Part 68 (1/2)

Stephen Miller in 1863, he succeeded to the coiment, and remained connected with it to the close of the war, participating in the battles of Tupelo and Nashville, and in the siege of Spanish Fort Gen Marshall won for hiadier general for overnor of Minnesota, and re-elected in 1867 On vacating the gubernatorial chair he resu, and was made vice president of the Marine National Bank, and president of the Minnesota Savings Bank

[Illustration: Wm R Marshall]

In 1874 he was appointed a member of the board of railway commissioners In November, 1875, he was elected state railroad commissioner, and re-elected in 1877 In politics he is Republican, in his religious views he is a Swedenborgian, being one of the founders of that society in St Paul He is a liberal supporter of religious and benevolent enterprises, and aqualities of ford, of Utica, New York, March 22, 1854 They have one son, George Langford

DAVID COOPER was born in Brooks Reserve, Frederic county, Maryland, July 2, 1821 He enjoyed good educational advantages, first in the common schools and later had as a tutor Rev Brooks, a Methodist clergyave hih instruction in the sciences and classics In 1839 he entered Penn College, where he beca college he studied laith his brother, Senator Cooper, and in 1845 was admitted to practice He practiced in several counties, showed rare ability, espoused with enthusias party, and on the accession of Gen Taylor to the presidency, in 1849, was appointed by hie of the supreme court for the territory of Minnesota He arrived in Minnesota in June, 1849, and located in Stillwater; was assigned by Gov Ramsey to the Second Judicial district, and held his first court at Mendota

He changed his residence to St Paul in 1853, and, leaving the bench, devoted himself to law practice in St Paul He was a Republican candidate for Congress in 1858, at the first session of the state legislature

He left Minnesota for Nevada in 1864, then went to Salt Lake City, where he died in a hospital in 1875 He ice married but left no children

BUSHROD W LOTT was born in Pemberton, New Jersey, in 1826 He was educated at the St Louis University, and studied law in Quincy, Illinois, being admitted to practice in 1847 A year later he accompanied Gen Sa the first land sales in that region, while Gen Leech was receiver

The saal profession He was a Democrat in politics, and held the office of chief clerk of the house in the legislature of 1851, being elected in 1853 and re-elected in 1856 as a representative In 1853 he was beaten for the speakershi+p by Dr David Day, after balloting for twenty-two days About ten years after this he became president of the town council for two years, and was city clerk for a year and a half

President Lincoln appointed him consul to Tehuantepec, Mexico, in 1862, where he served until 1865 Mr Lott was a charter e, I O O F He died of apoplexy in 1886

W F DAVIDSON, better known as ”Commodore” Davidson, was born in Lawrence county, Ohio, Feb 14, 1825 He was early associated with his father in canal boating and river life and acquired a strong predilection for the pursuit in which he afterward becauished His father was a Baptist preacher, and the influence of his teachings was apparent in es for education were li was on board the boats on which he was e West he was interested in boating on the Ohio river, and was the owner of several steamers His first work in Minnesota was on the Minnesota river, but soon afterward he became president of a company known as the La Crosse & Minnesota Packet Company His experience and superior ability placed hiation, and forby this suprenomen of ”Commodore,” first applied to hi ten years of his river life he resided in St Louis With the increase of railroads and the brisk coradually withdrew from the river trade and interested hi h never an aspirant for office, Coreatly in public enterprises involving the prosperity of St Paul He was e Benja a , one son and one daughter Capt Thomas L Davidson is a brother, and Jerry and Robert R are half brothers Col J Ham Davidson, a cousin and a man of considerable oratorical ability, was associated with him in business

[Illustration: WM H FISHER]

WILLIAM H FISHER was born in New Jersey in 1844 He entered the railway service of the Dubuque & Sioux City railroad as check clerk at Dubuque, Iowa, in 1864, serving as such and in other positions of responsibility until 1873, when he re the service of the St Paul & Pacific railroad as superintendent He built the Breckenridge extension in 1877, and was influential in relieving the St Paul & Pacific railroad and branches froanization of the present St Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba systeeneral superintendent, and in June, 1885, president and general superintendent, of the St Paul & Duluth Railroad Company, which position he at present worthily fills

CHARLES H OAKES, the son of a Vermont merchant and manufacturer, David Oakes, at one tie of St

Clair county, Michigan, was born in the town of Rockingham, Windham county, July 17, 1803 He received a coe went into a store and clerked until eighteen, when he cao as clerk for an ar with the Indians on the south shore of Lake Superior In 1827 he entered the service of the American Fur Company, in whose e most of the time at La Pointe In 1850 he located in St Paul In 1853 he entered the banking fir firm in St Paul, since which time he has lived a quiet and retired life, that contrasts strongly with the strange and adventurous life he led as an Indian trader Mr

Oakes' only public life was during the Indian outbreak, when he accepted a position as colonel on the staff of Gen Sibley He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church By his first wife Mr Oakes had four children, two of the Sophia is theof the late Jeree W Sweet, of Minneapolis A son, Lieut David Oakes, was in the Civil War, and was killed in battle The other child died in infancy

Mr Oakes was married to his second wife, Julia Beaulieu, of Sault Ste Marie, July 29, 1831 She has had five children, but one of the, Julia Jane,of the late Gen Isaac Van Etten One of her sons, George Henry, was in the Civil War, and died two years after of disease contracted in the service

CHARLES WILLIAM WULFF BORUP was born in Copenhagen, Denh classical and rated to Ainal intention of beco a physician, entered into business, at first in the eent of the fur company on Lake Superior, with residence at La Pointe In 1848 he removed to St Paul and entered into a partnershi+p with Pierre Chouteau In 1854 the banking house of Borup & Oakes, of which he was senior partner, was established Dr Borup died of heart disease, July 6, 1859, but the banking business was continued under the firm name many years later

He was hter of Basil Beaulieu, a French trader of Mackinaw Hisdied in St

Paul several years ago Of a family of eleven children, nine survive

CAPT RUSSELL BLAKELEY, one of the best known of the early steamboat men, was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, April 19, 1815 He spent a part of his early life in Genesee county, New York, where he received a corated to Peoria, Illinois, in 1836, where he engaged in the real estate business; in 1839 he re; in 1844 to Southwest Virginia, returning to Galena in 1847, where he became one of a steamboat transportation coo This boat sank and he was transferred to the Dr Franklin, of which he became captain He was captain of the Nominee in 1853, and of the Galena in 1854 This last na, July 1, 1858 In 1855 he was appointed agent at Dunleith of the Packet Co interest in the Northwestern Express Company The next year he removed to St Paul In 1867 he retired from the company Of late years he has interested hireatly to the prosperity of the city and State

RENSSELAER R NELSON, United States district judge since Minnesota becao county, New York, May 12, 1826 His paternal great-grandfather carandfather was born in Ireland, but came to this country in his childhood His father, Samuel Nelson, was associate justice of the United States supreme court His father served as a soldier in the war of 1812, and the son located the land warrant given for his services in Minnesota The mother of Rensselaer was Catharine Ann (Russell), a descendant of Rev John Russell, of Hadley, Massachusetts, in whose house the regicides Goffe and Whalley were concealed for years, and where they finally died

Rensselaer R Nelson graduated at Yale in 1846 In 1849 he was admitted to practice law He came to St Paul in 1850 In 1857 President Buchanan appointed hie, which office he still holds He was ton Beebe, of New York State, Nov 3, 1858

GEORGE LOOMIS BECKER was born Feb 14, 1829, in Locke, Cayuga county, New York His father, Hiram Becker, was a descendant of the early Dutch settlers of the Mohawk valley In 1841 his father rean, where the son entered the State University as a freshewick until 1849, when he e late in October

Here he co associated with Edmund Rice and E J Whitall Subsequently, on the withdrawal of Mr

Whitall, Wm Hollinshead became a member of the firm The partnershi+p continued until 1856, when Mr Becker withdrew to engage in other pursuits, since which ti the railroad interests of the State and serving in various positions of honor and trust He served as a member of the constitutional convention in 1857 In 1862 he was chosen land commissioner of the St

Paul & Pacific railroad, and in 1864 was elected president of that corporation In 1872 he was the unsuccessful candidate of his party for Congress