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Biographies
John M. Aldrich
Herringshaw's American Blue-Book of Biography by Thomas William Herringshaw and American Publishers' Association, 1914 - TK - Transcribed by FOFGAldrich, John Merton, educator, zoologist and author of Moscow, Idaho, was born Jan. 28. 1866, in Olmstead County, Minn. He has written various papers on entomology, the principal one being A Catalogue of North American Diptera. Since 1893 he has been professor of zoology at the University of Idaho.
Clare W. Blakely
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota. Publ. 1907 Transcribed by Rhonda Hill
BLAKELY Clare W, Rochester. Publisher. Born Jan 14, 1867 in Davenport Ia, son of Amherst W and Amelia (Walker) Blakely. Married in 1900 to Frances M Crouch. Educated in the public schools Rochester 1873-84. First engaged with his father under the firm name of A W Blakely & Son in the publication of the Post and Record 1884 to April 1907, when he became v pres of Blakely Ptg Co, successors to A W Blakely & Son. Member library board; served as city alderman 1893-1905. Member K of P; A O U W and B P O E.
John A. Boylhard
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota. Publ. 1907 Transcribed by Rhonda Hill
BOYLHARD John A, Rochester. Public official. Born Nov 1856 in Washington county Pa, son of E and Mary (Pierce) Boylhard. Married in 1878 to Hanna Coleman. Educated in the public schools of Washington county Pa and Alleghany Pa. First engaged as blksmith in Pittsburgh Pa 1873-75; moved to Rochester Minn and followed same business 1875-90; employed in machine shop Rochester 1890-92; engaged in hotel business Rochester 1892-1900. Chief of fire dept Rochester 1893 to date. Member A O U W.
Kerry E. Conley
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Liz Dellinger
CONLEY Kerry E. Rochester. Manufacturer. Born Sept 1, 1866 in Fillmore county Minn. Son of Thomas and Diana E (Huston) Conley. Married in 1894 to Sadie I Dodge. Educated in the public schools Fillmore county Minn and Darling’s Business College Rochester. First engaged in retail shoe business in Spring Valley Minn 1887-1888; in jewelry business Spring Valley Minn 1888-98; engaged in manufacture of cameras 1899-1904; engaged in manufacture of cameras in Rochester Minn 1901 to date . Pres city council Rochester. Member Masonic fraternity and a Knight Templar.
Paul Burns Cook
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Liz Dellinger
COOK Paul Burns, St Paul. Res 633 Fairmount av, office 80 Lowry Arcade. Physician and Surgeon,. Born February 17, 1877at Rochester Minn, son of George C and Elizabeth (Burns) Cook. Attended Rochester Minn Public schools; graduated M D medical dept U of M 1900. Interned City and County Hospital St Paul 1900-1901; asst city physician 1901-1904; surgeon C R I & P Ry St Paul; on staff of city and County Hospital and St Paul Free Medical Dispensary. Member Ramsey County Medical Society; v pres 1906. Member Minnesota Club St Paul.
Charles McHenry Cooper
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Liz Dellinger
COOPER Charles McHenry. Chatfield. Physician and surgeon (H). Born Dec 21, 1865 in Olean Ind, son of Samuel and Jane McHenry (Willis) Cooper. Married June 1, 1895 to Kittie Clyde Cole. Educated in common schools Olmsted county Minn; graduated from Chatfield High School 1889; and Homeo Med College U of M M D 1892. Engaged in practice of his profession in Chatfield 1892 to date. Mayor of Chatfield 1901 and 1907; pres Board of Education 1903 to date. Member Minnesota Inst of Homeopathy.
Fred A. Cote
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Liz Dellinger
COTE Fred A, Mankato. Res 314 S Front st. Manufacturers’ agent. Born Nov 21, 1868 at Minnesota Lake, Minn, son of Thomas and Harriet (Gaunya) Cote. Married June 29, 1897 to Mary A Brownlee. Educated in the public schools of Fairbault and Rochester Minn. Taught school 1889-92; engaged in the study of law and conducting law, loan and collection office 1892-99; engaged in collection and sales dept Deering harvester Co Chicago 1899-1903; mngr branch house for Nichols & Shepard Co Battle Creek Mich 1903 to date.
Frank M. Eddy
Source: Progressive men of Minnesota. Published by The Minneapolis Journal (1897) submitted by Diana Heser MorseFrank M. Eddy, of Glenwood, Pope County, member of congress from the Seventh District, is a striking example of a self-made man. Anywhere else but in a republic the door of opportunity never would have swung open before him, and his talents never would have been recognized. He would have lived and died in the humble station in which he was born, and in no large sense would the world have profited by his being in it, or even been ready to give him a hearing. Mr. Eddy comes from the sturdy Puritan stock of New England, and away back in the twilight days of the colonies his ancestors played no mean part in the successive stages of the political drama whose great climax was American independence. Early in the century one branch of this family settled in the then unknown West, and to this branch Congressman Eddy belongs. He is a Minnesotan by birth, and bears the unique distinction of being the first of her native sons to be called to either branch of the federal congress, April 1, 1856, he was born at Pleasant Grove, Olmsted County, Minnesota, and when four years old followed his parents to Iowa. In 1863 the family returned to Elmira, Olmsted County, where young Eddy remained until 1867, when he settled in Pope County. In 1874 we find him again in Olmsted County going to school in the winter and during vacation season working in a brick yard in order to earn money with which to pursue his studies. In 1878 his schooling was at an end, and he became a country school teacher. He taught one term in Filmore County and one in Renville County, and in the winter of 1879-80 he returned to Pope County, where he continued to teach for three years longer. In 1883 Mr. Eddy was "cruiser" or land examiner for the Northern Pacific railroad company, a very humble position, but one which seemed to promise more in the way of opportunities than the schoolroom. The change was for the better, for in 1884 Mr. Eddy went into politics and became the Republican candidate for clerk of the district court of Pope County. He was elected and held this position for ten years, or until he was elected to congress for the first time, in 1894. He is also an expert stenographer, and was court reporter of the Sixteenth Judicial District for several years. To his education in English he has added a thorough knowledge of the Scandinavian language, and his studies in this direction have repaid him many fold in smoothing the difficulties of a political canvass in an agricultural district among constituents, a large portion of whom speak one or the other of those language. Mr. Eddy was elected to congress in 1894 by a plurality of about eight hundred votes over the sitting member, H. E. Boen. The district was considered as being safely in the possession of the new Populist party, and his success was something of a surprise to those who did not know the man and his almost limitless resources in politics. In 1896 he was elected a second time, his plurality being upwards of two thousand and two hundred. This last was a personal victory, for every Republican candidate for presidential elector and every Republican candidate on the state ticket went out of the Seventh District with a heavy margin of votes against him. Mr. Eddy is one of the best campaigners in Minnesota politics.
Cyrus Elliott
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Anna Parks
ELLIOTT Cyrus, Rochester. Office 111 S Broadway. Publisher. Born March 21, 1839 in Franklin county Pa, son of Benjamin Elliott. Educated in the public schools of Fulton county Ill. First engaged in Mercantile business Plymouth Ill 1864-75; in newspaper business Roseville, Warren county Ill 1875-85; moved to Rochester 1885 and is one of the publishers of the Rochester Daily Bulletin and Olmsted County Democrat. Member A O U W.
Charles Ellis
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Anna Parks
ELLIS Charles E, Rochester. General machinist. Born Oct 2, 1853 in Chautauqua county N Y, son of Edmund Ellis. Married in 1881 to Minnie Womeldorff. Educated in common schools Chautauqua N Y. First engaged as apprentice in woodworking machinery and novelty works 1870-76; machinist for C & O, Michigan Central and St Paul and Duluth Ry 1876-82. Employed in machine shop Huntington W Va 1882-86 foreman of same 1886-89; foreman W Duluth Car Works 1889-96 and D M & N Ry 1895-1906. Moved to Rochester 1905 and is now senior member of Ellis & Edwards machinists.
Nicholas Gergen
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Nancy Overlander
Gergen Nicholas B, Hastings. Banker. Born June 1, 1862 in Douglas Minn, son of Bernard and apolonia (Berg) Gergen. Married in 1885 to Barbara Gores. Educated in dist schools Douglas Minn and graduated from St John’s College. Engaged in farming 1879-82; successively clerk, asst cashr and cashr German American Bank of Hastings 1883 to date; city treas 1890 to date. Member Commercial Club.
Thomas Germo
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Nancy Overlander
Germo Thomas, Red Lake Falls. Lawyer. Born May 2, 1872 in Medo Blue Earth county Minn, son of Styrk and Ellen (Rokne) Germ,o. Married Sept 18, 1903 to Eleanor Findeisen. Educated in common schools; Mankato State Normal School; Rochester (Minn) Business College; graduated from law dept U of M, LL B 1900. Engaged in farming, teaching school, as bank clk court reporter, newspaper reporter, detective and lawyer; now serving 2nd term as county atty of Red Lake county Minn. Member Am, and Minn State Bar assns.; Home Study Club; M W A; I O O F; K of P.
Henry Grannis
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Nancy Overlander
Grannis Henry James, Duluth. Res 4729 McCullough st, office 612-613 First Nat Bank bldg.. Lawyer. Born June 18, 1865 in High Forest Minn, son of Charles Lawrence and Rose Anna (Rogers) Grannis. Married June 18, 1890 to Laura Hingson. Attended public school at High Forest Minn; graduated from U of M A F 1886; law course Univ of Mich LL B 1888. Engaged in practice at Faribault 1889; moved to Duluth 1890; admitted to practice in the US sup court 1896. Member Commercial Club. Thirty-second degree Mason.
Charles Medbury Harrington
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Richard Ramos
HARRINGTON Charles Medbury, Minneapolils. Res 2540 Park av, office 713 Chamber of Commerce. Grain merchant. Born July 11, 1855 at New Berliln N Y, son of Daniel and Elizabeth Harringto. Educated at New Berlin (N Y) Academy. Telegraph opr and bkpr office of G W Van Dusen grain dealer Rochester Minn 1872-74; employed in Rochester Bank 1874-75; with Mather Bros whol grocers Albany N Y 1875-81; returned to Minn in 1881 and again took an interest in the grain business with Mr. Van Dusen at Rochester; since 1883 a resident of Minneapolis. Pres Van Dusen-Harrington and Nat Elevator companies; v pres Pioneer Steel Elevator, Atlas Elevator and Inter-State Elevator companies; sec G W Van Dusen & Co and Star Elevator Co; dir Home Grain and St Anthony Elevator companies. These companies operate about 400 country elevators, 4 terminal elevators in Minneapolis and 50 retail lumber yards. 1st pres Commercial Club; ex-pres Minneapolis Club and Chamber of Commerce; junior warden St Mark’s Episcopal Church Minneapolis; also member Minikahda and Lafayette clubs Minneapolis.
Moses Dibble Kenyon
Source: Progressive men of Minnesota. Published by The Minneapolis Journal (1897) submitted by Diana Heser Morse
Moses Dibble Kenyon is public examiner and superintendent of banks in Minnesota. Mr. Kenyon was born August 13, 1843, a Granville, Washington County, New York, a son of Almon Kenyon, who subsequently became a prosperous farmer in central Wisconsin. His wife, mother of the subject of this sketch, was Lura Dibble. His early education began in the district schools of Wisconsin, and he finished the sophomore year in the Lawrence University at Appleton, Wisconsin. In October, 1866, Mr. Kenyon came to Minnesota and located at Rochester. In January, 1873, he was appointed clerk in the state land office and was advanced subsequently to the position of deputy auditor, March 1, 1875. He held this office until March 1, 1888, when he resigned to accept the appointment by Governor McGill as public examiner and superintendent of banks. In January, 1890, Mr. Kenyon was re-appointed by Governor Merriam, and again, in January, 1893, re-appointed by Governor Nelson, and in January, 1895, received his present appointment by Governor Clough. Mr. Kenyon holds a very important position in the public service, and has made a useful and efficient officer. His public career includes his service as deputy state auditor for thirteen years, and previous to that he held a position in the state land office. While clerk in the land office he called the attention of the auditor to the attempt of the St. Paul & Chicago Railway Company to secure twice the amount of swamp land granted by the state. The railroad project was finally defeated in the courts, a report of which is contained in 24 Minnesota, 517. As a result four hundred and sixty-two thousand three hundred and thirty-six acres of land were saved to the state. Mr. Kenyon was the author of the law relating to banks of discounts and deposits, passed without a dissenting vote by the legislature of 1895, which in general contains provisions in regard to supervision of state banks, similar to those contained in the national bank law as applied to national banks. He has achieved a high reputation as a public officer, and is regarded as peculiarly qualified for the duties which his position imposes. He was admitted to the bar in 1893, having taken the course prescribed by the University of Minnesota. Mr. Kenyon issued a pamphlet on national finance in December, 1895, which attracted wide attention. He was married January 22, 1868, to Ida Vincent. They have one daughter, Alice L. Mr. Kenyon resides in St. Paul.
Nathan Curtis Kingsley
Progressive men of Minnesota. Published by The Minneapolis Journal, 1897 – transcribed by AJNathan Curtis Kingsley is a resident of Austin, Minn., where he is engaged in the practice of law. His father, Alonzo Kingsley, is a carpenter by trade, who enlisted in August, 1862, as a private soldier in the War of the Rebellion and served until the close of the war in the Fifteenth and Tenth Illinois Cavalry. Alonzo Kingsley was a lineal descendant of one of three brothers who emigrated from England in the early Colonial days and settled in Vermont, and his grand father, Wareham Kingsley, was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War. Alonzo Kingsley's wife was Marilla Cecelia Pierson, a direct descendant of Stephen Pierson, who emigrated from England in 1656 and settled at New Haven, Conn. The subject of this sketch was born at Sharon, Litchfield County, Conn., September 10, 1850. His family removed to Illinois not long afterward, and Nathan received his early education in the country district schools. His first money was earned as a farm laborer in La Salle County, Ill. In March, 1869, he came to Minnesota and was employed as a farm laborer near Chatfield. In 1870 he learned the miller's trade and worked at that business in Olmsted County until 1874, when he went to Rushford, Minn., continuing his trade there until February, 1877. While working as a miller he began the study of law, and in November, 1876, was admitted to the bar, though he did not give up his trade until some time afterward. In February, 1877, he formed a partnership for the practice of law with C. N. Enos, under the firm name of Enos & Kingsley, and opened an office at Rushford, where he remained until December, 1878. He then dissolved the partnership with Mr. Enos and removed to Chatfield, where he formed a partnership with R. A. Case. He continued the practice of law at Chatfield until April, 1887, when he removed to Austin, where he now resides. While a resident of Fillmore County, in 1880 he was elected country attorney, and in 1882 was re-elected. Although solicited to accept a renomination in 1884 he declined to be a candidate. After dissolving partnership with Mr. Case he formed a partnership with R. E. Shepherd, which association still continues. From June, 1879, until his removal from Chatfield, he was president of the board of education of that town. Mr. Kingsley has been identified with considerable very important litigation and has been instrumental in establishing some important principles of law. Among other things the fact that a bank certificate of deposit in the ordinary form is, in substance and legal effect, a promissory note, and that no demand is necessary in order to set the statute of limitations running against it (Mitchell vs. Easton, 37 Minn. 335); also that the legislature may provide for constructive service of process sin actions to determine adverse claims to real estate where personal service is impracticable, and may clothe the district court with power to adjudicate the title and ownership of real property upon such constructive service (Shepard vs. Ware, 46 Minn., 174); also that Chapter 196, of the Law of 1887, relating to the sale of foreign-grown nursery stock in Minnesota, is in violation of the constitution of the United States, as being an attempt to regulate commerce among the states and depriving citizens of other states of the privileges and immunities of citizens of this state. Mr. Kingsley is a Republican in politics, and has taken an active part in public affairs for the last fifteen years. For four years he was a member-at-large of the State Republican Central Committee, and of the executive committee of that body. He has been delegate to nearly all the state conventions for the last ten years, and to nearly all other conventions in which his county has been interested. He has been a Free Mason for nearly twenty-four years, and is a member of a number of lodges of that order; also of the A. O. U. W., the K. of P., the Elks and the Masonic Veterans' Association. He has also held important offices in the order of Masonry, and in 1886 was Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Minnesota. He is at present General Grand Royal Arch Captain of the G. G. R. A. C of the United States. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. Mr. Kingsley was married January 14, 1873, to Miss Clara Smith, a native of New York. They have one child, Cora Marilla.
Daniel Thomas McArthur
Source: Progressive men of Minnesota. (Shutter, Marion Daniel, 1853-ed.) Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Journal (1897) Submitted by Diana Heser Morse
One of the leading bankers in Southwestern Minnesota is D. T. McArthur, cashier of the First National Bank of Tracy. Mr. McArthur's ancestry is Scotch. On the paternal side he traces his family line back to Archibald and Mary (McGregor) McArthur, who were born near Greenock, in the highlands of Scotland. His grandfather, Donald McArthur, was also born in Greenock and married Catharine McDonald, of Inverness. He spent his last days in Cheltenham, Province of Ontario, Canada. Daniel McArthur, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Toronto, Canada, and reared to the occupation of farming. He came to Minnesota in 1857, and was married the following year to Jane Martin, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Annet) Martin, who were natives of Edinburgh, Scotland. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. McArthur were John and Margaret (Colwell) Martin, who lived all their lives in Edinburgh. Her maternal grandparents were James and Jane (Stevenson) Annett, who were born near Glasgow, where they lived and died. Daniel Thomas McArthur was born in Farmington, township, Olmsted County, Minnesota, February 4, 1865. His elementary education was received in the district schools and the public schools of Rochester, Minnesota. Latter he pursued his studied in the private school conducted by Sanford Niles of that place. When twenty years of age he entered the Lincoln County Bank, a private banking institution at Lake Benton, Minnesota, where he was employed two years. He then went to Dakota where he remained four years, engaged in banking, in the real estate business and in merchandise. In 1891 he moved to Tracy, Minnesota, and in connection with Messrs. Tucker and Holway purchased the small private bank owned by John E. Evans, known as the Commerce Bank, and organized the first state bank, with a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars, which was increased to thirty-five thousand dollars two years later. On the eighth of April, 1895, the bank was reorganized and the First National Bank was opened with a capital of fifty thousand dollars. Mr. McArthur has served as cashier of the banking institution since it was first organized. The bank has been very successful in its business, a great deal of which is due to the efficient management of Mr. McArthur. In addition to his banking interests Mr. McArthur has also extensive real estate holdings. He is the owner of fifteen hundred acres of land in Southern Minnesota, of which sixty-five acres lie within the corporate limits of Tracy. On this particular piece of land he conducts an experimental farm, which is managed according to the latest scientific methods. In his political views Mr. McArthur is an ardent adherent of the principles of the Republican party, and he takes an active interest in all local affairs, giving his support to all efforts calculated to advance the public welfare of the community. He has served as president of the village council of Tracy, also as treasurer, and is now serving his second term as alderman. He is a young man as yet, but his success so far in life gives promise of his taking a foremost position among the financiers of the state. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, has been past chancelor and a delegate to the grand lodge; of the Ivy Leaf Lodge, No. 36, Order of Rebecca; of Modern Woodmen of America; of the Mankato Lodge of the B. P. O. E., and is connected with the Chosen Friends, Lodge No. 100, of Tracy.
Edward Henry Ozmun
Source: Progressive men of Minnesota. (Shutter, Marion Daniel, 1853-ed.) Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Journal (1897) Submitted by Diana Heser Morse
Mr. Ozmun is a lawyer at St. Paul. He is the son of Abraham Ozmun and Maria Schenck (Ozmun). The elder Ozmun moved West from Tompkins County, New York, and was for many years a wholesale and retail hardware dealer in Rochester, Minnesota, and held the office of mayor of the city for two terms. The ancestors of Edward H. Ozmun served as patriots in the War of the Revolution. His great-grandfather, Isaac Ozmun, enlisted as a private and suffered martyrdom for the cause of the colonies. He, with his, son was captured by the British, taken to the old sugar house prison in New York, and there starved to death with many others. Recently a monument to their memory has been erected in that city. On the maternal side Edward is the great-grandson of Captain John Schenck and Richard Van Wagner, who served in the Revolutionary War. The former is a lineal descendant of General Martin Schenck, a Holland nobleman, who was a general in the army of the Prince of Orange. General Robert Schenck, formerly minister to the Court of St. James, is a cousin of the mother of Mr. Ozmun. Edward was born at Rochester, Minnesota, August 6, 1857, and received his early education in the graded and high schools of that city. He prepared himself for college at the Wisconsin State University and completed his education in the literary and law departments of the University of Michigan, from which institution he graduated in 1881. While at college he was a member of the Sigma Phi Greek fraternity. He returned to Minnesota after his graduation and located in St. Paul, where he entered the law offices of Messrs. Gilman & Clough, then a leading law firm of that city, earning his first dollar there by successfully prosecuting a civil action in the municipal court. Within a short time he was appointed a right of way agent for the Northern Pacific railroad and purchased all of its right of way from Wadena to Breckenridge. In the fall of the same year (1881) he was appointed assistant counsel of that road at St. Paul. This position he resigned in 1885 to take up general practice. He has made corporation law a specialty and has built up a successful practice, and is the representative of several Eastern corporations. He has always been a Republican in his politics, and is an active member of his party. He was for four years chairman of the Republican League of Ramsey County, and a member of the executive committee of the State League. He was never, however, a candidate for office until 1894, when he was elected to the state senate, defeating his opponent by a large majority. His record in the legislature is an enviable one. He introduced and succeeded in passing what is known as the "corrupt practices" act, which provides stringent provisions against the corrupt use of money in elections, not only by candidates but by political committees and individuals; also the new code for the National Guard. He also introduced and put through the senate a civil service bill for the employes of the state and cities, which, however, was killed in the house. A bill regulating primary elections was also introduced by him, providing that all nominations for city offices be by petition, but it failed to pass. Mr. Ozmun served on the municipal government committee, and, having made a special study of this complex subject, introduced a voluminous bill, many of the provisions of which were passed. In the summer and fall of 1895, having a desire to make an especial study of this subject, he combined a pleasure trip with an investigation of the different municipal governments of the representative cities of Europe and Great Britain. He has, for six years, been president of the St. Paul Bar Association; for three years secretary of the Minnesota State Bar Association, and for six years a member and secretary of the State Board of Examiners in Law. He is also a member of the Minnesota Boat Cub, the White Bear Yachting Association, the Commercial Cub, the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America, the Sons of the American Revolution, the National Municipal Reform Association and the Minnesota Civil Service Reform Association. He is not a member of any religious body, but is an attendant of the Episcopal church. He was married November 21, 1894, to Clara Goodman, of Weedsport, New York; they have one child, a daughter.
Charles Munro Start
Source: Progressive men of Minnesota. Published by The Minneapolis Journal (1897) submitted by Diana Heser Morse
C. M. Start occupies the honorable position of chief justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota. Judge Start is a son of Simeon Gould Start and Mary S. (Barnes) Start. His parents were both of English descent and from the south of England. He was born October 4, 1839, at Bakersfield, Franklin County, Vermont, and received his schooling at Barre Academy. He began his study of law in the office of Judge William C. Wilson at Bakersfield, Vermont, where he was admitted to practice in 1860. He was engaged in the practice of law until he enlisted in July, 1862, in Company I of the Tenth Vermont Volunteers. He was commissioned first lieutenant of the same company August 11, the same year. On December 1, 1862, he resigned from the service on a surgeon's certificate of disability. The next year, 1863, he removed to Minnesota and settled in October at Rochester, where he began the practice of law and where he has resided ever since. Judge Start is Republican and cast his first vote for Lincoln in 1860. His ability as a young lawyer was recognized in Olmsted County in his election to the office of county attorney for eight years. In 1879 he was elected attorney-general of Minnesota and served from January 1, 1880, until March 12, 1881, when he resigned to accept an appointment to the office of judge of the Third Judicial District. He conducted the duties of that office with such signal ability that he was unanimously re-elected for three successive terms and was occupying that position when, in 1894, he was nominated by the Republicans for chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was elected and took his seat on January 5, 1895. He now holds that position, the most honorable in the gift of the state, and discharges the duties of his office with great ability and fairness, and has the confidence of the people and of the legal profession of the state in an unusual degree. He possesses those qualities which go to make up the best equipment of the careful, conscientious and able jurist, and his selection to this office has given unanimous satisfaction, not only to the members of his own party, but to the Democratic party as well. Judge Start is an attendant of the Congregational church. He was married August 10, 1865, to Clara A. Wilson, of Bakersfield, Vermont. They have one child, Clara L. Start.
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