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BIOGRAPHICAL. 235

PARKHOUSE & SAYLES, merchants, deal extensively in all kinds of merchandise. They engaged in business here June 1, 1879. Their trade the first six months amounted to about $25,000; for the year it aggregated $210,000. J. Parkhouse is a native of England. He lived several years at Syracuse, N. Y., and for a period of four years prior to coming to Valley City, in 1879, resided in Chicago, wehre he did a large storage and commission business. He was one of the founders and first directors of the First National Bank of Valley City, and is still connected with it. He is President of the Barnes County Agricultural and Mechanical Assciation. He is a member of the School Board, and has served as President of the Town Board. Mr. C. E. Sayles is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philidelphia, and was engaged in practice for a period of six years prior to removal to Dakota.

S. H. REYNOLDS, County Surveyor, City Engineer, and Assistant County Tresurer, is a native of Oswego N. Y., and was educated at Toronto and St. Catherine's Collegiate Institute, recieving a diploma from the Provincial Board of Examiners at Toronto. He followed his profession in the province of Ontario for a period of eitght years, coming from there to Valley City Febuary 5, 1881. He ran the preliminary line for the Valley City & Turtle Mountain Railroad, and has made the survey of several town sites in Dakota, beside laying out several additons along the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and elsewhere, this being done in additon to the performance of his official duties.

HERBERT ROOT, President of the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank, is a native of Haldimand County, Ontario. He was educated at Racine College, in Wisconsin, and lived there and at Quincey, Ill., Sterling, Ill., and Brainerd, Minn., prior to coming to Valley City. In April, 1880, he established the Valley City Bank, being manager and proprietor thereof until August 15, 1881, when he became cashier of the First National Bank which was organized at that time, and held that position until January 14, 1882. He perfected the organization of the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank March 10, 1882, since which time he has been president of that institution.

JOHN RUSSELL, proprietor of Valley City Flouring Mills, was born in Gainsville, N. Y., Febuary 4, 1828. When eighteen years of age he removed to Cattaraugus County, N. Y. After three years' residence there, he located near Bradford, Pa., and in 1855 remmoved to Fillmore County, Minn., where he lived until he came to Dakota. In January, 1878, he purchased 3,000 acres of land near Valley City. In the summer of the same year he plowed 140 acres of this land; was here again in the fall of 1879 to look after his crops, and in the spring of 1880 he removed to Valley City with his family. In January, 1882, he purchased the Valley City Flouring Mills, his son-in-law, Arthur Miller, at the time being admitted to partnership with him, and continuing with him ever since. They have four double sets of rollers, and the mill is equipped with the most approved machinery of the present day, with a capacity for manufacturing 125 barrels of flour per day. It is claimed there is no flour made in the United States which is superior to their "Occident" brand. Mr. Miller is one of the most skillful millers in this country. Mr. Russell is a a large property owner here. He is one of the directors of the First National Bank of Valley City, and was one of the founders of that institution. He was married in Cattaraugus County, N. Y. , in 1851, to Lucinda Jane Parker, a native of Marilla, Erie Co., N. Y. Their children are-Herbert J., Clara A., now Mrs. Arthur Miller, and Arthur J.

EDWARD A. SAGER, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Barnes County, and principal of Valley City schools, was born in Albany County, N. Y., in 1850, and moved with his parents to Onondago County in the same State at an early age. Here he received his primary education. When a young man he removed to Jackson County, Mich., where he was principal of a village school. He was first School Inspector of his town, and town School Superintendent, subsequently was Justice of the Peace for three years. Professor Sager married, in 1872, Miss Emma E. Sweet, daughter of Clark Sweet, of Jackson, Mich. They have two children Mr. Sager came to Dakota in May, 1879, and settled in Valley City, and took charge of the first public school in Barnes County, started the same season, in November. In 1880 he was elected School Superintendent of the county. He has now the supervison of seventy-six school districts, and forty schools in operation. The school buildings are substantial and the schools are well conducted. Professor Sager is one of the most popular and efficient officers in the county.

J. W. SCOTT, attorney, real estate and loan agent, is a native of New York City, and was educated at Toronto, Canada, and at Albany Law School. He came to Valley City in August, 1881, where he has since been engaged in his present business. He owns the following desirable farm property: The east half of Section 5, Town 139, Range 57; the north half of Section 9, Town 139, Range 57, and south half of Section 31, Town 142, Range 57.

CHARLES F. THOMAS, druggist, bookseller and stationer, is a native of Springboro, Warren Co., Ohio. He first began the drug business in 1867, at Richmond, Ind., remaining there about four years. He then attended the Baltimore College of Pharmacy, from which he graduated in 1872. He remained in Baltimore five years, afterwards was connected with the medical department of the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md., for a period of three years. After spending a few months again at Baltimore, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained until he came to Valley City, May 11, 1883, and engaged in his present business. Joseph Endress, who is associated with Mr. Thomas as parter, is a native of Germantown, Ohio, and came from there to Valley City in May, 1883.

JAMES W. VIDAL, M. D., homeopathic physician and surgeon, is a native of Napoli, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. He recieved an academic education and graduated from the medical department of Michigan University at Ann Arbor in the class of 1882. He was connected with the college hospital for three years, including the time he attended lectures. He spent the summer of 1882 at Randolph, New York, and in November of that year came to Valley City, where he has since built up a lucrative practice, being esteemed as one of the most skillful physicians and surgeons in his part of the Territory.

JOEL S. WEISER, merchant came to Barnes County, June 17, 1877, and purchased property in the vicinity of Valley City. In September of the same year he built a store here, which is now a part of the Northern Pacific Hotel. Early in April, 1878, he began to deal in general merchandise, in his store, which was 11 by 19 feet. In the fall of 1878 he put up another building 20 by 36 feet, afterwards erecting a sixteen foot addition thereto, and the following year was obliged to make a still further additon of twenty feet. In the fall of 1881 he was obliged to have more complete accommodations for his rapidly increasing trade and he then constructed the spacious two-story building which he now occupies, which is 28 by 100 feet in size. His sales the first year amounted to about $10,000. In 1882 they aggregated for that year $81,000. Mr. Weiser is a native of Amity Township, Berks Co., Penn. He removed to Scott County, Minn., when he was seventeen years of age. After steamboating a short time he learned the stone mason's trade and in six weeks from the time he began to learn the business he took charge of a gang of masons. He carried on business as contractor for several years in Scott County and at Saint Paul. Prior to removal to Dakota he was engaged in farming in Washington County, Minn. Mr. Weiser served one year in Company I, Ninth Minnesota Volunter Infantry. He has served as Justice of Peace and served five years as Treasurer of Barnes County. He was married in Berks County, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1855, to Louisa Cleaver, a native of that county. They have nine children living: Rosa Ellen, Sarah Emma, Hattie Clara, William, Joel Albert, Lydia May, Ida, John and Lillie. Lost three children. Mr. Weiser is a member of the German Methodist Church.

HERMAN WINTERER, attorney-at-law, is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated in Minnesota and at the Iowa State University, graduating from the law department of the latter institution in 1882. He located at Valley City in April, 1883, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession.

SANBORN.

C. H. BAUDER, grocer, the son of G. Bauder, of Chickasaw County, Iowa, was born in Ionia County, Michigan. At the age of twelve years he went to Winona County, Minnesota, and from there to Chickasaw, Iowa, where he was educated and engaged in farming. He married, in September, 1882, Miss E. J. Lester, of Iowa. Mr. Bauder is one of the enterprising men of the town of Sanborn, and has had excellent success since he came to Dakota, in the spring of 1881, when he opened his business at once. He owns real estate in the town of Sanborn, besides his stock of goods.

COVEY & BROWN, general merchants, engaged in business here in June, 1883. They carry an extensive stock of general merchandise, hardware, etc., and estimate that their sales will amount to about $150,000 in 1884. Their store is 50x140 feet, onehalf of which is two stories. William Covey, of this firm, is a native of Connecticut. Prior to removal to Dakota, in the spring of 1883, he had for sixteen or seventeen years been engaged in mercantile and manufacturing business at Hartford, Conn. Mr. C. P. Brown, his partner, is also a native of Connecticut; resided several years at Providence, R. I., where he was engaged in commission and fruit business. He came from Providence to Dakota at the time the firm of Covey & Brown was organized. They give employment to eight men in the various departments of their business.

J. S. DAM, proprietor of the Sanborn Hotel and livery stable, came to Sanborn April 17, 1881, built the first livery stable here, May 1, 1881, having it in operation. The size of stable is 46x70 feet, with ample accommodations for fifty horses, having other shelter for at least thirty more. No other stable was started here until the autumn of 1883. Since the spring of 1881 Mr. Dam has been engaged in farming here. He sold his original farm and now owns the south one-half of Section 13, Town 139, Range 60. He became proprietor of the Sanborn Hotel September 15, 1883. He is a native of Cumberland County, Maine, but lived in Minnesota from July 1, 1856, to 1881, alternating between Minneapolis and St. Cloud until he came to Dakota. He was in the lumber business in Minnesota, and did not dispose of his interest therein until 1883.

ADAM GALLINGER, came to Sanborn in July, 1879, he and Louis S. Lenham becoming the proprietors of the orginal town site of Sanborn. In March, 1881, Mr. Gallinger began the construction of the Sanborn Hotel, and opened it to the public July 10, of the same year. A few months later he rented it to J. L. Wilcox, who conducted it about two years. September 15, 1883, J. S. Dam rented it. This house has a frontagle of 100 feet, and contains sixty rooms. Mr, Gallinger still owns the hotel, and twentyfive lots in the original town of Sanborn. He also has some fine farm property, the north one-half of Section 2, Town 139, Range 60, well improved. He is a native of New York, but was reared in Ontario, living there until he was twenty-four years of age, when he removed to Michigan, where he resided most of the time until he came to Dakota, being for fourteen years associated with Governer Crapo in the lumber business.

E. M KISER, proprietor of the Barnes County Bank, organized April 1, 1882, with a paid up captial of $30,000. The first two or three months' deposits averaged about $8,000. In 1883 they increased to $60,000. J. M. Burrell, cashier and manager of this bank, came to Sanborn in March, 1882, and organized this institution. He is a native of Greensburg, Pa.; came from the Bradford oil region to Dakota. He is one of the proprietors of the Cooperstown, Odell and Dazey town sites, and of the Bank of Cooperstown. The Barnes County Bank does a general banking, loan and real estate brokerage business.

LENHAM ELEVATOR AND LUMBER COMPANY was incorporated in July, 1883, captial $500,000. The officers are Geo. L. Lenham, president; N. L. Lenham, general manager; Louis S. Lenham, treasurer; and Rudolf Herz, secretary. This company have grain elevators and lumber yards at Sanborn, Cooperstown, Spiritwood, Dazey, Odell and Hobart, and will establish business at several other points in 1884. Much real estate is owned by this company, both town and farm property. In September, 1879, George L. Lenham & Co. engaged in mercantile business at the corner of Third and Front Sts., Sanborn, their store being 20 by 30 feet. In 1881 they increased it to 36 by 60 feet, and in 1882 to 36 by 120 feet. Their sales the first year amounted to about $20,000, and for the year ending January 1, 1883, they did a business amounting to $228,000, including their lumber and grain trade. June 1, 1883, they sold their store and stock of general merchandise to Covey & Brown for $36,500, and in July, 1883, organized the Elevator and Lumber Company. George and N. L. Lenham are both natives of Pennsylvania. Their father, who is treasurer of the company, is a native of Germany, but settled in Pennsylvania in 1840. This company owns over 700 lots in the original town of Sanborn and its additions. N. L. Lenham owns one-third interest in the town sites of Odell, Dazey, and Cooperstown, J. M. Burrell, R. C. Cooper, and C. A. Roberts being the owners of a two-thirds interest in these towns.

LOUIS S. LENHAM, Postmaster and treasurer of the Lenham Elevator and Lumber Company, is a native of Germany; came to America in 1840, and located in Pennsylvania, where he resided until the summer of 1879. He first came to Dakota in June of that year, and in July located at Sanborn, where he engaged in mercantile business the following September. He is one of the most public spirited citizens of Barnes County, and is in every sense a gentleman. He has performed the duties of Postmaster ever since an office was established here, at first keeping all the mail in a cigar box, not receiving more than an average of one letter a day for the first six months.

D. F. SIEGFRIED, druggist, stationer and dealer in coal, came to Sanborn, October

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1, 1881, and has since been engaged in the drug and stationery trade here. In 1882 he established a coal yard which he still carries, dealing at the present time exclusively in lignite coal. He has a farm on the northwest quarter of Section 22, Town 137, Range 60, and owns considerable town property. He is a native of Catasauqua, Lehigh Co., Penn. Prior to removal to Dakota he was for two years a resident of Bradford, Penn.

STERL & RHINE, general merchants, dealers in oats, corn and farm produce, established business here August 1st, 1881. The firm is composed of H. O. Sterl and John H. Rhine, both natives of Massillon, Ohio. They do exclusively a retail business, which aggregates about $60,000 per annum. Mr. Sterl has a pre-emption claim, northwest quarter of Section 22, Town 141, Range 61, 40 acres under cultivation, and also a timber culture claim, northeast quarter of Section 23, Town 141, Range 61. Mr. Rhine has a farm on the southeast quarter of Section 28, Town 141, Range 60, 75 acres of which is improved.

C. A. VAN WORMER, attorney-at-law, loan agent, etc., is a native of Broome County, New York, born near Binghamton. From the age of five years he was reared in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Read law at Montrose, Pennsylvanina, and attended the Albany school. He was admitted to practice in August 1877. Engaged in practice at Montrose prior to removal to Sanborn, in October, 1882.

ECKELSON.

E. S. LAWRENCE, Postmaster and general store keeper, firm Lawrence & Co., was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1847, and moved to Boston at the age of two years. His father died while he was quite young. At the age of eighteen Mr. Lawrence commenced to learn the trade of locomotive engineer at Marshall, Michigan, and was employed on the Michigan Central twelve years. He was for one year on the Union Pacific, from Rawlins to Green River. Afterward he went to California, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Indian Territory, Texas, Kansas, Missouri and Montana, and finally in the spring of 1879 to Dakota. He was employed on the Northern Pacific four years. He purchased the land on which the village of Eckelson now stands in the summer of 1882 and laid out the town the same year. He married in 1869, Miss Harriet R. Coon, of Manchester, Iowa, who was born in Belvidere, Illinois, in 1850. They have one child, Carrie. The town of Eckelson is beautifully located on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and the west bank of Eckelson Lake, a sheet of salt water, six miles in length from north to south and over a half a mile in width. There are at the time of writing, a warehouse, several stores, a fine school and a number of private dwellings. The land in the vicinity is first-class and is being rapidly settled. Mr. Lawrence has been agent for the Northern Pacific Elevator Company. At the time of platting the town site he took in as partners, Messrs. Spanegal and Calvert.

M. E. MURPHY, sectino agent, was born in Ireland in 1852. He came to America at an early age. In 1872 Mr. Murphy came to Minnesota where he followed railroading and he has followed that business up to the present time, on the Northern Pacific, and on other roads. In 1876, he married Miss Mary Mulroy, of New York City. They have four children, Cicely, Katie, Agnes and James. Mr. Murphy purchased a section of railroad land, a half mile north of Eckelson. He is now road master on the Northern Pacific, and occupies the section house in the town of Eckelson.

AUGUST SPANNAGEL, farmer, P. O. Eckelson, was born in Germany in 1820 and educated there in the common schools. His father and mother died when he was seven years of age. He came to America in 1844 and located at Milwaukee, Wis. He afterward went to Washington County, and from there to Waupun in the same State, and engaged in farming and hotel keeping for twelve years. He was married in 1846 to Miss Martha Peterson, a native of Norway, born in 1826 and emigrated to America in 1843. They have had eleven children, only two of whom are now living, the others having died in Washington County, Wisconsin. Mr. Spannagel owns one and one-half sections of land, seven miles south of Eckelson, in Section 27 and west half of Section 35, Town 139, Range 61. He owns a fine farm near Waupun, and also a city hotel, two butcher shops, and two dwellings. His wheat in 1883 on his Dakota land was about nineteen bushels to the acre, being 8,000 bushels, and his Wisconsin land yielded about 2,000 bushels of grain. In addition to other property Mr. Spannagel owns one-half interest in the town plat of Eckelson. His farm in Barnes County is one of the finest in the vicinity. The two living children are Louis, married to Miss Camilla Johnson, a native of Norway; they have four children and are living opposite Mr. Spannagel; Christiana, married to Mr. Frey and has six children; they live in Hartford, Washington Co., Wis.

ORISKA.

J. ANDERSON, of the firm of Anderson & Fridd, dealers in general merchandise also hardware and real estate, is a native of Sweden, born in 1852, and educated in America, where he came in 1860, locating in Carver County, Minnesota. He has been in commercial life since he was ten years old. On March 31, 1884, he was married to Miss Mollie Haisch, of Glencoe, Minnesota. His present business was established in August, 1882, with a capital of $20,000. They have a large and fine assortment of goods, and a business in the town and county of $60,000, and have the only store of the kind in the town. Mr. Anderson is also extensively engaged in farming, having a farm of 1,120 acres adjoining Oriska and Valley City. He has 425 acres under cultivation, with good buildings, and well stocked, fine residence and other appurtenances. Before coming to Dakota Mr. Anderson was connected with the following firms: Anderson, Heinemann & Co.; Anderson & Child, Glencoe, Minn., and Anderson & Enerson, Valley City, D. T. He has a large amount of property in the city of Glencoe, Minn., and Valley City, D. T.

GEORGE A. FRIDD, the other member of the firm, is also Postmaster at Oriska. He was born in Winnebago, Wis., and was educated at Ripon High School. He entered upon a business career in Benson, Minn., and became partner in the drug business at Alexandria, Minn. In 1878 he married Miss Alice Bromley, of Wisconsin. They have one child. Mr. Fridd is a graduate of the business college at Oshkosh, Wis. Anderson & Fridd own, in partnership, Section 31, Township 140, Range 56, as platted.

HON. JOHN M. DENNETT, owner and proprietor of elevator, dealer in grain, and farmer, was born in Essex County, N. Y., in 1838, and received his early education and training until at age of sixteen, in his native State. At this age he came with his parents to Prairie du Sac, Sauk Co., Wis. His early ancestors came over in the "May Flower," and later moved into the State of Maine, and subsequently to Vermont. Judge Dennett came to Dakota in 1879 and settled on a homestead within a half-mile of the present town of Oriska, where he now lives. He afterward founded the town, erected an elevator and started in the grain business, buying and selling. In 1880 he was elected Judge of Probate for the county of Barnes, which office he filled for two years. In 1868 he married Mary Carleton, of Portland, Maine, by whom he had one daughter. Judge Dennett is the oldest settler in the town of Oriska, and one of the most influential and public-spirited citizens of the county.

C. J. HUNT, cashier of the Bank of Oriska, is a native of Massachusetts, born in 1857, and educated party in Massachusetts, and partly at Ypsilanti, Mich. In 1882 he married Miss E. Perkins, the daughter of N. B. Perkins, president of the bank. Mr. Hunt has one child, a son. The Bank of Oriska was organized in November, 1882, with the above named president; G. H. Robbins, vice president, and C. J. Hunt, cashier. Mr. Perkins and Mr. Hunt are both from Ypsilanti, Mich. Mr. Robbins is at present Treasurer of Lorain County, Ohio. The firm of Perkins & Robbins were Indian traders at Standing Rock Agency from 1879 to 1882. Mr. Hunt is an extensive insurance agent. The bank deals in loans and real estate collections, of which a specialty is made. Bank correspondents: First National Bank of Fargo, German American Bank of Saint Paul, Hide and Leather National Bank of Chicago, and America Exchange, National Bank of New York. Mr. Perkins has been an extensive traveler for commercial houses for twenty-five years; latterly for Bates, Reed & Cooley, New York. He owns the south half of Section 29, Town 140, Range 56, besides all the store buildings and the printing office in the town of Oriska. The firm owns an interest in the town site.

ED. MUNN, dealer in lumber, lath, shingles, sash, doors, blinds, molding and building paper, is a son of Harrison Munn, a native of Genesee County. N. Y., who moved to Michigan at an early age and remained there on a farm until he died in 1856. Hihs son was born in Oakland County, Mich., in 1847, and educated in the same place. He was married June 3, 1883, to Miss Grace E. Pickett, daughter of O. B. Pickett, of Oriska, born in 1834 in Girard, Pa., who came to Dakota in 1879; he owns 1,120 acres of land three and a half miles from Oriska. Mr. Munn came to Dakota in the fall of 1880, located at Oriska in the spring of 1881 and started his business at the same time. He has the oldest lumber yard in the town. He has a good business and owns a half section adjoining the town site of Oriska, and a neat, comfortable home in the village.

MRS. J. F. SMITH, farmer, Section 6, Town 140, Range 56, P. O. Oriska, was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1848, and educated first in a boarding school at Melbourne, afterward in the city of Boston, and finally at Skaneateles, N. Y., in 1862. She is the daughter of Richard and Ann Gale, of London, England, who moved to Australia at the commencement of the gold discoveries, and remained there twelve years. They then removed to Boston, Mass., and thence to New York, and finally to Battle Creek, Mich., where they now live. Mrs. Smith was married in the fall of 1865 to John Franklin Smith, a native of Bordino, N. Y., born in 1843 and educated at Skaneateles, N. Y. He entered the Union army in an artillery regiment and served until the close of the war. He then moved to Michigan, where he followed the carpenter's trade about eighteen years. Mr. Smith died June 15, 1882. He had taken a soldier's homestead prior to his death, and Mrs. Smith had this year eighty-five acres of crops that yielded eighteen bushels to the acre. Mrs. Smith has one son - Richard Dean Smith, born in Dowagiac, Mich., in 1857. Mrs. Smith was the first lady to settle west of Tower City on the prairie.

DAZEY.

C. T. DAZEY, dramatic author and farmers, P. O. Dazey, is a native of Lima, Adams Co., Ill., graduated from Harvard College, class of 1881, and spent one year at Columbia College Law School, New York; came to Dakota in April, 1882, his father, Mitchell Dazey, having purchased large tracts of land here. In 1883, they raised 6,200 bushels of wheat, 10,000 bushels of oats, and 608 bushels of barley. In 1884 they have about 1,000 acres under cultivation. Mr. Dazey and his father own between 2,000 and 3,000 acres of very fine agricultural land. Mr. Dazey is a gentleman of extraordinary literary attainments, a scholarly man and yet greatly interested in his agricultural pursuits.

DAILEY.

JAMES DAILEY, farmer and County Commissioner, Section 2, Town 137, Range 58, P. O. Dailey, is a native of the city of New York; came to his present location, and settled in April, 1878. South of his place the nearest settlers were seventy-five miles distant, at that time. Mr. Dailey had a five-foot "Advance" McCormick machine, with which he cut all the grain in Barnes County in 1878, there being only 178 acres to harvest that year. He has since given his attention exclusively to his own extensive farming interests. In 1880 he was elected County Commissioner, re-elected in 1883, and for the last two years he has been Chairman of the Board. He owns the northeast quarter of Section 6, Town 137, Range 57, south half of north half Section 2, Town 137, Range 58; northeast quarter of Section 3, Town 137, Range 58 and the east half of northwest quarter of Section 3, Town 137, Range 58. Prior to removal to Dakota, Mr. Dailey had been for twenty-seven years a resident of Yucatan Township, Houston Co., Minn.

P. O. FARGO, CASS COUNTY.

J. G. ALLEN, farmer and steam plow operator, Section 3, Town 143, Range 60, P. O. Fargo, Cass County, ws born in 1858 in Leeds, England, and served his time with John Fowler & Co., Steam Plow and Locomotive Works, and is the sole owner and introducer of their steam plows in teh Northwest. He came to Dakota in the spring of 1882, bringing one set of plows and commenced work at Blanchard, May 23, on the Aurora farm, owned by Capt. Hunt. He afterwards plowed on the Reed farm, and soon after plowed 1,000 acres for Mr. Eli Green, on his farm, near Mapleton. The results on Mr. Green's farm show that the yield of wheat per acre is from four to six bushels more when plowed by steam than when plowed by horses. In 1883 he again began work for Mr. Green and in May plowed 200 acres. During the summer he was on the Rice River and worked on Mr. Adam's farm, where he did fine breaking and backsetting, afterwards plowing 2,000 acres for Mr. Green. The principle upon which these plows work, is the double engine system, drawn by steel wire cables winding on and off a drum. The plows are made on a balance, four on each end, having four right hand board and four left. There are two sets of plows on one rope, being equally apart, and meeting in the middle. They can be gauged to any depth desired. The engines are so constructed that they can be used for all farm purposes, seeding, harrowing, rolling, threshing and ditching. Mr. Allen is introducing them into all parts of the Northwest. They will plow forty acres per day, always doing good work, and their introduction will revolutionize the business of farming.

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P. O. TOWER CITY, CASS COUNTY.

LUTHER COBB, P. O. Tower City, Cass County, was born in New Hampshire, in 1818. He received his education and at the age of twenty years removed to Monroe County New York, where he completed his course at the Marion Academy. In 1842, when Chicago was but a small village, he removed there and in 1846 returned to New Hampshire and became a manufacturer of wooden ware. He subsequently removed to Boston and worked at the painters' trade and in 1855 returned to Chicago where he worked in a car factory. In 1858 he removed to Big Rapids, northern Michigan, county of Mescota, where he was one of the pioneers and filled the office of Register of Deeds for two years and was also Supervisor of the county of Mescota twelve years. Mr. Cobb's remote ancestry were English. His grandfather came from New Jersey to New Hampshire at an early day. Mr. Cobb married, in 1848, Miss Abbie B. Wright, who was born in New Hampshire in 1821. She is also descended from English ancestry. Mr. Cobb came to Dakota in the spring of 1880, and settled on a farm in Barnes County. He owns 320 acres, more than 200 of which are well improved. He is also the owner of one of the best farms in Mescota County, Michigan, near the city of Big Rapids.

STUTSMAN COUNTY

JAMESTOWN.

A. A. ALLEN, came to Dakota in July, 1879, and engaged in the practice of law, operating in real estate more or less since that time. Since the winter of 1880-81, he has also been extensively engaged in the money loaning business. He has been a director of the First National Bank since its organization and in May, 1883, he joined in the organization of the North Dakota Bank, J. A. J. Sheets, Philladelphia, S. M. Beckford, of Lockhaven, Penn., R. M. Winslow, Jamestown, and A. A. Allen being proprietors thereof, having capital sufficient to meet the demands of this region, making loans on all kinds of good securities, and receiving special deposits of money. Mr. Allen is a native of Clyde, Wayne Co., N. Y. He lived for several years in Michigan, where he was educated, attending the Michigan University, at Ann Arbor. He read law with Hon. J. H. McGowan, at Coldwater, and began practice in Dakota. Mr. Allen was the first permanent lawyer at Jamestown.

J. A. ATKINSON, proprietor of Belmont Farm, P. O. Jamestown, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1839, and received a common school education and immigrated to Davenport, Iowa, in 1863, and was for many years owner of the Davenport Spice Mills. He was married in 1869 to Miss Sophia Severn, of Toronto, Canada. They have five children - Laura A., Edith S., Charles S., Annie L. and Ralph J. Mr. Atkinson owns a on-third interest in 12 000 acres of land in Wells County, Dakota, a beautiful home in the city, a fine farm of 960 acres one mile south of the city, and other farms near town, besides an addition to the town. He now has 1,500 acres under cultivation. He became a member of the Board of Education soon after his arrival in Jamestown in 1880, which office he now holds.

FREDRUS BALDWIN, attorney and loan agent, is a native of Blenheim, Schoharie Co., N. Y., living there until he was twelve years of age, afterwards residing at Worcester, Otsego Co., N. Y., until 1864, when he removed to Washington, D. C., where he was employed in th[e] Quartermaster's department one year. He then returned to Worcester, N. Y., where he remained until his removal to Dakota. He located at Jamestown, May 1, 1883, wehre he has since been engaged in his present business. He was educated at the New York Conference Wesleyan Seminary, commenced reading law in 1863, and was admitted to the Bar in 1867. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M.

J. J. BELLIVOU, farmer and railroad yardmaster, is the son of John Bellivou, a native of Boston, born in 1833, and commenced working on the railroad in 1856 and became an engineer on the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad. He is now a partner with Joseph Freeman, of Jamestown. The son, the subject of our sketch, was born in Boston, 1861: went to the Hornellsville public schools, where he had moved at the age of five eyars; is the oldest of four children: James Edward, born December 16, 1864; Permela, born April 21, 1862, and Celana, born in July, 1867. Mr. Bellivou was a conductor on the Lehigh Valley and Kansas Pacific railroads, and was the first yardmaster at Jamestown on the Northern Pacific Railroad.

R. A. BILL, of the firm of Bill & Parkhurst, attorneys and real estate and loan agents, is a native of Seneca, Ontario Co., N. Y., born in 1847. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1876, and engaged in the practice of his profession at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he remained until July, 1879, when he located at Jamestown. Mr. Bill is attorney for the Jamestown Building and Loan Association, having held that position for the last two years. He has been Deputy District Attorney. Mr. Bill owns a fine farm near Jamestown to which he gives personal attention.

T. F. BRANCH, civil engineer, is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and was educated in that city. In 1871 he assisted in laying out the towns between Brainerd and Moorhead, Minnesota, on the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He was afterwards at Superior City until September, 1881, when he came to Jamestown. Among the many additions which he has surveyed since coming here may be mentioned Lloyd's Second addition to Jamestown, Wadsworth, Kelley & Fuller's two additions, D. C. Buck's addition, two additions for B. S. Russell, Mansfield & Foley's addition; also surveyed the town sites of Ypsilanti, Melville, Carrington, and Windsor in Dakota, and the town site of Billings, Montana; the also surveyed Bowman's addition to Bismarck, besides doing much other work in the Territory. He has been surveyor of Stutsman County and is now city engineer of Jamestown.

WILL H. BURKE, editor of the Jamestown Daily Capital, an evening paper, was born at Racine, Wis., January 16, 1857; lived some time in Waukegan, Illinois, and took first lessons in typography in the Gazette office, in that city, in 1869. In 1870 moved to Manistee, Michigan, where he worked from devil to editor, and in November, 1879, as the junior member of the firm of Thompson & Burke, established the Manistee Independent. Closing out his interest there in 1881 he came to Jamestown, January 24, 1882. The first number of the Weekly Capital appeared February 24, 1882; daily, September 21, 1882. This paper is ably conducted and is one of the leading organs of north Dakota. Mr. Burke is the President of the Jamestown Board of Trade, and is identified closely with the moral and material progress of the city and country.

THE CARRINGTON AND CASEY LAND COMPANY, organized June, 1882, capital, $500,000. Home office, Minneapolis, Minnesota. T. B. Casey, Minneapolis, president and treasurer; N. B. Carrington, Toledo, Ohio, vice president; L. R. Casey, Carrington, Dakota Territory, and Jamestown, Dakota Territory, secretary and general manager. This company owns large tracks of land in Foster, Barnes, LaMoure and Ransom counties.

A. G. CHAMBERS, Superintendent of Stutsman County Elevator Company, is a native of Latrobe, Westmoreland Co., Penn., moving from there to Jamestown in March, 1883, where he has been engaged in the grain business since August of that year. During that season he handled 140,000 bushels of grain.

CHAPMAN & FRENCH, dealers in staple and fancy groceries. This firm was organized in January, 1883. They have an extensive assortment of groceries, and do a large and profitable business in the city of Jamestown and the surrounding country. Mr. F. H. Chapman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was brought up and received a good education in the same town. Was in the woolen jobbing, and afterwards in the wholesale grocery business and located in Jamestown in 1883. Everett W. French, of the same firm, was born in South Weymouth, near Boston, Massachusetts, in 1864, and attended school at South Scituate, Massachusetts. He is the son of Edwin W. French, of South Scituate, who is in the boot and shoe trade in the same town. Mr. E. W. French commenced in the wholesale business in Boston, in September, 1879, and came to Dakota in January, 1883. These are young men of good business ability and intelligence and are succeeding beyond their most sanguine expectations. They sell at least $35,000 worth of goods per year.

PROF. C. H. CLEMMER, City Superintendent of Public Schools and Secretary of Board of Education, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and educated in the Cincinnati public schools and at Yale College. In 1873 he commenced teaching in the High School, Davenport, Iowa, where he continued until he was elected Superintendent of the county of Scott from 1876 to 1880. He came to Jamestown in 1881, having been elected Superintendent and Principal of the public schools of that city, and also Secretary of the Board of Education. The schools of Jamestown, under the teaching and superintendence of Professor Clemmer, are second to none in the West. His scholarship and successful experience in school work in Eastern cities, as well as in their own town, are fully appreciated by the wide-awake people of Jamestown.

THOMAS S. COLLINS is a native of Chicago, Ill., born in 1846. In 1850 he removed from his native city to Schuyler County, Illinois. For several years he was a resident of northern Minnesota and assisted in locating the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad. November 11, 1871, he came to what is now Jamestown, being engaged in trapping and hunting until the spring of 1872; he then entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, being for nine months connected with the engineer corps. Afterwards, for a period of three years, he served as Postmaster, and clerked for Merrick & Miller, general merchants. November, 1876, he was elected County Treasurer and held that office until January, 1883. He is now County Assessor, and deals in real estate.

DAVID CURTIN, Vice-President of the James River National Bank, is a native of Milwaukee, Wis., and was a resident of Green Bay prior to locating at Jamestown, in the fall of 1878. He built the first store on the south side of the railroad track, and about the fifteenth of March, 1879, engaged in mercantile business in that building (which is now occupied by Schoemberg Bros). He continued in trade until September 13, 1882. The firm name was Klaus & Curtin for a time, afterwards Klaus, Curtin & Winslow, later Curtin & Winslow, and at the time he retired from mercantile business he had no partner. Since he first located here he has dealt extensively in real estate, being now engaged in loaning money and operating in city and farm property. He is interested in the James River Valley Railroad and the Jamestown Building and Loan Association. He was a member of the first village Board.

WILLIS E. DODGE, attorney-at-law, came to Fargo, Dakota in October, 1880, residing there until January 22, 1881, when he removed to Jamestown, forming a law partnership with A. A. Allen who was the first lawyer of this place. The firm of Allen & Dodge was continued until May 1, 1883, since which time Mr. Dodge has been engaged in practice without a partner. He, with A. A. Allen and B. W. Fuller, owns the Riverside Addition and Ft. Seward Addition to the city of Jamestown, besides owning considerable other city property. He is City Attorney and also attorney for the First National Bank. He is a stockholder in the James River National Bank and is interested in the James River Valley Railroad, as a stockholder. He is a native of Barton, Orleans Co., Vt., was educated at St. Johnsbury Academy, read law with Hon. F. W. Baldwin and was admitted to practice in September, 1880.

THOMAS DRISCOLL, proprietor of saloon and billiard hall, was born in Ireland in 1847, and on arriving at the age of manhood, in 1859, he went on the high seas as a sailor, and then continued in the English navy and the merchant service fifteen years, and came to America, landing in the city of Boston. Mr. Driscoll is a great traveler, having visited all the leading cities of the world. He settled in Buffalo in 1869, where he was married to Miss Alice McCabe. They have three children, Alice, Kate and Agnes. Mr. Driscoll came to Dakota in November, 1880, and purchased a house and lot for his business, which he established in March, 1883. Mr. Driscoll keeps a first-class house, and has a successful business.

W. W. DUDLEY, of the firm of Wells & Dudley, real estate and loan agents, came to Jamestown in 1881, having been a resident of Chicago for several years prior to that time. He is a native of New Haven, Conn. The firm with which he is connected is composed of himself and E. P. Wells. E. P. Wells is a native of Wisconsin, and located in Jamestown in March, 1879.

L. B. DURSTINE, of the firm of Sarles & Durstine, lumber dealers, is a native of Wooster, Ohio. His firm is composed of J. H. Sarles, F. B. Sarles, and L. B. Durstine, they succeeding to the business of Harman, Durstine & Co., who established the lumber business here March 15, 1882. They give employment during the busy season to from ten to twenty men. The sales in 1882 amounted to $140,433.71 at their Jamestown yard. They have a yard at Ellendale, which is managed by W. R. Sarles. They also have extensive yards at Boscobel, Fennimore, Wauzeka, Woodman, Muscoda and Avoca, Wis., and at Ellendale, Kelso, Hillsboro, Jamestown and Mellville in Dakota. Mr. J. H. Sarles is president of the Traill County Bank at Hillsboro, and of the Bank of Caledonia, both in Traill County.

EVERETT & CLARK, manufacturers and dealers in birch beer. James H. Everett of this firm was born in New Preson, Litchfield Co., Conn., and when quite young removed with his parents to New Bedford, Mass., where he grew to manhood and engaged in the business of farming until the commencement of the civil war, when he enlisted in Company B, Tenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and served three years and eight months, and was discharged at New Haven, Conn. During the next fourteen years he traveled on the road as a commercial agent. He was married in 1860 to Miss

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during his long steamboat career. September 1, 1883, he engaged in the wholesale and retail boot and shoe business.

L. D. JUDKIN, photographer, was born in Franklin County, Me., in 1833, and went to Lawrence, Mass., in 1859, where he learned his business. In 1871 he went to Indianapolis, in which city he was one of the leading artists. He came to Bismarck in the fall of 1882, and in the following spring established his business. He was married in 1859 to Miss Maria Ward, of Bangor, Me. They have had three children, all of whom are deceased. His parents died many years since, his father in 1852 and his mother in 1872. Mr. Judkin has had long experience and a practice of twenty-five years in his business, and is considered one of the best artists in the West. His gallery is one of the leading establishments in the city of Bismarck.

FRANK KIHM, of the firm of Bogue & Kihm, was born in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1860, and graduated in the high school of the same city. He has traveled quite extensively in the United States, and came to Dakota in the year 1877. He succeeded the firm of Bogue & Schreck, in the spring of 1883. They carry a fine assortment of everything necessary for a first-class restaurant and sample-room. Their business is very good, and they well deserve the success that has attended their enterprise. His father died in 1880. His mother and oldest brother are living in Milwaukee.

CHARLES KUPITZ came to Bismarck in the fall of 1873, and from 1874 to 1878 he had the contract for carrying the mail between Bismarck and Standing Rock Agency. Since 1878 he has been engaged in the market business, conducting what is known as Beehive Market, doing a business of about $8,000 a month. He is a native of Prussia; came to America in 1865, and located in New York city, afterward removing to Kansas, where he remained until he came to Dakota.

J. R. LACEY, architect, is a native of Bradford County, Pa. He served an apprenticeship as carpenter and builder, and then gave his attention specially to the study of architecture, with which he has undoubtedly become thoroughly acquainted. It is seldom that an architect is to be found in the West who is so fully versed in his profession as is Mr. Lacey. He came to Bismarck in March, 1883, and during the first seven months of his residence here he planned nearly all of the most prominent business blocks and residencs, most of them having been built since the spring of 1883, among which are the following: Malloy & Hunt, store building; Mellon Bros. Bank, Fourth street; Cady, store; Comer & Slattery, brick stores; Superintendence of Bismarck Penitentiary; Banner House; B. F. Swain, brick residence; the cottage residences of Alex. McKenzie, S. F. Lambert, B. W. Watson, Mr. Mosier, Mr. Whitley, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Joslin (three), Rev. G. J. Miller (two), Frank Mack, C. B. Little, J. McLain (two); brick hotel at Steele; six cottages at Steele; Mr. DeLong's cottage at Sioux Falls; Mr. Granbury's brick residence at Mandan, and Presbyterian Church at Sims.

S. F. LAMBERT, railroad conductor, son of Richard and Lavina Lambert, natives of Maine, the former of whom died in Bismarck in 1875 and the latter in Minnesota in 1863. S. F. Lambert was born in Maine, in 1850 and came with his parents to Morrison County, Minnesota, in 1855. He is the fourth of six children. One sister is the wife of C. W. Thompson, the contractor for the new capitol building at Bismarck. He was married in 1881 to Mrs. Hannan, of Wisconsin, by whom he has one child. Mrs. Lambert had three children by a former husband, deceased. Mr. Lambert came to Dakota in 1865 and freighted from St. Cloud to Frog Point near Grand Forks until 1869 when he followed lumbering and in 1872 came to Bismarck and logged for Prescott, Bly & Co., who had a saw mill eight miles south on the Missouri River, and then freighted and worked at government contracts until 1877 when the Northern Pacific Railroad crossed the Missouri River, when he took contracts of that road and the Canada Pacific. His last contract was on the James River Valley Railroad. Mr. Lambert owns a large and beautiful residence a little east of the new capitol building, overlooking the city of Bismarck, which cost $6,000. He also owns other real estate in the city. He and his brother own a large farm consisting of three sections at Spiritwood Station on the Northern Pacific Railroad, east of Jamestown, on which there are excellent buildings, the barn one of the best in the Territory. Mr. Lambert is one of the pioneers of Dakota, and has seen more of frontier life than most of the early settlers of the Northwest. His industry, enterprise and ambition have been rewarded handsomely, and he is now the possessor of an ample fortune.

F. A. LEAVENWORTH, attorney-at-law and loan agent, came to Bismarck, March 25, 1883, He is a native of Wolcott, New York; was educated at Princeton College, taking a literary course there, and graduating from the Columbia Law School, New York City. He was engaged in the practice of law at Denver, Colorado, prior to removal to Dakota.

E. A. LILLY, of the firm of Steele, Whitley & Lilly, real estate agents, is a native of Lilly Chapel, Madison Co., Ohio. When eight years of age he removed with his father, the late James Lilly, to London, Ohio. He was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan College and Michigan University, graduating from the pharmaceutical department of the latter institution. For a few years he was a resident of Chicago and came to Bismarck in November, 1882. Mr. Lilly has extensive business interests in Montana, being a member of the firm of Stateler & Lilly, dealers in real estate and mines at Helena. This firm is also opening a sheep ranch in Montana, upon which they expect to keep four thousand head of sheep. Mr. Lilly is the owner of the east half of Section 5, Town 134, Range 76, and the south half of Section 17, Town 141, Range 79, and two quarter sections near Washburn, McLean Co., Dak. For two years, while in Chicago, Mr. Lilly was assistant to Professor Wheeler, doing all his analytical chemistry work.

JOE LITTLE, of the firm of Van Houten Bros. & Little, wholesale and retail dealers in hardware and farm implements, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1854. He received his education partly in Pittsburg and partly in Mitchell University, Iowa. He commenced business in the firm of Van Houten Bros. & Little May 1, 1883. Mr. Little has been in the hardware business fifteen years, ten years of which time he was a commercial traveler for hardware houses. This is one of the largest hardware houses in the Northwest, and the trade, both wholesale and retail, is extensive. Mr. Little is a gentleman of large experience in business, and the firm has the reputation of being one of the most reliable in the city.

HENRY A. LYMAN, special agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, is a native of Jersey City, N. J. From 1876 to 1880 he was connected with the actuary's office of the company with which he is now identified. Understanding all the details of life insurance he determined to enter the field as a solicitor, being eminently qualified for such a position. He has succeeded in creating a large amount of new business for the company in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Dakota.

R. B. McGECHIN, superintendent of Artificla Stone Works, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1857, and educated in the high school. He is the son of Thomas and Thalia McGechin, formerly of Cincinnati, the former of whom died in 1878; the latter is still living in Baltimore, Md. Mr. McGechin came to Fargo in the spring of 1881, commencing business at Bismarck in 1883. The business of manufacturing artificial stone is very profitable, and meets with the approval of architects and intelligent contractors and builders wherever it has been tested. The stone when properly made is as hard as natural stone, and can be molded in any shape and color required, at half the cost of cut stone. The varieties of clay found along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad are greater in number than in any other part of the United States. Mr. McGechin is a member of the Governor's Guards, Bismarck.

HON. ALEXANDER McKENZIE came to Bismarck in May, 1873. For about three months he was one of the proprietors of the Sherman House, situated on Fourth street. He afterwards engaged in the manufacture of mineral waters one year. He was appointed Sheriff of Burleigh County December 27, 1874, and has been continued in that office to date, 1884. He was one of the first aldermen. For the last five years he has been deputy United States Marshal. He is a member of the Penitentiary Board and was one of the Capital Commissioners. To him great credit is due for the marked ability and sagacity displayed in his management, thereby securing the location of the capitol at Bismarck. He is one of the directors of the Bismarck National Bank; also the Capital National Bank. He is president of the McKenzie Cattle Company. He is one of the principal promoters and owners of the Bismarck Artesian Well Water Company, and has large interests in many other enterprises, being considered one of the most enterprising citizens of this Territory. For several years he has done a large real estate business, dealing largely in farm property. His firm, McKenzie & Coffin, represents the extensive land interests of the Northern Pacific Railway Company in this region.

HON. JOHN A. McLEAN came to Bismarck, May 15, 1873. After locating here, he for a few months, was manager of a saw mill on Apple Creek, and October 3, 1873, engaged in the grocery business with Robert Macnider. They were together until April, 1883, when Mr. McLean sold his interest to his partner, who still continues the business. They did an extensive wholesale and retail trade, and were also largely interested in the transportation of Government supplies to the various northwestern army posts, and had for several years contracts for furnishing the Government with wood and hay. In April, 1875, Mr. McLean was elected Mayor, for the purpose of settling the town site title. He was continued in that office over two years, until all the suits were adjusted. Mr. McLean gave his personal check for $650, to get Charles E. Flandrau to come from St. Paul, to represent the interests of the citizens, before the Land Office, securing a favorable decision from the Land Commissioner and the Secretary of the Interior. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, but before the case was heard, Mayor McLean succeeded in effecting a satisfactory settlement of the entire difficulty. The land was then patented to John A. McLean, Mayor, and he deeded lots to such men as the Arbitration Commissioners determined were entitled to them, upon payment of such sums as the said Commissioners indicated should be paid--$15 per lot on Front Street, and $10 per lot on other streets. The amount thus collected defrayed all court and other expenses attending the settlement. Mr. McLean is now largely interested in Government contracts. In August, 1883, he started extensive brick yards about two miles east of Bismarck. He is president of the Merchants' National Bank, which was organized June 10, 1883, with a paid up capital of $100,000; authorized capital, $1,000,000. A fine bank building has been erected on the southwest corner of Meigs and Fourth streets. Mr. McLean has for several years held the position of chairman of the Republican County Central Committee. He is a native of Scotland, and came to America in 1869, and located in Minnesota prior to coming to Bismarck in 1873. While in Minnesota, he had contracts for furnishing railroad ties, bridge timber, etc. He has a charming family, consisting of wife and two children--William John and Harry Falconer, the latter perpetuating his mother's family name. Mr. McLean is extensively interested in real estate. He holds the position of secretary of the Bismarck Elevator Company. Few men have developed the superior business qualifications which he possesses.

SETH D. McNEAL, attorney-at-law and dealer in real estate, came to Bismarck, April 20, 1883, and has been engaged in his present bnsiness since that time. He is a native of Jefferson, Hillsdale Co, Mich. He was educated at Hillsdale, and read law with Koon Bros., of that city, where he was admitted to the Bar. He began practice in his native town, where he remained until he came to Bismarck. He was one of the projectors and proprietors of Prospect Place Addition to the city of Bismarck. He is also interested in real estate at Steele, and is the owner of a farm in that vicinity. He is general agent of the Dakota Life and Endowment Association, which was chartered July 24, 1883. The other officers of the association are George T. Webster, president; John T. Adams, secretary; H. J. Whitley, treasurer, and O. P. M. Jamison, attorney.

ROBERT MACNIDER, wholesale and retail grocer, is a native of Montreal, Canada. He removed to New York city in June, 1849, and came West to Minnesota in November, 1851, residing at Lamoile, in Winona County, until November, 1856. From that place he moved to St. Croix County in northern Wisconsin, engaging in the lumbering business until the outbreak of the war in 1861. He served three years and ten months in the Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, going in as a private, and working his way up to First Lieutenant. Moving to Dakota in May, 1872, he engaged in the grocery business at Jamestown, and has the honor of being the first dealer in general merchandise in that flourishing city. Mr. Macnider is one of the most enterprising citizens of this region. He served one term as a member of the Territorial Council, and four years as County Commissioner of Burleigh County. He opened up the first half section of land for a farm in the year 1877, sowing it to oats, and getting a yield of fiftytwo bushels to the acre. He also ran the first steam threshing machine in the county of Burleigh. Mr. Macnider coming to the West in 1851, as he did, can well be classed as one of the old-time pioneers.

CONN MALLOY, owner and proprietor of Fourth Street livery, feed and sale stable, was born in the North of Ireland in 1855, where he lived, receiving his education, until 1874, when he came to America. He located first in Goodhue County, Minn., and in April, 1876 came to Dakota, and followed freighting to the Black Hills and Fort Buford. In 1879 he commenced his present business. He was married in 1880 to Miss Lizzie Regan. They have two children, Kate and Aggie. Mr. Malloy is the owner and proprietor of two livery, feed and sale stables in the city of Bismarck. Since coming to Dakota he has accumulated a fine property. He is a wide awake and enterprising business man. He came to Dakota in April, 1876.

P. F. MALLOY, wholesale and retail dealer in flour, feed and country produce; also does a commission business. He was born in the North of Ireland in 1848, and emigrated to America at the age of twenty, and settled at Red Wing, Minn., where he followed farming. He received a good education at the national schools and in a business college in his native land. He came to Dakota in 1871, and to Bismarck in 1873. He was surveyor along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad from 1870 to 1873. He and his brother J. G. Malloy, now living in St. Paul, erected the Western hotel, which they managed for several years. The hotel is now owned by Mr. J. G. Malloy, of St. Paul, and managed by Mr. Thomas Causby. Mr. Malloy was married February 22, 1879, at Red Wing, Minn., to Miss May C. Taggert, a native of Wisconsin. They have three children--Minnie C., Frances Agnes, and James Patrick. Mr. Malloy started in the flour and feed business in May, 1881. He has the largest flour and feed store in the city, and the business is increasing rapidly. Mr. Malloy owns a considerable quantity of real estate, consisting of city lots and buildings. He is a representative Dakota man in business enterprise.

CAPTAIN DANIEL W. MARRATTA was born in Beaver, Beaver Co., Pa., in 1837, and spent his boyhood and early manhood there. In 1856 he commenced his business career on the Mississippi River, as assistant clerk. He continued work on this river in various capacities, until 1861, when he assumed command of one of the transports of the Army of the Tennessee at Vicksburg, where he remained until the close of the war. He then returned to the Mississippi, where he remained until 1872, when he came to Bismarck as general superintendent of the Coulson line of steamers, which ply on the Missouri. As active head of this important transportation company, he has displayed great executive ability, as is shown by his continued service in his position of honor and trust. He received the official papers entitling him to the various positions on board steamers as follows: as master, in 1861, as pilot, in 1869, and as captain, in 1861. In 1859 he married Miss Therese E. Chaplain, at Beaver, Pa. They have had one child Fannie, who was born in 1859, and who is an accomplished graduate of St. Mary's convent, Columbus, Ohio. In politics Captain Marratta is a good old line Democrat, he being one of the foremost of that faith and order in the Territory.

JAMES H. MARSHALL, boot and [shoe?] merchant, came to Bismarck in June, 1873, and began business here the seventh of that month, for about three months conducting business in a tent. Having put up a building on one of the lots where the Western House now stands, he moved into it in September. His present store is located in the same block. He has been continuously in the boot and shoe trade since he located. He has very valuable real estate here and in this vicinity. In 1882 he raised thirty-four and a half bushels of wheat per acre, on sixty acres of his farm, realizing $2.- 500 therefrom. He has served six years as member of the School Board. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M. Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, being treasurer of all three bodies, He is a native of Nova Scotia. In 1869 he removed to Minnesota and began work on the Northern Pacific Railroad construction, at its beginning. In the spring of 1871, he engaged in business at Otter Tail Lake, but remained there only a short time; was afterwards at Oak Lake until the fall of 1871, then located at Moorhead, and remained there until the spring of 1872, when he located at Jamestown, where he was in business until he came to Bismarck. He was a partner with Mr. Campbell, at Brainerd, in the fall of 1874, when their store was burned. He has suffered by fire twice at Bismarck--in 1877 and 1879. Saving his goods however, in 1879.

R. B. MASON, is a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, of Scotch parentage. When he was a year old his parents removed with their family to Ohio, and he resided in Guernsey and Muskingum counties in that State until 1856, when he removed to Nebraska City, making that his home until 1865. For about ten years he was engaged in freighting most of the time, except thirteen months spent in frontier service with the Sully expedition against the Indians, coming first to Dakota with General Sully in 1863, as a scout. At that time they camped at Apple Creek, near the present site of Bismarck. In 1867 he was engaged in railroad contracting, getting out ties and wood for the Union Pacific Railway. In 1868, he went to Texas, procuring there a herd of cattle, which he took to his ranch in Wyoming Territory, going from there in 1869 to Minnesota. In 1870 he engaged in railroad business again, being connected with the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He did the first grading on the Canada Pacific Railway, beginning work about seven miles east of the Red River and east of Selkirk. He also did the first grading on the Northern Pacific Railroad, in Minnesota in 1870. In the fall of 1872, he came to Bismarck, but soon after returned to Minnesota, remaining there until May, 1873, when he again came to Bismarck and did the grading of the last five miles of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from Bismarck east. After completing that work he returned to Minnesota where he remained until 1876, except during the two seasons which he spent in the construction of the Canada Pacific Railroad. In February, 1877, he became a permanent resident of Bismarck, where he built the first brick house, and established the first successful brick yard. He is still engaged in the manufacture of brick and in building, and is also one of the owners of the Bismarck Flouring Mills. Among the principal buildings constructed by him may be mentioned; the court-house and jail, Bragg, Smith & Co's., store, the Union Block, school-house, several residences, etc.

MASON & CONOVER, dealers in stationery, successors to O. B. Lashells. F. J. Mason is a native of Nebraska City, Neb., born in 1858, and educated in Guernsey County, Ohio, where he went with his parents at an early age. He came to Dakota in 1876 and located at Bismarck. He is the son of R. B. Mason, a native of Ohio, born in 1835; by occupation a farmer and brickmaker; now lives in Bismarck. A. J. Conover, of this firm, was born in New Jersey in 1859, where he also received his education. He emigrated to Dakota in 1881. By occupation he is a carpenter and joiner. He commenced business with Mr. Mason in March, 1883. These two gentlemen are young men of active business habits. They carry a large and fine assortment of goods, and have a good trade.

MELLON BROS., bankers, came to Bismarck in October, 1882, and engaged in the business of real estate and loan brokers; in September, 1883, began banking. They have extensive personal real estate interests, being the owners of much farm and city property. They own a half interest in McKenzie's addition to Bismarck, eighty acres; one-quarter interest in Lounsberry's addition of 320 acres to this city, etc. The firm is composed of Richard B. and George N. Mellon, both natives of Pittsburgh, Pa. They are largely interested in the Bismarck Artesian Well Water Company. They do a large mortgage loan business.

W. S. MOREHOUSE, hardware merchant, is a native of Brownsville, Fayette Co., Penn., that being his home until 1857, when he located at Atchison, Kan. In September, 1861, he entered the army, serving in the Seventh Kansas Cavalry Regiment; was Captain of Company B of that regiment, and remained in service until March, 1865. He served two years as Adjutant General for the State of Kansas. He came to Bismarck in March, 1883. Prior to removal to Dakota he had carried on a large and successful hardware business at Atchison.

O. S. MOSHER, lumber merchant, is a native of Prescott, Ontario. He removed to Aurora, Ill., in 1865, and in 1872, located in Chicago, where he was engaged in the lumber business until March, 1883, when he came to Bismarck, becoming the principal proprietor of the Bismarck Lumber Company. He has succeeded in establishing a very extensive trade, liberal and courteous treatment of patrons largely contributing to such a result.

JOHN W. MYERS, farmer, Section 34, Town 141, Range 80, P. O. Bismarck, was born in Germany in 1841, and went to Illinois in 1865. He was married to Miss Letta Johnson, of Illinois. They have five children--Annie, Letta, Eva, Matilda and Allie. Mr. Myers has a fine farm, on which he raised, in 1882, twenty-nine and one-half bushels of wheat per acre, 1,200 bushels potatoes on five acres, 100 bushels of onions, besides quantities of other vegetables. He is School Treasurer of District No. 16, Town of Glenview. Mr. Myers is a man of good education, a fine farmer and a respectable citizen. He came to Dakota in the spring of 1880. Has good farm buildings, including a house worth $1,000.

S. H. NICHOLS, lumber merchant, came to Bismarck in April, 1883, where he has since been one of the proprietors of the Bismarck Lumber Company. He is a native of Racine, Wis. He served four years in the Second Wisconsin Cavalry during the late war of the rebellion. In the fall of 1867 he located in Chicago, and for several years was connected with the large music house of W. W. Kimball, continuing with him until the spring of 1882.

MATHEW O'BRIEN, farmer, Section 12, Town 140, Range 80, P. O. Bismarck, was born in New Brunswick, about 1822, and at the age of twelve went to sea; followed coasting in the summer and lumbering in the winter. He removed to Whitneyville, Maine, where he lived five years and was married to Miss Alice Selray. They have had eight children, seven of whom are now living. Mary, the wife of George A. Joy, an early settler; Mathew R.; Jane, the wife of John Pollock, of Wisconsin, now living near Bismarck on a farm; Hannah, deceased; Edward; Ellen, wife of Hugh McGuire, a farmer near Bismarck; Elizabeth, wife of John Breen, a farmer, and John. Mr. O'Brien came to Dakota County, Minn., in 1852, and followed lumbering and farming. He settled in Bismarck, July 28, 1872. In 1882 he and his son raised on 60 acres of ground, east of the new capital, twenty-five bushels of wheat to the acre, and one hundred of oats, the oats weighing forty-five pounds per bushel. He owns a fine home on an eminence overlooking the city.

HON. NEHEMIAH GEORGE ORDWAY, Governor of the Territory of Dakota, was born at the west end of the north village, Warner, Merrimac Co., N. H., November 10, 1828. When eight years of age he went to live with his grandfather, Isaiah Flanders, at Warner Village, and during the summer seasons, until he was seventeen years of age, assisted in the cultivation of his grandfather's farm. During the winter season he was employed in the stores of H. D. Robertson, Robert Thompson and George Wadleigh. At the age of eighteen he attended a high school at Bradford, New Hampshire. The next year he went to Boston, purchased a stock of goods and engaged in mercantile business for himself in his native town. In June, 1855, he was elected a doorkeeper and Sergeant-at-Arms of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and was re-elected to the same office in 1856. He was also elected Assistant Clerk, pro tem, of the House in 1856, and in July of the same year was appointed by the Governor High Sheriff of his native county for a term of five years. In the fall of that year he removed to Concord and in 1857 was elected Marshal of that city and Collector of Taxes. During the political campaign of 1860 he was chairman of the Republican State Commitee. In 1861 he resigned the various offices which he held, having been appointed General Agent of the Post Office Department for the six New England States, his headquarters being at Boston. In 1862 he was commissioned Colonel and had charge of the forwarding of troops from the New England States until December, 1863, reporting directly to President Lincoln and the Secretary of War. In December, 1863, he was elected Sergeantat-Arms of the United States House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 1865, '67, '69, '71 and '73, holding that office for twelve consecutive years and serving in that position longer than any other man in the history of the Congress. Later, he was twice nominated by the Republicans for the same position, but the Democrats being in the majority he failed of an election. March 4, 1875, he resigned his position, which continued until December, the meeting of the next Congress, and returned to his native State, and March 9th was elected a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 1876 and '77. He was also a member of the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention in 1877, and in the same year was appointed upon the tax commission, which revised the entire tax system of the State. In 1879 he was elected State Senator, which position he resigned to accept the appointment of Governor of Dakota Territory, in 1880. He removed to Yankton that year, and to Bismarck in June, 1883, after the Capital Commission had selected the latter place as the future capital of the Territory. He was one of the originators of the Republican party in New Hampshire, and for fifteen years was a member of the State Central Committee. After the organization of the District of Columbia, under General Grant's administration, he was chairman of the District Central Committee. He has as Governor been active in destroying old ring organizations, preventing repudiation in various counties, etc. During the last session of the legislature (1883) over 300 bills were passed, not one of which was carried over the Governor's veto. During his administration, eleven public buildings, including the capitol at Bismarck, have been erected in various parts of the Territory, while tax rates are lower than when he entered upon the duties of his office. The credit therefore is largely due to the Governor, his familiarity with national and state affairs making him one of the best qualified men in this country to be placed at the helm of government in a Territory so large and important as this. He has declined to be a candidate for re-appointment but will make it lively for his political enemies.

MICHAEL O'SHEA, book-keeper and clerk, was born in New York City, in 1848, and educated in the common schools and Commercial College. He came to Fond-du Lac, Wisconsin, in 1856, where he followed teaching for several years. He was City clerk of Bismarck in 1877-79 and '80. He is a young man of fine business ability, very industrious and thoroughly reliable.

CARL T. PETERSON, wholesale and retail druggist, is a native of Sweden; came to American in 1868 and located at River Falls, Wis., remaining there two years; afterwards at Osceola Mills two years, Duluth one year, Texas four years, and two years at Hudson, Wis., prior to coming to Bismarck in May, 1881. In the spring of 1883 he was elected Probate Judge for Burleigh County. John S. Veeder is associated with him as a partner in the drug business. Mr. Veeder is one of the proprietors of the town site of Washburn, McLean County, where he resides.

LOUIS PETERSON, proprietor of Pacific Hotel, was born in Sweden, in 1849. He emigrated to America in 1879, and located first at Duluth, Minn., and in 1871 took a homestead nine miles from Detroit, Minn. He came to Moorhead and Fargo soon after, then to Bismarck in 1876 and was married in July, 1878, to Miss Lena Johnson. They have had three children--John and Frederick, living, and Louisa, deceased. Mr. Peterson is one of the Aldermen of Bismarck. Is the owner and proprietor of the Pacific Hotel, a large and comfortable building, opened in 1881 and completed with many improvements and additions in 1883, having accommodations for 100 boarders. He also owns a large number of lots in the city, 160 acres at Washburn, McLean County, and a number of lots in the village, also one-half interest in 160 acres, thirteen miles east of Bismarck, two miles from the Northern Pacific Railroad. He has been an industrious and enterprising citizen and deserves the success that has attended him.

E. S. PIERCE, contractor and builder, is a native of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and has been engaged in his present business for the last twenty-five years and was one of the most prominent builders in his native county. He was for eight years a resident of Virginia. While in that State he was extensively engaged in building and contracting and while there constructed many of the depots on the various railroads. Since April 1, 1883, he has constructed at Bismarck over fifty dwelling houses and several business blocks, besides doiug a large amount of jobbing and repairing work. He has also built six residences at Steele, a large farm-house near Sterling, and several other farm buildings at other points.

H. R. PORTER, M. D., is a native of Lee Center, Oneida Co., N. Y. He received his literary education principally at Whitestown Seminary. His medical studies were pursued under a preceptor and in the Medical Department of the Michigan University, and the University of Georgetown, D. C. He began practice in Columbia Hospital, Washington, D. C.; afterwards in Arizona, as Acting Assistant Surgeon with General Crook's command, and participated in eight or ten battles of that command, fighting the Apaches. In November, 1873, he came to Dakota, being Acting Assistant Surgeon at Camp Hancock. He was with Reno's command during the fight with the Sioux Indians, in the summer of 1876, which terminated so disastrously to General Custer and his soldiers. The doctor displayed wonderful courage at that time, fighting hand to hand with the fiercest of the savage foe. Much credit should be awarded to him for bravery shown upon that occasion. In October, 1876, he resigned his position in the army and has since given his attention to the general practice of his profession. He has been Surgeon of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for many years. He has been eminently successful in real estate investments and speculations. He is vice-president of the First National Bank of this city, also a director of the Merchants' Bank at Glendive, Montana.

JOHN QUINLAN, proprietor of the Custer Hotel, was born Cambria County, Pa. He enlisted in Company C, Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, June 19, 1861, and served three years; was wounded at Meadow Bridge, May 12, 1864, in front of Richmond, Va. He was wounded three times, from which he never fully recovered and for which he now receives a pension. He came West in 1867 and located first in Wyoming, then in Utah and lastly in Dakota in 1872, at Fargo, where he was employed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for six years as car repairer. He came to Bismarck first in 1873. Quinlan & Halloran took charge of the Custer Hotel August 3. They have a large amount of real estate in Bismarck; $6,000 worth of property in Mandan, and are interested in the town site of Painted Woods, Burleigh Co. Mr. Quinlan has 160 acres of land adjoining the city, worth $100,000 and is interested in the town site of Glendive Montana, also Billings, and owns a farm of 160 acres in Iowa. Mr. Quinlan came to Dakota with but little. He is an example of the wonderful success that has attended an enterprising and energetic Western man. Mr. Quinlan's father died in Westmoreland County, Pa., in the fall of 1883, aged eighty-seven. His mother died in October, 1881, when the son, the subject of this notice, was in the Sioux Falls Convention, in which body he was a delegate at the time. Mr. Quinlan has served two years as County Commissioner of Burleigh County and three years as Coroner. He has a brother Patrick who has been employed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company since the first spike was driven. He is still car repairer at Bismarck.

WILLIAM H. RACE, dealer in real estate, was born in Preston, Wayne Co., Pa., in 1830, and educated at Delhi, Delaware Co., N. Y. He came West in 1849, walking from his home to Buffalo, N. Y., 400 miles, and taking the boat at that city, went to Milwaukee Wis., where he engaged in teaching, lumbering and surveying. He came to the Red River Valley in 1878, and located at Grand Fork, Dakota. He removed to Bismarck in June, 1883, and engaged in the real estate business. He and his son Marshall own one-half interest in the large and beautiful Bismarck Athenæum Opera House and Roller Skating Rink, 50 by 134 feet, just completed, on Main street. He married in Colchester, New York, in 1850, Miss Nettie Moore. They had two sons--Emmet, born 1854, in Wisconsin, and Marshall, born in 1856, in Wisconsin. Mrs. Race died in 1856 in Wisconsin. He married as his second wife Miss Lucy Smuch, of Batavia, New York, in 1867. The result of this union was a son and a daughter--Albin and Eva. Mr. Albin Race, the father of the subject of this notice, died in Sedgwick, Kansas, in 1882. His eldest son Emmet was married to Miss Annie [Spath?], of Wisconsin. He owns a fine residence in Grand Forks. The second son, Marshall, was married to Miss Nettie Croome. Both sons are the possessors of excellent farms in the Red River Valley in Grand Forks County. Mr. Race came West with only $7.50 in his pocket. By enterprise and push he is now the possessor of a handsome competence. The Bismarck Athenæum is the largest in north Dakota.

HON. JAMES. W. RAYMOND, president of the Bismarck National Bank, came to Bismarck May 14, 1873. June 20th of that year he engaged in mercantile business at this point, receiving at that time three car loads of freight by the first train which ever arrived here. Mr. A, Allen was associated with him as a partner until the fall of 1873; he was then alone until May, 1874; at that date George H. Fairchild taking a partnership interest, and continuing with Mr. Raymond until September, 1876. Mr. Raymond continued in the wholesale and retail grocery business until September 1, 1882. His first year's sales amounted to $60,000, and during the last nine months he was in trade the sales aggregated $175,000. In Octob r, 1873, Mr. Raymond established the Bank of Bismarck, being sole owner thereof. The average amount on deposit during a period of six months did not exceed $900. May 8, 1882, the Bismarck National Bank was organized, and its deposits in June, 1883, reached over $400,000. Mr. Raymond has been quite extensively engaged in Government contracting, post trading, etc., at various points since locating here. He organized the first bank at Jamestown, Dakota. He has been president of the Chamber of Commerce and Mayor of the city of Bismarck. No more enterprising or public spirited citizen can be found in northern Dakota than Mayor Raymond.

REV. PAUL RETTENMAIER, order of St. Benedict, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Bismarck, was born in Germany in 1853, and was educated in Ellwangen, Wurtemberg. He emigrated to America in 1870, and entered the order of St. Benedict, and completed his theological studies in St. John's University, Minnn., graduating in 1875. He was ordained priest by Rt. Rev. Bishop Rupert Seidenbush, D. D., O. S. B. He was professor in the University for five years, and in the mean time had charge of the churches at Avon, Melrose, Sauk Centre and Raymond. He was then at St. Cloud, and is now at Bismarck. St. Mary's Catholic Church at Bismarck was organized by Father J. B. Gennin, who built part of the present church edifice and was pastor of the society of thirty families, about 1874, after whom came Rt. Rev. Bishop Marty, O. S. B., Abbot of St. Neinrad's Abbey, Spencer Co., Ind., now Bishop of Dakota. He was succeeded by Father Crysostom, O. S. B., who built the priest's house and the school, remaining about three years. He was a very popular clergyman, and did a great deal of good both in the church and town. Following him were two ministers who remained but a short time. January, 1881, St. John's Abbey, of the order of St. Benedict of Minnesota, took charge of the congregation. Its first missionary was Father William, then Father Edward, and since November, 1881, the subject of this brief sketch. The church is in a flourishing condition. All the debts have been paid and a free school has been established conducted by the Sisters of St. Benedict. There is also an academy for young ladies, which will occupy a new building in the spring. In connection with the church is St. Mary's Cemetery on a beautiful and commanding location.

J. H. RICHARDS, capitalist and real estate dealer, was born in Binghamton, N. Y. in 1840, and educated at the Susquehanna Seminary in the same city. In the spring of 1861 he became a member of Company A, Twenty-seventh New York Volunteer Infantry; was a prisoner in Libby prison the winters of 1862-63. After the war he came West to Chicago, subsequently to St. Paul in 1870, and in 1871 to Moorhead, Minn., and in March, 1872, located at the Missouri River near the subsequent location of the city of Bismarck. He became Register of Deeds for the county of Burleigh in 1874, which office he held until January, 1883. He came to Dakota with nothing, and has accumulated a fortune of at least $75,000. He is one of the oldest settlers of the Missouri slope and has been closely identified with its history and progress.

ISAAC ROSS, attorney-at-law and Justice of the Peace, son of Mowry Ross, a manufacturer of cotton and woolen goods, Windom County, Conn., who died in 1874. His mother, Laura A. S. Ross, died in 1876. Isaac, the subject of this sketch, was born in Gloucester, Providence Co., R. I., in 1853, and educated at Woodstock, Conn., and Meriden, N. H. At the death of his father, in 1874, he succeeded to his business, in company with his brother, in cotton mills. He was Justice of the Peace and school visitor in his native town in Connecticut, and was also teacher for several years. He studied law and was admitted to the bar of Windom County, Conn., in 1881. He commenced practicing soon afterwards, and came to Dakota in the spring of 1882. He was married in 1876 to Miss Sarah M., daughter of William M. Talbot, of Windom County, Conn. Mr. Ross has established his practice in Bismarck; is a rising young lawyer, and has a good library.

VALENTINE SCHRECK, harness-maker, is the son of Nicholas Schreck, a native of Germany, born in 1805 and died in 1874. The subject of this sketch was born in 1847 in Ozaukee County, Wis.; was married in 1880 to Miss Alice Mathey, of Minnesota. They have two children--Lewis and Rosa. Mr. Schreck is one of the oldest settlers in Bismarck, locating here in 1872, and is the leading harnessmaker in the city. He enlisted in Buffalo, N.Y., in the Twenty-seventh New York Light Battery in August, 1864, and was in service in the army of the Potomac until the close of the war.

H. C. SHARPLESS, a son of Albert G. Sharpless, of Rochester, N.Y., who was a soldier in the late war, having enlisted in a New York regiment, was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg in the spring of 1862. His ancestors were of the celebrated Quaker family of that name descended from John Sharpless, who came to America from England with his three sons, John, James and Joseph, and settled at the Sharpless Rock, near Ridley Creek, Chester Co., Pa., August 24, 1682. The descendants of the family to the number of 3,000 assembled to celebrate the bi-centennial August 24, 1882. John Sharpless purchased his homestead of William Penn, and the original deed of sale is in the possession of one of the descendants. The subject of this notice was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1853. In 1862 he came with his mother to Jackson County, Wis., and came to Dakota in the spring of 1876, locating in Bismarck. He married in 1881 Miss Mary Croft, of Mahaska County, Iowa. Mr. Sharpless owns a beautiful home in Bismarck. He is the proprietor of one of the leading barber shops of the city, doing a fine business.

EDWARD SLOAN, watchman, was born in Albany New York, and at an early age went with his parents to Meadville, Crawford Co., Penn., where he was brought up and educated in the city schools. He was married in Meadville in 1865 to Miss Sophia Bentley, of Meadville. They have two children. Mr. Sloan is one of the oldest settlers of Bismarck, locating here in 1874. He was on the frontier many years, hunting, farming and freighting. He freighted from Bismarck to Deadwood in 1876-'77 '78 and '79. He owns three hundred and twenty acres of fine land six miles north of Bismarck, and a considerable quantity of real estate in the city from which he gets a good revenue. He came to the Territory in debt to the amount of $278. His property at the present time is valued at $18,000 or $20,000.

WALTER STERLAND, cigars, tobacco and news dealer, was born in England, in 1846, and came to America about 1863, and settled first in Chicago, working at his trade, that of machinist. In 1873, he came to Fort Rice, Dakota; was a solder in Seventh Cavalry, and took part in the Sioux and Nez-Perces wars in 1878, and to the Black Hills in 1874. He was was married in 1879 to Miss Ella Blanchard, of Blanco, Iowa. They have one son, Arthur, born in December, 1881. He established business in 1879. Has a fine stock of cigars, tobaccos, and other articles. Mr. Sterland is the owner of real estate in Bismarck, and is a young man of good business habits, who has been successfull in Dakota.

HON. DAVID STEWART, attorney-at-law, was born in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1846, and came with his parents in 1857 to the Province of Ontario. He lived there eight years then removed to Minnesota, and lived at Brainerd from 1870, until July, 1874, when he came to Bismarck, where he established wagon manufacturing, etc. In the fall of 1874, he was elected County Justice of the PEace, served four years in that office, and fifteen months City Justice. He had served as City Justice at Brainerd, prior to removal to Bismarck. In 1875, he was admitted to the Bar, and commenced the practice of law. He now gives his attention principally to law practice and extensive real estate interests. He is secretary of the following associations: Burleigh County Agricultural Society; Burleigh County Bar Association; Bismarck Pioneer Fire Co., and the Fairview Cemetery Association. The Agricultural Society was organized January 1, 1882, J. F. Wallace, president; E. M. Fuller, first vice-president; Henry

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Suttle, second vice-president; Robert Macnider, treasurer; David Stewart, secretary; The Burleigh County Bar Association was organized in 1875. The present officers are E. A. Williams, president; David Stewart, secretary and treasurer. The Fire Company was organized March 27, 1877. It owns considerable real estate. It is a volunteer company, limited to a membership of thirty. The present officers are J. D. Wakeman, foreman; George E. Reed, first assistant foreman; Edward Sloan, second assistant foreman; Con. Malloy, treasurer; David Stewart, secretary. The Cemetery Association was organized May 1, 1880. The grounds are located on the north half of the northwest quarter of Section 26, Town 139, Range 80, fenced, and part planted with trees. A sexton is constantly in charge, The officers are: Robert Macnider, president; George H. Fairchild, treasurer; David Stewart, secretary.

CHARLES W. THOMPSON, general manager of the Northern Pacific Coal Company, is a native of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He came to Dakota in the fall of 1873, where he has since been engaged in contracting. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits several years, and in freighting from Bismarck to the Black Hills about three years. From 1874 to 1876 he operated a coal mine under Fort Lincoln, having there a four foot vein of lignite coal. In 1876 he mined a sixteen-inch vein on Apple Creek. In 1879 he abandoned that mine and went to Sims and opened coal mines there. Prior to November, 1882, E. H. Bly was associated with Mr. Thompson in the ownership of the extensive coal interests which they at that time sold to the Northern Pacific Company. Since that date Mr. Thompson has managed all the coal interests of this company. He is president of the Carbon Pressed Brick & Lime Company, at Sims; is president of the Bank of Sims, and is one of the directors of the Capital National Bank of Bismarck. He is also the contractor for the new capitol building at Bismarck. From May to October, 1883, the brick company at Sims made and shipped over 2,000,000 brick. The products of their works have entered largely into the construction of the capitol, besides many of the best business blocks of Bismarck, - First National Bank, Dakota Block, etc.

WILLIAM THOMPSON is a native of Manallen Township, Fayette Co., Pa., where he was born November 10, 1813. In 1817 he removed with his parents to Knox County, Ohio, where he was reared on a farm, and read law with Hon. Columbus Delano. In 1839 he removed to Henry County, Iowa, and purchased a farm of eighty acres, adjoining the village of Mt. Pleasant, which he continued to own until it was platted into town lots. In this form he sold it out, reserving, however, his residence site. While at Mt. Pleasant he ranked as one of the leading attorneys of that part of Iowa. In 1842 and 1843, he was a member and chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Legislature of the Territory of Iowa, and subsequently was Chief Clerk of the Territorial House of Representatives, which office he held until Iowa was admitted as a State. He was also Secretary of the Convention which framed the Constitution under which the State was admitted. He was the first Democratic candidate under the State organization for Judge of the Supreme Court, but failed of an election, in consequence of a third party organization which precluded a legal majority; he was, however, appointed to a position on the bench in the winter of 1846-'47. Prior to qualifying for that office he was nominated and elected to Congress from the Southern District of Iowa, and served in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses. At a later date he purchased the Burlington Gazette, which he owned and edited for three or four years. In the spring of 1861 he was elected Chief Clerk of the Iowa House of Representatives, by the Republicans, as a representative Democrat. Soon after the breaking out of the Rebellion, in 1861, he entered the army as Captain of Company E, First Iowa Cavalry, serving in that regiment until March 15, 1866. He was then appointed Captain in the Seventh Cavalry, United States Army, continuing in that position until he was retired in December, 1875. He participated in all the Indian engagements of General Custer's command prior to retirement from service, which embraced all that eminent Indian fighter was in before the disastrous one which resulted in his death. June 9, 1873, Captain Thompson was first stationed in Dakota, at Fort Rice, where he remained until October of the same year, when he, with his command, came to Fort A. Lincoln, and in the spring of 1874 the Captain was detailed by General Custer to prepare the parade grounds, plant trees, and superintend other post improvements. He also made a fine post garden the same season. His attention, during this period, was especially attracted to the meteorological features and conditions of this region, and becoming entirely satisfied with the results of his observations, he took a homestead on the southwest quarter of Section 22, Town 139, Range 80 (this being the first homestead entry at the Bismarck land office), built a house and placed two of his boys on the farm. During that year (1874) they plowed fifty acres, planting and sowing thereon, in 1875, potatoes, corn, beans, oats, etc. In the fall of 1874 his command was ordered to Louisiana, where he went, leaving his family on the farm. He obtained a leave of absence during the winter of 1874-'75, and returned to Bismarck, assisted in putting in the first crops, and also effected a successful plant of various kinds of trees, having made a beginning in that direction the previous year. In the summer of 1875 he returned to Louisiana, remaining there and at St. Louis (having been retained by orders at a recruiting station at the latter place) until he was retired at Shreveport, Ala., in December of that year. since then he has devoted his talents and time to the development of northern Dakota, demonstrating by actual results, in his own experience, that nearly all kinds of crops can be successfully raised in that region. In the spring of 1876 he began to plant trees extensively on his tree claim, adjoining his homestead. The growth he is successfully culturing consists principally of box-elder, cottonwood, soft maple, ash and walnut, a forest of which is growing where no trees ever grew before. Mr. Thompson has doubtless a more varied, practical knowledge as to climate, soil, and the profitable agricultural resources and possibilities of the part of the Territory which he has chosen as his home, than any other living man. Any reader of this history desiring intelligent and intelligible information concerning this new Territory will, if they are seeking for the truth, seek counsel from Captain Thompson, one of the most intelligent, honest and affable gentlemen among the early pioneer settlers of northern Dakota.

J. D. WAKEMAN, hotel proprietor, came to Bismarck, May, 20, 1873. For two years he carried on wholesale and retail tobacco and cigar business. He established here the most elegant billiard parlors in this region of the country. In 1875, he went East, and in 1876, located at Crook City, in the Black Hills, where for two years he did a jobbing liquor trade. In 1878, he returned to Bismarck, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits until August, 1880, when he became one of the proprietors of the Merchants' Hotel, R. R. Marsh being in partnership with him until January, 1883, when Mr. S. H. Emerson purchased the interest of Mr. Marsh, and the present firm of Emerson & Wakeman was organized. Mr. Wakeman is a member of the dry goods firm of O. R. Barnes & Co., of Bismarck. He is one of the owners of the Bismarck Athenaeum, and is interested quite largely in Bismarck and Steele real estate. He is Alderman and also a member of the Board of Education. He has served as City Treasurer, and at the present time is chief of the fire department. Mr. Wakeman is a native of Byron, Genesee Co., N. Y., and came from this native county to Dakota.

W. B. WATSON, dry goods merchant, came to Bismarck, June, 10, 1873; the firm being J. V. Watson & Co., until 1879, since which time Mr. Watson has been engaged in business alone. He served four years as Treasurer of Burleigh County. He is a native of Hancock County, Me., and for fourteen years prior to 1871, was a resident of California. He then removed to Sauk Rapids, Minn., where he engaged in business with his brother, J. W. Watson, who was for several years engaged in business with him after coming to Bismarck, but is now a resident of Miles City, Montana.

C. S. WEAVER, president of the Weaver Lumber Company, came to Bismarck in 1876, and purchased a $925 stock of lumber. His expenses that year exceeded his sales $1,000. The ensuing year his trade amounted to about $30,000, and continued at about the same figures each year until 1882, when they exceeded $100,000. R. S. Munger has been interested with Mr. Weaver in the lumber business since he first located here. In January, 1883, the Weaver Lumber Company was organized, with an authorized capital stock of $150,000. The company was organized for the purpose of engaging in the lumber business in its various branches; ownership of pine lands, saw mills, dealing in all kinds of lumber and other building materials. The company is owned by its three principal officers, C. S. Weaver, president; R. S. Munger, vice-president; and J. F. Call, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Weaver is also president of the Bismarck Building Association, which has built many fine school houses, residences, etc., in Dakota. In 1882, their building operations amounted to $42,250, and during the first nine months of 1883, they constructed buildings to the value of $75,000. Mr. Weaver is a native of Rhode Island, but was reared in Massachusetts. He resided in Ohio and Illinois several years, removed from the latter State to Glyndon, Minn., in the spring of 1872, and resided there until July, 1874, when he went to Fargo, Dakota, where he became sub-contractor for building the Cass [County] Court House. He also superintended the wood work on the Headquarters Hotel as [Fargo], also of the merchandise warehouse of E. S. Tyler & Co. He was at Fargo and vicinity until the winter of 1875-76, then went to Duluth, where he remained a few months prior to removal to Bismarck. Since locating here he has been prominently identified with nearly all public interests.

JOHN WHALEN, crockery merchant, first came to Bismarck in October, 1872. In June, 1873, he took charge of the store of Raymond & Allen at this point, having previously had charge of the store of Raymond, Hubbard & Allen at Jamestown, Dakota. June 6, 1873, he came to Bismarck with the first train which ran to this place, bringing three car loads of goods by that train. After clerking here one year he went to Fort Berthold as post trader, remaining there between two and three years, then returned to Bismarck, and in the fall of 1876 engaged in his present business. He is a native of Coxsackie, N. Y. From the age of seven years he lived until eighteen years old in the city of New York. Afterward in California, prior to coming to Dakota in 1872. In October, 1872, he came from Fargo to Bismarck with a horse and buggy to see what the opportunities were for establishing mercantile business here when the roads should be completed. His report being favorable, the firm with which he was connected decided to locate here.

HON. E. A. WILLIAMS located at Yankton, Dakota May 8, 1871, and resided there until June, 1872, when he came to Bismarck. He was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives in 1872-73, and a member of the Territorial Council in 187475, and again a member of the House of Representatives in 1882-83, being Speaker thereof during that time. He has platted the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 4, Town 138, Range 80, as Williams' addition to Bismarck. Since coming to the Territory he has been engaged in the practice of law. He is a native of Mystic, Conn., removing from there to Warnerville, Juneau Co., Wis., in 1861, where he resided until 1865, when he located at Freeport, Ill., and remained until he came to Dakota.

E. T. WINSTON is a native of Richmond, VA., that being his home until July, 1870, when he became connected with the construction and other departments of the Northern Pacific Railroad until the failure of Jay Cooke in 1873. In November, 1871, he first came to Dakota as assistant engineer on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and assisted in locating the road as far as Bismarck. April 1, 1872, arriving at this point with the Meigs party, and held the land here in the interest of the Puget Sound Land Company. For a few months after the failure alluded to above, he was identified with the mercantile business, and, in May, 1874, engaged in lumber business, which he continued until the winter of 1875-76. In February, 1876, he went to the Black Hills, where he remained until December of that year. In the spring of 1877, he was appointed post trader at Fort Stephenson, holding that position uutil the abandonment of the post, August 29, 1883. He was one of the first Aldermen of Bismarck. He owns a fine farm in McLean County.

CAPT. R. F. WOOLFOLK, of the steamboat "Behan," was born in Kentucky in 1830, and educated partly in Missouri and partly in Illinois. At the age of thirteen he commenced working on the river, carrying passengers and freight between St. Louis and New Orleans. He commenced building boats for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in the winter of 1878, and transferred freight up and down the Missouri to Fort Buford. He transferred from the time the railroad was commenced west of Bismarck, until the bridge across the Missouri was completed in October, 1882, more than 100,000 car loads of passengers, rails, ties and other material and supplies for the company, with but one crew and without an accident. As a tribute of regard for the faithful services rendered by Captain Woolfolk, the company, through their president, Mr. Villard, gave him the choice of any unsold section of land owned by this company on the line of the road. He selected Section 19, Town 138, Range 83, Morton County. The Captain was married in 1855 to Miss Eliza A. Baker, the daughter of Captain Thomas Baker, of Marietta, Ohio. Captain Baker was on the fleet as pilot with Captain Farragut, the father of Commodore Farragut, when he captured the conspirators under Aaron Burr. Captain Woolfolk has three daughters, Mrs. Fannie B. Whitsett, Libby B. and Mildred. Six children are deceased. When the Captain resigned the service of the Northern Pacific Company, he purchased the boat known as "Behan." May 12, 1883, making one trip to Bismarck each week. The Captain is one of the oldest sailors on the river, having been in continuous service for more than thirty years. He has seen the towns along the Missouri and Mississippi grow from straggling villages of huts to busy marts of trade and flourishing cities. He came to Dakota first in 1853. He commenced steamboating in 1847, as pilot on the "John Aul."

WILLIAM WRIGHT, attorney-at-law, member of the firm of Hollemback & Wright, came to Bismarck in April, 1883. He is a native of Wilkesbarre, Penn., and is a graduate of Dickinson College, at Carlyle, Penn. He read law at Washington, D. C.,

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and was engaged in practice in that city until he came to Dakota, his principal business being in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

JOHN YEGEN, wholesale and retail grocer, was born in Switzerland in 1844, and received a good common school education. Coming to America in 1866 he settled first in New York, and one year later came West, rafted on the Mississippi River down South, and afterward flat boated on the Red River of the North. He lived a short time in Iowa and Nebraska, and then returned to Minnesota. He came to Dakota in the spring of 1873 and located at Bismarck, where he sold meals and baked bread, using boxes as chairs and tables. His boarders furnished their own blankets and paid $9 per week for board under a tent. In 1879 he married Miss Maggie McLaughlin, of Minnesota, by whom he has three children. Mr. Yegen is one of the oldest settlers, and one of the original contestants of the town against the Puget Sound Land Company, and other pre emptors. He commenced the grocery business in 1875 in a small way, and his business has grown to be one of the largest in the city, both in the wholesale and retail trade. His business is about $40,000 per year.

MENOKEN.

GEORGE H. GLASS, farmer, P. O. Menoken, came to Bismarck, September 1, 1872, worked a short time in the mill on Apple Creek, near that place; afterwards employed as a carpenter at Fort Lincoln, where he worked until 1873. From that date until January, 1884, he was engaged in various kinds of employment, and from July 8 of that year he was for several years in the employ of Raymond & Fairchild, who were at that time the leading merchants at Bismarck. In 1878 he was engaged in freighting to Miles City and the Black Hills; afterwards serving two and a half years as City Justice of Bismark. Mr. Glass has a fine farm on Section 21, Town 138, Range 78, and the north half of the south half of Section 18, Town 139, Range 80. In the winter of 1877 and 1878, he acted as County Jailor. He is a native of Rome, N. Y. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Seventy-seventh New York Volunteer Infantry, in which he served three years and nine months. When he left the army he returned to New York, where he remained until 1868, when he removed to Fort Dodge, Iowa, removing from there to Nebraska in March, 1870, remaining in the latter place until he came to Dakota.

CAPT. SYDNEY GENETT SMITH, at present superintendent of the Clark Farm, Menoken, was born in Aurora, Erie Co., N. Y., February 6, 1843. At nine years of age he was left an orphan and was placed in an orphan asylum by friends. Not relishing the restraints and discipline of the institution, he made an early exhibition of his indomitable pluck, by making his escape, and commencing his hand to hand battle with the world, unaided, friendless, and alone, before he had reached his tenth birthday. From this time until he was thirteen years old, his life was one rich in experiences, and hardihood and hard labor where all that kept his little soul and body together. In 1856 he entered the office of the Hudson City Chronicle at Hudson, Wis., as apprentice, whence he went to St. Paul, Minn., and entered the office of the St. Paul Pioneer and Democrat, as journeyman. When the war broke out he was fired with a patriotic love of his country and an overwhelming desire to aid it in its hour of need. Minnesota would not receive him on account of his youth, but he finally succeeded in enlisting in the Sixty-seventh Illinois. He served three months in Company A of this regiment as private, Orderly Sergeant and Sergeant Major successively and when he was mustered out of service he enlisted in the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry and was assigned to Company A, but afterwards was transferred to Company K of the Seventeenth, in which he served as Captain. After the close of the war he went to Kansas and took up agricultural pursuits. He came to Dakota in 1880, and entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Elevator Company as grain inspector and elevator manager. In 1862 he married Celia A. Carr, of Cherry Valley, Ill. Though they have never been blessed with any children of their own, Captain Smith's experience of early days has warmed his heart toward all unfortunate little waifs, and they have at different times adopted and cared for as their own, no less than thirteen homeless ones, seven of whom were under the paternal roof at one time. They now have one adopted son, Harry, who is being educated at the Bishop Whipple College, Moorhead, Minn. Captain Smith came to Menoken in the spring of 1883, and took charge of the Clark Farm, of which Colonel S. G. Magill, of Fargo, D. T., is proprietor; and he also owns in his own right, the south half of Section 8, Township 139, Range 78.

PAINTED WOODS.

WILLIAM H. MERCER, located at Painted Woods in October, 1869, and engaged in hunting and trapping for several years. In 1872 he did the first plowing in this region. He is a native of Center County, Penn., and enlisted in Company C, Fortyninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in August, 1861, serving therein until October, 1864. Mr. Mercer is proprietor of the town site of Painted Woods, the name having been given to this place from the fact that the trees in this locality were painted many years ago by the Indians. This town promises to be one of the most prosperous and desirable on the Missouri River north of Bismarck.

JOSEPH H. TAYLOR, farmer, Section 4, Town 142, Range 81, P. O. Painted Woods, is a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania. At the breaking out of the Rebellion his was the first name on the list of the first company tendered the President by the Governor of that State. He was mustered out in August, 1861, but afterwards served in Sawyer's Mounted (Iowa) Battalion; was mustered out in December, 1863. In April, 1865, he located at Yankton, and was engaged in hunting and trapping in Dakota until June, 1868, when he established the Dakota Democrat at Yankton but discontinued the publication thereof in the fall of 1868. In the spring of 1869, he came to Painted Woods, and located where he now lives. For several years he followed trapping and hunting as an occupation, and in 1877 engaged in farming. For several years, after coming to Dakota, he wrote Indian legends, which were published in leading journals of the Eastern States. He is known as the earliest permanent settler of Burleigh County. The attractions of frontier life to him are very great, although he is a gentleman of education and culture, universally respected by those who know him.

P. O. MANDAN, MORTON COUNTY.

CAPTAIN J. M. AYER, farmer, Section 2, Town 138, Range 81, P. O. Mandan, Morton Co., was born in Lower Canada in 1828. He emigrated to Minnesota in 1846 and located in St. Paul, and was one of the first settlers on the Minnesota River; and located the town of Henderson, and was master of the second steamer on the same river. In 1870 he removed to Brainerd, Minn., and followed contracting on the Northern Pacific Railroad. He came to Dakota in 1872 and settled first in Burleigh County, where he opened a farm and in 1874 crossed the Missouri and started a new farm, where his present home is. He did the first farming west of the river. He was married in 1857 to Miss Sophia Shepherd, of Minnesota, by whom he has six children - E. M. Ayer, married and living on a farm; W. W. Ayer, farming and in the milk and dairy business in Mandan; Frederick, Eugene, Harry and Gay. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for many years. He assisted in organizing the Masonic lodges of Brainerd, Bismarck, and is a member at Mandan. He owns 320 acres of land, 200 of which adjoins the city of Mandan. Captain Ayer was in charge of the Government cattle in the campaign with Custer where he lost his life. He is a relative of the celebrated Dr. Ayer, of patent medicine notoriety. He is now Justice of the Peace for Morton County.

MORTON COUNTY.

MANDAN.

GEORGE H. BINGENHEIMER came to Mandan in March, 1880. He was employed in the drug store of William A. Hallenback until October 6, 1880, when he and his brother, Ferd H. Bingenheimer, formed a co-partnership and engaged in the drug trade together. Mr. Bingenheimer was elected County Treasurer, November 7, 1882. He is a native of Frankfort, Wright Co., Minn., a son of the late Jacob Bingenheimer, who settled in Minnesota in 1849, and was one of the leading manufacturers of flour at Minneapolis, prior to his death which occurred August 27, 1871. He was also senior member of the well known firm of Bingenheimer & Oswald, of Minneapolis.

ELIJAH BOLEY was born in Lancester County, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1826. He came with his father's family to Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1830, moved to Elkhart, Ind., in 1851, and to Bourbon, same State, in 1854, in both of which latter States he engaged in milling, farming and stock-buying. He married at Bourbon, in 1854, Sarah Luellan, and moved with his family in 1863 to Monona, Clayton Co., Iowa, and was there engaged in farming and in the hardware business. In 1877 he came to Morton County and located the fourth claim staked out north of the Heart River in Morton County, June 16, 1877, and at a time when it was considered very dangerous for whites to live in the then unsurveyed country west of the Missouri on account of the unsubdued hostile Sioux. His son, Alphonso, then aged twenty, came in September of the same year and the remainder of the family consisting of wife and daughter, Viola, aged fourteen, since married to Dr. Henry W. Coe, following in February, 1878. Mr. Boley owns 990 acres of land in Morton County, 346 of which lie upon the beautiful plateau two miles north of Mandan, extending along the Mandan steamboat landing about a mile in length. At this place he resides and has carried on successful farming since 1877. He proved up on his homestead in June, 1882, the first homestead patented after five years' residence north of the Heart River in Morton County. Mr. Boley has held many positions of trust and honor, amongst which he has been County Commissioner for Marshall County, Indiana, and Clayton County, Iowa, and has been County Commissioner of Morton County since its organization in 1881 by appointment of the Governor at that time, and re-elected by the people in 1882. He is an active member of the Mandan Board of Trade, and was elected first president of the Upper Missouri River Navigation Company. Mr. Boley predicts for Mandan a population in 1890, six years hence, of 10,000 and by 1900 a population of 50,000. Alphonso Boley, son of E. Boley, located in Morton County, in September, 1877. He carried on farming and owns 320 acres near the Mandan steamboat landing. He is unmarried.

FRANCIS E. BOWEN, attorney-at-law, came to Mandan in October, 1882, where he has since given his attention exclusively to the practice of his profession. He is a native of Fort Wayne, Ind.; read law with Coombs, Morris, & Bell, and Aldrich & Barrett of that city. He was admitted to practice in the State courts in 1880, and the United States Circuit and District courts in June, 1882. He remained in practice at Fort Wayne until he came to Dakota.

FRANK A. BIGGS, Deputy County Treasurer and dealer in real estate, came to Mandan in August, 1880. He is a native of Hennepin County, Minn., being a resident of Minneapolis prior to removal to this city. During the winter of 1880-81 he was employed as bookkeeper in the wholesale grocery house of Reed & Carr. He served one year as Deputy-Sheriff. Since January, 1883, he has held his present position of Deputy County Treasurer, having been engaged in the real estate business since leaving his position with Reed & Carr.

P. B. BRISTOL is a native of Brookfield, Conn., and came to Mandan in October, 1879, and engaged in the hardware business, which he has since continued. For one year was in partnership with William Von Kuster, and alone in business until April, 1882, when he formed a co-partnership with his present partner, D. E. Howe, under the firm name of Bristol & Howe, When Mr. Bristol first engaged in business here the sales only amounted to about $7 per week; they now amount to about $500 per week. Mr. Bristol is one of the aldermen of this city, and has been City Treasurer. D. E. Howe is a native of Middleburgh, Schoharie Co., N. Y., and went with his parents to La Crosse, Wis., when he was eleven years old. He came to Mandan October 10, 1879, going from here to Little Missouri, where he had a tie contract with the Railroad Company; and for one year, from the spring of 1880, he had the contract for carrying the mail from Bismarck to Mandan

M. A. BURKE, proprietor of the Novelty Carriage Works, was born in Ogdensburg, N. Y., in 1849, and attended school in the same town, and in Ottawa County, Canada, until eighteen years of age. He came to Dakota in 1870, and was connected with the agencies of the Old Grand River, Big White Clay and Sheyenne. He helped to remove Spotted Tail a distance of 200 miles. Was at one time engaged in a fight with the Indians on a branch of the White Clay River, another at the Sheyenne Agency, which was probably the hardest one fought; besides many other skirmishes. He was wounded in the side, and has never fully recovered. In 1881, he came to Mandan and established his shops and his business. He owns the large building, 24x40 feet, known as the Novelty Carriage Works.

WARREN CARPENTER is a native of Brooklyn, N. Y. He removed to St. Paul in 1858, where he resided until the spring of 1881, when he removed to Mandan, and has since been engaged in the real estate business and holds the office of Judge of Probate for Morton County. In the real estate business he is a partner with Lyman A Cary, who is a native of Sandwich, N. J., coming directly from his native State to Mandan in 1881.

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In August of that year Carpenter & Cary were appointed Northern Pacific Railroad land agents and still represent that company as such, besides doing a general real estate and insurance business.

REV. P. CASSIDY, pastor of the Catholic congregation at Mandan, was ordained in Dubuque, Iowa, and came to Dakota in October, 1880, and was at Yankton for a short time and in November following came to Mandan. The church then numbered scarcely a dozen members and there was no place of worship. At present they have a neat and commodious church 26 by 50 feet, and it is the intention to erect as soon as possible a cut stone or brick church and use the present edifice for a school. The Rev. Mr. Cassidy has also under his charge the Catholics at Fort Abraham Lincoln and preaches in the chapel at the Fort, also all the Catholics on the line of the Northern Pacific, from Mandan to the Montana line. A good beginning has been made at Dickinson. There, a church has been built with, when completed, will cost $2,000. Rev. Mr. Cassidy is a good scholar and preacher and a faithful and earnest pastor.

JAIRUS EDMUND CATES, editor of the Mandan Times, came to Dakota in the fall of 1880, and was foreman of the job department of the Grand Forks Herald, for five months. He was afterwards foreman in the job printing office of Brown & Herbert, at St. Paul, remaining there until the fall of 1881. May 7, 1882, he came to Mandan, and in July of that year established the paper of which he is now proprietor and editor. The first issue of this paper was July 1, 1882. Mr. Cates was born near Belvidere, Boone Co., Ill., September 23, 1851. He began learning his trade of printer in the office of the Belvidere Standard, remaining there until the spring of 1870 when he removed to Cowley County, Kansas. After about two years, which he spent in the cattle business and with the Emporia News, he was for ten years connected with the Dubuque, Iowa, Herald.

J. C. CLARK, wholesale and retail grocer, was born in London, England, and came to America in 1868. He first located at Windsor, Canada, and for six years prior to removal to Dakota, in the spring of 1874, he was at Duluth, Minn. His first location in this Territory was at Bismarck, where he was for three years salesman in the large grocery house of J. W. Raymond. He afterwards sold goods along the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad at various points until the road was completed to the Big Horn. In 1880 he engaged in his present business at Mandan. His present trade is fully fifty per cent in excess of that which he did during the first year.

HENRY W. COE, M. D., is a native of Waupun, Wis.; was for fifteen years a resident of Morristown, Minn., and was educated at the University of Minneapolis. He was one year in the medical department of the Michigan University at Ann Arbor, graduating from the Long Island College Hospital. He began practice in Minnesota. In 1878 located at Valley City, Dak., where he remained until July 1, 1880, when he came to Mandan. He has been physician for the county of Morton and the city of Mandan since their organization, and is United States Examining Surgeon at this point. He is a member of, and Treasurer for, the Mandan School Board. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is particularly interested in archeological matters. He was the first physician to permanently locate at Mandan. The doctor was married June 20, 1882, to Viola M., daughter of the Hon. E. Boley, she being the first white girl living west of the Missouri River in north Dakota.

E. F. DORAN, master mechanic of the Northern Pacific Railroad, was born in Indiana, January 2, 1844, and at the age of sixteen years was employed in the machine shops of the Michigan Central Railroad Co., at Michigan City, Ind. In June, 1877, he located at Duluth, being master mechanic of the Northern Pacific Railroad at that point one year. Afterwards he spent a year at Bismarck, and since November, 1879, when the shops were established at Mandan, has been master mechanic at this point. At that time there was a frame round house with but two stalls, the old building being used temporarily as a machine shop; the present round house contains twentytwo stalls. The new machine shops are 85 by 120 feet in dimensions, with boiler rooms, 60 by 85 feet, the machinery being propelled by 120 horse-power engine. The blacksmith shops are 60 by 120 feet, and contain six fires. The car shops are 60 by 120 feet, each one having a solid stone foundation. The offices and store-room are 40 by 80 feet. The oil house contains two tanks holding 120 barrels each, and five tanks holding twenty barrels each. The coal house, 48 by 304 feet, with a capacity for holding 4,000 tons of coal. The machine shops contain four lathes, three drill pressers, one planer, one nut tapper, one bolt cutter, axle lath, boring mill, wheel press, grinding machine, etc. There is also a copper shop, which contains three fires.

C. E. DOW, the pioneer furniture dealer of Mandan, located at this point October 14, 1880, having been employed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Co., at Casselton, as early as June of that year. He was born on Long Island, N. Y., in 1824, and for twentytwo years lived at Dubuque, Iowa, and two years at Minneapolis, just prior to removal to Dakota. He carried an extensive stock of furniture of all grades, having a fine store and three warehouses. Mr. Dow was married in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1847, to Abigail Cameron, a native of New Jersey. She died in 1872, leaving three children - Henrietta, now Mrs. J. E. Cate, of Mandan; Frank L. and Willie F.

M. B. DOYLE was born in the year 1840, in the County Westmeath, Ireland. When nineteen years of age he accepted a situation on the Midland Great Western Railroad, of Ireland, with headquarters in the city of Dublin. He remained there until 1863, when he emigrated to the United States, and obtained a situation on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, at Springfield, Ill. He resigned his position to accept a situation as hotel clerk, which business he followed until the spring of 1865, when he enlisted as private in Company E. Forty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, at Chicago, Ill., where he served until January 21, 1866, when he was mustered out as Corporal, at Selma, Ala. He returned to Springfield, and on June 3, 1866, went as First Lieutenant in a company of the I. R. A., organized at Springfield, for the invasion of Canada. After disbanding, he returned to Springfield, where he received the appointment of Deputy Sheriff, which position he resigned and commenced the hotel and restaurant business, which he followed until 1869, when he moved to Yankton, Dak., accepting a situation with the Eiseman Bros., general wholesale and retail merchants, where he remained until the following summer, when he and his partner, Andy Logan, opened a large restaurant and saloon and billiard hall, and held the contract for three years for boarding the United States witnesses and prisoners at that place. He moved to Bismarck Dak., in 1873, and remained there that summer, engaged in the saloon and restaurant business. He moved to St. Paul the same fall, and engaged in the hotel business until the spring of 1877, when he returned to Bismarck and received the appointment of Deputy Sheriff, which he held until September of that year, when he again took charge of a restaurant and saloon, with J. P. Foster. In the spring of 1878, he took the contract of boarding the contractors for the building of the arsenal at Fort Abraham Lincoln, and remained at the post until February, 1879, when he moved on a tract of land on which he located in 1877, in Section 25, Town 139, Range 81, known as the Sheridan town site. He moved to the present city, then town of Mandan, in April, 1879, and commenced the restaurant and saloon business, which he continued until May, 1881, when he received the appointment of Clerk of the District Court for Morton County, which office he still holds. His residence is on his homestead, about two miles from the court house, on the northwest quarter of Section 20, Town 139, Range 81, in Morton County.

F. F. GERARD is a native of St. Louis, Mo., where he served an apprenticeship as a printer in the office of the St. Louis Republican. In 1848 he came to the Missouri River country of the northwest, and in 1849 was stationed at Fort Clark, thirty-five miles above the present site of Mandan, where he remained most of the time for a period of fifteen years, engaged in trading, etc; was afterward in British Columbia and the Yellow Stone regions. From 1872 to July, 1883, he was located at Fort A. Lincoln, in the government service as an interpreter and guide, serving with Generals Terry and Custer in their various expeditions. In July, 1883, he engaged in mercantile pursuits, in partnership with S. H. Parkin. July 16, 1872, he took a claim where Mandan is now located. He also platted Gerard's addition to Mandan.

C. L. GIESKE, farmer, Section 28, Town 140, Range 81, P. O. Mandan, was born in Germany, Province of Hesse Cassel, where he remained, attending school, until the age of twelve years, at which time he came to American and located first in New York, then in Chicago, afterward at Elgin, Ill., and went from there to California at the age of nineteen, where he was engaged in mining and other business. He was married in 1864 to Miss Kate Allen, of Idaho City, by whom he has three sons and one daughter. He came to Dakota September 18, 1882, and took a homestead and other lands to the amount of 400 acres, besides a 160 acre coal claim. His partner, William Kruse, was born in Chicago, in 1847, but was brought up and educated in Dubuque, Iowa. He has since lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Colorado, Montana, and Dakota. Both of these gentlemen have been mining and traveling. Mr. Gieske lived in Idaho three years. They are doing exceedingly well in coal and wood; have on their lands 20,000 cords of standing timber.

Z. GILBERT, photographer, came to Mandan, November 14, 1881, and in December of that year, engaged in the business where he is now located. He is the pioneer photographer of Dakota west of the Missouri River, and is the only one now engaged in business at Mandan. He does all kinds of approved work known in the photographic art, copying, enlarging, viewing, crayon and water-color work, etc. Mr. Gilbert owns considerable valuable farm property in Morton County, one farm being located on Section 6, Town 139, Range 81, and another on the northeast quarter of Section 24, Town 143, in Range 82, the latter being a tree claim. Mr. Gilbert is a native of Montgomery County, N. Y., but was reared from the age of five years at Geneseo, Ill., where he resided until July, 1861, when he enlisted in an independent company, commanded by Captain Graham, of Moline, Ill. He was taken prisoner at Lexington, Mo., after a nine days' siege. He was paroled and discharged from the service, and in the spring of 1862 again enlisted, this time in Company H, Fifty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in which he served eleven months, when he was discharged on account of disability caused by sickness. Returning to Illinois, he immediately adopted his present profession, in which he has since been continuously engaged in Illinois and Iowa prior to his location here. He is a member of the G. A. R., the Baptist Church, and various temperance societies.

H. H. GOVE came to Mandan in 1880, and was for eighteen months Deputy Register of Deeds, and until May 1, 1883, was connected with the real estate and insurance office of Frank J. Mead. At this date the firm of Gove & Ellison, real estate and loan agents, was formed. They also do quite an extensive civil engineering and surveying business. Mr. Gove is a native of Wisconsin; removed to Minnesota in 1866 and lived there until 1880. Mr. Ellison is a native of Minnesota, having been connected with the Northern Pacific Railroad as a civil engineer prior to the organization of this firm. He is City Engineer of Mandan.

E. L. HAGER, wholesale and retail dealer in flour and feed, is the son of W. H Hager, of Hagerstown, Md., and grandson of John Hager, who gave the name to that town. He is the youngest of five brothers, all living: John, now in the real estate business at Mandan; F. D. Hager, general manager and head of the firm of Hager & Co., dealers in real estate, St. Paul; Robert, assistant manager of the same firm; Joseph, real estate dealer, Mandan. E. L. Hager came to Dakota in July, 1880, and was engaged in the lumber trade in the firm of Hager Bros. until April, 1883, when he established his present business. The Hager Bros. are large owners of property in Mandan and all along the Northern Pacific Railroad, including the Inter Ocean, which is said to be the finest hotel in Dakota.

JOHN HANNAH, farmer, Section 34, Town 139, Range 81, P. O. Mandan, was born in Lockport, N. Y., October 14, 1844, but spent his early life in Rock County, Wis. He was educated in Milton Academy, Milton, Wis. In 1874 he moved to Faribault, Rice Co., Minn. He has one brother, Samuel Hannah, now living in Jefferson County, Wis. Mr. Hannah came to Dakota in the spring of 1879 and took a claim, which was contested. The case was on trial four and a half years and was finally decided in April, 1883, by which the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 34 was awarded to Mr. Hannah. He lives on this farm, close to the city of Mandan. He is an intelligent and energetic man. His farm, in consequence of its nearness to the city, is very valuable.

GEORGE W. HARMON, Sheriff, and also a member of the firm of Harmon Bros., real estate agents, is a native of Kentucky. He served two years and eight months during the war of the rebellion in the United States Army as a member of Company F, Seventh Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. May 22, 1863, he was wounded at Vicksburg, and was at the time of his discharge from the army on account of disability, First Lieutenant of this company. After leaving the army he traveled through nearly all the Western States and Territories and Alaska. In May, 1872, he came to Dakota and located permanently in July of the same year, near the river in this locality. A short time afterwards he located on the southwest quarter of Section 27, Town 139, Range 81. In 1872-73-74, he filled large wood contracts. In 1875-76, he was engaged in mercantile pursuits, trading with the soldiers, etc. In 1874 he brought a herd of cows and young cattle here, and was engaged in stock-raising until 1878. He has since engaged quite extensively in the stock business, which he still continues. In 1879 he was elected Sheriff for Morton County, and re-elected in 1882.

HENRY H. HARMON is a native of Williamsburg, Ky.; came to Dakota in 1878, and located on the southeast quarter of Section 4, Town 139, Range 81, in Morton County. He engaged in farming and contracting for two years, and for the last three years has been engaged in the real estate business, being a member of the firm of Harmon Bros. He is also a member of the firm of Flynn & Harmon, dealers in boots, shoes, and furnish-

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THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE December 7, 1863.

The CLERK. The Clerk asks first to be indulged in reading the names of the Delegates from the Territories.

Mr. STEVENS. Certainly.

The CLERK then called the following Delegates, who responded to their names:

DELEGATE FROM NEW MEXICO. Francisco Perea.

DELEGATE FROM UTAH. John F. Kenney.

DELEGATE FROM WASHINGTON. George E. Cole.

DELEGATE FROM NEBRASKA. Samuel G. Daily.

DELEGATE FROM COLORADO. Hiram P. Bennet.

DELEGATE FROM DAKOTA. J. B. S. Todd.

Mr. LOVEJOY. Did Mr. TODD file his credentials?

The CLERK. He did.

Mr. LOVEJOY. I wish to give notice that at the proper time I will move an amendment.

The CLERK. There were two credentials filed, and on the internal evidence the Clerk decided to call the name of Mr. TODD on the roll of Delegates. Both papers are upon file for any future action of the House.

The Clerk will now state that other gentlemen from different States have filed credentials, and that he has not placed their names upon the roll for the reason that those credentials did not show, or rather in his opinion did not show, what they ought to have shown, according to the act of the 3d of March, 1863. The Clerk will now submit these credentials to the House, with the names of the members referred to.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I desire to ask a question.

The CLERK. The gentleman's colleague [Mr. LOVEJOY] has the floor.

Mr. LOVEJOY. I understand that what I propose in reference to the Delegate from Dakota Territory cna be as well done when members and Delegates are sworn in, and I therefore withdraw my motion for the present.

The following Delegates from the Territories were then sworn in:

From New Mexico--FRANCISCO PEREA.

From Utah--JOHN F. KINNEY.

From Washington--GEORGE E. COLE.

From Nebraska--SAMUEL G. DAILY.

From Colorado--HIRAM P. BENNET.

From Nevada--GORDON N. MOTT.

Mr. LOVEJOY. I see that the Clerk has placed the name of Mr. Todd on the roll as Delegate from Dakota. If there are any credentials of Mr. Todd here, I should like to have them read, and in the mean time I send up credentials of Mr. Jayne, which I ask the Clerk to read.

Mr. COX. I ask that Mr. Todd's credentials may first be read.

Mr. STEVENS. I understand that the Clerk has sent for them, and they have not yet been brought in. I suppose there has not been time enough to prepare them. [Laughter.]

Mr. LOVEJOY. Well, I will simply say that I do not think there are any such credentials that are in form, and I believe the Clerk so admitted.

Mr. JOHNSON, of Pennsylvania. Is there any motion now pending before the House? If there is not, the gentleman from Illinois is not in order.

Mr. LOVEJOY. I move to substitute the name of Mr. Jayne for that of Mr. Todd.

Mr. MALLORY. I ask that the credentials of both claimants be read to the House before any vote is taken.

The Clerk read, as follows:

DAKOTA TERRITORY, EXECUTIVE OFFICE:

I, John Hutchinson, secretary and acting Governor of the Territory of Dakota, do hereby certify that, according to the canvass made by the territorial canvassers on the 24th day of October, 1862, of the votes for Delegate to Congress, William Jayne had a majority over J. B. S. Todd of sixteen votes, and that, subsequent to said canvass, returns were made to this office in due form of votes from Pembina district as follows, to wit: number of votes cast for J. B. S. Todd, one hundred and twenty-five; for William Jayne, nineteen; which said votes were not included in the canvass made by the territorial canvassers, but are now on file in this office.

Witness my hand, and the great seal of the Territory.

Done at Yankton, this 15th August, A. D. 1863. [L. S.] JOHN HUTCHINSON, Secretary and Acting Governor.

DAKOTA TERRITORY, SECRETARY'S OFFICE:

I hereby certify that I have not issued a certificate of election to any person as Delegate to Congress from this Territory; that there is no record in this office of any having been issued by any person, and that I have no official knowledge of the territorial seal having been affixed to any such certificate.

Witness my hand, and the great seal of the Territory.

Done at Yankton, this 26th day of September, A. D. 1863. [L. S.] JOHN HUTCHINSON, Secretary.

PROCLAMATION To the People of Dakota Territory.

I, John Hutchinson, secretary and acting Governor of the Territory of Dakota, do hereby proclaim:

That at a general election held on the 1st day of September, 1862, in said Territory, William Jayne received a majority of the votes cast for Delegate to Congress, and was therefore duly elected Delegate to the Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States; that Justus Townsend received a majority of the votes cast for territorial Auditor, and was duly elected as such; and that S. G. Insh received a majority of the votes cast for territorial Treasurer, and was therefore duly elected as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal. Done at Yankton, this 29th day of November, A. D. 1862.

[L. S.] JOHN HUTCHINSON, Secretary and Acting Governor.

DAKOTA TERRITORY, SECRETARY'S OFFICE:

I, John Hutchinson, secretary of the Territory of Dakota, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Proclamation issued by me on the 29th day of November, A. D. 1862, and by me recorded, and now on record in this office.

Witness my hand, and the great seal of the Territory.

Done at Yankton, this 17th day of June, A.D. 1863. [L. S.] JOHN HUTCHINSON.

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Mr. LOVEJOY. That is sufficient to s[?] that Mr. Jayne is entitled to his seat. I th[?] fore move that his name be substitutde for [?] of Mr. Todd; and on that motion I call for [?] previous question.

Mr. COX. I think that the whole subject h[?] better be referred to the Committee of Elections

Mr. MALLORY. Before that is done I would ask whether a certificate was not sent to the Clerk before the one last read?

Mr. LOVEJOY. I understand the state of the [?]ase to be this: Mr. Jayne was Governor of the Territory, and it was made his duty to certify the election. He did certify his own election, and the certificate is in the hands of the Clerk.

Mr. MALLORY. It has not been read, and it seems to me that it ought to be.

The certificate was read, as follows:

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, YANKTON, DAKOTA TERRITORY:

William Jayne, Governor of said Territory, to all whom these presents shall come, sends greeting:

William Jayne, having received the largest number of votes cast at the general election for Delegate in the ThirtyEighth Congress of the United States from the Territory of Dakota, held on the 1st day of September, A. D. 1862, is hereby declared duly elected said Delegate in Congress from the Territory aforesaid.

This certificate shall be, and is, the certificate of the said election as Delegate in Congress from this Territory in the Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused to be affixed the great seal of the Territory of Dakota. Done at Yankton, this 5th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1863.

[L. S.] WILLIAM JAYNE, Governor of Dakota Territory.

Mr. MALLORY. Is that countersigned by the secretary of the Territory?

Mr. LOVEJOY. The law does not require any such signature. I move that the whole subject be referred to the Committee of Elections.

The motion was agreed to.

Mr. LOVEJOY moved to reconsider the vote by which the motion was referred; and also move[?] that the motion to reconsider be laid upon the tabl[?]

The latter motion was agreed to.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

37TH CONGRESS, 3d Session.

EX. DOC. No. 36.

APPROPRIATIONS FOR DAKOTA TERRITORY.

LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, STATING The necessity for appropriations for Dakota Territory.

JANUARY 19, 1863--Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and ordered to be printed.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, January 16, 1863.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a communication, dated the 29th of January, 1862, addressed from this department to the honorable James M. Ashley, chairman of the Committee on the Territories, House of Representatives, stating the necessity for appropriations for Dakota Territory, as therein indicated.

I now renew the application, and request that the matter be referred to the appropriate committee of the House of Representatives for early action in the premises.

A copy of a communication to this department from honorable J. B. S. Todd, of Dakota, is also herewith enclosed, from which it will be perceived that the sum of $1,250 is required to defray the expenses incurred in taking the census of that Territory, instead of $2,500, heretofore estimated; and I request that said sum be appropriated.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. P. USHER, Secretary.

Hon. G. A. GROW, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington January 29, 1862.

SIR: I desire to call your attention to some appropriations necessary for the Territory of Dakota. No provision was made in the law organizing the Territory for a territorial library, and an appropriation of $5,000 is recommended for that purpose.

The census of the population of the Territory was taken by the direction of

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CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE January 15 1864.

DAKOTA CONTESTED-ELECTION CASE.

Mr. DAWES. I wish to call up now, if the House will permit me, the contested-election case of Jayne and Todd, from Dakota Territory. I will take but a short time to dispose of it.

The SPEAKER. It is a question of privilege, and the Clerk will report the resolution.

The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

Resolved, That William Jayne, having presented a certificate in due form of law of his election as Delegate from the Territory of Dakota to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, is entitled to take the oath of office and occupy a seat in this House as such Delegate, without prejudice to the right of J. B. S. Todd, claiming to be duly elected thereto, to prosecute his contest therefor, according to the rules and usages of this House.

Mr. SMITH. I ask the gentleman from Massachusetts to allow me to offer a resolution in reference to this matter, in order that his remarks upon the subject may be addressed to it.

Mr. DAWES. I have no objection.

The amendment, which was read, was to strike out all after the word "resolved," and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That inasmuch as neither Mr. Todd nor Mr. Jayne, claimants from Dakota Territory, are admitted to a seat in this House, neither of them be sworn now, but the whole subject be referred back to the Committee of Elections for a report upon the merits of the case.

Mr. DAWES. The contest at this moment is, which gentleman shall occupy a seat here pending the contest upon the merits of the case. The Committee of Elections had this particular question referred to them upon the first day of the session, and the credentials upon which each of these gentlemen claims to be sworn in and to occupy a seat were referred to the committee. The committee have had that matter under consideration, and, without entering into the question of which of these gentlemen has actually been elected to the position, thave instructed me to report that Mr. Jayne, having presented certificates in due form of law, is entitled to the sworn in and to occupy a seat during the contest.

I wish to state briefly the facts in the case, and then to leave it with the House. I think there can be no doubt, provided the House can decide which of them presented credentials here according to the forms of law, that he should be sworn in. I know of no more reason why both of them should be excluded from occupying a seat pending the contest than would prevail in the House touching any contest to a seat in this body. If any one contests the right of another member to a seat in this House, there is precisely the same reason that both should be excluded pending the contest as exists in this case. And if the facts set forth in the report be true, I think there can be no more doubt as to which of these parties presents a proper prima facie case than exists to the right of any other one to occupy a seat here until some person shows a better right.

Therefore I am opposed in the outset to this question being sent back to the committee, and to both of these parties being excluded from a seat in this House until that question be settled. If one or the other of them has a right to occupy a seat at this present moment - and it is either Mr. Todd or Mr. Jayne - I take it for granted the House is capable of deciding that question upon the papers. The election at which both of these gentlemen claim to have been elected to a seat here, and in reference to which both of them have presented documents which they call papers contesting the seat, was held on the 1st day of September, 1862, in conformity to the laws of the Territory of Dakota. The laws of the Territory have constituted the Governor, the chief justice of the Territory, and the secretary of the Territory, a board of canvassers, to cavass the votes for this office, and to make a proclamation of the result; and they have also required the Governor of teh Territory, in addition to that proclamation of the result, to furnish to the gentleman whom they declare to be elected a certificate of this election.

It is required by the statute of the Territory that this canvass shall be made upon the expiration of fifty days after the day of election, or sooner than that time if all the returns are in. There is also a special provision that if the returns are not in from all the precincts within that time, on the fortieth day the secretary of the Territory shall send a special messenger to any precinct from which the returns may not have reached him. In this case there was no messenger sent by the secretary of the Territory to any precinct in the Territory; but after the expiration of the fifty days prescribed by the statute the secretary of the Territory and the chief justice of the Territory, two of the three canvassers - the Governor being one of the candidates at the election, and the statute providing that if one of the canvassers should be himself a candidate he should not participate in the canvass - canvassed the votes as they stood in the secretary's office, and found Mr. Jayne to be elected by 16 majority. The secretary of the Territory, in conformity with law, made proclamation of that fact, and declared Mr. Jayne to be elected, and this proclamation bears date the 29th day of November of the same year. The proclamation was made by the secretary as acting Governor, the Governor - Mr. Jayne himself - being absent from the Territory, and the organic law of the Territory devolving the duties of the office upon the secretary during his absence. The Governor returned to the Territory before the certificate of the fact of his election was issued to him. By the same organic law he then became Governor, and the authority of the secretary as acting Governor ceased.

When he returned to the Territory the statute required the Governor to give a certificate of the fact found by the canvassers. Mr. Jayne made a certificate of that fact, and signed it himself as Governor. Thus the matter stood until about nine months after that time, when this same secretary, without the assistance of either of the other canvassers, gave Mr. Todd a paper under his hand, and under the seal of the Territory, reciting a fact, namely: that though the majority for Mr. Jayne was 16, after the canvass was made, and after the fifty days allowed by the statue for re-

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turns to be made had elapsed, there came into his office returns from Pembina, which is a precinct a great distance from the capital of the Territory, and which is known, I believe, to the country and in history. These returns were of 125 votes for Mr. Todd, and 19 votes for Mr. Jayne. About six weeks after that, the secretary gave Mr. Todd another paper, stating that he had not given any certificate to any person, or affixed the seal of the Territory to any such certificate. Those are Mr. Todd's credentials. Mr. Jayne's are the proclamation of the secretary and acting Governor of the Territory, made in precise conformity to law, declaring him to have received a majority of the votes in accordance with law, and also declaring him to be elected Delegate from the Territory, and his own certificate, issued by himself in strict conformity to the letter of the law, stating the same facts. Mr. Todd presents only a statement from the secretary of the Territory, that subsequent to the [obscured text] by law there came in these returns from Pembina, and also another paper stating that he had given no certificate to any other person.

This is the whole merit of the case. The Committee of Elections have entered into no investigation as to the genuineness of the vote from Pembina, about which there is much contest between the two gentlemen, and upon which, I suppose, the right to the seat may ultimately depend, the one alleging it to be a genuine vote, and the other alleging it to be entirely fictitious. It did not come within the scope of the inquiry of the committee, however, to examine that question at this preliminary stage. I therefore submit to the House that there can be no question on the prima facie case, and that Mr. Jayne is entitled to be sworn in.

I believe that Mr. Todd desires to address the House on this question, and I will, therefore, now yield the floor. When he has been heard, I propose to move the previous question.

Mr. SMITH. I regret to differ with the chairman of the Committee of Elections and with the majority of the committee in regard to this case. It is, however, a peculiar case, and one that deserves the serious consideration of the members of this House before they vote upon the question.

Now, sir, an election was held in the Territory of Dakota at the time prescribed by law. The returns of certain portions of the Territory were sent in to the secretary's office in proper time, and the secretary of the Territory, not having received the returns from one of the precincts or districts of the Territory, Pembina, proceeded, with one of the other commissioners authorized by law, to canvass the votes and to determine who was legally elected Delegate from the Territory.

The reason that the Pembina vote did not get in was on account of the Indian disturbances in that region, which cut off the communications. The law required, however, that returns not received by the secretary of the Territory in proper time should be sent for. That requirement was not complied with. Omitting the returns from Pembina which had not come in, and counting the rest of the returns, Mr. Jayne appeared to have a majority of 16, and the secretary of the Territory, in the absence of the Governor, issued a proclamation declaring that Mr. Jayne, having received a majority of 16, was elected Delegate in Congress from that Territory. The secretary also gave a certificate to Mr. Todd - it matters not when or how - that no seal had been [a]ttached by him to any certificate of election. The Governor of the Territory was absent when the [c]anvass was made and when the proclamation was [i]ssued; but on his return, when he assumed the [f]unctions of Governor again, he issued a certifi[c]ate to himself, sealing it with the seal of the Ter[r]itory, which should be in the possession of the [s]ecretary, declaring himself duly elected Delegate [i]n Congress from the Territory of Dakota. The secretary of the Territory issued to Mr. Todd a certificate, over his own signature, that he never know of the seal being attached to any election certificate. Subsequently, or about that time, he certified to Mr. Todd that the vote of Pembina had reached the office and been counted, and that the whole returns showed that Mr. Todd had received a large majority over Mr. Jayne for the office of Delegate from the Territory.

The fact that the returns of Pembina were delayed was no fault of Mr. Jayne, or of Mr. Todd, or probably of any person interested. It was simply caused by the Indian disturbances in that region of country.

From the complicated character of the certificates on both sides, I have thought it proper, as far as I am individually concerned, to present the resolution which I have offered as an amendment to the resolution reported by the Committee of Elections. I think that the House should say to both these gentlemen that neither of them is shown by the papers presented to be entitled to a seat as Delegate, and that the whole matter should be referred back to the Committee of Elections for decision.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. As I was out of the Hall when the gentleman from Kentucky offered his amendment, I would be glad to understand its precise terms.

The amendment was again read.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. I understand the gentleman's amendment to assume that there has been no election in Dakota Territory. I think that either of these gentlemen must have a prima facie case. If it be Mr. Jayne, I am for admitting him to a seat. If it be Mr. Todd, I am for admitting him. Either of them must have a prima facie case; this being merely a preliminary matter to determine who is entitled to be sworn in.

Mr. SMITH. I was coming to that point. It may probably turn out, on examination of the certificates, and of the testimony in the case, that neither of these gentlemen is entitled to a seat on this floor, and that the Committee of Elections can do nothing else than refer the whole matter back to the people of the Territory. It is in that view that I wish the case to be sent back to the Committee of Elections, so that the committee may determine on the merits of the case and decide whether either or neither of them is entitled to a seat on this floor.

Mr. HUBBARD, of Iowa. I do not propose, Mr. Speaker, to discuss the merits of the question now, but as I reside in the immediate vincinity of [t]his Territory, I wish to make a single remark in [r]egard to the wishes of its people. They are en[t]itled to a representative on this florr, and in their [b]ehalf I protest against the adoption of the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kentucky, [Mr. SMITH.] Either one or the other of these gentlemen has a prima facie case, and is entitled to his seat; and the citizens of Dakota Territory are entitled to have the benefits and advantages

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[o]f his representation. There are interests to be [r]epresented here of importance to the people of [t]hat Territory, and which demand immediate at[t]ention. I therefore hope that the amendment will be rejected.

Reference has been made to the Pembina vote. [I] do not think that that should control the action [o]f the House. A canvass was made at the time [p]rescribed by law, and in that canvass Mr. Jayne was declared duly elected Delegate of the Terri[t]ory of Dakota, and holds the certificate of the Governor of the Territory to that effect. That [c]ertificate entitles him prima facie to a seat on [t]his floor. On the other hand, Mr. Todd has no [c]ertificate either in substance or in form. He has [n]o certificate even if Mr. Jayne were not here [a]sking for a seat. Mr. Todd has no certificate [t]hat would entitle him to be sworn in as a member of this House.

This, Mr. Speaker, is all that I wish to say on [t]he question at this time. I only rose for the pur[p]ose of urging upon the attention of the House [t]he importance of admitting one of these men [u]pon the floor, so that the citizens of Dakota Ter[r]itory may be represented.

Mr. GANSON. What Governor was it that gave the certificate, and who attached the seal to [t]he certificate of election?

Mr. HUBBARD, of Iowa. It was the Governor of Dakota Territory, William Jayne, the only man under the laws who could issue that [c]ertificate. I will state further, and it appears in [t]he report of the Committee of Elections, that Mr. Jayne holds a certificate in due form from the [p]resent Governor of Dakota Territory. That [c]ertificate is based upon the public records of the Territory - a certificate not only from the present [a]cting Governor of the Territory, but one that is [c]ountersigned by the present secretary of the Territory, Mr. Hutchinson, the same man who [g]ave those several certificates to General Todd.

Mr. GANSON. I am a member of the Committee of Elections, and have attended every meet[i]ng, and this morning was the first time that I [h]eard any certificate had been given by the pres[e]nt Governor to Mr. Jayne. I do not know whether it came in before the action of the committee on the subject. I would ask the chairman [h]ow this is.

Mr. DAWES. If my colleague on the committee will read the report he will see that after the [c]ase was heard by them, the House referred to [t]hem another certificate given by the present Gov[e]rnor, and countersigned by the same secretary, [J]ohn Hutchinson, bearing the date December 26, [1]863. That certificate is appended to the report. Now, if any power was left in these parties to make new papers -

Mr. GANSON. This certificate was referred after the committee had acted on the case.

Mr. DAWES. So the committee report.

Mr. GANSON. Therefore the position I took [o]n the committee is correct, that the only certificate before the committee when they acted on this subject was the one which Mr. Jayne issued to himself, and upon which the seal of the Territory was not put by the custodian of that seal - not by the secretary of the Territory, but without his knowledge or consent.

Mr. HUBBARD, of Iowa. I should like to inquire of the gentleman from New York whether there is any law of Dakota Territory giving the custody of that seal to the secretary of the Territory?

Mr. GANSON. There is no law giving it to the Governor, but it is made the duty of the secretary to keep the records of the Territory, and consequently the seal of of the Territory. This certificate has never been recorded in the Territory among the public records. I think that the evidence is pretty strong, and satisfied my mind that it was surreptitiously obtained, especially when a person certifies to his own election.

Mr. Speaker, I was in favor of leaving this matter until we had an examination into the merits of the case. The entire evidence has been introduced and referred to the Committee of Elections. It appears that the proclamation was issued by the secretary in regard to the election before the returns from this precinct had been made which changed the result. It further appears that the secretary omitted, as required by law if the returns were not made within forty days from the entire Territory, to send for them, and that the canvassers met, knowing that no returns had been made, and that they had not been sent for from that precinct. When they did come in they changed the result.

These certificates were all laid before the House the first day of the session, and I well recollect that the production of the certificate of Mr. Jayne, certified to by himself, caused merriment in the House, and I think that the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. HUBBARD] joined in it. I say that there was no proper certificate of election before the committee, and none before the House; and that when we look to the returns made, General Todd has a majority of the votes. Whether they ar[e] to be counted depends upon the testimony relatin[g] to the frauds which it is alleged occurred in som[e] of the precincts. The committee have not inves[-] tigated that. It took the ground that it would not. I think that the prima facie case is in favor of General Todd. The returns show that he has a majority of the votes cast in that Territory.

Mr. SMITHERS. Before the discussion proceeds further, I would be glad to have General Todd state his case, if he desires to do so.

Mr. DAWES. He has the right to do so.

Mr. GANSON. AFter stating the grounds upon which I dissented from the report of the committee, I intended to yield to General Todd. I wish simply to say that if anybody has a prima facie case it is not upon the certificate, in my judgment. And if we go beyond that, and look at the returns, that prima facie case is in favor of Mr. Todd, because he has a majority of the votes that were cast.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. My present impression would be that the proclamation issued by the acting Governor is a sufficient certificate to entitle the party holding it to be sworn in.

Mr. GANSON. By what law is it declared to be so?

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. The gentleman from Massachusetts, [Mr. DAWES,] who has the law in his possession, will read it for the benefit of the gentleman from New York.

MR. GANSON. By virtue of what law is that proclamation made evidence here of an election

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. By virtue o[f] the law of the Territory.

Mr. GANSON. I do not understand that tha[t] amounts to a certificate at all.

Mr. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. And all th[e] remainder of the certificates are mere surplasag[e] in this case. I think that is sufficient here to entitle the claimant to be sworn in.

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Mr. GANSON. That proclamation is not declared by the statute of the Territory to be any evidence entitling a person to a seat. It is issued for an entirely different purpose.

And I will state that at the time it was issued returns had been made from this distant precinct, and they were on file at the time of the proclamation was issued but not when the canvass was made, and the reason they were not included in the canvass was that the secretary failed to discharge a duty which was made imperative upon him; which was that if the returns were not made in forty days he should send for them. It is known here that there were disturbances there so that the returns could not reach the seat of government in forty days, and the person who was charged with the duty of sending for them should have sent a messenger for them, and when the canvassers met he should have stated that he had sent a messenger for the returns, and have requested them to defer their canvass. They did come in in four or five days after the canvass was made, and when they came in they changed the entire result.

For these reasons I am in favor of this Territory remaining unrepresented while this investigation is going on. I do not believe any great injustice will be done thereby, inasmuch as the committee have the entire testimony relating to the merits of the case.

Mr. TODD, (contestant.) Mr. Speaker, in addressing the House it is my purpose to engage its attention but for a few moments. The remarks which I shall submit will be confined closely to the matter under consideration; and I design to follow very nearly the line of argument adopted before the Committee of Elections while investigating the subject new pending, deferring to a future occasion the privilege of entering upon and discussing the broader field of the question involving the ultimate right to a seat in this House as the Delegate from the Territory of Dakota. The matter now before the House to be determined is, which of two claimants shall be sworn in and occupy the seat as sitting Delegate, pending the contest now before the Committee of Elections for its examination. This preliminary question is one of fact. No tangled web surrounds it; no shadows obscure it; no hidden secrets involve it in mystery. It is plain and simple, easy of solution.

Upon my credentials being presented, the Clerk of the House of Representatives placed my name upon the roll of members. These consisted of certain certificates, given by the secretary and acting Governor of Dakota. Mr. Jayne presented a proclamation issued by the acting Governor, and also a certificate of election, signed by himself, but not of record or duly sealed. Upon these exhibits the Clerk of the House decided, upon the internal evidence, that I, having the largest number of votes, duly certified, was entitled, prima facie, to the seat as the sitting Delegate. The House, however, decided to refer the whole subject to the Committee of Elections, without admitting either of us to be sworn. I now propose to examine these several papers, and will not ask that they be read, as they have been read already.

I claim the right to have the oath administered to me as the sitting Delegate, upon the papers and proofs submitted, for the following reasons:

The credentials presented by Mr. Jayne consist, first, of the proclamation fo John Hutchinson, seretary and acting Governor of Dakota, (Governor Jayne being absent,) announcing the result of the election, held in Dakota on the 1st of September, 1862, in which he proclaims William Jayne duly elected Delegate to the Thirty-Eighth Congress. This proclamation bears date November 29, 1862; and second, Governor Jayne's certi[f]icate, issued to himself January 5, 1863. Upon [t]hese he bases his claims to a seat as Delegate in Congress from Dakota Territory, and asks that he be sworn to that place. I reply, that the proclamation was made as claimed, but that such proclamation confers no right, and of itself cannot clothe him with any authority. It may [b]e introduced as evidence and treated as such, but cannot by the House be made the basis for a seat in this body. It is merely declaratory of a fact; bu[t] the existence of that fact does not depend upon t[h]e proclamation, but the certificate, issued by the proper authority, under the great seal of the Ter[r]itory. The proclamation only notifies the pe[o]ple of the Territory of the result of the election, and for this purpose alone was it issued. It might be true or false: in neither case can it be resorted to for the purpose of sustaining or disproving a certificate of election, properly made out and authenticated.

It will be borne in mind that [t]he point now before the House is, which of the claimants is enti[t]led to the seat upon the paper[s] now presented: Mr. Jayne relying upon the se[c]retary's proclamation and the certificate issued by himself to himself; and I upon a certificate from the secretary and acting Governor after all the returns were received.

That the proclamation was made, and that it stated correclty the canvass of the vote at the time, [is] not denied. Such canvass, however, took place [b]efore all the returns were received and returned [t]o the board of canvassers.

I desire here to present a [l]etter addressed to the [b]oard of canvassers of the election returns in Da[k]ota, objecting to the canvass being proceeded with [a]nd concluded until sufficient time had elapsed for [t]he absent returns to be received, and will read it:

YANKTON, DAKTOA TERRITORY, October 21, 1862.

GENTLEMEN: Having been informed this morning by your [b]oard, at its first session, that all the returns of the late ter[i]torial election had been received from the different coun[t]ies, with the exception of those from Pembina, I now [s]ubmit that further time should be given for those returns [?] be received. The thirty-third section, chaper thirty[tw]o, of the Code, requires the board of canvassers to meet [o]n or before the fiftieth day after the election. That time [h]aving arrived, you have met according to the statute. The thirty-fourth section, same chapter, requries that if the [r]eturns of any county in this Territory shall not be received [b]y the secretary of the Territory within forty days after the election, he shall forthwith dispatch a messenger to the clerk of the county whose returns have not been received, for a copy of them. This has not been done, as I am informed by the secretary. The import, by fair and reasonable construction of this section is, that due and reasonable time shall be given for this messenger to go and return to the county whose returns are wanting, and I object to the closing of the canvass until such time shall have been granted and elapsed. The county of Pembina is an essential element in this canvass, and the rights and privileges of its citizens should be so far respected as to afford them the oppotunity of being represented by the returns.

It is well known that a cruel and relentless savage war rages upon the northeastern border of this Territory, disturbing, if not intercepting, the communication between Pembina and the captial, and that we have every reason to believe that the returns form that county have been delayed from this cause. Therefore it is eminently proper that this canvass should be delayed until sufficient time has elapsed for the communications to be adjusted or reopened and the returns received. And I have no doubt that they will still