lakeland, Minnesota, opposite Hudson, Wisconsin, where he worked one winter. then located at St. Anthony, and has since resided here. lle is a carpenter and mill-wright, and he built the first two-story frame house in the city, for Captain Rollins, in 1849. Ile purchased lots in 1850 and built his present residence on Second street south-east. Ile has carried on a large business in contracting, building and drafting; he was in charge of the wood work on both the old and new suspension bridges, and drove the first horse across the okl bridge; when the new one was building, Mrs. Connor and her daughter Georgia, then only six years okl, walked to the middle of the bridge on a single plank, and re- turned in safety. Mr. Connor built the first bridge across the Saint Croix, at Taylors Falls; he has built a number of large mills in different cities, and has had extensive contracts in carpen- ter work in all parts of the country adjacent to Minneapolis. He married. in 1855, Miss Hannah Rollins, who has borne him three children: Lil- lian, Georgia and Rosa.
A. S. Converse, a native of Windsor, Massa- chusetts, was born January 4th, 1820. When eighteen years of age he removed to Chenango county, New York, and remained there in the carriage making business until 1854, when he came to Minnesota, and located in Dakota county; but in January 1855, he engaged in wagon and carriage making in Minneapolis, and has since been a resident of this city. His wife was Caro- line Kenyon, whom he married in Chenango county. New York. Their children are: Van- elia, who was the wife of A. D. Prescott, (de- ceased), Rufus and Alvin. They reside at No. 725, Washington Avenue north.
II. T. Cook is a native of Canada. At the age of six years he moved with his parents to New York, and remained there until 1851, when he went to Wisconsin. and learned the wagon makers' trade at Oshkosh, after which he removed to lowa: came to this city in 1877, and has been in business here since. His wife was Zayda Hol- sen, of Iowa, whom he married in 1853. She has borne him three children.
C. II. Cook was born in the state of New York
in 1846. In 1851 he went with his brother to Wisconsin, then passed some time in Iowa, and came to Minneapolis in the spring of 1880. ITe was married in 1875 to Frances Becker. They have two children.
Grove B. Cooley was born at Attica, New York, December 10th, 1827. In 1848 he began the study of law at Canandaigua, and two years later, moved to Wisconsin, where he was a pro- fessor in the Ripon College from 1853 to 1858, teaching the dead languages and the higher branches of mathematics. In the autumn of 1858 he removed to Minnesota and located at Mantor- ville, Dodge county, where he was engaged in the practice of law, serving four years as county at- terney and eight years judge of probate. He was also a leading member of the board of education of Mantorville. Ile was a member of the state legislature in 1872 and chairman of the judiciary committee, leaving a good record. He was asso- ciated for two years with Hon. A. J. Edgerton, now United States Senator, in the practice of law at Mantorville, under the firm name of Edgerton and Cooley. For four years he was a partner of Ilon. Samuel Lord, now deceased, under the firm name of Cooley and Lord. In 1872, Judge Cooley came to Minneapolis and entered into partnership with Thomas Lowry, which continued until the spring of 1874. when he was unanimously elected judge of the municipal court of Minneapolis, which position he has filled to the general satis- faction of the publie and continues to hold. In 1856 he was made a Master Mason in the Ripon Lodge, Ripon, Wisconsin, and has since been an active member and a diligent Masonic student. In 1872, he was Grand Master of Masons in Min- nesota.
George W. Cooley, civil engineer, office 411 Nic- ollet Avenue. Mr. Cooley is a native of New York city; he was born in the year 1845, and lived with his parents until nineteen years of age, when he came West and engaged with the St. Paul and Pacific Railway Company as assistant engineer, and served in their surveys until 1867. It was he who drove the first stake for the St. Paul and Pacific Railway west of the Mississippi. During 1867 '68-69 he was engaged in the United States surveys in Minnesota and Dakota. He located the junction of the Northern Pacific Rail- way with the Lake Superior and Mississippi, and
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commeneed the construction of the Northern Pa- citie Railway February 15th. 1570. under General Ira Spaulding. In 1870 Mr. Cooley resumed Insi- ness in Minneapolis as civil engineer and surveyor. and has continued in the same line to the present time. Ile has surveyed about one-third of this city, and has been engaged on many of the rail- roads and public improvements throughout the country. He served one term as county survey- or. was assistant engineer of the falls improve- ment. also of the work on the Minnesota river. and has lately completed the improvement of Hull's Narrows, Lake Minnetonka. having been appointed by the legislature. Mr. Cooley is now chief engineer of the Minneapolis. Lyndale and Lake Calhou Railway.
Joseph Coombs was born in the year 1531, in England. He came to America in 1852 and lived four and one-half years in Maine. then came to St. Anthony and took a homestead. For two years he worked in the mines near Lake Supe- rior. and in 1864 returned to Maine, where he was married to Miss Agnes L. Conary. Ile re- mained there nearly two years, then returned to Minneapolis, and has since been engaged in the coopering business here. Mr. Coombs resides at 605 Twelfth Avenue south.
B. Cooper, a native of Pennsylvania. was born in Lancaster county. in 1811. He came to this city in 1-57. and for about seven years was en- gaged in carpenter work and farming, with the exception of some time spent south during the war. Mr. Cooper is now engaged in contracting and building. The following are a few of the many buildings erected by him: The residences of Mrs. Byers, W. B. Jackson, J. M. Williams and D. R. Barber. He employs about twenty- five men : office, corner of Hawthorne Avenue and Twelfth street. In 1869 Mr. Cooper married Addie Bassett. They have two children : Edna and William.
Charles Coot was born in New York city, Au- gust 20th, 1817. He moved here in October. 1575, and worked one year in the car shops of the street railway, In 1876 he went to work for 1. T. Elwell. in the spring-bed business, and has charge of the manufacturing department. At the age of seventeen Mr. Cont unlisted in the I'mited States navy : he was on the Ladonia, an iron-side stramer, eight months, then was trans-
ferred to another steamer and remained until the close of the war. Ile was honorably discharged April. 1865.
Judge F. R. E. Cornell was born November 17th, 1821. at Coventry. Chenango county. New York. At the age of fourteen he began teaching winters, and when possible to do so he attended school at Oxford Academy. In 1840 he entered Union College at Schenectady, and after grada- ting in 1842 taught several years, in the meantime reading law. He was admitted to the bar in 1846, and commenced practice with A. G. Chat- field, the late Judge Chatfield of this state: con- tinned until 1854, when he came to Minneapolis. Ile was elected to the state senate in New York, has been a member of the city council. of the state legislature several times, and was attorney general six years. In January. 1875, he took his seat as associate judge of the supreme court. and still hokls that position. ITis marriage with Eliza Burgess occurred in 1847. They have had three children; the living are Frank and Carrie.
Charles Coplin was born in La Porte county, Indiana, October 13th, 1849. In 1864 he moved to Richmond, remaining one and one-half years; thence to Chicago for two years and on to lowa. lle located in Minneapolis in 1874. dealing in groceries two years, then went into the meat market with Fortier and Company. Their place of business is known as the "Excelsior Market." Mr. Coplin was married December 13th, 1876.
T. W. Correns, a native of St. Lawrence coun- ty, New York, was born in 1835. His early life was spent in farming; in 1872 he went to lowa and remained six years. He came to Minneap- olis in 1878, since which time he has kept a sa- loon at 525 Washington Avenue south.
Wyman Costigan was born in Penobscot conn- ty. Maine. December, 18H. He became a resi- dent of Minneapolis in 1869, and was a lumber- man until he entered into partnership with For- tier and Coplin in 1875. He was married in 1866.
Andrew Craik was born in Scotland in 1817. When an infant he came with his parents to Can- ada, and at the age of sixteen commenced to learn milling. In 1816 he removed to Three Riv- ers, Canada, and engaged in the manufacture of oat-meal for the Quebre market. In 1861 he re- moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and eight years later came to this city; he purchased the Edina
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mills at Riebtield, and has since conducted them, in company with his brother John. He also has a flour and feed store at 219 First Avenue south. Mr. Craik was the first man to manufacture pearl barley and oat meal in the state of Minnesota. His wife was Miss Elizabeth Broadfoot of Scot- land. She has borne him six children: William, James, John, Andrew, Isabel and Alexander.
E. A. Cramsie, a native of Pennsylvania, was born at Philadelphia. in 1836. Ile learned the blacksmith's trade, and in 1856, moved to St. Paul, where he worked at his trade with his father and brother. He enlisted in the Tenth Minnesota Infantry and served until the regi- ment was discharged; on his return from the army, he came to this city and worked for dif- ferent persons until 1875, when he established bu- siness for himself at 111 Main street south-east; he now has a partner and they transact a general blacksmithing business, making a specialty of fine horse-shoeing. Mr. Cramsie married Miss Mary Abern, of St. Paul, in 1858. They have had seven children.
M. II. Crittenden, born in Washtenaw county, Michigan, in 1834. In 1855. he moved to Winona, Minnesota, engaged in farming until 1863, when he went to Rochester and embarked in mercan- tile business. In 1867, he removed to St. Paul and commenced the manufacture of galvanized iron cornice, roofs, etc. Mr. Seribner, his pres- ent partner became interested with him in 1872; their office and factory in St. Paul is on the corner of Sibley and east Sixth streets, and in this city at 203 and 205 First Avenue north. Mr. Crit- tenden was married to Miss Murray, in 1855. They are the parents of two children.
A. J. Creigh has been identified with the city of Minneapolis sinee 1876; he came here that year as the agent of Emerson, Fisher and Com- pany. carriage manufacturers of Cincinnati, and has since, by square dealing, and strict attention to business, established a good trade which is yearly increasing. The sales for the year 1880, amounted to six hundred buggies; he also deals largely in horses and harness.
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