Lawrence A. Martin
General.
In General: The residential sections of Summit Hill include Grand Hill and Crocus Hill and hundreds of houses of historical and architectural interest to the city. Summit Hill was part of the nine mile stretch of land along the Mississippi River that Lieutenant Zebulon Pike acquired in 1805 for the construction of a fort. Little settlement occurred until 1854, when land was auctioned to the public and the area began to be settled by dairy and truck farmers who sold their produce in St. Paul. Grand Avenue was platted in 1871 by William S. Wright and John Wann, who were officials of the St. Paul Railway Company that was responsible for the operation of the first horse drawn streetcar line on Grand Avenue in 1872. By 1890, the Twin City Railway Company built an electric streetcar line on Grand Avenue and the streetcars led to an influx of moderate income residents to the area. The architects who designed buildings in Summit Hill and the original residents of the area represent a virtual "Who's Who" of influential architects and the city's most prominent social, political and business leaders. One of the older multiple unit dwellings is the brick rowhouse at 21-27 St. Albans Street, which was built in 1892-1893 and features stepped gables, bow windows and Romanesque details, such as rounded arched window and door openings. Extremely popular along Grand Avenue and the side streets which flank it were three story, three bay brick apartment blocks with open balconies.
Specific Structures. The following presents available information on the housing styles of specific structures located along the hike:
1 Crocus Hill: John D. O'Brien House/Cass Gilbert House; Built in 1905 (1891 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1880 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Tudor Revival in style; Cass Gilbert and James Knox Taylor, architects (E. P. Bassford, architect, and J. H. Donahue, builder, according to the National Register of Historic Places.) The structure is a two story, 3666 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1887 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. John D. O'Brien and Mrs. Sarah Slater all resided on Crocus Hill. The 1902 and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. J. D. O'Brien resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that D. J. O'Brien and Mrs. J. D. O'Brien resided at this address. Dillon J. O'Brien was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that John C. I. Corning, the secretary and treasurer of the Corning-Donohue Brick Company, resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Corning and their daughters resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that John C. I. Corning, the president of Corning-Donohue Inc., a brick and building materials firm, and his wife, Julia Corning, resided at this address. In 1934, John C. I. Corning, Judith O'Brien Corning, Judith Corning, and Elizabeth Corning resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Clifford J. Corning, who attended the school from 1904 until 1906 and who was employed by the Corning-Donohue, Inc., resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John C. I. Corning, who attended the school from 1904 until 1906 and who is employed by Corning-Donohue, located at the Endicott Building, resided at this address. John C. I. Corning (1889- ) was the son of John Wheeler Leavitt Corning (1844-1921) and Mary Elizabeth Rogers Corning (1849-1919,) and the grandson of Edward Corning (1802-1861) and Catharine Matilda Austin Corning (1813-1853,) had four siblings, Leavitt Corning (1870- ,) Mary Benedict Corning (1872- ,) Charles Rogers Corning (1874- ,) and Emily Austin Corning (1880- ) and married Mary Judith O'Brien. Leavitt Corning was the son of Mary Elizabeth Rogers Corning (1849- ) and John Wheeler Leavitt Corning (1844-1921,) who moved to St. Paul before 1896, where John Corning was the treasurer and general superintendent of the Corning Clay Works, located along Phalen Creek. Leavitt Corning married Margaret McCallum Judson in 1870, was a member of the Junior Pioneer association of Ramsey County in 1925, and was the president-secretary of Corning, Inc. Leavitt Corning had a copyright for "The Razoo," Vol. 2, No. 3, in 1906. Leavitt Corning was a St. Paul city alderman from the Seventh Ward in 1910 and was a delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota in 1916, serving on the credentials committee, and was a delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota in 1920. Leavitt Corning also was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1915 and was the head of the Corning Advertising Agency. Leavitt Corning was best man in the wedding of Eleanor Collins Clemens, the daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Augustus D. Clemens III, and Norman Brooke Dix (1909-1992,) the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Frederick Dix, in San Antonio, Texas, in 1938. Leavitt Corning resided at The Angus Hotel, 165 Western Avenue North, in 1930. Leavitt Corning, Jr., was a petroleum engineer from Texas. Leavitt Corning, Jr., was the author of Leavitt Corning, Jr., Baronial Forts of the Big Bend , Austin, Texas, Trinity University Press, 1967, and was coauthor with Roy L. Swift, of Three Roads to Chihuahua, Austin, Texas, Eakin Press, 1988. Leavitt Corning, Jr., and Mary Blair Holmes were the parents of Margaret Corning in Bexar County, Texas, in 1934, of Mary Blair Corning in Bexar County, Texas, in 1936, and of Josie Holmes Corning in Bexar County, Texas, in 1940. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Leavitt Corning, Jr. (1905- ,) was born in St. Paul, attended the school from 1920 until 1924, graduated from Princeton University, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force during World War II, was a geologist employed by the Gulf Oil Corp. from 1932 until 1936, was a geologist employed by the Plymouth Oil Company from 1936 until 1942, was the director of sales and exploration employed by Jack Ammann Photogrammatic Engineers of San Antonio, and was a member of the board of directors of the San Antonio Community Chest, was the president of the San Antonio Travelers' Aid Society, was a member of the Town Council of Terrill Hills, Texas, was a member of the San Antonio Country Club, was a member of the Order of the Alamo, and was a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Leavitt Corning, Jr. married Mary Blair Holmes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1932 and the couple had three children, Margaret Corning (1934- ,) Blair Corning (1937- ,) and Josie Corning (1940- .) In 1920, the Corning-Donohue Brick Company was located at the Ryan Building and its officers were Charles R. Corning, president, John H. Donohue, Jr., vice president, and John C. I. Corning, secretary and treasurer. The Corning burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of J. W. Leavitt Corning (1844-1921,) Mary Elizabeth Corning (1849-1919,) William Steadman Corning (1877-1880,) Anna Fraser (1884-1890,) Leavitt Corning (1870-1935,) Margaret M. C. Corning (1885-1961,) and Charles Rogers Corning (1874-1943.) John Dillon O'Brien ( -1946) died in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Dillon John O'Brien ( -1952) died in Washington County and John Wheeler Leavitt Corning ( -1921,) Leavitt Corning ( -1935,) John C. Corning ( -1951), and James D. O'Brien (1898-1978) all died in Ramsey County. Sarah Lavina Slater ( -1944) died in Hennepin County. Judith Corning (1891-1988) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Slater, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Cameron H. Blodgett and Ruth E. Blodgett. Cameron Blodgett served as executive director of the Minnesota Press Council from 1977 to 1984. Cameron Blodgett was a son of St. Paul developer Henry P. Blodgett (1923-2006,) who helped plan, finance and manage the construction of the $45 million Ordway Music Theater/Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in the early 1980's and the $60 million, seven-story, Science Museum of Minnesota in the 1990's and who, as an employee of Sterns & Associates, managed a renovation project at the historic St. Paul Hotel. Henry Blodgett was a 1942 graduate of St. Paul Academy and served on its Board of Trustees from 1961 to 1981. The Minnesota Press Council was founded in 1971 by directors of the Minnesota Newspaper Association to mediate disputes between the public and the press, originally with 18,024 members, half of whom from the mass communications media and the other half from the public. The council consists of twelve media representatives and twelve individual citizens. Cameron Blodgett was succeeded by Thomas Patterson. In 1977, the name of the organization was changed to the Minnesota News Council and is the only such state organization in the country. [See note on Gilbert for 318 Summit Avenue.] [See note for John D. O'Brien for 230 Banfil Street.] [See note on Taylor for 365 Summit Avenue.] [See note for the Corning-Donohue, Inc. for 797 Goodrich Avenue.]
2 Crocus Hill (former 558 Goodrich Avenue:) Clarence Howard Johnston, Sr., House; Built in 1909; Queen Anne/Tudor Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 5891 square foot, eight bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Albert B. Savage resided at this address from 1885 to 1888 and that Clarence E. Johnston resided at this address from 1889 to 1936. The 1885 and 1887 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Savage and Charles A. Savage all resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Johnston resided at this address. The 1904 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Johnston resided at this address. In 1916, Clarence Howard Johnston was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Johnston,, their daughter, and Mrs. C. B. Thurston all resided at this address. World War I veteran Harrison H. Johnston resided at this address in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#16295) indicate that Harrison Requa Johnston (1896- ,) a 1917 enlistee and a Second Lieutenant in the 337th Machine Gun Battalion of the 88th Division, who was born in St. Paul, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including the Center Section, Haute Alsace, was awarded one gold service chevron, was employed by Stacy & Braun Bonds after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his father, C. H. Johnston, at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that William H. Fobes, the treasurer of the North Western Fuel Company, resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Mary A. Thurston (1837-1921,) the widowed mother of William H. Thurston, who was born in Ohio to parents born in the United States and who died of inanition-senility, resided at this address in 1921. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Johnston and Mr. and Mrs. Harrison R. Johnston resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Clarence H. Johnston, an architect, and his wife, Mary L. Johnston, resided at this address. In 1934, Clarence H. Johnston, Jr., Naneen Wilson Johnston, and Howard Thurston Johnston resided at this address and were members of the Somerset Club and the St. Paul Athletic Club. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that William F. Burns (1924- ,) who attended the school from 1936 until 1940 and who married Patricia Joan Canan, resided at this address. There is a Mr. and Mrs. Harrison R. Johnston, Jr. Fund at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Cyrus Brooks Thurston, the son of Reuben Harris Thurston and Mary Morse Brooks Thurston and the grandson of Peter Thurston and Hannah Butler Wheeler Thurston, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great great grandfather Moses Thurston, a Private in the Massachusetts troops, during the Revolutionary War. William H. Thurston, the son of Cyrus Brooks Thurston and Mary A. Harrison Thurston, the grandson of Reuben Harris Thurston and Mary Morse Brooks Thurston and the great grandson of Peter Thurston and Hannah Butler Wheeler Thurston, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great great great grandfather Moses Thurston, a Private in the Massachusetts troops, during the Revolutionary War. Cyrus Brooks Thurston ( -1915,) Cyrus Thurston Johnston ( -1920,) Clarence H. Johnston (1859-1936,) and Albert Savage ( -1951) all died in Ramsey County. Naneen Wilson Johnston (1889-1980) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Hennepin County. Charles Savage ( -1926,) William H. Thurston ( -1936,) and Charles Albert Savage ( -1954) all died in Hennepin County. C. Howard Johnston (1888-1959) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Thurston, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 2000 and the sale price was $690,000. The current owners of record of the property are Richard D. Belkin and Gabrielle M. Gerber. Richard D. Belkin is a graduate of the University of Arizona and Rush Medical College of Chicago, Illinois, did his internship at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, did his residency at the University of Cincinnati Hospitals, Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a doctor with Minneapolis Radiology. [See note on Clarence H. Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
3 Crocus Hill (former 570 Goodrich Avenue:) Former J. Q. Adams House; Built in 1962 according to Ramsey County property tax records; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 4918 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The original structure on this site, designed by Cass Gilbert, was built in 1888 and was subsequently razed. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that John Q. Adams resided at this address from 1884 to 1902. The 1885 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Adams, Mrs. Charlotte Adams, and John W. Adams all resided at this address. The 1887 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Adams, their daughters, and John W. Adams all resided on Crocus Hill. The 1891 city directory indicates that John Q. Adams resided at this address and that John W. Adams boarded at this address. The 1892 and 1894 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Adams and Mr. and Mrs. John W. Adams resided at this address. The 1896, 1898 and 1900 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Adams and Mrs. A. E. Walker resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Ada Walker Adams (1831-1901,) who was born in the United States and died of a carcinoma, resided at this address in 1901. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Adams resided at this address. The 1904 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Adams and John Q. Adams resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fobes resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that W. H. Fobes resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William H. Forbes, Sr., his wife, Caroline Forbes, William H. Forbes, Jr., a student, and Robert Forbes resided at this address. In 1934, Caroline Weed Fobes, William K. Fobes, Mary E. Fobes, and Gertrude Fobes resided at this address. Caroline Fobes was the widow of William Fobes and was a member of the Womens Club of St. Paul in 1934. The pipe organ at the Virginia Street Swedenborgian Church was given in 1919 by William H. Fobes, a longtime volunteer organist, in memory of his mother, Elizabeth Fobes. William Henry Forbes (1815-1875) was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, initially apprenticed in the hardware trade, then accepted a clerkship with the American Fur Company, moved to Minnesota in 1837, clerked for Henry Hastings Sibley at Mendota, Minnesota, until 1847, moved to St. Paul to run the "St. Paul Outfit" for the American Fur Company, was a member of the Territorial Council from 1849 until 1853, representing Ramsey County (Districts 2 and 3,) was President of the Minnesota Territorial Council in 1852, became the St. Paul Postmaster from 1853 until 1856, became a partner in the fur trade with Norman Kittson in 1853 when the American Fur Company discontinued operations in St. Paul, was on General Henry Hastings Sibley's staff in the military operation against the Dakota in 1862, acted as the Provost Marshal for the military trials of Dakota at Mankato, Minnesota, then was commissioned as a Commissary of Subsistence by President Lincoln, accompanied General Sibley's expedition against the Dakota into Dakota Territory in 1863, was Chief Commissary in Northern Missouri from 1864 until 1866, returned to St. Paul in 1866, and was appointed the Indian Agent at Fort Totten/Devil's Lake, Dakota Territory, where he died. William Henry Forbes married Agnes Faribault in 1846 and subsequently married A. B. Cory of Cooperstown, New York, in 1854. John Quincy Adams was the husband of Ada Walker Adams (1842-1901,) who was born in Perry, New York, married John Q. Adams in 1865, moved to Minnesota in 1877, and was the first state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution. John Quincy Adams, the son of Lucius Smith Adams and Eliza Prentice Adams, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfathers Ebenezer Smith, Captain of the Massachusetts Line, Simon Adams, Captain of the Massachusetts Militia, and Theodore Parmalee, Lieutenant in Sheldon's Battalion of the Connecticut Light Horse. John Walker Adams, the son of John Quincy Adams and Ada Walker Adams and the grandson of Lucius Smith Adams and Eliza Prentice Adams, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great great grandfathers Timothy Rider, a private in the Massachusetts Troops, Ebenezer Smith, a Captain of the Massachusetts Line, Simon Adams, a Captain of the Massachusetts Militia, Gideon Walker, a Second Lieutenant in the Massachusetts Matrosses, Leonard Proctor, a Lieutenant in the Massachusetts Troops, Zechariah Hungerford, a private in the Connecticut Troops, and Theodore Parmalee, a Lieutenant in Sheldon's Battalion of the Connecticut Light Horse. John Quincy Adams (1837- ) was born in Canaan, Connecticut, the son of Dr. Lucius Adams and Eliza Prentice Adams, was educated in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was initially employed as an amanuensis by novelist G. P. R. James, moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1839, was educated at Williams Academy, was employed by the Housatonic Bank in 1842, was then was made the teller of the Pittsfield Bank, traveled in Europe in 1858, was employed by the C. S. Gzowski and Sir David Macpherson iron works in Toronto, Canada, in 1859, engaged in banking in New York City from 1865 until 1873, married Ada Walker, the daughter of Artemus B. Walker and Adeline Willey Walker, in New York in 1865, moved to Minnesota in 1873, was employed as a representative of David Dows & Company, was the president of the Northern Pacific Elevator Company in Minneapolis from 1887 to 1891, and later was engaged in the grain commission business. John Quincy Adams and Ada Walker Adams had two children, John Walker Adams (1866- ) and Charlotte Bell Adams (Mrs. Samuel C.) Stickney (1868- ,) who was adopted. John Walker Adams married Priscilla Fentham Horn and the couple had one child, John Walker Adams. Samuel C. Stickney and Charlotte Adams Stickney had two children, Alpheus John Stickney and Lawrence Charles Stickney (1891- .) Ada Walker (Mrs. John Quincy) Adams (1842-1901) was born in Perry, New York, married John Quincy Adams in 1865, moved to Minnesota in 1877, was involved in the organization of patriotic societies, and was the first state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution for Minnesota. John Walker Adams (1866- ) was a son of John Q. Adams, was born in New York, and married Priscilla Horn, the daughter of Henry J. Horn, in 1888. Charlotte Bell Adams, an adopted daughter of John Q. Adams, married Samuel C. Stickney, a son of A. B. Stickney, in 1888. In 1936, Mrs. William H. Fobes was a member of the Assembly of St. Paul, a society organization which conducted an annual ball. Other Assembly members in 1936 were Mrs. Edwin White, Mrs. A. H. Cathcart, Mrs. William Hamm, Jr., Mrs. Samuel M. Shepard, Mrs. Leo E. Owens, Mrs. B. W. Scandrett, Mrs. Shreve M. Archer, Mrs. Egil Boeckmann, Miss Mary Saunders Bulkley, Mrs. Springer H. Brooks, Mrs. Edward C. Brown, Mrs. Edward Brooks, Mrs. Donald S. Culver, Mrs. Thomas L. Daniels, Mrs. Watson P. Davison, Mrs. Frederic E. B. Foley, Mrs. Edward T. Foley, Mrs. William G. Graves, Mrs. Chauncey M. Griggs, Mrs. Milton W. Griggs, Mrs. Theodore W. Griggs, Mrs. George S. Hardenbergh, Mrs. Jule M. Hannaford, Jr., Mrs. Louis W. Hill, Mrs. Horace H. Irvine, Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, Mrs. Roger S. Kennedy, Jr., Mrs. Horace Klein, Mrs. Richard C. Lilly, Mrs. Frank W. Lightner, Mrs. Samuel Mairs, Mrs. Alexander A. McDonell, Mrs. John G. Ordway, Mrs. Frank J. Ottis, Mrs. Vincent R. O'Brien, Mrs. John N. Peyton, Mrs. Philip Ray, Mrs. Harold J. Richardson, Mrs. Ernest T. F. Richards, Mrs. Edward N. Saunders, Jr., Mrs. David C. Shepard, Mrs. Samuel Epes Turner, Mrs. John P. Uham, Mrs. Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, Mrs. Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser, Mrs. Rudolph M. Weyerhaeuser, and Mrs. Harry B. Zimmerman. Mrs. William H. Fobes resided at White Bear Lake, Minnesota, at some time. Gertrude Kirk Fobes ( -1920,) John Quincy Adams ( -1922,) William Huntington Fobes, Sr., ( -1932,) and John Walker Adams, Jr., (1889-1973) all died in Ramsey County. Caroline W. Fobes (1871-1958) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Curtis, and died in Ramsey County. William Huntington Fobes, Jr., (1910-1992) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Kirk, and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is U. S. Bank.
4 Crocus Hill (584 Goodrich Avenue:) Rice-Merriam House; Queen Anne in style; Built in 1915 (1886 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) William Channing Whitney, architect; Dowling & Ruse, builders. The structure is a two story, 9961 square foot, six bedroom, five bathroom, three half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This huge dramatically situated brick house is one of the most imaginative, eclectic and imposing of all the houses in the Crocus Hill and Grand Hill area, according to one commentator. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The original owner of this house was Edmund Rice, Jr., who was a real estate agent in 1887. Although Rice reportedly did not live in this house, and lived on Summit Avenue, Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Edmund Rice, Jr., resided at this address from 1887 to 1889. The 1891 city directory indicates that George R. Finch, with Finch, Van Slyke & Company, a wholesale dry goods company, resided at this address. The 1892 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. George R. Finch resided at this address. The 1894 and 1896 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Egan and their daughter resided at this address. The 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Merriam and their daughter and Mrs. M. A. Cooke resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Flarsheim resided at this address. The 1904 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Flarsheim and Benjamin Bear resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Ben Baer, his daughter, Ira B. Baer, Fernand Baer, Jerome Baer, and Edwin Baer all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Ben Baer, the president of the American National Bank and the Northern Savings Bank, resided at this address and that Edwin B. Baer, a student, Ferd B. Baer, Ira B. Baer, an assistant cashier employed by the American National Bank, and Jerome B. Baer, all boarded at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Edwin Baer, Jerome Baer, F. B. Baer, Ira B. Baer, and Ben Baer resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles W. Stott, the president of the Stott Briquet Company, located at the Merchants Bank Building, and his wife, Cornelia Stott, resided at this address. In 1934, Charles W. Stott, Cornelia Saunders Stott, Cornelia Stott, and Caroline Stott resided at this address. Edmund Rice (1819-1889) was born in Waitsfield, Vermont, was the brother of U.S. Senator Henry Mower Rice, moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1838, was admitted to the bar, and began practicing law in 1842, fought in the Mexican-American War with the First Michigan Volunteers in 1847, moved to St. Paul in 1849, began working as a clerk at the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court, joined the law firm of Hollinshead & Becker. In 1851, Edmund Rice was elected to the Minnesota Territorial House of Representatives and in 1856, he was elected commissioner of Ramsey County. From 1857 to 1863, Edmund Rice served as president of the Minnesota & Pacific RailRoad Company, of the St. Paul & Pacific RailRoad, and of the St. Paul & Chicago Raiway Company from 1863 until 1877. Rice made several trips to Europe in the interest of these companies and was denominated the father of the railway system of Minnesota. Edmund Rice served two terms in the Minnesota Senate (1865-1867 and 1875-1877,) and then served in the Minnesota House of Representatives for one year in 1877. Rice was the Democratic candidate for Minnesota Governor in 1879, served twice as mayor of St. Paul (1881-1883 and 1885-1887,) and served in the United States House of Representatives (1887-1889,) but was defeated for reelection by Samuel Snider. Edmund Rice and his wife, Anna Maria Acker Rice (1829- ,) born in New York, were married in 1848 and the couple had four children, Ellen Rice (1849- ,) who was born either in New York or in Minnesota, Sedgwick Rice (1860-1925,) who was born in Minnesota, Maria Rice (1865- ,) who was born in Minnesota, and Virginia Rice (1869-1944,) who was born in Minnesota. Ellen Rice (1826-1904) was born in Waitsfield, Vermont, moved to Mendota, Minnesota, in 1849, married William Hollinshead, a St. Paul lawyer, in 1851, resided in St. Paul, and died in St. Paul. In 1879, Ellen R. Hollinshead, the widow of William Hollinshead, resided at 42 Dayton Avenue and that Henry R. Hollinshead, a civil engineer, and Miss Nellie Hollinshead, a music teacher, both boarded at 42 Dayton Avenue. William Hollinshead (1820-1860) was born in Philadelphia, was admitted to the practice of law in New Jersey in 1841, was an attorney practicing in Philadelphia, came to St. Paul in 1850, was appointed the reporter of the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1851, replaced Ellis Whitall in the law firm partnership with Edmund Rice and George Becker in 1851, married Ellen Rice in 1851, gave an address in 1853 at the dedication of the Baldwin School (subsequently Macalester College) in St. Paul, was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives in 1854, continued to practice law after the partnership dissolved in 1855 until his death in St. Paul, and compiled the Public Statutes of the State of Minnesota, 1849-1858 in 1859 with Moses Sherburne. In 1879, Edmund Rice Hollinshead (1855-1883,) a lawyer who officed at 2 East Third Street, resided at 56 1/2 West Third Street. Edmund Rice Hollinshead was born in St. Paul, the son of William Hollinshead and Ellen Rice Hollinshead, was educated at the Shattuck School in Faribault, Minnesota, graduated in 1876, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1877, was admitted to the practice of law before the Supreme Court in 1881, moved South to deal with throat disease, and died in San Antonio, Texas. Maria Rice married William Dawson, Jr. Maria Acker Rice's brother, William Henry Acker (1833-1863,) was born in Clyde, New York, moved to Minnesota in 1854, studied law and was a bookkeeper in a bank, was State Adjutant General from 1860 to 1861, was Captain of Company C of the First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment, was wounded at First Bull Run, became Captain of Company C of the 16th U. S. Infantry, and died from a sharpshooter wound at the battle of Shiloh/Pittsburgh Landing on April 6, 1862. Rice died in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. The second railroad locomotive to operate in Minnesota, in 1862, was named after Edmund Rice. The first locomotive to operate in Minnesota, a 25 ton capacity wood burner, was named after Colonel William Crooks. Both engines were owned by the Minnesota & Pacific RailRoad Company. The Minnesota & Pacific RailRoad Company was incorporated in 1857 by act of the Minnesota Territorial Legislature to construct a line originating in Stillwater on the St. Croix River, via St. Paul and St. Anthony, to Big Stone Lake and was funded from the proceeds of a $5 million public bond. By 1862, with the addition of New York investments, the Minnesota &; Pacific RailRoad completed ten miles of track, from the lower levee at St. Paul to St. Anthony Falls. The railroad later reorganized as the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company, passed to the control of the St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railroad Company, and eventually became part of James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway Company. Major Sedgwick Rice, U. S. Army, Third/Fourth Cavalry, was stationed in San Fernando, Philippine Islands, in 1900 as part of U. S. military and naval forces there and resided in St. Paul with his wife, Gertrude Gaylord Rice (1868- ,) born in Kansas, a daughter, Suzana Rice (1898- ,) born in Arizona, mother Anna W. Rice (1830- ,) a sister, Virginia Rice (1868- ,) a maid, Alltea Erichson (1886- ,) born in Sweden, and a cook, Balego Bales (1883- ,) born in Japan. William Dawson (1825-1901) was born in County Cavan, Ireland, immigrated to America in 1846, moved to St. Paul in 1861, was an Episcopalian, was the mayor of St. Paul from 1878 to 1881, was a banker, and died in St. Paul. William Dawson, Jr. (1885-1972,) the son of William Dawson and Maria (Rice) Dawson, was born in St. Paul, was U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1908, was U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Barcelona, Spain, from 1908 until 1910, was U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Frankfort, Germany, from 1910 until 1913, was U.S. Consul in Rosario, Argentina, from 1913 until 1917, was U.S. Consul in Montevideo, Urugay from 1917 until 1919, was U.S. Consul in Danzig, Poland, from 1919 until 1921, was U.S. Consul in Munich, Germany, from 1921 until 1922, was U.S. Consul General in Mexico City, Mexico, from 1928 until 1930, was U.S. Minister to Ecuador from 1930 until 1935, was U.S. Minister to Colombia from 1934 until 1937, was U.S. Minister to Uruguay from 1937 until 1939, was U.S. Ambassador to Panama from 1939 until 1941, was U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay from 1941 until 1946, was an Episcopalian, and was a member of Chi Psi. William Dawson, Jr., married Agnes Balloch Bready in 1926. William Hollinshead (1820-1860) was born in Philedelphia, Pennsylvania, moved to St. Paul in 1850, was a lawyer admitted to practice in New Jersey in 1841, and became a business partner of Edmund Rice and George L. Becker. Ellen Rice Hollinshead (1826-1904) was born in Waitsfield, Vermont, moved first to Mendota, Minnesota, then moved to St. Paul, married William Hollinshead, and died in St. Paul. William Rush Merriam (1849-1931,) a descendant of John Adams, a nephew by marriage of Winfield Scott Hancock, and the son of John Lafayette Merriam and Helen Wilder Merriam, was born in Wadham's Mills, Essex County, New York, was educated at a Racine, Wisconsin, preparatory academy and at Racine College, graduating in 1871, was a clerk at the First National Bank of St. Paul from 1871 to 1873, was the cashier for the Merchants National Bank from 1873 to 1880, was a vice president of the Merchants National Bank from 1880 to 1882, and president of the Merchants National Bank from 1882 to 1890, was a member of Minnesota House of Representatives in 1883 and in 1887, was the treasurer of the St. Paul Board of Education from 1887 to 1888, was the vice president, and later the president, of the State Agricultural Association (Minnesota State Fair) from 1886 to 1888, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1887, was the Governor of Minnesota from 1889 to 1893, was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Minnesota in 1896, was the Director of U.S. Census from 1899 to 1903, retired to Florida, and died in Fort Sewall, Florida. William Rush Merriam married Laura Hancock in 1872 and the couple had four children, John Hancock Merriam (1874-1962,) Laura Beatrice Merriam (Mrs. James Freeman) Curtis (Mrs. John Messick) Gross (1893-1973,) Mabel DeLano Merriam (Mrs. John Tyler) Wheelwright (1876-1962,) and William Hancock Merriam (1879-1970.) Laura Hancock Merriam was a niece of General Winfield Scott Hancock. In 1888, the Republican Party rejected the incumbent, Republican Governor Andrew McGill, and endorsed William R. Merriam. In 1890, in a three-way contest for Governor, Merriam won with 36.6 percent of the vote. Merriam was appointed Director of the Census by President William McKinley in 1899, after he supported McKinley in the 1896 election and after Minnesota Senator Cushman Davis blocked all other attempts of McKinley to appoint Merriam to a Cabinet position. After his Census Bureau service, Merriam returned to private business, made his home in Washington, D.C., and was soon president of three corporations. During the following 25 years, Merriam was regularly called upon as an informal adviser to the next five Census Bureau directors. Governor Merriam successfully promoted the use of the Australian ballot for secret voting in elections. Governor Merriam also was indirectly responsible for the abolition of capital punishment in Minnesota, with the execution of William (Bill) Rose (1864-1891) of Shetek/Curie, Minnesota, in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, in 1891. Bill Rose was not a well liked man in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, was considered cruel, and appeared capable of murder. When Moses Lufkin, his neighbor, was killed, Bill Rose was accused, was convicted in 1889 after two prior trials ended in hung juries, and was sentenced to death by hanging on the same day as another convict. Both convicts tried to get their convictions commuted, but Bill Rose's sentence was left standing while the other man's sentence was commuted by Governor Merriam, apparently because Bill Rose and Governor William R. Merriam had known one another previously at Lake Kampeska, South Dakota, when Merriam was on a hunting trip, and there was bad blood between them over a past argument. On the first attempt by the county sheriff to hang him, the rope broke and Bill Rose fell to the ground. On the second attempt, the rope held, but it took 20 minutes for Bill Rose to be strangled to death on the gallows. Because of the controversy over Bill Rose's conviction and the horrific manner of his hanging, this was the one of last death penalties carried out by a county government in Minnesota. Bill Rose and Moses Lufkin had previously quarreled because Rose had been courting Lufkin's 20 year old daughter, Grace Lufkin, but the courtship had been broken off. Grace Lufkin committed suicide with a razor, slashing her own throat, shortly before Bill Rose was executed. Bill Rose was buried in a family plot in Murray County, Minnesota. William R. Merriam, the son of John L. Merriam and Mahala K. De Lano Merriam, the grandson of William S. Merriam and Rebecca Ismon Merriam, and great grandson of William B. Merriam and Rebecca Cook Merriam, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great great grandfather William Merriam, a Bedford Massachusetts Minuteman in the Concord, Massachusetts, fighting during the Revolutionary War. John L. Merriam (1828-1895) was the Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1870-1871 and was the brother-in-law of Amherst H. Wilder. John L. Merriam built a magnificent Richardson Romanesque mansion, designed by Mould and McNicol, architects, behind the current State capitol building, which once was the site of the St. Paul Science Museum, but was demolished in 1964 to make way for the Administration Building parking ramp. Colonel John L. Merriam (1825-1895,) the son of William S. Merriam (1792-1854) and Jane Ismon Merriam (1798-1866), was born in Essex, New York, was educated at Westport Academy and Essex Academy in New York, married Mahala K. Delano ( -1857) in 1848, and the couple had one son, William R. Merriam, married Helen M. Wilder, and the couple had six children, came to Minnesota in 1860, was a banker, settled in St. Paul, where he engaged with J. C. Burbank and Captain Russell Blakeley in the staging and express business, helped to organize the First National Bank and the Merchants' National Bank of St. Paul, was president of the Merchants' National Bank, was a member of the House of Representatives representing Ramsey County (District 1) from 1870 until 1871, was the speaker of the House of Representatives, and died in St. Paul. Helen M. Wilder Merriam was the sister of Amherst Wilder. John L. Merriam was an incorporator of the First National Bank of St. Paul and of the Merchants National Bank, was an incorporator and vice president of the Minnesota Valley RailRoad/St. Paul & Sioux City RailRoad, was a vice president of the Worthington & Sioux Falls RailRoad, was a director of the St. Paul, Stillwater & Taylor's Falls RailRoad, was the president of a construction company contracted to build a portion of the Northern Pacific RailRoad, and was a stockholder of the St. Paul Foundry & Manufacturing Company. He also was a real estate developer who began purchasing land between St. Paul and Minneapolis in 1882 and developed the Merriam Park section of St. Paul. Previously, he owned Nicollet Island in Minneapolis, near St. Anthony Falls, in 1865, with William Eastman and, in 1869, in an effort to develop the southern part of the island as an industrial center, unsuccessfully attempted to tunnel under the island, causing a hole to break in the falls. The tunnel break was eventually plugged, but no further attempts were made to bring waterpower directly to Nicollet Island. John L. Merriam was a Whig who became a Republican, was a delegate to the 1876 Republican National Convention, and retired in 1875. John Hancock Merriam first married Rose Douglas Wallach (1905-1947) in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1905, then married Grace McElfresh (1881-1972,) died in La Jolla, San Diego County, California, and is buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, San Diego County, California. William Hancock Merriam was born in Saint Paul and died in Riverside County, California. George R. Finch (1839-1910) was born in Delaware, Ohio, moved to St. Paul in 1863, engaged in the wholesale dry goods business, and died in St. Paul. Edwin Baer, a partner at the law firm of Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, was the president of the Science Museum of Minnesota, and served on the board of Neighborhood House and on the board of Mount Zion Temple. The St. Paul Foundry & Manufacturing Company was organized in 1863 by C. N. Parker and M. W. Topping. The company's main products were repair parts for the Great Northern RailRoad and the Northern Pacific RailRoad. It became the Maxson Corporation, which manufactured construction steel. Caroline Stott Day (1915-2004) was one of the daughters (with Cornelia Stott Darrah and Mary Elizabeth Stott Richter) of Charles W. Stott and Cornelia Stott, graduated from the Summit School, married Robert H. Day, Sr., in 1935, raised and exhibited champion English Springer and Clumber Spaniels for over 30 years, was a certified Judge for the American Kennel Club, had a son, Robert H. Day, Jr., died in Yerington, Nevada, and was buried at Oakland Cemetery. Cornelia Saunders Stott was a member of the Minnesota branch of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America by virtue of her ancestor, James Converse. The American Historical Company, Inc., prepared a genealogical record for Cornelia Saunders Stott entitled Stott, Saunders, Converse and Allied Families, published privately in New York in 1944 or 1947. The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America, founded in 1891, an unincorporated association of 44 Corporate Societies with over 15,000 members, is dedicated to furthering an appreciation of our national heritage through historic preservation, patriotic service, and educational projects. The Society headquarters is located at Dumbarton House in Washington, D.C. The Minnesota branch of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America was formed in 1896 and was the fourth non-colonial state society to be organized. The Stott Briquet Company was the assignee for the 1935 patent #2016553, a control with interceptor for stokers, invented by Harold S. Morton and for the 1937 patent #2089704, a stoker actuating motor, invented by Harold S. Morton. George R. Finch (1839-1910) was born in Delaware, Ohio, moved to St. Paul in 1863, engaged in the wholesale dry goods business, was the president of the Minnesota State Fair Association in 1878, was elected to a life membership of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1882, became the senior member of Finch, Van Slyke, Young & Company in 1888, and died in St. Paul. Finch, Van Slyke, Young & Company became Finch, Van Slyke, Young & McConville. In 1885, George R. Finch and his friends in the Chinato Snowshoeing Club started the "St. Paul Ice Palace and Winter Carnival Association," thus starting the St. Paul Winter Carnival. George Raley Finch ( -1910,) Ben Baer ( -1921,) Edmund Rice ( -1928,) Morris J. Flarsheim ( -1933,) Charles W. Stott ( -1934,) Jerome B. Baer ( -1941,) and James M. Egan ( -1952) all died in Ramsey County. George R. Finch ( -1922) and Benjamin Baer ( -1945) both died in Hennepin County. Edwin B. Baer (1897-1962) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Florscheim, and died in Ramsey County. Jerome Leon Baer (1907-1989) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Shapiro, and died in Ramsey County. Fernand B. Baer (1892-1957) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Flarsheim, and died in Ramsey County. Ira B. Baer (1888-1962) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Florsheim, and died in Ramsey County. Cornelia Saunders Stott (1874-1967) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Proal, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are trustees Arthur W. Kaemmer and Martha H. Kaemmer. In 2003, Dr. Art Kaemmer and Martha Kaemmer were contributors to the Randy Kelly for St. Paul Mayor campaign and resided at this address. Arthur W. Kaemmer, M.D., is a retired pediatrician and community volunteer who winters in Captiva, Florida, received his medical degree from the Marquette School of Medicine in Milwaukee, completed his residency in pediatrics at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, has served on the boards of the Minnesota Chorale, the Merriam Park Community Center, his alma mater, Carleton College, VocalEssence, the American Museum of Fly Fishing, and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and is the chairman of HRK Foundation and the National Medical Fellowships, Inc. Martha H. Kaemmer is a vice-president of the Minnesota Historical Society, was a 1966 graduate of Carlton College, is a member of Carlton College board of trustees, is a managing partner of the HRK Group, and is the owner of Cooks of Crocus Hill. [See note on George R. Finch for 475 Summit Avenue East.] [See note on Whitney for 2116 Second Avenue South.] [See note on Otto Bremer and the American National Bank for 738 East Fourth Street.] [See note on the First National Bank of St. Paul for 331 Maple Street.] [See note on the First National Bank of St. Paul for 331 Maple Street.] [See the note for the St. Paul & Sioux City RailRoad for 324 Bates Avenue.] [See note on the St. Paul Foundry Company for 1074 West Linwood Avenue.] [See note for William Hollinshead for 194 McBoal Street.]
5 Crocus Hill (former 538 Goodrich Avenue:) Built in 1955. The structure is a 2708 square foot, three bedroom, three bathroom, frame rambler, with a detached garage. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Russell R. Dorr and Louise B. Dorr, husband and wife, resided at this address in 1890. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Russell R. Doer resided at this address from 1888 to 1898. The 1891 city directory indicates that Howard K. Gilman, assistant general manager for N. W. Thomson-Houston Electric Company, boarded at the Hotel Ryan. The 1892 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Gilman, Mrs. M. J. Land, and E. R. Gilman resided at this address. The 1894 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Dorr resided at this address. The 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Russell R. Dorr, Mrs. R. D. Handy, Miss L. N. Handy, A. E. Roberts, H. W. Wack, and Miss Annie Wilson resided at this address. The 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Russell R. Dorr, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wickwire, Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Welch, Mrs. Susan K. Wilson, and Miss Annie Wilson resided at this address. The 1904 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Haslam resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. George Sommers resided at this address. World War I veterans Louis Scheffer and Harold G. Sommers (1896- ), a Sergeant, resided at this address in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#27393) indicate that Louis Scheffer (1892- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Private First Class in the Headquarters Company of the Third Pioneer Infantry, who was born in St. Paul, had blue eyes, light brown hair, and a fair complexion, was 5' 8" tall, was a salesman at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including the Meuse-Argonne Offensive from September 26, 1918, until November 11, 1918, was a salesman employed by Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Company after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his mother, Mrs. Alma Scheffer, at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. George Sommers resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that George Sommers, the vice president of G. Sommers & Company, a wholesale general merchandise company, and his wife, Myrrha Sommers, resided at this address. In 1934, George Sommers and Myrrha Scheffer Sommers resided at this address. The Sommers were members of the Somerset Club, the Town and Country Country Club, and the St. Paul Athletic Club in 1934. Russell R. Dorr (1847- ) was born in Ghent, New York, moved to Vermont in 1856, was educated at Union College, Class of 1870, was a shipping clerk employed by the Sutherland Falls Marble Company, Rutland, Vermont, in 1870, moved to Burlington, Iowa, in 1871, was a partner in Acres, Blackmar & Company, a printer and publisher, and was the treasurer of the Hawkeye Company, moved to St. Paul in 1880, was the president and general manager of the Banker's Life Association, which became the Minnesota Mutual Insurance Company, and was a director of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce. Harold Sommers (1896-1970) was the son of George Sommers (1867-1946) and Myrrha Scheffer Sommers (1869-1948,) married Marjorie Hurd (1896-1986) and the couple had four children. The 1917 Catalogue of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, published by James T. Brown of New York, indicated that Harold George Sommers, Class of 1919, University of Minnesota, resided at this address. Louis Bryan Dorr (1889-1890) was the son of Russell R. Dorr and Louise B. Dorr and died of bronchitis. Arthur Manley Wickwire, the son of Manley Horatio Wickwire and Pauline Abigail Bartholomew Wickwire, the grandson of Andrew Bartholomew and Abigail Savage Bartholomew and Alvin Benjamin Wickwire and Sally Miranda Humiston Wickwire, and the great grandson of Asabel Savage and Abigail Deming Savage and James Wickwire and Sarah Barnes Wickwire, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfathers Elisha Savage, a Second Lieutenant in Selden's Connecticut Regiment, and James Wickwire, a Private in Webb's Connecticut Continental Regiment, and of great great grandfather Enos Barnes, a Sergeant in the Connecticut Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War. Arthur Manley Wickwire, a lawyer in St. Paul, married Louis Edna Dutcher (1865- ) in 1896 and the couple had two children, Arthur Manley Wickwire (1897- ) and Charles Dutcher Wickwire (1899-1901.) Arthur M. Wickwire (1867- ) was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, was educated in South Berkshire Institute at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, graduated from Williams College in 1890, graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1893, was admitted to the bar in Minnesota and practiced one year in Duluth, Minnesota, moved to St. Paul in 1894 and was a partner with George B. Edgerton in Edgerton & Wickwire, then formed the law partnership of Childs, Edgerton & Wickwire with Henry W. Childs, Minnesota Attorney General, and George B. Edgerton, then moved to New York in 1905, joined the partnership of Guggenheimer, Marshall & Untermyer with Randolph Guggenheimer, Louis Marshall and Samuel Untermyer in 1909, was a Republican, was a member of the Minnesota Board of Law Examiners, was a Congregationalist, and was a member of the New York County Lawyers' Association, of the New York State Bar Association, of the Long Island Historical Society, of the New London County Historical Society, of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Society of Colonial Wars, of the New England Society of Brooklyn, of the Minnesota Society of New York, the Brooklyn Union League Club, and the Hardware Club of New York, and of the Minnesota Historical Society. The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was formed in 1883 when Charles A. Coffin and a group of Lynn, Massachusetts, investors bought out Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston's American Electric Company. In 1889, Thomson-Houston bought out the Brush Company, thereby resolving an arc lamp and dynamo patent dispute. The company employed Henry Marison Byllesby, the founder of Northern States Power Company and Xcel Energy, in 1891 and sent him to St. Paul to run a subsidiary. The company grew into an enterprise of $10 million in sales and 4000 employee by 1892, when it merged with the Edison General Electric Company to form the General Electric Company. Louise Dorr (1882-1973) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Hennepin County. Howard Gilman (1894-1964) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Tillotson, and died in Hennepin County. Ray Dewitt Handy (1877-1959) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Seamans, and died in Hennepin County. John Henry Haslam ( -1936) died in Fillmore County, Minnesota. Harold G. Sommers (1896-1970) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Scheffer, and died in Ramsey County. Harold G. Sommers, Jr., (1930-1966) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hurd, and died in Dakota County, Minnesota. George Sommers ( -1946) died in Ramsey County. Myrrha Scheffer Sommers ( -1948) died in Ramsey County. In 1946, Harold G. Sommers, Jr., a student pilot at the time and living in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, purchased for $600 a BT-15 aircraft, manufactured by Vultee Aircraft, of Downey, California, military serial number 42-41689 and manufacturer’s serial number 9536, from LaVern Pfeifer of Stillwater, Minnesota. The unarmed basic training aircraft, one of over 11,000 Valiants built during World War II, was released as excess inventory by the War Assets Administration by C. Christian, after service in the U. S. Army Air Corps for 18 months as a trainer, air ferry, and air materiel transport, for $200. In 1947, Sommers sold the plane to to Thomas H. North of North Aviation Company in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, who sold it to C. V. Meline of Isanti, Minnesota, in 1948, who sold it to Brant Aero at Holman Field, St. Paul, in 1950. In 1952, the plane, civilian number 69987, was sold to John Giles of Madison, Wisconsin, who sold it to Glenway Enhert of West Bend, Wisconsin, in 1952, who sold it to Edward Pachnik and Chester Pachnik of Chicago, Illinois, in 1954, and then sold to Mike Rawson of Minneapolis in 1992. The officers of G. Sommers & Company, in addition to George Sommers, were Benjamin Sommers, president, who resided at 628 Fairmount Avenue, Charles L. Sommers, secretary, who resided at 9 Crocus Hill, and Henry S. Sommers, treasurer, who resided at 794 Linwood Place. The current owner of record of the property is Lynda J. Bisanz. [See note on the G. Sommers & Company for 9 South St. Albans Street]
6 Crocus Hill (former 529 Goodrich Avenue:) T. L. Schurmeier House; Built in 1903 (1936 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Willcox & Johnston, architects. The structure is a two story, 6421 square foot, eight bedroom, six bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Theodore L. Schurmeier resided at this address from 1888 to 1925. The 1891 city directory indicates that Theodore L. Schurmeier, a partner in Lindekes, Warner & Schurmeier, resided at 616 Oakland Avenue. The 1892 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Schurmeier resided at this address. The 1894 and 1896 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Theo L. Schurmeier resided at this address. The 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Theo L. Schurmeier and Mrs. Charles Weide resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Theo L. Schurmeier and their daughter resided at this address. The 1902 and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Theo L. Schurmeier resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. T. L. Schurmeier and her daughters resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Schurmeier and their daughter resided at this address. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that William E. Lang resided at this address from 1936 to 1977. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that William H. Lang (1900- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1917 until 1918, who was a 1922 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was a Private in the Student Army Training Corps at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during World War I, and who was employed by the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that William H. Lang, a member of the Class of 1918, resided at this address. William H. Lang married Theodora Hamm in St. Paul in 1925 and the couple had three children, William H. Lang, Jr. (1926- ,) A. Scheffer Lang (1927- ,) and Barbara Lang (1930- .) Theodore Leopold Schurmeier (1852- ) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Casper H. Schurmeier, a wagon and carriage manufacturer, moved to St. Paul in 1858, was educated at Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, was employed by James J. Hill from 1870 to 1875, then was a bookkeeper and a teller employed by the First National Bank of St. Paul until 1878, and was a dry goods merchant as part of Lindekes, Warner & Schurmeier. Theo L. Schurmeier married Caroline Gotzian, the daughter of Conrad Gotzian, and the couple had two children. In 1886, Theo L. Schurmeier was the vice president of the Minnesota & Winnipeg Rowing Association. With Albert H. Lindeke, Reuben Warner, and William Lindeke, in the 1870's and 1880's, Theodore L. Schurmeier formed the retail and wholesale dry goods firm, Lindekes, Warner, & Schurmeier. In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed a committee to accept donations for the relief victims of catastrophes that occurred in Martinique and St. Vincent and Theodore Schurmeier, with Kenneth Clark, represented St. Paul. Theodore Schurmeier was a member of the board of Regents of the University of Minnesota in 1902. William E. Lang ( -1945) died in Winona County, Minnesota. The last sale of this property was in 1992 and the sale price was $575,000. The current owners of record of the property are Bonnie R. Daguila and James A. Daguila. [See note Willcox for 813 Fairmount Avenue.] [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the First National Bank of St. Paul for 331 Maple Street.]
7-9 Crocus Hill: John L. Erdahl House; Built in 1907 (1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; C. H. Johnston, architect. The structure is a two story, 4838 square foot, eight bedroom, five bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1901 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stone resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Smith resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Sommers resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles L. Sommers, the secretary of G. Sommers & Company, and his wife, Rosa D. Sommers, resided at this address. In 1934, Charles Leissring Sommers, Rosa Davidson Sommers, Mary Sommers, Davidson Sommers, Charles S. Sommers, Elinor Sommers, Julia Sommers, and Frank Sommers resided at this address. Charles L. Sommers was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. The Sommers family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the St. Paul Athletic Club, the Somerset Club, and the University Club in 1934. Charles Leisering Sommers, Sr., (1870-1964,) the son of George Sommers and Amalie Stern Sommers, married Rosa Davidson (1873-1947,) and the couple had seven children, __?__ Sommers, __?__ Sommers Spalding, __?__ Sommers Adibes, __?__ Sommers, Elinor Sommers (Mrs. Herman) Otto, Charles Leisering Sommers, Jr. (1910-1936,) and Frank Morris Sommers (1915-1940.) The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Davidson Sommers (1905- ,) who attended the school from 1915 until 1922, graduated from Harvard University in 1926, graduated from the Harvard University Law School in 1930, married Alice Decker in New York in 1938, and was employed as an assistant corporation counsel by the City of New York and that Frank M. Sommers (1915- ,) who attended the school from 1926 until 1933, who graduated from Harvard University in 1937, who wrote as a hobby, and who was employed by G. Sommers & Company, resided at this address. Charles L. Sommers (1870-1964) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Stern, was an 1890 graduate of the University of Minnesota, was named an outstanding alumnus by the University of Minnesota in 1951, was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota from 1910 to 1922, and died in Ramsey County. Charles L. Sommers was active in the Boy Scouts of America, serving on the initial executive board of Ramsey County Troop #1, incorporated in 1910, and the Charles L. Sommers High Adventure Canoe Base, in Ely, Minnesota, was named for him. George Sommers (1823-1899) was born in Altoona, Denmark, and died in St. Paul, and Amalie Stern Sommers (1840-1922) was born in Markbreit, Germany, and died in St. Paul. The siblings of Charles Leisering Sommers were Benjamin Sommers (1859-1943,) Clara Sommers (Henry Edward) Randall (1861-1949,) Frederica Sommers (Mrs. William Lord, Sr.) West (1864-1949,) George Sommers (1867-1946,) Frank Sommers (1876-1876,) and Henry Sommers, Sr. (1877-1964.) Rosa Davidson Sommers ( -1947) died in Ramsey County. Davidson Sommers (1905-2000) graduated from the St. Paul Academy in 1922 and was named a distiguished alumnus of the school in 1987. Davidson Sommers (1905- ) graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude in 1926, and was named to Phi Beta Kappa, received his L.L.B, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1930, entered private practice in New York City in a law firm where his cousin, Robert Benjamin, was a partner, then worked under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia as an Assistant Corporation Counsel on the unification of the city's public transportation systems, then was a partner at the law firm of Parker & Duryee, then worked under Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy during World War II, advising the Joint Chiefs of Staff on international policy issues, serving at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and earned the Legion of Merit Award with Oak Leaf Cluster for his studies on issues surrounding the formation of the United Nations and the postwar occupation of Japan and Korea, joined the International Bank for Reconstruction & Development, which later became the World Bank, in 1946, eventually rising to the position of General Counsel, and then moved to the Equitable Life Assurance Society in New York in 1960, serving as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, then Chairman of the Board in 1969. Davidson Sommers retired from the Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1982. Davidson Sommers helped establish and served as president of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, a charity founded in 1951 by Eugene Meyer, then the owner and publisher of the Washington Post. Henry Edward Smith ( -1921) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Elinor S. Otto. Elinor Sommers (Mrs. Herman) Otto (1913- ) is a member of Unity Unitarian Church and is the author of The Story of Unity Church, 1872-1972 and of The Sommers family: a history, with table of descendants , published in St. Paul in 1982. The house was for sale in 2004 for $1,087,000. Constance Otis, a resident of 7 Crocus Hill, contributed to the Barack Obama for President campaign in 2007-2008. [See Note for Charles L. Sommers at 9 South St. Albans Street] [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
8 Crocus Hill (582 Goodrich Avenue:) Arnold Schwyzer Residence; Built in 1904; Art Moderne in style. The structure is a two story, 6179 square foot, six bedroom, five bathroom, stucco house, with both a tuck-under one car garage and a detached two car garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Dr. Arnold Schwyzer resided at this address from 1905 to 1967. The 1918 and 1923 city directories indicate that Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Schwyzer resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Arnold Schwyzer, a physician who officed at 123 West Seventh Street, and his wife, Marguerite Schwyzer, resided at this address. In 1934, Dr. Arnold Schwyzer, Marguerite Miller Schwyzer, Marguerite Schwyzer, Arnold Schwyzer, Jr., and Hans Schwyzer resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Arnold G. Schwyzer (1913- ,) who attended the school from 1921 until 1928, who graduated from Harvard University in 1933, and who attended Johns Hopkins University Medical School, and Hanns Schwyzer (1912- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1923 until 1930, who graduated from Harvard University in 1934, who attended the University of Minnesota Medical School, and who was a First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserves at the 294th General Hospital, both resided at this address. Arnold Schwyzer was a medical doctor in Ramsey County who, in 1896, removed the first tracheal foreign body and, in 1899, removed the first bladder stone using scopes bought in Germany that were aided by illumination from a head mirror. Both procedures by Dr. Schwyzer are thought to be firsts in the United States. In 1926, Dr. Arnold Schwyzer presented a paper entitled "Operative Relief Of Laryngostenosis" to the Western Surgical Association. In 1930, Arnold Schwyzer was the author of the article "Carcinoma Of Stomach Without Recurrence Twenty-Four Years After Operation" in the Annals of Surgery. In 1919, Arnold Schwyzer, M. D., was clinical professor of pathology at the Hamline University Medical Department. Dr. Schwyzer (1864-1944) and his wife had three children, Arnold G. Schwyzer, Jr., Marguerite Schwyzer, and Hanns Schwyzer. The Schwyzer family were members of the Minikahda Country Club in 1934. In 2003, the Audubon Center of the North Woods in Pine County received a $6,000 grant in 2001 to restore the lodge roof of the Arnold Schwyzer Summer House and a $4,000 grant in 2003 to restore the Arnold Schwyzer Summer House chimney. The Arnold Schwyzer Summer House and Farmstead was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Audubon Center of the North Woods, on Grindstone Lake, near Sandstone, Minnesota, is the site of the Schwyzer Lodge. The land and original buildings of the Audubon Center were a bequest from Dr. Marguerite Schwyzer, Arnold Schwyzer's daughter, to the National Audubon Society in 1968. The land was then transferred to the Audubon Center of the North Woods, which serves as an environmental learning center. Hamline University, founded in 1854 in Red Wing, Minnesota, is Minnesota’s oldest university and was named in honor of Leonidas Lent Hamline, a bishop of the Methodist Church and a donor. Hamline University moved to St. Paul in 1880. The Hamline University Medical Department was established in 1890, when the St. Paul Medical College was assumed by the university and was expanded in 1895, when Hamline University took over the Minneapolis College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Hamline University medical school, located in Minneapolis, had a separate faculty that controlled the school's curriculum and recommended candidates for medical degrees to the board of trustees. After 13 years of affiliation with Hamline University and after conferring almost 300 medical degrees, the Hamline University Medical Department merged in 1908 with the medical school at the University of Minnesota, which had been established in 1888. Arnold Schwyzer ( -1944) died in Ramsey County. Marguerite M. Schwyzer ( -1953) died in Hennepin County. The current owners of record of the property are James R. Councilman and Mary H. Councilman.
10 Crocus Hill: Charles W. Briggs House; Built in 1911; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 5427 square foot, eight bedroom, three bathroom, half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 and 1923 city directories indicate that Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Riggs resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Mabel E. P. Riggs (1858-1926,) the wife of C. Eugene Riggs, who was born in Ohio to parents born in the United States and who died of chronic myocardial insufficiency, resided at this address in 1926. The 1930 city directory indicates that the property was vacant. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Norman E. Biorn (1915- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1926 until 1933, who graduated from Princeton University in 1937, who graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1940, who practiced law in St. Paul from 1940 until 1942, who was a special agent employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1942 until 1945, who was a partner in Sanborn, Jackson & Biorn, with offices at the Endicott Building, who was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club, of the University Club, and of the Princeton Alumni Association of the Northwest, and who pursued golf as a hobby, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that William H. Fobes (1910- ,) who attended the school from 1921 until 1923, resided at this address. Charles Eugene Riggs (1853-1930) was born in Williams County, Ohio, graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree in 1877 and with a master's degree in 1880, graduated with a medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland in 1880, was a resident physician at the Woman's Hospital at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1881, moved to St. Paul in 1881 and practiced medicine, was a special student in the hospitals and asylums of Europe, was a member of the editing and publishing committee of the St. Paul Medical Journal, was chairman of the American Medical Association Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases in 1917, was a member of the American Neurological Association, was the author of Reminiscences Of A Neurologist in 1928, and was a professor of nervous and mental diseases in the Medical College of the University of Minnesota after 1894. C. Eugene Riggs was a medical doctor, was the first specialist in nervous and mental diseases in the Northwest, was a founder of the Minnesota Medical Association, and was the first section head at the new University of Minnesota Medical School. C. Eugene Riggs edited Twelve Lectures on the Structure of the Central Nervous System, for Physicians and Students by Dr. Ludwig Edinger of Franklorton-the-Mann, Philadelphia and London, F. A. Davis, Publisher, 1890. In 1914, C. Eugene Riggs authored "Syphlitic Infections of the Central Nervous System" in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, in 1917, authored "The Korsakoff Syndrome (Toxaemic Cerebropathy) in Pregnancy" in the American Journal of Insanity, in 1921, authored Minnesota medicine in the making: Personal reminiscences, published by the Minnesota State Medical Association, and, in 1928, authored The reminiscences of a neurologist. The C. Eugene Riggs Scholarship Fund at Carlton College was established in 1972 by C. Eugene Riggs to assist students with demonstrated need. Charles William Briggs was an attorney who wrote a pamphlet entitled "A Return to Candor in Politics" (St. Paul, 1960) as well as Tax treatment of timber cutting under Section 117(k) the Internal Revenue Code and Tax treatment of timber under Section 631 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Charles W. Briggs was a graduate of West Point, rode with General "Black Jack" Pershing on the Mexican border, and was a constitutional lawyer. Warren Briggs, a graduate of West Point, an Air Force pilot who flew the Berlin Airlift under Gen. Curtis LeMay, the last president of Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company, and finally Pensacola, Florida's Chief Weed Inspector, was the son of Charles W. Briggs. Norman E. Biorn married Elizabeth Ann Boyd in 1940 and the couple had three children, Elizabeth Boyd Biorn (1942- ,) Mary Ellen Biorn (1945- ,) and Katherine Ann Biorn (1948- .) Mabel Pratt Riggs ( -1926) and C. Eugene Riggs ( -1930) both died in Ramsey County. Charles W. Briggs (1887-1978) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Weaver, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $625,000 and that sale occurred in 1999. The current owners of record of the property are Elizabeth J. Andrews and Jeffery M. Rank.
11 Crocus Hill: Clarence H. Johnston, Jr. House; Built in 1911 (1912 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Tudor Revival/Arts & Craft in style; C. H. Johnston, Jr., architect; N. P. Frandsen & Company, contractor. According to Courtney Brazel, the lot was a wedding gift from C. H. Johnston, Sr., to C. H. Johnston, Jr., and his bride, Naneen Johnston, and faces the house that was given to Harrison Johnston in 1923. The structure is a two story, 2913 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The tile and the marble used in the baths of the house are identical to the tile and marble used in the State Office Building. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. Howard Johnston, Jr., resided at this address. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#15286) indicate that Clarence Howard Johnston, Jr. (1888- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Private in Field Artillery Central Officers Training School, who was born in St. Paul, had gray eyes, brown hair, and a fair complexion, was 5' 10 3/4" tall, was an architect at induction, was an architect employed by Clarence H. Johnston, Jr., after the completion of service, and was married, resided with his wife at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Johnston, Jr., resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Clarence H. Johnston, Jr., an architect with the Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architectural firm, and his wife, Naneen Johnston, resided at this address. Naneen Johnston resided at this address until 1977. In 1984, Donna Strusinski and Bill Strusinski resided at this address. Nels Frandsen (1880-1964) was born in Minnesota and died in Hennepin County. The Field Artillery Central Officers Training School operated at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, between June, 1918, and February, 1919. The Field Artillery Central Officers Training School graduated 8,737, with 5,214 commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the Field Artillery of the U. S. Army and with the balance commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the Field Artillery Reserve Corps. Instructors and officers at the school included Luther Youngdahl of Minneapolis, a future Minnesota Governor. The current owners of record of the property are the trustees of Donna L. Strusinski and William G. Strusinski. William Strusinski is a lobbyist who represents Alliance Pipeline, the Fire Marshals Association of Minnesota, Friends of Minnesota Public Television, the Minnesota Area Relief Association Coalition, the Minnesota Chapter of the International Association of Arson Investigators, the Minnesota Electrical Association, the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association, the Minnesota Service Cooperatives, the Minnesota State Fire Chiefs Association, the Minnesota State Fire Department Association, the Minnesota Street Rod Association, the Securities Industry Association, and the Sheet Metal, Air Conditioning & Roof Contractor Association. Donna Strusinski ( -2005) was a lawyer who officed on Rice Street, was a member of District 2 of the Minnesota State Bar Association, and died of brain cancer. William Strusinski, a government relations consultant with Capitol Hill Associates Inc., contributed to the Barack Obama for President campaign in 2007-2008. [See note on Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., and his family for 476 Summit Avenue.]
12 Crocus Hill: Built in 1912 (1923 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2748 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1930 city directory indicates that Harrison R. Johnston, an associate manager employed by Farnum Winter & Company, and his wife, Elizabeth M. Johnston, resided at this address. In 1934, Harrison R. Johnston, Elizabeth Main Johnston, Harrison Johnston, and Juliette Johnston resided at this address and were members of the Somerset Club and the St. Paul Athletic Club. Elizabeth Johnston was a graduate of Smith College. H. R. Johnston was the Minnesota Golf Associations Amateur Champion, representing the White Bear Yacht Club, from 1921 to 1927 and was the Minnesota Golf Associations Senior Amateur Champion, representing the Somerset Country Club, in 1946 and 1949. In 1929, Harrison R. Johnston of Minnesota won the U. S. Amateur at the Pebble Beach Golf Links, its first major golf tournament. Farnum, Winter & Company was a Wall Street brokerage firm that failed in 1932. The property was last sold in 1991 with a sale price of $289,000. The current owners of record of the property are Patricia Sweney Hart and A. Scheffer Lang.
13 Crocus Hill (585 Goodrich Avenue:) Built in 1922. The structure is a two story, 5490 square foot, seven bedroom, sixth bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Edgar B. Ober resided at this address from 1923 to 1968. Edgar Buchanan Ober ( -1937) died in Washington County, Minnesota. The last sale of this property was in 1998 and the sale price was $630,000. The current owners of record of the property are the trustees of Michelle R. Bradley and Thomas A. Bradley. Thomas A. Bradley, the C.F.O. for the former St. Paul Companies, Inc., was a contributor to the George W. Bush for President campaign in 2004. Thomas Bradley, president of Zurich Direct Underwriting, Zurich Financial Services, contributed to the Chris Dodd for President campaign and to the John McCain for President campaign in 2007-2008. [See note on Edgar B. Ober for 400 Summit Avenue.]
14 Crocus Hill: Built in 1957. The structure is a two story, 2992 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The current owners of record of the property are Donald M. Sell and Estelle Quinn Sell. Donald M. Sell is an attorney who is licensed to practice before the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office.
15 Crocus Hill (593 Goodrich Avenue:) Built in 1922; Tudor Revival in style; Holyoke, Jemne & Davis, architects. The structure is a two story, 4983 square foot, seven bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Arthur H. Savage resided at this address from 1923 to 1968. The 1930 city directory indicates that Arthur H. Savage, proprietor of the A. H. Savage Company, electrical supplies dealers, and his wife, Louise C. Savage, resided at this address. In 1934, Louise Cochran Savage, the widow of Arthur H. Savage, Thomas Savage, and Elizabeth Savage, resided at this address. The Savage family were members of the Women's City Club of St. Paul in 1934. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Thomas C. Savage (1913- ,) who attended the school from 1926 until 1930 and who graduated from Yale University in 1936, resided at this address. At the 36th annual regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen on the Connecticut River at Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1908, Arthur H. Savage, William Cochran, Carlton P. Schaub, and James C. Otis of the Minnesota Boat Club competed in the intermediate four-oared shells. Arthur H. Savage had the nicknames of "Nubbins" and "Swatty." Arthur Harold Savage (1872- ) married Louise Cochran in 1910. There was an Arthur H. Savage Boys' Club in downtown St. Paul. "Woman in Green Velvet," painted by Abbott Handerson Thayer, lent by the Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, was a gift of Mrs. Arthur H. Savage, and was on exhibit at the University of Virginia Library. The statue at nearby Cochran Park, "Indian Hunter and His Dog," a 1926 bronze, was a gift of Mrs. Arthur Savage. Louise Cochran Savage was the youngest daughter of Thomas Cochran. Louise Cochran Savage was a member of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Minnesota. Arthur H. Savage ( -1933) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are the trustees of George P. Young and Biloine W. Young. Biloine Young, president of the John Whitmer Historical Association, an organization comprised of members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a liberal branch of the Restoration [Mormon] movement and now known as the Community of Christ, named for John Whitmer (1802-1878), who was an associate of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints, and who was expelled from the Mormon Church in 1838. recently resided at this address. Biloine (Billie) Whiting Young (1928- ) has written for such diverse publications as the Saturday Review of Literature, Modern Language Journal, Phi Delta Kappan, and Cosmopolitan Magazine. While editor of the Lamoni Chronicle (Iowa), she won numerous awards including one for editor of the best weekly newspaper in the United States edited by a woman. She is the author of A Dream for Gilberto: An Immigrant Family's Struggle to Become American, with Billie Jean Young, and was a 1996 Minnesota Book Award Nominee. She also was the author, with David Lanegran, of How the Trolleys Came--And Went and of Grand Avenue: the Renaissance of an Urban Street, with Billie Young and Nancy Ankeny, of Minnesota Women in Politics: Stories of the Journey, with Mary Wilson, of The Medicine Man Who Went to School, of How Carla Saw the Shalako God, and of Jennie Redbird Finds Her Friends, and the author of Mexican Odyssey: Our Search for the People's Art and On the Trail of the Cutlerite Settlers. Biloine W. Young holds degrees in English and Journalism from the University of Kansas (Lawrence) and a graduate degree from the University of Illinois (Urbana) in Communications and Latin American History. In Cali, Colombia, Young founded the Centro Cultural Colombo-Americano, an institution to disseminate the English language and culture of the United States to Colombia adults. Young's late husband was Dr. George P. Young ( -1991), a former superintendent of the St. Paul Public Schools. George P. Young graduated from the Butler, Pennsylvania, public schools, and from the University of Kansas, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois, was a math teacher at Schenley High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, spent seven years in Guatemala and Columbia, where he was a teacher, guidance counselor, and school superintendent, co-founded two schools in Columbia (an institute for Columbian adults that became official United States Information Service Bi-National Center and the American Business Academy for women seeking secretarial training in English,) and was the Superintendent for Independent School District No. 625 (St. Paul.) Young received awards for Outstanding Service in Advancing Social Justice and Building Better Human Relations and for Outstanding Leadership to Students. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Seneca Milo Dorr (1900-1901,) who died of pneumonia, resided at the former nearby 19 Crocus Hill in 1901. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Gertrude Ella Smith (1863-1923,) the widowed mother of Ralph L. Smith, who was born in Ohio to parents born in the United States and who died of aortic regurgitation, resided at the nearby former 19 Crocus Hill in 1923. William R. Dorr was the father of Seneca Milo Dorr. In 1901, William R. Dorr was the president of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce. [See note on Holyoke for 500 Summit Avenue.] [See note for Magnus Jemne for the west end of Summit Avenue.]
5 Crocus Place: F. E. Ford House/Frederick Stewart Bryant House; Built in 1892 (1890 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Victorian in style; Charles A. Wallingford, architect. The structure is a two story, 3358 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. Because of its tower and facade, the mansion resembles and compliments the nearby Frank B. Kellogg House, at 633 Fairmount Avenue. The house was built for $9,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The original owner of the house was Frederick Stewart Bryant (1859-1933,) who was the president of the St. Paul Apartment House Company. The 1898 and 1900 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Ford and R. J. Elliott resided at this address. The 1902 and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Ford, Miss Maud Elliott, and R. J. Elliott resided at this address. The 1906 Jubilee Manual of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church indicates that Margaret E. (Mrs. F. E.) Ford, a member of the church since 1888, resided at this address. The 1918 and 1923 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell and Mrs. C. C. Bancroft resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Ernest T. Richards, a physician at the Miller Hospital Clinic, and his wife, Virginia Richards, resided at this address. In 1934, Dr. Ernest T. F. Richards, Virginia Schuneman Richards, Virginia Richards, Ernest T. F. Richards, Jr., and Albert Richards resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that E. T. Fraser Richards, Jr. (1918- ,) who attended the school from 1929 until 1937, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that A. MacDonell Richards, a member of the Class of 1943, resided at this address. The Richards family were members of the White Bear Yacht Club and the Women's City Club of St. Paul. Frederick Stewart Bryant served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896, as state secretary of the Minnesota Republican League from 1900 to 1906, and was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and the Sons of the Revolution. Bryant previously lived at 433 West Portland Avenue. Frederick Stewart Bryant's siblings were James Spencer Bryant and Nellie Lucretia Bryant and his children were Stewart Frederick Bryant, Gordon Spencer Bryant, and Kathryn Shirley Bryant. James Spencer Bryant (1862-1939) and Edith Crawford Bryant (1866-1938) are both buried at Oakland Cemetery. Dr. Ernest Thompson Fraser Richards (1883- ) was born in St. Vincent, the West Indies, the son of Ernest Adolphus Richards (1862- ) and Lavinia Thomson Fraser, served in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1916, and later settled in St Paul, where he worked as a physician and surgeon at the Miller Hospital Clinic. Ernest T. F. Richards was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Ernest Thompson Fraser Richards, M. D., C. M., a 1905 McGill University graduate, was an Instructor in Pathology at Harvard University in 1910-1911. Ernest T. F. Richards married Virginia Schuneman Richards ( -1955) and the couple had five children, Berry Richards (1917- ,) Fraser Richards (1918- ,) Virginia Richards, Ernest T. F. Richards, Jr., and Albert Richards. After the death of his first wife, Ernest T. F. Richards remarried. Ernest Adolphus Richards was born at St. Thomas, Barbados, and Lavinia Thomson Fraser Richards was born at St. Georges, Granada. Mrs. Ernest T. F. Richards was a member of the Assembly of St. Paul, a society organization which conducted an annual ball. Frederick E. Ford ( -1937) died in Olmsted County, Minnesota. Francis Edwin Ford ( -1924,) Albert L. Richards ( -1950,) and Ernest Richards ( -1951) all died in Ramsey County. Robert J. Elliott ( -1930) died in Hennepin County. Virginia Richards (1889-1955) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Trueworthy, and died in Ramsey County. Charles Augustus Wallingford was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1854, the son of Estes Wallingford and Catherine McGurdy Wallingford, married Minnie M. Coffin, and the couple had one child, Daniel Kirkwood Wallingford. Estes Wallingford served in the Civil War, as Adjutant in the 33rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Daniel Wallingford served in World War I. Charles A. Wallingford also designed the building at 368 College Avenue and the Macalester Park Presbyterian Church/Stella Louise Woods Children's Center at 1652 Summit Avenue. The current owners of record of the property are A. MacDonnell Richards and Margaret S. Richards.
9 Crocus Place: W. H. S. Wright House; Built in 1894; Colonial Revival in style; Charles A. Wallingford, architect. The structure is a two story, 3474 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, frame house. The 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. S. Wright and their daughter, Mrs. O. F. Brown, and William H. Wright resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Booth resided at this address. The 1902 and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Stone resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Clapp resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Augustus W. Clapp, a partner with Newell H. Clapp, Charles E. Elmquist, Grant S. Mccartney, and Charles W. Briggs in the law firm of Clapp & Macartney, with offices at the Merchant Bank, resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Scandrett resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Benjamin W. Scandrett, executive vice president of the Northern Pacific RailRoad, and his wife, Bertha Scandrett, resided at this address. In 1934, Benjamin W. Scandrett and Bertha Reid Scandrett resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Jack E. Hanstein (1909- ,) who attended the school from 1919 until 1922, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Henry P. Blodgett, Jr., a member of the Class of 1942, resided at this address. William Henry Sterling Wright (1842-1907) was born in Ireland, moved to St. Paul in 1882, was engaged in the railroad business, and was a prominent freemason. William Henry Wright and Gertrude Wright Ketchum edited History of the Wright Family, published in Denver, Colorado, by the Williamson-Haffner Company in 1913. The Scandretts were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the White Bear Yacht Club, and the University Club in 1934. Benjamin Wright Scandrett (1883-1954) was born at Faribault, Rice County, Minnesota, and was the son of Henry Alexander Scandrett (1843-1883,) of Pennsylvania, and Jane Whiting Whipple (1847-1932,) of New York. Henry Alexander Scandrett (1843-1884) served as judge of the probate court in Rice County, Minnesota. Benjamin Scandrett's siblings were Cornelia Whipple Scandrett (1873-1946,) Sarah Kimes Scandrett (1874-1875,) Henry Alexander Scandrett (1876-1957,) Mary Stannes Scandrett (1881-1881,) and Jeanie Whipple Scandrett (1878-1970.) Benjamin W. Scandrett was raised by his grandparents, Episcopalian Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) and Cornelia Wright Whipple (1816-1890,) went to the Shattuck Military Academy at Faribault, Minnesota, founded by Bishop Whipple, and to the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, studying civil engineering, and finally studied law at the Washburn College Law School at Topeka, Kansas, and graduated in 1906. Scandrett joined the Topeka, Kansas, law firm of Blair, Scandrett & Scandrett with his brother, Henry Alexander Scandrett, Jr., was the first assistant general attorney for the Union Pacific RailRoad Company in Kansas and Missouri in 1912, and also was later employed as a vice president by the Northern Pacific RailRoad. Benjamin W. Scandrett married Bertha Draper Reid (1883- ) in 1910, and the couple had two children, Cornelia Whipple Scandrett (1912- ) and Bertha Reid Scandrett (1914- .) Bertha Scandrett married Cole Oehler, originally of Chicago and subsequently of Minneapolis. In 1858, in Faribault, Minnesota, Reverend Dr. James Lloyd Breck (1818-1876) established the Episcopal mission school and seminary from which Shattuck-St. Mary's developed. Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple came to Minnesota in 1859 and assumed responsibility for the school in 1860. Bishop Henry B. Whipple was the son of John Hall Whipple (1795-1859) and Elizabeth Wager Whipple (1798-1870), married Cornelia Wright Whipple (1816-1890) in 1842, and the couple had six children, Sarah Elizabeth Whipple (1843- ,) Cornelia Ward Whipple (1845-1884,) Jane Whiting Whipple (1847-1932,) Charles Henry Whipple (1849-1932,) Frances Ransom Whipple (1853- ,) and John Hall Whipple (1857-1878,) was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1849 or 1850, was the rector at Zion Church in Rome, New York, from 1849 to 1857, was sent as a missionary to Chicago in 1857, was elected Bishop of Minnesota in 1859, and married Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple (1860-1930,) the wealthy widow of Michael Simpson of Saxonville, Massachusetts, in 1896. Minnesota indians referred to him as "Straight Tongue" because of his truthfulness and honesty in dealing with them. Bishop Whipple served on several federal government commissions appointed to negotiate treaties or oversee the Indians' welfare, including distribution of supplies to the Sisseton and Wahpeton in Dakota Territory (1868-1870,) the Sioux Commission (1876,) the Northwest Indian Commission (1886,) several Ojibwe annuity commissions (1860's,) and the U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners (1895-1901.) Henry Benjamin Whipple, the son of John Hall Whipple and Elizabeth Wager Whipple, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Benjamin Whipple, a Private in the Rhode Island Militia during the Revolutionary War. A military program was added to the Shattuck School in 1865, by a Civil War veteran, Tommy Crump, an English divinity student. Using a donation from Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck of Boston in 1866, the grammar school added Shattuck Hall and eventually became known as the Shattuck School. A school for girls, St. Mary's Hall, opened in Faribault, Minnesota, in 1866. Dr. James Dobbin was headmaster of Shattuck from 1866 to 1914 and also founded the St. James School, for younger students, in 1901. In 1972, the three schools, Shattuck, St. Mary's, and St. James, were merged into the Shattuck-St. Mary's School. The Shattuck-St. Mary's School is now a college prep boarding and day school enrolling boys and girls in grades 6-12. Shattuck-St. Mary's has become known nationally and internationally for its superior boys hockey program. James Lloyd Breck was born in Philadelphia, the son of George Breck and Catherine D'isreali Breck, attended high school at the Flushing Institute, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, attended the General Theological Seminary, went to Wisconsin in 1844 as an Anglican/Episcopal missionary to found Nashotah House, a monastic community, a seminary, and a theological center, moved to Minnesota in 1850, where he founded at Faribault grammar schools for boys and girls and the Seabury Divinity School (now part of the Seabury-Western Seminary in Chicago,) married Jane Maria Allen Mills, the daughter of William R. Mills, of Argyle, New York, in 1855, and, in 1867, moved to Benicia, California to build another seminary, St. Augustine's College and Grammar School, and St. Mary's Hall. He is commemorated as a saint on the calendar of the Episcopal Church. Henry Whipple was the author of three books, Bishop Whipple's Southern Diary , Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press (1937,) Civilization and Christianization of the Ojibways in Minnesota (1901,) and Lights and Shadows A Long Episcopate: Being Reminiscences and Recollections of the Right Reverend Henry Benjamin Whipple, Bishop of Minnesota , New York, Macmillan (1899,) and edited Journal of the Rev. Samuel D. Hinman , Philadelphia, McCalla & Stavely (1869.) Good Thunder (1819-1901,) a Dakota, purchased one hundred acres of land in Renville County, Minnesota, upon his return from the 1860's exile in Nebraska, and donated twenty acres of it to Bishop Whipple for the erection of a house of worship, which became St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church, named after Bishop Whipple's wife, in the center of the Lower Sioux Indian Agency. Good Thunder and his second wife, Sarah or Mockpedaga, which means "Checkered Cloud," the widow of Shankah Skaw or "White Dog," a signer of the treaty of Traverse des Sioux, adopted a son, Charles Whipple Good Thunder. Jane W. Scandrett ( -1932,) Cornelia W. Scandrett ( -1946,) Bertha Reid Scandrett ( -1950,) and Benjamin W. Scandrett ( -1954) all died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Catherine M. Allan and Timothy J. Grady. Timothy J. Grady and Catherine M. Allan were contributors to Twin City Public Television in 2005. Catherine Allan was the executive producer of the film "Jane Goodall: Reason For Hope" and the film "Liberty - The American Revolution." [See note for Wallingford for 5 Crocus Place.]
10 Crocus Place: 10 Crocus Place; Tudor Revival in style; Built in 1911 (1909 according to Ramsey County property tax records). The structure is a two story, 7216 square foot, six bedroom, five bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bangs and Mrs. J. H. Bangs resided at this address. The current owner of record of the property is Margery J. Brewster. Margery J. Brewster is a contributor to the Summit Hill Association. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#3499) indicate that Ed Johnson (1882- ,) a 1917 enlistee and a Private First Class in Battery B of the 151st Field Artillery, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, had blue eyes, dark hair, and a medium complexion, was 5' 5 1/2" tall, was a lineman and a stage hand at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including Aisne, the Marne, St. Mihiel, and Baccarat, was a gardener employed by Ker D. Dunlop after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided at the nearby former 13 Crocus Place. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#3870) indicate that Stuart K. Dunlop (1896- ,) a 1917 enlistee and a Private First Class in Company E of the 25th Engineers, who was born in Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa, moved to Minnesota in 1899, had blue eyes, light hair, and a fair complexion, was 6' 1" tall, was a calf buyer at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including Meuse Argonne, was a livestock buyer employed by Swift & Company after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his father, Ker D. Dunlop, at the nearby former 13 Crocus Place. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#3873) indicate that Fred J. Dunlop (1894- ,) a 1917 enlistee and a Private First Class in Battery B of the 151st Field Artillery, who was born in Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa, moved to Minnesota in 1899, had blue eyes, light brown hair, and a light complexion, was 5' 10" tall, was a clerk at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including Baccarat, Champagne, the Marne, Aisne, and St. Mihiel, was a sealer and yardman employed by the St. Paul Union Stockyards Company in South St. Paul, Minnesota, after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his father, Ker D. Dunlop, at the nearby former 13 Crocus Place. Ker D. Dunlop and Jane Dunlop resided at the nearby former 13 Crocus Place in 1917. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Dunlop, their daughter, Fred Dunlop, and Stuart Dunlop all resided at the former nearby 13 Crocus Place. The 1920 city directory indicates that Constantine Dunlop, a buyer employed by Swift & Company, Fred Dunlop, a clerk, and Stuart K. Dunlop, a buyer employed by Swift & Company, all boarded at the former nearby 13 Crocus Place and that Ker Dunlop, a manager employed by the Iowa Land Company, Ltd., resided at the former nearby 13 Crocus Place. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Dunlop, their daughter, Stuart Dunlop, Con Dunlop, Donald Dunlop, and Fred Dunlop all resided at the nearby former 13 Crocus Place. A native of Scotland, Ker Dunlop moved to St. Paul in 1898 and was a loyal fan of the St. Paul Saints baseball team. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ker Dunlop and S. Mair of St. Paul, curlers, won the Black & Armstrong Cup, a famed international curling trophy. Ker Dunlop, called the "Dean of Northwest Curlers," was made an honorary life member of the Manitoba Curling Association in 1930, the only non-Canadian so named during the 1930's. On March 21, 1918, during World War I, the Battle of Picardy began and the Germans advanced against the British 14 miles in one day during Operation "Michel" and during Operations "Blucher" & "Yorck," the Germans occupied Soissons and penetrated to Chateau Thierry, 56 miles from Paris. The German attack in Picardy made Paris vulnerable, plans for an autonomous American Army at the front were put aside, the battle-ready American divisions were placed under French command, and those units were moved to the critical front. On March 31, 1918, the Rainbow division took over the Baccarat Sector, relieving the French 128th Division, as a tactical unit on a frontage of about nine miles. On June 18, 1918, the Rainbow Division was withdrawn from Baccarat and was sent east of Reims to take part in the Champagne-Marne operation. By the end of June, 1918, due to the increased use of British shipping, there were 900,000 American troops in France. On July 14, 1918, the Battle of the Champagne began, the start of the final German offensive and an attempted massive push into France that was timed to be accomplished before the arrival of a million troops from America. The Germans were confident that the few American units already at the front would not hinder them from seizing Paris. The line was contained by the Fourth French Army, in which the Rainbow Division played a prominent role, causing the German perception of the fighting abilities of American soldiers to quickly change since the Americans bore the heaviest brunt of the fighting in the last few months of the war and the German army found the Americans to be much more aggressive in attack than either the English or the French. The success of the Americans is credited to the fitness, enthusiasm and bravery of the troops, overcoming poor training, lack of experience and poor tactics. Ker Dunlop Dunlop ( -1939,) Jane C. Dunlop ( -1946,) and Stuart Ker Dunlop ( -1950) all died in Ramsey County. Ker Donald Dunlop (1923-1992) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Quinn, and died in Ramsey County. Frederick J. Dunlop ( -1936) died in Washington County, Minnesota. Donald C. Dunlop (1902-1978) was born in Minnesota and died in Washington County, Minnesota.
15 Crocus Place: K. D. Dunlap House; Built in 1889 (1893 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style; Charles A. Wallingford, architect. The structure is a two story, 3240 square foot, eight bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1930 city directory indicates that Albert J. Deslauriers, the vice president of the Superior Metal Products Company, and his wife, Aurora Deslauriers, resided at this address. Albert DesLauriers (1877-1948) is buried in the St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Rosemount Township. Albert J. Deslauriers (1886-1956) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Fortier, and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Gregory Alan Felice. Greg Felice previously was the vice chair of the St. Paul School Board. [See note for Wallingford for 5 Crocus Place.]
18 Crocus Place: Grant S. Macartney House; Built in 1922; Georgian Revival in style; Charles Bassford, architect. The structure is a two story, 3688 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. S. McCartney resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Grant S. Macartney, lawyer in the law firm of Clapp, Richardson, Elmquist, Briggs & Macartney, and his wife, Hope D. Macartney, resided at this address. Grant Street Macartney (1885-1969) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Street, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $350,000 and that sale occurred in 1994. The current owners of record of the property are Judith M. McCormick and Stanley R. McCormick. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Theo F. Smith, their daughters, and Ralph L. P. Smith all resided at the former nearby 19 Crocus Place. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Theophilus F. Smith (1857-1920,) the husband of Gertrude E. Smith, who was born in Indiana to parents born in England and who died of arteriosclerosis and angina, resided at the nearby former 19 Crocus Place in 1920 and that John C. F. Ely also resided at the nearby former 19 Crocus Place in 1920. Theophilus F. Smith ( -1920,) Gertrude Ella Smith ( -1923,) and John Charles Fremont Ely ( -1930) all died in Ramsey County.
27 Crocus Place: Built in 1922 (1902 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; J. M. Carlson, architect. The structure is a two story, 4142 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with one attached garage and one detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that William J. Sleppy resided at this address from 1907 to 1919. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Mary Stees Sleepy (1831-1916,) the wife of William J. Sleppy, who was born in Pennsylvania to parents born in the United States and who died of valvular heart disease, resided at this address in 1915. In 1916, Kathrene Stees Sleppy was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Miss Katherine S. Sleppy, Miss Mabel Ford, and Miss Dora C. Jett all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Hon. Joseph A. A. Burnquist, the Governor of the State of Minnesota, resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Burnquist and W. H. Steffen resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Albert L. Haman, the president of the A. L. Haman Company, wholesale jewelers, and his wife, Katherine M. Haman, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Donald P. Gaver, Jr. (1926- ,) who attended the school from 1937 until 1944, who served in the U. S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II, and who attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, resided at this address. In 1896, William J. Sleppy was a junior warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. William J. Sleppy was a prominent undertaker in St. Paul. In 1909, Katherine Sleppy lectured on Missions in the Summer Schools at the Minnetonka, Minnesota, Summer School of Missions and, in 1917, Katherine S. Sleppy taught storytelling at the Merriam Park Summer School in St. Paul. Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist (1879-1961) was the Lieutenant Governor and became Governor in 1915 upon the death of Governor Winfield S. Hammond. Burnquist was born in Dayton, Webster County, Iowa, and married Mary Louise Cross in 1906. After graduating from Carlton College in 1902 and playing football there and after gaining a law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1905, Burnquist practiced law briefly in St. Paul before entering politics as a state legislator in 1908. As Governor, at the same time as U. S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer was conducting raids on alleged subversives, Burnquist created the Public Safety Commission in 1917 to monitor public sentiment toward World War I and quashed pacifist demonstrations and initiated legislation that improved the state highways, disaster assistance programs, labor relations, and the welfare of children. Burnquist also used the Minnesota Home Guard in the surveillance of alleged subversive activities, in focusing opposition to labor unions and strikes, in locating draft evaders, in imposing a curfew on saloons and restaurants, in discouraging the use of non-English languages in schools, and in registering and monitoring aliens. In 1917, Minnesota's German-Americans formed the state's largest ethnic group and 70 percent of the state's residents were immigrants or first-generation Americans when Minnesota's seven-member Commission on Public Safety was formed by the state,with its members appointed by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist. Having no public accountability,it immediately suspended civil rights, set up an armed militia and created a network of spies. They hired Pinkerton detectives to attend German-American meetings and events, and even though the agents reported back that the worries about treason or violent protests were exaggerated, the commission members,using their subpoena power to question people,accused three elected New Ulm officials of lacking patriotism, because,while they supported the draft, they suggested that German-Americans serve in non-combatant capacities. The Commission immediately suspended the New Ulm officials on grounds of disloyalty. Also in 1917, Governor J. A. A. Burnquist directed that the State Capitol basement restaurant, with a German beer hall theme, be painted over and it was repainted. Between 1855 and 1915, Germans in America lived not in an American culture, but rather in a German-American culture. All that changed with the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Minnesota participated enthusiastically in the anti-German mood, most vehemently through the Commission of Public Safety and its quasi-military arm, the Home Guard. The Commission, led by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist, was given vast powers to stop strikes and labor organizing, to regulate liquor traffic, to require the registration of aliens, and to investigate people for a wide variety of activities, including 682 complaints of sedition. A virtual spy system took over the state, focused on Germans. A 1917 Commission circular declared that "anyone who talks and acts against the government in time of war, regardless of the ‘constitutional right of free speech,’ is a traitor and deserves the most drastic punishment." The Commission’s activities were supplemented by those of a national organization that operated also in Minnesota, the American Protective League. The League conducted raids in both St. Paul and Minneapolis, detaining hundreds of German men, almost all of them innocent, on suspicion of draft evasion. The Non-Partisan League also fell afoul of the Commission of Public Safety, which hounded and attacked it as disloyal. J. A. A. Burnquist accused the Nonpartisan League's leadership of being connected with "lawless I. W. W. red socialists, and pacifists." The Commission waged war on German language and culture in Minnesota. It forbade the use of German as a language of instruction in schools, discouraged the performance of German music, banned some German-language books, and had the publisher of the newspaper Volkzeitung interned for refusing to stop publishing in German. The heavy-handed reign of the Commission of Public Safety became a powerful political symbol, helping to build the left-leaning Farmer Labor Party in Minnesota. The early Farmer Labor Party electoral success owed much to German-American Minnesotans, a mostly conservative population who were estranged from the major parties for years after the Burnquist loyalty campaign. The Commission of Public Safety's own lead lawyer, Ambrose Tighe (1859-1928,) provided the agency's best epitaph, observing that the Commission provided lasting evidence of how dangerous it is to vest even good men with arbitrary power. In October, 1918, forest fires ravaged portions of North Central and Northeastern Minnesota. The Minnesota towns of Arnold, Automba, Brookston, Cloquet, Kalevala, Kettle River, Lawler, Lester Park, Moose Lake, and Woodland were burned to the ground. A half-dozen other communities were 50 percent destroyed and 10 more suffered severe damage. A total of 1500 square miles were burned, and more than 50,000 people were displaced. Scores of people were severely burned, and 453 people were killed outright. More than 4,000 houses were consumed, and another 6,000 barns were burned, with livestock dead in the tens of thousands. Huddled in shelters in Duluth and Superior, thousands of victims sat shivering in shock and dismay. The Minnesota Home Guard was mobilized to handle necessary duties within the state and the Minnesota Forest Fires Relief Commission was formed days after the fire by Gov. Joseph Burnquist and was given authority over the relief efforts. Governor J. A. A. Burnquist called a special session of the Minnesota Legislature and, on September 8, 1919, it ratified the 19th Amendment in the House by a vote of 120 to 6 and in the Senate by a vote of 60 to 5. It was during Burnquist’s time as governor of Minnesota, on June 15, 1920, that three black men, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, employed by the railroad-based John Robinson Circus as cooks and "roustabouts," were lynched from a street lamppost by an angry mob estimated between 5,000 and 10,000 people in Duluth, Minnesota, led by Louis Dondino, for the alleged rape on June 14, 1920, of a white woman, Irene Tusken, a 19-year-old stenographer from West Duluth, Minnesota, who had attended the circus with her boyfriend, James Sullivan, an 18-year-old dockworker/boat-spotter and reputed gambler. A St. Louis County grand jury issued 37 indictments for the lynching mob, 25 indictments for rioting, and 12 for murder in the first degree, but only three men, Dondino, Carl John Alfred Hammerberg ( -1924,) and Gilbert Henry Stephensis/Stephenson, were convicted and the convictions were only for rioting. Louis Dondino (1882-1959) was charged with first-degree murder, was convicted on a lesser charge, and spent 13 months in Stillwater State Prison before moving to Washington State. Gilbert Henry Stephensis received a five year prison sentence and was paroled after serving 13 months in Stillwater State Prison. Carl Hammerberg spent 15 months in the Minnesota State Reformatory for Men, St. Cloud, Minnesota, and died while attempting to ride the rails in a refrigerated rail car. J. A. A. Burnquist, as State Attorney General, with Matthias N. Orfield and George W. Markam, represented the State in the Supreme Court case of Minnesota v. National Tea Company et al (1940,) a challenge to a chain store gross sales tax. Burnquist also filed an amicus curiae brief with the U. S. Supreme Court in the case of Phillips Petroleum Company v. Wisconsin , 347 U.S. 672 (1954.) J. A. A. Burnquist married Mary Louise Cross in 1906 and the couple had at least three children, two daughters and one son, Mary L. Burnquist (Mrs. Joseph C.) Beck (1910-2001,) Ruth Burnquist, and Rowland Burnquist. J. A. A. Burnquist was buried at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis. Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936) was born in White Haven, Pennsylvania, was educated at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1893. He was a member of the Democratic Party, served in the House of Representatives from 1909 to 1915 and supported Woodrow Wilson in the presidential campaign in 1912. In 1919, Wilson appointed Palmer as U. S. Attorney General. Although Palmer had previously been associated with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, supporting women's suffrage and trade union rights, as Attorney General, Palmer's views on civil rights changed dramatically, and he became convinced that Communist agents were planning to overthrow the American government. After the discovery of 38 bombs that were sent to leading politicians and after an Italian anarchist, Carlo Valdinoci, blew himself up outside Palmer's Washington home, Palmer recruited John Edgar Hoover as his special assistant and used the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 against radicals and left-wing organizations. On the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Palmer had over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested in actions that became known as the Palmer Raids as a step to becoming the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 1920. Palmer failed to win the 1920 nomination and his influence in the Democratic Party waned. The Stees family burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Charles J. Stees (1834-1897,) who was a Captain in Company G of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment and a Major in the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment during the Civil War, Mathais Benjamin Stees (1831-1854,) who served in the U. S. Navy, Dia Greenwalt Stees (1799-1886,) Jamin Stees (1798-1869,) Jamin G. Sleppy (1866-1891,) William J. Sleppy (1843-1916,) Mary Stees Sleppy (1836-1915,) Kathrene Stees Sleppy (1870-1929,) John A. Stees (1839-1918,) and Virginia H. Stees (1839-1927.) According to Minnesota Adjutant General records, Charles J. Stees was mustered into the Sixth Minnesota Regiment in 1862, from Ramsey County, and was mustered out in 1865. Charles J. Stees provided an appendix document concerning Lieutenant Colonel Marshall's raid into Dakota Territory in 1862 to a regimental history of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment, Company E, that was authored by Alfred James Hill (1833-1895.) Cytheria A. Jones was the wife of Charles J. Stees and their divorce was handled by Richard L. Gorman, the son of Willlis A. Gorman, a Minnesota Territorial Governor and a Civil War General. Charles Stees, the son of John Alfred Stees and Virginia Hollins Stees, the grandson of Benjamin Greenawalt and Lydia Shafner Greenawalt, and great grandson of John Philip Greenawalt and Catharine Shafner Greenawalt, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Philip Lorentz Greenawalt, a Colonel in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Militia during the Revolutionary War. Charles J. Stees, the son of Benjamin Moore Greenawalt and Lydia Shafner Greenawalt and the grandson of John Philip Greenawalt and Catharine Shafner Greenawalt, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Philip Lorentz Greenawalt, a Colonel in the First Battalion of the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Militia during the Revolutionary War. Mary Stees Sleepy ( -1915,) Ambrose Tighe ( -1928,) Kathrene S. Sleppy ( -1929,) Mabel Myrtle Ford ( -1934,) Albert Louis Haman ( -1935,) and Mary Beck ( -1940) all died in Ramsey County. Joseph Alfred A. Burnquist (1879-1961) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Johnson, and died in Hennepin County. Mary Louise Burnquist (1880-1966) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Weeks, and died in Hennepin County. Katherine M. Haman (1869-1958) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Truell, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Linda L. Hedemark and Marc R. Pritzker. Marc R. Pritzker graduated from Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, went to Medical School at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, did his residency in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, completed a fellowship in cardiology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and in electrophysiology/pacing at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, has certifications in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and is a cardiologist at Minneapolis Cardiology Associates, Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis. Linda L. Hedemark also is a doctor and published the article "Somali Refugee Health Screening in Hennepin County" with Mary Jo Fritz, M.S., R.N., in Minnesota Medicine in 1998. [See note for Ambrose Tighe for the former 505 Summit Avenue.] [See note for Richard L. Gorman for 11 Alice Court.]
30 Crocus Place: R. L. Wright House; Renaissance Revival in style; Built in 1900 (1899 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) A. H. Stem, architect. The structure is a two story, 6585 square foot, seven bedroom, five bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The original owner of this house was Robert Campbell Wight, who was a director at the Chicago Great Western Railway Company and who was a director and the president of the Iowa Development Company and of the Iowa Townsite Company. The 1902 and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wight resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Grant Van Sant resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Grant Van Sant and Miss Virginia Van Sant resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Harold J. Richardson, a lawyer in the law firm of Clapp, Richardson, Elmquist, Briggs & Macartney, and his wife, Anna R. Richardson, resided at this address. In 1934, Harold J. Richardson and Anna Reimers Richardson resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John H. Richardson (1915- ,) who attended the school from 1926 until 1930 and who graduated from Yale University in 1936, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Louis F. Hill, a member of the Class of 1963, resided at this address. In 1920, Grant Van Sant purchased the Napoleon Ebert homestead on the Yellowstone River near Livingston, Montana, for $200,000, in order to stock it with thoroughbred cattle. Harold J. Richardson associated with Charlie Weyerhaeuser, Rudolph Weyerhaeuser, William Carson, Horace Irvine, and George S. Long in the Northwestern timber industry. Harold J. Richardson, a lawyer, was married to a granddaughter of F. C. A. Denkmann, the brother-in-law of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, and was made a director of the Clearwater Timber Company, Lewiston, Idaho, a predecessor of Potlatch Corporation, in 1925, along with John Phillip "Phil" Weyerhaeuser III. There is a Harold J. Richardson scholarship fund at the Law School of the University of Minnesota. Grant Van Sant (1872- ) was born in Le Claire, Iowa, went to Northwestern University, then went to Amherst College, graduated with a bachelors degree and a law degree from the University of Minnesota, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1896, practiced in Morris, Minnesota, and then practiced in Winona, Minnesota. Grant Van Sant, the son of Samuel R. Van Sant and Ruth Hall Van Sant, the grandson of J. W. Van Sant and Lydia Anderson Van Sant, great grandson Nicholas Van Sant and Mercy Davis Van Sant, and great great grandson Phoebe Westcott Davis, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Richard Westcott, a Major in the Third Battalion of the Gloucester County, New Jersey, Militia, during the Revolutionary War. Harold J. Richardson was a graduate of the University of Minnesota and of Northwestern University. The Richardsons were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the Somerset Club, the White Bear Yacht Club, and the Women's City Club of St. Paul. Harold J. Richardson, a lawyer, was a partner with Augustus W. Clapp, Charles E. Elmquist, Charles W. Briggs, Grant S. McCartney, and Wayne C. Gilbert in the law firm of Clapp, Richardson, Elmquist, Briggs & McCartney, located at the Merchants National Bank Building in 1930. There is a Harold J. Richardson Scholarship at the University of Minnesota. Rudolph Weyerhaeuser ( -1946,) Robert C. Wight ( -1947,) Wayne C. Gilbert ( -1947,) Charles Emil Elmquist ( -1948,) and Harold J. Richardson ( -1952) all died in Ramsey County. Anna Reimers Richardson (1875-1967) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Denkman, and died in Ramsey County. Charles W. Briggs (1887-1978) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Weaver, and died in Ramsey County. Wayne C. Gilbert (1895-1959) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of McCord, and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Kay Ann Walton. [See note of Harold Richardson for 815 Lincoln Avenue.] [See note on Stem for 929 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the Chicago Great Western Railway for 882 West Linwood Avenue.]
40 Crocus Place: Leo Goodkind House; Tudor in style; Built in 1864 (1891 according to Martha Hubbs, a former owner, and 1914 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Tudor Revival/Cotswold Cottage in style; A. H. Stem, architect, and David Heide, renovation architect. The structure is a two story, 6900 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage. The house is surrounded by a large limestone wall. The house has a circular driveway, a central courtyard, and a fountain. The house and its partner, built by Benjamin Goodkind and William Goodkind respectively, also are joined at the hip roof by a second-story enclosed walkway, giving them the look of a small, quaint English village rather than two large separate homes. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1917 Catalogue of Delta Upsilon indicates that Leo Goodkind, employed in dry goods by Mannheimer Brothers, resided at this address. The 1918 and 1923 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Leo Goodkind resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Leo Goodkind, assistant treasurer of Schunemans & Mannheimers department store, and his wife, Grace G. Goodkind, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Karl H. Spilhaus, a member of the Class of 1963, resided at this address. Leo Goodkind graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1892 and then went to the University of Minnesota to study architecture. Leo Goodkind was the architect for the 1905 Goodkind-Koenen residence at 318 Ryan Avenue in St. Paul's Irvine Park. Benjamin Goodkind was the president and and William Goodkind was the secretary/treasurer of the Mannheimer Brothers Department Store. William Louis Goodkind ( -1935) resided at 757 Osceola Avenue in 1930 and died in Ramsey County. Louis Goodkind (1825- ) was born in Bavaria, Germany, married Mina Mannheimer (1837-1914,) the daughter of Moses/Moritz Mannheimer and Johanna Lindenthal Mannheimer and the sister of Jacob Mannheimer, emigrated to the United States, initially resided in Adrian, Michigan, relocated to Chicago, where he operated a dry goods business, moved to St. Paul in 1871, partnered with Jacob Mannheimer and opened the first Goodkind & Mannheimer store in 1871 on Third Street. Louis Goodkind and Mina Mannheimer Goodkind had six children and resided with Robert Mannheimer and Emil Mannheimer in 1880. With growth and the addition of Emil Mannheimer and Robert Mannheimer, Jacob Mannheimer's brothers, to the partnership, the department store was renamed Mannheimers Brothers, was incorporated in 1903, merged with Schuneman & Evans in 1926, became Schuneman's Department Store in 1928, and lated merged with Dayton's. Louis Goodkind served on the board of Mount Zion Temple, was the president of the Minnesota Lodge of B'nai B'rith in 1880, and was an organizer of the Standard Club, the upper class Jewish club in St. Paul, which folded into the St. Paul Athletic Club when it was formed. Jill Harmon and Frank Fairman purchased the house in 1990 and are currently renovating and restoring the house. In 2003, Francis Fairman was a contributor to the Randy Kelly for Mayor campaign and resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Louis W. Goodkind (1914- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1925 until 1932, who graduated from Yale University in 1936, who attended Yale University Law School in 1939, who was on the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal, who was a member of the Thomas Swan Barrister's Union and of Corbey Court, resided at 565 Park Avenue in New York, New York. In 1879, B. Goodkind was the financial secretary of the Standard Club, organized in 1875 and located at 79 Jackson Street. In 1879, Benjamin C. Mannheimer, a clerk employed by Manheimer Brothers, and William Mannheimer, a clerk empolyed by Mannheimer Brothers, both boarded at 177 Fort Road and Louis Mannheimer, a bookkeeper employed by Mannheimer Brothers, resided at 177 Fort Road. Robert Mannheimer ( -1914,) William Louis Goodkind ( -1935,) and Leo Goodkind ( -1943) all died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Francis E. Fairman and Jill N. Harmon. [See note on Stem for 929 Summit Avenue.]
41 Crocus Place: The property is a tax exempt vacant lot. The property is owned by the City of St. Paul.
46 Crocus Place: Dr. Harry Parks Ritchie House; Built in 1885 (1907 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Tudor Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 5170 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Mrs. Emma P. Ritchie and Harry P. Ritchie resided at this address in 1913. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Emma E. Ritchie (1851-1918,) the widowed mother of Harry P. Ritchie, who was born in Indiana to parents who were born in England and in the United States and who died of chronic myocarditis, resided at this address in 1918. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. H. P. Ritchie resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Sarah Bates resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Ritchie resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Harry P. Ritchie, a physician and a partner in Ritchie, Daugherty & Gerting, located at 350 St. Peter Street, and his wife, Elizabeth Ritchie, resided at this address. In 1934, Dr. Harry P. Ritchie, Elizabeth Winter Ritchie, Wallace Ritchie, and Priscilla Ritchie resided at this address. Harry Parks Ritchie (1873- ,) the son of Parks Ritchie and Emma Bates Ritchie, was born in Wellington, Kansas, graduated from the St. Paul High School in 1890, graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1893, graduated from the Medical School of the University of Minnesota in 1896, worked in the City & County Hospital in St. Paul in 1897, practiced medicine in St. Paul, was a medical partner of Dr. A. MacLaren, was an instructor in physiology at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota from 1893 until 1896, was an instructor in gynecology at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota from 1899 until 1908, married Elizabeth Winter, the daughter of E. W. Winter, in St. Paul in 1902, was an instructor in surgery at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota after 1908, was a Republican, was a Mason, was a member of the Town & Country Club, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Minnesota Club, and was a member of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church. Harry P. Ritchie was a First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon for the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Dr. Harry P. Ritchie was a graduate of Yale University and of the University of Minnesota, was the president of the Western Surgical Association in 1932, and was a member, with E. Starr Judd, Kellogg Speed, and Carl E. Black, of the Committee on Nomenclature of the Western Surgical Association in 1935. In 1926, Dr. Harry P. Ritchie was the author of the paper "Congenital Cleft Lip And Palate: A Muscle Theory Repair Of The Lip Cleft" published in the Annals of Surgery. Mrs. Harry P. Ritchie of St. Paul was the president of the Minnesota Medical Association auxiliary in 1924-1925. Harry Parks Ritchie and Elizabeth Winter Ritchie were the parents of four children, Elizabeth Louise Ritchie (1904- ,) Wallace Parks Ritchie (1906- ,) Edwin Winter Ritchie (1908- ,) and Priscilla Burbank Ritchie (1911- .) The Ritchie family were members of the Minikahda Country Club and the Somerset Club in 1935. Parks Ritchie (1845- ,) the son of James Ritchie, a Presbyterian minister, and Hannah Parks Ritchie, was born in Bainbridge, Indiana, attended the Franklin Academy in Indiana, served in the 132nd Indiana Regiment during the American Civil War, graduated from the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1870, practiced medicine in Petersburg, Indiana, from 1870 until 1872, married Emma Bates in Petersburg, Indiana, in 1871, practiced medicine in Wellington, Kansas, from 1872 until 1874, practiced medicine in Martinsville, Indiana, from 1874 until 1881, moved to St. Paul in 1881, was the chair of obstetrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School from 1889 until 1912, was the dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School from 1897 until 1906, was the president of the Ramsey County Medical Society, was the president of the Minnesota Academy of Medicine, was a member of the American Medical Association, was a Mason, and was a Presbyterian. Harry Parks Ritchie was a plastic surgeon and Dr. Wallace Parks Ritchie, Sr., was a neurosurgeon who also trained at the University of Minnesota Medical School from 1933 to 1936 under Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. Dr. Wallace Parks Ritchie, Jr., also was a surgeon who trained at the University of Minnesota Medical School under Dr. John S. Najarian. Emma E. Ritchie ( -1918,) Sarah D. Bates ( -1925,) Dr. Harry Parks Ritchie ( -1942,) and Elizabeth Winter Ritchie ( -1947) all died in Ramsey County. Wallace Parks Ritchie (1905-1969) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Winter, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Gail O. Lafave and James W. Lafave. [See note on Lockwood for 1118 Summit Avenue.]
54 Crocus Place: Aberle House; Built in 1926 (1927 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Jacobethan in style; H. M. Elmer, architect. The structure is a two story, 5268 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that David W. Aberle resided at this address from 1928 to 1970. The 1930 city directory indicates that David W. Aberle, the president-treasurer of Henry C. Garrett Inc., and his wife, Lisette Aberle, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that David F. Aberle, who attended the school from 1929 until 1936, who graduated from Harvard University, who did graduate work in Anthropology at Columbia University from 1946 to 1947, served as a Technical Sergeant in the Army during World War II, and was a Research Fellow in Mental Health at the School of Public Health at Harvard University, resided at this address. In 1996 and in 1999, this address was subject to a property code enforcement actions by the City of St. Paul. David Winfield Aberle ( -1935) died in Ramsey County. Lisette Friend Aberle (1888-1971) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Friedlander, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Beverley S. Abuzzahab and M. Jennifer Abuzzahab. Beverley S. Abuzzahab is a real estate agent with Edina Realty. Mary Jennifer Abuzzahab, with a medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School and additional pediatric and endrocrinological study at Ohio State University and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, is a pediatric specialist at Children’s Hospitals & Clinics and the McNeily Endocrinology & Diabetes Clinic.
90 Crocus Place: O'Brien House; Built in 1926 (1923 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Tudor Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The structure is a two story, 4132 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, two half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. World War I veteran Vincent R. O'Brien resided at 1149 Summit Avenue in 1919. The 1930 city directory indicates that Vincent R. O'Brien, vice president with the Cochran-Sargent Company, and his wife, Margaret O'Brien, resided at this address. In 1934, Vincent R. O'Brien, Margaret Gillette O'Brien, Vincent R. O'Brien, Jr., and Margaret O'Brien resided at this address. The O'Briens were members of the Minikahda Country Club in 1934. Margaret G. O'Brien ( -1954) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Joseph H. Mindrum. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
91 Crocus Place (former 594 Goodrich Avenue:) Bushnell-West House; Built in 1863 (1886 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Shingle in style; Charles E. Joy, architect. The structure is a two story, 3877 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a two car tuck-under garage and a detached garage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Alvin R. Bushnell resided at this address from 1889 to 1891. The 1891 city directory indicates that Alvin R. Bushnell, associated with Bushnell & Bushnell, engaged in real estate and loans, and the Secretary-Treasurer of the Standard Investment Company, resided at this address and that Horace Bushnell boarded at this address. The 1892 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Bushnell and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Bushnell resided at this address. The 1894 and 1898 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. John B. West resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. West, Miss Mary Cooper, and Miss L. B. West resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Dorr resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Bronson West, the father of an infant son who died in 1913 of infantile atrophy and heat, who was born in the United States, resided at this address in 1913. In 1916, William W. Cutler was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cutler resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that William W. Cutler, associated with Beebe Laboratories, Inc., resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cutler, their daughter, and E. H. Cutler, Jr., resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edward H. Cutler, Jr., a teacher, Lydia A. Cutler, an assistant employed by the St. Paul Public Library, and William W. Cutler, a lawyer who officed at the Endicott Building, resided at this address. In 1916, William W. Cutler was elected to the executive board of the Minnesota Historical Society and was on the executive board in 1922. In 1919, William W. Cutler presented to the Minnesota Historical Society a collection of newspaper clippings and cartoons from the St. Paul Pioneer Press relating to the presidential campaign of 1912 made by his sister, Ruth Cutler ( -1918,) who died in Paris while in the service of the American Red Cross. In 1934, William W. Cutler, Edward H. Cutler, Jr., and Henry H. Cutler resided at this address and were members of the Town & Country Club and the St. Paul Athletic Club. William W. Cutler was a graduate of Harvard University. Edward Hutchins Cutler ( -1935) and William W. Cutler ( -1948) both died in Ramsey County. John B. West ( -1912) died in Nicollet County, Minnesota. The 1887 St. Paul Winter Carnival ice palace, measuring 217 feet by 194 feet at the bottom and 135 feet tall, was designed and built by Charles E. Joy in Central Park for only $7,500 and he also designed the 1888 ice palace. Mark Fitzpatrick (1866-1956) was a partner of Charles E. Joy at one time. Charles E. Joy also designed the Edward W. White House at 702 East Fourth Street. Charles E. Joy resided at 882 South Point Douglas Road. Charles Joy (1837-1905) was born in the United States and died in Ramsey County. Charles Edward Joy ( -1928) died in Becker County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are James D. Flanagan and Sarah V. Flanagan.
94 Crocus Place: C. H. Biorn House; Built in 1891 (1906 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Krapp & Holm, architects. The structure is a two story, 4560 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The house has an open floor plan, numerous leaded glass windows, a wrap-around porch, five second floor bedrooms, a third floor separate apartment, and a two car garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Biorn resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Carl H. Biorn, a lawyer who officed at the Globe Building, resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that C. H. Biorn, a lawyer who officed at the Globe Building, and his wife, Jeanette V. Biorn, and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Carl H. Bjorn resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Norman E. Biorn (1915- ,) a member of the Class of 1933, a 1937 graduate of Princeton University, and a law student at the University of Minnesota, resided at this address. The house reputedly was built in 1906 for Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Rosen to be given as a wedding present to their daughter. Carl H. Biorn ( -1950) died in Ramsey County. Jeanette Valfreida Biorn (1886-1979) had a mother with a maiden name of Sophia and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 2003 with a sale price of $990,000. The current owners of record of the property are Ronald M. Schwartz and Susan L. Schwartz.
99 Crocus Place: L. T. Jones House; Built in 1906 (1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 2450 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Levi T. Jones resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Levi Taylor Jones resided at this address in 1920. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Jones and R. W. Jones resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Levi J. Jones, a credit man employed by McKesson St. Paul Drug Company, and his wife, May E. Jones, resided at this address. Levi T. Jones (1868-1955) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Burnham, and died in Ramsey County. May E. Jones ( -1936) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Daniel F. O'Neil. [See note on Lockwood for 1118 Summit Avenue.]
618 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1903; Queen Anne in style. The structure is a two story, 3776 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Stout resided at this address. The 1923 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Stout resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Catherine Strong, the widow of Warren Strong, resided at this address. In 1934, Wilfred Oakley Stout, Sr., Lillian DeCoster Stout, and Wilfred Oakley Stout, Jr., resided at this address. Wilfred Oakley Stout, Sr., was a graduate of the University of Minnesota and Wilfred Oakley Stout, Jr., was a graduate of Princeton University. The Stout family were members of the St. Paul Athletic Club and the Women's City Club of St. Paul in 1934. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Wilfred O. Stout, Jr. (1909- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1921 until 1928, who graduated from Princeton University in 1932, who attended graduate school at Princeton University in 1935, who taught at Princeton Univesity in 1937 and at the University of Chattanooga in 1937-1938, and who pursued the hobbies of golf, skiing, and communism, resided at this address. In 1932, Wilfred Oakley Stout was the author of A Railroad Period in the History of the United States Exemplified in Minnesota: 1849 to 1860. In 1942, Wilfred O. Stout, Jr., was promoted to the rank of assistant professor at the University of Chattanooga. Wilfred Oakley Stout ( -1945) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Fred H. Pritzker and Renee B. Pritzker. Fred H. Pritzker received a bachelors degree from Northwestern University in 1972 and law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1976 and is the founding partner and the president of Pritzker|Ruohonen & Associates, P.A. Renee B. Pritzker, a homemaker, was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004. In 1916, Benjamin Sommers was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at the former nearby 628 Fairmount Avenue. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sommers resided at the former nearby 628 Fairmount Avenue. Benjamin Sommers ( -1942) died in Ramsey County.
633 Fairmount Avenue: Frank B. Kellogg House; Built in 1891 (1889 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; William H. Willcox, architect. The structure is a two story, 8139 square foot, seven bedroom, five bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Frank B. Kellogg resided at this address from 1889. The 1891 city directory indicates that Frank B. Kellogg resided at 592 Portland Avenue. The 1892 and 1894 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Kellogg and Miss L. D. Cook resided at this address. The 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Kellogg resided at this address. The 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Kellogg, Miss L. D. Cook, and P. P. Cook resided at this address. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Kellogg, Miss L. D. Cook, and P. B. Cook resided at this address. The 1904 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Kellogg and Dr. Paul B. Cook resided at this address. The 1915 Woman's Who's who of America, compiled by John William Leonard and published by The American Commonwealth Company of New York, indicates that Clara Cook (Mrs. Frank Billings) Kellogg resided at this address. In 1916, Frank Billings Kellogg, a U. S. Senator, was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Hon. and Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg and Dr. P. B. Cook all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Dr. Paul B. Cook, a partner with Charles D. Freeman in the medical practice of Cook & Freeman, located at the Lowry Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Kellogg and Dr. P. B. Cook all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frank B. Kellogg, a lawyer and a partner in the law firm of Kellogg, Morgan, Chase, Carter & Headley, officed at the Merchants National Bank, and his wife, Clara Kellogg, resided at this address. In 1934, Frank B. Kellogg and Clara Cook Kellogg resided at this address and were members of the Minneapolis Club and the Minikahda Country Club. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Bruce B. Harris, Jr. (1928- ,) who attended the school from 1939 until 1946 and who served in the U. S. Marines, resided at this address. Frank Billings Kellogg (1856-1937) was born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, the son of Asa Farnsworth Kellogg (1823-1893) and Abigail Billings (1826-1892,) the second wife of Asa Kellogg, and the grandson of William Kellogg (1790-1868) and Rhoda Farnsworth Kellogg ( -1823,) moved to Viola, Minnesota, with his parents in 1865, attended public school in Elgin, Minnesota, and worked on a farm until 1875, when he decided to study law in Rochester, Minnesota. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, was employed as a city attorney in Rochester, Minnesota, from 1878 to 1881, served as a county attorney for Olmsted County, Minnesota, from 1882 to 1887, and moved to St. Paul in late 1887. He married Clara May Cook. He campaigned for the Republican nomination for attorney general of Minnesota in 1886, but was defeated by Moses Clapp (1851-1929.) He then formed a law firm with his cousin, former Governor and former U.S. Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis (1838-1900,) and with Cordenio Severance (1862-1925,) which later became Briggs & Morgan, a leading law firm in St. Paul, and where he specialized in antitrust suits against corporations during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Kellogg earned a substantial fortune from his law practice. He became counsel for some of the railroads, the iron mining companies, and the steel manufacturing firms that developed the rich Mesabi iron range in Minnesota and, consequently, was a friend of Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and James J. Hill. Despite those associations, Kellogg achieved national fame as a trustbuster, winning suits against the General Paper Company, a trust which was the marketing agency for a number of paper companies in Minnesota and Wisconsin, against E. H. Harriman and the Union Pacific RailRoad, and against John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company. Kellogg was a government delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis in 1904, was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1904 to 1912, and served as president of the American Bar Association in 1912 and 1913. He was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1916 after being convinced by a petition drive to run. He was one of the few Republicans who supported the League of Nations. After serving one term, in part because he was a poor campaigner, he lost to Henrik Shipstead (1881-1960) in 1922 and returned to St. Paul and resumed practicing law. Senator Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925,) the Wisconsin Progressive, acting on a vendetta because Kellogg tried to get him ousted from the Senate during World War I because of his anti-war sentiments, spoke in St. Paul in 1922 against the reelection of Senator Kellogg, asserting that Kellogg "has bowed obsequiously to wealth and to corporations' orders and to his masters" and describing him as "by nature a subservient cringing creature." In 1923, Kellogg served as a delegate to the Fifth International Conference of American States in Santiago, Chile and served as Ambassador to Great Britain from 1923 to 1925. He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State from 1925 until 1929, succeeding Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948,) and co-authored, with Aristide Briand (1862-1932,) the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact (Pact of Paris; Treaty on the Renunciation of War) in 1928. Briand evolved a plan in 1928 for a bilateral pact outlawing war as a tool of national diplomacy, but Kellogg delayed for months, partly fearful of a two-nation entanglement and then prodded into action by vocal American proponents of the "outlawry of war" movement, he succeeded in broadening the agreement to include 62 nations, among them all of the major powers. A total of 80 treaties of various kinds were signed while he was in office. He bettered relations with Mexico and helped to settle the Tacna-Arica Controversy between Chile and Peru. He was named associate judge of the Permanent Court for International Justice, to fill the balance of Hughes' unexpired term, and served from 1930 to 1935, when he resigned due to ill health. In 1933, Kellogg was the senior partner of the law firm Kellogg, Morgan, Chase, Carter, & Headley. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact. He established a foundation for the study of international relations at Carleton College. He died in St. Paul of pneumonia following a stroke and was interred in the Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea in the Washington Cathedral, Washington, D.C. Third Street in downtown St. Paul was renamed "Kellogg Boulevard" in his honor. Clara Cook Kellogg was born in Rochester, Minnesota, the daughter of George Clinton Cook and Elizabeth Burns Cook, was educated in the Rochester Public Schools, and married Frank Billings Kellogg in Rochester in 1886. Cushman Kellogg Davis ( -1900,) the son of Horatio N. Davis and Clarissa F. Cushman Davis and the grandson of Peter Newcombe Cushman and Sally Kellogg Cuschman, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Nathaniel Cushman, a Private in the Connecticut Continental Line during the Revolutionary War. Laura D. Cook (1880-1960) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Page, and died in Hennepin County. The property was last sold for $1,350,000 and that sale occurred in 2003. The current owners of record of the property are Mark T. Destache and Penny L. Destache. Dr. Mark Destache is associated with The Associated Anesthesiologists and is the president-elect of the Minnesota Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. and Mrs. Mark T. Destache and Penny L. Destache were financial supporters of the United Hospital Foundation in 2003. Mark Destache made political contributions to the American Society Of Anesthesiologists Political Action Committee in 2006 and 2007. Penny and Mark Destache were financial supporters of the Jeremiah Program in 2006.
639 Fairmount Avenue: W. H. Vittum House; Built in 1898 (1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 3683 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1900, 1902, and 1904 city directories indicate that Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Vittum resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Dr. Alfred E. Comstock, the father of a prematurely born infant female, resided at this address in 1911. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Comstock resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Alfred E. Comstock, a surgeon who officed at the Lowry Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Comstock resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Minnesota B. Comstock, the widow of Alf E. Comstock, and Minnesota Comstock, a student, resided at this address. In 1934, Alexander Leslie James, Sr., Nancy Wood James, Alexander Leslie James, Jr., Richard W. James, Frank A. James and Julian C. James resided at this address and summered on the peninsula in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Dr. Willis Hall Vittum (1855-1910) was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, graduated from the the University of Louisiana at New Orleans in 1875, graduated from the Rush Medical College of Chicago, practiced in Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1880, moved to St. Paul in 1886, and was a poet. Willis Hall Vittum was the author of Orpheus and other poems, published in Boston by the Gorham Press in 1911. In 1890, Willis Hall Vittum translated from German, with C. Eugene Riggs, Ludwig Edinger's Twelve Lectures on the Structure of the Central Nervous System for Physicians and Students. Ludwig Edinger founded modern comparative neuroanatomy. Alexander Leslie James, Sr., and Frank A. James were graduates of the University of Minnesota and of Harvard University. Julian C. James was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Nancy Wood James was a member of the Womens City Club of St. Paul in 1934. Alfred Erwin Comstock (1872- ,) the son of George Erwin Comstock (1839- ) and Anna Margaret Kreamer Comstock (1848-1886,) was born in Fayette, Fayette County, Iowa, graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Upper Iowa University in 1895 and with a master's degree in 1898, graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago in 1899, moved to Minnesota and settled in St. Paul, was a homeopathic physician, was a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School from 1901 until 1909, was a visiting surgeon at the City and County Hospital in St. Paul, was the chief surgeon for the Omaha Railway Employees Benefit Association, married Minnesota Berkey (1874- ,) the daughter of John A. Berkey and Minnie Degraff Berkey, in 1907, was a member of the Ramsey County Medical Society, was a member of the Minnesota Medical Society, was a member of the American Medical Society, was a member of the Minnesota Homeopathic Medical Society, was a Mason, was a Republican, was a member of the Town and Country Club, was a member of the University Club of St. Paul, was a member of the St. Paul Automobile Club, was a member of the White Bear, Minnesota, Yacht Club, and died in St. Paul. Alfred Erwin Comstock and Minnesota Berkey Comstock had one child, Minnesota Comstock (1909- .) Alfred Erwin Comstock ( -1930) died in Ramsey County. Minnesota Berkey Comstock ( -1954) died in Wabasha County, Minnesota. The current owner of record of the property is Alice L. Freeman. [See note on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad for 472 Ohio Street.] [See note on the University Club for 420 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the White Bear Yacht Club for 18 Kenwood Parkway.]
645 Fairmount Avenue: R. L. Ware House; Built in 1897 (1895 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; __?__ Stevens, architect. The structure is a two story, 4117 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1902 and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Ware resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Warren, their daughter, and A. H. Warren, Jr., all resided at this address. Alvah H. Warren, Jr., was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Alvah H. Warren (1854-1924,) the husband of Clara L. Warren, who was born in Maine to parents born in the United States and who died of a diabetic coma, resided at this address in 1924. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Warren, their daughter, and A. H. Warren, Jr., all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Clara H. Warren, the widow of Alvah Warren, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Robert O. Clark (1930- ,) who attended the school from 1941 until 1948, who attended Princeton University, and who pursued the hobbies of sailing, tennis, and golf, resided at this address. Robert L. Ware (1866- ) was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, moved to Minnesota in 1886, and was engaged in the loan and real estate business. In 1882, Alvah H. Warren was an usher for the wedding of Marie Estelle Boardman and E. Robinson in New York City. Alvah H. Warren ( -1924) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Robert W. Gutenkauf and Vicki Jo Gutenkauf. Robert W. Gutenkauf is an attorney with the law firm of Gray Plant Mooty and was recognized by the firm for doing pro bono legal work during 2006. [See note on Stevens for 335 Summit Avenue.]
651 Fairmount Avenue: H. F. Hoyt House; Built in 1896 (1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style, A. Stem, architect. The structure is a two story, 4294 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Henry F. Hoyt resided at this address from 1891 to 1898. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Otis N. Dunham and Florence Mae Dunham (1862-1893,) who died of septicaemia, husband and wife, resided at this address in 1893. The 1894 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. H. F. Hoyt and Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Dunham resided at this address, the 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Rossum resided at this address, and the 1898 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. H. F. Hoyt, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dickerman, and James Kasson resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. H. F. Hoyt, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stem, and James Kasson resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that the Honorable and Mrs. John Lind resided at this address. The 1904 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Strond and their daughters and Miss A. F. Potter resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that F. P. Strong and Miss Anne Frances Potter both resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Towle resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Avelina F. Towle, the widow of William Towle, resided at this address. In 1934, Avelina Foley Towle, who was the widow of William J. Towle, resided at this address and was a member of the Minikahda Country Club, the Women's City Club of St. Paul, and the White Bear Yacht Club. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Augustus W. Clapp, Jr. (1931- ,) who attended the school from 1942 until 1949 and who attended Harvard University, and that John S. CLapp (1934- ,) who attended the school from 1945 until 1950, both resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John C. Hunter, a member of the Class of 1944, resided at this address. Dr. Henry Franklin Hoyt (1855-1930) was born in St. Paul, accompanied the Yellowstone Expedition of David Stanley in 1873 as part of the railway route survey crew, graduated from the Columbia Medical College, was a friend of Henry McCarty, alias "William Bonney" and alias "Billy the Kid," in Tascosa, Texas, and later served as a major and Chief Surgeon under the command of General Arthur MacArthur, Jr., during the Filipino Insurrection. When Charlie Pitts/Sam Wells, a member of the Jesse James/Cole Younger gang, was killed by a posse outside of Madelia, Minnesota, following the attempted robbery on the Northfield, Minnesota, Bank in 1876, his body was unclaimed after being placed on exhibit in the State Capitol building and, under Minnesota law, was donated to a medical school for dissection and his remains eventually were given by Frank W. Murphy, the Minnesota surgeon general, to Dr. Henry F. Hoyt. The body initially was shipped to Rush Medical School in Chicago, where Dr. Henry Hoyt intended the skeleton for his office, but the school refused to accept it due to its damaged condition. In a subsequent attempt to bleach the bones over the winter while he took a job in Las Vegas, Dr. Hoyt weighted them down in a sealed box in Lake Como one night, but one end of the box floated up sufficiently to be seen through the ice and was discovered by a young boy, August Robertson, hunting muskrats a short time later and became a focus for citizen alarm until Dr. Hoyt gained word of the controversy from newspaper accounts sent to him by a friend and was able to recover the skeleton from the Ramsey County sheriff. The skeleton disappeared later and was never found, although there was a skeleton included in a museum at Savage, Minnesota, that some claim is the remains of Charlie Pitts. Dr. Hoyt reportedly met Jesse James at the Old Adobe Hotel in Hot Springs, near Las Vegas, in 1879, while James dined with Billy the Kid. Henry Franklin Hoyt was the author of A Frontier Doctor, published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1929, with an introduction by Frank B. Kellogg, which was an account of frontier and pioneer life in New Mexico and Texas. Henry Hoyt was a native Minnesotan, the son of Lorenzo Hoyt (1828-1909) and Sarah Philadelphia Terrell Hoyt (1832-1915) and the grandson of Benjamin F. Hoyt (1800-1875,) Elizabeth Haney Hoyt (1803-1873,) Henry Keeling Terrell (1808-1908,) and Jane Forsyth Cameron Terrell (1813-1891,) and graduated from the University of Minnesota. He worked as a rodman on a survey crew for the St. Paul & Pacific RailRoad and also helped on a survey of the U.S./Canada boundary. In 1874, he studied medicine in St. Paul with his uncle, John Henry Murphy, a doctor, interned at Church/St. Luke's Hospital in St. Paul and, in 1876, attended Rush Medical School in Chicago. In 1877, he prospected and also practiced medicine in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, and then went to the Texas panhandle, where he supplemented his medical practice income by working as a cowboy. In 1877, after traveling ten miles outside of Deadwood, Dakota Territory, to see one of his first patients, who had a serious gunshot wound, Hoyt was paid with a considerable pile of gold dust, but upon his return to town, he was shocked to find that a good part of the dust did not contain gold and Hoyt henceforth carried with him in his medical saddlebag a bottle of acid to test the validity of his payment. He eventually arrived at Tascosa, Texas, in the middle of a smallpox outbreak, and became an immediate hero after saving the life of Piedad, the adopted daughter of Casimero Romero, the wealthiest of the pastores in that town, when he made a paste of water and gunpowder and smeared it over her skin, which was covered with the pustules of smallpox. He met Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid at Tascosa, Texas. Hoyt reportedly gave the Billy the Kid a lady's watch, which Hoyt had won in a poker game, for the Kid to present as a gift to his sweetheart, Duvelina, and, just before Hoyt departed for Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, Billy the Kid presented him with a sorrel racehorse, "Dandy Dick," formerly owned by Sheriff William Brady, whom the Kid had killed during the Lincoln County War. Hoyt resided for a time at Las Vegas, where for extra money, he tended bar at the Exchange Hotel, and then moved his practice to Bernalillo, New Mexico. In September, 1881, two months after Billy the Kid’s death, Hoyt returned East. In March, 1882, he received his M.D. degree from the Columbus (Ohio) Medical College, then returned to St. Paul, where he became chief surgeon for the Great Northern RailRoad and then for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RailRoad. In 1888, Hoyt married a widow, Ella Owens Gray, who had a son by her first marriage, and the couple later also had a son, Terrell Hoyt, of their own. Hoyt was the head of the St. Paul health department from 1883 until 1884 and from 1888 until 1894. During the Spanish-American War, Hoyt served with the U. S. Volunteers in the Philippines, from 1898 until 1899, where he participated in 25 battles, was wounded, and received the Silver Star for gallantry in 1925. After his discharge in 1902, Hoyt practiced medicine in El Paso, Texas, and in 1910, he moved to Long Beach, California, where he remained until his retirement. Henry Hoyt died at Yokohama, Japan, while returning on a cruise with his sister, Sue Hoyt Wilson, and her husband, George S. Wilson. Benjamin Franklin Hoyt (1800-1875) was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, moved to St. Paul in 1848, was a real estate dealer, was a Methodist Episcopalian preacher and the first Protestant minister in St. Paul, helped found Oakland Cemetery, was a financial supporter of Hamline University, and died in St. Paul. Lorenzo Hoyt (1828-1909) was born in Richland County, Ohio (or Illinois according to the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library,) moved to Minnesota in 1848 (1840 according to the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers,) farmed in Rose Township (Roseville,) Minnesota, married Sarah P. Terrell, was a Ramsey County Commissioner from 1871 until 1873, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Ramsey County (District 24) from 1874 to 1876, was the winner of an election contest with Horace J. Brainard decided by the House of Representatives 67-30, and died in Minneapolis. Henry K. Terrell (1808- ,) the father-in-law of Lorenzo Hoyt, was born in Waynesborough, Augusta county, Virginia, married Jane F. Cameron in 1828, moved to Burlington, Iowa, in 1841, moved to California in 1850, moved to St. Paul in 1851, moved to Goodhue County, Minnesota, in 1857, and was reputed to be the founder of Lake City, Minnesota. Lorenzo Hoyt, the son of Benjamin Franklin Hoyt and Elizabeth Haney Hoyt and the grandson of Elijah Hoyt and Mary Quintard Hoyt, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Peter Quintard, a Sergeant in the Ninth Connecticut Militia, and great great grandfather Isaac Quintard, a Captain in the Ninth Connecticut Militia, during the Revolutionary War. John Lind (1854-1930) was born in Kanna, Smaland, Sweden, the son of Gustav Lind and Catherine Johnson Lind, immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1867, settled in Goodhue County, Minnesota, lost his left hand as a boy in a saw mill accident, moved to Sibley County, Minnesota, in 1872, graduated from the University of Minnesota, began teaching school while studying law, was admitted to the practice of law in 1877 and began practicing law in New Ulm, Minnesota, married Alice A. Shepard in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, in 1879, was employed as a receiver of the United States land office in Tracy, Minnesota, from 1881 to 1885, and served in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from the Second Congressional District from 1886 until 1893, unsuccessfully campaigned for governor of Minnesota as a Democrat in 1896, losing to incumbent Governor David M. Clough, then served as a first lieutenant and quartermaster in the Twelfth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish-American War, and was elected Governor as a Democrat in 1898, defeating William H. Eustis. Lind lost the governorship to Samuel Van Sant in the 1900 election and moved to Minneapolis. In 1902, Lind was re-elected as a Democrat to the U. S. House of Representatives from the Fifth District, retired from the U. S. House in 1905, resumed practicing law in Minneapolis, became the president of the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota, subsequently served as President Woodrow Wilson's personal representative to investigate the affairs of the U.S. Government in Mexico, and was the chairman of an advisory council to the United States Secretary of Labor in 1918. John Lind and Alice A. Shepard Lind had three children, Norman Lind, a lumbering and shipping entrepreneur, Jenny Lind, and Winfred Lind. John Lind died in Minneapolis and is buried in Lakewood Cemetery (Section 10.) William F. Towle was an 1888 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and once resided in Illinois. David Marston Clough (1846-1924) was born in Lyme, New Hampshire, moved to Minnesota with his father's family in 1857, initially settled in Spencer Brook, Minnesota, moved to Minneapolis in 1866, engaged in the lumber business, married Addie Barton in 1868, was a Republican, was a Minneapolis aldermen, was a Minnesota state senator from 1886 until 1890 for District 28, representing Anoka, Hennepin, and Isanti counties, was Minnesota lieutenant governor from 1893 until 1895, was Minnesota governor from 1895 until 1899, when Knute Nelson resigned to serve in the United States Senate, then moved to Everett, Washington, at the urging of James J. Hill, and engaged again in the lumber business while he championed the interests of the mill owners against their employees' unionization efforts. Roland Hill Hartley, an eventual Washington State governor, was a bookkeeper for the Clough Brothers Lumber Company and was the personal secretary for Minnesota Governor David Marston Clough before moving to Washington State. William Henry Eustis (1845/1847-1928) was born in Jefferson County, New York, injured his hip in 1860 and was lame, graduated from the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, in 1873, graduated from the law school of Columbia College of New York City in 1874, taught in the New York city schools, was a lawyer, was the law partner of John R. Putnam in Saratoga Springs, New York, from 1875 until 1881, moved to Minnesota in 1881, setled in Minneapolis, erected the Corn Exchange Building and the Flour Exchange Building, was one of the original directors of the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Railroad, was an incorporator of the North American Telegraph Company, was a Republican, was a Mason, was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1892, was a delegate to the national convention which nominated James G. Blaine for the presidency in 1892, was an unsuccessful candidate for Minnesota governor in 1898, supported women's suffrage in 1900, was appointed special United States commissioner to the Hawaiian Islands to report on post office sites for the cities of Honolulu and Hilo and on needed currency reform in 1902, was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Minnesota in 1908, donated the land and money for the Michael Dowling School for Crippled Children in 1920, donated 64 acres to the University of Minnesota for a hospital for crippled children lso in 1923, and was buried in Lakeland Cemetery (Section 31.) The William Henry Eustis papers are located at the University Archives at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. The Hoyt burial plot at Oakland Cemetery contains the graves of Benjamin Franklin Hoyt (1800-1873,) Elizabeth Henry Hoyt (1803-1878,) Lorenzo Hoyt (1828-1909,) Sarah Terrill Hoyt (1832-1915,) Charles Cameron Hoyt (1878-1902,) Daisy Hoyt Henry ( -1906,) William Henry Hoyt (1841-1903,) Cynthia Hoyt Morrow (1836-1872,) Lafayette B. Morrow (1830-1910,) Thomas Franklin Morrow (1859-1927,) and Susan Owsley Morrow (1874-1957.) Lafayette Blair Morrow (1830/1831- ,) a physician, married, in 1860, Cynthia L. Hoyt, the daughter of Benjamin F. Hoyt (1800-1875) and Elizabeth Haney Hoyt (1803-1873,) and the couple had two children, Thomas Morrow (1860- ) and Wilson H. Morrow (1867- .) Lafayette B. Morrow married Sarah Wright in 1874. John Henry Murphy (1826-1894,) the son of Captain James Murphy, a shipbuilder, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, moved to Quincy, Illinois, in 1834, studied medicine with Dr. Hall of Lewiston, Illinois, married Mary Anne Hoyt of Fulton County, Illinois, in 1848, settled in St. Anthony, Minnesota, in 1850, graduated at Rush Medical college, Chicago, in 1851, was a physician, was a medical partner with Dr. Alfred Elisha/A. A. Ames in 1851, served as surgeon in the First, Fourth, Eighth and Tenth Minnesota Regiments during the American Civil War, moved to St. Paul, initially was a Whig, then was a Republican, was a member of the territorial House of Representatives representing Hennepin County (District 3) in 1852, was a member of the Minnesota constitutional convention representing Hennepin County (District 3) in 1857, was a member of the House of Representatives representing Ramsey County (District 3) from 1885 to 1887, was surgeon general of the state from 1870 until 1889, was a surgeon employed by several railroads, was the president of the National Association of Railway Surgeons in 1893, was the president of the Minnesota soldiers' pension board, was a vice president of the American Medical Association, was a member of the St. Paul school board for ten years, was a Mason, and died in St. Paul. John Henry Murphy and Mary Anne Hoyt Murphy had five children, Littor Ella Murphy ( -1852,) Emma Murphy (Mrs. David G.) Blaisdell, __?__ (Mrs. Robert) Gale, Ada/Adelaide G. Murphy, Mae Murphy, and John W. Murphy, Jr. Ella Belle Hoyt (1870-1957) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Fitch, and died in Hennepin County. James Kasson ( -1911) died in Ramsey County. Alice A. Lind ( -1942) died in Hennepin County. The current owners of record of the property are the trustees for Gordon L. Duke and Lynne E. Duke. [See note on Stem for 929 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the Great Northern RailRoad for 280 Maple Street.]
654 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1902; Colonial Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2681 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Reimbold resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Harris resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Kate B. Strickland, the widow of William G. Strickland, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Henry M. Smith (1919- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1932 until 1938 and who attended Harvard University, resided at this address. William Gibson Strickland ( -1929,) Kate B. Strickland ( -1933,) and Joseph F. Reimbold ( -1953) all died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1999 with a sale price of $425,000. The current owners of record of the property are Mary E. Devine and Gregory J. Myers.
657 Fairmount Avenue: Ruloff Fossum House; Built in 1890 (1889 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 3726 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, 1904, and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Strickland resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Strickland and R. G. Strickland all resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Richard G. Strickland resided at this address in 1929. The 1930 city directory indicates that Richard G. Strickland, the president of the Strickland Doolittle Company, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Herbert F. Lewis, a member of the Class of 1956, and Bruce G. Ingersoll, a member of the Class of 1959, both resided at this address. The Strickland burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Richard G. Strickland (1884-1958,) Carolyn Patterson Strickland ( -1984,) William G. Strickland (1849-1919,) and Kate B. Strickland (1853-1933.) William Gibson Strickland ( -1929) and Kate B. Strickland ( -1933) both died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Katherine G. Lewis and Piers I. Lewis. Piers Lewis, a retiree, was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004.
661 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1890; Tudor Revival/Jacobethan in style. The structure is a two story, 4945 square foot, six bedroom, six bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1894, 1896, and 1898 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ritzinger and R. C. Ramsay resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ritzinger and their daughter and R. C. Ramsay resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ritzinger and their daughters and R. C. Ramsay resided at this address. The 1904 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ritzinger and their daughter resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hatch resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Budd, their daughter, and Robert Budd all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that the property was vacant. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John E. Barbey, Jr., a member of the Class of 1936 and a member of the Wesleyan College Class of 1940, Pierre Barbey, a member of the Class of 1936 who attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, W. Homer Sweney, who attended the school in 1908, who graduated from Yale University in 1915, who was stationed at the Great Lakes Training Station during World War I, who married Mary Griggs Barbey, and who was employed by the St. Paul White Lead & Oil Company, and William H. Sweney, Jr. (1917- ,) who was born in St. Paul, attended the school from 1928 until 1934, who attended Yale University, who was an Ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve, and who was employed by the St. Paul White Lead & Oil Company, all resided at this address. Robert H. Budd (-1939) died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 1993 and the sale price was $277,000. The current owners of record of the property are Joseph W. Gagnon and Laura C. Gagnon.
665 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1912. The structure is a two story, 3345 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, stucco house, with a detached one car garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. Jno. Wilkinson resided at this address. World War I veteran J. Humphrey Wilkinson (1893- ,) a Private, resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Isabel A. Bocarde, a bookkeeper employed by Thomas Irvine & Son, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. John Wilkinson resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Isabel Wilkinson, the widow of John Wilkinson, resided at this address. J. Humphrey Wilkinson was a member of the Class of 1916 at Carlton College and was a friend of Dr. Warner Ogden, who resided at 1894 Summit Avenue in 1924. The Ogden-Wilkinson Scholarship Fund at Carleton College was established in 1980 by J. Humphrey Wilkinson, of the Class of 1916, and by gifts from Dr. Warner Ogden, Class of 1916. Mr. and Mrs. J. Humphrey Wilkinson established the Elizabeth M. Wyman Scholarship at Macalester College, in honor of their granddaughter, Elizabeth M. Wyman, Class of 1975. John Wilkinson ( -1918) died in Ramsey County. Isabel Sarah Wilkinson (1861-1965) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Watson, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Gail A. Amundson and Peter R. Rothe. Peter Rothe, a physician for Health Partners, Inc., was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004.
666 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1900; Tudor Revival (Colonial Revival, with Craftsman accents, according to its current owners) in style. The structure is a two story, 3186 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom (four bathrooms and two half-bathrooms according to its current owners,) stucco and cedar shake house, with a detached garage and an attached basement garage. The house has soffits, beams and braces under gables, exposed roof rafters, decorative Northern tradition post-medieval English porch pendants, and with a belt course that girdles the house. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Neely resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Skinner resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William W. Skinner, treasurer of Gordon & Ferguson Inc., and his wife, Elizabeth C. Skinner, resided at this address. In 1934, William W. Skinner and Elizabeth Crunden Skinner resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that William W. Skinner (1888- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1900 until 1905, who graduated from Yale University in 1908, who was a First Lieutenant in the 333rd Field Artillery with the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, and was employed as an investment officer by the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that J. Clifford Janes, a member of the Class of 1928, resided at this address. William W. Skinner married Elizabeth Crunden in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, in 1915 and the couple had two children, Elizabeth C. Skinner (1917- ) and William W. Skinner, Jr. (1924- .) In 1950, the Skinner family commissioned the carved sculpture of owls in the Skinner Room at the St. Paul Central Library as a memorial to William W. Skinner, Jr., who was killed in World War II. Rick Hauser indicates that the most famous persons to reside at this address were Judge J. Clifford Janes and his wife, Mary Janes, who purchased the house from the Skinners. Julian Clifford Janes (1910-1973) was born in Pipestone, Minnesota, graduated from St. Paul's Central High School and the University of Minnesota Law School, returned to Pipestone, Minnesota, where his father and grandfather practiced law, served with the Minnesota National Guard during and immediately after World War II, married Mary Blake Young, practiced law in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, and then in St. Paul, was involved in the Kid Caan-Twin City Rapid Transit Company street car liquidation litigation, served for eight years in the U. S. District Attorney's office in St. Paul, was appointed a St. Paul municipal court judge by Governor Elmer L. Anderson, and died in office of leukemia. Before becoming a judge, J. Clifford Janes was an Assistant U. S. Attorney under George E. MacKinnon in 1957 and was the U. S. Attorney for Minnesota briefly in 1958, and after Fallan Kelly, again briefly in 1961. Miles Lord was appointed to replace Janes in 1961. Clifford Janes successfully represented the United States against fabled lawyer Edward Bennett Williams in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals case of Brennan v. United States, 240 F.2d 253 (1957,) cert. denied, 353 U.S. 931 (1957,) which was criminal conspiracy litigation under the Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Labor Act) following the payment of alleged bribes to International Brotherhood of Teamsters officials by or on behalf of Archer-Daniels-Midland Company to end a strike and to shift the United Mine Workers union representation of some workers. Mrs. Clifford Janes was the compiler of the Brooks and Young family records, published in 1984. Mrs. Julian Clifford Janes was the owner of a painting at the Smithsonian American Art Museum of Mrs. Hercules Dousman (Jane Fisher Rolette) by George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894,) and of a painting at the Smithsonian American Art Museum of Rev. Alexander Young, D.D. (1800-1854,) by Joshua Hayward. Mary Blake Young (Mrs. J. Clifford) Janes ( -1995) was a member of the Colonial Dames of Minnesota. Mary Blake Young donated a chestnut shaped pincushion to the Minnesota Historical Society. Mary Blake Young was the co-author with her mother, Violet Dousman Young, of llustrated handbook of the historic home of Hercules L. Dousman, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, St. Paul, Clymer-Huelster, 1936. Mary Young Janes donated a 19th century Satsuma-ware Ceramic Vase and the painting "The Beet Harvest" (1881) by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Janes family grandfather clock, which once occupied the foyer of this residence, was given to U. S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Elizabeth Crunden Skinner was an original founder of the Junior League of St. Paul in 1917, with Elizabeth Ames Jackson and Anne Turney White, the 19th city to form this type of organization. The Junior League of St. Paul is intended to provide volunteer services and charitable contributions to improve the social, economic, educational, and cultural conditions of the community. Mary Young Janes continued to reside at this address from 1973 until 1990. The Minnesota Dance Alliance is also located at this address. Julian Clifford Janes (1910-1973) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wood, and died in Ramsey County. Mary Blake Janes (1910-1989) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Dousman, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1991 with a sale price of $190,500. The current owners of record of the property are Nancy Mason Hauser and Richard A. Hauser. Nancy Mason Hauser has been dance critic for the Christian Science Monitor, Dance Magazine, and the Boston Globe. She was the founder of the Dance Television Workshop at the WGBH Workshop for New Television in 1974 and was the editor of Dance & Television. Ms. Hauser also founded the Los Angeles Dance Video Archive. As a video cameraperson, she was official documentarian for dance activities in the Los Angeles Olympics and now is concentrating on the documentation of exemplary teaching practices for the Perpich Center for Arts Education. Rick Hauser, a graduate of Yale College, is a media producer. He was producer, director and writer at PBS national production center, WGBH Boston, and for various Hollywood studios. Among his productions is the mini-series, "The Scarlet Letter." He moved to the Twin Cities to be Senior Executive Producer for Twin Cities Public Television, is a founding partner of Beyond Broadcast™, a media production company, and co-founder of The Performance Lab™, a company that is building a network of interactive studios across America for the exchange of innovative arts experiences. Rick Hauser is Research Associate for the International Archeological Expedition to ancient Urkesh (Tell Mozan) and is a specialist in third millennium terra-cotta figurines. His book on the subject, Reading Figurines, is published by Undena Publications. [See note on Hercules Louis Dousman.] [See note related to Isadore "Kid Cann" Blumenfeld for 2505 East Lake of the Isles Parkway.]
671 Fairmount Avenue: Herbert Davis House; Built in 1883 (1892 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; __?__ Nickel, architect. The structure is a two story, 4224 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Dr. Herbert Davis resided at this address from 1896 to 1946. The 1898 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Davis and William R. Wallace resided at this address. The 1900, 1902, and 1904 city directories indicate that Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Davis resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Davis and their daughters resided at this address. World War I veteran Wallace Davis resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Herbert W. Davis, a physician who officed at the Lowry Building, resided at this address and that James P. Davis, Lucille Davis, an inspector employed by the State Department of Labor, and Marguerite Davis, a partner with Mary Morrissey and Augusta Murphy of Deer River Studios, located at the Endicott Arcade, all boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. H. W. Davis and his daughters resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Herbert Davis, a physician who officed at 350 St. Peter Street, resided at this address. In 1934, Dr. Herbert W. Davis, Jennie Wallace Davis, Lucille Davis, Marguerite Davis, and Wallace Davis resided at this address. Dr. Herbert W. Davis was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Dr. Herbert Davis ( -1944) died in Ramsey County. Wallace W. Davis (1889-1960) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Elizabeth, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Kathleen M. Knauer and Mark K. Shirk.
677 Fairmount Avenue: R. C. Helbert House; Built in 1892 (1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The base structure is a two story, 3802 square foot, five bedroom, four bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage, and was last sold for $280,000 in a sale that occurred in 1991. Unit 1 is a 1728 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom condominium, with a detached one car garage, which last sold in 2001 with a sale price of $310,000, and which is currently owned by Kristin Lee Erickson Young and Todd Anderson Young. Unit 2 is a 3049 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom condominium, with a detached one car garage, which is currently owned by Carol L. Pine. Carol Pine is president of Pine & Partners, which helps client companies and organizations shape their cultures with customized historical research, education and communications programs. Carol Pine was a weekly newspaper editor and business magazine journalist, co-founded a student mentoring program at the University of Minnesota, co-founded the Smooth Sailing Program for the Greater Minneapolis Girl School Council, was the chair of the Hazelden Foundation, was Vice Chair of the Minnesota News Council, was Chair of the Journalism Alumni Board at the University of Minnesota, is a member of the board of Voyageurs Outward Bound School, is a member of the board of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John’s University, is a member of the board of the Minnesota News Council, and was Captain of Hot Flash Sailing in the 2001 and 2003 Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Robert C. Holbert resided at this address from 1897 to 1908. The 1898, 1900, 1902, and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Holbert and Mrs. E. L. Cannon resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Robert C. Holbert resided at this address in 1898 and in 1899. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Martha R. Holbert resided at this address in 1907. Robert Holbert was the son of Martha R. Holbert. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Kalman resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Kalman resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edward C. Williams, a manager employed by H. M. Byllesby & Company, and his wife, Caroline M. Williams, resided at this address. Richard Holbert ( -1950) died in Hennepin County. Emma Louise Cannon ( -1935) and Edward C. Williams ( -1944) both died in Ramsey County. Paul J. Kalman ( -1935) died in Washington County, Minnesota.
680 Fairmount Avenue: Allen H. Stem House; Built in 1888; Shingle in style. The structure is a two story, 2493 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1894 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stem resided at this address, the 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Wann resided at this address, and the 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Curtis resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Stickney resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ames and J. A. Heffenstein resided at this address. The 1904 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Stutz resided at this address. In 1916, Judge Frederick M. Catlin was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Hon. and Mrs. F. M. Catlin and their daughter resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Frederick M. Catlin, a lawyer who officed at the Merchants Bank Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Hon. and Mrs. L. M. Catlin and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Arch B. Jackson resided at this address. In 1934, Archibald B. Jackson, Margaret McDonald Jackson, Margaret Jackson, John J. Jackson, and Lucy Jackson resided at this address. From at least 1903 to 1912, the Charles A. Stickney Company manufactured various three to 16 horsepower steam and gasoline stationary engines. Archibald B. Jackson was a graduate of Princeton University. Archibald B. Jackson (1899- ,) a Second Lieutenant, was a World War I veteran who resided at 483 Grand Avenue in 1919. Margaret McDonald Jackson was a member of the Junior League in 1934. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald B. Jackson were members of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church. Frederick M. Catlin (1859- ) was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, received a bachelors degree from Cornell University in 1882, was admitted to the practice of law in 1884, moved to St. Paul in 1884, was a Notary Public in Ramsey County in 1890 and in 1891, practiced law in St. Paul, officing at the Manhatten Building, in 1907, became the acting St. Paul Chief of Police, briefly replacing Chief John O'Connor in 1912, represented the oil company in the case before the Minnesota Supreme Court of Bartles Oil Company v. State of Minnesota, 155 N.W. 1035 (1916,) was an elected member of the board of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1919 and 1920, and became a Ramsey County District Court Judge. Thomas Leslie Wann ( -1925,) Frederick M. Catlin ( -1929,) Allen H. Stem ( -1931,) Archibald Jackson ( -1945,) and Thomas L. Wann ( -1954) all died in Ramsey County. Archibald Blake Jackson (1899-1980) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Dean, and died in Ramsey County. Margaret McDonald Jackson (1903-1980) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Davis, and died in Ramsey County. Frederick G. Stutz ( -1960) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Hennepin County. The last sale of this property was in 1993 and the sale price was $375,000. The current owners of record of the property are Douglas G. Clock and Kathleen Throssel Clock. [See note on Stem for 929 Summit Avenue.]
682 Fairmount Avenue: Dawson Moreland Residence/William Dawson House; Built in 1893 (1884 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Shingle in style; W. T. McLaughlin, architect. The structure is a two story, 2663 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Dawson Moreland resided at this address from 1890 to 1899. The 1891 city directory indicates that Dawson Moreland, superintendent of the Bradstreet Company, resided at this address. The 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898, and 1900 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. D. Moreland and Mrs. Mary Footner resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. William Dawson, Jr., resided at this address. The 1904 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. William Dawson resided at this address. The 1910 federal census indicates that the Dawson household included William Dawson, Jr. (1862- ,) head of household and real estate agent, born in Minnesota to a father born in Ireland and a mother born in Illinois, married in 1894, Maria R. Dawson (1865- ,) wife, born in Minnesota to a father born in Vermont and a mother born in New York, William Dawson (1885- ,) son, born in Minnesota, Mary F. Dawson (1886- ,) daughter, born in Minnesota, Vincent Walsh Dawson (1888- ,) son, born in Minnesota, Anna R. Dawson (1891- ,) daughter, born in Minnesota, Anna M. Rice (1829- ,) widowed mother, born in New York to a father born in New York and a mother born in Massachusetts, Virginia Rice (1869- ,) a sister-in-law, born in Minnesota to a father born in Vermont and a mother born in New York, and one female servant. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. William Magivny resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Francis G. Okie, a research engineer employed by the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company, and his wife, Rebecca Okie, resided at this address. In 1934, Francis B. Tiffany, Nina Moore Tiffany, and Esther A. Tiffany resided at this address. In 1879, William Dawson was the chairman of the Ramsey County Board of County Commissioners. Francis Gurney Okie (1880-1975) authored Selected lines. Dawson Moreland (1853-1910) was born in Ontario, Canada, was one of the best sharpshooters in the state as a member of the Company C team, married Louisa Footner (1858-1923) in West Galena, Illinois, in 1881, had a summer home at White Bear Lake, Minnesota, initially enlisted in Company I, First regiment, in 1883, transferred to Company J in 1887, and became a member of the regimental team and also of the Company C rifle team in 1888. Francis G. Okie, a small-scale manufacturer of printing inks in Philadelphia, sent a letter to the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company in 1920 requesting samples of every mineral grit size used by Minnesota Mining and Maufacturing Company in making its abrasives, interesting 3M Company vice president William L. McKnight, who hired Okie, the developer of "Wetordry" coated abrasives, the world's first water-resistant sandpaper. The Minnesota Mining and Maufacturing Company was founded at the turn of the century by a doctor, a lawyer, two railroad executives, and a meat market manager on the shores of Lake Superior. Their purpose was to mine corundum, an abrasive used in sandpaper. Unfortunately, the corundum mine yielded a mineral of no value to the sandpaper industry. Most of the original investors left, and those who remained turned to inventing. Their first success was an abrasive cloth used in metal polishing. Okie's wet or dry sandpaper was the company's second success. William L. McKnight was a legend in the company, having worked himself up from bookkeeper through sales to chairman and chief executive. The elder William Dawson (1825-1901) was an incorporator of the St. Paul Boom Company with C. D. Gilfillan, Frederick Driscoll, C. D. Strong, D. D. Merrill, William R. Merriam, C. H. Bigelow, John S. Prince, Amherst H. Wilder, and Maurice Auerbach. The St. Paul Boom Company was a Weyerhaeuser affiliate and was organized to build and operate a log boom on the Mississippi River below the Falls of St. Anthony in Minneapolis. William Dawson (1825-1901) was born in County Cavan, Ireland, came to North America in 1846 and initially settled in Peterborough, Ontario, where he worked as a civil engineer, moved to the United States in 1849, working as a school teacher and country merchant in Louisiana, moved to Minnesota in 1861, became a banker, was a member of the St. Paul City Council, was mayor of St. Paul from 1878 until 1881, was elected a life member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1879, and died of apoplexy in St. Paul. In 1886, William Dawson and Mary Dawson platted out the new town of "Gladstone," northeast of St. Paul at the junction of the Wisconsin Central Railroad and the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad, named after William Gladstone, a popular British statesman of the time, relocated Dawson's plow work business there, and were able to entice the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad to locate its shops there. In the 1890’s, a fire destroyed the Plow Works and the founder of the town, William Dawson, then filed for bankruptcy. In 1896, William Dawson, Sr., was the president of and a director of the Bank of Minnesota, which reportedly was founded by Dawson & Company and by brothers Horace Thompson and James Thompson in 1859, was the oldest bank in St. Paul in the 19th Century, and was closed by the State bank examiner in 1896 during a business downturn when it had difficulty collecting accounts receivable. The Bank of Minnesota was reorganized in 1897. In 1879, Horace Thompson was the president and a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank of St. Paul, located at 67 East Third Street. Christopher C. Andrews, in History of St. Paul, indicates that the Bank of Minnesota was established in 1861 by John Holland, Peter Berry, and William Dawson, in business as Holland, Berry & Dawson, that John Holland withdrew from the partnership in 1862 and the firm became Derry, Dawson & Company, that the firm became Dawson & Company in 1865 and continued as such until 1882, when it became the Bank of Minnesota, incorporated and chartered by William Dawson as president, Robert A. Smith as vice president, and Albert Scheffer as cashier, and located in a six story Kasota stone building at the corner of Sixth Street and Jackson Street. William Dawson was the youngest of a family of 13 children, was born into a family who were members of the Church of England, was educated in civil engineering, emigrated to Peterboro, Ontario, Canada in 1846, was initially employed as a general store clerk, then taught school in Cavan, Ontario, Canada, moved to Mississippi in 1849, was employed as a school teacher and surveyor, moved to Laurel Hill, Louisiana, was employed as a railroad agent, then was the proprietor of a general merchandise store, married Anna Lemon ( -1854) in 1853, moved to St. Paul in 1861, married Mary F. Holland in 1861, engaged in private banking, organized the Bank of Minnesota, was a member of the St. Paul City Council from 1865 until 1868 and from 1875 until 1878, was St. Paul mayor from 1878 until 1881, was a member of the commission that built the Fort Snelling bridge, served on the State Board of Equalization, and served on the city hall/courthouse commission. William Dawson and Mary H. Dawson had six children. In 1896, William Dawson, Sr., also was the president of the Union Stock Yards Bank, which also was closed by the State bank examiner in 1896. Dawson, Lac Qui Parle County, Minnesota, was named for William Dawson, who was one of the proprietors of the town site. In 1915, William Dawson was a member of the board of the Chicago Great Western Railway Company. In 1896, William Dawson, Jr., was the cashier of and a director of the Bank of Minnesota, was vice president of the Union Stock Yards Bank, and, in 1894, became one of the owners of the St. Paul Globe, a Democratic morning newspaper that was founded by Harlan P. Hall around 1875 and closed in 1905. William Dawson, Jr. (1906-1968,) was the son of William Dawson and Maria Rice Dawson, studied at the University of Minnesota and at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris (1906-1908), entered the United States diplomatic service and held a variety of consular positions in Europe and South America, including a posting to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1908, service as vice and deputy consul-general to Barcelona, Spain, and Frankfurt, Germany, consul at Rosario, Argentina, consul at Montevideo, Uruguay, consul at Danzig, Poland, and consul at Munich, Germany, service as consul-general at large from 1922 to 1924, service as chief instructor at the Foreign Service School of the Department of State from 1925-1928, and service as consul-general in Mexico, and culminating with ministerships in Ecuador, Columbia and Uruguay (1930-1939) and ambassadorships in Panama (1939-1941) and Uruguay (1941-1946.) William Dawson, Jr., married Agnes Balloch Bready in 1926. William Dawson, Jr., retired from the foreign service following attendance with the United States delegation at the first United Nations General Assembly session, but then served as the United States representative on the governing board of the Pan American Union (1947-1948,) and died in Maine. Maria Rice Dawson was a daughter of Edmund Rice. Vincent Walsh Dawson (1888-1947) was born in St. Paul, resided at 833 Holly Avenue in 1917, was a printer employed by the Kennedy Dawson Company, located at 353 Jackson Street, was short and slender, had dark brown eyes and dark brown hair, was married to Katherine/Kate H. Dawson (1878- ,) born in Minnesota to parents both born in Connecticut, and the couple had two daughters, Katherine Dawson (1915- ,) born in Minnesota, and Virginia Dawson (1917- .) John M. Holland (1813-1878) was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, came to Minnesota in 1857, engaged in a commission business, banking, and real estate in St. Paul, was a charter member of the first Masonic lodge in St. Paul in 1849, was a member of the House of Representatives, representing Ramsey County (District 6,) in the 1856 Territorial Legislature, was a Ramsey County commissioner from 1864 until 1870, owned a several thousand acre farm in Washington County, Minnesota, and died in St. Paul. Francis B. Tiffany was a graduate of Harvard University. The Tiffany family were members of the Century Club in 1934. Francis B. Tiffany authored the Handbook of the Law of Sales, published by West Publishing in 1908, Death by Wrongful Act: A Treatise: The Law Peculiar To Actions For Injuries Resulting In Death, the Hand-Book of Criminal Law, published by West Publishing in 1907, the Handbook of the Law of Banks and Banking, published by West Publishing in 1912, and the Handbook of the Law of Principal and Agent published by West Publishing in 1903. Nina Moore (Mrs. Francis B.) Tiffany was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, married Francis B. Tiffany in 1889, authored From Colony to Commonwealth in 1889, edited the Letters of James Murray, Loyalist, a collection of documents relating to the Colonial history of North Carolina, which were published in 1900, and authored Harm Jan Huidekoper, a biography of a Dutch colonial resident of Pennsylvania, published by the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1904, Pilgrims and Puritans: The Story of the Planting of Plymouth and Boston, published in Boston by Ginn & Company in 1888, and Stories of the Fugitive Slaves. I. The Escape of William and Ellen Craft, published by the New England Magazine Company in 1890. Francis Buchanan Tiffany (1855- ) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard College in 1877 and from Harvard Law School in 1880, practiced law for six years in Boston, moved to Minnesota in 1887, practiced law in St. Paul, and was the author of several law texts. Dowson Moreland ( -1910,) Mary Ann Dawson ( -1914,) and Francis G. Okie ( -1933) all died in Ramsey County. Maria Rice Dawson (1865-1957) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Acker, and died in Ramsey County. Francis G. Okie (1943-1963) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Shuman, and died in Hennepin County. Francis G. Okie (1880-1975) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Poulson, and died in Washington County. Francis B. Tiffany ( -1936) died in Ramsey County. Nina Moore Tiffany (1852-1958) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Green, and died in Ramsey County. Esther A. Tiffany (1891-1979) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Moore, and died in Ramsey County. Charles Duncan Gilfillan (1831-1902) was born in New Hartford, Oneida County, New York, was educated at Homer Academy and Hamilton College, moved to Missouri in 1850, was a teacher in Potosi, Washington County, Missouri, moved to St. Paul in 1851, moved to Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1852 and read the law under Michael E. Ames, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1853, was the first Town Recorder of Stillwater, Minnesota, resettled in St. Paul in 1854, was a banker, was elected the first chairman of the Minnesota Republican State Central Committee in 1856, practiced law first in partnership with Gold T. Curtis, a fellow alumnus of Hamilton College, in 1853 and then with his brother, James Gilfillan, from 1857 until 1863, married Emma G. Waage ( -1863) in 1859, was a Republican candidate for mayor of St. Paul in 1860, married Fanny S. Waage in 1865, was a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank of St. Paul from 1865 until 1902, became a member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1867, was president of the St. Paul Water Company, beginning work on the system in 1868, was a Republican, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Ramsey County (District 1 and District 24) in 1865 and from 1876 until 1877, was a member of the Minnesota Senate representing Ramsey County (District 24 and District 26) from 1877 until 1887, sold the water works company to the City of St. Paul in 1882, became a life member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1880, built the Gilfillan Block at Fourth Street and Jackson Street in 1881, was the author of The Early Political History of Minnesota, published by the Minnesota Historical Society in 1901, farmed a 13,000 acre "Bonanza" farm in Redwood County, Minnesota, after 1882, was the president of the Minnesota Valley Historical Society and was involved in erecting monuments related to the 1862 Dakota Conflict, and died in St. Paul after being injured by a runaway team of horses on his farm. Charles Duncan Gilfillan and Fanny S. Waage Gilfillan had four children, Emma K. Gilfillan, Fanny W. Gilfillan, Charles Oswin Gilfillan ( -1962,) and Fredrick J. Gilfillan. The current owners of record of the property are Paul Gleich and Elizabeth Sonnier. Dr. Paul Gleich is a board certified urologist with Metropolitan Urologic Specialists, P.A. Elizabeth Sonnier, M.D., is an Internal Medicine doctor. [See note on Edmund Rice and Henry Mower Rice for 4 Crocus Hill.]
686 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1911. The structure is a two story, 2510 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Murphy and W. H. Murphy all resided at this address. William H. Murphy was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Elizabeth Campbell, the widow of William Campbell, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Murphy resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that George N. Briggs, in the publicity and advertising business, and his wife, Mollie W. Briggs, resided at this address. George N. Briggs was involved, in 1929, in the acquisition of Keller golf course by Ramsey County. In 1936, George N. Briggs had a letter published in Time magazine. William Holland Murphy ( -1918) died in Ramsey County. Molly W. Briggs ( -1950) died in Hennepin County. The current owners of record of the property are Daniel W. Hardy and Mary G. Hardy.
688 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1911. The structure is a two story, 3100 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McMillan, Jr., resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McMillan resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frederick G. Stutz, an advertising manager employed by the West Publishing Company, and his wife, Helen Stutz, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Dr. Benjamin Sommers (1910- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1921 until 1929, who graduated from Harvard University in 1933, who graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1937, who did an internship at Ancker Hospital in 1938, who did an internship at the Minneapolis General Hospital, and who engaged in the hobbies of teaching, playing tennis, skiing, playing squash, playing music, and playing touch football, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Henry L. Taylor, Jr., a member of the Class of 1931, resided at this address. In 1879, James T. McMillin, a pork packer located at 118-120 East Seventh Street, boarded at the Merchants Hotel. Benjamin Sommers married Elizabeth Crosby in St. Paul in 1933 and the couple had two children, Georgia Sommers (1937- ) and Edward Sommers (1938- .) In 1929, Colonel Frederick G. Stutz commanded the 206th United States Army Infantry Regiment at Camp Lakeview, Lake City, Minnesota. Minnesota's first formally established National Guard training facility was Camp Lakeview, which was located on the shores of Lake Pepin and south of the town of Lake City. Camp Lakeview was a 189-acre summer training camp that was leased for 40 years from the town of Lake City and was established in 1888 or 1891. It was replaced by the 12,000 acre Camp Ripley in Morrison County in 1930. Frederick G. Stutz ( -1960) died in Hennepin County. The property was last sold for $287,000 and that sale occurred in 1997. The current owners of record of the property are Lucy Wade Shepard and Stanley Shepard. Stanley Shepard graduated from St. Paul Academy in 1947, received a bachelor's degree from Yale University, served in the Navy, taught history at the Wellesley, Massachusetts, High School for ten years, earned a Master's degree from Harvard University in 1961 and a Ph.D. in 1970, then established the Development Office at the newly merged St. Paul Academy and Summit School, then was a Senior Program Officer at the Bush Foundation, served with The Nature Conservancy, the St. Paul Rehabilitation Center, and the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, served as president of the Board of Trustees of St. Paul Academy and Summit School, and was awarded the St. Paul Academy distinguished alumnus award in 1997. Stanley Shepard, a retiree, was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004.
689 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1921. The structure is a two story, 2080 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, two half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Blodgett and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Fred S. Blodgett, a manager employed by the Osgood &;; Blodgett Manufacturing Company, and his wife, Fannie Blodgett, resided at this address. In 1934, Fred S. Blodgett, Fannie West Blodgett, and Margaret Blodgett resided at this address. The Osgood & Blodgett Manufacturing Company had a factory for the manufacture of package boxes, egg cartons was located on Duluth Avenue near Seventh Street. Fred S. Blodgett ( -1938) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Patricia A. Stinchfield and Randy D. Stinchfield. Randy D. Stinchfield is a member of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Minnesota Medical School.
692 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1904; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2422 square foot, one bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Lt. Col. and Mrs. E. H. Schulz resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Warren and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edmund L. Warren, a physician who officed at 350 St. Peter Street, and his wife, Lucille Warren, resided at this address. In 1934, Dr. Edmund L. Warren and Alice Bu Caff Warren resided at this address. Dr. Edmund L. Warren was a graduate of Columbia University. Emil H. Schulz (1883-1963) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Pumpf, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Kay Kemp Raabe and Winfried Raabe. Winfried Raabe, M. D., received a medical degree from Ludwig-Maximilians University in 1972, did a residency in Neurology at the University of Minnesota in 1974, did a fellowship at the University of Minnesota in 1983, is board Certified by the American Board of Psych & Neuro-Neurology, and offices at the U.S. Veterans Medical Center-Minneapolis.
695 Fairmount Avenue: Martha Braley House; Built in 1893 (1921 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; J. T. Bennets, architect. The structure is a two story, 2376 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a one car tuck-under garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that James L. Allen resided at this address from 1890 to 1897. The 1891 city directory indicates that James L. Allen resided at this address. The 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898, and 1900 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Allen resided at this address. The 1902 and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Norman Fetter resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Johnston and their daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Burt resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William Rhodes, a special agent employed by the Sun Life Assurance Company, and his wife, Edith Rhodes, resided at this address. Norman Fetter was associated with the Minnesota State Board of Arbitration in 1901. The State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation was created by Laws of Minnesota 1895, Chapter 170. The board consisted of three persons, appointed biennially by the governor, and one member was to be an employer of labor, another was from a trade union, and the third was to be neither a trade union member nor an employer. Whenever any controversy or difference arose between an employer and employees, the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation, upon application made to it, investigated the dispute and advised both parties as to what should be done to adjust the controversy. It was most active during the years 1918 to 1920. The powers of the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation were transferred to the Department of Labor and Industries, Division of Mediation and Arbitration, when the board was abolished by Laws of Minnesota 1921, Chapter 81. Other board members were John B. Atwater, 1899-1900; G. F. Buehler, 1921; J. W. Dreger, 1901; H. W. Goetzinger, 1901-1918; Samuel B. Green, ?-1910; J. E. E. Johnson, 1899-1900; Horace N. Leighton, 1911-1918; Robert F. Pack, 1919-1921; and Raymond T. Schroeder, 1919-1920. In 1895, Norman Fetter authored The Handbook of Equity Jurisprudence, published by West Publishing Company. In 1879, William Rhodes was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, located at Third Street and Jackson Street. Sun Life Assurance Company was organized in 1865 by a group of Montreal businessman, was originally a Canadian mutual life insurance company, and issued its first life insurance policy in 1871. By the 1880's, Sun Life Assurance Company had expanded to Central and South America, the West Indies, Japan, China, India, North Africa and other international markets. The Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada began operating in the U.S. in 1895. The company survived the difficulties of World War I and a large number of policy claims arising from the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918. In the 1920's, the Sun Life Building in Montreal was at the time the largest building in terms of square footage anywhere in the British Empire. By 1956, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada had entered the health insurance business. The Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada is a member of the Sun Life Financial group of companies. The headquarters of the company moved from Montreal to Toronto. The company was demutualized in 2000 It subsequently adopted a publicly traded holding company structure. Norman Fetter ( -1942) died in Ramsey County. John B. Atwater ( -1921) died in Hennepin County. Gordon Fredrick Clarence Buehler ( -1939) died in Carver County, Minnesota. John William Dreger ( -1932) died in Hennepin County. Henry W. Goetzinger (1993-1957) was born in Minnesota and died in Houston County, Minnesota. Horace Newell Leighton ( -1927) died in Hennepin County. The current owners of record of the property are Margaret E. Hier and Mark B. Hier. In 2003, Mary Berryman Hier, a contributor to the Randy Kelly for Mayor campaign, resided at this address.
701 Fairmount Avenue: George L. Beardslee and George H. Watson Residences/G. H. Ralston House; Built in 1892; Queen Anne in style; Willcox & Johnston, architects. The structure is a two story, 3735 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that George E. Watson resided at this address from 1890 to 1897. In 1890, George L. Beardslee resided at 701 Fairmount Avenue and George H. Watson resided at 703 Fairmount Avenue. The 1891 city directory indicates that George H. Watson, of George H. Watson & Brother, insurance agents, resided at this address. The 1892, 1894, and 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Watson resided at this address and the 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Watson and their daughter resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Doble, W. C. Doble, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Pearce, and Mrs. E. E. Doble all resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that W. C. Doble, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Pearce, and Mrs. E. E. Doble all resided at this address. The 1904 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Adams resided at this address. In 1916, Charles W. Adams was a member of the Minnesota Historicl Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Adams and M. B. Adams all resided at this address. Maurice B. Adams was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Charles W. Adams, the president of the C. W. Adams Lumber Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Adams, their daughter, and Burnham Adams all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William R. Wood, a mechanical engineer employed by the Great Northern RailRoad, and his wife, Florence Wood, resided at this address. George H. Watson (1843- ) was born in Sing Sing, New York, moved to Winona, Minnesota, in 1866, then moved to Chicago, then moved to St. Paul in 1884, and was engaged in the insurance and real estate businesses. A 1907 New York Times article indicates that Hiram M. Pearce was a general freight agent employed by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad and was convicted in federal district of granting illegal freight rebates to the Spencer Grain Company. The Doble burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Mary J. Doble (1837-1914,) Isaac P. Doble (1866-1894,) Aaron Doble (1814-1869,) William C. Doble (1859-1916,) Ella E. Doble (1840-1912,) Carlisle Doble (1820-1868,) M. Adelaide Pearce (1862-1951,) Katherine E. Pearce (1892-1907,) and Hiram Pearce (1857-1940.) George Edward Watson ( -1911) died in Marshall County. George H. Watson ( -1920) died in Ramsey County. William Carlyle Doble ( -1916) died in Ramsey County. Hiram M. Pearce ( -1940) died in Ramsey County. William Robert Wood ( -1951) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Douglas L. Skor and Katherine M. Skor. Douglas L. Skor (1944- ) was born in Helena, Montana, received a bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College in 1966, received a law degree from Yale University in 1969 admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1969, is a member of the Ramsey County, Minnesota State and American Bar Associations, is a member of the Board of Directors of Family Service of St. Paul, is a partner in the law firm of Larson King, LLP, and practices in the areas of business litigation, construction litigation, class actions, mass torts, appellate practice, and insurance coverage litigation. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.] [See note Willcox for 813 Fairmount Avenue.] [See note on the Great Northern RailRoad for 280 Maple Street.]
702 Fairmount Avenue: James T. Clark House; Built in 1891 (1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Shingle in style; __?__ Hanlen, architect. The structure is a two story, 2801 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1894 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Clark resided at this address and the 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. James T. Clark resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Charles Zollman (1876-1896,) of German extraction who died of typhoid fever, resided at this address in 1896. The 1917 Catalogue of Delta Upsilon indicates that Benjamin Kilbourne Edwards, who was employed in the lumber business by the B. K. & W. R. Lumber Company, located at the Capital Bank Building, resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Edwards resided at this address. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#25391) indicate that Harry Shurtleff Durant (1880- ,) a 1917 enlistee and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Quartermaster Corps, Construction Division, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, moved to Minnesota in 1917, received two silver chevrons, was a sales manager employed by the American Steel & Wire Company after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Harry S. Durant, a sales agent employed by the American Steel & Wire Company, who officed at the Pioneer Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Warren resided with his wife, Ida H. Durant, at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Williams A. Warren, the president of the W. A. Warren Company, a mortgage loan, real estate and insurance agency, and his wife, Gladys C. Warren, resided at this address. In 1934, William A. Warren, Sr., Gladys Cruikshank Warren, William A. Warren, Jr., John Warren, and Roger Warren all resided at this address. The Warren family were members of the White Bear Yacht Club in 1934. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Norton C. Hoff, a member of the Class of 1960, resided at this address. James T. Clark (1852- ) was born in Auburn, New York, engaged in railroad work, moved to St. Paul in 1883, became the general traffic manager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad in 1896, and became a second vice president in 1899 and remained in that position through at least 1907. Benjamin K. Edwards (1880- ) was born in Topeka, Kansas, the son of William C. Edwards and Phinetta "Nettie" E. Johnson Edwards, moved with his family to St. Paul in 1883, graduated from St. Paul Central High School in 1898, attended the University of Minnesota, was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, was president of the Edwards Lumber Company, with substantial stands of timber in Missouri and Arkansas, owned the Edwards Pole & Piling Company, was the principal stockholder an vice president of the Kansas Lumber & Supply Company, was a director of the Edwards & Westmacott Lumber Company, was the president of the Minnesota & Nicaragua Coffee Company, officed at the Capital Bank Building, was a Mason, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the St. Paul Association of Commerce, and was a member of the Town and Country Club. William C. Edwards (1846-1910) was born in Virgil, New York, the son of Rufus Edwards and Harriet O. Hart Edwards, graduated from the Courtland Academy of Courtland, New York, moved to Chicago in 1866, was a saw mill superintendent in Grand River, Michigan, owned a retail lumber yard in New Windsor, Illinois, moved to and operatd a lumber business in Kansas, married Phinetta E. Johnson in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1874, moved to St. Paul in 1883 and operated a lumber company, founded and erected Edwards' Hall at Macalester College in 1904, was a Mason, was a member of the Elks Club, was a charter member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, James Truman Clark ( -1922) died in Ramsey County. William Warren (1893-1963) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Farrell, and died in Ramsey County. Gladys C. Warren (1881-1961) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hart, and died in Ramsey County. John C. Warren (1914-1985) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Cruikshank, and died in Ramsey County. William Zollman ( -1917,) a stone cutter, was the father of Charles Zollman and died in Ramsey County. The Zollman burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Charles Zollman (1875-1896,) William Zollman (1831-1905,) Barbara Zollman (1833-1922,) George H. Zollman (1864-1907,) Louise M. Herrmann (1868-1939,) Louis T. Herrmann (1862-1956,) Mahlon H. Shelp (1859-1896,) Charline Shelp (1892-1939,) Mary Shelp (1862-1905,) and Edith Rice (1895-1993.) The property was last sold in 1994 with a sale price of $368,000. The current owners of record of the property are Richard J. Griggs and Lauren A. Segal. Lauren A. Segal is the president and chief executive officer of the Greater Twin Cities United Way, has a Bachelor of Science degree in business management from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, began her career with United Way of America in 1980 as a management trainee and held a variety of positions with United Ways in New Jersey, Michigan and Massachusetts, and is involved in several organizations and associations including the Knight Foundation, the Minnesota Women’s Economic Roundtable and the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation. [See note on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad for 472 Ohio Street.]
703 Fairmount Avenue: G. L. Beardslee House; Built in 1889 (1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Shingle in style, Willcox & Johnston, architects. The structure is a two story, 3796 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that George L. Beardslee resided at this address from 1890 to 1905. The 1891 city directory indicates that George L. Beardslee, credit manager for Tarbox, Schliek & Company, boot and shoe jobbers, resided at this address. The 1892 and 1894 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Beardslee resided at this address. The 1896, 1898, and 1900 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Beardslee and their daughter resided at this address. The 1902 and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Beardslee and their daughter and J. B. Beardslee resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Miller resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Beardslee and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Clara A. Beardslee, the widow of George Beardslee, resided at this address. In 1934, Clara Brackett Beardslee, the widow of George L. Beardslee, and Nelle B. Beardslee resided at this address. Tarbox, Schliek & Company was a predecessor company that was eventually incorporated into Schuneman's department store, which merged with the Dayton Company of Minneapolis in 1958. George L. Beardslee ( -1915) died in Ramsey County. Clara Adelaide Beardslee ( -1946) died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 1997 and the sale price was $310,000. The current owners of record of the property are Beth Johnson Holod and Douglas Todd Holod. Douglas T. Holod (1961- ) was born in Meshoppen, Pennsylvania, received a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1982, received a master's degree from Boston College in 1985, received a law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1990, was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1990, is a member of the law firm of Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP, and practices in the areas of securities regulation, corporate law, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, business law, investments, executive compensation, and Indian gaming law. Douglas T. Holod was associated with Global Child, Inc. in 2002 and with the Aspen Investment Development Corporation in 2006. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.] [See note Willcox for 813 Fairmount Avenue.]
707 Fairmount Avenue: L. A. Robinson House; Built in 1890; Georgian Revival in style; C. H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The structure is a two story, 3515 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Louis T. Jamme resided at this address from 1893 to 1895. The 1894 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Jamme and the Misses Jamme resided at this address, the 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stem and G. H. Markham resided at this address, and the 1898 and 1900 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Robinson resided at this address. The 1895 city directory indicates that Allen H. Stem was an architect with Reed & Stem and resided at this address. The 1902 and 1904 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Robinson resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Defiel, Mrs. E. C. Haynie, her daughter, and D. P. Haynie all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Alf C. Dent, a department manager employed by the Merchants Trust & Savings Bank, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Young resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Rufus E. Harris, the sales manager for Armour & Company, and his wife, Elizabeth M. Harris, resided at this address. In 1900, Lewis A. Robinson authored a selfpublished work, Index to Names and Places. In 1908 and in 1911, Lewis A. Robinson was the comptroller of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad. Lewis A. Robinson, the son of Frederick W. Robinson and Louisa K. Cool Robinson and the grandson of Herman Robinson and Betsy Wadsworth Robinson, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather David Robinson, a Private in the Vermont Militia, during the Revolutionary War. Frederick W. Robinson and Louisa K. Cool Robinson resided in Glens Falls, New York, in the 1874. Fred Robinson was a lime manufacturer. George H. Markham ( -1933) died in Olmsted County. Edwin Cooper Haynie ( -1916,) Allen H. Stem ( -1931,) Donald Parker Haynie ( -1953,) and Frank Wesley Robinson ( -1953) all died in Ramsey County. Leon Alonzo Robinson (1875-1958) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Allen, and died in Ramsey County. Frederick W. Young (1876-1964) was born in Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. Elizabeth M. Harris (1879-1955) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Holloway, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $410,000 and that sale occurred in 1999. The current owners of record of the property are H. T. Fish and Kathryn M. Nelson. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Stem for 929 Summit Avenue.]
713 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1910; Shingle in style. The structure is a two story, 3049 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Leedy resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edwin C. Leedy, Sr., the general agricultural agent for the Great Northern RailRoad, his wife, Laura Leedy, and Edwin C. Leedy, Jr., a student, resided at this address. E. C. Leedy was the general immigration agent for the Great Northern RailRoad in 1914. Edwin C. Leedy ( -1939) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Allan L. Stewart and Judith K. Stewart. [See note on the Great Northern RailRoad for 280 Maple Street.]
720 Fairmount Avenue: Former Convent of the Visitation. The 1930 city directory indicates that the Convent of the Visitation was located at this address. The Convent of the Visitation was established in 1873. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the Visitation Convent was located at this address from 1913 to 1966. The 1920 city directory indicates that Mary A. Bishop, the widow of Judson Bishop, boarded at this address. Visitation School is currently located in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, and is an independent Catholic day school for boys and girls in Montessori preschool through sixth grade and a college preparatory school for young women in grades seven through twelve. It is operated by the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, which was founded by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal. Sister Mary Agatha Russell (1811-1891) was born in New York, became a Sisters of the Visitation nun in Cascasca, Illinois, in 1836, founded the Sisters of the Visitation convent in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1841, founded the Sisters of the Visitation convent with five other nuns in St. Paul in 1873, initially on Somerset Street and later on Robert Street at University Avenue, and died in St. Paul. Judson Wade Bishop (1831-1917,) was born at Evansville, New York, the son of Rev. John Fletcher Bishop, Sr. (1809-1859,) and Allena Brown Bishop (1810-1903,) was educated at the Fredonia Academy and the Union Academy in Belleville, New York, was trained in civil engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, was a draftsman for the Canadian Grand Trunk RailRoad in 1853, moved to Chatfield, Minnesota, in 1857, was a railroad surveyor and the owner and editor of the Chatfield Democrat prior to the Civil War, moved to LeSueur, Minnesota, in 1864, participated in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, the siege of Corinth, Mississippi, the campaign against Tullahoma, Tennessee, the battles of Chattanooga and Mission Ridge, Tennessee, the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, the battles of Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, and Jonesboro, Georgia, the march to Savannah, Georgia, and the campaign through the Carolinas, was the regimental commander of the Second Minnesota Regiment in 1865, first married Ellen "Nellie" S. Huested ( -1878,) in 1866, moved to Mankato, Minnesota, in 1868, moved to St. Paul in 1873, then married Mary Axtell in 1884, was an engineer and manager for the St. Paul & Sioux City RailRoad and real estate agent after the Civil War, and was the president of the St. Paul Trust Company after 1883. Bishop designed the 1870 Wabasha Street bridge in St. Paul. Judson Wade Bishop and Nellie Bishop had three children, Edwin Judson Bishop, Robert Haven Bishop (1876-1923,) and Edward B. Bishop. Mary Libania Axtell Bishop (1859- ,) was born in Galena, Illinois, the daughter of Rev. Charles Axtell and Elizabeth M. Campbell Axtell, was an organizer, with Mary Caroline Beamont, of and was the first president of the Guild of Catholic Women, was the founder of the Altar Guild of the Cathedral of St. Paul, was a poet and writer, publishing the poem "Back Home" in the Catholic World in 1914, and resided in Osseo, Minnesota, in 1934. Robert Haven Bishop was born in St. Paul, was a credit manager for the Eastern Outfitting Company in Portland, Oregon, married Flora M. Cooke (1891- ,) and died in Portland, Oregon. Elizabeth Axtell Bishop (Mrs. Knox) Reeves (1893- ,) a daughter of Judson Bishop and Mary Axtell Bishop, resided in Minneapolis in 1934 and had a daughter, Elizabeth Jane Reeves (Mrs. Gordon) Thompson. Edwin Judson Bishop, the son of Judson Wade Bishop and Nellie S. Husted Bishop and the grandson of John Fletcher Bishop and Allena Brown Bishop, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great great grandfather John Bishop, a private in Baldwin's New Hampshire Militia during the Revolutionary War. Edwin Judson Bishop (1873-1939) was a member of the Class of 1895 at Amherst College, was employed by the St. Paul Trust in 1895, married Catherine Dorothy Mingaye (1891- ,) the daughter of William Herve Mingaye (1855- ) and Catherine Richardson Napier Mingaye, in 1911. William H. Mingaye resided at 761 West Osceola Avenue in 1887 and in 1920. Mary Bishop ( -1944) died in Ramsey County. The Bishop cemetery plot at Oakland Cemetery includes Judson Bishop (1832-1917,) his wife, Ellen Husted Bishop (1839-1878,) Edwin J. Bishop (1873-1924,) and Dorothy Mingaye Bishop (1888-1939.)
721 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1910; Tudor Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 3786 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. W. McQuaid resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Leon G. Bigelow, a department manager employed by Brown & Bigelow, Inc., resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Bigelow resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Benjamin G. Griggs, the secretary of Griggs Cooper & Company, and his wife, Martha B. Griggs, resided at this address. In 1934, Benjamin G. Griggs, Martha Baker Griggs, Elizabeth Griggs, Martha Griggs, Benjamin Griggs, and Juliana Griggs resided at this address and were members of the University Club. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Benjamin G. Griggs (1898- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1908 until 1913, who was a 1920 graduate of Yale University, who attended the Harvard University Business School in 1921, who served with the American Field Service in France during World War I from 1917 until 1919 and was awarded the Croix de Guerre with a star in 1918, who pursued the hobbies of tennis, squash racquets, and family genealogy, who was the Western Squash Racquets champion in 1928, who was vice president of the St. Paul Association of Commerce from 1936 until 1939, who was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Y. M. C. A. from 1935 until 1939, who was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Institue Science Museum, who was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Red Cross from 1934 until 1939, who was the commander of the Midway District Community Chest in 1938, who was the president of the St. Paul University Club in 1930, and was vice president of the Griggs-Cooper Company, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Benjamin G. Griggs, who attended the school from 1908 until 1913, who served as a Captain in the Air Raid Wardens during World War II, who was a board member of St. Luke's Hospital, who was a board member of St. Paul Academy, who was a board member of Macalester College, who was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club, who was a member of the Minnesota Club, who was a member of the University Club, who was a board member of Minnesota Federal Savings & Loan, who was a board member of First Trust Company of St. Paul, who was the president of the Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest, was the president of the Griggs-Cooper Company, who had a summer residence on Madeline Island, LaPointe, Wisconsin, and who pursued the hobbies of squash racquets and tennis, and that Benjamin G. Griggs, Jr., who attended the school from 1939 until 1946, who graduated from Yale University in 1950, and who was employed in the traffic department of North West Airlines, both resided at this address. Benjamin G. Griggs married Martha D. Baker in Bala, Pennsylvania, in 1922 and the couple had five children, Elizabeth T. Griggs (Mrs. T. Kimball) Clark (1923- ,) Martha B. Griggs (Mrs. Frederick W.) Drewry (1925- ,) Benjamin G. Griggs, Jr. (1928 -,) Juliana S. Griggs (1931- ,) and Mary Wells Griggs (1933- .) Martha Baker Griggs was a member of the Junior League of St. Paul in 1934. The 1917 Catalogue of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, published by James T. Brown of New York, indicated that Harry William McQuaid, a 1901 graduate of Northwestern University, was a merchant with a store on Seventh Street and Cedar Street. Martha Griggs Drewry was the daughter of Benjamin Glyde Griggs, born in St. Paul and Martha Baker Griggs, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Benjamin Glyde Griggs (1898-1982) married Martha Dodgson Baker, daughter of Louis Carter Baker in 1922 in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, and the couple had five children, Elizabeth Griggs (Mrs. Henry Gilman) Nichols, Martha Baker Griggs (Mrs. Frederick W.) Drewry, Benjamin Glyde Griggs, Jr., Juliana Griggs (Mrs. Samuel Clinton) Marty, and Mary Wells Griggs (Mrs. Harold Lewis) Mack III. Samuel C. Marty, Jr., M.D., was a member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute in 1982 and resides in San Mateo, California. Henry McQuaid ( -1944) died in Hennepin County. Leon G. Bigelow ( -1935) died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 2002 and the sale price was $540,000. The current owners of record of the property are Kelli Cox and V. Stuart Cox.
727 Fairmount Avenue: B. H. Schriber House; Built in 1895 (1896 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Reed & Stem, architects. The structure is a two story, 3669 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Schriber and Mrs. M. A. Schriber resided at this address. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Schriber, Mrs. M. A. Schriber, and Miss Louise W. Dorsey resided at this address. The 1902 Central Presbyterian Church directory indicates that B. H. Schriber, a trustee of the church, resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Mary A. Schriber (1836-1907,) the widowed mother of Bishop H. Schriber, who was born in the United States to parents also born in the United States and who died of apoplexy, resided at this address in 1908. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Bertha May Schriber (1869-1918,) the wife of Bishop H. Schriber, who was born in Minnesota to parents born in the United States and who died of chronic nephritis, resided at this address in 1918. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Schriber, their daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Schriber all resided at this address. World War I veteran Paul D. Schriber resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Frank H. Camp, a salesman employed by the Manhattan Oil Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Schriber, B. H. Schriber, and Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Snyder all resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Bishop H. Schriber (1863-1925,) the husband of Cora M. Schriber, who was born in Ohio to parents born in the United States and who died of an obstruction of the coronary artery, resided at this address in 1925. The 1930 city directory indicates that Almon A. Greenman and his wife, Charlotte C. Greenman, resided at this address. In 1934, Almon A. Greenman, Charlotte Chamberlain Greenman, Robert Greenman, Almon Greenman, John Greenman, and Thomas Greenman resided at this address and were members of the Minikahda Country Club. Bishop Hovey Schriber (1863- ) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from the Law School at the University of Michigan in 1884, and moved to St. Paul in 1884. Bishop H. Schriber, the son of Peter E. Schriber and Mary A. Schriber and the grandson of Jacobus Schriber, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Peter Scriber/Schriber, a Private in the Third New York Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War. The 1917 Catalogue of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, published by James T. Brown of New York, indicated that Almon Ansel Greenman, a 1905 graduate of Northwestern University, was a banker with the Minneapolis Trust Company. Almon Greenman went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, just before the end of World War II as a representative of Cargill. Mary A. Schriber ( -1908,) Bertha Dorsey Schriber ( -1918,) Paul D. Schriber ( -1924,) and Bishop Hovey Schriber ( -1925) all died in Ramsey County. Almon A. Greenman ( -1957) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Gammon, and died in Ramsey County. Charlotte C. Greenman (1884-1974) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hull, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Sandra R. Walsh and Thomas Michael Walsh. [See note on Reed & Stem for 929 Summit Avenue.]
731 Fairmount Avenue: Dennis A. Murphy House; Built in 1885 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Tudor Revival in style; C. H. Johnston, architect. The structure is a two story, 3945 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, frame house, with a one car detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Murphy resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Murphy resided at this address. World War I veteran Paul C. Murphy resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Murphy and P. C. Murphy all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Dennis A. Murphy resided at this address. Dennis A. Murphy ( -1936) died in Ramsey County. Paul Murphy (1896-1962) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Klaus, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1998 with a sale price of $335,000. The current owners of record of the property are Cheri L. Boehme and Thomas J. Boehme. Cheri L. Boehme was a financial supporter of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota in 2004 and 2006. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
737 Fairmount Avenue: L. C. Bacon House; Built in 1892 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 4272 square foot, four bedroom, four bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1902 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Bacon and Miss Zillah Knox resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Bacon and their daughter resided at this address. World War I veteran Donald K. Backus resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Donald K. Backus, a physician, and Lyle C. Bacon, a student, both boarded at this address and that Lyle C. Bacon, a physician who officed at the Lowry Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Bacon, their daughters, Dr. Donald Bacon, and Dr. Lyle Bacon all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Lyle C. Bacon, a physician who officed at 350 St. Peter Street, and his wife, Alice K. Bacon, resided at this address. Zillah Knox ( -1933) died in Nicollet County, Minnesota. Dr. Lyle C. Bacon ( -1949) and Alice K. Bacon ( -1954) died in Ramsey County. Donald Edward Bacon (1918-1996) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wilbright, and died in Fillmore County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Lucie W. Brown and Helen Lee Pitman as trustees. [See note on Lockwood for 1118 Summit Avenue.]
742 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1904; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2892 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Sickels resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Louis N. Sickels, a manager employed by the Union Fibre Sales Company, and his wife, Hermine Sickels, resided at this address. In 1934, Louis N. Sickels, Hermina Worman Sickels, Helen Sickels, and Edward Sickels resided at this address. The Sickels family were members of the Town & Country Club and the St. Paul Athletic Club in 1934. Hermina Sickels (1880-1964) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Mary E. Conway.
746 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1904; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2951 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, frame house. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Graves and H. E. Perkins all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Graves resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that George B. Graves, the president of the George B. Graves, Inc., Life Insurance Agency, agents for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, located at the Pioneer Building, and his wife, Grace P. Graves, resided at this address. George B. Graves was an agent for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, with Harrie E. Perkins, and was an 1897 alumnus of the University of Nebraska. Hilda Stern, daughter of Willis L. Stern and Nellie Gilchrist Stern, married Harrie E. Perkins. George Blacker Graves ( -1949) and Harold E. Perkins ( -1952) both died in Hennepin County. Harrie E. Perkins (1892-1968) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Sheldon, and died in Stearns County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Daniel A. Klas and Mary L. Klas. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Klas were financial supporters of St. Thomas Academy in 2003 and 2004. Daniel A. Klas was a financial supporter of the Brain Injury Association of Minnesota in 2004 and of the Pillsbury United Communities in 2006. Mary Louise and Daniel Klas were financial supporters of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 2006. In 2000, Daniel Klas had a claim for consideration before the St. Paul City Council.
749 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1917. The structure is a two story, 1666 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1920 city directory indicates that Frank J. Kluckhohn, a broker, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Charlton and Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Charlton all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles D. Maclaren, Jr., the assistant manager employed by the Northwestern Jobbers Credit Bureau, and his wife, Ruth J. Maclaren, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Alexander Seymour (1904- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1915 until 1922, who graduated from Princeton University in 1926, and who is a container and premium manufacturer's agent officing at the Pioneer Building, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Charles M. Bend, Jr., a member of the Class of 1940, resided at this address. Frank Kluckhohn ( -1927) died in Hennepin County. Charles Douglas Maclaren ( -1931) and Charles D. Maclaren ( -1942) both died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Jean M. Moede. Jean M. Moede was a financial supporter of the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library in 2003, of the College of Education and Human Development of the University of Minnesota in 2004 and in 2006, and of the West 7th Community Center in 2006. Jean M. Moede is a member of the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis.
750 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1904; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2932 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Bancroft and Mrs. C. M. Rhodes all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Frank C. Bancroft, a buyer employed by G. Sommers & Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Bancroft, their daughter, R. H. Bancroft, and Mrs. Charlotte M. Rhodes all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frank C. Bancroft, a buyer for G. Sommers & Company, and his wife, Alice Bancroft, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Clifford C. Fay, a member of the Class of 1963, resided at this address. Charlotte M. Rhodes ( -1929) and Frank Churchill Bancroft ( -1940) died in Ramsey County. Alice Rhodes Bancroft (1875-1963) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Rhodes, and died in Ramsey County. Richard H. "Hunter" Bancroft (1902-1974) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Rhodes, and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Mary M. Bonnabeau. Raymond C. Bonnabeau, Jr., M.D., a Cardiothoracic Surgeon, apparently also resides at this address. Mary Bonnabeau was the supervisor of the Education Department of the Minnesota Zoo in 2001. Mary Bonnabeau was a financial supporter of the Minnesota Zoo in 2006. [See note on the G. Sommers & Company for 9 South St. Albans Street]
753 Fairmount Avenue: Dixon S. Elliott House; Built in 1899 (1901 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style. The structure is a two story, 3024 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Dixon S. Elliott resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Wilson and Miss E. G. Fry all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Weed resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Julia B. Gardner, the widow of Stephen P. Gardner, resided at this address. Julia Niles Brewster Gardner was the wife of Stephen Partridge Gardner (1852- ,) the son of Stephen Gardner (1806-1889) and Louisa Stanton Ingalls Gardner (1820-1885,) and the couple had one child, Stephen Partridge Gardner (1878- .) Stephen Gardner (1806-1889) was born in Bolton, Massachusetts, moved to Minnesota in 1864, settled in Hastings, Minnesota, built the Vermillion, Minnesota, flour mill, was the president of banks in Hastings, Minnesota, Cannon Falls, Minnesota, and Minneapolis, and died in Hastings, Minnesota. Stephen Partridge Gardner ( -1929) and Julia B. Gardner ( -1936) both died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 1999 and the sale price was $425,000. The current owners of record of the property are Cindy K. Noble and Gregory James Noble.
756 Fairmount Avenue: V. J. Rothschild House; Built in 1912 (1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; A. H. Hass, architect. The structure is a two story, 2664 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1891 city directory indicates that Valentine J. Rothschild, of Rothschild & Thurston, real estate and mortgage loans, resided at this address. The 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, and 1918 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Rothschild resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that William J. Bland, the vice president and general manager of the T. L. Blood Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Rothschild and Ryland Rothschild all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Val J. Rothschild, vice president-treasurer of H. & Val J. Rothschild Inc., a real estate mortgage, loan, and property management company located at the Guardian Building, and his wife, Winnifred T. Rothschild, resided at this address. In 1934, Kennon Valentine Rothschild, Irene Harlan Rothschild, June Irene Rothschild, Thomas Rothschild, and Kennon Rothschild, Jr., resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that William C. Motter, Jr., a member of the Class of 1931, and William C. Motter III, a member of the Class of 1959, both resided at this address. H. (Henry) & Val J. Rothschild Inc. apparently was involved in real estate and investments. Kennon Valentine Rothschild was a graduate of Cornell University and of Washington University. Kennon Valentine Rothschild and Irene Harlan Rothschild were the parents of June Irene Rothschild. In 1937, June Irene Rothschild (1917- ) married Victor Vernon, Jr. (1912- ,) of Syracuse, Onandaga County, New York, the son of Victor Vernon, Sr., and Charlotte Elizabeth Clay Vernon. Irene Harlan Rothschild was the daughter of Thomas Bartlett Harlan (1868- ,) of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, and the granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson Harlan (1834- ,) of Albemarle County, Virginia, and Zilpha W. Bartlett (1838-1872.) Ryland J. Rothschild was the third vice president of the St. Paul Jaycees in 1931, was the first vice president of the St. Paul Jaycees in 1932, and the president of the St. Paul Jaycees in 1933. Ryland J. Rothschild served on the Municipal Taxation Committee of the National Jaycees in 1935. Kennon V. Rothschild, Jr., was the recipient of the Bronze Key Award by the St. Paul Jaycees in 1956. Kennon V. Rothschild was the chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of the St. Paul Jaycees in 1958. Val J. Rothschild ( -1930) Henry Rothschild ( -1934) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Ellen G. Motter. Ellen G. Motter was a financial supporter of the Dodge Nature Center in 2005 and in 2006. Ellen Motter was a financial supporter of the Children's Museum in 2007.
757 Fairmount Avenue: R. C. Gooding House; Built in 1895 (1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; A. R. Dewey, architect. The structure is a two story, 3591 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1894, 1896, and 1898 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gooding resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Elizabeth Berger (1817-1896,) a widow who died of old age, resided at this address in 1896. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gooding and their daughters and J. R. Gooding resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gooding and their daughters resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bagley, their daughter, H. P. Bagley, and W. F. Bagley all resided at this address. In 1918, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bagely resided at this address. Horace P. Bagley and Wilber F. Bagley were World War I veterans who resided at this address in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#9963) indicate that Wilbur A. Bagley (1892- ,) a 1917 enlistee and a Sergeant in Battery C of the 151st Field Artillery, who was born in Mason City, Iowa, moved to Minnesota in 1898, had blue eyes, brown hair, and a fair complexion, was 5' 7 1/2" tall, was a salesman at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including the Baccarat Sector, Champagne, Marne, Aisne, St. Mihiel, Guippes, Meuse, and Argonne, was gassed on October 11, 1918 at Cieiges, France, was a salesman employed by G. Sommers & Company after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his mother, Mrs. Fred Bagley, at this address. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#14133) indicate that Horace P. Bagley (1896- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Corporal in Company A of the 604th Engineers, who was born in St. Paul, had blue eyes, brown hair, and a light complexion, was 5' 11 1/2" tall, was unemployed at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, was a student after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his mother, Laura Parker Bagley, at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Fred W. Bagley, a manufacturer's agent who officed at the Pioneer Building, resided at this address and Marion Bagley, a student, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bagley, their daughter, and Donald Bagley all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frederick W. Bagley, a manufacturer's agent located at the Pioneer Building, and his wife, Laura Bagley, resided at this address. Rodney C. Gooding was the son-in-law of Elizabeth Berger. Wilbur F. Bagley (1892-1985) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Parker, and died in Hennepin County. Fred W. Bagley ( -1948) and Laura L. Bagley ( -1948) both died in Ramsey County. Wilbur F. Bagley (1892-1985) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Parker, and died in Hennepin County. The current owner of record of the property is Jean E. Gehan. Jean Gehan was a financial supporter of the ARC of Minnesota in 2005.
759 Fairmount Avenue: F. W. Bagley House; Built in 1890 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style; John McGuire, architect. The structure is a two story, 3536 square foot, seven bedroom, one bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jno. McGuire and their daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Tyson resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Merritt W. Wheeler, a partner with Carl L. Larsen, Karl C. Wold, and Lucian G. Culver in Larsen, Wheeler, Wold & Culver, oculists, physicians and surgeons, located at 350 St. Peter Street, and his wife, Ruth Wheeler, resided at this address. Merritt W. Wheeler, Sr., was a medical doctor who served in France during the period 1917-1918 as an Army surgeon. His sons, Merritt W. Wheeler, Jr., and John Zadoc Wheeler, both served in the U. S. Army during World War II. Merritt W. Wheeler, Jr., was a Second Lieutenant and a bombadier who, in 1944, after a solo bombing run over northern Germany, crash-landed in southern Sweden and was interned for seven months at the villages of Korsnos and Granna in the northern province of Sweden. John Z. Wheeler fought against the Japanese Imperial Army during the World War II Battle of Bataan with the Army 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts,) survived the Bataan Death March, but later died on a prison ship following internment by Japanese forces as a prisoner of war. Fred W. Bagley ( -1948) died in Ramsey County. John J. McGuire ( -1927) died in Ramsey County. Merritt Whitacre Wheeler ( -1954) died in Washington County. The property was last sold for $385,000 and that sale occurred in 1995. The current owners of record of the property are Jeanne C. Foussard and Phillip C. Foussard. Mr. & Mrs. Phillip C. Foussard were financial supporters of St. Thomas Academy in 2004.
760 Fairmount Avenue: M. C. Woodruff House; Built in 1888 (1898 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 2489 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Peter McDonald resided at this address. The 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Woodruff and their daughter resided at this address. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Woodruff and their daughter and M. W. Woodruff resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fry resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Dean resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that the property was vacant. Mark W. Woodruff was an employee of the St. Paul Department of Public Works and was the author of List of Streets, City of St. Paul in 1936 and of Facts About the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1939. In 1920, Mark W. Woodruff, a clerk employed by the St. Paul Public Works Department, boarded at 15 George Street West. Peter McDonald ( -1910,) William W. Dean ( -1929,) Mark W. Woodruff ( -1941,) and Peter McDonald ( -1942) all died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Keith P. Wilson and Margaret M. Wilson. [See note on Lockwood for 1118 Summit Avenue.]
764 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1905 (1904 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2775 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Dobner resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Franz De la Forest, a clerk, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Frank de la Forest resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Ryland J. Rothschild, the secretary of H. & Val J. Rothschild Inc., and his wife, Miriam Rothschild, resided at this address. In 1934, Ryland J. Rothschild, Miriam Blaine Rothschild, Ann Rothschild, and Mary Rothschild resided at this address. Ryland J. Rothschild was a 1921 graduate of Dartmouth College and was the captain of the 1920-1921 Dartmouth College hockey team (record: 6-4-1.) Susan Southwick, president of the Bells of The Lakes community handbell ensemble and a bass bell specialist and clinician, previously resided at this address. The Rothschild family were members of the St. Paul Athletic Club, the Town & Country Country Club, and the Junior League in 1934. Francis de la Forest ( -1929) died in Ramsey County. Miriam B. Rothschild (1902-1960) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Kelly, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 2003 with a sale price of $656,200. The current owners of record of the property are Jason S. Branby and Vineeta E. Branby. Vineeta S. Branby is associated with the Asian American Journalists Association and resides at this address. Jason Branby, a marketing manager with General Electric, contributed to the Barack Obama for President campaign in 2007-2008.
767 Fairmount Avenue: John E. Haycock House; Built in 1899 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Henry Brown, architect. The structure is a two story, 2683 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Jenks resided at this address. Roger F. Reilly (1889- ), a Private, was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Edward G. Campbell, a secretary employed by the William Lindeke Roller Mills, resided at this address and that Elouise D. Cedardahl, a bookkeeper, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Miss M. E. Ransom resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Elizabeth M. Ransom, the widow of John Ransom, and Mrs. Mary/Marie E. Ransom, the manager of the Womans Work Exchange, resided at this address. Charles Orlando Jenks (1874-1968) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hayford, and died in Ramsey County. Roger E. Reilly (1889-1960) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Taylor, and died in Ramsey County. John Elliott Haycock ( -1912) and John Ransom ( -1921) both died in Ramsey County. John Elliott Haycock (1895-1960) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wallington, and died in Ramsey County. Roger E. Reilly (1889-1960) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Taylor, and died in Ramsey County. Marie E. Ransom (1878-1959) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Emmett, and died in Ramsey County. Elizabeth Ransom (1881-1957) was born in Minnesota and died in Dakota County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Arthur L. Adiarte and Rosario G. Adiarte. Dr. Arthur L. Adiarte is an industrial economist with the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic Development. Arthur Adiarte was a financial supporter of the Sundial, a publication of the University of the Philippines Alumni Engineers in 2006.
770 Fairmount Avenue: A. W. Trenholm House; Built in 1900; Georgian Revival in style; H. M. Malloy, architect. The structure is a two story, 3307 square foot, seven bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Arthur W. Trenholm resided at this address in 1895. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Trenholm and their daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Jones resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that the property was vacant. In 1934, Dr. Harry B. Zimmerman, Mary Prince Zimmerman, Bernard Zimmerman, and Sarah Zimmerman resided at this address. Dr. Harry B. Zimmerman graduated from Columbia University. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that James W. Moore (1906- ,) who attended the school from 1917 until 1922, who amrried Alice Ramer, and who was employed by the Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, resided at this address. The Zimmerman family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the Somerset Club, the University Club, and the Women's City Club of St. Paul in 1934. In 1948, Harry B. Zimmerman was the president of the Western Surgical Association. Arthur W. Trenholm ( -1927) died in Ramsey County. Harry Bernard Zimmerman (1904-1975) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Knobel, and died in Hennepin County. Bernard H. Zimmerman (1899-1965) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Lakota, and died in Hennepin County. The current owner of record of the property is Robert R. Fahey.
771 Fairmount Avenue: John E. Haycock House; Built in 1884 (1898 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; Brown & Dowling, architects. The structure is a two story, 3946 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that John E. Haycock resided at this address from 1894 to 1898. The 1896, 1898, and 1900 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Haycock resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mrs. J. T. Hallam resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Hilda Jane Spear (1822-1915,) the widowed mother of Mrs. Arthur W. Trenholm, who was born in Vermont to parents born in the United States and who died of senility, resided at this address in 1915. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Kay Todd resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Tyler resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that the property was vacant. In 1879, John Haycock, a wood dealer located at 65 Robert Street, resided at 108 Pleasant Avenue, and that John Haycock, Jr., boarded at 108 Pleasant Avenue. John Elliott Haycock ( -1912,) Hulda Jane Spear ( -1915,) and Arthur W. Trenholm ( -1927) all died in Ramsey County. John Elliott Haycock (1895-1960) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wallington, and died in Ramsey County. Kay Todd (1877-1969) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Page, and died in Ramsey County. Ralph D. Tyler ( -1962) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wilkins, and died in Hennepin County. The current owner of record of the property is Elizabeth J. Putzier. Elizabeth J. Putzier was an in-kind donor to the St. Paul YMCA in 2005, was a financial donor to the Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library in 2006, and was a financial supporter of the Colorado School of Mines Foundation in 2008.
772 Fairmount Avenue: G. B. Dodd House; Built in 1896 (1904 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2508 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, frame house. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1900 and 1918 city directories indicate that Dr. and Mrs. G. B. Dodd resided at this address. Harry C. Dodd (1891- ,) a Second Lieutenant, was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that George B. Dodd, a dentist who officed at the Lowry Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. James Dougher, their daughter, and Otto Dougher all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that James Dougher and his wife, Mathilda Dougher, resided at this address. According to the current owner, the Twin City Building and Loan Association foreclosed on the property, with notice served in the Fall of 1930, that Aldred A. Heckman, a social worker who was close to the philanthropist Louis Hill, rented the home from the Twin City Building and Loan Association in 1936, and, with his wife raised, three children at this address, and bought the house from Twin City Federal Savings and Loan in 1945. Aldred Heckman was the first full-time executive director of the Northwest Area Foundation, serving from 1951 to 1970 and was also active in the founding, along with the Hill brothers, of the Grotto Foundation and the Jerome Foundation (formerly the Avon Foundation.) Otis H. Godfrey, Jr. and Jean K. Godfrey bought the house in the Fall of 1951 from the Heckman family, and raised seven children at the address. David Chioni Moore and his wife purchased the house in August, 2002. Judge Godfrey was a legendary judge in Ramsey County for over 30 years. Dr. George B. Dodd ( -1922) died in Hennepin County. James Dougher ( -1935) died in Ramsey County. Otto Dougher (1899-1966) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Held, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 2002 with a sale price of $469,500. The current owners of record of the property are Amy E. S. Moore and David C. Moore. Amy Schwartz Moore, a financial analyst with General Mills, was a contributor to the Democratic National Committee in 2004. David C. Moore, a professor at Macalester College, was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004. [See note for Louis Hill and Jerome Hill for 260 Summit Avenue] [See note on Otis Hickman Godfrey for 455 Banfil Street.]
775-777 Fairmount Avenue: Thomas H. Swem House; Built in 1909 (1899 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style; O'Meyer & Thori, architects. The structure is a two story, 4107 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Victor C. Gilman resided at this address from 1914 to 1915. The 1917 Catalogue of Delta Upsilon indicates William George Anglim (1879- ,) the son of William Anglim and Mary Dunham Anglim, who was born in Crookston, Minnesota, who graduated from the Crookston High School, who attended the University of Minnesota, and who was a wholesale merchant employed by Whaley & Anglim, and Clyde Wood Norton, who was born in Lisbon, North Dakota, who was a mechanical engineering student at the University of Minnesota, and who was employed in the automobile business with Bingham & Norton, a Reo and Stearns Motor Car dealer, both resided at 775 Fairmount Avenue. The 1918 city directory indicates that S. E. Bingham, C. W. Norton, W. G. Anglim, and A. F. Comstock all resided at 775 Fairmount Avenue and that Mr. and Mrs. B. M. King resided at 777 Fairmount Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Greeman and Mrs. J. C. McCarthy all resided at 775 Fairmount Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that the property was vacant. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that William Mitchell (1903- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1914 until 1921, who was a 1925 graduate of Princeton University, who was a 1928 graduate of the Harvard University Law School, who was an attorney with and partner in Doherty, Rumble, Butler, Sullivan & Mitchell, who married Mary E. Atkinson in Minneapolis in 1937, who was the president of Family Service in St. Paul, who was a trustee of the St. Paul Institute, and who was a board member of the Foreign Policy Association, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Robert F. Townsend, a member of the Class of 1964, resided at this address. Rivera Architecture Inc. is also located at this address. Stanley Eugene Bingham (1887-1974) was born in Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. Charles W. Norton ( -1930) and William George Anglim ( -1954) both died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 1991 and the sale price was $180,000. The current owners of record of the property are Deborah E. Rathman and Kenneth J. Rivera.
776 Fairmount Avenue: C. S. Bunker House; Built in 1905 (1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style; Walter Ife, architect. The structure is a two story, 2416 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached one car garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1894 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Perrin and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Perrin resided at this address. The 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Perrin and W. L. Perrin resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Bunker, C. M. Bunker, C. G. Bunker, W. E. Baker, and Mrs. A. B. Powers resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Field resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Patterson resided at this address. John A. Patterson and William C. Patterson were World War I veterans who resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Pearson and their daughters resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frank E. Pearson, a special deputy examiner employed by the Capital Trust & Savings Bank, and his wife, Anna Pearson, resided at this address. In 1986, David A. Heider, an original member of the board of directors of Sparta Foods, Inc., resided at this address. William Lynn Perrin (1883-1969) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Sweigart, and died in Hennepin County. Anna Pearson ( -1931,) Alma Bratton "L." Powers ( -1935,) Anna Pearson ( -1946,) Anna Pearson ( -1950,) Anna Pearson ( -1952,) and John A. Patterson ( -1954) all died in Ramsey County. Anna Pearson (1891-1979) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Kristenson, and died in Ramsey County. Anna Pearson (1900-1991) was born in Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Ann M. Heider and David A. Heider.
783 Fairmount Avenue: O. J. Reynolds House; Built in 1894 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Shingle in style; C. P. Wildung, architect. The structure is a two story, 2978 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Reynolds resided at this address. The 1902 Central Presbyterian Church directory indicates that Orlando J. Reynolds and Kate Reynolds resided at this address. The 1910-1911 Directory of the University of Minnesota indicates that Olof I. A. Sohlberg and Karl C. Wold, students, resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. Karl C. Wold, Dr. O. I. Sohlberg, and Dr. and Mrs. Olof Sohlberg and their daughter all resided at this address. World War I veterans Olof I. Sohlberg and Alvin P. Wold resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. O. I. Sohlberg, Mrs. Olaf Sohlberg, and her daughter, all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Helvina Sohlberg, the widow of Olaf Sohlberg, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that James D. Clark, a member of the Class of 1961, and Channing W. Donahower, a member of the Class of 1963, both resided at this address. Olof I. Sohlberg was an assistant at the University of Minnesota Medical School during the 1925-1926 and 1926-1927 school years. Dr. Olof Sohlberg (1853- ,) the son of Olof Sohlberg and Ingrid Olsdotter Sohlberg, was born in Ostersund, Sweden, graduated from the College of ostersund, Sweden, in 1879, emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1879, attended Gustavus Adolphus College in 1880 and 1881, settled in St. Paul, graduated from the Minnesota College Hospital in 1884, was a physician and surgeon, married Helvina A. Wold in 1886, studied in Europe in 1890 and 1891, summered in Forest Lake, Minnesota, was a member of the Ramsey County Medical Society, was a member of the Twin City Swedish Medical Society, was a member of the Minnesota Medical Society, was a member of the American Medical Association, was a member of the medical staff of Bethesda Hospital, was a member of the board of directors of Bethesda Hospital, was a member of the board of directors of the Bethesda Deaconess Home of St. Paul, was a member of the board of directors of the Bethesda Old People's Home of Chisago, Minnesota, was a member of the board of directors of the Minnesota College at Minneapolis, was vice president of the North Star Benefit Association of Moline, Illinois, was a member of the Norden Club of St. Paul, and was the secretary of the First Swedish Lutheran Church. Olof Sohlberg and Helvina A. Wold Sohlberg were the parents of son Olof Sohlberg, foster son Karl Wold, and daughter Evie Sohlberg. Karl C. Wold, M.D., was the author of the paper "Hereditary Myopia" in the Archives of Ophthalmology in 1949. The Karl C. Wold home, at 1157 Summit Avenue, was damaged by an explosion in 1926. Orlando Jared Reynolds ( -1944) died in Hennepin County. Olaf I. Sohlberg (1892-1977) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wolds, and died in Ramsey County. Helvina Amalia Sohlberg ( -1937) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Ronald W. Ausen and Terri J. Lee Ausen. [See note on Karl Christian Wold for 685 West Linwood Avenue.]
784 Fairmount Avenue: J. E. Ricketts House; Built in 1896 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 3120 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1902 and 1918 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ricketts resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Harry G./C. Dobner, a partner with Chase L. Dobner in Dobner Brothers, a loan company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Dobner resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Walter S. Grubbs, associated with Walter S. Grubbs & Company, an investment securities dealer, and his wife, Jessie B. Grubbs, resided at this address. In 1934, Walter Stewart Grubbs, Jessie Burke Grubbs, Walter S. Grubbs, Jr., Betty R. Grubbs, and Marilyn G. Grubbs resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Michael W. Booth, a member of the Class of 1963, resided at this address. Walter Stewart Grubbs ( -1949) died in Ramsey County. Jessie Burke Grubbs (1894-1971) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Turner, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are G. Margenne Njus and James M. Njus. [See note on Lockwood for 1118 Summit Avenue.]
788 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1899 (1915 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Bungalow in style. The structure is a two story, 1887 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson and their daughters resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Ida Johnson resided at this address in 1928. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Ida S. Johnson, the widow of Henry Johnson, resided at this address. Ida Sophia Johnson ( -1934) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Darcy M. Anderson and Emil Weiler III.
792 Fairmount Avenue: S. C. Cook House; Built in 1927 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; Albert Zschocke, architect. The structure is a two story, 2734 square foot, six bedroom, one bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Cook and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Cook resided at this address. The 1898, 1900, and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Cook resided at this address. The 1902 Central Presbyterian Church directory indicates that Mrs. N. A. Gilbert resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Lee M. Abbey, a manager employed by the Pioneer Grain Company, resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that John S. Abbey (1916-1923,) the unmarried son of L. M. Abbey, who was born in Minnesota to parents born in the United States and who died of diptheria, resided at this address in 1923. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Abbey resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Carl P. Herbert, the secretary-director of the St. Paul Bureau of Municipal Research, and his wife, Frances Herbert, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Frederick A. Waterous, Jr., a member of the Class of 1948, resided at this address. Carl P. Herbert was the Director of the St. Paul Bureau of Municipal Research in 1934 and was a director of the Minnesota Institute of Governmental Research. The Minnesota Institute of Governmental Research merged with the Minnesota Taxpayers Association in 1956. Carl P. Herbert authored The High Cost of Relief, published by the Minnesota Taxpayers' Association, in 1938. Luther Abbey ( -1946) and Frances M. Herbert ( -1949) both died in Hennepin County. Nancy A. Gilbert ( -1909) and John Schuyler Abbey ( -1923) both died in Ramsey County. Carl P. Herbert (1893-1984) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Bauer, and died in Ramsey County. Frances H. Herbert (1893-1974) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Fonda, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Jane K. McKim and Michael T. McKim. Michael T. McKim (1944- ) received a bachelors degree from the University of Notre Dame and a law degree from the Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska, was a partner in the Minneapolis law firm of Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, Ltd. from 1986 to 1992, was Vice President and General Counsel of Health Risk Management Inc. from 1992 until at least 1997, is a member of the Ramsey County, Minnesota State, and Nebraska State Bar associations, and is associated with PreferredOne Administrative Services, Inc. of Golden Valley, Minnesota. Jane and Michael McKim were financial supporters of the Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries in 2004 and 2005.
793 Fairmount Avenue: Asa G. Briggs House; Built in 1896; Georgian Revival in style; William Kingsley, architect. The structure is a two story, 2925 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, two half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Isaac A. Briggs resided at this address in 1893 and that Asa G. Briggs resided at this address in 1896. The 1898, 1900, and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Asa G. Briggs resided at this address. Allan Briggs and Paul A. Briggs were World War I veterans who resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Asa G. Briggs and Paul A. Briggs all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Asa G. Briggs, a partner with Charles H. Weyl and Allan Briggs in the law firm of Briggs, Weyl & Briggs, located at the Merchants Bank Building, resided at this address and that Paul A. Briggs, a salesman, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Briggs and Mr. and Mrs. Parker Sanders all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Asa G. Briggs, a lawyer and partner with Charles H. Weyl and Allan Briggs in the law firm Briggs, Weyl & Briggs, located at the Merchants Bank Building, and his wife, Jessica P. Briggs, resided at this address. In 1934, Asa G. Briggs and Jessica Pierce Briggs resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Paul A. Briggs, who attended the school from 1908 until 1910 and a wagoner with the 16th Engineers (Railway) A. E. F during World War I, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Thomas H. Garrett, Jr. (1918- ,) who attended the school from 1928 until 1933, who attended the University of Minnesota, who was awarded a New York Stock Exchange Broker's Certificate in 1938, who served as a Captain in the U. S. Army Air Corps in Africa, Italy, and France during World War II, who was a sales representative for the Eddy Paper Company, and who pursued the hobbies of hunting, golf, and outdoor sports, resided at this address. In 1963, Mrs. David Donnelly, a member of the Governmental Affairs Steering Committee of the Minnesota Association For Retarded Children, resided at this address. Thomas H. Garrett, Jr., married Martha Elizabeth Seeger in 1943 and the couple had three children, Thomas H. Garrett III (1945- ,) Mike Garrett (1947- ,) and Martha Garrett (1950- .) Asa Gilbert Briggs (1862-1945) as born in Arcadia, Wisconsin, the son of Dr. Isaac Briggs and Elizabeth Briggs, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1885 and from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1887, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1887, worked for the St. Paul Title Insurance and Trust Company in 1887, and was a lawyer in St. Paul. Mr. Briggs gave at least three published addresses, with the first before the Informal Club of St. Paul in 1924 with a speech entitled "Whither Are We Drifting?," the second in 1926 before the Riverview Commercial Club of St. Paul and Women's Riverview Civic Club of St. Paul with a speech entitled "Our Constitution: The Hope of Our Future," and the third in 1933 with a speech entitled "Our Constitution And The Liquor Traffic." Asa G. Briggs was the director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce from 1930 to 1934, was an officer of the Great Lakes Association, was an officer of the St. Lawrence Tidewater Association, was an officer of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, was a director on the national board for the Camp Fire Girls, was a life member of the Lincoln Centennial Association from Minnesota, was a Mason, and was a Shriner. Asa Briggs was the president of the Wisconsin Alumni Association in Minnesota in 1911. Asa G. Briggs also gave a published address in 1907 entitled "The Railroads and the People." Asa G. Briggs of St. Paul, as the special master, conducted the foreclosure sale of the Mississippi, Hill City & Western RailRoad, which was formed in 1907 by Warren Rabey, R. W. Rolsholt, and Julius Rolsholt, which faltered in 1915 due to a fire in some of its rolling stock and began losing money, and which was finally forced to be sold in 1915 by its creditors under order of the court as a foreclosure proceeding. The railroad was turned over to a new corporation, the Hill City Railway Company, with Stiles W. Burr of St. Paul as its president, and with Walter A. Eggleston of Minneapolis as its trustee under the foreclosure proceedings. Asa G. Briggs also was the trustee owner of several parcels of land in sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, and 36 of Hewett Township, Clark County, Wisconsin, in 1915. Asa G. Briggs ( -1945) died in Ramsey County. Paul A. Briggs (1894-1966) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Pierce, and died in Washington County, Minnesota. Parker D. Sanders (1894-1981) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Mathias, and died in Redwood County, Minnesota. Charles H. Weyl (1884-1956) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Schindeldecker, and died in Ramsey County. Walter A. Eggleston ( -1936) died in Lake County, Minnesota. Asa G. Briggs reportedly was related to Wallace family and Briggs family of Kalamazoo County, Michigan. The current owner of record of the property is Roger W. Ryan.
796 Fairmount Avenue: A. E. Boyesen House; Built in 1892; Georgian Revival in style; Charles Engelbrecht, architect. The structure is a two story, 4077 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The building is on the National register of Historic Places. The 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902, and 1918 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Boyesen resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Alf E. Boyeson, a partner with James C. Otis and Kenneth G. Brill in the law firm of Boyesen, Otis & Brill, located at the Endicott Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Boyesen resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Alf E. Boyeson, a lawyer and partner with James C. Otis and Roland J. Faricy in the law firm of Boyeson, Otis & Faricy, located at the Endicott Building, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that William L. West, Jr., a member of the Class of 1928, Presbury B. West, a member of the Class of 1960, and Frederick S. West, a member of the Class of 1963, all resided at this address. Alf E. Boyeson (1857- ) was born in Christiania, Norway, immigrated to the United States in 1869, graduated from Urbana University in 1878, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1880, practiced law in Fargo, North Dakota until 1887, was retained by James J. Hill and the Northwestern Fuel Company, a wholesale coal business, and moved to St. Paul in 1887. A. E. Boyesen's brothers were Ingolf Boyesen, a lawyer in Chicago, and Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1848-1895,) an author-reformer and a professor at Columbia University. In 1920, Alf E. Boyeson was a subscriber of the Central Law Journal and was one of 29 lawyers and law firms in St. Paul recommended on that publication's international law list. James C. Otis, Sr., the son of Charles Otis (1846- ,) attended Central High School, attended the Barnard School (later renamed St. Paul Academy,) attended Cornell University, studied at the St. Paul College of Law in 1901, joined the family firm, Otis & Otis, in 1903, was a member of the St. Paul City Council as a Democrat from 1907 to 1912, served on the St. Paul Charter Commission during the decades between world wars, served as president of the Ramsey County Public Health Association and the Children's Preventorium, was a member of the Advisory Board of Children's Service, was a member of the Girl Scouts of America, was a trustee of Wilder Charities, was a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines, was the chairman of the Selective Service Appeal Board for the Ramsey County district during World War II, served on the Ramsey County Bar Association's Executive Council, was the president of the Minnesota Bar Association, and was a member of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates. Kenneth G. Brill, the son of a juvenile court judge, graduated from Central High School in 1903, attended the St. Paul College of Law after two years at the University of Minnesota, then worked as a law clerk and at the city attorney's office handling damage claims against the City of St. Paul, joined Otis & Otis in 1913, when the firm's name was changed to Otis & Brill, was a delegate to Governor Luther Youngdahl's Youth Conservation Commission, was an honorary member of the St. Paul Area Boy Scouts, was president of the Minnesota Society, Sons of the American Revolution, served as president of the Minnesota Historical Society for six years, and helped organize the Minnesota territorial centennial celebration in 1949. Roland J. Faricy (1898-1962) attended the Mankato State Normal School, served in the U. S. Army, taught at St. Thomas Academy in St. Paul, then entered the St. Paul College of Law, worked part-time as a law clerk for Boyesen, Brill & Otis, joined the firm upon graduation from law school, taught at the St. Paul College of Law, served as president of the Ramsey County Bar Association in 1946, was the president of the St. Paul Junior Chamber of Commerce, was the president of the St. Paul Association of Commerce, was the president of the St. Paul Club, was the president of the St. Paul Athletic Club, co-chaired the 1960 St. Paul City Charter Amendment Committee, participated in the activities of the St. Paul Metropolitan Improvement Committee, was a member of the International Institute, was a member of the Town and Country Club, was a member of the Knights of Columbus, and was a member of the Judicial Review Committee of the Administrative Conference of the United States in 1961. Moore, Costello & Hart, P.L.L.P. is the successor to Otis & Otis, Otis & Brill, Boyesen, Otis & Brill, and Boyesen, Brill & Otis. The property was last sold in 1997 with a sale price of $463,000. The current owners of record of the property are Lawrence Burstein and Linda A. Zeeb Burstein.
802 Fairmount Avenue: James Cleary House; Built in 1897 (1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style; E. P. Bassford, architect. The structure is a two story, 4178 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Charles F. Phillips resided at this address in 1894. The 1896, 1898, and 1900 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. James Cleary and their daughter and Miss Winifred Callaghan resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. James Cleary and their daughter resided at this address. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Mayo resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Walter L. Mayo, the president of Schunemans & Mannheimers Department Store, and his wife, Sarah J. Mayo, resided at this address. In 1934, Walter Lewis Mayo, Sr., Sarah Joslin Mayo, Walter Lewis Mayo, Jr., Janet E. Mayo, and Rosamond Mayo resided at this address. Walter L. Mayo, Sr., graduated from the University of Minnesota and was associated with Schuneman's, Inc., a St. Paul department store. Walter Lewis Mayo, Jr., (1912-2003) graduated from Saint Paul Academy, from Princeton University in 1933, and from the University of Minnesota, served in the Army Air Corps in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, then joined the family enterprise, the Schuneman Department Store, and became vice president and chief financial officer, retired from Schuneman's after its merger with the Dayton Hudson Company, and concluded his career as the office manager of the Oppenheimer law firm. Walter Lewis Mayo, Jr., was a member of the University Club, the Saint Paul Athletic Club, and the Minnesota Club. He and his wife, Ruth Herbert Mayo ( -1995) had two sons, David Mayo and Walter Mayo (a 1958 graduate of Princeton University.) Walter Lewis Mayo, Jr. died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. James Cleary ( -1912) and Rosamond Mayo ( -1922) both died in Ramsey County. Walter L. Mayo (1877-1961) and Sarah Joslin Mayo (1881-1960) both were born outside of Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. Ruth Irene Mayo (1911-1995) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Coulson, and died in Dakota County, Minnesota. James M. Cleary, along with T. B. Walker, Cyrus Northrop, P. M. Ringdal, Joseph W. Mauck, and Webster Merrifield, contributed articles that were published in the Minneapolis Journal, in December, 1897, and that were collected in The outlook before the young men of today. The current owners of record of the property are K. W. Komroy and Thomas W. Komroy. [See note on Edward Bassford for 35 Irvine Park.]
805 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1914 (1908 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 3414 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Vent resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Gorham and Miss Ann Falk all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Benjamin Gorham, vice-president of the North Western Fuel Company, and his wife, Katherine Gorham, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Daniel J. Willius, a member of the Class of 1959, and Jeffrey D. Willius, a member of the Class of 1963, both resided at this address. Benjamin Gorham ( -1941) died in Nicollet County, Minnesota. William S. Vent ( -1937) died in Ramsey County. Ann Doretta Falk (1901-1990) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hoek, and died in Rock County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Roxann R. Goertz and William W. Repp.
807 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1899. The structure is a two story, 2577 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached one car garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1891 city directory indicates that Frank F. Loomis, associated with Bristol & Loomis, real estate and loans, resided at this address. The 1892, 1894, 1896, and 1898 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Loomis resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Loomis and Miss E. B. Stebbins resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Fleckenstein resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Webster Wheelock resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Rev. Fred M. Eliot, pastor of Unity Church, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Rev. F. M. Eliot resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Reverend Frederick Eliot, pastor of Unity Unitarian Church, and his wife, Elizabeth Eliot, resided at this address. Frederick M. Eliot was a minister at Unity Unitarian Church from 1917 to 1937, succeeding Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Reeve Ramsey (1910- ,) who attended the school from 1921 until 1929, who attended Harvard University, who graduated from Carlton College in 1934, and who was employed by the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, resided at this address. Frederick May Eliot (1889-1958) was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Christopher Rhodes Eliot, a Unitarian minister, and Mary May Eliot, attended the Prince Grammar School, the Roxbury Latin School, Harvard College, the the Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1915. Eliot became the president of the American Unitarian Association in 1937 and continued in that position until 1958. He also served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mount Holyoke College, served on the Boards of the Proctor Academy and the Hackley School, and was a Chaplain to the Massachusetts Senate. During the twenty years of Eliot's incumbency as AUA president, adult Unitarian membership increased 75 percent. Eliot had numerous relatives who were Unitarian ministers: Samuel May, his great uncle, Thomas Lamb Eliot, his uncle, and William Greenleaf Eliot, his grandfather. He was a first cousin of the poet, T. S. Eliot, and his sisters were Dr. Martha May Eliot and Abigail Adams Eliot. The Elizabeth Eliot Club of Unity Unitarian Church, named for Eliot's wife, was established in 1935 and was originally known as the Business and Professional Women's Club. Reeve Ramsey marrried Elizabeth Downes in 1934 and the couple had two children, Betsy Ramsey (1934- ) and Sandra Ramsey (1934- .) Frederick Fleckenstein ( -1927) and Webster Wheelock ( -1931) both died in Ramsey County. Elizabeth Bliss Stebbins ( -1925) died in Hennepin County. The last sale of this property was in 2002 and the sale price was $400,000. The current owners of record of the property are Mark S. Abner and Gabrielle F. Horner. Mark Abner, a fundraiser for the University Of Minnesota and for The Trust for Public Land, was a contributor to the Howard Dean for President campaign and to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004. [See note on Webster Wheelock and the Wheelock family for 194 McBoal Street.]
808 Fairmount Avenue: Shea/Skaret House; Built in 1910 (1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 2957 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Parkhouse resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Herbert H. Parkhouse, a deputy superintendent employed by the Great Northern RailRoad, and his wife, Alice Parkhouse, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Robert W. Greenman, Jr., a member of the Class of 1960, resided at this address. Herbert H. Parkhouse apparently originally resided in Duluth, Minnesota, and, after he moved to the Twin Cities, was the subject of a "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?" column in 1918 or 1919 in the Rip-Saw, a Duluth, Minnesota, scandal sheet with a reputation for muckraking, sensationalism, and criminal libel. The Rip-Saw was founded in 1917, shortly after St. Louis County, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, outlawed the sale of alcohol, by John L. Morrison, a puritanical Christian who abhorred alcohol, gambling and prostitution. The Rip-Saw ridiculed local politicians and the police, who did little to enforce prohibition, and editorialized in favor of streetcars, public toilets and higher pay for policemen. The paper was successful in forcing out of office for public corruption Duluth Chief of Police Robert McKercher and City Auditor "King" Odin Halden. The Rip-Saw met its demise when it accused State Senator Mike Boylan of threatening its editor with mayhem and death, Cass County Probate Judge Bert Jamison of having acquired syphilis at a brothel, and Victor L. Power, a former mayor of Hibbing, of corrupt legal practices and a weakness for women and whiskey, leading to the enactment by the Minnesota Legislature of the Public Nuisance Law of 1925, a "gag law" which allowed prior restraint of the press and which was found to be unconstitutional by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1931 in Near v. Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are James L. Peterson and M. Susan Peterson.
812 Fairmount Avenue: L. N. Dion House; Built in 1905; Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 2957 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Dion, their daughter, and E. N. Dion all resided at this address. Elzear N. Dion (1893- ,) a Second Lieutenant, was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Paul F. Dion, a clerk employed by the Great Northern RailRoad, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Van Arsdall resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Carl D. Wayne, a grain dealer, and his wife, Kathleen Wayne, resided at this address. Lewis Dion ( -1928) died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $580,000 and that sale occurred in 2001. The current owners of record of the property are Keith A. Dotseth and Marie M. Dotseth. [See note on Lockwood for 1118 Summit Avenue.]
813 Fairmount Avenue: F. H. Loomis House; Built in 1889; Willcox & Johnston, architects. The structure is a two story, 2609 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1891 city directory indicates that Francis H. Loomis of Johnson Brothers & Loomis, a furniture manufacturer, resided at this address, that Annie J. Loomis and Elizabeth Loomis, teachers at the Free Kindergarten School, boarded at this address, and that Henry W. Loomis, a clerk for C. D. Bentley, boarded at this address. The 1892, 1894, 1896, and 1898 city directory indicate that Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Loomis and their daughters resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Loomis and their daughters and Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Trevor resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Mrs. Sarah Josephine Loomis resided at this address in 1901. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Francis H. Loomis (1836-1901,) who was born in the United States and who died of arterio sclerosis, resided at this address in 1901. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Loomis and their daughters resided at this address. The 1903 city directory indicates that Herbert Abernethy, an editor at West Publishing Company, boarded at this address. The 1906 Jubilee Manual of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church indicates that Josephine S. Loomis, a widow and a member of the church since 1885, and Mary E. Loomis, a member of the church since 1885, resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. F. H. Loomis and their daughters resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Sarah J. Loomis and the Misses Loomis all resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Sarah J. Loomis (1843-1925,) the widowed mother of Annie J. Loomis, who was born in New York to parents born in the United States and who died of a carcinoma of the pelvis, resided at this address in 1925. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mary E. Loomis resided at this address. Sarah Josephine Loomis was the wife of Francis H. Loomis. Francis H. Loomis (1836-1901) and Sarah Josephine Loomis (1843-1925) are buried at Oakland Cemetery. Annie J. Loomis ( -1927) died in Ramsey County. Elizabeth M. Loomis (1903-1974) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Houran, and died in Ramsey County. Mary Ellen Loomis ( -1953) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Mary Sullivan Rickey and Phillip Rickey. Mary Sullivan Rickey, a self employed artist and a teacher at the University of Minnesota, was a contributor to the Howard Dean for President campaign and to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
814 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1887. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 1383 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1891 city directory indicates that Eugene P. Crossfield was a salesman for the C. W. Hackett Hardware Company and resided at this address. The 1892 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Crossfield resided at this address, the 1894 city directory indicates that Mrs. F. J. Garland resided at this address, the 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Smith and Miss Nellie Egbert resided at this address, and the 1898, 1900, and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Arthur resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Robert F. Garland resided at this address in 1902. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Kueffner resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Marie S. Kueffner, the widow of Otto C. Kueffner, resided at this address. In 1879, Charles W. Hackett, a partner with Charles D. Strong in Strong, Hackett & Company, a wholesale hardware and tinners supply merchant located at 132 East Third Street, resided at 216 East Tenth Street. The C. W. Hackett Hardware Company was a St. Paul hardware company in 1891 and 1892 and apparently was an outgrowth of the Strong-Hackett Hardware Company that was in operation in St. Paul in 1888. Freeman P. Strong was one of the partners of Strong-Hackett Hardware Company in 1888. In 1894, the Hackett Hardware Company joined other St. Paul companies to provide assistance to the victims of the Hinckley, Minnesota, area forest fires. In 1896, the C. W. Hackett Hardware Company was a distributor of the Our Diamond brand of bicycles. The C. W. Hackett Hardware Company also was a dealer in Colt firearms. Charles W. Hackett (1831- ) was born in New Hampshire, came to Minnesota in 1856, settled in Lake City, Minnesota, engaged in general merchandising, was register of deeds of Wabasha County from 1860 until 1864, was the Captain of Company C of the Tenth Minnesota Infantry, organized the Lake City, Minnesota, Bank in 1867, moved to St. Paul in 1872 and engaged in the hardware business, was a partner with C. D. Strong and George A. Chapin in the hardware firm of Strong, Hackett & Chapin in the 1870's, was a member of the State Board of Equalization from 1895 until 1897, was a member of the Jobbers' Union, and was a vice president of the St. Paul National Bank. Charles W. Hackett married Mira J. Holt in 1853 and the couple have two daughters. Jessie Hackett (Mrs. H. B.) Gates was a daughter of Charles W. Hackett and Mira J. Holt Hackett. Charles W. Hackett, the son of Ephraim Hackett and Lois Butler Hackett, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Jonathan Butler, an Orderly Sergeant in the 17th Massacusetts Regiment during the Revolutionary War. Robert F. Garland was born in the United States. Eugene P. Crossfield ( -1909) and Marie S. Kueffner ( -1952) both died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1996 with a sale price of $200,200. The current owners of record of the property are Fred C. Kaemmer and Katherine R. Tilney.
815-817 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1915; Prairie School in style. The structure is a two story, 2504 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Park R. Learned resided at 815 Fairmount Avenue and that Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Learned, Jr., resided at 817 Fairmount Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Kalscheuer resided at 815 Fairmount Avenue and that Mr. and Mrs. F. T. O'Malley resided at 817 Fairmount Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that John H. Shaw, a dairy agent employed by the Universal Car Loading & Distribution Company, and his wife, Catherine Shaw, resided at this address. Park R. Learned (1887- ) was born in St. Paul, a son of Charles E. and Alice Felter Learned, graduated from high school in St. Paul, was an apprentice in the printing business, became the assistant superintendent of the Pioneer Printing Company of St. Paul, was sales manager for the Pioneer Printing Company from 1908 until 1916, partnered in 1917 with __?__ Byron of the Byron & Willard Company, formerly the Byron Printing Company, became the secretary-treasurer of Byron & Learned, printers and advertisers in Minneapolis, was a Republican, was an Episcopalian, was a Scottish Rite Mason, was a member of the Civic & Commerce Association, was a member of the Minneapolis Athletic Club, was a member of the Interlachen Country Club, and was a member of the Automobile Club. In 1910, Park R. Learned married Zilpha Collins, a daughter of H. L. Collins of St. Paul, and the couple had two children, Park R. Learned, Jr., and Alice L. Learned. Alice M. Learner ( -1922) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Dwain R. Boelter.
818 Fairmount Avenue: M. L. Merrill House; Built in 1882 (1887 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) A. D. Crossfield, architect. The structure is a two story, 2055 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1891 city directory indicates that Milford L. Merrill was the secretary of the C. W. Hackett Hardware Company and resided at this address. The 1892, 1894 and 1896 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Merrill and Mrs. Margaret Franey resided at this address. The 1898, 1900, and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Merrill resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Michael Cronin boarded at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles A. Mullaney, a chauffeur, and his wife, Mary Mullaney, resided at this address. Milford L. Merrill ( -1918) of St. Paul was a First Lieutenant in Company D of the Third Battalion of the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry went to the Phillipines, stationed at Camp Dewey in Manila, and returned in 1899. The 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was involved in the heaviest fighting during the battle of Manila (1898.) In 1899, it also fought during the battle of Mariquina Road, the battle of Santa Maria, the battle of Guiguinto, the battle of Quingua, the battle of Nonagaray, the battle of Angat, the battle of Marunco, the battle of San Rafael, the battle of Baliuag, the battle of Maasin, the battle of Salicot, and the battle of San Isidro. The regiment mustered out with 51 officers and 952 enlisted men, having two officers and 42 enlisted men who died during the war and six officers and 68 enlisted men who were wounded during the war. When mustered out in 1899, the unit was met at the Minnesota state capitol building by President William McKinley. In 1879, Milford L. Merrill, a clerk employed by Strong, Hackett & Company, boarded at 68 12th Street. Milford L. Merrill ( -1918) died in Walker, Cass County, Minnesota. Mary E. Mullaney (-1931) and Charles Augustus Mullaney ( -1948) died in Ramsey County. Mary Mullaney (1890-1959) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Kennedy, and died in Ramsey County. Mary E. Mullaney (1892-1981) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Selbitschka, and died in Ramsey County. Arthur Delos Crossfield ( -1944) died in Sherburne County, Minnesota. The last sale of this property was in 1998 and the sale price was $212,000. The current owners of record of the property are James D. Simon and Kathleen Simon. [See note for the C. W. Hackett Hardware Company for 814 Fairmount Avenue.]
821 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1925 (1892 according to Ramsey County property tax records.) The structure is a two story, 2564 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1891 city directory indicates that Fred B. Moore was a clerk with Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Company and boarded at 595 Selby Avenue and that Catherine A. Stretch, the widow of Joel Stretch, also boarded at 595 Selby Avenue. The 1892 city directory indicates that F. B. Moore, J. P. Moore, Mrs. M. V. Moore, and Mrs. C. A. Stretch resided at this address. The 1896 city directory indicates that F. B. Moore, J. P. Moore, and Mrs. M. V. Moore resided at this address. The 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Howes and Mrs. C. M. Squire resided at this address. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Howes resided at this address. The 1906 Jubilee Manual of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church indicates that Helen D. Donald, a member of the church since 1904, and Mary F. (Mrs. Alex) Donald, a member since 1889, both resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Alex Donald resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Alex Donald, a physician who officed at the Endicott Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. R. M. Dunlap and William Marvin both resided at this address. Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Company was a hardware wholesaler and manufacturer that was organized in 1859. Charles Perry Howes ( -1918) and Rose Mary Dunlap ( -1927) both died in Ramsey County. William West Marvin (1888-1979) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of West, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are David O. Cornish and Jeanne O. Cornish.
822-824 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1900; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2729 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Kerwin resided at this address. Mathew F. Kerwin ( -1941) died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1997 with a sale price of $205,000. The current owners of record of the property are the trustees for Raymond H. Finn and Theresa M. Finn.
825 Fairmount Avenue: J. S. Mackey House; Built in 1909 (1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; __?__ Henley, architect. The structure is a two story, 3179 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mackey and the Misses Mackey resided at this address and the 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mackey and Miss F. A. Mackey resided at this address. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mackey resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Leslie and their daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Chapman and Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Paetzold all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frederic/Frederick L. Paetzold, secretary-treasurer of the Great Northern RailRoad, and his wife, Florence Paetzold, resided at this address. In 1934, Frederic L. Paetzold, Florence Chapman Paetzold, and Jane E. Paetzold resided at this address. The Paetzold family were members of the Thursday Club, the Minikahda Country Club, the White Bear Yacht Club, the Schubert Club, and the Women's City Club of St. Paul in 1934. Joseph S. Mackey, the son of Daniel Mackey and Sarah R. Hanover Mackey and the grandson of James Hanover and Betsy Bloodgood Hanover, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather William Bloodgood, a Private in the New Jersey Militia, during the Revolutionary War. F. L. Paetzold was the treasurer of the St. Paul Academy and Summit School from 1929 to 1942. Jane Paetzold married Robert Eliot Matteson (1914-1994) in 1940. Robert Eliot Matteson graduated from St. Paul Academy in 1933, graduated from Carleton College, cum laude, in 1937, received a fellowship to the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration and a Masters in Political Science in 1940, was a member of General Patton's U. S. Third Army in World War II, captured S.S. General Kaltenbrunner, who headed Hitler's Gestapo, in a mountaintop ambush, was in charge of U. S. security for the postwar trials in Nuremberg, Germany, earned the Silver Star and four battle stars, was the Director of the White House Disarmament Staff, and was a member of the U. S. Delegations to both the Five Power London Arms Control negotiations and the Ten Power Geneva Arms Control negotiations, was on the CIA Board of National Intelligence Estimates, was senior advisor to the Director of Arms Control Disarmament Administration, served with distinction in Vietnam, was Director of International Training at the Agency for International Development from 1968-1971, organized the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College, was environmental consultant to the secretaries of the Navy and Air Force, took a canoe trip across Canada to the Bering Sea, took a canoe trip down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, and visited both the North Pole and the South Pole. The foster parents for Robert Eliot Matteson were Mrs. Theodore W. Griggs and Donald John Cowling (1880-1965), a president of Carlton College, and he lived as a child at 432 Summit Avenue, the Burbank-Livingston-Griggs house, and at Forest Lodge in Hayward, Wisconsin. George B. Chapman ( -1926,) Theodore Wright Griggs ( -1934,) Frederick George Leslie ( -1936,) and Joseph S. Mackey ( -1948) all died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 2001 and the sale price was $620,000. The current owners of record of the property are P. Graham Vanderleeuw and Tracy L. Vanderleeuw. Graham Vanderleeuw and Tracy Vanderleeuw were financial supporters of Urban Ventures in 2006.
831 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1911 (1930 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Mission in style. The structure is a one story, 1613 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The property was last sold for $134,500 and that sale occurred in 1993. The current owners of record of the property are Janet L. Houck and Ronald G. Parker.
832 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1910 (1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 2592 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, frame house, with a detached one car garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1898, 1900, and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Seddon resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Florence Amelia Seddon Davison (1884-1915,) the wife of Joseph A. Davison, who was born in Minnesota to parents born in Canada and who died of acute endocarditis, resided at this address in 1915 and her remains were subsequently moved to Roselawn Cemetery. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Seddon and their daughters resided at this address. Richard N. Seddon (1897- ), a Sergeant, was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#13075) indicate that Richard N. Seddon (1895- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Sergeant in Company G of the 56th Engineers, who was born in St. Paul, had blue eyes, light hair, and a light complexion, was 5' 5" tall, was a railroad price clerk at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, was a storekeeper employed by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad after the completion of service, and was married, resided with his father, I. Seddon, at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Seddon resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Isaac Seddon and William Seddon, an instructor, resided at this address. In 1901, 1904, 1907, and 1913, Isaac Seddon was listed as a purchasing agent employed by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad. Isaac Seddon also resided at 664-666 Surrey Avenue, a double house on the National Register of Historic Places. Isaac Seddon ( -1931) died in Ramsey County. Richard N. Seddon (1896-1960) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Johnson, and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Robert H. Chandler. Robert Chandler, an attorney with Chandler & Mason, was a contributor to the Howard Dean for President campaign and to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004.
835 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1921; Bungalow in style. The structure is a one story, 1256 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The property was last sold in 2002 with a sale price of $374,900. The current owner of record of the property is Lori J. Sommerfield.
836 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1915. The structure is a two story, 2806 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Schoch resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Lacy and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Schoch all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William F. Schoch, a vice president of the Andrew Schoch Grocery Company, and his wife, Florence Schoch, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Walter W. Fricke, Jr., a member of the Class of 1958, and Alfred W. Fricke, a member of the Class of 1962, both resided at this address. William F. Schoch ( -1945) died in Ramsey County. Florence M. Schoch (1896-1958) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Bartling, and died in Ramsey County. Florence Schoch ( -1971) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Steffey, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 1992 and the sale price was $195,000. The current owners of record of the property are Ann Labree Russell and Stephen A. Russell. Stephen Russell is an inventor, with three others, of a recording and security system for optical discs and was an applicant for an international patent. [See note on A. Schoch Grocery for 1576 West Osceola Avenue.]
839 Fairmount Avenue: Oscar Hallam House; Built in 1905 (1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; Emil Bostrum, architect. The structure is a two story, 3269 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1894, 1896, and 1898 city directories indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hallam and Mrs. C. F. Lott all resided at this address. The 1891 city directory indicates that Oscar Hallam was associated with the law firm of Lewis & Hallam and resided at 234 Arundel. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Cornelia F. Lott (1841-1897,) who died of uterine cancer, resided at this address in 1897. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hallam resided at this address. The 1910-1911 Directory of the University of Minnesota indicates that Dr. J. T. Christison, a faculty member, resided at this address and officed at the Endicott Arcade. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Christison resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Alex A. McKechnie, the secretary of the St. Paul Union Stockyards Company, and his wife, Ruth S. McKechnie, resided at this address. Oscar Hallam (1865-1945) was born in Linden, Wisconsin, the son of Joseph Hallam and Mary Hallam, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1887 and from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1889, moved to Minnesota in 1889, married Edith Lott ( -1942) in 1892, was a judge in the Second Judicial District (Ramsey County) from 1905 until 1912, was an Associate Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1913 until 1923, was a faculty member of the St. Paul College of Law from 1901 until 1945 and was the dean of the St. Paul College of Law from 1919 until 1941, was the chair of the Minnesota Crime Commission in 1926, was chief counsel of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Sanitary District from 1933 until 1945, served as president of the Ramsey County Bar Association, chaired the board of governors of the Twin City Unit of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, chaired the 4-Minute Men of Minnesota in 1918, was the president of the Navy League of Minnesota, was a member of the board of the St. Paul Council of the Campfire Girls, was a member of the Congregational Church, was a member of the Kiwanis Club, was a member of the Town and Country Club, and was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club. In 1895, Oscar Hallam and S. C. Olmstead represented Miss Pearlie Scanlan in a mock breach of promise case organized by the Eureka Lodge No. 9 of the American Organization of University Women, Scanlon v. Mayer, where David Mayer was represented by Judge Schoonmaker and with W. H. Lightner, Joseph Ehrmanntraut and J. J. McCardy, presiding, as reported in the St. Paul Daily Globe, and with Miss Scanlon prevailing despite her practice of wearing bloomers while she was riding a bicycle. Oscar Hallam (1865-1945) was an elected justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1913 to 1923. In 1918, Oscar Hallam gave a speech to the Minnesota State Bar Association entitled "German Notions of International Law" that was published by the America First Association. Judge Oscar Hallam headed a special American Bar Association committee to examine the pretrial publicity attending the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the convicted kidnapper and murderer of the son of Charles Lindbergh. In 1923, Oscar Hallam was a Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate seat previously held by Knute Nelson, but was defeated by Governor J. A. O. Preus in the primary election. Also in 1923, Oscar Hallam was a member of the board of the 60 bed Twin Cities Masonic Hospital. In 1926, 1927, and 1930, Oscar Hallam was the chair of the Minnesota Commission on Criminal Apprehension, the second crime commission in state history, and was appointed, with 23 other members, by Governor Theodore Christianson in January, 1926. Oscar Hallam also was dean of the St. Paul College of Law after his service as a judge. Hallam wrote Bloomfield and Number Five: The American Way of Life in a Wisconsin Rural Community in the Seventies as Seen by a Small Boy, his reminiscences focusing on his farm boyhood near Dodgeville, Wisconsin, in the 1870's. Hallam also was the author of "Early Courts and Lawyers" in The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 5 (1916,) of "Some Object Lessons on Publicity in Criminal Trials" in 24 Minn. L. Rev. 453, 465 (1940,) of "Dealing with Crime-Some Urgent Needs" in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 125 (1926,) and of "The Essentials. Minnesota's Experiment" in Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 18, No. 3 (1927.) Oscar Hallam and his wife had one daughter, Cornelia Hallam Miller, and she had two daughters, Mrs. Robert J. Lewis and Mrs. Ernest J. Andberg. Cornelia Hallam Miller was the author of "Regardez Les Femmes!" in the Amateur Golfer and Sportsman in 1931. Oscar Hallam, in 1944, was named, with William H. Haight, of Chicago, a distinguished alumnus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Charles F. Lott was the son of Cornelia F. Lott. Joseph J. McCardy (1840- ) was born in Emmitsburg, Maryland, came to St. Paul in 1871, engaged in a mercantile business, was a Republican, was St. Paul city comptroller from 1893 until 1901, was a member of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, was an alternate from Minnesota at the 1886 Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in San Francisco, and eventually moved to Los Angeles, California. In 1879, Joseph J. McCardy, a bookkeeper employed by Hollister, Castle & Company and secretary of the St. Paul Public Schools, located at the Odd Fellows Block, resided at 41 Farrington Avenue. Joseph J. McCardy was a commander of the Acker Post of the Grand Army of the Republic and was St. Paul City Controller from 1892 until 1902, when he became auditor of the U. S. Post Office Department in Washington, D. C.. Stanley Caleb Olmstead (1853-1908,) the son of Charles A. Olmstead (1823- ,) and Mary Celestia Ross Olmstead (1833- ) and a cousin of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead, was born in East Bloomfield, New York, was admitted to the practice of law in 1880, married Emma Jane Hahn, the daughter of Dr. F. B. Halin, in Clifton Springs, New York, in 1880, came to Minnesota in 1887, settled in St. Paul, practiced law in St. Paul, was an heir of Thomas J. Warfield of Ontario County, New York, in 1888, was a member of Court Landmark No. 45, United Order of Foresters, in 1896, and died in Brownsville, Texas. Stanley Caleb Olmstead and Emma Jane Hahn Olmstead were the parents of Clara Hahn Olmstead (Mrs. Arthur Aborn) Simmons (1882- ,) John Stanley Olmstead (1886- ,) and Mary Pauline Olmstead (Mrs. John William) Best (1890- .) Emma Jane Hahn Olmstead was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution by virtue of ancestor Philip Hahn (1736-1821,) a company commander of the Sixth Battalion of Pennsylvania militia from 1777 until 1779. Dr. James T. Christison specialized in pediatrics in 1895, was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Winter Carnival in 1896, was Clinical Instructor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1896, was an organizer of the Northwestern Pediatric Society in 1912, was reclassified by the Board of Regents from Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics to Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota in 1918, was a member of the Committee on Public Policy and Legislation and of the Editing and Publishing Committee of the Minnesota Medical Association in 1921, was the president of the Minnesota Medical Association in 1926 and 1927, attended the convention of the American Medical Association in 1935, and retired to Emeritus Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1936. Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus (1883-1961) was born in Columbia County, Wisconsin, graduated from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, in 1903, graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1906, was a Republican, was executive clerk to Senator Knute Nelson in 1907, was the executive clerk to the governor of Minnesota from 1909 until 1911, married Idella Louise Haugen in 1909, was the Minnesota Commissioner of Insurance in 1911, was the state auditor for Minnesota from 1915 until 1921, cofounded Lutheran Brotherhood, a fraternal insurance society, in 1917, was the 20th Governor of Minnesota from 1921 until 1925, was an insurance executive in Chicago, returned to Minneapolis in 1958 and served until his death as board chairman of Lutheran Brotherhood. J. A. O. Preus and Idella Louise Haugen Preus were the parents of two children, Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus II, a theologian, professor, author, and president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and Robert Preus, a Lutheran pastor, professor, author, theologian, and president of Concordia Theological Seminary. Oscar Hallam ( -1945) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Patricia A. Zurlo.
844 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1898; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 3210 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Tooker and Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Tooker resided at this address. The 1898 and 1900 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cooper and Miss Ruth Cooper resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Hitchcox and Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Friend resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Fairclough resided at this address. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#10884) indicate that Gordon Fairclough (1898- ,) a 1917 enlistee and a Private First Class in Company A of the 160th Infantry, who was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, moved to Minnesota in 1900, had blue eyes, light brown hair, and a medium complexion, was 6' 0" tall, was a student at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including the Lorraine sector, Champagne, and Chateau-Thierry, was a student after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his father, G. H. Fairclough, at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that George H. Fairclough, a music teacher located at the Pittsburgh Building, resided at this address and that Gordon F. Fairclough, a clerk, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Fairclough resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that George H. Fairclough, a music teacher who officed at the Dyer Building, and his wife, Helen M. Fairclough, resided at this address. Manly F. Tooker was born about 1830, in Seneca County, New York, married Alina Cadwell, who was born in 1832 at Syracuse, New York, and they had a daughter, Elizabeth Tooker, about 1854, who was born in Ohio, and who lived in Syracuse, New York, in 1855, where Tooker was a grocer. The Tookers later moved to Chicago, Illinois, and then to Minnesota. George Herbert Fairclough (1869-1954,) the son of James Fairclough ( -1910,) the band master at Hamilton, Ontario, and Elizabeth Erving Fairclough, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, graduated from the Hamilton, Ontario, public schools, played the harmonium at St Mark's Church in Hamilton, Ontario, and in 1884 the three-manual Warren organ in the Church of the Ascension, attended the University of Toronto, served in the Queen’s Own Rifles in Toronto in 1888, was the organist and choirmaster at the All Saint's Episcopal Church until 1889, was the organist of Zion Presbyterian Church and the director of music at the Brantford Ladies College from 1889 until 1891, studied music at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, at London, and at Paris, moved to Michigan, was organist of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, and was the head of the Kalamazoo, Michigan, Conservatory of Music, was an instructor in Piano, Organ and the Theory of Music at the Kalamazoo, Michigan, College, married Helen Maude Freeman ( -1946,) the daughter of Thomas S. Freeman (1834- ,) a mercantile broker, and Helen M. Randall Freeman, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1892, moved to Minnesota in 1900, resided in St. Paul, was a Mason, was a Republican, was the music director of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church and of the Mt. Zion Temple, was the dean of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, was a member of the National Association of Organists, was the conductor of the St. Paul Choral Club, played the James J. Hill House organ for the wedding of Ruth Hill in 1902, became an associate of the American Guild of Organists in 1910, resided at 546 Ashland Avenue in 1912, became a fellow of the American Guild of Organists in 1916, was the head of the piano department of the Macalester College Conservatory of Music, was professor of organ at the University of Minnesota's School of Music in 1917, composed "Eventide," published by the H. W. Gray Company in 1919, was the head of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota from 1920 until 1937, and died in Saratoga, California. George Herbert Fairclough and Helen Maude Freeman Fairclough had five children, Gordon Freeman Fairclough, George Herbert Fairclough, Jr., Helen Elizabeth Fairclough, Edith Scribner Fairclough, and James Erving Fairclough. James W. Cooper ( -1965) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Cornell, and died in Rice County. James W. Cooper ( -1967) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Cornell, and died in Ramsey County. George H. Fairclough (1902-1965) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Freeman, and died in Rice County. Frank Everett Hitchcox ( -1951) died in Hennepin County. Frederic H. Friend ( -1942) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are David F. Herr and Mary K. Herr. David F. Herr is a partner with the Maslon law firm, was a 1978 graduate of the William Mitchell College of Law, was a staff member of the William Mitchell Law Review in 1975-1976, was the editor of the William Mitchell Law Review in 1976-1977, is an appellate practice lawyer, and was president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers in 2005.
845 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1923; Prairie School in style. The structure is a two story, 1934 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Mary Young (1840-1926,) the widowed mother of Emma McAllister, who was born in Norway to parents born in Norway and who died of a left brain side hemorrhage, resided at this address in 1926. The 1930 city directory indicates that Geneva Bigelow, a teacher, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Stephen C. Asbury, a member of the Class of 1959, resided at this address. Geneva Bigelow ( -1950) died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $190,000 and that sale occurred in 1997. The current owners of record of the property are Brian D. Alton and Bonnie J. Johnson.
846 Fairmount Avenue: Field V. Garland House; Built in 1892 (1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Eastlake in style; O'Meyer and Thori, architects. The structure is a two story, 2444 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Field V. Garland resided at this address from 1891 to 1948. The 1891 city directory indicates that Field V. Garland, the superintendent of the William H. Garland Company, resided at 325 Goodrich Avenue and Robert F. Garland, a printer, boarded at 325 Goodrich Avenue. The 1894, 1896, and 1898 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Garland, their daughter, and R. F. Garland resided at this address. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Garland and their daughter resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Robert Field Garland (1873-1905,) who was born in the United States, had parents born in the United States, and died of septic meningitis, and Ida Garland, husband and wife, resided at this address in 1905. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Garland, their daughter, and Miss Susan M. Garland all resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Martha L. Garland (1845-1920,) the wife of Field V. Garland, who was born in Illinois to parents born in the United States and who died of anaemia, resided at this address in 1920. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Field V. Garland (1860-1924,) the widower father of Edith N. Garland, who was born in New York to parents born in England and who died of hypostatic pulmonary congestion, resided at this address in 1924. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Garland and Miss E. M. Garland all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edith M. Garland, the secretary-treasurer of the F. V. Garland Company, a wholesale and retail trunk, bag, suitcase, and leather goods merchant, and Susan Garland resided at this address. The Garland burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Field V. Garland (1839-1924,) Martha L. Garland (1845-1920,) Edith M. Garland (1874-1960,) Robert Field Graland (1873-1905,) and Ida Elizabeth Garland (1871-1970.) Robert T. Garland (1873-1905) was born in the United States and died in Ramsey County. Ida Elizabeth Garland (1871-1970) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Schneider, and died in Ramsey County. Martha L. Garland ( -1920,) Field V. Garland ( -1924,) and Susan M. Garland ( -1946) all died in Ramsey County. Martin P. Thori (1864-1905) was born in the United States and died in Ramsey County. Robert F. Garland indicates that Edith Garland was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Field V. Garland and that Ida Garland was the daughter of William Gundlach and Mary Schneider. Robert F. Garland, MMA, is a retired executive who serves on the board of the Ramsey County Historical Society. The current owners of record of the property are Margot A. Stevenson and Scott W. Stevenson.
849 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1892; Queen Anne in style. The structure is a two story, 2490 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Hubbell and G. W. Swan resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. J. A. Rogers, her daughters, M. J. Rogers, and F. S. Rogers all resided at this address. World War I veteran Marcus J. Rogers (1889- ,) a Corporal, resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Frank S. Dowlan, a clerk, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. L. A. Rogers and her daughters resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Lillian Rogers, the widow of Joseph A. Rogers, resided at this address. Joseph A. Rogers ( -1912,) Edison R. Hubbell ( -1921,) Frank Stephen Rogers ( -1931,) George Swan ( -1931,) Lillie A. Rogers ( -1937,) and Frank S. Rogers ( -1946) all died in Ramsey County. Marcus J. Rogers (1889-1962) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Dowlan, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1993 with a sale price of $279,000. The current owner of record of the property is Barbara J. Daquila. Barbara Daquila was a financial supporter of Second Harvest Heartland in 2000.
853 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1892; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2816 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Pease resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gifford, J. H. S. Gifford, and Mrs. E. A. Sheldon all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gifford resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Judge H. S. Gifford, an assistant U. S. District Attorney, his wife, Rachel Gifford, and Carrie A. Gifford, the widow of Elmer W. Gifford, resided at this address. Elmer W. Gifford ( -1928) died in Ramsey County. Judge H. S. Gifford (1879-1961) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Sheldon, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 2002 and the sale price was $531,000. The current owners of record of the property are Bridget A. Lee and Thomas B. Lee.
854-856 Fairmount Avenue: William Garland House; Built in 1890; Eastlake in style; O'Meyer & Thori, architects. The structure is a two story, 2950 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a tuck-under garage. Robert F. Garland indicates that the house was originally a single dwelling, numbered 854 Fairmount, and was subsequently divided around 1916 into two dwellings and that the house at 170 South Victoria Street was originally built as a barn or a carriage house for this residence, with its conversion to a house in 1935 by architect Edward A. Merrill, later of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that William H. Garland resided at this address from 1891 to 1908. The 1891 city directory indicates that William H. Garland, a trunk manufacturer, resided at 624 Summit Avenue and that William H. Garland, Jr., and Robert D. Garland boarded at 624 Summit Avenue. The 1894, 1896, and 1898 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Garland, their daughter, Sue Garland, and R. D. Garland resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Garland and their daughter resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Garland and their daughter and R. D. Garland resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that William H. Garland (1830-1905,) the husband of Hannah Daggit Garland, who was born in the United States to parents also born in the United States and who died of heart disease and nephritis, resided at this address in 1905. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Hannah Daggit Garland (1825-1906,) the widowed mother of Robert D. Garland, who was born in the United States and who died of heart failure, resided at this address in 1906. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Blodgett and H. E. Blodgett all resided at this address. World War I veterans Clifford A. Blodgett (1896- ,) a Private, Harold E. Blodgett (1893- ,) a First Lieutenant, and Ralph B. Blodgett (1895- ,) an Ensign, resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that W. C. Ross resided at 856 Fairmount Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that William G. Blodgett resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Robert C. Gall, who attended the school from 1916 until 1917, resided at this address. William H. Garland (1825-1905) was born in the United States and died in Ramsey County. Hannah C. Garland (1825-1906) was born in the United States and died in Ramsey County. Clifford A. Blodgett ( -1925,) Harvey Alvaro Blodgett ( -1946,) and Susan M. Garland ( -1946) both died in Ramsey County. Harold Edwin Blodgett (1893-1983) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Baker, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Marcey Mastbaum and Norman A. Mastbaum. Norman Mastbaum M.A., C.R.C., graduated with a masters degree in Counseling and Personnel Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1972, worked as a counseling Psychologist until 1980, developed and directed a program for dislocated workers in St. Paul until 1989, and is currently a vocational expert in the Social Security court system and a Qualified Rehabilitation Consultant with the Workers' Compensation system of Minnesota.
857 Fairmount Avenue: N. S. Rose House; Built in 1902 (1908 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; E. P. Bassford, architect. The structure is a two story, 4440 square foot, five bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Rose resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Rose resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Nathan S. Rose, vice president of the B. W. Harris Manufacturing Company, and his wife, Hortense Rose, resided at this address. In 1934, Nathan S. Rose, Hortense Herman Rose, Gerald Rose, Edward Rose, Paul Rose, Nancy Rose, and Karl Rose resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Karl H. Rose (1910- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1921 until 1928, who attended Yale University in 1932, who took University of Minnesota Extension courses, who was employed by Rose Brothers Fur Comapny, located at 237 East Sixth Street, and who pursued the hobbies of horseback riding and driving, resided at this address. Hortense Herman Rose was the daughter of Daniel H. Herman and Nellie Langsdorf Herman of Springfield, Missouri, operators of the Herman Tailoring Company. The Rose family were members of the Minikhada Country Club in 1934. Nathan S. Rose ( -1932) died in Ramsey County. Hortense H. Rose (1886-1968) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Langsdorf, and died in Ramsey County. Gerald O. Rose (1911-1985) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Bock, and died in Ramsey County. Paul Rose ( -1951) died in Hennepin County. Karl Herman Rose (1910-2000) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Herman, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Helen L. Buche and John A. Buche. Helen Buche is the president of the Upper Midwest Toten Lag, an organization of people who came from or are descended from people who came from the Toten area of Norway. [See note on Edward Bassford for 35 Irvine Park.]
862 Fairmount Avenue: A. C. Floan House; Built in 1911; Georgian Revival in style; Buchner & Orth, architects. The structure is a two story, 3904 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Olina T. Leverous (1833-1911,) the widowed mother of Mrs. Albert C. Floan, who was born in Norway to parents who were also born in Norway and who died of enterocolitis, resided at this address in 1912. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Floan and their daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. C. White resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Harold C. Freeman, a manager of the Fur Wrapt Company, his wife, Eleanor Freeman, resided at this address. In 1934, Harold C. Freeman, Eleanor Wann Freeman, Michael S. Freeman, David W. Freeman, Harold Freeman, and Thomas Freeman resided at this address and were members of the White Bear Yacht Club. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Harold Cummings, who attended the school from 1942 until 1946 and who attended the University of Minnesota, and that John J. Cummings (1931- ,) who attended the school from 1944 until 1949, both resided at this address. Albert Christian Floan (1860-1927) and Harold C. Freeman ( -1935) both died in Ramsey County. Harold Chandler Freeman (1913-1966) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wann, and died in Ramsey County. Eleanor W. Freeman (1891-1970) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Blakeley, and died in Ramsey County. Michael S. Freeman ( -1976) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wann, and died in Hennepin County. Thomas W. Freeman (1915-1974) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wann, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Harriet C. Goodpaster and Kenneth E. Goodpaster. [See note on Albert Christian Floan for 442 Summit Avenue.]
865 Fairmount Avenue: Pearson/Sweeney House; Built in 1880 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; __?__ Ellenholm, architect. The structure is a two story, 3530 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Olin B. Lewis resided at this address in 1906. The 1918 city directory indicates that Hon. and Mrs. O. B. Lewis and their daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. R. O'Brien resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Gerald R. O'Brien, a partner with Ellsworth Bushnell in O'Brien & Bushnell, a manufacturer's agent, and his wife, Helen P. O'Brien, resided at this address. In 1934, G. R. O'Brien, Helen Perkins O'Brien, Sarah O'Brien, Susan O'Brien, Mary O'Brien, and William O'Brien resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Sherman K. Headley (1922- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1932 until 1935, who attended Carlton College, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Iowa, who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1948, and who was employed as a live theatre and television director and actor, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Sherman K. Headley, a member of the Class of 1939, and Sherman K. Headley, Jr., a member of the Class of 1963, both resided at this address. The 1902 Residence Directory of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, published by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company of Chicago, indicated that Olin Bailey Lewis received a bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1884, received a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1889, and was a judge of the Second Judicial District of Minnesota in 1902. Olin Bailey Lewis of Omro, Wisconsin, was a member of Hesperia Literary society at the University of Wisconsin, was a charter member of the Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Wisconsin, was a chemistry major, was an instructor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin from 1884 to 1886, was employed by the Wood Harvester company, graduated from law school at the University of Wisconsin, again was employed by the Wood Harvester company, was a law partner with Judge Oscar Hallam in St. Paul, was elected an assemblyman in the St. Paul city council in 1894 and 1896, was named a district court judge in 1896, and served as a judge until 1929, when poor health caused him to resign. Olin B. Lewis presided over the murder trial of William Williams in 1906, ultimately resulting in a botched hanging and the elimination of capital punishment in Minnesota. Olin Bailey Lewis and his wife had two daughters and one son. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Olin Bailey Lewis (1861-1936) resided at the former 444 Hall Avenue in 1900. Olin Bailey Lewis ( -1936) died in Ramsey County. Gerald R. O'Brien, Sr., ( -1949) and his wife, Helen Perkins O'Brien ( -1985,) had five children, daughters Sarah O'Brien Driscoll of St. Paul, Susan O'Brien Soucheray of Bayfield, Wisconsin, and Geraldine O'Brien Finneren of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and sons, William P. O'Brien of LaPointe, Wisconsin, and Gerald R. O'Brien, Jr., of St. Paul. The O'Brien family were members of the Town & Country Club and the Junior League of St. Paul in 1934. Gerald R. O'Brien, Jr., was a 1951 graduate of Cretin High School. Sherman K. Headley married Alta McDonald in 1943 and the couple had two children, Sherman K. Headley (1945- ,) and Timothy McDonald Headley (1948- .) The property was last sold in 2003 with a sale price of $667,500. The current owners of record of the property are Thomas S. Hays and Mary E. Porter. [See note on the botched hanging of William Williams for 542 Portland Avenue.]
867 Fairmount Avenue: F. J. Ottis House; Built in 1885 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 3693 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1910-1911 Directory of the University of Minnesota indicates that Julian B. Baird, a student, resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Peterson resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Peterson, their daughters, and Ray N. Peterson all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that George W. Peterson, a lawyer who officed at the Merchants Bank Building, and his wife, Daisy K. Peterson, resided at this address. Francis J. Ottis ( -1935) died in Ramsey County. George W. Peterson (1891-1956) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hokenson, and died in Ramsey County. Daisy K. Peterson (1872-1968) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Gebner, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $495,000 and that sale occurred in 2000. The current owner of record of the property is Catherine J. Bogolub. Larry Bogolub, a First Grade Teacher for the Minneapolis Public Schools, was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004. [See note on F. J. Ottis for 675 Goodrich Avenue.]
868 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1907; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 4579 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Andrew Nippolt (1837-1907,) the husband of Julia K. Nippolt, who was born in the United States to parents born in Germany and who died of pernicious anaemia, resided at this address in 1907. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. Julia Nippolt, A. C. Nippolt, E. C. Nippolt, and W. W. Nippolt all resided at this address. Alfred C. Nippolt (1888- ,) a Private, was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. Dudley Warner resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Day Okes, a partner in Hanlon & Okes, and his wife, Irma Okes, resided at this address. In 1934, Day Okes, Erma Jones Okes, Josephine Okes, Edith A. Okes, Mary Okes, and Marjorie E. Okes resided at this address. Day Okes was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. The Okes family were members of the University Club, the Minikahda Country Club, and the St. Paul Athletic Club in 1934. The 1902 Residence Directory of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, published by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company of Chicago, indicated that Day Ira Okes was a student at the University of Minnesota, Class of 1905, and resided in Minneapolis. Day Okes (1883-1956) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Bielman, and died in Ramsey County. Day Okes (1932-1989) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Briggs, and died in Ramsey County. Erma Alice Okes (1896-1979) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Poole, and died in Ramsey County. Andrew Nippolt (1847-1907) was born in the United States and died in Ramsey County. Julia Katherine Nippolt ( -1925,) Walter W. Nippolt ( -1927,) Edward C. Nippolt ( -1944,) and Alfred C. Nippolt ( -1949) all died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1991 with a sale price of $270,000. The current owner of record of the property is Loanne R. Thrane. Loanne R. Thrane has a bachelors degree in Political Science and Economics from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, was the State Chairwoman of the Republican Party of Minnesota from 1977 to 1980, was the Chief of Staff to former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-Minnesota) from 1980 to 1991, was a member of the Board of Regents for the University of Minnesota, was a member of the Concordia College Corporation in Moorhead, Minnesota, in 1997, served on the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission for 16 years, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Private College Council for 2003-2004. Ralph O. Thrane, a self employed capitalist, was a contributor to the George W. Bush for President campaign in 2004.
873 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1890; Queen Anne in style. The structure is a two story, 3547 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Tooker resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Buckley and their daughter resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Edward W. Buckley, a physician who officed at the Lowry Building, resided at this address and that Margaret M. Buckley boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Buckley and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Stan D. Donnelly, a lawyer and a partner in the law firm of Oppenheimer, Dickson, Hodgson, Brown, & Donnelly, and his wife, Vicentia Donnelly, resided at this address. Stan D. Donnelly was a partner in the law firm of Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, joining in 1925. The other partners were William H. Oppenheimer (1883-1975,) Frederick N. Dickson, a former judge of the Ramsey County District Court, Edwin B. Baer, the son of the president of the American National Bank, and Montreville J. Brown, son of the chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1923. Stan Dillon Donnelly was the grandson of the colorful and paradoxical Ignatius Donnelly (1831-1901,) the "Sage of Nininger," who was a lawyer, politician, orator, author, agrarian radical, Minnesota lieutenant governor, representative in Congress from Minnesota, and the son of Stanislaus James Donnelly. Ignatius Donnelly was the author of Atlantis: the Antediluvian World, published in 1882 by Harper. He moved to Minnesota in 1857. He was also the author, under the pen name of Edmund Boisgilbert, of Doctor Huguet, published in 1891 by F. J. Schulte & Company. He was nominated by the People’s Party in 1892 for Vice President of the United States. Stanislaus Dillon Donnelly (1888-1948) was a graduate of the St. Paul College of Law (now William Mitchell College of Law,) was admitted to the bar in 1910, practiced law with his father in the firm of Donnelly & Donnelly until his father's death in 1918, and had a solo practice of law until joining the firm as a full partner in 1925. Oppenheimer, Dickson, Hodgson, Brown, & Donnelly eventually became Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly after the addition of Benno Wolff and his promotion as a partner. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Stan D. Donnelly, Jr. (1921- ,) who attended the school from 1932 until 1939, who graduated from Yale University in 1946, who garduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1948, who served as a First Lieutenant in the U. S. Army Air Corps in the South Pacific during World War II, who married Marie E. Rogers in 1946, and who was employed by the Dayton-Rogers Manufacturing Company, resided at White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Edward W. Buckley ( -1923) and Stanilaus D. Donnelly ( -1948) died in Ramsey County. William H. Oppenheimer (1883-1975) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Newton, and died in Ramsey County. Frederick N. Dickson ( -1941) died in Ramsey County. Edwin B. Baer (1897-1962) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Florscheim, and died in Ramsey County. Montreville Jay Brown (1884-1971) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Marlow, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 1995 and the sale price was $244,000. The current owner of record of the property is William C. Moyers. In 2003, William Moyers and Allison Moyers were contributors to the Randy Kelly for St. Paul Mayor campaign and resided at this address.
874 Fairmount Avenue: ; Built in 1907; Colonial Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2241 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Drake, Jr., resided at this address. World War I veteran George Church resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Harry T. Drake, Jr., an examiner employed by the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Drake, Jr., resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Harry T. Drake, Jr., assistant secretary of the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, and his wife, Nancy Drake, resided at this address. In 1934, Harry T. Drake, Jr., and Ann Tiffany Drake resided at this address. Harry T. Drake, Jr., was a graduate of Yale University. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Harry Trevor Drake, Jr. (1889- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1906 until 1910, who graduated from Yale University in 1914, who married Anna/Anne Page Tiffany of Seattle, Washington, in 1916, who was secretary of the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, and who had golf as a hobby, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Harry Trevor Drake, Jr. (1889- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1906 until 1910, who was a vice president with the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, who was the treasurer of the St. Paul YMCA, who was a trustee for the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, who was a member of the Somerset Yacht Club, who was a member of the Minnesota Yacht Club, and who was a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, resided at this address. Harry T. Drake was commodore of the White Bear Yacht Club in 1898 and captained "Xenia," the champion 17-foot yacht in the first Inland Lake Yachting Association regatta on White Bear Lake in 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Drake and Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Drake, Jr., were members of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church. There is an endowed chair at Macalester College, the Harry Drake Professor of Fine Arts, which is currently held by Marjorie Merryman. Marjorie Merryman is a composer who previously taught at Boston University and who currently chairs the music department at Macalester College, where she also teaches music theory, composition, and orchestration. The Drake burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Caroline McClurg Drake (1827-1895,) Elias Franklin Drake (1813-1892,) Franklin Drake (1883-1953,) Harry Trevor Drake, Jr. (1889-1961,) Harry Trevor Drake (1857-1933,) Emma Biglow Drake (1860-1940,) Mary F. McClurg (1829-1903,) and Alex L. McClurg (1867-1957.) Elias Franklin Drake (1813-1892,) the son of Dr. Henry Drake (1788-1818) and Hannah Spining Drake, the grandson of Ithamar Drake (1769-1834) and Mary Kinder Drake (1770-1842,) and the grandson of Mathias Spining and Hannah Haines Spining, was born in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1835, where he was employed as the chief clerk for the Ohio state treasurer, studied law and was admitted to practice in Delaware, Ohio, became the cashier of the Bank of Xenia, Ohio, in 1837, first married Frances Mary Galloway ( -1844,) the daughter of Major James Galloway, in 1841, was the president of the Dayton & Xenia RailRoad, was the president of the Dayton & Western RailRoad, served three terms in the Ohio Legislature, was speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, was president of the Columbus Insurance Company, built a hotel at Xenia Springs, Ohio, that subsequently became Wliberforce College, later married Carolina Matilda McClurg (1827- ) in 1858, became the partner of Andrew DeGraff in a railroad construction firm, including the St. Paul & Sioux City RailRoad, was the president of the St. Paul & Sioux City RailRoad, was a delegate to the 1864 Republican Party National Convention, was a director of the Merchants National Bank, was a director of the St. Paul Trust Company, was a director of the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, served in the Minnesota state senate from 1873 until 1875, was president of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1873, died in San Diego, California, where he traveled in declining health, and is buried in Oakland Cemetery. Elias Franklin Drake and Frances Mary Galloway Drake had one child, Sarah Frances Drake (Mrs. Charles S.) Rogers. Elias Franklin Drake and Carolina Matilda McClurg Drake had four children, Henry Trevor Drake (1858- ,) Alexander M. Drake (1859- ,) Mary F. Drake (Mrs. Thomas M.) Thompkins (1861- ,) and Caroline M. Drake (Mrs. William H.) Lightner (1863- .) Alexander M. Drake married Ada Florence Williams Drake (1870- ) and is reputed to be the founder of Bend, Crook County, Oregon. Although Peter Skene Ogden, John C. Fremont, Dr. John Strong Newberry, and other Army survey parties visited the area during the mid- and late-1800's, actual settlement in Bend, Oregon, did not occur until the early 1900's, with the founding of the Pilot Butte Development Company by Alexander M. Drake, an avid angler who traveled the area by covered wagon searching for his last big project before his retirement, and the city was incorporated in 1905. Drake formed the Pilot Butte Development Company to construct a canal system, platted the town of Bend, and made his fortune from selling land and irrigation rights to a competing company, the Deschutes Irrigation and Power Company before he and his wife Florence then left and retired to Pasadena, California. There is a Drake Park in Bend, Oregon, named for Alexander M. Drake. In 1893, Harry T. Drake, Alexander M. Drake and William H. Lightner platted a portion of Hartford, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. Carolina Matilda McClurg Drake was born in Pennsylvania. Carolina Matilda McClurg Drake and her children were "Regular" Baptist. Henry Trevor Drake married Emma Bigelow, the daughter of Charles H. Bigelow, in 1882. Charles S. Rogers ( -1893,) president of the St. Paul Cordage Company and one of the city's wealthiest residents, committed suicide by leaping from the High Bridge, either because the St. Paul Cordage Company was in fincancial difficulty, or because his wife and daughter opposed his plans for building a substantial house on Summit Avenue, or because he was suffering from a mental imbalance. Charles S. Rogers resided at 419 Grove Street in 1893. Harry Trevor Drake ( -1933) died in Ramsey County. Harry Trevor Drake (1889-1961) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Bigelow, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $175,000 and that sale occurred in 1992. The current owners of record of the property are Ellen T. Brown and Peter C. Brown. Ellen T. Brown, a self-employed consultant, and Peter C. Brown, a self-employed author, were contributors to the Howard Dean for President campaign and to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004. [See note on the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company for 297 Bates Avenue.] [See note on Harry T. Drake and Harry T. Drake, Jr., for 874 Fairmount Avenue.]
880 Fairmount Avenue: A. B. Van Bergen House; Built in 1908 (1909 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Peter Linhoff, architect. The structure is a two story, 3149 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Allen B. Van Bergen resided at this address from 1909 to 1956. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Van Bergen, their daughter, and K. B. Van Bergen all resided at this address. World War I veteran Kenneth V. Van Berge resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Van Bergen, their daughters, and K. B. Van Bergen all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Allen B. Van Bergen, a manager employed by Farnum Winter & Company, and his wife, Lillian Van Bergen, resided at this address. Allen Bushnell Van Bergen ( -1948) died in Ramsey County. Lillian Van Bergen (1865-1957) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 2004 and the sale price was $825,000. The current owner of record of the property is Mark V. Larkins. Mark Larkin, a self-employed physician, and Kathleen Larkin, a homemaker, contributed to the Rudy Giuliani for President campaign in 2007-2008. [See note on Linhoff for 361 Summit Avenue.]
881 Fairmount Avenue: Dr. Eugene Langdon Mann House; Built in 1889; Shingle in style; August Jackson, architect. The structure is a two story, 4270 square foot, six bedroom, one bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1902 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Mann resided at this address. The 1906 Jubilee Manual of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church indicates that Florence L. Peterson, a member of the church since 1905, resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Mann and Mrs. H. J. McCaine all resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Helen J. McCaine (1832-1922,) the widowed sister of Clara Smith, who was born in New Hampshire to parents born in the United States and who died of fibroid tumor of the uterus, resided at this address in 1922. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Mann resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William N. S. Ivins, assistant tax commissioner employed by the Great Northern RailRoad, and his wife, Marguerite Ivins, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Albert A. O'Leary (1907- ,) who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who attended the school from 1918 until 1925, who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1929, who attended the Harvard University Law School in 1930, and who was employed by the Minnesota Hospital Service Association, resided at this address. Eugene Langdon Mann (1861- ) was born in Minneapolis, the son of Horatio Eugene Mann and Mary Augusta Williams Mann, graduated from Hobart College, Geneva, New York, in 1883, and from Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1886, was house surgeon at the Ward's Island/Metropolitan Homœopathic Hospital from 1886 to 1887, studied in Vienna, London, and New York, moved to St. Paul in 1887, married Mrs. Clara Worthen Carpenter/Clara E. Norton in 1891, was professor of laryngology and physical diagnosis at the Homoeopathic Medical School of the University of Minnesota in 1895, was a member of the medical staff of St. Luke's Hospital and of the City and County Hospital in St. Paul, and was the dean of the Homoeopathic Medical College at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Mann was a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy, was a member of the American Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society, was a member of the Minnesota State Homœopathic Medical Society, was a member of the Commercial Club of Saint Paul, was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa college fraternity. In 1893, Eugene L. Mann published a paper on nasal surgery in the Transactions of the World's Congress of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons. The abolition of the University of Minnesota's College of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery occurred during Mann's tenure as dean. Horatio Eugene "Henry" Mann (1825-1906) was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, was educated at Norwich University, in Vermont, and at the University of Vermont, was a teacher of penmanship at the Thetford Academy in Vermont from 1847 until 1848, began the practice of law in Charleston, Illinois, married Mary Augusta Williams (1831-1895) in 1854, came to Minnesota in 1857, settled in Minneapolis, engaged in the practice of law as a lwa partner of William D. Washburn and Judge Cornell, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representating Hennepin County (District 4) from 1859 until 1860, moved to St. Paul in the early 1860's, was the clerk of the U. S. Circuit Court in Minnesota and a master of chancery from 1863 until 1883, moved to the South after 1883 until 1903, summering in Minnesota, returned to St. Paul in 1903, was elected a life member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1904, and died in St. Paul. Horatio Eugene Mann and Mary Augusta Williams Mann had three children, Laura Williams Mann (Mrs. Robert Breck) Whitacre (1858- ,) Eugene Langdon Mann (1861- ,) and Charles Kilborn Williams Mann (1871-1871.) Helen J. Gray McCaine (1836-1922,) the daughter of William C. Gray and Lucinda Parker Gray, was born in Peterboro, New Hampshire, graduated from the Peterboro, New Hampshire, Academy, married William McCaine ( -1900) in 1865, moved to Minnesota in 1871, settled in St. Paul, was a librarian employed by the St. Paul Library Association from 1877 until 1882, was the first librarian employed by the St. Paul Public Library, first located at the Ingersoll Hall, served as a St. Paul Public Library librarian from 1882 until 1917, attended at least 12 conventions of the American Library Association, was the president of the Minnesota Library Association from 1910 until 1911, and was the president of the Twin City Library Club in 1914. William McCaine was born in Francestown, New Hampshire, was granted two U. S. patents (#217,232 in 1879 and #276,443 in 1883) for inventing a new process for the treatment of pyroxyline compounds, and assigned the 1879 patent to David McCaine and Daniel McCaine and the 1883 patent to Helen J. McCaine. David McCaine was involved in the lumber business in St. Paul in 1874, attended the Minnesota State Lumbermen's Convention in 1874, was a member of a U. S. grand jury at Winona, Minnesota, in 1880, and was the vice president of the Equitable Aid Union No. 14 of St. Paul, a mutual aid benefit fund for men and women between the ages of 16 and 65, in 1881. Daniel McCaine was a lawyer, represented Grant, McCaine & Company, a logging company, in 1871, was a member of the first board of trustees of the Unity Unitarian Church of St. Paul, and was a judge of elections for the second precinct of St. Paul in 1884. The Minnesota Homœopathic Medical College, a department of the University of Minnesota, was incorporated, organized and opened to students in 1886, formed by Drs. A. L. Bausman, O. M. Humphrey, Jno. F. Fargo, William E. Leonard, and P. M. Hall, and initially had a faculty of 15, including Dr. E. L. Mann. Albert A. O'Leary married Henrietta Thomas in St. Paul in 1934 and the couple had one child, Alberta O'Leary (1936- .) Homoeopathy is a system of medicine developed by Samuel Hahnemann in the early 19th century which rests on the idea that physical conditions can be treated using substances that would normally provoke similar symptoms. These substances are then diluted so many times that not a single molecule remains in the final remedy, and homoeopaths claim that this process actually increases their therapeutic potential. The Minnesota Homœopathic Medical College closed around World War I. In 1910, the Carnegie Foundation issued the Flexner Report, an evaluation of American medical schools chaired by Abraham Flexner, in cooperation with leading members of the American Medical Association, that established guidelines for medical schools. The Flexner Report placed the highest value on those medical schools that had a full-time teaching faculty and those medical schools that taught a pathological and physiochemical analysis of the human body. Homeopathic colleges were faulted because of their preference for employing professors who were not simply teachers or researchers but also in clinical practice and were given poor ratings by the Flexner Report. Only two homeopathic colleges remained in 1923. By 1950, all the homeopathic colleges in the U.S. were either closed or were no longer teaching homeopathy and there were only 50-150 practicing homeopathic physicians in the country. William Edwin Leonard, the son of William Huntingdon Leonard and Jane Augusta Preston Leonard, the grandson of Earl Clapp Preston and Harriet Fox Preston, and the great grandson of Esek Preston and Sally Clapp Preston, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great great grandfather Earl Clapp, a Captain of the 21st Massachusetts Regiment, during the Revolutionary War. William N. S. Ivins was the editor of The California Missions, illustrated by Dorothy Smith Sides, annotated by Clarice Martin Smith, and published by Thomas E. Williams in 1937 in Santa Ana, California. August Jackson ( -1918) and August Jackson ( -1941) both died in Hennepin County. August Jackson ( -1931) died in Washington County, Minnesota. August Jackson ( -1937) died in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. The property was last sold for $675,000 and that sale occurred in 2003. The current owners of record of the property are Alex Mitchell and Renee M. Mitchell. [See note on the Great Northern RailRoad for 280 Maple Street.]
883 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1890 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; __?__ Nickel, architect. The structure is a two story, 2096 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, frame house, with a detached one car garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Curtis resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Redfield resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Miller resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Stanley F. Miller, the resident manager with the Hilgerman Investment Company, and his wife, Cornelia Miller, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Thaddeus C. Field III (1918- ,) who attended the school from 1929 until 1937, who attended Carlton College, who was a Private First Class in the U. S. Army during World War II, and who married Lucy Hughes Jones in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1941, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Wallace P. Ritchie, Jr., a member of the Class of 1953, resided at this address. Cornelia H. Miller (1894-1975) had a mother with a maiden name of Lott and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Barbara Mills Byers. Barb Byers is associated with the Minnesota Association of Library Friends. Barbi Byers is also a member of the CLIME Committee of the Advisory Council to Library Development of the Minnesota Voluntary Certification Program for Library Employees.
886 Fairmount Avenue: Willner House; Built in 1911; Tudor Revival in style; F. Sjorstrand, architect. The structure is a two story, 2597 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kurtz and Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Willner all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Kurtz resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that J. Thompson McMillan, the president of the J. T. McMillan Company, a pork packing company, and his wife, Antoinette McMillan, resided at this address. In 1934, J. Thompson McMillan, Antoinette Shimonek McMillan, Genevieve McMillan, and Mary McMillan resided at this address. Joseph Kurtz ( -1922) died in Ramsey County. Arthur S. Kurtz (1904-1970) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hamock, and died in Hennepin County. The current owner of record of the property is Patricia Ann Perry.
889 Fairmount Avenue: J. B. Johnston House; Built in 1902 (1897 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style; John H. Nickel, architect. The structure is a two story, 2960 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Johnston and Mrs. P. A. Bardin resided at this address. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Kenna resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that John J. Kenna, Sr., a real estate agent, his wife, May C. Kenna, John J. Kenna, Jr., a real estate agent, and Genevieve Kenna, a clerk, resided at this address. John B. Johnston ( -1919) and John J. Kenna ( -1937) both died in Ramsey County. John Joseph Kenna (1903-1996) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of McIntyre, and died in Ramsey County. May C. Kenna (1875-1968) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Mary T. Kenna.
890-892 Fairmount Avenue: Sewell/Walsh House; Built in 1894 (1915 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Walter Stevens, architect. The structure is a two story, 2846 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage and a tuck-under two car garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Walls resided at 892 Fairmount Avenue. Milton G. Walls (1898- ,) a Sergeant, was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Walls and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Donald W. De Coster, the secretary-treasurer of Wright De Coster Inc., and his wife, Marie M. De Coster, resided at this address. In 1934, Donald W. De Coster and Marie Miland De Coster resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John B. Baird, a member of the Class of 1943, resided at 892 Portland Avenue. Donald Williamson DeCoster, Sr. (1895-1939,) graduated from Harvard University in November, 1917, married Anneva Marie Meland (1893-1991,) the daughter of O. S. Meland and Elida Simmons Meland in 1920 at Red Wing, Minnesota, was employed by Gordon Ferguson Furriers from 1920 to 1922, resided at 890 Goodrich Avenue from 1920 to 1925, resided at this address after 1925, and operated the Wright-DeCoster Inc. from 1922 to 1939. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Donald Williamson De Coster (1894- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1910 until 1913, who graduated from Harvard University in 1917, was an ambulance driver in France from 1917 until 1918, served in the American Field Service with the French Army and was a Second Lieutenant in the Engineers in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, married Marie Meland of Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1920, and was associated with Wright DeCoster Inc., 2233 University Avenue West, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Douglas DeCoster (1922- ,) who attended the school from 1935 until 1940, who attended Harvard University, who attended Carlton College, who graduated from the University of Minnesota Business School, who served in the 20th Armored Division in Europe during World War II, and who was employed by Cargill, Inc., resided at this address. Donald Williamson De Coster, Sr., and Marie Meland De Coster had five children, Donald Williamson De Coster, Jr. (1921- ,) Douglas Meland De Coster (1922- ,) Norman Simmons De Coster (1924- ,) Elizabeth De Coster (1926- ,) and Steven Cole De Coster (1933- .) Donald William DeCoster, Sr., and Anneva Marie Meland DeCoster were the parents of three sons and one daughter, Donald Williamson DeCoster, Jr., Douglas M. DeCoster, Norman S. DeCoster, and Elizabeth A. DeCoster Moseley. Anneva Marie Meland attended the University of Minnesota and Radcliff College. Donald Williamson DeCoster, Sr., a graduate of Harvard University, was a volunteer during World War I in the American Field Service for five months in 1917 in the French Transportation Auxilary (Reserve)/Groupe Meyer, Transport Material Unit or Transportation Mallet Unis (T.M.U.) 184 section, in the Chemin des Dames region, and then was a civilian aviator for the U. S. Army Air Corps. The TMU's were truck units that hauled ammunition up to the front for the French Army and were driven by American volunteers when the number of ambulance drivers exceeded the available ambulance vehicles and the remaining personnel were requested by the French government to engage in camion service. When the United States entered the war officially, then the American Field Service was called upon to help the Automobile Transportation Service of the French Army with non-medical transportation and in April, 1917, the Réserve Mallet was formed. In addition to driving ambulances, AFS volunteers chauffeured trucks bringing military supplies and personnel to the front. Colonel Mallet was the French commander in charge of the American camion truck drivers, who became combatants when they discontinued their civilian status as ambulance drivers. 800 American Field Service drivers formed the personnel of fourteen TMU Sections, including 188 in T.M.U. 184. Decoster was one of two Minnesotans to serve with T.M.U. 184, along with Elbert Anderson Young, Jr., also of St. Paul. T.M.U. 184 personnel included one Canadian and 187 Americans (six from California, three fron Connecticut, 12 from Illinois, two from Indiana, three from Iowa, two from Maine, two from Maryland, 56 from Massachusetts, one from Michigan, two from Minnesota, five from Missouri, one from Nebraska, seven from New Hampshire, six from New Jersey, 35 from New York, 25 from Ohio, one from Oregon, eight from Pennsylvania, two from Rhode Island, two from Texas, two from Vermont, two from Virginia, one from Washington, and three from West Virginia.) Groupe Meyer, TM184, was part of Groupement No. 9, or Groupement Périssée, which also consisted of the Groupe Genin, TM526, and of the Groupe Erhardt, TM133, and was located at headquarters Jouaignes, Aisne. According to Bob Denison of the Great War Society, ammunition and material hauled by the TMU's for the French was used for General Petain's successful Battle of Fort Malmaison in October, 1917. The Wright De Coster Inc. was a radio manufacturer and became the Wright Radio Manufacturing Company, including the dry battery Wright De Coster model VI radio in 1925. The company also manufactured the Wright-DeCoster Inc. Multi-Test Speaker, which was designed for the 1930's radio test bench. Donald Williamson DeCoster, Jr., married Caroline Slawson and the couple had three children. Caroline Slawson DeCoster was the daughter of Robert N. Slawson, an American Field Service volunteer who served in France with USAAS Section 75. Elizabeth Alida DeCoster married Thomas Clark Moseley I and the couple had four children. Thomas Clark Moseley graduated from Harvard University in 1946 and was a member of the Harvard University Varsity Hockey Team. The DeCoster family resided at this address from 1925 until 1940. Elbert A. Young, along with James H. Wilkinson, McNeil V. Seymour, Jr., and Reuben W. Lovering, was an American Field Service volunteer from St. Paul who received a ten-clasp medal, meaning he participated in ten of the major engagements in which the American army played a part, including the Vittorio-Veneto battle in Italy, and missed only four. Milton G. Walls (1898-1971) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Guernsey, and died in Ramsey County. James Milton Walls ( -1928,) Elbert A. Young ( -1936,) Elbert A. Young ( -1938,) Donald W. Decoster ( -1939,) and Ellida S. Meland ( -1942) all died in Ramsey County. Marie M. Decoster (1892-1991) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Meland, and died in Ramsey County. Ole Sjurson Meland ( -1928) died in Hennepin County. The current owner of record of the property is William S. Adami, located in Burnsville, Minnesota. [See note on Stevens for 335 Summit Avenue.]
891 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1888 (1902 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2696 square foot, six bedroom, one bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Temple, their daughter, and H. J. Temple, Jr., all resided at this address. World War I veteran Herbert M. Temple, Jr., resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Temple resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Herbert M. Temple, the executive manager of Temple Brissman & Company, his wife, Clara Temple, and Herbert M. Temple, Jr., all resided at this address. In 1934, Herbert M. Temple and Clara Harkness Temple resided at this address. Herbert Mortimer Temple (1864-1941) was a leader of the public accounting profession in Minnesota and an active participant in St. Paul civic affairs. Herbert M. Temple was a partner in S. W. Temple Temple & Sons Lumber Company in 1885, was a Secretary and Treasurer of the Ohio & Michigan Coal & Manufacturing Company in Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan, and was appointed to the first board of Certified Public Accountant examiners for State of Minnesota in 1910 by Governor John A. Johnson, resigning in 1911. Temple was a partner in Bishop, Brissman & Company, a St. Paul accounting firm, and was active in the Minnesota Society of Public Accountants (1903-1917, 1921), the State Board of Accountancy (1922-1933,) and the Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Accounting (1923-1939.) Herbert M. Temple was born in Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan, the son of Samuel Willard Temple (1834-1912) and Emma Willard Crossman (1841-1871) and married Clara May Harkness (1866-1951,) the daughter of David Smith Harkness and Clara Eleanor Lohner Harkness, in 1889, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the couple had three children, Bessie Willard Temple, Herbert Mortimer Temple, Jr., (1894-1966), and Harry Samuel Temple (1901-1963.) Herbert M. Temple and Clara May Harkness Temple were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the Minneapolis Club, and the Somerset Club in 1934. In 1920, Herbert Mortimer Temple, Jr., was an insurance appraiser in Minneapolis, was a carpentry manager in St. Paul in 1930, married Katherine Stewart (1894-1966) in 1917, and the couple had one son, Herbert Mortimer Temple III. Herbert M. Temple was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Minnesota. Harry Samuel Temple married Dorothy Bowne Dodge (1902-1988) in 1926 in Minneapolis and had three children, Anne Harkness Temple, William Bowne Temple, and Harry Samuel Temple. Herbert Mortimer Temple ( -1941) died in Ramsey County. Clara May Temple ( -1951) died either in Goodhue County, Minnesota, or in Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois. The current owners of record of the property are Linda A. Ting and Sik Toh Ting. Sik Toh Ting was a financial supporter of the Metropolitan Interfaith Council on Affordable Housing in 2005. Linda and Sik Toh Ting were financial supporters of the Gallatin School of Individual Study of New York University in 2007 in the alumni, parents and friends category.
897 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1906. The structure is a two story, 2030 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Heaton resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Fritz, W. J. Fritz, and Miss Grace Appley all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William D. Fietz resided at this address. R. W. Heaton ( -1953) died in Ramsey County. William D. Fritz (1880-1961) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Koemple, and died in Ramsey County. Walter John Fritz (1888-1957) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Fischer, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Gordon J. Peters and Mary E. Peters.
900 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1913; Prairie School in style. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 3885 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rolfe resided at this address. World War I veteran Charles W. Bronstein (1893- ,) a Private, and Samuel Bronstein, Jr., (1896- ,) a Private, resided at this address in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#10031) indicate that Sam Bronstein, Jr., (1896- ,) a 1917 enlistee and a Private in the 25th Engineers, who was born in St. Paul, had brown eyes, light brown hair, and a fair complexion, was 5' 4 1/2" tall, was a purchasing agent at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, was a purchasing agent employed by the U. S. Bedding Company after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his father, Samuel Bronstein, at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Charles W. Bronstein, secretary of the U. S. Bedding Company, and Samuel Bronstein, Jr., vice president of the U. S. Bedding Company, both boarded at this address, and that Samuel Bronstein, the president and treasurer of the U. S. Bedding Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bronstein and E. L. Bronstein all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Harry Kuller, proprietor of the Minnesota Knitting Mills, located at 502 West Seventh Street, his wife, Rose Kuller, Nathan Kuller, a salesman employed by the Minnesota Knitting Mills, and Oscar J. Kuller, a salesman employed by the Minnesota Knitting Mills, resided at this address. In 1898, Samuel Bronstein started the King Koil Company in St. Paul with six employees in a small warehouse on the city's west side. The King Koil Company is now located in Hinsdale, Illinois. "King Koil" is a United States-based brand of mattresses and bedding with 60 factories in 40 countries that are operated by independent licensees. In 2005, the company adopted the name "Comfort Solutions." There is a Charles W. Bronstein Youth Education Award for outstanding service in educating students about the importance of sales and marketing in the American way of life, presented by the Sales and Marketing Executives of Minneapolis/St. Paul. There is a Charles W. Bronstein Group Home, located at 2644 Fremont Avenue South, Minneapolis, which is a social services and welfare organization. Cedric A. Rolfe ( -1940) died in Steele County, Minnesota. Harry Kuller ( -1946) and Rose Kuller ( -1952) both died in Ramsey County. Nate Kuller (1902-1979) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Tobias, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Mary H. Barry and Robert M. Barry.
901 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1904; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2094 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Anna Elizabeth Wallace (1852-1917,) the widowed mother of Mrs. Charles W. Tubby, who was born in Canada and who died of lobar pneumonia, resided at this address in 1917. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Tubby and Mrs. A. E. Wallace all resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Charlotte May Tubby (1877-1918,) the wife of Charles W. Tubby, who was born in Canada to parents born in Canada and who died of strangulation from a hanging, resided at this address in 1918. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that George Henry Hurd (1862-1922,) the husband of Nettie Hurd, who was born in Illinois to parents born in the United States and who died of interstitial nephritis, resided at this address in 1922. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Mairs, G. A. Mairs, Jr., and Mrs. J. B. A. Paradis resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Caroline Deming resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that George A. Mairs, department manager employed by W. J. Dyer & Brother, and his wife, Leontine Mairs, resided at this address. In 1934, George A. Mairs, Leontine Paradis Mairs, James Mairs, and L. M. Mairs resided at this address. The Mairs family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the University Club, and the St. Paul Athletic Club. William John Dyer and his siblings ran a hugely successful combination music school, performance hall and music and instrument store in St. Paul (21-23 West Fifth Street) at the turn of the 20th Century and had an exclusive and very singular line of harp guitars, harp mandolins, a harp mandola and a harp mandocello. William John Dyer was a dealer and importer in Boston from 1855 to 1868, was in business in Mankato, Minnesota, from 1869 to 1882, did business in St. Paul from 1882 as Dyer & Howard, became W. J. Dyer & Brother in 1885, was the largest music house west of Chicago, and was in business until 1941. The 1879 city directory indicates that William J. Dyer was a partner with Wilbur H. Howard in Dyer & Howard, dealers in musical instruments located at 69 East Third Street, and resided at the corner of Grand Avenue and Avon Street. Although the harp-derived instruments had a label "manufactured by W. J. Dyer & Bro.," the instruments were commissioned and entirely built by two brothers, August Larson and Carl Larson, of Chicago. Chris J. Knutsen/Johan Christian Cammon (1862-1930) was the inventor of the harp guitar, entered into a distribution deal with the Dyers around 1899, with W. J. Dyer & Bro., St. Paul, as the general agents for the U. S. except Washington and California after Knutsen moved to Tacoma, Washington. Around 1904, the Larsons began copying the Knutsen instruments and producing them for the Dyers. W. J. Dyer & Brother also sold cameras in the 1920's and was in operation at least until 1939. W. J. Dyer & Brother also sold Boy Scout bugles. August Larson and Carl Larson were born in Sweden, immigrated to Chicago in the 1880's, worked for guitar maker Robert Maurer, purchased his shop in 1900, and produced several of their own brands, though they also continued making instruments under the Maurer name, including some of the earliest made specifically for steel strings. The brothers built some guitars and mandolins under the Stahl brand (William C. Stahl of Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and under the Stetson name. Almost all Larson-made guitars had stressed tops and backs and many featured the Larson-patented laminated X-bracing. Around 1930, the Larsons produced Prairie State guitars, with an internal, double-steel-rod bracing system designed to relieve top stress and hold the neck heel in place. Leontine P. Mairs (1875-1956) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Rogers, and died in Ramsey County. Anna Elizabeth Wallace ( -1917,) Charlotte May Tubby ( -1918,) George Henry Hurd ( -1922,) James L. Mairs ( -1940,) George Alexander Mairs ( -1944,) and Jeanette Hurd ( -1944) all died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 2000 with a sale price of $345,000. The current owner of record of the property is Albert J. Fitzgibbons III, located in New York, New York. [See note on Mairs for 1504 Summit Avenue.]
903 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1911 (1915 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2218 square foot, six bedroom, one bathroom, two half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hilton resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hilton and R. L. Hilton all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Clifford L. Hilton, an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and his wife, Frances M. Hilton, resided at this address. Clifford Lloyd Hilton (1866-1946,) the son of Addison Hilton and Harriet Hilton, was born in Kenyon, Minnesota, moved with his family to Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1879, graduated from the Fergus Falls, Minnesota, High School in 1884, was a student at the University of Minnesota in 1885, graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1888, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota and Wisconsin in 1888, practiced law in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, from 1888 to 1909, married Frances G. Moll in 1891, was city attorney of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, from 1896 to 1898, was the county attorney for Otter Tail County, Minnesota, from 1899 until 1908, formed a law partnership with Anton Thompson in 1908, and was an assistant Minnesota Attorney General from 1909 to 1917, was Deputy Minnesota Attorney General from 1917 to 1918, was appointed Minnesota Attorney General by Governor Burnquist upon the death of Lyndon A. Smith, was the successful Republican candidate for Minnesota Attorney General in 1918 and served until 1927, was the president of the National Association of Attorneys General, was appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court by Governor Theodore Christianson in 1928, was elected to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1928, 1934, and 1940, retired in 1943, resided in St. Paul, was a Mason, was a vice president of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1916, was a member of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, was a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association, was a member of the American Bar Association, and died in Clearwater, Florida, where he wintered. Clifford L. Hilton and Frances G. Moll Hilton had two children, Jean Hilton and Bernard M. Hilton. In 1920, Clifford L. Hilton and C. Louis Weeks compiled Selected opinions of the Attorney General relating to primary and general elections in Minnesota of interest to public officials. In 1920, Clifford L. Hilton represented the State of Minnesota, along with James E. Markham, in the draft resistance case of Gilbert v. State of Minnesota, 254 U.S. 325 (1920.) In 1921, Clifford L. Hilton represented the State of Minnesota, along with James E. Markham, in the case under the Harrison Narcotic Act of the State of Minnesota on the Relation of Whipple v. Martinson, Sheriff of Hennepin County, Minnesota, 256 U.S. 41 (1921.) In 1922, Clifford L. Hilton represented the State of Minnesota, along with C. Louis Weeks and Frank B. Kellogg, of St. Paul, Lyndon A. Smith and Charles R. Pierce, of Washington, D.C., and H. B. Fryberger and William D. Bailey, of Duluth, in the boundary line dispute of Minnesota v. Wisconsin, 258 U.S. 149 (1922,) which set the boundary line between the two states in St. Louis Bay and the St. Louis River. In 1926, Clifford L. Hilton represented the State of Minnesota, along with Patrick J. Ryan and G. A. Youngquist, in the mining tax case of Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines v. Lord, 271 U.S. 577 (1926.) In 1928, Clifford Hilton and Millard A. Hilton resided at 2422 Cleveland Avenue. Clifford L. Hilton was born in Kenyon, Minnesota, the son of Addison Hilton and Harriet Hilton, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1888 with a Bachelor of Laws degree, practiced law in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, from 1888 to 1909, was City Attorney of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, from 1896 to 1898, was the County Attorney of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, from 1899 to 1909, was an Assistant Minnesota Attorney General from 1909 to 1917, and was Deputy Minnesota Attorney General from 1917 to 1918, was appointed Minnesota Attorney General in 1918 when Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith died, was reelected Minnesota Attorney General four times, was appointed a justice of Minnesota State Supreme Court in 1928 upon the retirement of Associate Justice James H. Quinn of Fairmont, Minnesota, was re-elected three times, retired in 1943, died while wintering in Clearwater, Florida, and was buried in Acacia Cemetery, Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Clifford Hilton was a member of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, was president of the National Association of Attorneys General, and was a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Clifford L. Hilton was the head of the Permanent Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian Church, the Church's highest tribunal, in 1936 and was a Mason. Clifford Hilton married Frances G. Moll ( -1949) in 1891 and the couple had two children, Jean Hilton and Bernard M. Hilton. James E. Markham (1857- ) was born in Rochester, New York, graduated from the Genesee Valley Seminary in New York in 1875, was admitted to the practice of law in 1879, came to Minnesota in 1886, settled in St. Paul, was a law partner of Harris Richardson in 1889, was the St. Paul city attorney from 1897 until 1903, was a deputy Minnesota Attorney General, represented the State of Minnesota in the landmark First Amendment case of Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931,) and served as the Deputy U. S. Alien Property Custodian from 1942 to 1944 and then served as the U. S. Alien Property Custodian from 1944 until 1946. There is a James E. Markham Award for excellence in leadership and exceptional professional contributions to the Office of Chief Counsel of the U. S. Treasury. Harriet E. Hilton ( -1908) and Jean Marie Hilton ( -1908) both died in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. James H. Quinn ( -1930) and Frances Moll Hilton ( -1949) died in Ramsey County. Ronald Lewis Hilton ( -1937) died in Wadena County, Minnesota. Bernard M. Hilton (1902-1986) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Moll, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 2003 with a sale price of $507,000. The current owners of record of the property are Christopher Meyer Grimberg and Rene J. Meyer Grimberg.
904 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1905 (1912 according to Ramsey County property tax records.) The structure is a two story, 2095 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached one car masonry garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Teisberg resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Geisberg resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Carl B. Teisberg, a physician and partner with Henry J. O'Brien and Clayton K. Williams in a medical practice located at the Hamm Building, his wife, Mary Teisberg, and Agnes I. Teisberg, a nurse employed by Andrew W. Hilger, all resided at this address. In 1934, Dr. Carl B. Teisberg, Sr., Mary O'Brien Teisberg, Carl B. Teisberg, Jr., Mary Teisberg, and John Teisberg resided at this address. The Teisberg family were members of the Town & Country Club and the Women's City Club of St. Paul in 1934. Carl B. Teisberg, a Norwegian, assisted the City and County Physician in 1911. Carl Benjamin Teisberg ( -1952) and Mary Victorine Teisberg ( -1953) both died in Ramsey County. Agnes I. Teisberg (1891-1963) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hustvedt, and died in Ramsey County. Clayton K. Williams (1891-1969) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Jones, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 1999 and the sale price was $250,000. The current owners of record of the property are Andrew S. King and Patricia A. McMorrow.
910 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1915. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 1989 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Kearton resided at this address. The McGraw Transit Directory in 1920 indicates that Wilfred Kearton was a signal engineer employed by the Minnesota RailRoad & Warehouse Commission. The 1930 city directory indicates that Wilford/Wilfred Kearton, a signal engineer employed by the RailRoad & Warehouse Commission, his wife, Isabelle Kearton, and Roy L. Kearton, a clerk employed by the Great Northern RailRoad, resided at this address. Wilfred Kearton and Thomas Kearton also served as signal engineers for the Northern Pacific RailRoad. Isabella Kearton ( -1932) and Wilford Kearton ( -1944) both died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Susan M. Haigh and Gregg E. Johnson. Susan M. Haigh has a bachelor's degree from Macalester College and a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law, is the Executive Director of Twin Cities Habitat For Humanity, previously was the District 4 Ramsey County Commissioner, representing the neighborhoods of Macalester-Groveland, Summit Hill, St. Anthony Park, Summit-University, Merriam Park, Lexington-Hamline, Snelling-Hamline, Newell Park, Desnoyer Park, Mount Airy, and parts of the West Seventh/Fort Road neighborhood, previously served on the Ramsey/Washington County Resource Recovery Project Board, on the Metropolitan Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board, and on the Minnesota Landmarks Board of Directors, serves on the Macalester College Board of Trustees, serves on the Friends of the St. Paul Library Board, previously served on the St. Paul Riverfront Corporation Board of Directors, previously served on the Metropolitan Light Rail Transit Joint Powers Board, and previously served on the St. Paul/Ramsey County Children's Initiative Board of Directors. Sue Haigh is also the "under 14" girls coordinator for the Blackhawks Youth Soccer Club. [See note on the Great Northern RailRoad for 280 Maple Street.]
911 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1901 (1916 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Prairie School in style. The structure is a two story, 2113 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Birnberg resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Tobias L. Birnberg, a physician who officed at the Lowry Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Birnberg resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Tobias L. Birnberg, a physician specializing in the diseases of children, who officed at the Lowry Medical Arts Building, 350 St. Peter Street, and his wife, Delia Birnberg, resided at this address. The current owners of record of the property are Paul Gleeson and Paula W. Gleeson. Prairiefire Fibers & Resources is currently located at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Birnberg resided at the former nearby 915 Fairmount Avenue.
916 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1915. The structure is a two story, 3335 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, two half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Myron McMillan resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Myron McMillan and their daughters resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Myron McMillan, the secretary-treasurer-general manager of the J. T. McMillan Company, his wife, Elsa McMillan, and Myron McMillan, Jr., resided at this address. In 1934, Myron McMillan, Sr., Elizabeth House McMillan, Lasell McMillan, Elizabeth McMillan, Myron McMillan, Jr., Mary McMillan, and William McMillan resided at this address. Lasell McMillan was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. The property was last sold for $279,900 and that sale occurred in 1994. The current owner of record of the property is Mary E. Pickard.
917 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1916; Tudor Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2330 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, three half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Dr. Ansel M. Birnberg resided at this address from 1916 to 1939. The 1920 city directory indicates that Ansel M. Birnberg, a dentist with an office at the Lowry Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Birnberg resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Ansel M. Birnberg, a dentist and a partner with Michael J. Cobler in the dental partnership Birnberg & Cobler, located at the Lowry Medical Arts Building, and his wife, Mamie Birnberg, resided at this address. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that that Samuel Lipschultz resided at this address from 1940 to 1963. Samuel Lipschultz (1913-1988) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Chudacoff, and died in Hennepin County. The current owner of record of the property is Mary M. Poston. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Galt and Mrs. F. L. Galt all resided at the former nearby 921 Fairmount Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wright resided at the former nearby 921 Fairmount Avenue.
922 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1924. The structure is a two story, 2486 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Henry W. Allstrom, vice president and actuary for the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, and his wife, Edith K. Allstrom, and Marjory Allstrom, a stenographer of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, resided at this address. Henry W. Allstrom (1880-1969) was an actuary and a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries who was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, was in the insurance business with the Northern Insurance Company of New York, the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, and the New York Life Insurance Company, was an actuary for and a director of the Occidental Life Insurance Company from 1906 to 1911, became an actuary for Northwestern National Life Insurance Company in 1911, and then became an actuary, trustee, and vice-president of the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company during his employment with that company from 1918 to 1950. Allstrom was involved in the development of reinsurance agreements among life insurance companies. Henry Allstrom and his wife, Edith K. Allstrom ( -1969,) had two children, Marjorie K. Allstrom and H. Willard Allstrom. Henry W. Allstrom (1880-1969) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Beyer, and died in Ramsey County. Edith K. Allstrom (1882-1969) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Peterson, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1999 with a sale price of $310,001. The current owner of record of the property is Ernest Heyward. The Kydd Group, Convention Consultants & Management, Marketing & Sales Consulting, Party & Event Planning, also is located at this address.
921-923 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1910. The structure is a two story, 3656 square foot, eight bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. L. B. Newman, her daughter, and L. J. Newman all resided at this address. World War I veterans Lewis J. Newman and Maurice M. Newman resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Edward A. Cooper, a clerk employed by Wondra Brothers, and Harry A. Cooper, a clerk, both resided at 921 Fairmount Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that Martin J. Hurley, secretary and attorney with Dunn & Stringer Inc., and his wife, Josephine P. Hurley, resided at this address. Lewis B. Newman ( -1908) died in Ramsey County. Martin J. Hurley (1884-1974) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Egan, and died in Ramsey County. Josephine Hurley (1888-1972) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Cronin, and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is John Exner, who resides at 921 Fairmount Avenue.
928 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1915. The structure is a two story, 2480 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Schmitt resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Allstrom resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William F. Heger, a special agent employed by the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company, and his wife, Virginia Heger, resided at this address. The Provident Mutual Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia was founded in 1865, with Samuel R. Shipley, its first president, and Rowland Parry, its first actuary. By 1875, Provident Mutual Life continued to prosper and expanded throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. The Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company was a domiciled mutual life insurance company of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, converted to a stock life insurance company in 2001, and was then acquired in 2002 by Nationwide Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware domiciled corporation. William F. Heger (1891-1963) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Taufmann, and died in Ramsey County. Virginia Krank Heger (1894-1975) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hundt, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 1995 and the sale price was $183,000. The current owners of record of the property are Marci M. Franzen and Richard J. Franzen. [See note for H. W. Allstrom for 922 Fairmont Avenue.]
929 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1918. The structure is a two story, 1658 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Quast resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Louis C. Quast, a dentist with an office at 488 Wabasha Street, and his wife, Aurora Quast, resided at this address. Louis C. Quast (1887-1965) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Strunk, and died in Waseca County, Minnesota. Louis Clement Quast (1911-1978) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Sterner, and died in McLeod County, Minnesota. Aurora Neumann Quast (1886-1957) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Rosskopf, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Emily L. Fields and Robert B. Lea, who reside at 931 Fairmount Avenue.
931 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1921. The structure is a two story, 1988 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Cherry Farmer and Mrs. P. N. Stocker both resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Robert C. Peterson resided at this address. Priscilla N. Stocker (1870-1960) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Douglas, and died in Hennepin County. The property was last sold for $317,500 and that sale occurred in 1999. The current owners of record of the property are Emily L. Fields and Robert B. Lea.
932 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1916. The structure is a two story, 2416 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. G. O. Orr and O. J. Orr all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. G. O. Orr and their daughters resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that George O./C. Orr, a dentist who officed at 350 St. Peter Street, and his wife, Bessie G. Orr, resided at this address. George O. Orr ( -1945) died in Ramsey County. Elizabeth Gale Orr (1868-1961) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Dawn E. Georgieff and Michael K. Georgieff. Michael Georgieff is a member of the Minnesota Off-Road Cyclists organization.
935 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1922. The structure is a two story, 1747 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. William Ginsberg resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William Ginsberg, a physician who officed at 350 St. Peter Street, resided at this address. The property was last sold in 2002 with a sale price of $325,000. The current owner of record of the property is Ryan T. Sieloff. Ryan Sieloff is a retail manager for Coastal Seafoods.
936 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1915. The structure is a two story, 2020 square foot, five bedroom, bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Healy resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Lacy resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Orlando J. Lacy, a vice-president of the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, and his wife, Helen E. Lacy, resided at this address. Marcus J. Healey ( -1928) died in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Martin J. Healey (1901-1975) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Quinn, and died in Wabasha County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Jeanette L. Zaczkowski and Leon M. Zaczkowski. Leon M. Zaczkowski (1953- ,) Director of Project Management for Xcel Energy Inc., participated in the 1999 Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota, in the 2004 Life Time Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis, in the 2006 Trail Mix Race Minnesota 50K in Bloomington, Minnesota, and in the 2007 Trail Mix Race Minnesota 50K in Bloomington, Minnesota.
941 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1920. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 2343 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Henry C. Soucheray, treasurer of the St. Paul Abstract Company, and his wife, Anna C. Soucheray, resided at this address. Henry C. Soucheray was the president of the Minnesota Land Title Association in 1922 and 1923. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Soucheray resided at this address. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that D. Brooks Henderson, Jr., resided at this address from 1940 to 1981. In the 1930's, Brooks Henderson was a leading local radio newscaster in the Twin Cities as KSTP's "Phillips 66 Reporter." Brooks Henderson and Walter Ridder were the heads of a St. Paul Jaycees "Stop Careless Talk" campaign during World War II. In 1944, Brooks Henderson provided a report on the reaction of the Twin Cities to D-Day that was broadcast nationally on the evening of the June 6 D-Day invasion of Nazi Europe as part of an NBC Round-Up of reactions around the country. Brooks Henderson also was a personality on KSTP's Sunset Valley Barn Dance musical variety program from 1940 until the 1950's. Ellen Birdseye Wheaton (1816-1858,) the wife of Charles Augustus Wheaton (1809-1882,) was the aunt of Brooks Henderson of St. Paul. Charles Augustus Wheaton was a major figure in the central New York state abolitionist movement and Underground Railroad, moved to Northfield, Minnesota, and, with Charles M. Goodsell, gave the land that became the Carleton College campus. In 1934, Brooks Henderson and Annabel Wheaton Henderson (1870-1946) resided at 846 Lincoln Avenue. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Brooks Henderson III, a member of the Class of 1958, resided at this address. The Minnesota Land Title Association was formed in 1908 as a professional association to secure the integrity of land titles throughout the state. The organization grew out of the interest of abstracters from around the state to form an association to ensure the survival of their businesses after the introduction of the "Torrens" system of land registration in Minnesota in 1901 and to "standardize" the compilation and preparation of abstracts. The real estate Bar mistakenly thought at the time that the Torrens system would eventually eliminate the usefulness of abstracts of title. The first Minnesota Land Title Association constitution was written in 1911. The initial planning meetings were attended by William H. Pryor of Duluth, Mr. Woodhull of the Merrill Abstract Company of Minneapolis, W. S. Jenkins of the Real Estate Title Insurance Company of Minneapolis, L. R. Moyer of Montevideo, H. C. Soucheray of St. Paul, R. B. Daniel of Marshall, H. Andree of Long Prairie, Joe Mushel of Foley, C. C. Strander of Crookston, Joseph Winczewski of Winona, L. G. Roesner of Winona, and A. G. Trommald of Brainerd. The Minnesota Land Title Association held its first annual meeting in 1911. In 1929, the American Title Association adopted its first standardized title insurance policy. Villa Collyers McDowell, of Olivia, was elected the first woman president of the Minnesota Land Title Association in 1932. The business of title insurance proliferated after World War II and many abstract companies became title agencies during and after the 1950's, when title insurance underwriters expanded to a national scope of operations. Minnesota's first abstracter's license law was enacted in 1957. The federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act ("RESPA") in 1974, an attempt to prevent abusive practices such as kickbacks and unearned fees and to provide information to consumers before closing by way of disclosures and other advance information, changed the land title business. Members of the Minnesota Land Title Association are abstractors, title insurance agents, closing agents, title insurance underwriters, and attorneys. Henry C. Soucheray ( -1938) died in Ramsey County. D. Brooks Henderson (1908-1991) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wheaton, and died in Ramsey County. David Brooks Henderson (1940-1981) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Johnson, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 2000 and the sale price was $304,000. The current owners of record of the property are Lisa P. Chen and Gregory L. Bluem. Reverend Roy D. Phillips, a former lead minister at Unity Church-Unitarian, St. Paul, for 28 years, resided at this address. Roy D. Phillips was the author of Transforming Liberal Congregations for the New Millennium, published in St. Paul by Unity Church-Unitarian in 1996. Roy Phillips was the Interim Minister of two Florida UUA congregations in transition in 2001, was a member of the Board of Starr King School for the Ministry in 2001, and was a member of the editorial advisory Board of the on-line UU journal, The Journal of Liberal Religion, published by Meadville Lombard Theological School in 2001.
942 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1916. The structure is a two story, 1722 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached one car garage. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Poppe resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Forest R. Poppe, a lawyer who officed at the Merchants Bank Building, and his wife, Martha D. Poppe, resided at this address. Forest Poppe ( -1934) died in Ramsey County. Martha D. Poppe (1887-1982) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Drawe, and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Kathleen M. Liedl.
945 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1925. The structure is a two story, 1728 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Benjamin Feldstein, a contractor with the Ramsey Building Corporation, and his wife, Ida Feldstein, resided at this address. Ben Feldstein (1884-1977) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Kaminsky, and died in Ramsey County. Ida Feldstein (1885-1958) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is the trustee for Martha Richardson.
946 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1916. The structure is a two story, 2790 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Girvin resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that John A. Wright, a salesman employed by Ernest Bjorklund & Company, and his wife, Grace Wright, resided at this address. James Henry Girvin ( -1934) died in Hennepin County. John A. Wright ( -1953) died in Ramsey County. Grace H. Wright (1888-1959) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hills, and died in Ramsey County. Ernest Israel Bjorklund (1885-1978) was born in Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Donald F. Eldred and Marilou Eldred. Simon Lifpitz and Jennie Lifpitz resided at the nearby former 947 Fairmount Avenue in 1917. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Podlasky resided at the former nearby 947 Fairmount Avenue. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board indicate that Joseph Lifpitz (1895- ,) a 1917 enlistee and a Wagoner assigned to Mobile Hospital No. 11, who was born in St. Paul, had blue eyes, dark hair, and a dark complexion, was 5' 8" tall, was a moving picture operator and manager at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, was a salesman employed by the Times Square Auto Company after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his father, Simon Lifpitz, at the nearby 947 Fairmount Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Anna Nippolt resided at the former nearby 947 Fairmount Avenue. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Julia K. Nippolt (1853-1925,) the widowed mother of Edward C. Nippolt, who was born in Minnesota to parents born in Germany and who died of acute cardiac dilatation, resided at the nearby former 947 Fairmount Avenue in 1925. Julia Katherine Nippolt ( -1925) and Edward C. Nippolt ( -1944) both died in Ramsey County. Goal Line Marketing Group, LLC, cultivating and expanding corporate sponsorships, is listed as being located at 947 Fairmount Avenue.
949 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1916. The structure is a two story, 2844 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lucker resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William A. Lucker, a phonograph dealer, and his wife, Carolyn Lucker, resided at this address. William Alfred Lucker (1884-1968) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Brinkman, and died in Ramsey County. Carolyn P. Lucker ( -1946) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is April Christensen, who resides in Minneapolis.
950 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1915. The structure is a two story, 1920 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. World War I veteran John A. Nagle (1898- ,) a Petty Officer, resided at this address in 1919. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Nagle resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Fred H. Mork, a partner with A. Amos McCree and Guy Chase in McCree & Company, a general contractor, and his wife, Helen Mork, resided at this address. Michael T. Nagle (1868-1955) was born in Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. Fred Herman Mork (1896-1958) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Anderson, and died in Ramsey County. Helen Ann Mork (1896-1959) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Galvin, and died in Ramsey County. Andrew Amos McCree (1883-1957) was born outside Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Swan, and died in Hennepin County. Guy Chase ( -1952) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Paula M. Quinn and Thomas Quinn.
951 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1924. The structure is a 1516 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, stucco rambler, with a detached garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Morris Baker, associated with Independent Auto Supply, and his wife, Bessie Baker, resided at this address. Morris Baker (1886-1960) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. Bessie Baker (1891-1981) was born in Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1997 with a sale price of $167,000. The current owners of record of the property are Joy Norquist and Ronald T. Wawrzon. Ronald Wawrzon is the Office Manager of the Shield Technologies Corporation, manufacturers of envelop protective covers.
954 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1914. The structure is a two story, 1846 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Brown all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that James G. Willner, a buyer, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Willner resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Samuel Peilen and his wife, Mathilda Peilen, resided at this address. Samuel M. Peilen ( -1939) and Mathilda Peilen ( -1946) both died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Patricia L. Selbitschka and Ronald J. Selbitschka. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Moore and their daughter resided at the former nearby 956 Fairmount Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. B. St. Pierre resided at the former nearby 956 Fairmount Avenue. Louis St. Pierre (1898-1984) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Wolf, and died in Ramsey County. James S. Moore ( -1931) and Leon St. Pierre ( -1942) both died in Ramsey County.
957 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1914. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 1608 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Schmitz resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Rose E. Schmitz, the widow of Andrew J. Schmitz, resided at this address. Andrew Joseph Schmitz ( -1924) died in Ramsey County. Rose E. Schmitz (1878-1956) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Nickols, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are the trustees for Ariel W. Dickerson and G. Kent Dickerson.
958 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1914. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 1733 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#32497) indicate that James M. Moore (1899- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Private First Class in the U. S. S. M. A. Cadet Flying Squadron, who was born in New York City, New York, moved to Minnesota in 1907, had brown eyes, dark brown hair, and a dark complexion, was 5' 9" tall, was a student at induction, was a student after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his father, James S. Monroe, at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Dysinger resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Stephen D. Dysinger, secretary of Holm & Olson, Inc., Steven H. Dysinger, a bookkeeper at Holm & Olson, Inc., and his wife, Viola M. Dysinger, resided at this address. Stephan Douglas Dysinger (1861-1931) was the secretary of Holm & Olson, Inc., a St. Paul florist, from 1908 through 1931. Stephen D. Dysinger ( -1931) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Thomas H. Lindner and Kathryn A. Rehwaldt. Thomas H. Lindner received a bachelors degree in Journalism in 1978 from the University of Minnesota and is the News Director for KARE-TV. Kathryn Rehwaldt was an alumna of Barnard College, Class of 1974. Tom Lindner & Kathryn Rehwaldt were financial supporters of the Madeline Island (Wisconsin) Wilderness Preserve in 2004 and 2006.
961 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1905. The structure is a two story, 3327 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. E. I. Brown resided at this address. Edwin Brown was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Willard and Daniel Willard all resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that John M. Stoughton (1850-1925,) the married father of George M. Stoughton, who was born in Wisconsin to parents born in the United States and who died of a fracture of the scapula and chest, resided at this address in 1925. The 1930 city directory indicates that Daniel E. Willard, an agricultural agent employed by the Great Northern RailRoad, his wife, Emily D. Willard, Daniel E. Willard, Jr., a law student employed by the law firm of Oppenheimer, Dickson, Hodgson, Brown & Donnelly, and Clara M. Turner, a teacher at the Summit School, all resided at this address. Daniel Everett Willard (1862-1947) was the author of The Story of the Prairies, or The Landscape Geology of North Dakota, published in 1907 by the Ihling Brothers & Everard Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan, of The Story of the North Star State, published in 1922 by the Webb Publishing Company, a St. Paul publisher, and of Montana, The Geologic Story, published in 1935 by The Science Press Printing Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Willard was born in Nile, New York, received his B.A. (1888) and A.M. (1890) degrees from Alfred College, New York, did graduate work at the University of Chicago (1893-1895,) served as the principal of the Albion, New York, Academy (1888-1892,) and was a professor of natural resources and geology at the North Dakota Normal School and at the North Dakota College (1895-1910.) Willard also was the North Dakota State Geologist, served as a member of the United States Geological Survey (1902-1905,) was the development and agricultural specialist for the Northern Pacific RailRoad (1910-1920) and the Great Northern RailRoad (1920-1924,) and was a director of the Agricultural College Survey of North Dakota. Willard died in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Edwin E. Brown (1885-1968) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Gregersen, and died in Ramsey County. Edwin C. Brown (1899-1970) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Swenson, and died in Ramsey County. Edwin W. Brown (1896-1959) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Dvorak, and died in Ramsey County. John Morton Stoughton ( -1925,) Clara Miller Turner ( -1930,) and Georgie M. Stoughton ( -1942) all died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $179,000 and that sale occurred in 1993. The current owners of record of the property are Margaret M. Gast and Barbara E. Lackner. Margaret M. Gast, Attorney at Law, is currently located at this address. [See note on the Northern Pacific RailRoad for 432 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the Great Northern RailRoad for 280 Maple Street.]
964 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1914. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 2117 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Schnier resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fulton resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Alf M. Fulton, the manager of works for the Northern Malleable Iron Company, and his wife, Louise Fulton, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Donald B. Fulton, a member of the Class of 1941, resided at this address. John Louis Schnier (1879-1955) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Beckenhardt, and died in Ramsey County. Alfred M. Fulton ( -1950) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is James M. Miller. [See note on the Northern Malleable Iron Company for 943 Euclid Street.]
965 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1905. The structure is a two story, 2627 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ertz resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Marion Ertz, the widow of Conrad J. Ertz, resided at this address and that Norman J. Ertz, an employee of the McAnulty Improvement & Investment Company, boarded at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Dennis J. McMahon, vice president of Minnesota Oil & Development Company, and his wife, Julia L. McMahon, resided at this address. In 1934, Ernest A. Countryman and Louise Whitney Countryman resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that James E. Camp, who attended the school from 1921 until 1922, resided at this address. Ernest A. Countryman was a World War I veteran who resided at 1840 Selby Avenue in 1919. Conrad J. Ertz ( -1917) died in nRamsey County. Dennis Judson McMahon ( -1935) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Earl M. Smith.
968 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1913. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 1393 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Olof Holm and their daughters all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Samuel Chern, a partner with Hyman Chern and Meyer Sherman in the St. Paul Fur & Hide Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. William Althen and Mrs. Katherine Althen all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Louis Schroeder, the secretary of the St. Paul Board of Trade, his wife, Elizabeth D. Schroeder, William F. Althen, a buyer for A. Schoch Grocery Company, and his wife, Lillian W. Althen, all resided at this address. Louis Schroeder (1893-1990) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Weber, and died in Ramsey County. Louis W. Schroeder ( -1953) and William Althen ( -1953) both died in Ramsey County. Elizabeth D. Schroeder (1889-1970) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Kuhlmann, and died in Ramsey County. Lillian S. Althen (1881-1970) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Tappert, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 1999 and the sale price was $250,000. The current owners of record of the property are Bonnie Sweeney and Thomas Sweeney. [See note for Olof/Olaf Holm for 558 Lincoln Avenue.]
969 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1908. The structure is a two story, 2210 square foot, six bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that James Kelly, his daughters, and A. T. Kelly all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. O. L. Harper resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Orrol L. Harper, an osteopath, resided at this address. Anthony T. Kelly ( -1928) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Susan M. Munson and Emmanuel T. Regala. Emmanuel Regala is the son of Emilio Regala, Jr., and Letty Tolentino, married Susan Monson, and the couple have two children, Marie Regala and Alex Regala. Manny Munson-Regala, associated with United Health Care in 2007, was a member of the board of directors of SteppingStone Theatre in 2007. Manny Munson-Regala was appointed Deputy Commissioner for the Market Assurance Division at the Minnesota Department of Commerce in 2008 and previously was a Claim Attorney for State Farm Fire & Casualty, was Corporate Counsel and Asst. Vice President of Government Affairs for the St. Paul Companies, and was Director of Legal, Regulatory and Government Affairs at the United Health Group.
972 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1913. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 1505 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached one car garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kohl resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Brink resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Hugo A. Brink, a field supervisor, and his wife, Olivia Brink, resided at this address. John C. Kohl (1887-1959) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Jordan, and died in Ramsey County. Hugo Ansgarius Brink (1885-1972) was born in Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Nancy A. Parlin.
973 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1909. The structure is a two story, 1843 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Cary resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Alan G. Cary, a salesman employed by Robinson Cary & Son Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Hoy resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Robert G. Dillon, assistant manager of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, and his wife, Doris Dillon, resided at this address. Agustus Gordon Cary ( -1916) died in Ramsey County. Robert G. Dillon (1896-1965) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Mc Mahon, and died in Ramsey County. Doris Dwyer Dillon (1897-1955) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Smith, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 2003 and the sale price was $331,000. The current owners of record of the property are Grant D. Fairbairn and Kara K. Smith. Grant D. Fairbairn is a graduate of University of Wisconsin in 2000 and of Georgetown University Law Center in 2003, is a senior associate in the Intellectual Property and Commercial Litigation Groups at the Fredrikson & Byron law firm, and is a board member of the Minnesota Sinfonia and is associated with the Volunteer Lawyers Network.
975 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1915. The structure is a two story, 3629 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. John Cody resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Delia Cody, a domestic, and Anna Dolan, a clerk employed by J. T. McMillan Company, both boarded at this address and that John Cody resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. John Cody resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that John Cody and his wife, Della Cody, resided at this address. Della Cody ( -1930,) John Cody ( -1932,) and John Francis Cody ( -1942) all died in Ramsey County. John M. Cody (1878-1961) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. John J. Cody (1887-1980) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Tobin, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Elaine M. Benson Moosbrugger and Grant A. Moosbrugger. In 1976, Grant Moosbrugger authored the paper "Meaning of the Word Chicano" in Mexican-American History Project Papers. Elaine M. Benson Moosbrugger was a financial supporter of the Minnesota Humanities Commission in 2004. Elaine Benson-Moosbrugger was the lead individual in securities law litigation over an investment in a Costa Rican resort and an unsuccessful appellant before the Minnesota Court of Appeals in Elaine Benson-Moosbrugger, et al. vs. Robert P. Day, et al. C3-02-34 (2002.)
976 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1925. The structure is a two story, 2704 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Emma Nelson, the widow of Gustav Nelson and president of the Standard Stone Company, Arthur W. Carlsten, a manager, Carrie Carlsten, the widow of Halvor A. Carlsten, Harold Carlsten, a bookkeeper, and Myrtle Carlsten, a student, all resided at this address and that the Standard Stone Company was located at this address. Arthur W. Carlsten ( -1938) died in Ramsey County. Arthur W. Carlsten (1895-1959) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Anderson, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1994 with a sale price of $217,000. The current owners of record of the property are Deborah H. Mande and Louis R. Mande. In 2000, Louis R. Mande was an Assistant Hennepin County Attorney. Louis R. Mande was a financial supporter of the Law School at Temple University in 2004.
988 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1914; Augustus F. Gauger, architect. The structure is a two story, 2527 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Bumgardner resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Sidney D. Bumgardner, a partner with Louis A. Bumgardner and Hugh K. Bumgardner in the L. A. Bumgardner Company, railroad contractors located at the Central Bank Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Bumgardner resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Sidney/Stanley D. Bumgardner, associated with L. A. Bumgardner & Company, railroad and highway contractors, and his wife, Lydia Bumgardner, resided at this address. Sidney D. Bumgardner (1889-1971) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of McMenemy, and died in Ramsey County. Louis A. Bumgardner (1858-1955) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Cooley, and died in Ramsey County. Hugh K. Bumgardner (1891-1981) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of McMenemy, and died in Ramsey County. Lysia L. Bumgardner (1890-1973) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Dahl, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of this property was in 1992 and the sale price was $190,000. The current owners of record of the property are Michael E. Florey and Catherine A. Gnatek. Michael E. Florey is a principal in the law firm of Fish & Richardson PC, PA, of Minneapolis. Catherine Gnatek, unemployed, contributed to the Barack Obama for President campaign in 2007-2008. Michael E. Florey and Catherine A. Gnatek were financial supporters of the Breck School as parents of a student in 2007. [See note on Augustus F. Gauger for 295 Summit Avenue.]
990 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1915. The structure is a two story, 2190 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Regan and W. A. Regan all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Murray and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Francis H. Murray and his wife, Lillian Murray, resided at this address. Francis Henry Murray (1873-1963) was a land colonization agent for the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Line) RailRoad and other railroad companies and was involved in various Catholic colonization projects in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin during the period 1910 to 1912. The Catholic Colonization Company of St. Paul was sponsored by the Soo Line RailRoad. William James Regan ( -1945) died in Hennepin County. Lillian D. Murray (1895-1973) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Anderson, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $271,500 and that sale occurred in 1998. The current owners of record of the property are Alexandra B. Klass and Stephen K. Warch. Alexandra B. Klass is a 1988 graduate of the University of Michigan, is a 1992 graduate of the Law School at the University of Wisconsin, was a Law Clerk to the Hon. Barbara B. Crabb, Chief District Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, was a Special Assistant Minneapolis City Attorney, was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, was an Associate Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law, and is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Stephen K. Warch ( -1966) was born New Haven, Connecticut, is a 1988 graduate of Grinnell College, is a 1991 graduate of the Law School at the University of Wisconsin, was an Assistant Minnesota Attorney General and Manager of the Commerce and Charities Divisions of the Minnesota Attorney General's Office, is a shareholder in the law firm of Halleland, Lewis, Nilan & Johnson, is Program Chair for the Minnesota State Bar Association's Health Law Section, and teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law. [See note on the Soo Line RailRoad for 688 East Fourth Street.]
993 Fairmount Avenue: Isaac H. Price Residence; Built in 1887. The structure is a two story, 2116 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Isaac H. Price resided at this address from 1890 to 1900. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Price and their daughters resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Ethelbert Fremont Geer (1858-1916,) the husband of Helen Hazen Geer, who was born in Connecticut to parents born in the United States and who died of cerebral embolism, resided at this address in 1916. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. E. F. Geer resided at this address. Everett K. Geer, Paul H. Geer, and Prentice Selden Geer were World War I veterans who resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. V. T. Kolb resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles E. Sandeen resided at this address. Ethelbert Fremont Geer was a doctor, married Helen Hazen, and the couple had eight children, Helen Fremont Geer (Mrs. Harry Charles) Melby, Elihu Hazen Geer (1887-1888,) Ethelberta Evans Geer (Mrs. Henry Longstreet) Taylor, Paul Hazen Geer, Everett Kinne Geer (1893-1950,) Prentice Selden Geer, Harriet Hale Geer (Mrs. Henry Benbrook) Hall, and Editha Lynde Geer (1904- .) Prentice S. Geer (1894-1965) was a Corporal with the 67th Company, Fifth Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps,) Second Division, of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I and won the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in action at Chateau-Thierry, France, on June 6, 1918, when isolated and under enemy counterattack, he courageously charged the enemy with a bayonet and, with the assistance of his comrades, captured a machine-gun crew and repulsed the enemy attack. Prentice Geer was promoted to the rank of Colonel, served during World War II with the Third Marines, Reinforced, Third Marine Division, was promoted a Brigadier General, and is buried in San Diego, California. In 1924, Everett K. Geer was a participant in a symposium in Rochester, Minnesota, on artificial pneumo-thorax sponsored by the American Association of Thoracic Surgery. Everett K. Geer was the author of the article "Tuberculosis Among Nurses" in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 49, No. 1 (1932.) Dr. Henry Longstreet Taylor (1857-1932) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of David H. Taylor and Laura Carroll Taylor, graduated from Haverford College, received a medical degree from the College of Ohio/University of Cincinnati in 1882, studied for two years with Dr. Robert Koch in Berlin, Germany, and for two years in Prague, returned to Cincinnati, Ohio, moved to Ashland, North Carolina, relocated in 1893 to St. Paul, created a foundation to fight tuberculosis, became secretary of the Ramsey County Medical Society in 1894, was appointed the head of a special commission to study the establishment of a sanatorium, was president of the Minnesota Public Health Association from 1924 to 1927, was the president of the National Tuberculosis Association in 1928, and was president of the Ramsey County Public Health Association in 1929. Isaac H. Price ( -1912) and Ethelhert Fremont Geer ( -1916) both died in Ramsey County. Paul H. Geer (1890-1955) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hagen, and died in Ramsey County. Harriet Geer Hall (1897-1982) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hazen, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 2001 with a sale price of $305,000. The current owners of record of the property are the trustees for Harold R. Bailey and Laura J. Bailey. [See note on H. Longstreet Taylor (1912-1983) for 748 West Linwood Avenue.]
1000 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1912. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 1364 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. A. L. Flinn and Alice H. Flinn resided at this address in 1917. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Flinn and their daughter all resided at this address. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board indicate that Charles A. Flinn (1897 - ,) a 1917 enlistee and a Private First Class, who was born in St. Paul, had blue eyes, brown hair, and a dark complexion, was 6' 1/4 " tall, was a student at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including the Verdun sector, and was a student after the completion of service, resided at this address with his father, A. L. Flinn. The 1920 city directory indicates that Allan L. Flinn, the chief rate expert employed by the State RailRoad & Warehouse Commission, resided at this address and Charles A. Flinn, a student, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Flinn resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Allan L. Flinn, a rate expert employed by the State Railroad & Warehouse Commission, and his wife, Alice Flinn, resided at this address. Allan L. Flinn ( -1954) died in Ramsey County. Alice J. Flinn (1868-1956) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Briggs, and died in Ramsey County. Charles A. Flinn (1897-1970) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hammond, and died in Cottonwood County, Minnesota. The last sale of this property was in 1996 and the sale price was $162,500. The current owners of record of the property are Cynthia Grundmeier and Daniel D. Grundmeier.
1003 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1925. The structure is a two story, 3032 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Benjamin F. Gass, a mining contractor, and his wife, Alice Gass, resided at this address. Alice Gass ( -1948) died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1995 with a sale price of $155,250. The current owners of record of the property are Ann Kirby McGill and David L. McGill. Ann K. Kirby McGill is the Assistant to the Director of the Office of State Relations at the University of Minnesota and is an alumna of the Minnesota Education Policy Fellowship Program.
1004 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1913. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 1453 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Straeter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. B. C. H. Gerber resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Bernhardt C. H. Gerber, the vice-president of the Modern Business Institute, Inc., and his wife, Bertha J. Gerber, resided at this address. In 1924, Otto Straeter resided at 1865 Portland Avenue. Otto T. Straeter (1884-1957) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. Bernhardt C. H. Gerber (1872-1955) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Bundy, and died in Kandiyohi County. Bertha Gerber ( -1939) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are David C. McManus and Kathleen M. McManus.
1008 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1914. The structure is a 1 3/4 story, 1584 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Aberle resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that David W. Aberle resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Aberle resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Bronson West, an advertising executive employed by the Greve Advertising Agency, and his wife, Marjorie B. West, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Bronson West (1889- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1909 until 1910, who graduated from Harvard University in 1912, who served at Fort Snelling during World War I, who was the military instructor at Cretin High School, who was a Major in the 206th Infantry, who was a horseback polo referee, and who was employed in advertising at the Foot-Schulze Building, resided at this address. Bronson West married Marjorie C. Bemis in St. Paul in 1912 and the couple had two children, Ann West (1913- ) and Peggy West (1922- .) David Winfield Aberle ( -1935) died in Ramsey County. Bronson West ( -1950) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are John P. Gehan and Sara A. Stedman. John P. Gehan is the director of the Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach at the University of Minnesota and is an author of the article "Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol: Outcomes from a Randomized Community Trial" in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol in 2000. John P. Gehan was a finalist for the position of Executive Director of the Minnesota Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board in 1998 and lost to Erin Murphy in the 2006 primary for the DFL nomination for Minnesota House of Representatives District 64A.
1009 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1917. The structure is a two story, 2870 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Millunchick and Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Wilson all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Morris M. Getz, a traveling salesman, and his wife, Rose Getz, Samuel Hoffman, a merchant tailor and proprietor of the Hoffman Clothes of Distinction shop, and his wife, Mary Hoffman, located at 444 St. Peter Street, all resided at this address. Susan Mitchell, a member of the Ramsey County Community Health Services Advisory Committee, previously resided at this address. Abraham W. Millunchick ( -1942,) Morris Getz ( -1944,) and Mary Hoffman ( -1945) all died in Ramsey County. Samuel S. Hoffman ( -1973) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Kuretsky, and died in Hennepin County. Sam Hoffman (1889-1968) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $405,000 and that sale occurred in 2003. The current owner of record of the property is Square Feet of Minnesota LLC, located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
1010 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1911. The structure is a two story, 1714 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin Schroeder and Miss Florence Schroeder all resided at this address. World War I veterans Jno. J. Schroeder and Leon W. Schroeder resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin Schroeder resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Baldwin Schroeder, a lawyer who officed at the Guardian Building, and his wife, Lillie A. Schroeder, resided at this address. Baldwin Schroeder (1881-1970) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of McDonald, and died in Ramsey County. John J. Schroeder (1894-1983) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Walker, and died in Ramsey County. Leon Schroeder ( -1925) died in Hennepin County. Lillie A. Schroeder ( -1950) died in Ramsey County. Florence C. Schroeder (1886-1984) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Fandel, and died in Hennepin County. Florence D. Schroeder (1899-1985) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Schulz, and died in Hennepin County. Florence Dorothy Schroeder (1906-1996) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Davis, and died in Hennepin County. The current owners of record of the property are Beverly K. Krieg and Thomas E. Krieg.
1011 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1916. The structure is a two story, 1951 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. George Urquhart and their daughter resided at this address. Kenneth G. Urquhart was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Wallace resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Benjamin Levenson, a confectioner with a shop at 259 West University Avenue, and his wife, Esther E. Levenson, resided at this address. George Kenneth Urquhart ( -1933) and George Urquhart ( -1940) both died in Ramsey County. Robert B. Wallace ( -1950) died in Hennepin County. Benjamin Levenson ( -1939) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Alice McOlson and Kerry E. McOlson.
1014 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1914. The structure is a two story, 1508 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Campbell and their daughter resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that David C. Campbell, a detective, resided at this address and that Alice P. Campbell boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Campbell and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Donald C. Campbell and his wife, Mary Campbell, resided at this address. Donald Campbell ( -1951) died in Hennepin County. The current owners of record of the property are Edward D. Dufresne and Shirley Dufresne.
1017 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1916. The structure is a two story, 2002 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hoffman resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Fred C. Hoffman resided at this address. In 1879, Frederick c. Hoffman, a painter employed by T. Hamm, boarded at his employer's. The current owner of record of the property is Leslie J. Yoder.
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1021 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1915. The structure is a two story, 1672 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Mellenthin resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rudawsky resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Samuel Rudawsky resided at this address. The 1930 directory also lists Samuel Rudawsky and his wife, Libby Rudawsky, as residents of 1160 Grand Avenue. Samuel Rudawsky ( -1939) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Linda J. Lacy and R. Michael Lacy.
1025 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1916. The structure is a two story, 1498 square foot, four bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a detached garage. In 1908, Richard P. John was a clerk for the Northern Pacific RailRoad and boarded at 373 North Maple Street. The 1918 city directory indicates that F. E. Baker and his daughters resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Frank E. Baker (1841-1920,) the widower father of Mrs. H. K. Terry, who was born in New York to parents born in Ireland and who died of broncho-pneumonia, resided at this address in 1920. The 1930 city directory indicates that Richard P. John, a bookkeeper employed by the Hamm Brewing Company, and his wife, Margaret John, resided at this address. Henry Kingsbury Terry ( -1917,) Frank E. Baker ( -1920,) Henry Kingsbury Terry ( -1940,) and Richard John ( -1947) all died in Ramsey County. Margaret John (1878-1963) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Smolcka, and died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold for $229,900 and that sale occurred in 2000. The current owners of record of the property are Kent S. Pekel and Tanya Martin Pekel. [See note on the Northern Pacific RailRoad for 432 Summit Avenue.]
1027 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1928. The structure is a two story, 1464 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frank V. Seiler, a salesman employed by the Great Lakes Coal & Dock Company, and his wife, Mary A. Seiler, resided at this address. Frank V. Seiler (1890-1972) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Lang, and died in Ramsey County. Mary Ann Seiler ( -1946) died in Hennepin County. The property was last sold in 1997 with a sale price of $145,000. The current owners of record of the property are Joshua J. Thoma and Katherine K. Thoma.
1031-1033 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1917. The structure is a two story, 2988 square foot, twelve room, two bathroom, stucco duplex, with a detached garage. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kaufman resided at 1033 Fairmount Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that George G. Grant, director of storage and traffic for the Farmers Union Terminal Association, and his wife, Mabel Grant, resided at 1031 Fairmount Avenue. George Gatis Grant ( -1921,) Mabel S. Grant ( -1943,) and Samuel Kaufman ( -1950) all died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Lynn M. DiEuliis and Val E. DiEuliis. Val DiEuliis who received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an electronics consultant.
277-283 Goodrich Avenue: Burbank Rowhouses; Built in 1874 (1869 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Italianate in style. The rowhouses were rehabilitated in the 1980's by the West 7th Federation and the Twin City Housing Corporation and are now a cooperative. The structures at 277 Goodrich Avenue, 279 Goodrich Avenue, and 283 Goodrich Avenue each contain two condominium units and are owned by the Goodrich Project Limited Partnership, located at 182 North Milton Street. The porch on the structure is a replica of the original. 277 Goodrich Avenue Unit A is a 900 square foot, four room, one bathroom, frame condominium unit. 277 Goodrich Avenue Unit B is a 832 square foot, four room, one bathroom, frame condominium unit. 279 Goodrich Avenue is a 1732 square foot, nine room, two bathroom, frame condominium unit. 283 Goodrich Avenue Unit A is a 900 square foot, four room, one bathroom, frame condominium unit. 283 Goodrich Avenue Unit B is a 832 square foot, five room, one bathroom, frame condominium unit. The 1885 city directory indicates that Mrs. Bertha L. Whitney and her daughter resided at 279 Goodrich Avenue. The 1887 and 1889 city directories indicate that Mrs. Bertha L. Whitney and her daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Charles De Lacy resided at 279 Goodrich Avenue. The 1891 city directory indicates that Mrs. Bertha L. Whitney and her daughter resided at 279 Goodrich Avenue. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mrs. Bertha L. Whitney resided at 279 Goodrich Avenue. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that H. C. Meade resided at the former nearby 279 Goodrich Avenue in 1894. The 1895 city directory indicates that Mrs. Bertha L. Whitney and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Doyle resided at 279 Goodrich Avenue. The 1885 city directory indicates that Mrs. H. M. Ober and Mrs. M. W. Lull resided at 281 Goodrich Avenue. The 1887 city directory indicates that Mrs. H. M. Ober, Mrs. M. W. Lull, and Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Reeves resided at 281 Goodrich Avenue. The 1889, 1891, 1893, and 1895 city directories indicate that Mrs. H. M. Ober and Mrs. M. W. Lull resided at 281 Goodrich Avenue. The 1885 and 1887 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Dana and her daughter resided at 283 Goodrich Avenue. The 1889 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. De Lacy resided at 283 Goodrich Avenue. The 1895 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Ford resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Mary Wilder Burbank Lull (1825-1914,) the widowed sister of Loretta A. W. Steele, who was born in Vermont to parents born in the United States and who died of myocarditis, resided at 281 Goodrich Avenue in 1914. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Oliver Sandstrom (1830-1915,) the widower father of Mrs. Olive Chickett, who was born in Sweden to parents also born in Sweden and who died of lobar pneumonia, resided at 279 Goodrich Avenue in 1915. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Bertha Louisa Whitney (1858-1923,) the widowed mother of Nina B. Meade, who was born in New York to parents born in the United States and who died of influenza, resided at 279 Goodri
