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He was elected governor of Wisconsin in 1872 In 1876 he erected a large flour mill at Minneapolis, which burned in 1878 It was soon after rebuilt In this arian patent process forflour used in As, Arkansas, May 14, 1882 His body was brought to Wisconsin and buried at La Crosse

[Illustration: W D Washburn]

WILLIAM DREW WASHBURN, the youngest of the Washburn brothers, was born at Livermore, Maine, Jan 14, 1831 He worked upon his father's fare by his own unaided efforts, entered Bowdoin College, and graduated in 1854 He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857, and in the saent of the Minneapolis Mill Company, of which he became a partner In 1861 President Lincoln appointed hi his term of office, which continued four years, he lived in St Paul On his return to Minneapolis he built a large saw ed extensively in the lumber trade He was the chief mover in the Minneapolis & St Louis and Minneapolis & Pacific railways He has a large lumber and flour mill at Anoka, and with others erected the Palisade flour mill at Minneapolis In 1878 he was elected representative to Congress from the Third district and re-elected in 1880 He has also served in the state legislature He was a principal proprietor of the Minneapolis, Sault Ste Marie & Atlantic railway, and was elected president of the company in 1883

Mr Washburn has been successful in his business ventures, has accu his means in the interests of Minneapolis and the State He is eminently practical in his business ideas andin his or, Maine, in 1850, and has two sons and two daughters living

JOSEPH CLINTON WHITNEY was born in Springfield, Vermont, April 14, 1818 In 1829 he removed with his parents to Lower Canada, where he ree He went to Oberlin, Ohio, 1840; graduated froical Seminary in 1849 The saanized the First Presbyterian church, of which he served as pastor until 1853, when he was called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church at Minneapolis, where he remained four years He removed to Forest City, Meeker county, but returned to Minneapolis in 1860 In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Sixth Minnesota Volunteers, and served three years In 1865 President Lincoln appointed him quartermaster with the rank of captain In 1866 he returned to Minneapolis and engaged in business In 1867 he was elected state senator froreatly interested in the cause of education He was a principalthe public schools of Minneapolis, of Bennett See He is president of the board of Bennett Seminary, and is one of the members of the state normal board He was married July 10, 1849, to Eliza Baird They have three sons and two daughters

CHARLES HOAG was born in Sandwich, New Haht school fifteen years He came to Minneapolis in 1852, and occupied various positions of trust, having been a member of the first town council, the second treasurer of Hennepin county, and the superintendent of schools four years, coested the na city of his adoption He was apartisan his many admirable personal qualities won the esteem of those who most radically differed fro in 1871 In 1873 he was hter, Mrs C

H Clark, and one son, Levi, survives hi died February, 1888

FRANKLIN STEELE--No other pioneer has been more prominent in the early history of Minneapolis than Franklin Steele A bold, sagacious, enterprising uard of civilization, and promptly and fearlessly availed himself of the splendid opportunities that this, then almost unknown, frontier afforded We have not many data of his early life, but his history since he set foot in Fort Snelling is elsewhere given as a part of the early history of the section in which he located, and need not be here repeated

Franklin Steele was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania He came West by the advice of President Andrew Jackson, and arrived at Fort Snelling just after the conclusion of the treaty by which the Indians ceded their St Croix lands to the government; whereupon Mr Steele visited St Croix Falls, made a clai mills, as elsewhere narrated

When appointed sutler of the ar, he sold his St

Croix claims and identified himself thereafter with the interests of St Anthony Falls and the section adjacent thereto, where heother enterprises illustrative of the faith of Steele and others in the future greatness of the prospective river cities, the fact anized coe over the river just above the falls, a work projected while the adjacent lands were still in the hands of the government, and completed in 1855, at a tieous

Mr Steele was a man of far more than ordinary ability Col J H

Stevens says of hiood friend to Hennepin county, and as most of the citizens came here poor they never had to ask Mr

Steele a second time for a favor Fortune has favored him, and while enerosity and kindness, he constantly made money” The county of Steele was named after him Mr Steele was uished naval officer of that name He died in Minneapolis in 1880

ROSWELL P RUSSELL was born in Richland, Veres for education were li in 1839 He came from Prairie du Chien to the Fort in a mackinaw boat, part of the way on foot over the ice, and suffered much for want of food, sleep and fro until 1845, engaged for two years in the Indian trade, made a claim at St Anthony Falls in 1847, and opened the first store, in a log building, at that place In 1854 he was appointed receiver of the land office at Minneapolis He has since been actively engaged in far and real estate transactions He was the first chairman of the St Anthony Falls town board, and has served one terislature He was a true and steadfast friend to his adopted city He was married at St Anthony Falls, Oct 3, 1848, to Marion Patch They have a fahters: Lucy C, wife of W C Colbrath; Charles M, Roswell P, Mary Bell, wife of F M Prince, of Stillwater; Carrie E, wife of F L Lovejoy, of Fargo, Dakota; Frank and Fred, twin brothers; Geo B Mc----, died in 1881; William and Edward E

HORATIO PHILLIPS VAN CLEVE was born in Princeton, New Jersey, Nov 22, 1809 He was educated at Princeton College and West Point, graduating from the latter institution in 1831 He served five years in the ar in Michigan until 1856, when he came to Morrison county, Minnesota In 1861 he enlisted as a volunteer in the Second Regii the war and left the service with a eneral of the state of Minnesota He was the postmaster of St Anthony Falls prior to the union of that city with Minneapolis He was hter of Maj

Gen Clarke of the United States Army They have seven children

CHARLOTTE OUISCONSIN VAN CLEVE, a daughter of Gen Clarke of the United States Army, was born at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1819 Soon after her birth her father ca They were six weeks rew up as, and on a reo, Wisconsin, to Horatio P Van Cleve, when she had barely attained the age of sixteen years Her husband resigned his position in the aran, but since 1856 her ho in Hennepin county A daughter is the wife of H V Hall, a missionary to the Sandwich Islands Besides her own family she has reared five orphans

She is intellectually active and vigorous, takes great interest in the reforms of the day, and is a noble specimen of the pioneer women of the State She is the founder of the Bethany Home in Minneapolis She has specially interested herself in the poor, the downtrodden and the outcast classes of human society, and has exercised in this direction an untold influence for good

ARD GodFREY was born at Orono, Maine, Jan 18, 1813 He ca the first tothe water power furnished by the falls He built a da In 1852 he settled on a clairist mill, some years later destroyed by fire He was married in Maine, January, 1838, and has a family of six children He still lives at his old homestead near Minnehaha falls

RICHARD CHUTE was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept 22, 1820 He first visited St Anthony Falls in 1844, and built a trading house He was one of the fir & Co In 1854 he located pered in real estate operations,and other branches of business He has been successful in his undertakings, and is ain the community

LUCIUS N PARKER was born in Chester, Vermont, Dec 11, 1823 He cahteen years of age, when he ca In 1846 he was one of the proprietors of the Osceola (Polk county, Wisconsin) mills In 1849 he sold out his interest, removed to St

Anthony Falls and carried the mail between St Paul and that city He removed to the west side of the river, kno as Minneapolis, and has since resided there He was married to Amanda Huse in 1849

CAPT JOHN ROLLINS was born in March, 1806, at New Sharon, Maine

While in Maine he followed lu In 1848 he ca,He was a member of the first territorial council of Minnesota, in 1849-50 He was married to Betsey Martin at Newport, Maine, in 1832 They have seven children living Capt Rollins died in 1885

JOHN G LENNON was born in Bolton, England, July 6, 1815 He cao of a vessel bound to New Orleans In 1843 he located at St Croix Falls, removed to St Paul in 1848, and in 1850 to St Anthony Falls, where he entered the service of the St

Anthony Outfit In 1856 he engaged in the lu and mercantile business and in 1859 re the Civil War he served as assistant con At the suppression of the Indian revolt his regiment was transferred South and attached to the Sixteenth Army Corps, under Gen A J Smith and Division Commander Gen Joseph Mower and he served as quartermaster until mustered out at the close of the hen he returned to civil life and co in real estate In 1873 he returned to Minneapolis He was ust, 1887, leaving aand two children

JOHN H STEVENS--Col Stevens traces his ancestry to the Moors who, during the wars of the Alhambra were carried captive to France, where they becauenots Driven by persecution frorated thence with the Puritans on the Mayflower to America Col Stevens was born June 13, 1820, in Lower Canada, whither his parents had eave him an excellent education