Part 61 (2/2)
March 11, 1867 Cyrus Aldrich
April 15, 1871 Geo H Keith
June 21, 1882 Orlo M Laraway
June 22, 1886 John J Ankeny
The bonded debt of the city is 3,319,000 The city can not create a debt nor issue bonds to a greater amount than five per cent of the assessed valuation of city property, and the charter prohibits a floating debt
The tax assessments for 1886 99,591,762 Barrels of flour manufactured 6,163,000 Value of other manufactures 62,500,000 Feet of lumber manufactured 267,197,000 Elevator capacity (bushels) 11,820,000 Bushels of wheat received 34,904,260
Eight bridges span the river at Minneapolis as crossings for the various railroads The stone arch viaduct of the St Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba cost 750,000 Municipal expenses, 2,542,714
The following table gives the cut of lumber in Minneapolis for the last sixteen years:
1870 118,233,100 1871 117,157,000 1872 167,918,820 1873 189,970,000 1874 191,305,680 1875 156,665,000 1876 200,371,250 1877 129,676,400 1878 130,274,400 1879 149,151,500 1880 195,452,200 3881 230,402,800 1882 312,239,800 1883 278,716,480 1884 300,724,373 1885 313,998,166 1886 267,196,519
WEST MINNEAPOLIS
West Minneapolis is located about eight miles from the court house, in sections 24 and 19 of townshi+p 27, range 24, and is not included within Minneapolis' city lis & Dakota, and the St Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railroads have stations here It was surveyed in 1886, and organized shortly after It has two threshi+ng machine and other extensive manufactories The Hennepin county poor farm is located near by
CALVIN A TUTTLE--Mr Tuttle was born in Holland, Connecticut, in 1811 He received an acadee He learned the trade of or, Maine, and worked at his trade until 1835, when he removed to Alton, Illinois He ca of a mill In 1841 he returned to Alton, where he was married to Charlotte Winkler He lived in Davenport, Iowa, four years and one year at Chippewa Falls In 1846 he removed to St Anthony Falls, where he helped build the first saw ht years almost continuously at his trade He purchased two hundred acres of land here, including university lands, which he sold for 3,500 He reovernrinding only for the governht fro, he received one-eighth of the property The govern a claihty acres in extent, located in as then called West St Anthony, now in the heart of Minneapolis, is worth millions of dollars Mr Tuttle sold his interest for 5,000 The old round diht, with one run of stone The mill was built in 1822 There was a farm near the mill, cultivated by soldiers Mr Tuttle returned to East St Anthony in 1857, and removed to Minnetonka in 1858, where he lived five years Thence he removed to Twin Rivers, Morrison county He has a saw ood home at Twin Rivers In 1887 he returned to Minneapolis to spend the remainder of his days
CYRUS ALDRICH--The subject of this memoir was born June 18, 1808, in Smithfield, Rhode Island His father was Dexter Aldrich, and was engaged in shi+pping andHis mother's rine White, the first rim Fathers He received such an education as could be obtained at the coe, when he left ho life This life not proving to his taste, he abandoned it and engaged in other pursuits At the age of twenty-nine he erated to Illinois and located at Alton, where he took a contract on the Michigan and Erie canal In 1841, or about four years later, he removed to Galena, Illinois, where he secured eed in staging and islature The same year he was married to Clara Heaton, of Indiana, ith one son and one daughter, survives hiister of deeds of Joe Daviess county; in 1849 was appointed receiver of the land office at Dixon, Illinois; and in 1852 ran for Congress on the Whig ticket against Long John Wentworth, but was defeated by a s at Minneapolis, then but a se In 1857 he was elected aof the constitutional convention, where his ability for leadershi+p soon brought him to the front In 1858 he was noress, Minnesota having meanwhile beco time, but Mr Aldrich acquitted himself well, and was especially commended for his devotion to the interests of the soldiers In 1862 he declined a re-election, but allowed his nah unsuccessfully) as a candidate for the senate He did not, however, entirely withdraw from public affairs, but accepted an appointment from President Lincoln as a member of the indemnity co the Indian outbreak of 1862 He also devoted y to the establishment of the Northern Pacific railway
In 1865 he was elected to the Minnesota legislature In 1867 he was appointed postmaster of Minneapolis, which position he held for four years His long and busy life has been spent chiefly in public service He had not quite reached the scriptural limit of human life, but it was evident that his iron constitution had been overtasked and that he needed rest The retireradually failed until Oct 5, 1871, when he closed his eyes upon the scenes of earth His funeral, conducted from the Universalist church, of which he was a est ever held in the State Citizens of all parties and classes, thethe last tribute of respect to one who for fifteen years had been the most active, best known and most respected of their number
ALFRED ELISHA AMES, MD, was born at Colchester, Vermont, Dec 13, 1814 He was the oldest son of Billy and Phebe (Baker) Aland Alfred E coht school and worked at his trade of brick an arithfield, Illinois; concluded his o, in 1845 Before leaving Illinois he was elected to the state senate In 1851 he came to St Anthony Falls, made a claim, and entered into partnershi+p with Dr J H Murphy In 1852 he served as surgeon at Fort Snelling, and in 1853 was elected to the territorial legislature as a e; in 1857of the constitutional convention, and in 1860 beca the remainder of his life he devoted himself to the practice of medicine, but also served the public in many positions of trust He died Dec 24, 1874 His wife and five children survive him
ALBERT ALONZO AMES, son of Dr A E and Martha (Pratt) Ames, was born at Garden Prairie, Illinois, Jan 18, 1842 He received a high school education at Minneapolis, studied raduated February, 1862 In August, 1863, he enlisted in the Ninth Minnesota Volunteers, but shortly after was coeon of the Seventh Minnesota Volunteers He served for awhile in the Indian caiment was ordered South In July, 1864, he was coiment in place of Dr L B Smith, killed at Tupelo He was mustered out of service at the close of the ith an excellent record as a physician and surgeon After the war he devoted himself to the practice of his profession and to public services in Minneapolis, excepting a period of six years spent in editorial life in California, first on the staff of the _Daily Ti editor of the _Alta Californian_ At the death of his father, in 1874, he returned to Minneapolis and resu positions of trust: 1867, islature (house); 1875, member of the city council; 1876, mayor of Minneapolis; 1877, Deovernor (not elected); 1886, Deain mayor of Minneapolis Dr Ames is a member of such prohts of Pythias, and Order of Elks
Dr Ahter of Capt
Richard Strout, of Minneapolis
JESSE AMES was born in Vinalhaven, Maine, Feb 4, 1808 Froe of fourteen till his retire life At the age of twenty-three he was captain of a schooner, and afterward of different shi+ps, brigs, barks or schooners, all of them in the es to Europe, circuated Cape Horn several tilobe Few e was from New Zealand to London, where he sold his shi+p, and, co to America, found him a beautiful home in the North Star State
He is a resident of Northfield, and is, with his son John T, the owner of the well known flouring aret Tolman, of Rockland, Maine They have two sons, one of whom, John T, is a resident of Northfield The other son, Adelbert A, won distinction during the Civil War, leaving the service with the brevet rank of eneral Since the war he has served as senator froovernor of that state
CADWALLADER C WASHBURN--Hon C C Washburn was a man of rare nobility of character and possessed of an acute and powerful ood of the country He was a enerosity, as the following ifts to the public will attest:
_First_--To the state of Wisconsin, in 1876, an astronomical observatory, located on the university lands at Madison, in style of architecture and apparatus to carry into execution the design of the institution, equal, if not superior, to that of any like institution in the world
_Second_--The donation of his ”Edgewood Home,” near Madison, Wisconsin, for educational purposes
_Third_--The generously established school located on the shores of Lake Harriet, near Minneapolis, ”The Washburn Home for Orphans,” for the poor and unfortunate children of Minnesota
Mr Washburn was born in Livermore, Maine, April 22, 1818; lived at ho a classical education In 1838 and 1839 he taught school and clerked in Hallowell and Wiscassett, Maine In the spring of 1839 he came West to Davenport, Iowa, and was eical work In 1840 and 1841 he studied law at Rock Island
Illinois In 1842 he settled in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, and was ade Dunn's court He continued in practice at Mineral Point; also engaged in real estate and dealing in land warrants, and in 1852 established the Bank of Mineral Point Mr Washburn was elected representative to the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and fortieth congresses In February, 1861, the house appointed a special committee of thirty-three members on the state of the Union A majority of the committee reported an a slavery perpetual Mr Washburn and othersslavery perpetual On this report we subjoin his remarks: ”If this Union h fire and blood or civil e shall have the consolation of knowing that when the conflict is over those who survive will be what they never have been--inhabitants of a free country” Mr Washburn changed his residence to La Crosse in 1861 He received a colonel's coiment that year, and subsequently was proeneral