History of Ramsey County and the city of St. Paul, including the Explorers and pioneers of Minnesota, Part 95

Author: Warner, George E; Foote, Charles M., joint author; Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield), 1823-1893. Explorers and pioneers of Minnesota. 1n; Williams, J. Fletcher (John Fletcher), 1834-1895. Outlines of the history of Minnesota
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Minneapolis, North Star Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 684

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J. H. Harris was born at Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1847. While young he moved with his parents to Ottawa, Illinois, there grew to manhood, and served his first apprenticeship at his trade. In February, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry,

and served until honorably discharged in 1865, then returned to his home, and completed his trade. In November, 1879, he took charge of the Norwegian Plow works, at Beloit, Wisconsin, and remained there until he came to this city to superintend the St. Paul Plow works. Mr. Har- ris married Mary Malony, at Dixon, Illinois, in 1872. Two children have been born to them.

G. R. Hart, a native of New Hampshire, was born at Conway, April 18th, 1826. He came to St. Paul in June, 1854, and engaged as foreman for Stees and IIunt, in the furniture business, which position he still holds. Mr. Hart has been one of the hard working men of the city for the past twenty-seven years, and has succeeded in earning a competency for support in his declining years. In July, 1861, he married Julia Parry who died October 6th, 1876, leaving one son, George R .; their daughter, Julia A. died in 1875, aged eleven years.

George Hasenzahl, proprietor of the Eureka meat market, is a native of Germany; he was born in 1854. In October, 1871, he came to St. Paul and with the exception of one year, passed on a farm, worked for different parties at the butcher's trade until 1878, when in company with Jolın Moritz he opened a Market on Mississippi street, where he remained till August, 1880, when he sold his interest and removed to his present location, 280 Fort street, where lie has a conven- ient building and is doing a prosperous business. He married Caroline Flemmer, of St. Paul, Sep- tember 12th, 1880. They have one child.

Edwin Aaron Clark IIatch, right of way agent for St. P. M. and M. railroad, located at St. Paul in 1849. Previous to coming here he had resided at LaCrosse, Wisconsin, where in 1846 he held the position of postmaster. In 1855 he was United States Indian agent for the Blackfeet, and in 1860 deputy collector for the port of St. Paul. In the late war Mr. Hatch was major of Hatch's Independent Battalion, Minnesota Vol- unteers. Ilis marriage with the daughter of A. T. C. Pierson took place in this city in 1857.

Peter Haupers a native of Germany, was born November 2d, 1837. In August, 1846, he went to Chicago, Illinois, and in 1854 removed to St. Paul; here he was engaged in blacksmithing until 1867, when he became a partner with George Mitsch in the wagon manufacturing business,

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which he continued successfully until February, 1881, when he withdrew from the firm and retired from business. In 1862 occurred his marriage with Barbary Stoltz of Bavaria. They have had seven children, one daughter and five sons are now living.

Abner IIaycock, born in St. Paul, June 4th, 1850, is a son of John and Fanny Haycock; the father a native of Maine, and the mother of New Brunswick. The family came to St. Paul in 1848; here Abner grew to manhood and received his education in the schools of this city. From April, 1870, until 1873, he carried on a grocery trade at the corner of Robert and Seventh streets, then he began dealing in wood and has since done a prosperous business in that line. Febru- ary 25th, 1873, he married Katie Haley, of Bloom- ing Prairie, Steele county. They have three children; Charley, Walter and Clara.

George Henry Hazzard, a native of Delaware, and son of Henry O. and Elizabeth Hazzard, was born December 5th, 1846. When a small boy he went to the Falls of St. Croix, and attended the common schools of that place and Taylor's Falls. In 1861 he secured a position as bell boy in the Sawyer house at Stillwater, and the next year started on the II. S. Allen, as cabin boy, but was soon promoted to mail agent. IIe afterward clerked with Captain I. Gray for four or five sea- sons, and in the winter of 1865 he became mes- senger in the house of representatives. October 14th, 1867, he married Hannah E. Hoyt who came to St. Paul with her parents in 1847. The past seven years Mr. Hazzard has held an import- ant position as agent of the various lines of steam- ers on the Red River, and for three and one-half years has been agent of the M. and St. L. rail- road.

Isaac V. D. Heard was born August 31st, 1834, at Goshen, Orange county, New York. He was given an academic education, and at the age of eighteen he left home, locating in St. Paul, April 28th, 1851. He acted as clerk in the law offices of Wilken and Van Etten, Ames and Van Etten, and Rice, Hollinshead and Becker. Mr. Heard was a member of the Cullen Guards, adjutant of mounted militia, a member of General Sibley's staff, and acting judge advocate of military com- mission on trial of the participants in the Sioux war of 1862. He was also prosecuting attorney

of Ramsey county eight years, city attorney of St. Paul two and one-half years, and in 1872 was state senator. While acting as city attorney, he gave recommendation to city council which re- sulted in the establishment of the State Reform School.

John Heber was born in 1843, in Germany. He was educated at the high school of his native place, and in 1856 he emigrated to the United States. IIe was employed on a farm in Winona, Minnesota about six months, and in 1866, came to St. Paul; here he worked six years in a saloon. Since 1879 he has been proprietor of the Minne- sota house. This hotel accommodates about fifty guests. Mr. IIeber married Mary Thill, in . this city, in 1873. They have had six children. Only one is living, Jacob.

Peter Heck, a native of Germany, was born September 22d, 1852. He came to St. Paul, May 28th, 1871, and worked six months in C. Stahl- man's brewery ; after which he learned the black- smith's trade with Nicholas Wagner, and was then employed by C. Kersch until December, 1877, when he opened a shop at No. 17 West Fourth street, where he is doing a successful business in wagon manufacturing and general blacksmithing. He married Mary Garlach of this city, February 19th, 1878. They have one daugh- ter and one son.

Rev. Robert Hickman was born in Boone county, Missouri, in January, 1831, and was a slave until Abraham Lincoln issued his Emanci- pation Proclamation. As soon as that had gone into effect, Mr. Hickman came north, and has since lived in St. Paul. He preached twelve years in Missouri, while yet a slave, and for eighteen years has been pastor of the Pilgrim Baptist church. He was married in Missouri, to Minta Joshua. They have five children living : John Henry, Robert Thomas, George Randall, David and Edith Rebecca.

Gottfried Heimbach, a native of Germany, was born in 1828. He received there a common school education, and came to the United States in 1847. He located at Detroit, Michigan, learned the trade of mason and remained there until 1855, when he came to St. Paul. Here he worked at his trade, and at the same time kept a boarding house. In 1874, he opened a sample room on Dakota Avenue. IIe married at Detroit, in 1852,

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Henrietta Hansdorf, who has borne him nine children: the living are, Edward, Albert, Emma, Otto, Clara and Hattie.

Gustave Heinemann was born in Germany, in 1848, and familiarized himself with the dry goods business in his native country. In 1870, he came to America, and locating in St. Paul, he engaged with Lindeke brothers as salesman. In a short time he returned to Europe, but the same year came to this city again, and was then employed by Leopold and Company, of Chicago, two years, after which he opened a dry goods store in Chas- ka, where he did business three years; then sold, and in 1878, in company with Charles Esterley, started their business in half of the place they at present occupy. The building is now 85x52 feet, having been enlarged to double its former size; they also control the third story of the adjacent building. Mr. Heinemann married, at St. Paul, in 1874, Mary Seeger. Erna, Paul and Olga are their children.

Constantin Heinrich, a native of Germany, was born September 2d, 1846. He came to America in 1866, and located in St. Paul, his parents fol- lowing in 1870. In May, 1867, he was employed as errand boy by C. Gotzian and Company, and three years later went on the road as traveling sales- man. In 1872, he became interested as a partner. Barbara Cech became his wife in 1869, and has borne him four children: Laura E., Frank T., Ada and Gilbert.

Carl'A. Hildebrand was born in 1845, in Ger- many, where he attended the common schools un- til fourteen years of age, then learned the shoe- maker's trade, serving as apprentice four years. In 1874 he came to St. Paul, and followed his trade here until 1880, when he opened a boarding house and saloon at 448 St. Peter street. Ilis marriage with Elizabeth Elsenpeter took place in Germany, in 1871. Of the five children born to them but two are living: Caroline and Carl L.

Charles F. Helm, a native of Germany, was born in 1849. In 1871, he came to the United States and clerked in a boot and shoe store at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, one year, then removed to Wisconsin where he lived five years. In 1876.he came to this city, and for three years was fore- men in a boot and shoe store. At the East Sev- enth street bridge, he started in April, 1880, a summer garden with sample room and restaurant.

Eugene Alvin Hendrickson, son of W. G. Hen- drickson, of Kentucky, who came to St. Paul in 1850, and Melvine Moffet, of Pennsylvania, who came here in 1847, was born December 2d. 1853, in Ramsey county, being among the first white children born in the territory of Minnesota. He graduated from the State University of Minne- sota in 1876, with degrees of B. S. and C. E., then read law, and in 1878, graduated from the law department of the State University of Iowa, with degree of L. L. B., also took the advanced course in the same department. He was admit- ted to practice in 1878, and the same year located in St. Paul. Mr. Hendrickson has held the office of superintendent of schools of Ramsey county, since January 1st, 1879. Was re-elected in 1880, for the term of two years.

C. E. Herzog was born at Racine, Wisconsin, May 29th, 1855. He attended the common schools there until 1865, when he went to Hastings, Min- nesota, and remained until 1870; then he removed to Minneapolis and took the position of foreman of the North-western Fence Works, which are owned by his father. In January, 1879, he came to St. Paul and engaged in business for himself; he is the senior member of the firm owning the St. Paul fence works and planing mill situa- ted on Eighth street, between Minnesota and Cedar streets.

Dan Herzog, son of Adam and Anna Maria Herzog, was born at Sembach, Germany. IIe was educated in the common schools of Germany and immigrated to this country in 1864. Lived about four years at Lafayette, Indiana, and then removed to Omaha, Nebraska; thence in 1870, to Sioux City, Iowa, where he remained until 1876; since that time he has been a resident of St. Paul. Mr. Herzog has a restaurant and billiard hall, among the finest of the kind in the city. He married in 1871, Anna Scherrer, of Sioux City.

Darius R. Hevener, son of Valentine and Eliza Hevener, was born at Clearfield, Pennsylvania, May 9th, 1847. He acquired a good education and lived at home on his father's farm near Lake City, Minnesota, where they had located in the spring of 1860, until he entered a store at Lake City, in 1867. About three years later he came to St. Paul and attended the commercial college, after which he was employed as clerk by W. H. Temple for one year. Mr. Hevener was with

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different firms of this city in the capacity of book-keeper or salesman until January 1st, 1881, when he engaged with Lindekes, Warner and Schurmeier as general salesman in the dry-goods department of their wholesale business. . His marriage with Sarah L. Woods, of St. Paul, oc- cured November 8th, 1872.

F. V. Heyderstaedt, a native of Germany, was born in 1832, and when twenty years of age emi- grated to the United States. IIe lived in Wis- consin and Illinois until the spring of 1855 when · he came to St. Paul and engaged to work in a commercial establishment for $250 per year. Soon the Minnesota river valley began to be set- tled largely by Germans, and thinking it a good chance to establish himself in trade, Mr. Heyder- stated located at Belle Plaine in 1858. In August of the same year he married Wilhelmina Rudolph, also a native of Germany. They have no child- ren. In 1866 he returned to this city and engaged with some success, in buying and selling grain, and dealing in produce and provisions, which led in 1869 to pork packing. In 1870-'71 he built the two stores now numbered 151 and 153 East Seventh street; one of them he now occupies as grain and commission merchant.

George Noel Higginson was born in Canada in 1833. He received a collegiate education and in 1878 came to St. Paul, where his first business en- gagement was with the Red River Transportation company; since July, 1869, he has been clerk of motive power, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manito- ba railway. Mr. IFigginson is unmarried.

E. W. Hildebrand was born February 12th, 1845, at Mount Vernon, Ohio. When a small boy he went with his parents to Chesterville, thence in 1863 to Centralia, Illinois, where he learned machinists trade and then spent one year on the Illinois Central railroad. In 1866 he came to St. Paul; worked on the railroad and at other pur- suits until October, 1869, when he was appointed fireman on the engine of Minehaha steamer No. 2, and since 1871 he has filled the position of en- gineer. He was married at this place in 1873, to Katie Gorman, who died April 17th, 1881. They had four children: Daniel, Ida May, and twins named Nettie and Annie. The latter died at the age of one year.

Albert Hill was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1842. In 1857 he moved to Iowa and resided

there until 1877, when he came to St. Paul and engaged in the livery business; his stable, situ- ated at the corner of Fourth and Exchange streets, is of brick, two stories in heiglit, and fifty by one hundred and fifty feet in size. Mr. Hill does an extensive business in buying and selling . horses, and at Keokuk, Iowa, owns a large stable where he keeps horses for the southern market. In 1865 he married Josephine Ogden, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. They have two boys: Harland and Frank. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Sixth Iowa Infantry, and served two years and three months.

George Hill, a native of Germany, was born in 1833 and came to America in 1853. He spent the first three years in New York and eastern Penn- sylvania; at the latter place he learned his trade. From 1856 until 1859 he was a resident of Chaska, Minnesota; he then removed to this city and was in the employ of different firms until 1861, since which time he has been foreman of the manufac- turing department of C. Gotzian's business. In 1860 he married Julia Rossbach, who is of Ger- man parentage, but a native of France. Mrs. Hill was born in 1844 and came to this city in 1852. She studied medicine with lier mother, who was a practical physician, and for a number of years has followed that profession. Their child- ren are Rotilda, Emma, Bernetta and George A.

J. K. Hilyard, Sr., was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 17th, 1830. When fourteen years of age he went to Bedford county to reside, and two years after removed to Philadelphia, where he was with S. Miller, proprietor of the Chestnut Street House, until 1852; he then went in the clothes renovating business, and later was employed on a steam-boat. In 1861, he engaged as clerk to a sutler in the Thirty-eightlı Indiana regiment of United States Volunteers, and after- wards was steward of the steamer Duke, then in the service of the United States government. Since 1864, he has lived at St. Paul, engaged in the clothes renovating and repairing business. Mr. Hilyard is a musician; is the director and manager of the string band which bears his name. He married Saba A. Halford of Oberlin, Ohio, June 19th, 1873. By a former marriage he had three sons: Henry T., James K. and William A .; they are all in business, and doing well.

John G. Hinkel, son of P. J. and Ann Charlotte

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Ilinkel, was born at New York city, March 29th, 1851. IIe lived one year at Buffalo, and in the spring of 1857, removed to St. Paul. Mr. Hinkel is employed as city street sprinkler; he is also one of the owners of Union Park. Isabelle Beek- man, of New York, became his wife September 8th, 1872. They have one child, Etta, aged eight years.

IIenry Hinkens was born in 1834, in Holland, and in his native country learned the trade of blacksmith. In 1850, he went to Buffalo, New York, with his parents, and thence to Milwau- kee, where he was in business with his father until 1857, when he engaged in railroad black- smithing. In the summer of 1865, he came to this city, and took charge of the blacksmith de- partment of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Mani- toba railroad shops. They run nineteen fires, and employ forty-seven workmen, and Mr. Hinken's entire attention is required to superintend the work. At Milwaukee, in 1856, he married Johan- nah Dan Den IIuey, who has borne him five children: Peter T., Meine, who is married; Vic- toria K., Jolın W. and Jennie.

Wallace P. Hodskin was born at Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1858. Engaged in the grocery and crockery trade in 1877, the firm known as II. G. Hodskin and Company. He disposed of lis inter- ests two years later, and in the spring joined D. T. Lyon in art sales. Came to St. Paul in 1880, where, in the spring of 1881, the firm of Lyon and Hodskin was formed, and established the Eureka laundry, at 163 and 165 Fort street. .

William Hofmeister, a native of Minnesota, was born in 1858. He was educated at Winona, and while there learned the trade of cigar maker with Mowery and IIess; after serving four years with that firm, he left Winona and was employed in different cities until 1879, when he located in St. Paul, and is now a partner in the firm of Camen and IIofmeister.

William Hogan, a native of Ireland, was born in 1833, in Tipperary county. In 1864 le came to St. Paul, and since that time has heen black- smithing here. ITis shop is at No. 278 East Seventh street, where he does good work and has a fair amount of trade. In the fall of 1869 he married Miss Elizabeth Stack of this place. They have had seven children, five of whom are living.

M. Ilokanson, a native of Sweden, was born September 13th, 1824. Moved to America with his wife and son in 1853; came to this city in 1856, and has since resided here with the excep- tion of three years passed in the land of his birth. Mr. Hokanson's wife died at St. Paul in July, 1876, and he married again on Christmas eve. 1877. They have an infant son. The son by his first marriage, Charles E., died at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1873. Mr. IIokanson is the owner of the building used as the North Star Mills, and is a shareholder and director in the Anchor Manufacturing Company.

Robert Holmes, foreman in the paint shop of the St. P. M. and M. railroad company, was born in 1850, at Troy, New York. At the age of five years lie accompanied his parents to St. Paul, and here learned his trade. From 1869 until 1878 lie worked as journeyman, and was then given the position he now holds; is foreman of the shops and has eighteen men under his supervision. Mary A. McGregor became his wife at St. Paul in 1872, and has born him one daughter, Jennie J.

Edmund R. Hollinshead was born February 4th, 1855, at St. Paul, and received his education here. IIe studied law and was admitted to prac- tice in the March term of court in 1877, and in January, 1881, was admitted to practice in the United States supreme court.

John W. Hope, a native of New York, was born in 1835. In 1847 he went to Chicago, Illi- nois, and thence, in 1852, to Hastings, Minnesota, where he conducted a grocery and saloon until 1857, when he removed to Faribault, and in 1860 went with ox teams to California. At the expi- ration of one year he returned to Minnesota, but went west again in 1865 and remained in the mining districts of Colorado, Arizona and Neva- da, until 1880, locating several mines in that country. He also spent some time in the govern- ment service under General Sibley. Since 1880, he has been in the livery business in St. Paul. Ilis stable, situated at 146 East Seventh street, is 50x120 feet in size, with room for forty horses. Mr. Hope has a fine stock of livery carriages, bug- gies and hacks, and is having a rapidly increas- ing trade.

George II. Hopper was born in 1851, at New Haven, Counecticut. When but five years old, his father died, and at the age of fourteen he

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went with his mother to Newark, New Jersey, where he learned the machinist's trade. He trav- eled through the West from 1870 until.1876, then came to St. Paul and entered the employ of M. Burkley. In 1878 he went to work for the com- pany he is now with, the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba, as journeyman; for several months he was in charge of the shops at Breckenridge, and finally they called him to this city to take the position of general foreman of the locomotive de- partment. September 4th, 1879, he married in this city, Martha A. Mead, who has borne him one son: Charles V., born October 2d, 1880.

Henry J. Ilorn is a son of John Horn, who was a great deal in public life and a man of consider- able influence, and Priscilla Fentham, of English pedigree. IIe was born March 25th, 1821, at Philadelphia, where he received a good knowledge of the common English branches and the classics. He read law with Henry D. Gilpin, attorney general of the United States, and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He practiced in his native city until 1855, when he settled in St. Paul. IIe has been a partner of Reuben Galusha and of W. W. Billson, but the greater part of the time has been alone, and has long occupied a place in the front rank of the Minnesota bar. By the breadth of his professional learning, and by his conscientious fidelity to court and client, he has earned the high reputation which he enjoys. Mr. Horn was a democrat until the civil war, and is now what would be called an independent republican. IIe has held but few civil offices; was city attorney for several terms. and subsequently county attor- ney and corporation council. IIe has done much toward amending and modeling the city charter, and has done good work in the school board. Mr. Horn is an elder in the House of IIope Presby- terian church. He married, September 1st, 1859, Fanny Banning, a native of Delaware. They have had seven children, three of whom have died.

Ernst Frederick IIorst was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1853. In May, 1859, he came with his parents to St. Paul and obtained his literary education in private and public schools of this city, previous to his entering Concordia college, of Fort Wayne, where he studied two years, and then two years in the North-western University of Wisconsin. IIe then commenced the study of medicine in this city, and attended lectures at the

St. Paul Preparatory Medical school. From here he went to Chicago, in 1874, to attend lectures at Rush Medical college. In 1876, he graduated as physician and surgeon, from the University Medical college, of New York city, and the same year was appointed junior assistant physician and surgeon to the hospital for ruptured and crippled, of New York city. He remained in that institu- tion until June, 1879, when he removed to St. Panl to engage in practice. He is professor of Orthopedic surgery, in the Medical college of this city.

A. W. Hostetter, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in 1851, at Lancaster. In April, 1871, he came to St. Paul, and was four years in the em- ploy of the Lake Superior and Mississippi rail- road. Since 1875 he has been with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul company, as bill clerk in the freight department.

Charles Hostetter was born in 1839, in Ger- many. At the age of fourteen years he came to the United States, and lived at New Orleans, Louisiana, until 1861, when he entered the Con- federate army as private in the Second Louisiana regiment, and served until discharged, in 1864. IIe was wounded five times, but recovered, being skillfully treated at the hospital of David's Island, New York. In 1871 he came to St. Paul, and was employed nine years, as salesman, with the firm of Powers Brothers. Since that time he has been in the liquor business. His marriage with Annie Lowenstein, occurred in Mississippi, in 1865. Florence, Bennie, Sidney and Willie are their children.

Charles II. Houck, a native of Prussia, was born in 1852. Until 1866, he remained with his parents, Frederick and Fredericka Houck. In August of that year he came to St. Paul, and has since made this city his home. In the spring of 1878, he erected the fine brick building at 226 Rice street, which he occupies as a meat market, with dwelling in the second story. It is 25x36 feet in size, and called the Union Meat Market. IIe married Susan IIahn of this place, October 21st, 1875. The children are Henry and Joseph.

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