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charged in October of the same year, and returned to St. Cloud. He was then engaged in teaching school at different points until May, 1872, and has since been engaged in the mercantile business.
GEORGE B. MARVIN, a native of Homer, Cort- land county, New York, was born on the 25th of May, 1840. He came to St. Cloud in 1856, and has been engaged in the capacity of carpenter, most of the time since. For the last fourteen years he has been in the employ of F. H. Dam, and is at present, superintendent of his mill. Mr. Marvin was married on the 17th of September, 1862, to Miss Virginia Freeman. Their children are, Muy and Edgar.
SILAS MARLATT was born at Yates, Orleans county, New York, on the 8th of July, 1826. In 1836, the family removed to Michigan, where Silas grew up, receiving a liberal education .. He studied medicine, at Lansing, Michigan, for three years, bnt on account of ill health, was obliged to give it up. In 1857, he came to St. Cloud, where he has since been engaged in the drug business. Mr. Marlatt was married on the 15th of May, 1862, to Miss Laura A. Gray. Their children are, John C. and Mary J.
SAMUEL MACKRELL is a native of Ireland, born in August, 1845. He came to America in 1867, and has resided in St. Cloud ever since. During the first three years he was engaged in the mann- facture of lime, but has since been in the employ of the American Express Company; first as deliv- ery clerk, two years, then messenger for three years, and has been the Company's agent at this point since 1875. Since February, 1880, Mr. Mackrell has also been engaged in the grocery business. He was married on the 31st of Decem- ber, 1871, to Miss Mary Lynch. Their children nro, John H. and Sarah.
JOHN C. Moos dates his birth. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 10th of June, 1849. He came to St. Cloud in 1865, and soon after, began to learn the harness-maker's trade. In 1874, he formed n partnership with Andrew Henneman, under the firm name of Moos & Henneman, har- hess manufacturers and dealers. Mr. Moos was' married to Miss Mary Henneman. They have two children; Charles J. and Leo P.
ALBERT F. MCDERMOTT, clerk in the freight department of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Mani- toba Railroad Company, at St. Cloud, was born in Watertown, Wisconsin, on the 20th of June, 1858. When quite young he was employed as brakemn,
on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, where he continned for three years. He then en- gaged with the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad Company, but soon after, met with a severe neeident in the loss of three fingers from the left hand while in the discharge of his duty as brakeman. After his recovery the company employed him in his present position.
MILTON P. NOEL dates his birth in Sciota county, Ohio, on the 9th of February, 1831. He was reared on a farm, and in 1849, went to Galesburg, Illinois, and entered the Galesburg University, graduating as eivil engineer in 1853. After spending two years as railroad engineer he came to Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, and the following spring, (1856) came to St. Cloud. He was soon after elected County Surveyor of Stearns county, has filled that position three- fourths of the time since, and is the present in- enmbent. Mr. Noel has been twice married. First to Miss Sarah J. Abel, in 1854, who died in 1865. Of four children, the result of this marriage, but two are living; Milton and Sarah J. His present wife was Miss Emma Dickinson, to whom he was married in 1867. Their children are, William C., Emma E., Walter I., and Mary E.
FRANZ NAEGELI is a native of Switzerland, born in 1843. He came to America in 1867, and located at St. Cloud, where he has since been engaged at blacksmithing; since 1876, he has conducted a general jobbing and shoeing shop. Mr. Naegeli was married in 1872, to Miss Lena Hodel. They have four children; Frank, Rosa, Herman, and Alexander.
JOHN H. NARE was born in the state of New York, on the 26th of January, 1838. When he was about ten years old, the family removed to Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, where John resided nutil 1869, and then came to Goodhne county, Minnesota, where he lived two years. In 1871, he came to St. Cloud, and has since followed his trade, that of carpenter and joiner. Mr. Nare is also proprietor of a restaurant, which he estab- lished in the fall of 1879. He was married on the 9th of June, 1868, to Miss Jennie Brown. They have one son, named George H.
BARNEY OVERBECK is a native of Germany, born in December, 1827. He came to America in 1842, and for three years resided at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and thence to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained until 1857, when he came to St. Cloud and engaged in the Hotel business,
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with which he has ever since been identified, and is the oldest hotel mau in the city. Mr. Overbeck's wife was Miss Gesinn Derkis. They have three children; George H., Anna G., and Mary.
GEORGE H. OVERBECK, the present proprietor of the Minnesota House, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1852. He came to St. Cloud with the family in 1857, and has been raised in the hotel business. His well-filled house is a better crite- rion than the biographer's pen, of the genial nature and obliging disposition of this popular landlord. Mr. Overbeek was married, in June, 1877, to Miss Mary Lynch. They have two ehil- dren; Mary and Elizabeth.
JOHN II. OWEN, a native of Cayuga comty, New York, was born on the 25th of October, 1825. When quite young he moved with the family to Onondaga county, where he lived on a farm mitil twenty-seven years of age. He then removed to Cortland conty, and was engaged in the carpen- ter business until 1855, when he came to St. An- thony, Minnesota. He then formed a partnership with J. H. Raymond, and has been connected with him in business ever sinee. For two years they conducted the business of contractors and build- ers at St. Anthony, and then came to St. Cloud, which has since been their residence, and where they condnet a door, sash, and blind factory. Mr. Owen was married on the 31st of December, 1851, to Miss Julia HI. Smith, of Vermont. Their chil- dren are, Marian, Jennie, and Lonise.
ALVIN ORTON was born in Jefferson county, New York, on the 5th of October, 1836. His life was spent in agricultural pursuits in his native State until 1856, when he came to Minnesota and settled on a farm in the town of Greenbush, Mille Laes county. In 1875, he removed to Haven, Sherburne county, where ho resided five years, and where he now owns two hundred and forty acres of good farming land in section seventeen. Mr. Orton purchased a residence in this city in the spring of 1880, and removed here for the purpose of obtain- ing better educational advantages for his growing family. He was united in marriage with Miss Eliza- beth Farrington, on the 26th of May, 1866, wlio died in November, 1871, leaving two children, Mary A. and Samnel M. Mr. Orton's present wife was Miss Sarah J. Orton, to whom he was married in Jamary, 1874.
SEBRA RATHBUN is a native of Steuben county, New York, born in 1817. In 1843, he removed to Pontiae, Michigan, and after a five years stay, went
to Grand Rapids, where he was engaged in the mannfacture of wagons and general blacksmithing, until his immigration to the Sank Valley in 1870. Ile conducted a farm one year and then moved to St. Cloud, where he has since been busily engaged in carriage manufacturing and general blacksmith- ing. He was married in 1838, to Miss Mary A. Proper. They have had four children; Caroline, M., Edwin, who was killed at the battle of Mur- fresboro', Demornington S., who is now in business with his father, and Addison. Demornington S. was born in Pontiae, Michigan, on the 13th of June, 1847; he was married to Isabella H. Proper. Their children are, Edwin, George, Addison, and Helen.
JOHN M. ROSENBERGER was born in Cumberland, Maryland, on the 15th of October, 1842. He came to St. Cloud in the spring of 1856, when St. Cloud was in its infancy, and sinee that time has been one of the active business men of the city. He was married in February, 1861, to Miss Anna Lieser, of St. Cloud. They have three children; Joseph B., Mary E., and Matilda.
HENRY J. ROSENBERGER is also a native of Cum- berland, Maryland, born on the 18th of October, 1844. In the spring of 1856, he came with his father's family to St. Cloud, and soon after, engaged as elerk in a store, where he continued for a number of years. The result of this early business train- ing is noticeable in the fact that Mr. Rosenberger, in conjunction with his father and brothers, has for the last twenty years been prominent among the enterprising business men of St. Clond. Mr. Rosenberger was married on the 1st of October, 1874, to Miss Magdalina Schafer. Their children are, Elizabeth C., George L., Ida M., and Anna.
AMBROSE RAYMOND was born in New York, in 1840. When fifteen years old, he came to Winne- bago county, Wisconsin, where he learned the trade of carriage-making and resided a number of years. In 1864, he came to St. Cloud and was in the employ of W. H. Weary until May, 1877. when he began business on his own account. Mr. Raymond was united in marriage with Miss Isa- bel J. Baird, in 1870. Their children are, Helen N., Della, Mabel, and Lomie.
WILLIAM L. ROSENBERGER was born in Cumber- land, Maryland, in 1853. When quite young, he came with his parents to St. Cloud, which has sinee been his place of residence. During his mi- mority, while not attending school, he was engaged as a salesman, and at the age of twenty-one years,
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ho established a book and stationery store, in which business he still continues. He is also one of the proprietors of " Der Nordstern," a German news- paper published in this City. Mr. Rosenberger was married on the 25th of September, 1877, to Miss Barbari Schafer, of St. Cloud. They have two children; Louis B. and Edward G.
ALEXANDER F. ROBERTSON, a native of Picton county, Nova Scotia, was born in 1844. He came to St. Cloud on the 15th of November, 1865, spent the first winter in the pineries, and afterwards worked in a furniture shop. In the fall of 1866, he went to work at the jewelry buisiness, in which he has continued till the present time. After a three years stay in St. Cloud, he went to San Fran- cisco, California, and remained until 1871, when he returned to St. Cloud where he has since re- sided. In 1873, he engaged in business on his own account, and has had his share of the trade in his line. In May, 1877, Mr. Robertson was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Robertson. They have two children; Ada F. and Reuben W.
JOHN ROGERS dates his birth in Yates county, New York, on the 22d of May, 1831. In 1857, he eame to St. Anthony, and was employed in the mills at that place until the spring of 1859, when he piloted the first stage through from St. Cloud to Breckenridge. In July of the same year, he made a claim at Evansville, Douglas county, where he kept the stage station until driven out by the Indians in 1862. In 1863, he removed his family to St. Cloud, and has sinee been engaged in the Livery business. Mr. Rogers was married in 1851, to Miss Sarah Moore. Their children are, George Clayton, Edward, Minnie, Charles, Nellie, and Carrie B.
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EBENEZER ROBERTSON was born in Nova Scotia, on the 16th of March, 1836. In 1853, he went to New Brunswick, and was one year in the lumber business; thence to Maine, where he was engaged in lumber and hotel business until 1861. The next five years were spent in the Provinces, en- gaged in mining. In 1866, he came to St. Cloud and followed various occupations until 1878, when he established himself in the grocery business, which he still continues. He was Chief of Police of St. Cloud for a time, and Is also held the of- fice of Depuly Sheriff. Mr. Robertson was mar- ried in 1871, to Miss Belinda Pickit, of Hermon, New York. They have one child, Winmefred C.
JAMES W. ROBERTSON dates his birth in Nova Scotia, in 1830. He eame to St. Anthony in 1853,
and worked at his trade, that of blacksmith, until 1860, when he removed to St. Cloud, where he has since snecessfully plied his vocation. He' did the blacksmith work for the Minnesota Stage Company while their route lay through St. Cloud. Mr. Robertson was married in 1855, to Miss Am Langdon. They have four children; Thomas D., Flora C., James A., and Viola.
FREDERICK RAYMOND was born in Lower Can- ada, on the 16th of June, 1830. When nine years of age, he went with his parents to Aroostook county, Maine, where he remained until Sep- tember, 1867, when he came to St. Cloud. Mr. Raymond has been engaged at various oe- cupations since coming here, but has de- voted the greater portion of his time to his trade, that of boat builder. He was married on the 14th of June, 1859, to Miss Mary Michacl. They have eight children, whose names are An- thony, Gilbert, Edward, Sophia, Frederick, George, Abbie, and Young.
JOHN HI. RAYMOND is a native of Cincinnatus, Cortland county, New York, born on the 28th of January, 1834. In 1855, he came to St. Anthony, Minnesota, and has since that time sustained a business partnership with John H. Owen, of this city. After remaining in St. Anthony two years, he came to St. Cloud, which has since been his residence. During the Sionx outbreak of 1862, Mr. Raymond accompanied Gen. Sibley in his campaign against the Indians. He was married on the 4th of July, 1858, to Miss Elizabeth A. Smith, of his native town. They have one dangh- ter, named Mary.
RUPERT SEIDENBUSH, Bishop and Viear-apostolic of Northern Minnesota, is a native of Munich, Bavaria, and was born on the 13th of October, 1830. He spent his younger years in obtaining a. elassical and philosophical education, and in the autumn of 1850, eame to America, and entered im- mediately npon the study of theology at St. Vin- cent, Pennsylvania, where he was ordained priest on the 22d of June, 1853. He officiated there for two years; the same length of time at St. Mary's, in the same State; five years at Newark, New Jer- sey; one year at Butler, Pennsylvania, and in June, 1863, returned to St. Vincent, und served fonr years as Prior of St. Benedict. In 1867, he became Abbot of St. John's College, Stearns county, Min- nesota, twelve miles northwest of St. Cloud, and in 1875, became Bishop and Vienr-apostolic of Northern Minnesota, which position he now holds,
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with his residenee at St. Cloud. His diocese em- braces all Northern Minnesota to the British do- minions, and Northwestern Dakota, as far west as the Missouri river. It is an immense field for one man to supervise, and the Bishop travels upwards of four thousand miles mmally.
ROBERT L. ScorT, a native of Ireland, came to America in 1848, and settled at Terre Haute, In- diana, where he was engaged in the carriage bus- iness for a number of years. In 1862, he enlisted, and had charge of the army wagon shop until he was taken prisoner at Holly Springs, Mississippi, in December, 1863. He was soon after paroled, and went with the Second Minnesota Battery, as sutler, till the war elosed. He then conducted a general store at East Tennessee, until 1866, when he eame to St. Cloud, and in company with H. Tilton, run the Stearns House for about one year. He has since been engaged in the manufacture of wagons, and general blacksmithing. Mr. Seott was married in 1865, to Annie B. Gaylord, who died in 1869. The fruit of this union wns one child, who died when thirteen months old. His present wife was Mary J. Keough, with whom he was united in marriage in 1878. They have two children; Florence J. and Mabel.
DAVID H. SPICER was born at Homer, New York, in 1830. He eame to St. Cloud in the spring of 1855, was employed at earpenter work the first summer, and in the fall, went to Broek- way township and located a claim of three hun- dred and twenty aeres, under the town site pre- emption law, and together with Henry C. Waite, surveyed and platted the town of Brockway. Mr. Spicer also pre-empted n farm near the town site, on which he lived seven years. In 1862, he dis- posed of his interests in Stearns county and removed to Onondaga county, New York, where he was engaged in the manufacture of cheese boxes, to which he added, after a time, the mann- facture of cheese. In 1865, he returned to St. Cloud, and has ever since been engaged in the fur- niture business. Mr. Spieer claims that his mar- riage was the first to be solemnized in Stearns county. He was married on the 23d of Decem- ber, 1855, to Miss Mary J. Marvin, of Kentneky. The result of this nion is two children; Anna E., now the wife of Rev. W. E. Stanley, pastor of the Baptist church'nt Troy, Ohio, and Clinton G., still at home.
E. B. STRONG, for twenty-one years a resident of St. Cloud, was born in Quondaga county, New
York, on the 22d of July, 1814. He received a common school and academic education, and as- sisted in his father's store until twenty-one years of age, when he went to Logansport, Cass county, Indium, and engaged in mercantile business. He remained in that city twenty-one years, serving the county as Treasurer a portion of the time. He then came north and was located at Superior City, on Lake Superior, for three years, where he kept a general store. In 1860, Mr. Strong came to St. Cloud and has resided here ever since. He was first engaged in mercantile business, but since the 1st of January, 1871, has held the office of Clerk of the District Court. Mr. Strong was married in Onondaga county, New York, in April, 1836, to Miss Mary Warren, a native of New York City, of English extraction. They have had six children, only two of whom are living; Ella, the wife of Judge E. O. Hamlin, an old resident of St. Cloud, but now living in Honesdale, Penn- sylvania, and Clara, residing at home.
DOLSON B. SEARLE, a leading attorney in Stearns county, is a son of Almon D. and Jane Searle, and was born at Allegany, Allegany connty, New York, on the 4th of June, 1841. On the break- ing out of the eivil war in 1861, he enlisted in Company I, of the Sixty-fourth New York Voluu- teer Infantry, and participated in the battle of Bull Run, siege of Yorktown, all the battles before Richmond under General MeClellan, the Seven Days' fight, and Fair Oaks. In June, 1863, he was detached from field dnty by order of the Sec- retary of War Stanton. Received a civil appoint- ment in the war department, where he had charge of an important branch in the Adjutant-general's office, and held that position for several years. Resigned to enter the legal profession, and grad- nated at Columbia Law College, in the city of Washington. Mr. Searle came to St. Cloud in May, 1871, and soon after entered the law office of Judge E. O. Hamlin, became his partuer in Janmary, 1872, and in November of the following year, the Judge removed to Peunsylvania, and Mr. Searle has since been alone in the practice. He applies himself closely to his profession; is well read, and being thoroughly posted on all points of Inw, and very clear, he makes an ex- collent conuselor.
GEORGE S. SPENCER, a native of Coruing Sten- ben county, New York, was born on the 13th of March, 1847. His father was a lawyer, and with him George studied a few years, afterwards attend-
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ing the University of Albany, at Albany, New York. On account of ill-health he was compelled to abandon the legal profession, and in 1870, came to St. Cloud, where he has since been engaged in the drng business. Mr. Spencer was a soldier in the civil war, enlisting in February, 1864, in the Tenth New York Cavalry, and serving till the war closed. He was married in 1876, to Miss Martha McCum- ber, of Preble, Cortland county, New York, who died on the 31st af January, 1880, leaving one child, named George T.
PETER SCHMIT dates his birth in Luxemburg, Germany, on the 21st of February, 1831. He came to America in 1854, and after a three months stay in Buffalo, New York, went to Canada, where he lived abont two years. He then came to St. Paul, Minnesota, and remained four years, working at his trade, that of house carpenter. In 1860, he came to Luxemburg, Stearns county, and was farming one year, after which, he came to St. Cloud, and for the next five or six years, worked in a plow shop, but has worked as carpenter and builder most of the time since. Mr. Schmit was united in marriage with Miss Kathe- rina Thomas, in November, 1860. Their children are, Peter, Julius, and Mary.
JOHN SCHWARTZ was born in Germany, on the 18th of December, 1822. He came to America in 1856, and after remaining one year in St. Paul, came to St. Cloud, where he has ever since been engaged in the manufacture and sale of harness. Mr. Schwartz claims this to have been the first harness shop northwest of Minneapolis. He was married in 1861, to Miss Barbara Streitz. Their children are, Anna, John, Elizabeth, William, Joseph, Mary, and Stephen.
C. SCHULTEN is a native of Munster, Westpha- lia, Prussia, and was born on the 4th of April, 1831. He first visited the shores of America in 1849, and during the next three years, visited varions countries, among others, the West Indies, Central America, Sandwich Islands, andt he Sonth- ern States of America, arriving in St. Louis, in 1853, and thence, after one year's stay, to Chicago. In the spring of 1855, he purchased n sloop, und loading her with merchandise, Inuded on Lako Michigan during That summer, establishing trud- ing posts at West Harbor and Pottowattomie Is- land. But the ill-fortune that constantly threat- ens those, "who go down to the sea in ships," overtook him the same fall; his sloop was wrecked on St. Martin's Island, and one of his stores rob-
bed by the Beaver Island Mormons. He was compelled, on account of the ice, to remain on St. Martin's Island all winter, but the following spring he went to Green Bay, purchased a schooner and another stock of goods, opened a store at Door Bluff and traded among the islands that summer. . In June, 1857, he established a fish market at Kenosha, Wisconsin, using his schooner to trade for fish among the islands. On one of those trips, the vessel was frozen in, and Mr. Schulten was obliged to walk back to Keno- sha, a distance of nearly two hundred miles. The next spring he went to Kansas and the Rocky Mountains on a trading and hunting trip, but re- turned in the winter and bought a fishing station, which was destroyed by the ice, soon after. In the winter of 1860, he had a contract for carrying the mail, and afterwards formed a partnership with a Washinton Harbor firm, establishing a trad- ing post at Garden Town, Sag Harbor, Michigan, where he made extensive improvements and opened a farm. In 1864, he disposed of his interest in the business at that point, and after a year spent in Milwaukee, came to St. Cloud and opened a general store, which he conducted mmtil 1867, but has since been engaged in the Drug business.
L. W. STRATTON, one of the pioneers of Minne- sota, was born in Bradford, Merrimac county, New Hampshire, on the 25th of April, 1816. He was reared to farming pursnits until eighteen years of age, and was engaged in mill building for the next three years, going to St. Louis, Missouri, in October, 1837. At that time, New Brunswick, New Jersey, was the western terminns of the rail- road ont of New York City, and Columbia, Penn- sylvania, the terminus of the road west from Phil- adelphia. He was employed for some time on a steam saw mill at Alton, Illinois, but the following winter, engaged with the St. Croix Lumber Com- pany, and came with them on the first steamer that ever ascended the St. Croix River, to St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, arriving on the 16th of July, 1838, and building for the Company the first mill at that place. He made the first claim nt Marine 'Mills, Minnesota, on the 12th of December, of the samo your, and put up twenty-five cords of wood for the use of steumboats, the first wood corded for that purpose above Prairie du Chien. He soon after went to Jersey county, Illinois, and was en- gaged in the manufacture of farm machinery for n number of years, but returned to Minnesota and rettled in St. Anthony, in June, 1852, there being
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but one dwelling honse in Minneapolis on the west side of the river at that time. In 1853, he built the first Government bridge across Rum river, at Anoka, und in 1854, placed the first sail- boat on Lake Minnetonka. He continued to reside in St. Anthony and Minneapolis until 1871, when he removed to Excelsior, Hennepin eounty, where he has since been engaged in the cul- ture of grapes and grape vines. Mr. Stratton was married in Maeonpin eonnty, Illinois, on the 28th 'of June, 1842, to Miss Perniecy Pelham. They are the parents of three sons and five daughters ; two of the sons are printers, and one is a farmer ; the daughters have all acquired a good education, and have each spent several years at teaching school.
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