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THOMAS CULLYFORD, a native of England, was born in 1844. Most of his life being spent at hotels, he has become familiar with the business, and in July, 1879, came to Duluth and rented the Clark House. This house was built by the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company, and opened to the public in 1871, Scott & Hull being proprietors until 1876; then the former retired, and the latter continued the business alone for three years. In the mean time the house had
passed into the hands of C. H. Clark and others, of Philadelphia, who still own it. The Clark House is a three-story frame building with office, parlors, reception rooms, dining room, &e. on the first floor, and sixty-five guest-rooms above.
JOHN R. CARRY was born in Maine on the 3d of March, 1830. On tho 12th of April, 1853, he came to Minnesota with a New England colony; resided in St. Paul two years, and came to Supe- rior City, Wisconsin, on the 2d of June, where he was engaged in the boot and shoe business. He took a claim, and in October, 1855, voted for a Delegate to Congress, it being the first election ever held in the county. In October, 1857, he re- inoved to Oneota, and assisted in the entry and settlement of that town. Mr. Carey was elected Judge of Probate in October, 1859, and re-elected for five successive terms; was appointed United States Commissioner for the district of Minnesota in 1862, by Hon. R. R. Nelson. In 1869, he was elected Clerk of the District Court, re-elected three terms, and has also held the office of City Justice for two years.
J. E. COOLEY, of the firm of Cooley, La Vaque & Co., is a native of New York State. He came to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1868, where, for five years, he was engaged in the lumber business. Then, in 1873, he came to Duluth, and as a mem- ber of the above firm has carried on an extensive fishery business, supplying markets all over the Northwest; the catch amounts to abont twenty thousand pounds per week.
PETER DEAN was born in 1828, in New York City. He learned and followed the trade of a car- peuter for several years, and in 1848, came to the Bruce copper mines at Lake Hurou. Two years later, he removed to Ontonagon, Michigan, and was engaged for five years at his trade. Thence, to Superior City nntil 1858, when he returned for two years to Ontonagon, and in 1860, went to Houghton, Michigan, clerking in a mercantile establishment for seven years, and two years in business for himself. Then coming to Duluth he was one of the first to start in the mercantile busi- ness, and is now one of the leading merchants of the city. Has been Mayor of the city, and in 1880, was President of the Village Council.
JOHN DUNPHY, a native of Ireland, was born in December, 1814. When quite young he went to the West Indies, where, for three years, he was engaged as book-keeper, and for four years had charge of a plantation. Then coming to Canada,
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lo was employed on a farm four years, thenee to Cleveland, Ohio, engaging in the manufacturing business, and afterwards in the same business in Chicago. After an engagement of four years in the mining regions of Michigan, he came to Di- Inth in 1856. Hero ho pre-empted the farm which he still owns; was elected Register of Deeds, and for two years was clerking in a real estate office. The year 1862 finds him at Twin Lakes, Carleton eoumty, in the hotel business, and also keeping the Post-offiee. Mr. Dunphy returned to Duluth in 1874, and in 1876, was elected Judge of Probate; served two years, and in 1880, was re-elected, and still holds the office. On the 20th of June, 1854, he was married to Miss Mary A. Ready. Their children are, James V., John T., Mary A., Catha- rine, Julia, Angela, and Carroll P.
HENRY A. DAVIS, a millwright by trade, is a native of New York State. He has been four years in Minnesota, one year at Stillwater and three at Duluth. Mr. Davis has a fine farm at New York Mills, about sixty miles from Brainerd, on the Northern Pacific Railroad.
JASPER S. DANIELS is also a native of New York State. Hle served four years in the army, two and half in the Second Wisconsin Infantry, and the balanee of the time as First Lieutenant in the First Wiseonsin Artillery. Was for two years on an exploring expedition in Canada, and in 1869, came to Duluth and was for several years employed at various occupations. Since June, 1880, Mr. Daniels has been Village Marshal, with three assistants on the police foree.
FRANK W. EATON was born in New Hampshire, in 1849. Was employed on farms in his native State until coming to the St. Croix Valley, Minne- sota, in 1868, where he was for two years engaged in the Inmber business. In 1870, he came to Dn- hith, and has since been in the real estate bsi- ness and dealing in pine lands. Since the organ- ization of the village, Mr. Eaton has filled the position of Reeorder.
employed by the St. Paul and Duluth Railroa Company in contracting and building. He wa next engaged on a steamboat running between Superior and Duluth, and about the head of th Inke, but has been out of business for the last fov years.
WILLIAM FRASER entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in 1875, a: receiving clerk, and sinee May, 1880, has been eashier at this point.
JOHN FLYNN, a native of Buffalo, New York, was born in 1849. He was employed as elerk on the lake steamers for many years. In the spring of 1880, he came to Duluth as agent for the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Transportation Com- pany. The officers of this company are: S. F. Leopold, President; A. T. Speneer, Vice President; C. F. A. Speneer, Secretary and Treasurer; and Joseph Austrian, General Manager. Mr. Flynn is also agent for the Lake Superior and South Shore line.
EDWARD FIEBIGER, a native of Germany, came to America in 1867. Was one year in Watertown, Wisconsin, and five years in Shakopee, Minnesota; in both plaees being engaged at blacksmith work. In 1873, he eame to Duluth and started a black- smith shop, and six years later, added a full line of stoves and hardware.
JAMES H. FLYNT, a native of Franklin, New York, came to Superior City in 1856, where he en- gaged in surveying nntil 1861; then enlisted in the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry and served four years. Since 1865, he has been engaged in the jewelry business; two years in Albany, New York; two years at Shelby, Ohio; and in South Bend, Indi- ana, until 1872, since which time he has condneted a jewelry store at this place.
M. FINK, a native of Germany, came to America in 1867, locating in Minnesota. He first lived two years at Clmska, then one year at St. Paul, and six at Stillwater. Came to Duluth in 1876, rented the brewery, and has since been engaged in the manufacture of beer.
JAMES EDWARDS was born in Wales in 1823. He eame with his parents to America in 1831, and located in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, where JAMES FERGUSON is a native of Prince Edward's Island. He came to Michigan in 1871, and was for ten years employed on the Flint and Marquette Railroad. In May, 1881, he came to Duluth and engaged in the grocery business, being in part- norship with William A. Hicken. he was engaged in the mines. In 1850, he re- moved to Ontonagon, Michigan, and remained for several years. The years 1853-54 were spent in Superior City, having taken land about nine miles south of that place. In 1857, he started a general store at Superior City, which he continued CHARLES HINMAN GRAVES, A man well known until 1862; then, for about fourteen months, was | throughont northern and central Minnesota, is n
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native of Springfield, Massachusetts, where his birth occurred in the year 1839. He is the son of Rev. H. A. Graves, a Baptist clergyman, and edi- tor of the " Christian Watchman and Reflector," of Boston. Mr. Graves received a common school education in Boston, afterward clerking in a dry goods store until May, 1861, when he enlisted at West Cambridge, in a volunteer company raised by Captain Ingalls, which in June was assigned to the Fortieth Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry, and ordered to Washington. After serv- ing as a private and . non-commissioned oflicer till November, 1861, he was promoted to Second Lieu- tenant as the result of a competitive examination of all the non-commissioned officers in the Regi- ment. He participated in the battles of Bull Run, Yorktown, Williamsburg, and Seven Oaks, and in June, 1862, was detailed as Ordnance Officer and Aid-de-Camp on General Kearney's Staff. He also served as Staff Officer under Generals Stone- man, Birney, Graham, and Terry. He was pro- moted to First Lieutenant, and Captain in his Regiment, then to Captain and Assistant Adjutant- General, and soon after was raised to the rank of Major "for gallant services in the attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina." He was also brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel, and in 1865, an- pointed Lieutenant of Infantry in the Regular army, and the following year promoted to Cap- tain, serving as Inspector-General of the depart- ment of Dakota, and in other important positions. During his service in the army of the Potomac, he was severely wounded at the battle of Gettys- burg. After long and active service, he resigned his commission in December, 1870, and has since been a resident of Duluth. As a citizen, his life has been no less activo than as a soldier. He was a member of the State Senate from 1873 to 1876 inelusive, for several years n member of the Re- publican State Central Committee, and Chairman of the Republican Congressional Convention of the Third district in 1880. For several years he has been one of the Directors of the St. Paul and Duhith railroad, and is now senior member of the firm of C. IL. Graves & Co., the leading wholesale houso of Duluth; is also President of the Union Improvement and Elevator Company, and Vice- President of the Lake Superior Elevator Company ; Secretary of the Duluth Tron Company, and a member of the Common Council of Duluth.
P. B. GAYLORD is a native of Ohio. He was for a time engaged in the town of Jefferson, as a pho-
tographer. Then, in 1869, eame to Duluth, where he is now in the same business.
J. B. M. GENIN was born near Lyons, in the southeastern part of France, on the 4th of Novem- ber, 1839. He graduated at the commercial Col- lege of Bour-gen-Bresse. In 1860, he came to Canada, and for four years was a teacher at the St. Joseph College, Ottawa, being ordained priest in 1863. His first charge was a mission in the north- ern part of Canada, remaining until 1865. Then for a year he had charge of a mission between the Mckenzie river and the Arctic Ocean. In 1866, he was sent to Europe for a few months on business in connection with the missions, and on his return went among the Sioux Indians. In 1867, he bnilt a house at Holy Cross, on the Red river, opposite the mouth of Wild Rice river, and the following year was appointed Postmaster at that point. This was the war path of the Sioux and Chippewa Indians, and near the graves of many victims of the Sioux massaere of 1862. His objeet in locat- ing at this point was to make an effort to cheek the depredations of the Indians on the whites, and was also the means of a settlement in that region. At his instigation a meeting was held at Fort Abercrombie on the 15th of August, 1870, before General Hunt, the officer of the fort, when a treaty was framed, the Chippewn and Sioux tribes agree- ing to no more molest the whites, and also to live friendly with each other. In 1868, a cross was erected by Father Genin at that point; he also built a church there. In 1873, he took charge of a church at Duluth, and has since resided in this place.
WILLIAM A. HICKEN is a native of Prince Ed- ward's Island, and resided there until he came to Duluth. Since May, 1881, he has been in the grocery business in partnership with James Fer- guson.
FRANKLIN P. HOPKINS was born in Prattsburg, New York, in 1820. When a child he came with his parents to Michigan; remained on a farm till 1850, then, for three years, was engaged in ear- pentering, and afterwards, until 1871, was in the lumber and mill business in Vermontville. In the latter year he camo to Duluth, purchased a farm on section twelve, town of Herman, a short dis- tanee from Duluth, and was engaged in farming and also worked at his trade. Since February, 1880, he has been employed in elevator B, at the earpenter and millwright trade.
OTTO C. HARTMAN was born in Shakopee, Min-
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nesota, in 1860. When he was ten years old his parents came to Duluth, und in 1873, ho went into the employ of the Northwestern Telegraph Company. Three years later he accepted the position of manager for the company at Duluth. In July, 1881, the office passed into the hands of the Western Union Telegraph Company, und Mr. Hartman occupies the same position under the new management.
WILLIAM J. HAMBLY is a native of England, and was born on the 9th of March, 1845. He canie to America in 1867, and for two years was engaged in teaching school at Eagle river, Mich- igan. Then for eighteen months he taught school in this place, and afterward removed to Hancock, Michigan, where he was employed as an account- ant; thence to Silver Island, Ontario, where he had charge of a silver stamp mill for eighteen months. In 1878, he came again to Duluth and has since been employed as accountant for differ- ent parties. Miss Rosina Thomas beeame his wife on the 21st of December, 1865. Of six children born, four are living; Bessie, John S., Albert W., and Oliver.
NEHEMIAH HULETT was born in Hampton, Washington county, New York, on the 30th of Jannary, 1823. He was reared on a farm and re- eeived an academic education. In September, 1856, he came to Winona connty, Minnesota, and a few months later to Faribault, remaining until May, 1857; thence to Duluth, where he spent some time in exploring the country, and finally took a elaim near Spirit Lake, about eight miles south of Duluth, where he resided two years. He then returned to the east and spent a greater por- tion of the time till 1864, in his native State. He was for a year and a half in Oneota, after which, until 1867, he divided his time between this sec- tion of the country and the old homestead in New York. . In the fall of 1867, Mr. Hulett was elected Treasurer of St. Louis connty, and held the posi- tion eight years; since which he has been en- gaged in farming.
MATHIAS HADO is a native of Germany, and came to America in 1861. The first five years of his residence in this conutry he spent in the cop- per mines of Michigan, then came to Duluth, remained a short time, and visited Vermillion, re- maining six months. He then returned to Du- luth, where he has been engaged in different oc- enpations; first in a saw mill, then in the fishing business four or five yours, and is ut present in u
confectionery, bakery, and cigar store, with a bil liard hall attached.
CHRIST HAUG is a native of Germany, and eam to America in 1864. Ho first located in the towi of Rockland, Ontonagon county, Michigan, where he was in the jewelry business for about elever years; thence to Houghton, same State, remain- ing until 1879. He came to Duhith in the latter year, and is engaged in the watchmaking and jewelry business.
CHANCY JOSLIN, proprietor of the Windsor House, was born in March, 1827, in Wayne coun- ty, Michigan. He remained on the farm until ae- ecpting the position of conductor on the Michi- gan Central Railroad, remaining twenty-six years. On leaving the Company, Mr. Joslin eame to Minnesota, was employed on the Northern Pacific Railroad one year; then took charge of the Eating House at Island Lake, where he remained until coming to Duluth and purchasing the Windsor Honse on the 25th of June, 1881. The house is a three story frame structure, with thirty rooms; was built by William Lynn and opened to the publie in April, 1880.
CHARLES F. JOHNSON, a native of Sweden, was born in 1843. His parents eame to America in 1853, and two years afterward settled in St. Panl, where our subject was engaged in the book and stationery business. For two years he served in the Ninth New York Volunteer Infantry. In 1869, he came to Duluth, and the following year, was elected City Comptroller, which office he resigned in 1875, to take that of Deputy Collector of Cus- toms, which latter position he still holds. He also has a book and stationery store, and job printing and bindery house. In April, 1869, he was married to Minnie Sherry of Chicago. The result of this union has been two children; Fred- erick and Emma.
JOSEPH E. KNOWLTON was born on the 15th of April, 1835, in Maine. In 1868, he came to Min- nesota, remained one year in Minneapolis and eame to Duluth, where for two years he was engaged in contrefing dock work. In 1871, Mr. Knowlton, in partnership with u Mr. Prutt, opened a livery stable, running the first bus in Duhuith. In 1876, Moses O'Brien entered the firm, and after the death of Mr. Pratt in May, 1880, the firm nome was changed to O'Brien und Knowlton. They have a fine stable on Superior Street, 40x115 feet, und two and a half stories high; own about twenty horses, and run a line of buses und hueks to the
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boats and trains. In 1876-77, Mr. Knowlton was Receiver in the Land Office, and in April, 1881, received an appointment from the Governor of the, State as Surveyor General of logs and Inmber for the Fifth district.
HOWARD C. KENDALL is a native of Monticello, Indiana. In 1866, he entered the employ of the Pan Handle Railroad Company as operator, at Logansport, Indiana, remaining three years ; thence to Des Moines, Iowa, engaged on the Rock Island road, one year; with the Hannibal and St. Joe Company nine months, and returned to the Pan Handle road; then with the St. Panl and Pacific road till 1874. In the latter year he came to Duluth as a supply in the ticket office, till 1880, since which time he has been the reg- ular ticket Agent for the Northern Pacific, and St. Paul and Duluth Companies.
E. F. Kimwirz is a native of Germany, and came to America in 1849. He tirst lived one win- fer in Wisconsin, then removed to Mackinaw, Michigan, where he remained till 1853; thence to the copper mines of Lake Supeiorr, remaining sixteen years; and came to Duluth and engaged in the manufacture of soda water one year. From 1870 to 1880, Mr. Krelwitz was in the Marquette iron and copper mines, after which he came again to Duluth, and has since been in the grocery busi- ness.
FREDERICK KRUSCHKE is a native of Germany. He came to America, locating in Utica, New York, in 1853; remained but a few months and came to Dodge county, Minnesota, where, for nine years he was engaged in carpentering and building; thence to Appleton, Wisconsin, ten years, in the furniture business, after which, until 1869, he was in Owatonna, Minnesota, in the same business. In the lafter year he came fo Duluth, remained a year and a half, and returned to Appleton, Wis- consiu, remaining a few years. Since his return to Duluth, he has been engaged in the furniture business.
ALLEN M. LONGSTREET was born in 1834, in Brooklyn, New York. When he was quite young, his parents removed to Connecticut, where onr subject remained till twenty years of age. He then removed to Providence, Rhode Island, and for four years was engaged in the woolen mills of that place. He came west and enlisted in the army in 1861, serving till the close of the war. Going to Indiana, he was employed in the woolen mills two years, affer which, until 1872, he was in
the same business in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Longstreet came to Duluth in the latter year and has since been engaged in the hotel business. Ho is the present proprietor of the Bay View Honse, a three-story frame structure, pleasantly located on Superior street, facing the Lake, and contain- ing about fifty rooms.
JAMES R. LEVINS was born in June 1840, in New York City, where he learned the hatters' trade. In 1862, he removed to Ontonagon, Michigan, re- mained in the mining distriets three years and re- turned to his native place. In 1868, he went again to Ontonagon, Michigan, and the following year, to Duluth. For two years since coming here, Mr. Levins was engaged in fishing, and has since been in the employ of the St. Panl and Duluth Railroad Company, first as receiving clerk, and since, as check elerk.
S. LUNDBERG is a native of Sweden and eame to America in 1864. He was three years in St. Paul, then in Minneapolis till coming to Duluth in 1871; has since made this liis home, and is at present in a billiard house and bowling alley, on Lake avenue.
JosErn LLOYD is a native of England, and came to Canada in 1854. For ten years he was em- ployed on the Great Western Railroad, and in 1864, went to Houghton, Michigan, where he was engaged in the manufacture of pop and other bot- tle goods. After a twelve years residence in the latter place, he removed to Danse, same State, re- maining till May, 1880; then came to Duluth and has since been engaged in the same business on Lake avenne.
JOHN H. LA VAQUE is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, born on the 4th of March, 1845. When he was an infant, his parents removed to Stevens Point in the same Stafe, where our subject resided during his youth. At the age of sixteen years, he came to St. Cloud, Minnesota, learned painting and after three years, removed to St. Paul, where he worked at his trade. For two years he served in the war, one year in the Minnesota Mounted Rangers, and one in the Eleventh Minne- sota Volunteer Infantry. In 1870, he came to Du- Inth and has since been engaged at No. 18 West Superior street, keeping a line of paints, oils, var- nishes, wall-paper, window-shades, curtain fixtures, chromos, engravings, picture-frames, ete. Mr. La Vagne carries a stock of from $8,000 to $10,000 and his business in the year of 1880, amounted to $40,000.
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WILLIAM MOLAREN was born in Toronto, Can- ada, in the year 1858. For several years, previous to eoming to Duluth he was engaged in steam- boating. He eame here in 1879, was one year en- gaged in the saw-mills, and is now employed at elevator B.
THEODORE MACY, a native of Livingston county, New York, was born on the 24th of September, 1833. When quite young, he was employed in n flouring mill for seven years, then engaged in contracting until 1860; when he entered the en- ploy of the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company, remaining eleven years, ten of whiel he was conduetor. In 1871, Mr. Maey eame to Duluth and is at present assistant Yard-master for the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company.
JAMES S. MATTOCKS was born in St. Paul, Min- nesota, on the 11th of December, 1861. He came to Duluth in 1878, and has since been engaged as fireman in elevator A.
A. M. Minek was born in Denmark in 1839. At the age of twenty years, he came to America, and for several years was in the employ of the Chieago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railroad Com- pany. In 1870, Mr. Miller came to Duluth, where ho is engaged in the humber business. He also owns a himber, lath, and shingle mill in Thomp- son, Carleton county, which has a daily eapacity of fifty thousand feet in ten hours. He also keeps a stock of lumber at Riee's Point.
ALEXANDER M. MORRISON is a native of Seot- land, born in 1850. At the age of twenty-three, he eame to America and directly to Duluth. For one year he was employed as elerk in a hardware store, then two years in a grocery store. In 1876, he engaged in business on his own account; has since had several partners, his present one, Mr. MeGregor, having purchased his interest in June, 1881. They carry a stock of about $7,000, and their business, in 1880, amounted to $40,000.
ALLEN J. Minden, a native of Germany, was born in 1841. When he was an infant, his parents came to America, lived for four years in St. Louis, Missouri; thence to Wisconsin, remaining four years; after which, until 1872, our subjeet was in the grocery business in Chicago. In the latter year, he came to Duluth, was employed one year ns n elerk, and in 1873, in company with Calvin l'. Bailey, engaged in the grocery business, firm name of A. J. Miller & Co. They carry n stock of $10,000, and their business in 1880, amounted to $47,000.
H. E. MCDANIELS is a native of Indiana. H came to Duluth in 1869, and was employed tw years at the earpenter trade, then two years i the furniture business. In 1873, he engaged in the latter business on his own account, both mami facturing and selling furniture.
JOIN R. MEINING is a native of Hamilton, Can ada, born in 1856. In 1869, he eame to Duluthi and learned the tinner's trade, at which he worked eight years. He then removed to Fargo, remain- ing three years, and in the spring of 1880, re- turned to this place where he has sinee been in the hardware business, keeping stoves, tin and hardware.
LON MERRITT dates his birth in 1844, at Chau- tauqua eounty, New York. In 1857, the family came to this eounty, located at Oneota, being among the first to settle in the county. In 1871, our subjeet, in company with his brother Alfred, built a schooner of seventy-two tons burden, and the following year another; which are the only vessels ever built at the head of the lake. Mr. Merritt, for several years past, has been exploring the country, and dealing in real estate and pine lands. He resides in Oncota, but his office is nt Duluth. The firm name is Eaton and Merritt.
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