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The cashier is Eugene Marshall, and the bank is the agent of various steamship lines.
To give an idea of the business done, it may be
stated that the deposits during the month of No- vember, 1881, amounted to $92,158.75. The amount of business varies in different seasons of the year from $12,000, to $25,000 a week. The banking facilities of the house are sufficient for th present and prospective requirements of Cal- edonia.
RAILROAD BUSINESS.
The present official name of the railroad is, "The Preston branch of the Dubuque Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad."
[Narrow Gauge. ] This road has about all it can do with its present equipment. Of course the capacity of a road is not limited or measured by the gauge, but by the amount of rolling stock.
The total amount of freight received in 1880 was 2,911,206 pounds. The amount forwarded was 4,884,460 pounds. This was at the Caledonia station alone. The outgoing freight in 1881, was 4,408,900 pounds; incoming freight for the same year, 2,465,300. The amount of passenger fares received, the agent was not at liberty to furnish.
The road was opened for business, October 1, 1879, Mr. C. E. Lyman was appointed agent, and he still remains. He is also agent of the Amer- can express company, that does a business here of $1,500 a year.
THE ELEVATOR.
An elevator, holding 20,000 bushels, was built at the railroad station in the fall of 1881. It was opened for business by A. & T. McMichael of McGregor, Iowa, on the 25th of September, 1881. George McMichael is the local agent. Wheat, corn, barley, rye, and oats are purchased, as well as hogs. The amount of grain purchased up to the 25th of December, the first three months of its existence, aggregated 167,600 bushels, the prices paid being well up to the market for like grades. The building cost about $3,500, and has a single horse power. This elevator takes the place of one burned on the 12th of July, 1881.
LUMBER DEALERPS.
TRASK & BLAIR; E. W. TRASK AND F. A. BLAIR, warehouse and yard near the depot. Contractors and dealers in lumber, lath, shingles, picketa, doors, sash, and blinds, building paper, locks, butts, and building material generally.
C. CLARK. Mr. Clark resides in Brownsville, the business is under the charge of Christian Klein. The place is near the railroad station, and was es-
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tablished in 1880. Plain and manufactured lum- ber for building purposes, including doors, sash, blinds, etc.
EDWARDS & OSBORNE, of La Crosse, have a lum- ber yard near the depot, under the charge of John Tarr. Lumber and building material on sale. Mr. Tarr has been in business here and in Brownsville for twenty-six years.
CABINET MAKING.
NICK SCHUMMERS, has an establishment on Kingston Street, where he manufactures furniture and coffins. He is the only manufacturer and dealer in the village, of this character. He has a good shop and has been in the business here since 1875.
CARPENTER AND BUILDER.
HUDSON WHEATON, Kingston Street.
WAGON MAKER.
FRED. MERSCH. He has been here since 1878. His shop is on Kingston Street.
WAGON MAKING AND REPAIRING.
CHARLES BRICKMAN, began operations in the fall of 1875. Repairing a specialty.
BLACKSMITHING.
A. B. CLARK, horse shoeing and general jobbing. Shop on Pine Street, near Main.
BLACKSMITHING AND HORSE-SHOEING. JOHN GAVIN, shop on Badger Street.
MIKE SCHMIDT, horse shoeing a specialty. Does wagon work and general jobbing, established in 1869. Shop is on Kingston Street.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
W. D. BELDEN, drugs, medicines, druggist's sun- dries, clocks, watches, and jewelry, show case goods and notions. This establishment was bought of C. B. Coe, October 1, 1880. Mr. Coe first started it in 1874. Mr. Belden keeps a good stock of goods in his several lines, and has a good location on Main Street.
MRS. JULIA O'CONNOR, drugs, groceries, fancy goods, and notions. Mrs. O'Connor succeeded her husband, Dr. John O'Connor, who died in Octo- ber, 1880, after having been in business since 1865. The store is on Kingston street.
F. & W. M. BACON, druggists and apothecaries. Druggists' sundries and show case goods. Cor- ner Main and Pine Streets. The Post-office is in this store, which is an old stand.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
SPRAGUE BROTHERS; D. G. & D. C. SPRAGUE. This firm has been in existence since 1875. The store has been here since 1854. They are heavy dealers in dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, clothing, hats and caps, crockery and glass ware, and general merchandise in great variety.
M. CARPSTEIN, dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, and general merchandise. Corner Main and Kingston streets. A fine brick store.
JACOB BOUQUET, general merchandise, dry goods, boots and shoes. Mr. Bouquet was for sev- eral years in company with Joseph Kiern. The present place is on Kingston Street.
JOHH BOLTZ, general mercandise, groceries, glass, crockery ware and notions, established in 1877; Kingston Street.
JOHN P. LOMMEN, general merchandise, farm machinery, clothing, boots and shoes, hats and caps, wines and liquors, groceries, and a variety of domestic and foreign goods.
E. P. DORIVAL, groceries, general merchandise, farm machinery, established fifteen years ago; Main Street.
NICHOLAS KOOB, dry goods, groceries, clothing, furnishing goods, hats and caps, boots and shoes, notions and sundries; corner Main and Marshall Streets.
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
A. H. BELDING, books, stationery, toys, Yankee notions, fruit, sewing machines, and varieties, cor- ner Main and Pine Streets.
HARDWARE.
A. D. SPRAGUE, hardware, farm machinery and implements; Main Street.
A. J. FLYNN, hardware and tinware of his own manufacture; Main Street.
BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY.
MRS. E. SPETTLE, bread, cakes, and crackers, with fancy goods, and Catholic books and church articles. The business was started in 1875, by the husband of the present proprietor, who died De- cember 20th, 1879.
SHOEMAKING.
DANIEL HAINZ, custom manufacturer and dealer in boots and shoes. Employs two or three men; has been in the business twenty-five years. Shop on Main street.
THOMAS RYAN, boots and shoes made and re- paired and kept in stock. Has been in the bus-
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iness here fourteen years. Located on Main Street.
TAILOR.
JOSEPH EDIN, Main Street.
STOVES AND TINWARE.
J. J. BELDEN, Rathbone's stoves, repairing. etc .; Main Street.
HARNESS AFD SADDLERY.
PETER ROBERTS, manufactures his own goods; Main Street.
MILLINERY.
MRS. P. M. HAINZ, millinery goods and notions, mantua-making, established in 1865. Located on Main Street.
MRS. E. B. WEST, corner of Main and Pine Streets, millinery work and millinery goods, with ladies furnishing goods.
MEAT MARKET.
O. J. WEIDA, on Marshall street. Dealer in meats and provisions. Ships hogs, live stock, poultry, etc,; proprietor of the hay scales.
DRESSMAKING.
MARY KEEGAN, Kingston Strreet. MAGGIE ZENNER, Kingston Street.
JEWELER.
PETER STEENSTRUP, Main Street, watches, clocks, and jewelry; repairing a specialty.
BARBER AND HAIRDRESSER.
ANTON ZIMMERHOKE, shop on Main Street, be- tween Marshall and Kingston.
BREWERY.
PETER ARNOLDY purchased the establishment in 1880. Brewed about four hundred barrels of lager the first year. The business was started in 1873, by Peter Wagner.
RESTAURANT AND CONFECTIONERY.
PATRICK MEAD, Main Street.
AUCTIONEER.
JOHN HACKET.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
CHRISTIAN KLEIN, jobbing and painting.
PHYSICIANS.
DR. H. D. B. DUSTIN, physician and surgeon, of- fice over Belden's drug store. Residence, Barnes House. County physician and coroner.
DR. WM. McKENNA, physician and surgeon, of- fice and residence corner of Main and Marshall Streets, where he may be found when not profes- Bionally engaged.
DR. GEORGE NYE, physician and surgeon, resi- dence and office corner of Main and Decorah Streets.
If, according to the old calculation, it takes a thousand inhabitants to support one doctor, these gentlemen must have to do some country practice to keep up in the race of fortune hunting.
ATTORNEYS.
JAMES O'BRIEN, attorney and counsellor at law. Prompt attention given to collections.
W. H. HARRIES, attorney and counsellor at law. Collections promptly attended to.
P. J. SMALLEY, attorney at law; abstract of title, and land cases carefully attended to.
C. S. TRASK, lawyer. Collections and business for non-residents attended to promptly.
INSURANCE AGENTS.
WELLS E. DUNBAR represents several companies and does a large business.
E. P. DORIVAL, agent for several reliable com- panies, and is prepared to place risks at low rates
HOTELS.
Caledonia is quite well supplied with facilities for entertaining "man and beast," as the old signs used to read.
BARNES HOUSE .- An old institution, at present well kept by Mr. Spafford Williams. The estab- lishment is on the corner of Main and Marshall Streeta.
DE SOTO HOUSE .- Corner of Main and Kingston Streets, J. T. Hurd, Proprietor. This house was started in 1863. Mr. Williams, Mr. Laflin and others have been proprietors of the house in former years. It is located on the site of the first hotel in Caledonia.
NEW YORK HOUSE .- This has been in operation since 1875. Peter Styer is the proprietor. There is an oyster parlor and a saloon connected with the house, which is on Kingston Street, where the first log cabin in town was put up.
NORTHWESTERN HOTEL .- On Main Street, John Krane, Proprieter. It has been established six years, and has a saloon in the basement.
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SALOONS.
NIC LAIDAR, Main Street. JOHN BOUQUET, Kingston Street. WILLIAM WEIGAND, Kingston Street. PETER ZENNER, Kingston Street. PETER ARNOLDY, Kingston Street. CLEMENS HUNDT, Kingston Street. PETER STYER, Kingston Street. JOHN KRANE, Main Street. JOHN SERRES, Marshall Street. PETER ARNOLDY, Marshall Street. MICHAEL OREGAN, Main Street.
B. B. WEBSTER, with billiard hall, Main Street. PETER LUTHER, Main Street.
Several of these saloons have pool and billiard tables, and a part of them also have hotel facili- ties and accommodate boarders and transient guests.
There are of course, in town, carpenters and builders, painters, glaziers, and paper hangers and other trades required by a village of this size, but the above is a fair resume of the business interests in Caledonia.
BRASS BAND.
Several years ago Caledonia had a brass band, which was no discredit to the members of the vil- lage. The following named persons were at one time the performers: John Bouquet, C. B. Coe, John A. Cutting, George D. Cole, George H. Bel- ding, J. McLaren, B. F. Willis, J. W. Edin.
The following veterans went to the soldiers' re-union in Milwaukee in June, 1880: Capt. W. H. Harries, Lieut. B. B. Webster, Peter Styer and E. E. Stewart.
LITERARY AND MUSICAL SOCIETY.
An organization with this name flourished for several years in Caledonia. At the 4th annual meeting held at the Academy, the following offi- cers were chosen : P. J. Smalley, Prest .; G. J. Lo- men, Sec .; James Smith, T. W. Burns, and C. B. Coe, Executive Committee. Literary committee, W. D. Belden, P. J. Smalley, O. E. Comstock. Committee on music, Dr. F. Castle, Libbie Burns, G. J. Lomen.
CHAPTER LIII.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
REV. ALEMBERT P.BUNCE is a native of Columbia county, Wisconsin, born in the town of Wyocena, in the year 1855. He is a son of Edwin S. Bunce, now in charge of the M. E. church at Witoka, Winona county. The subject of this sketch en- tered the Galesville University, Wisconsin, at the age of sixteen years, graduating in the class of 1875, after which he taught in the same one year. Then, after a residence of a short time in Minne- apolis, he became converted and was licensed to preach. His first ministry was at La Crescent, where he assisted his father about a year, then was admitted to the M. E. Conference on trial, and sent to Granger, Fillmore county, remaining one year. On the 13th of September, 1879, Mr. Bunce was united in marriage with Miss Florence Barnard, of Florenceville, Iowa. They came to Caledonia the same fall, since which time Mr. Bunce has been pastor of the Methodist Church at this place, and and also has charge of a congregation at Portland Prairie. They have one child, Flora Pearl.
J. W. Cook, deceased, was a well known resi- dent of Caledonia, having been an active politician and uniformly successful in every campaign until that of the election immediately preceding his death. This sad event occurred on Friday, the 23d of January, 1880, deliberately shooting him- self, with fatal result, in the presence of his wife, or while she was in an adjoining room. He was a warm hearted and generous man, and had many noble qualities and a large number of friends. At the time of his death he was laboring under a hal- . lucination, leading him to believe that there were active conspiracies at work to compass his destruc- tion. He was born in Massachusetts in 1838, and came to Caledonia in 1862. He was for six years Register of Deeds, and Judge of Provate for eight years, giving general satisfaction during his entire official life.
FRANK A. BLAIR is a son of Alexander and Sarah A. Blair, and was born in Vermont in 1847. In 1854, the family came to La Crosse, Wiscon- sin, where our subject was married in 1871, to Miss Emma Carlin. In 1875, they came to Cale- donia, and Mr. Blair started in the lumber busi- ness. The company name is now Trask & Blair, Mr. Trask having entered the firm about two years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Blair are the parents of four
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children, Edward P., Frank, Clarence, and Charles.
DAVID L. BUELL, a resident of this county since the spring of 1856, is a native of Colchester, New London county, Connecticut, where his birth oc- curred the 26th of May, 1831. He resided there until 1848, then went to Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the Phillips Academy until 1851. From this time until coming west his attention was given to teaching school and the study of law. He was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Bushnell, of Middlesex county, Connecticut, on the 10th of February, 1856, the ceremony taking place in Plymouth, Litchfield county. Mr. Buell spent his first summer in this county at Yucatan, and in December came to Caledonia, where he has since resided. He was admitted to the bar in 1863, and practiced law till 1870; was the first President of the Village Council, holding the office two years, that of Trustee three terms, and at present fills the latter position; also held the offices of Deputy Sheriff, Register of Deeds, and County Attorney. He was a member of the lower branch of the State Legislature in 1863, and of the Senate in 1866, '70, '71, '72, and '79. In 1871, he was a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, and in 1875, ran against J. S. Pillsbury for Gov- ernor, receiving 35,275 votes to 47,073 for his op- ponent, which, considering the republican major- ity of the State, was a very flattering tribute to his merit. He is probably the largest land owner in Houston county, and has upwards of 1,000 acres under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Buell have four children living, three having died in infancy.
A. H. BELDING is a native of Rock county, Wis- consin, born in the year 1838. He spent his early life in Janesville, and when fifteen years of age moved to Black Earth, Dane county, where he was engaged in teaching school. He came to Cale- donia in 1859, and on the 12th of August, 1860, was married to Miss Frances A. Harper, of St. Louis. Mr. Belding enlisted in the army in 1864, and served one year. For the past fifteen years he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits in con- nection with teaching school; was principal of the graded schools from 1878 to 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Belding are the parents of four children living, and three are deceased.
JOHN BOUQUET was born in Luxemburg, Ger- many, in 1855. He came to America in 1862, with his father, Frank Bouquet, wno located a farm in this place and still resides here. Miss
Josephine Pallen became the wife of our subject on the 19th of October, 1880. In July, 1881, he took possession of the Wilber house, of which he is still proprietor.
WILLIAM D. BELDEN is a native of South Had- ley Falls, Massachusetts, born on the 13th of De- cember, 1850, and came west with the family in 1854. After receiving a common school education he spent one year in the Caledonia College, and was afterward employed as principal of the graded schools. Then, after spending a year at the State University, he returned to this place in 1872, and revived the then suspended Collegiate institution, making it an independent school called the Cale- donia Academy. This he conducted until the spring of 1880, when he moved to the mining re- gions of Colorado, remaining during the summer. On his return in the fall, he purchased the drug store of C. B. Cois, and now keeps the largest stock of drugs in the county; besides stationery, toilet articles, clocks, and jewelry. He was appointed County Superintendent of Schools, in 1876, but by reason of a special act of the legislature, changing the method of filling the office, he never served.
JAMES J. BELDEN, father of the subject of our last sketch,is a native of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and dates his birth the 13th of September, 1822. At the age of fifteen years he removed to Meriden, and two years later to Hartford, where he learned the tinners' trade which has since been his occupa- tion. In 1849, he removed to South Hadley Falls, and on the 10th of January, 1850, was married to Miss Austis F. Dunbar, who has borne him three children, two of whom are living. In 1854 he came to this place. In 1855, he was appointed County Treasurer, and in 1856, Clerk of the Dis- trict Court under Judge Welch, holding the office until the first election, in 1858, when he was elected to the position and re-elected in 1861. Since then he has been deputy Clerk of the Court for many years. He has also served as a member of the village board of trustees, and was a member of the school board for a number of years.
ANDREW B. CLARK was born on the 27th of No- vember, 1853, in North Dumfries, Ontario, where he was reared on a farm. He went to Galt, Wa- terloo county, and learned the blacksmith trade, at which he was employed until removing to De- troit, Michigan, in 1874. On the 15th of April, 1878, he was married to Miss Eva K. Holmes, who has borne him one child. He came the same
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year, from Lansing, Iowa, (having resided there six months), to Caledonia, where he has has since devoted his time to his trade, and since April, 1881, has carried on a shop of his own.
WILLIAM M. COLLERAN was born in Oxford, Rock county, Wisconsin, on the 11th of September, 1857. In 1865, his parents removed to Browns- ville, where William attended the public schools, and afterward, the Commercial College of La Crosse, Wisconsin. For some years Mr. Colleran taught school and worked on a farm, until Jan- uary, 1881, when he received the appointment of Deputy Treasurer, the duties of which office he discharges with much ability.
OTIS E. COMSTOCK was born in Chautauqua county, New York, on the 18th of February, 1848. In 1856, he came to Minnesota with his parents, who located in Yucatan, our subject remaining there till 1867. He then went to Missouri, and after a residence of about six years, returned to this State and located in Caledonia, which has since been his home. In September, 1879, Mrs. Armina M. Hall, a native of England, became his wife, the ceremony taking place in La Crosse, Wis- cousin. Mr. Comstock was Deputy County Andi- tor eight months, and in 1876 was appointed Post- master, which office he has since retained. In February, 1879, he purchased the "Journal" office, and in 1880, associated himself with F. B. Gregg, as assistant editor. James Ostrander succeeded Mr. Gregg in the business, having entered in July, 1881. Mr. Comstock was also Clerk of the Pro- bate court for three years.
WELLS E. DUNBAR is one of the old settlers of Houston county. He was born in Suffield, Con- necticut, on the 7th of July, 1837. After attend- ing the common school he entered the Suffield Literary Institute, remaining until sixteen years of age. On the 9th of April, 1854, in company with some friends he arrived in Brownsville, Minnesota, and a year and a half later his parents followed him. He soon took up the occupation of surveyor, and subsequently became County Surveyor of Houston county, and was also engaged in real estate and insurance business. Under President Johnson's regime and Grant's first term he was Postmaster at Caledonia. About 1865, he was mar- ried to Miss Alice C. Dunbar, a second cousin, who also resided in Caledonia. In 1879, Mr. Dunbar, represented his district in the State Legislature, being elected on the democratic ticket.
GEORGE C. DROWLEY is a native of Oneida county, New York, where his birth occurred on the 29th of September, 1837. The family re- moved to Calumet county, Wisconsin, when George was quite young, he remaining with his parents until the age of fourteen, when he was bound to one of his neighbors. Two years later this family came to Belle Creek, Goodhue county, which was "the home of our subject until twenty-one years old, when he left the family and returned to Wis- consin, remaining two years. In the fall of 1859, he came to Caledonia, and two years after re- turned to Belle Creek and rented the farm on which he had previously lived, but remained only one season. He then came again to this place, and with the exception of seven months service in the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, was en- gaged in farming until 1875, since which time he has given his attention to the livery business. For a number of years Mr. Drowley run a stage to Brownsville, daily, and to Newburg, Fillmore county, tri-weekly, on both of which he carried the U. S. mail, but since the completion of the Nar- row Gauge railroad he has discontinued his stage route and confined himself to the livery business. He has been twice married, first to Miss Jane Brown, who bore him three children, only one of whom is living, William G. His present wife was Mrs. Schofield, whose maiden name was Jessie Kerr. Of four children, the result of this union, but two are living, George and Vernie M.
EDWARD P. DORIVAL, a native of New York City, was born on the 14th of November, 1840. He attended the graded schools in his native city, and afterwards moved to Evansville, Indiana; spent three years in the college at that place, after which he went to New Orleans and entered the office of a Notary Public. In 1860, Mr. Dorival came to Caledonia, and for two years was clerk in the County Treasurer's office, then elected County Auditor, holding the office two years, since which time he has been in the mercantile business. For the past nine years he has been Chairman of the board of County Commissioners. The maiden name of his wife was Lucy A. Damson. They have six children.
JAMES W. EDIN, a native of Sweden, was born in Stockholm in 1857. In 1871, he came to Amer- ica and located in Lansing, Iowa, at which place and Dubuque he was engaged at the tailor trade. In the fall of 1878, he came to Caledonia, and has
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since conducted a merchant tailoring establish- ment. Miss Annie M. Klein became his wife on the 10th of November, 1881.
ARTHUR J. FLYNN is a native of the city of Waterford, Ireland, where his birth occurred on the 27th of July, 1845. He and his twin brother, John A., were left orphans at an early age. His father was a cooper by trade, and departed this life three months before the birth of our subject, and his mother died two years and ten months afterwards. The boys were taken in custody by their grand-parents, John and Catharine White, who zealously cared for them, and with whom Arthur J. came to America, arriving in New York on the 1st of May, 1850. They came dircct to Chicago where Arthur attended school until the removal of the family to Minnesota, in September, 1856. His grand-parents and uncles, Thomas White, Michael White, and John Hurley, located in the town of Union, in this county, where our subject resided, engaged in farm work in summer and attending school during the winter months. In the winter of 1861-62, he taught the school in his district, giving universal satisfaction. On the 27th of September, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, of the First Minnesota Mounted Rangers, under Captain E. M. Wilson, serving until the expiration of his term on the 20th of October, 1863. In March of the following year he went to Chicago, where he learned the tinner's trade and continued in that vocation till December, 1868. On the 26th of December in the latter year, he was married to Miss Mary J. Murphy, whose father, Pierce Mur- phy, settled in the town of Sheldon in 1858, and is now a resident of this village. In January, 1879, he moved to Lanesboro, Fillmore county, and engaged in the mercantile business in com- pany with E. Kevin. After Lanesboro was incor- porated he was elected Recorder, and twice re- elected without opposition. In October, 1871, he was nominated by the Democratic County Con- vention for County Commissioner, but the district being largely republican he was defeated. In May, 1874, he disposed of his business to his partner, and removed to Caledonia, where he has since suc- cessfully conducted the hardware, stove, and tin trade. He was elected village Trustee in April, 1877, and the following April, elected village Clerk, and re-elected at each succeeding election to the present time. In October, 1879, he was elected Judge of Probate on the democratic ticket,
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