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In 1866 he was appointed, with Gens Sherman, Harney, Terry, and Senator Henderson, a special peace cohteen months served upon that board This commission visited and made treaties with the Camanche, Cheyenne, Arrapahoe, Apache, Navajo, Shoshone, Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arrapahoe, and Crow tribes; and with the Ogalalla, Brule, Minneconjon, Sausauche, Black Feet, Umkapapa, Santee, and Yankton bands of the Sioux nation They settled upon and recoress a fixed policy to be pursued toward the Indians, which, while followed, resulted in coreater econoeneral has devoted himself entirely to his profession, and with more than ordinary success

JOHN R IRVINE was born in Dansville, Livingston county, New York, Nov 3, 1812, and was brought up there till seventeen years of age

His education when a boy was obtained at the common schools, and was quite lie he lived in Carlisle and other places in Pennsylvania, during which he learned the trade of plastering, and was married in Carlisle in 1831, to Miss Nancy Galbreath Soon after hishe went to Buffalo, New York; in the spring of 1837 e of 1840 removed to Prairie du Chien

While in Prairie du Chien Mr Irvine kept a grocery During that time he made two trips to St Paul--the last one with a team loaded with provisions, on the ice the ust, 1843, arrived in St Paul with his faht of Joseph Rondeau a claim of 240 acres of land, afterward converted into Rice & Irvine's addition, Irvine's enlarge most of the present city from St Peter street to Leech's addition, for about 300 Mr Irvine entered it in 1848 The east 80 acres of a quarter included in this claim Mr Irvine sold to Henry M Rice in 1848, and in the winter they laid off Rice & Irvine's addition, and co i in St Paul Mr Irvine has been engaged in faring his estate

He was one of the earliest settlers of St Paul, whose life aes has been conte Mr Irvine has had eight children, seven of who Mr Irvine died in 1878

HORACE RANSOM BIGELOW was born in Watervliet, New York, March 13, 1820 His father, Otis Bigeloas a Revolutionary patriot and soldier He received a good education at the schools of Sangerfield and the gy and teaching Later he studied law and was admitted to practice in 1847, in Utica, where he entered into partnershi+p with E S Brayton until 1853, when he removed to St Paul, Minnesota, in company with Charles E Flandrau He has since devoted himself almost exclusively to his law practice, which includes almost every branch except criminal law In June, 1862, he was married to Cornelia Sherrill, of Hartford, New York They have four children

CUSHMAN K DAVIS--In the quaint little Quaker village of Henderson, New York, in a ss, and g Davis, late governor and present senator from Minnesota, was born His father, Horatio N Davis, reust or September of the same year, and settled on the present site of Waukesha His father was quite pro the Civil War, and retired from the service with the brevet rank of major; had held various municipal offices, and had been a member of the Wisconsin senate Cushood an education as the tie, a Waukesha institution, and at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated in 1857 He read laith Gov

Randall, was admitted to the bar in 1859, and practiced at Waukesha until 1862, when he enlisted in the Twenty-eighth Wisconsin Infantry, going in as first lieutenant of Coeneral under Gen Gorman most of the tined his commission and settled in St Paul in partnershi+p with Gen Gorislature, and served one term He was United States district attorney froovernor

He served two years, and was the youngest overnor's chair he resumed his law practice until the senatorial election of 1887, when he was chosen to succeed Senator McMillan in the United States Senate

Senator Davis has devoted soeneral literature His lecture on ”Feudalism” was delivered in 1870, and this lecture probably secured hiovernor in 1873 He has also lectured on ”Hamlet” and ”Madam Roland,” and in 1884 delivered a lecture before the Ar class at Michigan University He also published a book entitled ”The Law in Shakespeare,” which attracted considerable attention He was new, of St Paul, in 1880

S J R MCMILLAN was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1826

He spent part of his early days in Pittsburgh; received a collegiate education; studied laas admitted to practice in 1849, and came to Stillwater in 1852, where he established a law office In 1858 he was elected judge of the First district and served until 1864, when he was appointed to the supreme bench He was elected to the position in the fall of the same year and served until 1875, when he was elected to the United States senate He was re-elected in 1881, and was succeeded in 1887 by Cushman K Davis He removed to St Paul in 1865

Senator McMillan has had an honorable career and is greatly respected as an upright, conscientious, active and thoroughly practical h in 1852, to Harriet E Butler They have three sons and three daughters

WILLIS ARNOLD GORMAN, second territorial governor of Minnesota, was born in Fleood literary education, and his parents having raduated at the law school connected with the State University at that place He coton and was quite popular as a lawyer, but even islature six ti out of the Mexican War, in 1846, he enlisted as a private in the Third Indiana Volunteers, but was appointedofficer, and was promoted to be colonel of the Fourth Indiana, which he helped recruit He served till the close of the war On his return to Indiana, in 1848, he was elected to Congress, and re-elected in 1850 In May, 1853, he was appointed by President Pierce governor of Minnesota Territory In 1857, at the close of his terovernor, he was elected a member of the constitutional convention, and was also an unsuccessful candidate for the United States senatorshi+p In the spring of 1861, at the breaking out of the Civil War, he was appointed colonel of the First Minnesota Infantry For bravery at the first battle of Bull Run he was coeneral He wasto Minnesota he formed a law partnershi+p with Cushman K Davis In 1869 he was elected city attorney and held that office till his death, which occurred at St Paul, May 20, 1876 He ice ton, Indiana, in 1836 She died in March, 1864, leaving five children In April, 1865, he was ton, of St Paul

JOHN D LUDDEN was born in Massachusetts, April 5, 1819; was educated at Williston Seminary, and came West to the lead mines of Wisconsin in 1842 In 1845 he came to St Croix Falls, Wisconsin, remained at this point and at Taylor's Falls until 1849, when he made his residence at Marine Mills, Minnesota In 1857 he changed his residence to Stillwater, and in 1861 became a citizen of St Paul, where he still resides He was a islatures Froed chiefly in luood business talent and thoroughly reliable

ELIAS F DRAKE is a native of Ohio, in which state he lived until 1861, when he came to St Paul His boyhood days were spent on a fared in mercantile pursuits, and still later studied law under the instruction of Justice Swayne of the United States supreme court, and was admitted to practice in all the courts of Ohio and in the United States court After a short and successful term of practice, he became cashi+er of the State Bank of Ohio, and in that capacity spent ten years of his life During that ti speaker one session, during which the late Gov Sas clerk of the house

In politics Mr Drake was a Whig, and afterward a Republican During his residence in Ohio he was active in pro several leading turnpike roads and a few railroads

In 1861 he came to Minnesota, and, put in operation the first railroad in the State, a road between St Paul and St Anthony Falls

In 1863 he was president of the Winona & St Peter railroad during the construction of the first ten miles Soon after, he, with some associates, took hold of the Minnesota Valley railroad, and completed it to Sioux City, Iowa, in 1872 He is president and land commissioner of this company Mr Drake represented Ramsey county in the state senate in 1874-75

NORMAN W KITTSON was born at Sorel, Lower Canada, March 5, 1814 In May, 1830, he engaged as an employe of the American Fur Company, and in that capacity came to the Northwest Fro post between the Fox river and the Wisconsin The following year he operated on the headwaters of the Minnesota, after which he spent a year on Red Cedar river, in Iowa In 1834 he ca, where he was sutler's clerk till 1838

The winter of 1838-39 he spent with his friends in Canada On his return in the spring he began business on his own account in the fur trade, at Cold Springs in the vicinity of Fort Snelling, which he continued till 1843, when he entered the Ae of all the business on the headwaters of the Minnesota, and along the line of the British possessions, and operating in that field till 1854 During that summer he entered into partnershi+p with Maj Weneral Indian trade, at St Paul, and went there to reside in the fall of that year The partnershi+p continued till 1858, and Mr Kittson continued his northern business till 1860, when he closed out In 1863 he accepted the position of agent for the Hudson Bay Company at St Paul, and went into the steamboat and transportation business on the Red River of the North From 1851 to 1855 Mr Kittson was a member of the territorial council, and was mayor of the city of St Paul in 1858 He was the oldest of the pioneers of Minnesota, except Joseph Dajenais, a French Canadian, now residing at Faribault Mr Kittson died July 10, 1888, on a railroad train near Chicago His body was brought to St Paul for burial

HASCAL RUSSELL BRILL was born in the county of Mississquoi, Canada, Aug 10, 1846 He was educated partly at Ha, and finished at Ann Arbor, Michigan He studied law and was admitted to practice at St Paul in December, 1869, and formed a partnershi+p with Stanford Newel Three years later he was elected probate judge and served two years In 1875 he was appointed by Gov Davis to fill the vacancy in the court of coe W S Hall, and a few months later was elected by the people to fill the sae Brill is Republican He was e, Niagara county, New York

WARD W FOLSOM, brother of Simeon P and W H C Folsom, was born in Tamworth, New Hampshi+re, Oct 13, 1824, but in early life rean, Maine, and in 1846 came to Arcola, Minnesota In 1848 he removed to St Croix Falls and in 1851 to Taylor's Falls, where he kept the Chisago House and engaged in lu until 1857, when he removed to St Paul, which city has since been his ho the Civil War in the quartermaster's departreatly shattered, he returned to St Paul He was et, of St Louis, in 1852 They have two adopted sons

GORDON E COLE was born in Berkshi+re county, Massachusetts, June 18, 1833; received his education at Sheffield Academy, Massachusetts, and at the Dane law school of Harvard University, froraduated in 1854 He practiced lao years in his native town, came to Minnesota, and located in Faribault in 1847 In 1859 he was elected attorney general and served three consecutive terms He served one year as state senator, and a year in co state statutes He has been a railroad attorney and has filled ust, 1855, to Stella C Whipple, of Shaftsbury, Ver three children Feb 14, 1874, he was married to Kate D Turner, of Cleveland, Ohio

JAMES SMITH, JR, was born in Mount Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, Oct

29, 1815 He obtained a good practical, coht He read law three years in Lancaster, Ohio, was admitted to the bar in 1839, and practiced law in his native town for seventeen years In 1856 he came to St Paul, where he has been associated in practice with Judge Lafayette E of the St Paul & Duluth railroad he has been its attorney, general er and president

Mr Smith was in the state senate in 1861-62-63 and 67, and proved a careful and able legislator As a lawyer he stands deservedly high He was married to Elisabeth Martin, Jan 18, 1848 They have four children