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Elliot, Archibald.
Brooks, Ariel H.
Enoch, Absalom M.
Brown, W.
Fabrick, Lewis N.
Brown, George.
Falls, James.
Brown, Thomas R.
Faley, Michael.
Bullard, Samuel.
Finch, David G.
Buskins, James H.
Finch, Solomon B.
Carter, Amos C.
Fisher, George C.
Carey, Michael.
Fogarty, Patrick.
Card, Levi A.
Fountain, Frederick.
Chase, Albert S.
Foss, Anton.
Chase, Kesley A.
Frost, John.
Chambers, Hamlin.
Gaffer, William.
Chambers, O. F.
Gates, Thomas.
Chrisman, Lawrence.
Geisinger, S.
Clark, Henry.
Gibson, Samuel T.
Clemons, Henry M.
Gifford, Andrew J.
Clow, John E.
Godewoth, Otto.
Grant, Santa.
Collins, William E. Cook, Fayette.
Guttormson, Gull.
Cooley, Henry D.
Hadley, Lafayette.
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Haines, Hiram. Hall, N. B. Hall, Leslie.
Kingston, William D. Laflesh, Henry.
Lange, Charles J.
Hall, Addison.
Loder, John W.
Halmson, Oleson.
Lovejoy, George W.
Hamilton, Bernard.
Hart, Albert.
Loy, John. Loy, Owen.
Harvey, A. H.
Luce, William.
Hawkins, J. F. M.
Luce, David.
Hawkins, George W.
Ludwig, D. T.
Hewitt, Charles.
Lyons, Edward M. Magginnis, C. Ambrose.
Hightchen, Isaac C. Hinman, Justice R.
Markham, William.
Hoag, Richard A.
Markham, Daniel.
Horton, Samuel.
McCumber, R. B.
Hotchkiss, Frederick N.
McGrey, Alexander.
Hovey, Alonzo. Howard, Henry H. Howe, William L. Howland, A. J.
Mckay, Hugh.
Hoyt, Albert. Hubbard, Isaac.
McMinds, William W.
Huggins, John P.
Metcalf, Samuel S.
Hunter. Thomas.
Mayette, Joseph C.
Hutchins, George.
Meyers, Charles.
Hutchins, Marion.
Miller, Lewis H.
Hyatt, Amos.
Miller, Samuel A.
Minson, Nelson D.
Morey, Chauncey.
Mosher, Walker.
Mott, Samuel.
Nicholas, Horace E.
Olds, Thomas B. Oleson, Frank. Olson, Martin.
Jenkins, Charles E.
Orcutt, Edward H.
Johnson, Franklin.
Orcutt, Charles L.
Johnsing, Elling. Jones, Orrin W. Jones, Henry R. Jones, Orvin W. Jones, William M.
Parmerlee, W. H. Patterson, John. Peck, Henry. Peckham, Martin L.
Kelly, Lewis H.
Kern, John. Kidd, Lawrence.
Pennell, Henry. Perry, George. Phipps, Francis E. Pike, Delos.
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Heller, Francis.J.
Malmson, Mathew.
McGowan, William. McGollg, George.
McMillan, Alexander.
McMillen, A. J.
Ireland, Charles F. Ireland, Mortimer H. Irish, Galusha. Ives, Stephen. Iverson, L. Jacobs, Henry. Jefferson, Thomas.
Johnson, James A.
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Pollock, Robert.
Stevens, August.
Reardon, Timothy W.
Stocking, Frank.
Renhardts, William K.
Story, Zachus.
Reynolds, James G.
Swartz, William.
Reynolds, James.
Sylvester, Bedal.
Reynolds, H. C.
Taylor, Samuel.
Rymal, John J.
Terrill, T. M.
Rheigleg, George W. L.
Thayer, Solon C.
Richardson, John.
Thoreson, James.
Rice, Albert M.
Thurber, Charles E.
Sage, H. S.
Turgeson, Andrew.
Saville, George.
Van Dooser, J. F.
Sayer, Horace B.
Vaught, Henry.
Sayer, Henry.
Wagoner, Joseph H.
Scharf, John.
Wagoner, Edward.
Schwab, Cyrus.
Walter, John.
Seamans, L. A.
Walch, John.
Seamans, Randolph.
Walden, Ira G.
Shaw, Alexander.
Wallingford, John N.
Shay, Martin.
Wentworth, George.
Sherman, G. W.
Westman, John.
Sherman, Albert C.
Whitcomb, Valentine O.
Sherman, George C.
Whips, James.
Sloan, Elijah.
Williams, William.
Smith, George W.
Williams, Joseph H.
Smith, Gilbert.
Williams, Talesian.
Smith, Robert J.
Williamson, Robert.
Smith, Adam.
Willett, C. Preston.
Smith, Martin L.
Wilson, Daniel M.
Spring, Thomas.
Wolfe, George.
Steel, Mathew.
Worden, Henry D.
Stearns, Ozro P.
Wright, Thomas C.
Stevens, William A.
Wraugham, William B.
Stevenson, John.
Wynkoop, William.
ROCK DELL.
Barnes, Joel S. Christin, Alfred.
Humason, Charles J.
Madden, John F.
Christopherson, Kittle.
McCue, William H.
Cole, George. Conat, Thomas H.
Pixley, Melville G.
Roske, William.
Curtis, Samuel.
Russell, James H.
Ellison, Syvert.
Steyba, John A.
Hall, William M.
Watson, William H.
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Shepley, Richard.
Williams, John.
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Adams, Edwin H. Anderson, Anderson. Anduton, William W. Ankers, William H. Annis, George. Barney, Theodore. Barnhart, Benjamin. Bascom, Orwin M.
SALEM
Johnson, Christian.
Kinney, James H. Knapp, Harrison.
Langley, D. A.
March, Joseph.
March, Joseph W. Marquette, George.
Bisky, Martin.
McCoy, Andrew C.
Brooks, George T.
McMaster, David.
Brooks, H. W.
McDonald, A.
Buschtt, Henreich.
Mulligan, James.
Cronin, John.
Northrup, Samuel.
Cromwell, Byron.
Northrup, Walter D.
Dodge, John H.
Pehle, Anton.
Dooley, M. H.
Perry, Dudley.
Drake, George.
Peterson, Andrew.
Dresbach, A. L.
Price, Rufus H.
Ellifson, Syvert. Ellison, Joseph.
Ricker, Charles S.
Emerson, John. Fogarty, William. Garman, David C.
Smith, Henry R.
Solem, H. O.
Gould, Elmer F.
Spaulding, Augustus W.
Spooner, John W.
Steel, James. Stoddard, Edwin D.
Stoleson, Barnt. Tomlinson, Samuel.
Trumble, Israel. Wakefield, H. B.
Wait, Alfred.
Allen, James P. Battles, John. Bear, M. R. Bidwall, V. A. Booth, John. Brannan, James. Bryan, Thomas. Bunch, Quinton. Calvert, R. A.
VIOLA.
Calvert, S. D. Campbell, Wesley. Cunningham, Jefferson. Cutter, Marshall. Doty, A. V. Farrier, Granville. Golding, William E. Harkins, Abram. Henry, Edgar.
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Green, Sayles R. Green. Clark L. Gunderson, Peter. Holt, Albert. Hurd, Herbert G. Hurd, Albert B. Hurd, Charles E. Jago, Patrick.
Reiter, Adolph.
Smith, Henry.
Olden, Esmond.
Delancy, Albert.
Niles, Henry.
Cornell, Henry D.
McCoy, Luther.
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Ketchum, G. W.
Rutledge, John.
Kitchell, Prince A.
Shaul, Lemuel.
Kitchel, E. M.
Shenton, H. W.
Leeson, Robert.
Stanard, Hiram R.
Mack, George.
Stulenberger, Elias.
Morse, W. F.
Stulenberger, David.
Oaks, Elihu J.
Swan, William.
Palmer, George.
Wagon, Jacob.
Pendigrass, J. W.
Watson, Charles.
Potter, Theodore E.
Webster, Alden.
Powers, James.
Williams, David.
Ray, Francis.
The county commissioners at this January session, 1900, sub- mitted the question of appropriating a sum not exceeding $2,500 for the erection of a monument on the court house grounds at Rochester, in honor of the Olmsted county soldiers in the War of the Rebellion, to be voted on at the election in November of that year.
A committee appointed by Custer Post, G. A. R., brought the subject before every township in the county, urging the people to vote for the appropriation, but at the election in November it was defeated. There were 1,961 votes in favor of the proposition and 1,695 against it. While there was a small favorable majority of the votes cast on that question, the law required, for the success of the proposition, a majority of all the votes cast at the election. The total of votes on president being 4,306, it required 2,154 votes to carry the appropriation, and there being only 1,961 votes in its favor, it was lost. Six hundred and fifty voters failed to vote on that question. The proposition failed through indifference. A decided majority of the voters did not care to remember the Union soldiers. The tax would have amounted to 75 cents on a quarter section valued at $2,500.
A post of the Grand Army of the Republic was organized in Rochester in March, 1868, with the following officers : Commander, O. P. Stearns; senior vice commander, J. Fisher; junior vice com- mander, D. H. Williams; adjutant, J. F. Van Dooser; quarter- master, C. M. Start. It was given the title of McPherson Post, No. 13, which was afterward changed to George H. Thomas Post. Col. James George was commander several years. It was a live organization, but, like several other posts of that period, it dwin- dled till, in 1875, it was disbanded.
But the comradeship survived, and Custer Post, No. 44, was organized in September, 1883, with fifty members and the follow- ing officers : Commander, Henry M. Richardson; senior vice com- mander, Holden R. Smith; junior vice commander, Joseph H.
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Wagoner; adjutant, Amos Hyatt; surgeon, J. K. Knapp; chap- lain, Thomas O. McCabe; quartermaster, Gustavus Hargesheimer; officer of the day, Charles Van Campen; officer of guard, Ed. Schwartz; sergeant major, J. R. Morrison; quartermaster ser- geant, W. H. Earle.
Custer Woman's Relief Corps, No. 28, was organized in 1887, with nineteen charter members and the following officers: Presi- dent, Mrs. M. E. Cross; senior vice president, Mrs. A. A. Will- iams; junior vice president, Miss Nellie Ballard; secretary, Mrs. T. A. Runyan; treasurer, Mrs. A. V. Eckholdt; chaplain, Mrs. L. A. Ennis; conductor, Mrs. S. E. Horn; assistant conductor, Mrs. N. J. Eastmond; guard, Mrs. F. M. Wrought; assist- ant guard, Miss Lulu Hargesheimer. The corps now num- bers fifty members, with the following officers: President, Isa- belle Stewart; senior vice president, Emma Rogers; junior vice president, Anna Gilman; chaplain, Mary Vosburg; secretary, E. Mae Stone; treasurer, Josephine Seaman; conductor, Elizabeth Woodford; guard, Mary Kuensel; assistant conductor, Agnes Donahue; assistant guard, Ellen Pease; patriotic instructor, Fran- ces Bearbaun; musician, Gertrude Dale; color bearers, Alice Web- ster, Lottie Colvin, Sarah Horn, Emeline Pett. The corps is in a flourishing condition and is doing a great deal of relief work.
Major Mckinley Camp, No. 5, of the Sons of Veterans, was organized in November, 1901, with the following membership: C. E. Callaghan, H. J. Richardson, Fred A. Root, H. A. Van Campen, A. H. McCoy, George S. Hannon, A. M. Dresbach, W. J. Tyler, Paul Hargesheimer, Frank W. Gilbert, George H. Knowl- ton, W. O. Campbell, Lauren E. Pollock, W. B. Richardson, George E. Stewart, Clarence Stewart, Samuel P. Crandell, George Pollock, N. C. Pollock, C. H. Wagoner, Thomas Fraser, Arthur Hicks, H. Wrought, J. P. Dibble. J. E. Berg, William Friedell, F. C. Ormond, M. Sweeney.
Harold J. Richardson was captain; George S. Hannon, first lieu- tenant, and Homer A. Van Campen, second lieutenant. The camp was not kept up.
The post has been the means of securing the annual observance of Decoration Day, which has been one of the great celebrations of Rochester. Every year the post and relief corps and the militia company, with other organizations, have paraded to Oakland Ceme- tery, where the graves have been decorated; and generally a public patriotic meeting has been held in the afternoon. The occasions have attracted great crowds from all over the county.
The first observance in Rochester of Decoration Day, the 30th of May, was held in 1870. A meeting was held at School House Hall, with prayer and music, and addressed by Hon. Mark H. Dunnell, the State superintendent of instruction. Colonel George,
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commander of McPherson Post, presided. A procession, under the direction of Maj. J. C. Hamilton, marched from the school house to the cemetery. The procession was headed by a band; a floral car carried thirteen young ladies in white and black scarfs. They were: Ida Olds, Hattie Jones, Ella Markham, Mary Mark- ham, Florence Garland, Leafy Andrews, Helen Cross, Ella Rickert, Gertie Brown, Anna Evans, Nettie Everstine, Carrie Crook and Edna Emrick. Three omnibuses carried soldiers' widows and orphans. The Grand Army of the Republic, with a drum corps, numbered about fifty, and there were as many more other veterans; the Turners; scholars of the public schools, 820, with their teachers, every one carrying a bouquet or wreath; ending with a long pro- cession of private vehicles and persons afoot. The procession in- cluded not less than five thousand persons. At the cemetery the graves were decorated by the young ladies; votive bouquets and wreaths were hung on a cross, and brief speeches were made by Col. O. P. Stearns, Rev. J. W. Keys, Capt. J. A. Leonard, Maj. C. E. Behle and Chaplain D. Cobb. The number of people who came from outside the city was estimated at not less than three thousand.
John B. Wooldridge Post, No. 175, was organized at Stewart- ville, March 15, 1893. It was named in honor of a volunteer from High Forest township. The charter members were: Eugene S. Wooldridge, G. D. Knox, John Brin, O. P. Shaffer, D. W. Wil- helm, L. G. Fish, L. J. Duncanson, T. R. Mason, F. Zierath, W. L. Humason, E. M. Schermerhorn and D. Toogood.
The charter, with books and all other post property, was de- stroyed by fire December 7, 1897, and a new charter was issued December 8. The post has twenty-three members and is prosper- ous. It has had the following commanders: E. S. Wooldridge, G. D. Knox, J. S. Pierson, A. P. Douglass, W. F. Glover and Thomas E. Kennedy. The present officers are: Commander, J. N. Rutledge; senior vice commander, W. F. Glover; junior vice com- mander, George F. Allen; adjutant, G. D. Knox; quartermaster, J. S. Pierson; chaplain, L. J. Duncanson; surgeon, John Brin; officer of the day, E. M. Schermerhorn. The post has been very successful in perpetuating the observance of Decoration Day.
John B. Wooldridge Woman's Relief Corps was organized at High Forest village, May 10, 1895, by Mrs. Henrietta Dusen, of Eyota, with seventeen members. The first officers were: President, Lucia R. Crumb; vice president, Dorcas Burton; junior vice presi- dent, Josephine Brin; treasurer, Levira Pierson; chaplain, Mrs. Frank Vail; conductor, Lenah Buck; guard, Lucia M. Gaskill; secretary, Edna Armstrong. The present officers are: President, Maggie Rutledge; senior vice president, Sarah E. Monette; junior vice president, Louise Severson; treasurer. Alice Murphy; chap-
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lain, Adelie Duncanson; conductor, Dorcas Burton; guard, Levira Pierson; secretary, Josephine Brin. The corps is very efficient.
Olmsted county had not the representation in the Spanish-Amer- ican War to which it was entitled. Efforts were made to obtain authority from the governor to raise a company, but no encourage- ment was given. In June, 1898, a company was enrolled, with George A. Van Smith, captain; L. H. Vokes, first lieutenant, and Fred Ormond, second lieutenant, and ninety-five privates, but the promise to call it into service was not fulfilled.
A reception was given by Custer Post, G. A. R., in November, 1899, to three Olmsted county returned volunteers in the Spanish War-Ed. Van Slyke, Frank Barbridge and Charles Huny. At a meeting of the post they were welcomed by the commander, J. A. Leonard, and speeches were made by Comrade C. Van Campen and Rev. Frank Doran. Interesting references to their experiences were made in reply by the guests of the evening, and a fine supper was enjoyed, served by the ladies of the Woman's Relief Corps.
The remains of Carl M. Thygeson, a Rochester young man who enlisted in the State of Washington, as a sharpshooter, and was killed at Manila, were brought home to Rochester and buried in March, 1900. He was honored with a funeral in which the Danish Brotherhood. Company D of the militia, Custer Post, G. A. R., and the Knights of Pythias participated.
The body of Guy L. Whitlock, a young man of High Forest, who died in the army in the Philippines, was brought home and buried from Stewartville in March, 1900. The funeral services were joined in by the Stewartville Drum Corps, the Stewartville squad of Company F, and comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Andrew Larson, a young man from Byron, of the regular army, was killed in battle in the Philippines, and his remains were brought home for burial in October, 1901. Members of Company F of the State militia, of Rochester, attended the funeral and gave him a soldier's burial.
Several efforts have been made to keep up a militia company in Rochester, but not with permanent success. Such a company was organized in September, 1871, with J. P. Clelland as captain, D. A. Morrison as first lieutenant, and F. B. Van Dusen as second lieu- tenant. The company died out.
In October, 1898, a company was formed. with George A. Van Smith as captain, Fred Ormond as first lieutenant. and Harry Doran as second lieutenant, and was mustered into the State service as Company H, Fourth Regiment, Minnesota National Guard. This organization was flourishing for several years, but was disbanded in 1906, when Fred Ormond, who had been captain several years, moved to the Pacific coast. The physically fit young men find all the exercise and drill that they want in baseball and football.
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EVENTS OF 1861 TO 1866.
N the legislative session of 1861 Stiles P. Jones was senator and Abram Harkins and William K. Tattersall representatives- all Republicans. Mr. Jones died in the middle of his term, in 1861.
In the fall of 1861 John V. Daniels was elected to the senate to fill the unfinished term of Mr. Jones. He was born in Scoharie county, New York, and went to Tioga county, where he was suc- cessively a school teacher and merchant, and to Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where he was a lumberman. He came to Rochester in 1856 and engaged in the real-estate business, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Asahel Smith. He was postmaster for a short time under President Buchanan, and up to the time of receiving the Republican nomination to succeed Jones, had been a promi- nent Democrat. He became a leader in the Republican party, and served during eleven sessions as either state senator or representa- tive, being representative when his death occurred, in 1881. In 1864 he was appointed one of the commissioners who took the votes of the Minnesota soldiers in service in the South. He was mayor of Rochester one term, and for several years local trustee of the Rochester State Hospital. He was a delegate to the Repub- lican national convention which nominated Garfield. He estab- lished the Union National Bank of Rochester. He had a high reputation for integrity and was popular with the mass of the people. His son, Capt. Milton J. Daniels, was recently a representa- tive in congress from California.
David Blakely was clerk of the house of representatives in the sessions of 1861 and 1862. He was a native of the State of New York, and while a lad his parents moved to Vermont, where he learned printing, and lived till 1856, when he came to Bancroft, Mower county, Minnesota, and established a newspaper in the interest of the proprietors of the townsite. The speculation not proving successful, he moved to Austin, where he published a paper and was register of deeds. In 1859 he moved to Rochester and, in partnership with Cyrenus H., a younger brother, established the Rochester City Post. He was secretary of state two terms. In 1865 he sold the Post to Leonard & Booth, and removed to Chi- cago, where he published the Evening Post and was United States pension agent and proprietor of a large printing office. He after- wards was publisher of the St. Paul Pioneer, and later had charge
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of the Tribune printing office at Minneapolis. He went east as the manager of the celebrated Gilmore's Band, and after that of the Sousa Band, and was engaged in other important musical enter- prises. All his undertakings were on a large scale, and he had the faculty of impressing others with his plans. He died in the city of New York in 1896.
In 1861 Orlen P. Whitcomb was elected county treasurer ; Ozoro P. Stearns, county attorney, and Reuben Reynolds, clerk of the court-all Republicans. Mr. Whitcomb held the office of treasurer for eight years. Mr. Reynolds was clerk four years.
Ozoro P. Stearns was a native of Ohio and a graduate of the law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and came to Rochester for the practice of his profession in 1859. He was young, well in- formed, and a ready speaker, and became popular. In 1862 he became captain of Company F of the Ninth Regiment, and served till the end of the war. He became colonel of a colored regiment and saw active service in the Army of the Potomac. He was engaged in the desperate assault on Petersburg. He was, at the close of his service, provost marshal. He returned to Rochester after the war and resumed the practice of law. He was appointed register of bankruptcy in 1867. He was elected by the legislature, in 1871, United States senator, to fill out the unexpired term of David S. Norton, deceased. He was mayor of Rochester in 1866. He moved to Duluth in 1872, where he became a large owner of real estate, and was judge of the district court.
Reuben Reynolds had a varied career. He was first a Methodist and then a Congregational minister, preaching in New York State and later in Michigan, and came to Rochester in 1855 and took up a claim on the northern edge of the city. He organized the Con- gregational church of Rochester and preached in the log school house east of the river, which was the original church and school building. He became a free thinker and organized a society for the propagation of such opinions, and lectured at Rochester, St. Charles and other places. He had been city justice, and after two terms as clerk of the court, became judge of probate, and then, after middle age, became a lawyer and moved, in 1870, to Alexandria, in this State, where he found his vocation and achieved success in the law. In 1872 he was made receiver of the United States land office at Detroit, Minnesota. In 1878 he removed to Crookston and in 1885 was appointed judge of that district. He died at Crookston in 1889, aged seventy years. He was a man of keen intellect and as a speaker had a style of concise and lucid statement that was extraor- dinary. We have never heard a speaker who, without imagination or humor, could by mere force of intellect and clearness and pre- cision of statement, hold an audience interested in any subject upon which he chose to talk as he could.
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In the session of 1862, with Daniels in the senate, the representa- tives were Thomas Harris, of Orion, and F. Johnson, of Quincy.
Thomas Harris was one of the founders of the village of Cum- mingsville, establishing a steam saw mill there in 1855. He enlisted in the army, and after the close of his service removed from the State. He was an energetic, intelligent man of much force of character.
F. Johnson was a proprietor of the flour mill at Quincy. He was a reputable and intelligent business man and stood high in the esti- mation of his neighbors.
The county commissioners for 1862 were Thomas Brooks, Amos Parks, of Farmington; Samuel H. Nichols, of Salem; J. M. Green- man, of Dover, and Thomas Harris-all Republicans. Commis- sioner Parks served eight years. Amos Parks was a native of the State of New York. He was a pioneer farmer in Wisconsin from 1846 to 1857, when he settled on a farm in Farmington township. He was a man of cordial manners and thorough integrity, and became a favorite with his townsmen. He was chairman of super- visors of the township, assessor and justice of the peace. In the latter office he insisted on a settlement of all cases brought before him, even when cases were referred to him from other justices. He was county commissioner for eight years. He died in August, 1893.
Samuel H. Nichols was a farmer, born in Massachusetts, and an early settler in Salem township. He became assistant clerk to the house of representatives at St. Paul in 1869. He moved to Fergus Falls and was clerk of the supreme court from 1876 to 1887. He removed to the State of Washington.
J. N. Greenman was an early settler in Dover township. He removed to Austin, Minnesota, where he became a successful law- yer, and has been city attorney, county attorney, and is now in his third term as judge of probate.
The county commissioners for 1863 were William D. Hurlbut, of Rochester; Amos Parks, S. H. Nichols, George Stocking, of Rochester, and J. P. Moulton, of Marion. Mr. Hurlbut served as commissioner seven years, when he resigned. He was chairman of the board during the whole of his service.
William D. Hurlbut was a native of the State of New York, born in 1820. He was an accountant in New York City, and in 1843 went to Chio, where he was interested in a woolen mill, and became a partner with James N. Coe in merchandising. He came to Rochester in 1856 and engaged in money loaning and dealing in real estate. He was mayor of Rochester in 1860. He was well educated and of scholarly tastes, practical, and unusually well in- formed on a variety of subjects. He made a study of geology and his observations on the geology of this county are quoted in the
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official report of State Geologist N. H. Winchell, issued in 1882. He visited California for the benefit of his health, and died there in February, 1903.
Rev. George Stocking was a native of Connecticut and went to Ohio with his father's family in his infancy. In 1848 he was ordained a Methodist minister, and spent eight years as a member of the Erie conference. He came to Minnesota in 1857 and was six years a farmer in Eyota township, after which he moved to Rochester and did a successful business as a groceryman and dealer in chinaware. He was justice of the peace one term in Eyota and one in Rochester. He was a correct business man and of the strict- est integrity. He died in 1892.
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