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GALE, Harlow A. was born in Worcester county, Massachusetts. When three years of age his father died, and he lived with an uncle in Vermont, Rev. Samuel Goddard, until 1846, when returned to his mother. In 1852 he went to Massachusetts, and engaged in teaching and studying until 1856, when he graduated from Union College, Now York. The same year he came to this city, and engaged in the real estate business. In 1858 he was appointed deputy clerk of the district court for Hennepin county, and in 1859 was appointed county auditor. Was subsequently elected for two terms, and in 1865 declined a third nomination. He bought out the insurance agency of W. B. Cornell, and with S. C. Gale organized the real estate and insurance agency of Gale and Company. In 1872 he bought and platted Gale's first addition to Minneapolis, and in 1873 the second. It was he who conceived and executed the idea of the present city market, a description of which may be found elsewhere. Mr. Gale was married in 1859, to Libbie Griggs, who has home him four children: Harlow, Robert, Willie and Isabel.

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GALE, S. C. was born September 15th, 1827, at Royalston, Massachusetts. Was apprenticed to learn the tanner's trade until 17 years of age, when he commenced preparation for college. He studied at the academies of New Salem, Shelburne Falls, and West Brattleboro, Vermont, and finally Yale College, where he graduated in 1854, after which he attended Harvard law school one year and taught school two years, continuing to read law in the meantime. In 1857 he came to Minneapolis, and the autumn of the same year he was admitted to the bar. After a year or two he discontinued the practice of law and engaged in real estate business, which he still continues with success. Mr. Gale has a pleasant home on the corner of First Avenue south and Fourth street. He was married October 15th, 1861, to Miss Susan Damon, of Massachusetts. They are the parents of five children.

From, "Minneapolis, Portrait of the Past", Collected and Compiled by Edward A. Bromley, Voyageur Press. Mpls. 1890.

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GALE, S. C. Minneapolis and S. C. Gale have been good friends and mutual admirers for about thirty-three years. mr. Gale was one of the many young men of the East who, about 1857, followed the Greeley idea and chased up the star of the empire. He was then thirty years old. He had the advantages of a thorough education at Yale and Harvard, and soon after his arrival in Minneapolis began the practice of law. It did not just suit his taste and he went into business a few years later. He has always been active in public enterprises of all kinds, notably the Exposition of later days. Minneapolis owes much to S. C. Gale, one of whose chief characteristics is modesty.

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GALPIN, G. R. a native of Tioga county, New York, was born March 27th, 1843. He resided there until 1869, when he came to Minneapolis; he engaged in different pursuits, and for a time worked at his trade of millwright, but finally in 1875, started in the grocery business, which he still conducts at No. 319 Washington Avenue north.

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GALPIN, Morenus was born in Auburn, New York, April 23d, 1843. In early life he moved with his parents to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he learned the carpenter's trade. In 1862, he enlisted in Merrill's horse, an independent regiment, designed for bodyguard to General Fremont, served until 1865 and was wounded five times. He came to Minneapolis in 1871; for two years was foreman for Frank Fleming, and was with George Libby five years. The firm of Galpin and Emerson was established April 1st, 1880.

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GARDINER, Thomas Was born at Fredericton, New Brunswick, September 12th, 1833. He moved to St. Anthony in 1857, and remained until 1860, when he came to Minneapolis and engaged in the doing business with Dr. W. H. Leonard at the present stand of Janney, Brooks and Eastman. In 1868 the firm dissolved by mutual consent, and Mr. Gardiner went in business alone, establishing a homeopathic pharmacy, which despite the fact of its being a new departure, has from the first grown steadily. Mr. Gardiner married in 1862, Mary Knight, of Buffalo, New York. Their children are Louise and Mary.

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GARDNER, Jeffery Watson and wife Ellen Rose Littel. Jeffery Watson Gardner was born March 22, 1845 in Michigan and died February 22, 1924 at his oldest son's farm in Granton, WI. Jeffery and Ellen were married on May 2, 1867. Ellen was born October 10, 1852 in Canada and died June 22, 1905 in Pepin, WI. They had the following children: Leslie Franklin b:  May 31, 1869, Effie Eliza b:  Aug. 4 1871, Clara May b:  Jan 14, 1873, Chauncy Bird b:  Jan 15, 1876, Adelbert (Dave) b:  Aug. 14, 1878

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GARRITY, L. a native of County Mayo, Ireland, was born in 1841. He emigrated to America in 1858, and after a short residence in New York, located in Hudson, Wisconsin, where he remained until 1872; then removed to Minneapolis and embarked in the hotel business on Second Avenue south. In 1877 he went to his present location, No. 206 Washington Avenue south. He married Catharine Hopkins in November, 1869. Their children are Mary, Kate, James, Edward, Timothy and Annie.

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GAU, C. A. a native of Germany,, was born in 1844. He came to the United States in 1866. For three years he lived in Carver, Minnesota, and kept the Railroad House; the rest of the time he has been a resident of Minneapolis, and since November, 1877, has been proprietor of the Union House, No. 613 Washington Avenue south. In 1872 he married Louise Thorn, who has borne him three children: Henry, Amelia and Louise.

GETCHELL, Warren H. was born Feb. 25, 1825, in the town of Bloomfield (now Skowhegan), Maine. When nine years of age the family moved "down east" to the town of Stetson, Penobscot County, Maine, and he assisted in clearing up a farm from the "primeval forest;" received a common school education and attended several terms of the Newport Academy, and taught in the district schools three winters before he was of age. In 1841the "home nest" became crowded, and his father purchased another farm in Carmel. Maine, where part of the family, including Mr. Getchell, resided. In 1846 he went to Boston, Mass., and engaged as clerk in a wholesale house until the spring of 1851, when he located in business with his brother at Ogdensburg, N. Y. Mr. Getchell was married in September 1857, to Drusella M. Pray of Livermore, Maine. In the fall of 1856 he came to Minneapolis. His wife died at Minneapolis the following winter.

Now, in his seventy-seventh year, Mr. Getchell is hale and hearty, enjoying the best of health and attending daily to his regular business duties as secretary of the Twin City Iron Works, one of the large manufacturing plants of Minneapolis.

Mr. Getchell enjoys meeting with the territorial pioneers at their gatherings, and last year, in addition to contributing his share toward the cost of the log cabin, presented the association with the large flag that was first used on Dedication Day, May 11, 1900.

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GIBBS, G.A. was born in Montreal, Canada, December 28th, 1841. In September 1861, he moved to Port Hope, Michigan, and the same fall enlisted in the Tenth Michigan Infantry, and served until August, 1865; he returned to Canada and worked at carpentering there until 1870, when he came to this city and continued in his trade several years. In 1877 he passed six months at Fort Custer, Montana, but returned in June 1878, and engaged as millwright at the Zenith mill; he now occupies the position of head millwright at the North-western mill. His wife was Anna Sweet, of Nova Scotia; they were married in September 1871. They have three children: Marion, Edgar and Howard.

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GIERTSEN, N. H. a native of Norway, was born January 25th, 1852. He came to the United States in 1867, and settled in Minneapolis where he worked in various lines of business until 1871, when he opened a grocery and general merchandise store at 213 First street north where he still continues in business. Mr. Giertsen was married in 1874 to Mary Clark of this county. They have two children: Arthur and Mabel.

GIESE, August Not too much is known of the early family history.  August Giese was born in Polichno Hauland bie Nakel, in Germany.  His father’s name was Gottlieb Giese and his mother’s name was Florentine Ewald.  Augusta Giese was born bei Nakel, in Germany.  Her father’s name was Michael Dickmann and her mother’s name was Henrietta Klawetter. August and Augusta came to America in 1900 or 1901.  They entered via Ellis Island, New York.  Some of the children came to America ahead of the parents and then the rest of the family followed.  They come to Loretto, MN, Hennepin County, Greenwood Township, now called Greenfield Village.  They cleared land and settled near the Crow River about 1 ½ miles from Hanover, MN.    Later they moved a little farther down the road to the place that was operated by son William and his wife Bertha.  Later the farm was operated by their son, Waldmar and his wife Caroline. Grandpa and Grandma Giese lived with their son, William and his wife Bertha all their life.  The original house burned down in 1930 and William had the house, which still remains on the farm, built in 1930.  The farm was sold in 1981.  Part of the farm is now a gravel pit. The house is occupied. August and Augusta had  14 children, one of whom, Emma (Giese) Neumann was my grandmother.

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Pioneer's Funeral Set for Wednesday

GIFFORD, Ichabod W. Pioneer's Funeral Set for Wednesday Rites for Ichabod W. GIFFORD to Be Held at Welander Temple Funeral srvices for Ichabod W. Gifford, 79 years old, who died Saturday at his residence, 3942 Stevens avenue, will be held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Welander funeral temple.  Mr. Gifford, who had been a resident of Minneapolis for 42 years, retired from the carpentry and decorating business six years ago.  Surviving him are a son, Ernest, and two daughtes, Helen Gifford and Mrs. Amy Ackerson (AKERSON).  (If anyone has additional information on Mr. Gifford's family, I'm interested.  I have a lot of information on his first family with wife Zemine GEORGE). Submitted by  Jackie Ginn

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GILES, Henry was born in Oxfordshire, England. He came to New York, July 6th, 1848, and remained until September 1849, having charge of the naturalist Audubon, during the time his mind was impaired he then went to Eldorado, Wisconsin, thence to Fon du Lac where he fitted up the Forest street steam mills; he then had charge of a mill in Menasha for about two years, and of the Lawrence mills at Appleton, three years. In March, 1878, he came here and was employed as head stonedresser at the "A" mill four years previous to the explosion and since July 1878, has been at the "C'' mill. He married Sarah Gilbert, July 16th, 1849; she has borne him seven children: Henry, Lucy, Willie, Louisa and Luella, twins, and Hattie. Gilbert died at the age of four years.

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GILLE, Charles a native of Prussia, was born September 25th, 1842. He came to America in 1852, and lived at Watertown, Wisconsin, until 1861, when he enlisted in the Twentieth Wisconsin Infantry, and served three years. He was mustered out, and reenlisted in the Forty-third Wisconsin Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He then went into the furniture business in Iowa, and from there to Mankato, Minnesota, where he was employed as carpenter until 1877, when he came here, and has since been a contractor for carpenter work; office on Third street and Fifteenth Avenue north-east. In 1869 he married Mary Malli, who has borne him seven children. Those living are: Lena, Emma, Bertha, William, and Herman.

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GILMAN. J. A. a native of Wisconsin, was born in Washington county in 1834. He lived there until 1873. He enlisted in the Twenty-first regiment of United States Volunteer Infantry, and at the battle of Chickamauga, in Georgia, he was captured and taken to Libby prison in company with sixty others. They were transferred several times and after fifteen months imprisonment Mr. Gilman and eleven others were exchanged, the remaining forty-nine having died during confinement. He was honorably discharged at Washington, August 6th, 1865. He then returned to his home in Wisconsin, and in 1873 he removed to Minnesota. He remained at St. Paul a few months, then became a resident of Minneapolis, where he has since resided. He has been in the employ of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Company as en inspector, since his first locating here. July 3d, 1869, he married Amelia Marco, of Wisconsin. Four children have been born to them: John H., Nellie E., Fred R., and Albert A.

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GILMAN, J. Q. born December 1st, 1851, at Hallowell, Maine. When nineteen years of age he learned the blacksmith's trade, and in 1872 opened a shop at Richmond, Maine. Staid there only one year, and removed to Gardiner, where he worked in partnership with another man until 1877, when he came here, and worked at his trade on Sixth Avenue south. From there he moved to the corner of Fourth Avenue and Third street south, and in November, 1880, opened the shop where he now is, at 280 Fifth Avenue south. In June, 1878, he married Miss Ida Blaisdell.

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GILLESBY, J. was born in Hamilton, Connecticut, August 20th, 1855. He lived on a farm, and from boyhood engaged in buying and selling stock. He came to Minneapolis in 1873, and has been interested in the meat market business most of the time since. He is proprietor of the Clifton House, on Third street north-east; it is a fine little brick house of thirty rooms and nearly new. Mr. Gillesby married Katie Rice, of Red Wing, in November 1880.

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GILMORE, D. M. born at Newville, Pennsylvania, in 1840. He came to this city in 1857, but on account of the financial crash, and the hard times resulting, he returned to Pennsylvania in the fall of the same year. In 1861 he enlisted in the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, the first volunteer regiment of cavalry in the service. He commenced as corporal, but when mustered out in 1864, held the commission of captain; he was in many of the principal battles, and was wounded in January, 1864. After leaving the army he was in business in Pennsylvania for about one and one-half years, and in 1866, returned to Minnesota; he was in the auction business for six years, and since that time has been engaged in furniture manufacturing. His marriage with Miss Sarah Kyle, of Maryland, occurred in 1867. They reside at 909 Washington Avenue north.

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GILMORE J. H. born at Steubenville, Ohio, July 17th, 1848. When quite young he moved with his parents to Mount Pleasant, where he attended the public schools and worked at farming several years, and then was in the cattle trade until 1867. He read law in Illinois two years, spent the same length of time traveling in the west and returned home, and purchased an interest in a newspaper, which he sold in 1872 and removed to Chicago, thence to Minneapolis; here he followed printing for a time, then became associated with Mr. Baker in civil engineering; he now owns several farms in this state and is interested in real estate and lumbering. His nuptials with Abbie Chase were celebrated February 19th, 1879. They have one child, Raymond.

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GIRRBACH, G. F. was born March 29th, 1842, at Calmbach, Kingdom of Wurtemberg. In April, 1864, he came to America. Lived a few months in Connecticut, then to New York city, and in 1865 came here. He worked for the firm of J. Dean and Company until 1871, when he established himself in the grocery business, and the year following added a stock of general merchandise. He is doing a successful business at 1624 Fifth street south. His wife was Louisa Jager, whom he married in 1864. They are the parents of six children: Louisa, William, Lydia, Fred, Minnie, and Esther.

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GIVANS, James a native of Ohio, was born in 1830. He went to West Liberty, Iowa, in 1853, and engaged in the livery business. In 1872 he removed to Minneapolis, and occupied stables with Mr. Ensign until 1880, when he moved to the alley back of the city market. He has a sale stable exclusively. Mr. Givans married Mary Innman, of Pennsylvania, in 1855. She died in 1867, leaving three children: George, Sophia, and Callie. His second wife was Sarah Bozarth, whom he married in 1871. She has borne him three children: Daisy, Ethel, and Mary.

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GLENN, Mitchell W. was born December 24th, 1830, at Newark, New Jersey. In early childhood he moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio, and at the age of eleven entered a machine shop; he afterwards learned ironing carriages, and then returned to the machine shop. He entered the army as color-bearer of the Eighth Indiana, though he had the use of but one arm, the other being lame from an injury; at the battle of Rich Mountain, he carried the only colors on the field. He received several wounds at that battle, one shows plainly now over the left eye. After his return home he was commissioned adjutant of the Thirty-fifth Indiana, which position he held two years, and in 1863, he was made colonel of the One hundred and Seventeenth Ohio Militia. He came to this place in 1868, and went into the North Star Iron Works. In 1878, he purchased the Minneapolis Boiler Works. He has been a member of the city council since 1872, with the exception of one year, and vice-president of the council two terms; he was also chairman of the board of county commissioners for two years. His marriage with Mary Kelly, of Ohio, was celebrated October 8th, 1862. Their children are: J. Willard and Eugene.

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GLESSNER, William was born January 22d, 1816, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania. When fifteen years of age he went to Ohio, and remained until the spring of 1854, when he came to St. Anthony. He entered a homestead and lived on it only one year, then returned to St. Anthony and engaged , with Mr. Johnson in the manufacture of furniture; after two years partnership Mr. Glessner carried on the business alone; in 1870, he abandoned manufacturing and entered the retail furniture and the undertaking business, which he still continues. His wife was Miss Abbie DeVaul, of Ohio, who has borne him five children. Mr. Glessner's residence is at the corner of Eighth street and Eighth Avenue, south-east.

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GLUEK, Gottleib was born April 22d, 1828, in Germany. In 1855, he came to America and the year following moved to Minneapolis. In 1857, he built a brewery, which was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1880; it has a capacity of forty-five barrels per pay. He married Caroline Foell in 1857; eleven children have been born to them, Louis, Charles, Emma (deceased), Emma, Jennie, Carrie, John, Louisa, Christina, Annie and Lydia. Mr. Gluek died October 16th, 1880.

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GLUCK, J. G. was born March 24th, 1833, in Bavaria. In 1849, he came to America and lived in New York city nearly four years, then was employed as journeyman at the tailor's trade which he learned in Bavaria. In 1857, he came here, and the year following, established himself in business as a merchant tailor at St. Anthony; since 1868, he has been on the west side of the river. He married Annie Gutzwieller in 1858, and in March 1876, she died, leaving four children, Franklin, John, Mary and George. His second wife was Franziska Boldt, who has borne him two children, Hugo and Albert.

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GODFREY, Ard a native of Penobscot county, Maine, was born at Orono, January 18th, 1813. His father and elder brother being mill-wrights, he learned that trade, and at the age of eighteen, had charge of building a lumber mill. In 1847 he came to St.. Anthony, to take charge of the improvements of the water power then inaugurated by Franklin Steele, Rantoul and others. He arrived in October, and in 1848 returned to Maine. While there he made arrangements with Steele to return to St. Anthony. He had quite an experience in building dams in Maine. After his return to this place he operated in lumber for Steele and others, also for himself, for several years. In 1852 he had a claim made for him by Captain Monroe, of Fort Snelling, near Minnehaha Falls, where he has since lived, with the exception of seven years spent in this city, to give his children better educational advantages. In 1853 he built a saw-mill on Minnehaha Creek, and in 1866 a grist-mill; both were destroyed by fire. He was married in January, 1838, to Harriet N. Burr, of Maine; children, Helen, now Mrs. M. Berry, of Minneapolis; Abner, a farmer near Hancock; Harriet B., a teacher; Martha A., Sarah C., now Mrs. Osborne, of this city; Mary and Minnie. Three children died in infancy. Mr. Godfrey resides on his farm near Minnehaha Falls where he has a pleasant home. (SEE ALSO BELOW)

As listed in the proceedings and report of the annual meetings of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers, May 11, 1899 and 1900.

GODFREY, Ard was born in Orono, on the Penobscot River, Maine, Jan. 18, 1813. His father was a millwright and the son, brought up about the saw mills, followed the same occupation. He came to St. Anthony Oct. 1, 1847, to construct. for Franklin Steele, the first dam and saw mill above the falls. Later he became a partner.

That fall a temporary dam was built between the east shore and Nicollet Island, and in October Caleb D. Dorr, with a crew of men, was sent to Swan River, near Little Falls, to get the timber for the permanent dam on Hennepin and Nicollet Islands. Daniel Stanchfield took another crew up Rum River. The mission, however, was a failure, as the logs were hung up at Pike Rapids, owing to the lateness of the season, and Stanchfield's logs did not fare any better. It was then decided to build the dam of hardwood logs cut from the lower end of Nicollet Island, and the work was carried on through the winter, and plank for the covering hauled from the St. Croix River, where a mill had been previously built by Steele and others.

Piers were built that winter for booming the logs, but no logs were received until Sept. 1, 1848, when Caleb Dorr, with a crew of log drivers, brought in the first lot of logs ever driven to the falls. The mill started up soon after, and that fall three frame houses were built, one for R. P. Russell, agent for Mr. Steele, one for Mr. Godfrey and one for Mr. Huse, and others quickly followed. In the winter Mr. Godfrey went cast for his family, who arrived at St. Anthony April 12, 1849.

Mr. Godfrey was the first postmaster at St. Anthony Falls, the office being established in the spring of 1851, with a weekly service to and from St. Paul.

Mr. Godfrey continued in business with Mr. Steele until 1852, when be left his home at St. Anthony and took a claim on the military reservation at Little Falls creek, which they occupied until it was transferred to the state by citizens of Minneapolis at a cost of $50,000 for the soldiers' home and park in 1888, after which time they made their home on Chicago avenue.

In 1853 Mr. Godfrey erected a dam on the creek below Minnehaha Falls and built a small saw mill and added buhr stones for grinding grain. Two or three years later the mill was destroyed by fire.

After Mr. Godfrey left the St. Anthony house it was successively occupied by R. P. Upton, Geo. A. Nourse, and Edwin Clark, with their families, until the fall of 1863. During all of these years many pioneers were sheltered beneath its roof. The house has been moved twice since its original location, once for opening a street to the Winslow House, and once to give room to the Union Iron Works shops. It is the oldest frame house in the city and is in a fair state of preservation. It would seem to be the proper thing for some society or association to have this house put in order and removed to one of the parks of the city for preservation.

Mr. Godfrey was married to Miss Harriet Newell Burr in 1838. He died in Minneapolis in 1895.

GODFREY, Harriet Newell ( Burr ) was married to Ard Godfrey at Orono, Me., and came to St. Anthony Falls with her husband, April 12, 1849, and a few weeks later May 30 gave birth to the first white child born at St Anthony Falls, Harriet R. Godfrey.

It was in the parlor of their house that the first Masonic lodge at the Falls -- the Cataract -- was organized on the 14th day of February, 1851. A. F. Ames, William Smith, Isaac Brown. Ard Godfrey, J. H. Stevens, D. M . Coolbaugh, H. S. Atwood and William Brotuter, officers. At the first meeting Mrs. Godfrey acted as tyler, and young Abner sat on the stairs to watch for intruders. The first to become masons here were Isaac Atwater, J. G. Lennon, Anson Northrup, J. C. Gairnes, J. H. Murphy and R. W. Cummings.

The Chickering piano of Mrs. Godfrey, which was the first one brought to the Falls, has been loaned the Territorial Pioneer Association by her children, and is now at the log cabin of the association at the State Fair Grounds, where it is used by the pioneers at their meetings.

Mrs. Godfrey died at Minneapolis in 1897.

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GOEHRINGER, Chris came to Minnesota in 1865, and located at North Branch; he was one of four men who located and named the town. He resided there about three and one-half years, then came to this city and worked in a saw-mill two years. For a short time he was in the grocery business, then started a saloon on First Avenue north, and is now in the same business at 101 Nicollet avenue. In 1870 he helped to organize hose company number three, and in 1872 was elected its first assistant, which position he held until 1875, when he was elected foreman, and acted in that capacity until the company disbanded in 1879. He married Mary Nieson in 1870. Their children are Lena, Chris and Kate.

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GONYEA, O. A. a native of Maine, was born January 26th, 1833. He came to Minneapolis in 1865, and for sixteen years worked in the woods and on the river. He is proprietor of the New Idea billiard hall, No. 21 Main street south-east, which he built in 1872. His wife was Catherine Hogan, whom he married in 1861. They have four children: William, Lillie, Nellie and Charles.

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GOODE, A. H. is a gentleman whose long experience well qualifies him to fill the position he holds as manager of the Minneapolis branch house of J. H. Kerrick and Company. This firm manufacture and deal in iron and wood-working machinery and supplies.

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GOODRICH. P. was born at Rochester, New York, in 1857. At the age of three years he went with his mother to Boston and lived eight years; then after passing three years in Chicago, he returned to Rochester to prepare for college; he graduated from the university of that city in 1880, and came to Minneapolis in August of the same year. In September, 1880, he purchased in company with J. T. Barnum, the trunk manufactory of D. D. Whitney, which business they are now conducting at 26 Washington Avenue north.

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GORDON, E. a native of New Hampshire, was born in July, 1853. When fourteen years of age he commenced learning the mason's trade, and has followed that occupation since. In 1855 he came with his parents to St. Anthony, and in 1867 removed to Colorado, he went to Michigan in 1876, and returned to this city in 1878, since which time he has done business here as contractor for masonry work: he makes a specialty of plastering, cistern-building and kalsomining. His residence is No. 810 Washington Avenue north.

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GORMAN, L. B. a native of Quebec, was born in September, 1853. He came to the United States in 1867, and followed the lumber business at Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, for one year. In 1868 he came to Minneapolis and continued the same work until June, 1878, when he took the billiard hall at the corner of Hennepin Avenue and Second street. His marriage with Jennette Hibbard occurred December 25th, 1878.

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GOULD, William W. was born in Canada, December 15th, 1840. He learned the milling business in Uxbridge, Ontario county, and in September, 1865, moved to South Bend, Indiana, where he taught school one year, then went to Boone county, Iowa, and was employed in cabinet and carpenter work one year, thence to Council Bluffs, where he worked as carpenter for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. He returned to South Bend and worked at milling and cabinet making until June, 1878, when he came to this city and helped build the Pettit and Washburn mills; since June, 1880, he has been employed as Mill-wright at the North-western, mill. He married Alice Burdic in 1873., They have one child, Harry.

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GRANDY, J. L. was born in Dundas county, Canada, in 1825. He moved with his parents to St. Lawrence county, New York, and lived there until 1847, when he went to Wisconsin. He did carpenter and jobbing work at Grand Rapids until the war broke out, when he enlisted in the Eighteenth Wisconsin Volunteers, served one year and was discharged for disability. In the spring of 1863 he removed to Beaver Dam and remained four yews in the employ of J. H. Rowell & Co., manufacturers of seeders. Since the fall of 1867 he has resided in Minneapolis, engaged in the manufacture of the New Comet washing machines. He married Pauline Eaton, in Wisconsin. They have four children, Phoebe Ann, Augustus, Louis Lincoln and Ida May.

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GRAVES, C. A. was born at Cameron, Somerset county, Maine, April 26th, 1837. In early manhood he commenced to work at building, and was engaged on saw mills on the Penobscot river, and at different places in the United States and Canada. In 1857 he came to St. Anthony; worked at his trade on the St. Croix river two years, thence to Stillwater, where he remained until 1864, when he went south and worked one year for the government construction department. In 1867 he came to Minneapolis and since that time has been employed constructing mills.

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GRAY, Charles E. born at Westerly, Washington county, Maine, October 7th, 1849. When six years of age he came here and at the age of eighteen commenced lumbering, which employment he continued for seven years. In 1874 he engaged in the milling business at the North Star mill; remained two and one-half years with this firm, being part of the time in charge of a mill at Long Lake, since then he has been at the North-western mill. Mr. Gray married Eva Lowell, April 4th, 1876. They had one child, Sadie, who died in infancy.

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GRAY, Thomas K. was born in Lincoln county, Maine, in June, 1833. His home has been in Minneapolis since October, 1855. In 1866 he married Julia Allen; they are the parents of five children: Horace, Edward, Herbert, Gracie and Daisy. Mr. Gray is a partner in the firm of Gray and Hofflin of this city, and is also in the drug business at No. 108 Bridge square; this business was established in 1856 by John D. Gray and Dr. M. R. Greely. In 1858, T. K. Gray bought the doctor's interest and the firm of Gray Brothers continued until 1870, when John D. was obliged to travel for his health, and Mr. T. K. Gray has since been alone in the business. In 1865 the present building was erected; three stories and the basement are occupied for the transaction of this large and increasing business.

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GREELY, W. Q. was born May 20th, 1827, in Waldo county, Maine. He attended school until seventeen years of age, when he commenced to learn blacksmithing. He went to Bangor, where for five years he worked at forging for Pope and Lang; also fitted up a factory at North Vassel-borough, Maine. Since October, 1855 he has lived at St. Anthony. He occupied various locations for a number of years, and finally built a shop on Main street south-east. This was destroyed by fire, and in 1877 he purchased the shop he now occupies, No. 121 Main street south-east. His wife was Amanda Gowan, of Bradford, Maine. They have two children living: Otto and Alice.

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GRETHEN, Anton a native of Germany, was born in November, 1834, and in 1854 emigrated. to America. He read law with Brisbin and Bigelow, of St. Paul, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1858. He followed his profession until elected auditor of Hennepin county in 1864. This office he filled until 1871, when he resumed his law practice in the firm of D. G. Shillock, and afterward with General Baxter. In 1880 he was elected alderman for the First ward. Mr. Grethen resides on Nicollet Island. He was married in 1857 to Babette Jenkins. Their children are: Emilie, Adolf and Otto.

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GRIFFITH, J. M. was born in 1835, in Germany. When a child he came with his parents to America, and lived in Saint Clair county, Illinois, until twenty-one years of age, and then in Montgomery county five years. He removed to Montana, where, for nine years, he was engaged in contracting and building, also operated a saw-mill, and for a time conducted a general merchandise business. His marriage with Carrie Sharp occurred in April, 1867. They are the parents of five children: Ernest, Benjamin, Mary, Franklin, and an infant. He is now engaged in the manufacture of brooms., and dealing in broom corn.

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GRIME, John a native of England, was born in 1846. He came to America in 1869, and locating at Scranton, Pennsylvania, commenced work in the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railway shops, where he was employed until 1870; that year he came to Minneapolis and worked for the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company until 1872, when he went to the Harvester Works, and in April, 1880, began preparations for his present business, that of manufacturing machinists' and engineers' tools. Mr. Grime was married in this city, September 22d, 1875, to Emma Morrill. They have one son, Edward.

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GRIMSHAW, William a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born December 6th, 1853. He came to Minneapolis with his parents in 1855; he studied here and graduated from the only high school in the city at that time. When only fourteen years of age he commenced the carpenter's trade, working with his father summers and attending school winters; his business is now that of architect and builder. He was married in October, 1876, to Miss Minnie, daughter of George Roberts, of Wisconsin.

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GRINDALL, E. S. was born at Penobscot, Maine, March, 1832. He moved with his parents to Bangor, and followed butchering for five years; then he went to Boston and engaged in draying until 1855, when he removed to Iowa, and a few months later, to this city. He was with Hause and Bailey for a time, and then in the employ of Stimson and Hayes, and in 1855-56 assisted in drawing stone for the old Winslow House. In 1865 he started a dray line, which he has since continued with profit. He was married in 1858 to Sarah Smith. They are the parents of four children: Sabine, George, Eaber and Bertie. Mr. Grindall's father, was county commissioner for several years; his mother is still living.

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GROSBSCH, John a native of Germany, was born in 1846. He came to America in 1868, and lived on a farm one year near Albert Lea; from there he went to Steele county where he worked on a farm and in a brewery until 1871, when he removed to this city, and was in a brewery here four years, then started a saloon on Washington Avenue, and in the spring of 1880 moved to his present location He married Theresa Hausler in 1876. Their children are Mary and John.

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GROVER, Freeman a native of New Brunswick, was born September 13th, 1831. In 1857 he moved to Wisconsin and was in the lumber business until 1875, then he went south and for three years, was engaged in growing oranges in Florida, but returned to Wisconsin and in 1880 came to this city. He is proprietor of the Butler Hotel, No.709 Third street south. In June,1862, he married Margaret Heasely. Five children have been born to them: John, Mary, Otis, George and Ward.

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GRYGLA, Frank born in 1848, at Cracow, Poland, and emigrated to America in 1870; he lived in Milwaukee two years, then removed to Chicago. In 1877 he came to Minneapolis and in company with Mr. Selden engaged the manufacture of galvanized iron cornice, fire and water-proof sky lights, elevator buckets, doors and shutters, etc., No.114 Third street north. Mr. Grygla was married in 1877. He is the father of two children.

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GUILDER, Absalom R. born at Milton, Vermont, in August, 1826. He lived with his parents until 1842, when he moved to Watertown, Wisconsin, and engaged in building the "Old Yellow mill" of that place. In 1866 he came to Minneapolis to assist in the construction of the Washburn B mill; after its completion he turned his attention to a long felt want of those interested in milling; after a long and laborious task he was rewarded with a series of patents, which placed him in the front rank of our ablest inventors. In June, 1872, he secured his first patent for a middlings purifier, the second in December of the same year, the third in October, 1873, the fourth in September, 1874, the fifth in May, 1875, and the sixth was for drying and draining hose. In April 1876, he made an improvement on granulating machines, and in September, 1876, another patent on middlings purifiers, July, 1877, an improvement on the turbine wheel. and in 1877, 1878, and 1880, he received re-issues on several of them; they are all patented in the United States and Canada and his machinery has been sold in all parts of the world where flour is manufactured. Mr. Guilder married Eva Collins in I 850. They have one child, Ella. Mrs. Guilder died February 10th 1871.

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GUIMON, Simon was born in Quebec, Canada, May 12th, 1840. He moved to Dayton, Minnesota in 1862, and for four years was in the wood business; in 1866, he moved to Anoka, and worked eleven years as rawyer in the mills; he removed to this city in 1877, spent two years more in the wood business, and in May, 1880, bought the Union house, 121 First street north. His wife was Ellen Goodin; they were married in July, 1866; seven children have been born to then, those living are Mary, Josephine, Simon, Nellie, and Ida.

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GUNNERSEN, S. R. was born in Norway, in 1844. He attended school in his native town until his eighteenth year, when he entered the University at Christiana. Passed all the degrees common to a divinity student, and in 1867, took the degree of D. D. Afterwards studied theology in Germany. After traveling through several European countries, came to Augsburg Seminary, Minneapolis, in 1874, and was elected a member of its faculty.