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At an early day John H ca the ith Mexico he served as a soldier, and after the war, in 1849, came to the Northwest and located on the west bank of the Mississippi, at St Anthony Falls, where he built the first fraround that afterward became the site of the union depot He was a islature of 1876, and has filled other public positions with honor to himself
He has been influential in municipal affairs, and always a staunch advocate of the interests of his city, county and State He is the author of a book of ”Reminiscences of Pioneer Life” He was married at Rockford, Illinois, in 1850, to Frances Helen Miller They have one son, Francis H G, and three daughters, Orma, Sarah and Kittie D, wife of P B Winston
CALEB D DORR was born at East Great Works, Penobscot county, Maine
He beca to the Falls in 1847, bought of Hole-in-the-Day, a Chippewa chief at Swan River, one hundred trees at five dollars per tree, for St Anthony Falls improvements, the first timber floated down the Mississippi above the overn state and school lands He has followed the business of scaling logs, and has also been boom master He was married to Celestia A Ricker, of Maine, March 4, 1849
REV EDWARD DUFFIELD NEILL, the well known author of the ”History of Minnesota,” was born in Philadelphia Aug 9, 1823 He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and A froical Seminary, Massachusetts, and in 1847 preached as a st the miners in and around Galena, Illinois He was transferred to St Paul in April, 1849, where he organized a society and erected the first Protestant church building in Minnesota not on rounds It was situated on Third and Market streets He also built for hiton streets, the first brick house in the city In 1855 he organized the House of Hope society and acted as its pastor five years He was also the pri the Baldwin School In 1855 he secured the building of the St Paul College, for some years conducted as a classical school and afterward consolidated with the Baldwin School
He was the first territorial superintendent of public instruction, in 1851-2, and served as state superintendent from 1858 to 1864 He was called to fill many educational trusts
April 29, 1861, he was appointed chaplain of the First Minnesota Volunteers, and served as such over two years He ith his regiment at the battles of Bull Run, Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill
President Lincoln appointed him hospital chaplain, he became one of the president's private secretaries, and continued in that relation during the presidency of Andrew Johnson In 1869 President Grant appointed him United States consul at Dublin, where he resided two years Returning to Minnesota in 1871, he removed to Minneapolis and conducted the Baldwin School and St Paul College, under the title of Macalester College, and located his school in the old Winslow House, Minneapolis In January, 1874, Mr Neill connected himself with the Reformed Episcopal church
Mr Neill has been a busy worker in literary, chiefly historical, fields Editions of his ”History of Minnesota” were published in 1858, 1873 and 1878 He has published many other valuable historical works
He is a ready and versatile writer, and is an authority on the subjects concerning which he treats Mr Neill was married to Nancy Hill, at Snow Hill, Maryland Their children are Samuel Henry, Edward Duffield and John Selby Martin
JOHN WENSIGNOR, a native of Switzerland, was born May 22, 1825; caed successfully in enerous h public spirited, has persistently declined office Mr Wensignor died in 1886
ROBERT H HASTY was born in York county, Maine, Dec 12, 1823 He ca He was surveyor general of the First district two years He enlisted in Coiment in 1862, was commissioned second lieutenant, proned Jan 15, 1865 In 1881 he removed to Crystal Lake, Minnesota
STEPHEN PRATT, a native of Penobscot county, Maine, was born, in 1828; came to St Anthony Falls in October, 1849, where he followed lu until 1858 He was athe Rebellion In 1864 he removed to a farm He died in 1887
CAPT JOHN TAPPER was born in Dorsetshi+re, England, March 25, 1820; came to A in 1844 He served as a soldier during the Mexican War He was the first toll collector on the St Anthony Falls wire suspension bridge He finally located on Steele's far in Clayton county, Iowa
R W cu, Pennsylvania, June, 1825 He settled at Cottage Grove, Minnesota, in 1845, and in 1848 made a claim in St Anthony, and improved it as a farm until the city required it for lots, since which tied in the real estate business
ELIAS H CONNER was born in New Sharon, Maine, in 1824 In 1848 he came to Lakeland, Minnesota, and in 1849 to St Anthony Falls, where he had charge of the work on the first suspension thrown across the Mississippi at that point He also built the first bridge that spanned the St Croix at Taylor's Falls In 1855 he was married to Hannah Rollins
C F STIMSON was born in Maine, April 19, 1822 He came to Stillwater in June, 1848, and thence to St Anthony Falls, where he followed lu He was treasurer of Ramsey county for one year In 1879 he moved to his farm near Elk River He has a wife and two children
WILLIAM DUGAS was born in Three Rivers, Canada East, May 17, 1809 He ca Africa, New Orleans, Indian Territory, Iowa, and Illinois, and other places more or less remote He came to Minnesota in 1844, and was a representative in the first territorial legislature Later he removed to St Anthony Falls He afterward removed to Dayton, Minnesota He was married at Prairie du Chien in 1844
DAVIS GORHAM was born in Quebec; cainia, where he spent two years, and thence to Maine, where he lived twelve years In April, 1849, he came to St Anthony Falls, and made valuable land clai for about twelve years In 1864 he started for California, but was driven back by the Sioux Indians In 1867 he settled in Plymouth, where he has been supervisor for ten years
EDWIN HEDDERLY was born in Philadelphia in 1814 In 1849 he came to St Anthony Falls and in 1851 made a claim of one hundred and sixty acres west of the river, within the present bounds of Minneapolis He served on various co a name for the new city and its streets, and until his death was ever active and influential in allto the welfare of the city He was ht children of this union survive him and are residents of the city Mr Hedderly died in 1879
LOUIS NEUDECK, born December, 1821, came to St Anthony Falls in 1849
He subsequently lived in Missouri, Illinois and at Stillwater, but in 1855 returned to the Falls He died in 1864 He was supposed to have been killed by Indians while absent in Montana, the only clue to his sad fate being the recovery of his revolver having his name inscribed on it, from an Indian He left aand five children
ANDREW J FOSTER was born in Cooper, Maine, June, 1827, and carocery, gardening, and real estate business He married Mrs Mary Averill, of Stillwater Their children are Ada, William, Owen and Elmer
A D FOSTER, a Pennsylvanian, born in 1801, ca the Gov Raed in fruit culture andHe was married in Pennsylvania and has three children; Josiah, resident in Indianapolis; Lysander, a physician in Minneapolis; and a daughter, married
CHARLES E VANDERBURGH, a native of Clifton, Parke county, New York, born Dec 2, 1829, graduated at Yale College an 1852, and served for awhile as principal of Oxford Academy, New York He studied law and was admitted to practice in 1855 In 1856 he came to Minneapolis, which has since been his hoe of the district court, which at that time embraced all the territory west of the Mississippi fro to the north boundary line He has been continuously re-elected, an evidence of the high estiarded by his fellow citizens
Judge Vanderburgh has been twice att, wedded Sept 2, 1857, died April 23, 1863, leaving two children, William Henry and Julia M His second as Anna Culbert, married April 15, 1873 They have one child, Isabella McIntyre His daughter Julia was accidentally drowned Sept 12, 1871
DORILLIUS MORRISON was born at Livermore, Oxford county, Maine, Dec