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He is a member of the Old Settlers association, of which he was president in 1873, and of the Minnesota Historical Society, over which he presided as president in 1874 He was one of the original members of the Presbyterian church in St Paul in 1850 He has served in the council of St Paul, and as ured ious life of his adopted city, and is an admirable type of a public spirited citizen Since 1885 he has served as railroad commissioner In 1885, at Keesville, New York, he was married to Susannah M Ismon, an estimable lady, who has made his home attractive Their family consists of four sons
AARON GOODRICH--Hon Aaron Goodrich, first chief justice of the supreme court of Minnesota Territory, was born in Sea county, New York, July 6, 1807 His parents were Levi H and Eunice (Spinner) Goodrich He traces his ancestry back through the Connecticut branch of the Goodrich falish history prior to the advent of William the Conqueror His hter of Roger Sherman
In 1815 his father removed to Western New York, where the son was raised on a farm and educated chiefly by his father, as a fine scholar and teacher He then studied law and commenced practice in Stewart county, Tennessee In 1847 to 1848 he was a islature
In 1849 he was appointed to the supreme bench of Minnesota Territory
He filled the position for three years In 1858, at the state organization, he was appointed a member of a co for state courts In 1860 he was made chairman of a similar commission In March, 1861, President Lincoln appointed hiht years While abroad, by his habits of study and opportunities for research, he laid the foundation of his critical and somewhat sensational work, ”A History of the Character and Achievements of the So-called Christopher Colu, and was a presidential elector in 1848 He was next a Republican, and served as delegate to the convention of 1860 In 1872 he was a delegate to the Liberal Republican convention which nominated Horace Greeley for president In later years he voted with the Democratic party
Mr Goodrich was Deputy Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in the State, was one of the corporate members of the State Historical Society and of the Old Settlers association, of which he was for many years the secretary In 1870 he was ota, New Grenada, a descendant of the old Castilian fahter, survives hie Goodrich died in St Paul in 1886
NATHAN MYRICK was born in Westford, Essex county, New York, July 7, 1822 He came to La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1840 The writer first met him at Prairie du Chien in 1841 He was one of the principal founders of the city of La Crosse,house in co on Black river He came to St Paul in 1848, and has sinceand successful trader with the Indians, principally with the Sioux Much of his trading stock was destroyed by the Sioux Indians in the insurrection of 1862, but he has been recoovernment In 1843 he was married to Rebecca Ismon They have three children
JOHN MELVIN GILMAN, son of John and Ruth (Curtis) Gilman, was born in Calais, Vermont, Sept 7, 1824 His father died in 1825 The son received a good co from the Montpelier Academy in 1843 He read laith Heaton & Reed, of Montpelier, and was ad the same year he removed to New Lisbon, Ohio, where he practiced law eleven years and served one terislature
In 1857 Mr Gilman came to St Paul, and formed a partnershi+p with Hon James Sh & Lane Mr Gilislature His affiliations have been with the Democratic party, for which he has been twice a candidate for Congress and chairman of the state central committee He was married to Miss Anna Cornwall, of New Lisbon, Ohio, June 25, 1857
CHARLES EUGENE FLANDRAU, son of Thomas Hunt and Elisabeth (Macomb) Flandrau, was born July 15, 1828, in New York City On his father's side he is descended frouenots driven into exile by the revocation of the edict of Nantes; on his mother's side from the Macombs of Ireland One of his uncles was Gen Alexander Macomb, commander-in-chief of the United States Ar Gen Winfield Scott He was educated until thirteen years of age in the private schools at Georgetown and Washi+ngton, after which he spent about three years before the mast; was at New York City about three years, when he went to Whitesboro, Oneida county, New York, where he read law and afterward entered into partnershi+p with his father, being admitted to practice in 1851 In 1853 he caelow and coelow & Flandrau
In 1854 he removed to St Peter and practiced law for several years
This year (1854) he was appointed a notary public by Gen Gorman
[Illustration: Truly yours, John B Sanborn]
In 1855 he was elected a member of the territorial council, and in 1856 was appointed by President Pierce United States agent for the Sioux Indians In 1857 he served as aof the constitutional convention, and in July of the same year was appointed by President Buchanan associate justice of the supreme court of Minnesota Territory He was elected to the same office, on the admission of Minnesota as a state, for a ter Gov Sibley's adeneral of the State
Judge Flandrau took an active part in suppressing the Sioux outbreak, serving as captain, and later as a colonel, of volunteers In 1864 Judge Flandrau resigned his place on the supreme bench and went to Nevada Territory for a year; spent some time in Kentucky and St
Louis, Missouri, and returned to Minnesota in 1867, locating at Minneapolis, where he opened a law office with Judge Isaac Atwater He was elected city attorney and was president of the first Board of Trade
In 1870 he reelow & Clark
In 1867 Judge Flandrau was the Deovernor of the State, and in 1869 for the position of chief justice In 1868 he was chairman of the state central committee, and a member of the national convention that nominated Horatio Seye Flandrau was14, 1859, to Isabella Dinsmore, of Kentucky, deceased in 1866 His second as Mrs Rebecca B
Riddle, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Feb 28, 1871 His fahters by his first wife and two sons by his second
GEN JOHN B SANBORN was born Dec 5, 1826, in Merrimac county, New Hampshi+re, on the farenerations After a coe Fowler, of Concord, New Hampshi+re, where he remained for three years, when he was admitted to practice by the superior court of New Ha December he came to Minnesota, where he has remained, a citizen of St
Paul, and in the practice of his profession, except what time he has been absent in the public service
His public career began in 1859-60, in the house of representatives
The following year he was sent to the senate, and that had adjourned but a little over aquartereneral of the State, and entered upon the arduous duties of organizing the first regiment of volunteers in the State for the war of the Rebellion
In the following December he was commissioned colonel of the Fourth Minnesota, and, with headquarters at Fort Snelling, garrisoned all the posts and co the winter Early in the spring of 1862 he left with his entire coned to the coade, which he commanded till the evacuation of those works, and was thereupon assigned to the coade, Seventh Division, Army of the Mississippi, afterward the Seventeenth Ar, with this brigade he fought the battle of Iuka and won the victory for which he was proeneral of Volunteers
He participated in the battles of Port Gibson, Ray--a portion of which time he was in co he was assigned to the command of the Southwest District of Missouri, where, after the caeneral
After the close of the war, by a fewthe S lines across the plains to Colorado and New Mexico, which had been closed for nearly two years, and restored peace to that frontier Upon a mission to the Indian Territory, to establish the relations which should exist between the slaves of the Indians and their former masters, he solved the questions and determined the relations, and established them upon a firm foundation in the short space of ninety days