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of the lodge. The present officers of the lodge are : Carl Krebs, N.G. ; IIermann Oswald, V.G .; Jos. Ginthner, secretary ; Lucas Kuehn, treasurer; Michael Kuehn, R.S.N.G .; Peter Taverna, L.S.N.G. ; Henry Baumgartner, R.S. V.G. ; Godfred Ruckhaber, L.S.V.G. ; J. T. Ginthner, ward : R. Eichenberger, cond. ; F. Banın- garten, O.G .; Gabriel Loechler, I.G .; Fred Below, R.S.S .; H. S. Ammerland, L.S.S. Oriental Encampment, I.O.O.F., No. 24, of Wabasha, was instituted February 23, 1883, with eight charter mem- bers, the charter being countersigned by Grand Patriarch Romaine Shire, and Grand Secretary J. Fletcher Williams. The names of the charter members, as they appear upon the charter displayed on the walls of the lodge-room, are : Herman Oswald, John Schermully, C. H. Cranse, Henry Burkhardt, F. H. Milligan, M.D., Paul Casparis, E. J. Dugan and Michael Kuehn. The work of the encampment is conducted in the English language, and the order has had a very satisfactory growth since its institution, about six months ago. The present membership is twenty-nine, and there is not a meeting of the encampment at which there is not one or more applications for membership. The stated meetings of the emcamp- ment are held on the second and fourth Friday evenings of each month, and are well attended, the interest in the work of the encampment being well sustained. The list of officers (elective) now filling the various chairs of Oriental, No. 24, are : Hermann Oswald, C.P. ; John Schumuly, S. W. ; F. H. Milligan, H.P. ; E. J. Dugan, J. W. ; Paul Casparis, scribe; Henry Burkhardt, treasurer.
YEAR. NOBLE GRAND.
VICE-GRAND. SEC.
1867 F. L. Riechter
L. Gintner John Satori.
1868. Theo. Ginthner
H. Dieterle.
J. T. Ginthner.
1868. H. Dieterle.
. Anton Schnitzler Peter Kirsch.
1869. John Satori.
Frank Rhomberg Paul Casparis.
1869. Frank Rhomberg
. Michael Kuehn
Paul Casparis.
1870. Michael Kuehn.
John Voelker.
Phil Grub.
1870 John Voelker
L. E. Hanemann
John Satori.
1871. Michael Kuehn
Phil Grub.
John Satori.
1871 Phil Grub.
Ferd. Luger.
J. T. Ginthner.
1872
Ferdinand Luger
Felix Koelmel
John Satori.
1872 Felix Koelmel.
J. T. Ginthner.
John Satori.
1873. J. T. Ginthner. .
Godfrey Waelty John Satori.
1873 Hermann Dieterle.
Mathias Pesch John Satori.
1874 Mathias Pesch.
. Peter Clavadetscher Phil Grub.
1874.
P. Clavadetscher
Fred Below.
. Phil Grub.
1875. Fred Below
Peter Taverna. . H. Dieterle.
1875. Peter Taverna.
Joseph Ginthner Paul Casparis.
1876 Joseph Ginthner
John Schermuly Paul Casparis.
1876 John Schermnuly.
Lucas Kuehn. John Satori.
1877. Hermann Dieterle
Henry Burkhardt. Phil Grub.
1877 Henry Burkhardt Paul Casparis
Wm. Riggert.
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YEAR.
NOBLE GRAND.
VICE-GRAND. SEC.
1878. John Satori.
.C. E. Hermann.
Joseph Ginthner.
1878. .C. E. Hermann
. Wm. Riggert. Joseph Ginthner.
1879. Wm. Riggert.
. Henry Baumgarten . Joseph Ginthner.
1879. Henry Baumgarten.
John Luger.
Joseph Ginthner.
1880. John Luger .
Hermann Lessing
Joseph Ginthner.
1880 Lucas Kuhn.
Lorenz Miller. H. Dieterle.
1881
Lorenz Miller.
Edmund Giebel . H. Dieterle.
1881.
Edmund Giebel
Theo. Klein .John Satori.
1882
. Theo. Klein.
Hermann Marquard. . John Satori.
1882.
Hermann Marquard.
Carl Crebs
Jos. Ginthner.
1883. . Carl Krebs ...
H. Oswald.
Jos. Ginthner.
Read's Landing Lodge, No. 81, I.O.O.F. This subordinate lodge of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows is of recent institu- tion, having been established about two years and a half since. It works in the English language and several of its members are from the city of Wabasha, two miles distant, the lodge of the order in that city conducting its work in the German language. Read's Landing Lodge was granted its charter February 26, 1881, and was duly instituted four days later, March 2, 1881. The charter members, five in number, were H. Burkhardt, P. Casparis, J. S. Walker, W. B. Mohler, S. B. Withrow. Of these W. B. Mohler was N.G., J. S. Walker, V.G., and Paul Casparis, Sec. The first meeting was held in the hall of Burkhardt's block, and this has continued to be their place of meeting. The hall is centrally located, easy of access, comfortably furnished, and commodious. It fronts twenty feet on Water street and has a depth of forty-five feet, ten feet of which are partitioned off, in the rear, for anteroom. The meetings of the lodge are held each Wednesday evening and are well attended, particularly after navigation closes, as several of the members are rivermen. Read's Landing, No. 81, has had a regular steady growth since its institution, and now numbers forty-eight members. One death has occurred since organization, that of O. A. Olsen. The chairs and stations of the lodge-room are filled for the present quarter as follows :
W. C. Piers, N.G. ; Brnce Florer, V.G. ; Paul Casparis, Sec .; C. H. Crouse, Treas .; Godfried Burkhardt, Ward. ; Peter Gibson. Cond .; Henry Burkhardt, R.S.N.G .; William Cady, L.S.N.G .; John Sanborn. R.S.V.G .; O. F. Collier, L.S.V.G .; R. Watkins, R.S.S .; G. Burkhardt, L.S.S .; P. Peterson, O.G .; J. Johnson, I.G .; E. J. Dugan, P. Petersen, William Cady, trustees. Henry Burkhardt was the first P.G. and has been D.D.G.M. since the institution of the lodge.
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Officers filling the three highest chairs in Read's Landing Lodge, No. 81, I.O.O.F., since its institution :
YEAR.
NOBLE GRAND.
VICE GRAND. SEC.
1881 W. B. Mohler
J. S. Walker. P. Casparis.
1881 P. Casparis
.C. H. Crouse.
W. B. Mohler.
1882 .C. H. Crouse.
Peter Gibson R. C. Burkhardt.
1882. .P. Gibson.
William Palmer
R. C. Burkhardt.
1883.
J. S. Walker
H. W. Black.
C. A. Hamilton.
1883. W. C. Piers.
Bruce Florer.
P. Casparis.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Wabasha Lodge, No. 577, K. of H., was organized here April 5, 1877, with ten charter members, who filled the various offices of the lodge for the first term of its existence. Names of charter members and designated offices being : F. H. Milligan, P.D .; J. G. Law- rence, D .; J. H. Mullen, V.D .; G. A. McDongall, A.D .; H. N. Smith, Chap .; E. Hogle, Reporter ; H. P. Krick, Fin. Rep .; W. S. McArthur, Treas .; Jos. Buisson, Guardian ; W. J. Dazell. Sen- tinel.
The Knights of honor is a fraternal association of about ten years' standing, its avowed objects being the mutual improvement of its members, mutual assistance in case of need, and the establish- ment, maintenance and disbursement of a fund for the benefit of the widows and orphans of deceased members. By the terms of its charter five thousand dollars is the limit it may pay of beneficiary money in any given case, but according to the regulations of the supreme body only two thousand dollars is to be paid upon any full rate certificate, and one-half that amount upon a half rate. Assess- ments upon members are graded according to age, and the order has had a reasonably rapid growth. There is but one jurisdiction, and the whole order is assessed to pay death losses, without reference to grand lodge lines or limits.
The first meetings of the Wabasha Lodge, K. of H., were held in Masonic Hall, over Schwirtz' store, but the following year, 1877, the hall over J. Satori's store was rented and has been their place of meet- ing ever since. Two deaths have occurred among the members of the lodge here since its institution seven years since ; its growth, how- ever, has been slow, as the present membership indicates twenty- nine. Regular meetings are held the second and fourth Mondays of each month. The affairs of the lodge are managed by the following board of officers : W. S. McArthur, P.D .; Peter Munroe, D .; H. N. Smith, A.D .; Peter Gibson, V.D .; Frank Stuetzel, Rep .; John
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Satori, Fin. Rep. ; W. S. McArthur, Treas., Robert Van Dyke, Guide ; L. Pfeilsticker, Guardian ; L. C. Malin, Sentinel ; H. N. Smith, Peter Gibson and John Schmidt, Trustees. The medical examiner is F. H. Milligan, M.D., and W. S. McArthur is repre- sentative to grand lodge, with Joseph Buesson as alternate.
EQUITABLE AID UNION.
Wabasha Subordinate Union, No. 215, of the E.A. U. was organized January 14, 1881, by E. G. Manley, Deputy Supreme President. The order has for its objects the benefit of its members socially and financially, the watch care over them in sickness, the performance of earth's last sad rites in case of death, and the pay- ment of such moneys to the family of a deceased member as they are entitled to by the terms of membership. All persons between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five years, of sound bodily health, are admitted to membership, irrespective of sex. The Wabasha Union was organized with eighteen charter members, and up to date of August 10, 1883, had initiated eighty-one members, of whom sixty were in good standing and entitled to all the benefits of the order at the date above noted. The Union cares for its members in case of sickness, providing watchers and otherwise exercising fraternal care over those who are sick, but does not pay any stipulated sum in such case, only contributing, as the lodge may determine, to the support of those who really require assistance at such times. So also in case of death, while no burial fund is provided for the inter- ment of deceased members, the general fund is drawn upon for burial expenses of those who could illy afford to have such expenses taken from the benefit fund to which they are entitled at death of such member. Benefits are rated according to amount of individual assessment each member elects to pay, and his age at date of initiation. The payments vary from twenty-five cents to one dollar per member per assessment, which is levied whenever there is less than three thousand dollars in the treasury of the supreme lodge, and the benefits accruing in case of death are from two hundred to three thousand dollars, according to age and class of assessment. Yearly dues are three dollars per member, and the annual death rate calls for about thirteen assessments every twelve months. The order meets a want, among those particularly who can only afford a small amount of insurance, and doubles that benefit by extending the pro- visions without regard to sex. Wabasha Union holds its meetings
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in the hall in Satori's block, corner of Pembroke and Main, which they rent jointly with the Knights of Honor. The present officers of Wabasha Subordinate Union, No. 215, E.A.U., are : H. A. Chadwick, P.C .; T. H. Roundy, C .; Bruce Florer, A .; M. W. Dond, P .; J. H. Piper, V.P .; H. P. Paine, Sec. ; Julius Schmidt, Act .; H. P. Whiting, Treas .; W. T. Lackey, Chap .; Lucas Piper, Aux .; Erick Hovde, Ward .; Emil Eichenberger, Sent .; August Balow, Watch .; S. G. Smith, Trustee ; F. W. Van Dyke, M.D., Med. Ex.
CHAPTER LXIV.
BUSINESS.
WABASHA BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.
THIS association, having for its object the saving and loaning of moneys, to enable its members thereby to purchase lands and erect buildings for themselves, was dnly incorporated under the provisions of the statute of the state, in such cases provided, May 5, 1883, and the articles of incorporation filed with the secretary of state four days thereafter. The incorporators were thirteen in number : Mal- cohn Kennedy, C. Jellison, H. B. Jewell, John Stewart, John Sehwirtz, E. J. Duğan, F. J. Luger, Andrew Campbell, Peter Monroe, C. L. Chamberlain, J. H. Evans, John Gardner and John Lakey. The incorporators composed the official board and the directory. Malcolm Kennedy was chosen president ; C. Jellison, secretary ; H. B. Jewell, treasurer ; John Stewart, attorney. The rest of the incorporators formed the board of managers for the first three years from date of incorporation, and were divided into classes of three each, Messrs. Schurtz, Dugan and Luger serving for one year, Messrs. Campbell, Monroe and Chamberlain for two years, Messrs. Gardner, Evans and Lakey for three years. The legal exist- ence of the association was fixed at thirty years, commencing May 24, 1883 ; Wabasha was made the principal place of business, and the maximum liability of the corporation fixed at one thousand dollars.
The capital stock of the association was fixed at five hundred thousand dollars, to be issued as called for in shares of two hundred dollars each, each share taken to be paid for in monthly installments
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of one dollar each. The first series issued was one thousand shares, no new issues to be made within six months of the date of first series. Of this thousand composing the first series, seven hundred shares were taken within sixty days of issue, and the stock rose to a pre- mium of four per cent. The first loan of six hundred and twenty- five dollars brought seventy-five per cent. bid, the second loan of four hundred and ninety-five dollars brought one hundred and one, and the third loan of six hundred dollars was taken at one hundred and twenty-five.
The meetings of the association are held in the rear room of the bank building, and its benefits seem fully appreciated by the mem- bers. The tax for incidental expenses is fixed at thirty cents per annmın per share.
Wabasha Mill Company was organized in September, 1882, with a capital stock of seventy-five thousand dollars. The incorpo- rators were James G. Lawrence (president), Lucas Kuehn, W. P. Dugan, H. P. Krick, L. F. Hubbard, P. A. Richards (secretary and treasurer), and J. E. Young (head miller). The business of the company is the manufacture of flour, at this point. . This indus- try was started as a partnership concern, in 1872, by Downer & Lowth, who erected the mill and conducted the business about five years, when they sold out to Messrs. J. G. Lawrence, W. H. Camp- bell and A. G. Foster. Mr. J. G. Lawrence became the sole owner by purchase in 1878, and managed its affairs successfully until the formation of the joint-stock company as above stated. The mill property is on the east half of block seventeen, corner of Second and Arch streets, and connected by spur track with the main line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. The mill is a solid stone structure three stories high, 36×40 feet, and having an addition on the west 26×60 feet, one story in height, containing the boilers and engine, rated at seventy-five horsepower. The mill, erected in 1872, was originally a bnrr mill with six run of stones, and had a capacity of nearly eighty barrels a day. Various improvements were intro- duced from time to time until 1881, when the whole mill was remodeled and made a full roller mill. By this change the capacity was increased to two hundred and twenty-five barrels a day, and their average daily product raised to one hundred and seventy-five barrels. The supply of wheat is largely local and is supplied by the company's elevators at Lake City and Wabasha. Market for flour is a home one, the reputation of their brands being such that the
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demand exceeds the supply, orders being principally from the river towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa and up the Chippewa valley. The whole force of the mill is eighteen hands.
Early in August, 1853, the mill company broke ground for their new elevator, which adjoins the mill on the south. This is a solid stone structure, 36×46 feet, with side walls rising 45 feet, and the whole surmounted by a cupola 24× 12 feet. The storage capacity of the elevator will be twenty-five thousand bushels, and in it will be placed the machinery for cleaning grain heretofore occupying needed space in the mill building. This will materially increase the room for handling flour and conducting milling operations generally, and add much to the comfort of the millers and their assistants who have been confined to quite cramped quarters hitherto. The mill has been most successfully run, and during the past twelve months there has been scarcely an hour's intermission of the actual running time of the mill for changes or repairs.
BANKING.
The true inwardness of the early history of banking operations in the city of Wabasha is by no means easy to determine. The attempts made by early financiers were not particularly fortunate in results to themselves, and in some cases equally disastrous to the community. Whether this condition of things arose from lack of capital, business capacity, or other causes over which the bankers who attempted to established business had no control, we cannot now say ; the facts alone remain, that prior to 1872 no really success- banking house was established in Wabasha. The first attempt in this direction was made in May, 1857, at which time H. Rogers & Son opened a banking office on the corner of Pembroke street and the Levee. Mr. Rogers was a prominent business mau of Zanesville, Ohio, who came west in the flush times of 1856, and had made some investments in St. Paul before coming to this city, in the spring of 1857. He purchased quite freely of real estate here, paying wild- cat prices for lots to which he could subsequently gain no title, on account of the vexed question of half-breed scrip, and being squeezed in the financial crises of 1858-9 closed his banking house, aban- doned all his property here and departed for St. Paul, having per- manently invested about seventeen thousand dollars in this city, from which he never realized a dollar.
For several years after the withdrawal of Rogers & Son from the business circles of Wabasha, no attempt was made to do a banking
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business here, although the mercantile firm of Kepler & Jackson sold exchange on the eastern banks when such paper was demanded. Matters were in this condition until the spring of 1864, when W. W. Prindle (county treasurer) and N. F. Webb (clerk of the district court) formed a partnership under the firm name of Prindle & Webb, and opened a banking office in a wooden building on the corner of Main and Alleghany streets, where Lucas Kuehn's drygoods house now is. The bank location was subsequently changed to the south side of Main street, where they fitted up the small building now occupied by James. G. Lawrence as an office (between Alleghany and Walnut streets), and in this they conducted business several years. The firm as it originally stood was subsequently changed to Webb, Prindle & Chase, and finally became Webb & Co. The amount of capital invested in this business cannot now be ascer- tained. It is the impression among those best fitted to form a correct opinion, that while the individual members of the house had a limited capital available for banking purposes, they were able to command unitedly a considerable sum, but this of necessity was only conjecture. The business was strictly private, and there was no means of knowing, then or now, the amount of capital employed. Webb & Co. continued in business until April 12, 1872, when the bank suspended payment, too thoroughly crippled to even attempt a settlement. An assignment was made to E. M. Birdsey, who, when the bank was declared bankrupt, was appointed assignee in bank- ruptcy for the settlement of the estate. The creditors subsequently received fifteen cents on the dollar, the liabilities aggregating thirty three thousand eighty-one dollars and thirty-one cents; and thus closed the second chapter of banking history in Wabasha.
About two months after the failure of Webb & Co., a banking house was opened in the Campbell block (on Main, a few doors west of Pembroke), by A. D. Southworth and W. J. Florer, under the firm name of A. D. Southworth & Co .; capital, ten thousand dollars. This banking establishment soon gained the confidence of the mercantile community, did a successful business, was subse- quently removed to the north side of Main street, just east of Pem- broke, and continued in business until the fall of 1881. W. J. Florer having died in August of that year, and A. D. Southworth being unable to attend to business through ill health, the banking house of A. D. Southworth & Co. dissolved, and the bank of Wabasha was organized as its successor, September 1, 1881. This was the first
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bank organized in this city under the state law. The incorporators of the bank of Wabasha were C. F. Rogers, C. F. Young, L. S. Van Vliet, A. D. Southworth, James G. Lawrence, W. S. Jackson, Knud Johnson, Dr. J. J. Stone, J. H. Evans, H. P. Krick, Samuel Huschy, Henry Funk, Mrs. C. E. Krick, Mrs. M. A. Florer, Mrs. A. L. Hills, Mrs. M. E. Wetherbee, Loring Ginthner, H. J. Whit- more and Lucas Kuehn. The capital stock was placed at fifty thou- sand dollars, of which one-half was paid in. W. S. Jackson was elected president, and held that office until his death in February, 1882, when he was succeeded by Lucas Kuehn, the present presi- dent. Mr. Bruce Florer, who had been for some time cashier of the bank of A. D. Southworth & Co., was elected cashier of the bank of Wabasha at its organization, and still retains that position. The present board of directors are Messrs. Lawrence, Van Vliet, Young, Krick and Johnson. The annual deposits aggregate one hundred thousand dollars ; the bank has a surplus of three thousand five- hundred dollars, and the semi-annual dividend is six per cent. October 1, 1882, the bank removed to its present central location on the north side Main street, midway between Pembroke and Alle- ghany streets, in the new building which the Oddfellows had just com- pleted at that time. The bank occupies the main floor 24×90, the banking office being in the front with directors' rooms in the rear. The office is well provided with all the conveniences, and safeguards against fire and violence, having a good fireproof vanlt and safes, with Hall's improved time-locks. At a meeting of the stockholders of the bank held June 30, 1883, it was decided to make a change in the condition and character of the bank, making it a bank of issue as well as of deposit and exchange. An application for a charter as a national bank, under the general banking law of the United States, was applied for and granted.
CHAPTER LXV.
MAZEPPA TOWNSHIP.
THE credit of the first settlement within the limits of this town- ship is unanimously ascribed to Ira O. Seeley, now a prominent citizen of Appleton, this state. It is said that Mr. Seeley visited the locality in the fall of 1854, and being pleased with the valley where Mazeppa village now stands, decided to squat upon a claim there, and to that end erected a bark shanty on the west side of the river, not far from the present site of the milldam. Returning to Wabasha for his family, he became convinced, on reflection, that the valley of Trout Brook afforded greater advantages for general farming purposes ; so when he came on with his family next spring he located on section 5, where Daniel Mack now resides. Immediately after Mr. Seeley came Enoch Yonng, Joseph Fuller and G. C. Sleeper, all making claims on sections 4 and 5. In April of the same year came Joseph Ford and bis son, Orville D., and George Maxwell ; the last two named are still residents of the village, where O. D. Ford located at that time. During the same season the following located within the township : Anson L. Carrier, Nelson B. Smith, Turner Preble, Francis A. Stowell, John E. Hyde, Elijah Lont, J. B. Miller, James H. Sandford, Lewis Blunt, George Duncan, Charles Fox, Isaac Nicholls, George Bailey, and possibly others.
The advantages of the water-power and town site were at once perceived by the Fords, who made their claims thereon. All of the west half of section 6 lying east and north of the river was by them platted for a village. They offered the water-power to Mr. Nicholls if he would build a mill thereon. The offer was at once accepted, and preparations were immediately made for the erection of a saw- mill. This was set in operation during the winter, and timbers were at the same time prepared for a gristmill. William Amsbry became associated with Nichols in the construction of the gristmill, and subsequently bought out the latter. Amsbry & Barber completed it and began business in the fall of 1856. They were succeeded by Augustus Ambler, and the latter by the Forest Mills and Mazeppa Mill companies.
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A sawmill was built in the fall of 1856 on the main river, half a mile above the month of the north branch. by Alexander Somers and Rhoderick Drinkwater, and set in operation the next spring. It was kept busy night and day cutting lumber for settlers' shanties. In December, 1857, Somers' body was found in the river. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that he did not come to his death by drowning. Foul play was suspected, but there was no evidence fastened to any one and the matter was dropped. From that time the mill was neglected, and the dam subsequently washed away.
In the spring of 1857 a sawinill was built on Trout brook by Ralph Frasier on Sleeper's claim, section 9. After the settlers began to seek for pine lumber, the dam was neglected and washed away. The mill was purchased by A. H. Bright with the land on which it stands, and is now used by Bright's sons for the manufac- ture of beekeepers' supplies. They use steam to drive their machinery.
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