Lawrence A. Martin
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 1913 Hamline University Alumni Directory indicates that H. G. Dobner, a member of the Class of 1897 and engaged in loans and real estate, resided at this address. 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 all 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 St. Paul Town & 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. [See note on the St. Paul Town & Country Club for 952 Wakefield Avenue.]
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. In 1887, the Womans Work Exchange was located at 315 Minnesota Street, had as its officers Mrs. Charles P. Noyes, president, Mrs. T. S. Tompkins, secretary, and Mrs. W. S. Alexander, treasurer, and was sustained by annual dues of managers, annual subscriptions, sales commissions, occasional entertainments, and lunch room receipts. The Woman's Work was located at the Endicott Arcade in 1898. 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 all 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 all 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. [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 1916 University of Minnesota Alumni Directory indicates that Kay Todd resided at this address. 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. Kay Todd (1877- ,) the son of James H. Todd and Addie Page Todd, was born in Stanford, McLean County, Illinois, was educated in the public schools of Nebraska and Kansas, graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1900, graduated with a master's degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1901, was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota, was a lawyer, was a law clerk in the law firm of Cohen, Atwater & Shaw in Minneapolis, was an incorporator, with John B. Atwater, Emanuel Cohen, Edwin C. Garrigues, and Frank W. Shaw, of the Northern Water Power Company in 1901, was a member of the board of directors of the Northern Water Power Company in 1901, was a law partner of Thomas Daggett from 1902 until 1905, married Sinclair Holbrook of Marengo, Iowa, in 1903, was rumored for appointment as U. S. District Attorney for Minnesota in 1904, was a member of the law firm of Todd & Mayo from 1905 until 1912, was a member of the University of Minnesota General Alumni Association in 1911, was a member of the law firm of Todd & Kerr after 1912, was a member of the law firm of Todd, Fosnes, Sterling & Nelson in 1918, was the secretary of the Modern Life Insurance Company, was a member of the Commercial Law League of America in 1918, was a Republican, was a member of the Republican State Central Committee, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club, was a Shriner, resided at 1913 Feronia Avenue in 1904, and officed at the Merchant's National Bank in 1916 and in 1918. Kay Todd and Sinclair Holbrook Todd were the parents of three children, Bruce H. Todd, Elizabeth Todd, and Kay Todd II. Kay Todd II was a member of the Yale University men's ice hockey team from 1930 until 1932 and was a member of the Yale University football team in 1931. 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. In 1920, the United States Adjutant-General's Office U. S. Army Register, Volume VIII, indicates that Harry Coggeshall Dodd (1892- ,) a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery Section, 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 & Loan Association in 1936, and, with his wife raised, three children at this address, and bought the house from Twin City Federal Savings & Loan in 1945. Harry Coggeshall Dodd was a 1916 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. 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: Edward B. Smith House/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. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that Edward B. Smith resided at this address in 1907. 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. Edward B. Smith (1837- ,) the son of Archibald M. C. Smith and Beulah A. Granger Smith, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, was educated at the Lockport Academy in New York, enlisted during the first call for volunteers in 1861 in the Sixth Ohio Regiment, the "Guthrie Greys," first under Major Bosley and afterwards under Colonel Nick Anderson, served in the Sixth Ohio Regiment until 1863, was the senior member of the firm of Smith, Davis & Company, fire and marine insurance, in Buffalo, New York, was the secretary of the Western Insurance Company of Buffalo, New York, conducted a line of large lake vessels in Buffalo, New York, later established the firm of Smith, Parker & Oilman, insurance agents, loans, bonds, in St. Paul, was part owner of a National League baseball team in Buffalo, New York, in the 1880's, was the president of the Buffalo, New York, Library for three terms, was a member of the Buffalo, New York, Club in 1867, was a member of the City Club of Buffalo, New York, was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution as the great grandson of Abner Granger, a lieutenant in the Third Battalion of Connecticut State Troops, was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, was a member of the Acker Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, was the builder of the Lexington Ball Park in St. Paul in 1897, leased Lexington Park to the St. Paul Saints baseball team until 1910, sold Lexington Park to the St. Paul Saints baseball team owner George Lennon in 1910, and officed at the Manhattan Building in 1907. Thomas M. Swem was a photographer in the Twin Cities in 1880, 1887, 1895, and 1900. Thomas M. Swem (1848-1931) was born in Lima, Ohio, married Cassandra __?__ ( -1935) in 1877, began his photography business in Missouri in 1882, operated a portrait photography studio in St. Paul for 18 years before moving to Fargo, North Dakota, in 1900, left Fargo, North Dakota, and moved to Medford, Oregon, in 1913, operated a portrait studio with his son, John H. Swem at Medford, Oregon, until 1921, and died in Medford, Oregon. Thomas M. Swem and Cassandra Swem were the parents of four children, Thomas M. Swem, Jr., John H. "Jack" Swem, Katherine Swem, and Daniel Swem. In 1897, Thomas M. Swem was the president of the Photographers Association of the Northwest. Thomas Swem graduated from the St. Paul Central High School in 1900 and was a member of the Dramatic club at the University of Minnesota in 1901 and 1902. 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. [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 all resided at this address. The 1896 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Perrin and W. L. Perrin all 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 all 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 both resided at this address in 1919. The 1921 Carleton College Alumni Directory indicates that Pauline Genevieve Pearson, a member of the Class of 1918, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Pearson and their daughters all 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. Perry M. Wilson, Jr., an incorporator of the Prairie Star District, Unitarian Universalist, corporation, was a resident at this address in 1976. Frank Ethan Pearson (1870-1948,) the son of John Pearson and Lydia Minerva Wilkinson Pearson, was born in Mankato, Minnesota, was a member of the Bachelor’s Club in Pipestone, Minnesota, in 1893, married Anna Wilson Loomis in Pipestone, Minnesota, in 1895, was an incorporator of the Pipestone, Minnesota, State Bank in 1908, the successor of the Pipestone County, Minnesota, Bank, was the vice president of the Pipestone, Minnesota, State Bank before 1916, was the Minnesota State superintendent of banks from 1916 until at least 1920, appointed by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist, died in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is buried in the Old Woodlawn Cemetery, Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota. Frank Ethan Pearson and Anna Wilson Loomis Pearson were the parents of Pauline Genevieve Pearson, Dora Mildred Pearson (1898- ,) and Margaret Zoe Pearson (Mrs. Robert Burton) Chambers. Pauline Genevieve Pearson (1896-1983,) the daughter of Frank Ethan Pearson (1870-1948) and Anna Wilson Loomis Pearson (1875-1948,) was born in Pipestone, Minnesota, married Louis Edward Wade (1895-1983) in St. Paul in 1923, and died in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Louis Edward Wade and Pauline Genevieve Pearson Wade were the parents of Edward Pearson Wade, Paul Louis Wade (1925-1926,) Robert Frank Wade, and Judy Ann Wade. 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 both resided at this address. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that Olof Sohlberg resided at this address in 1907. The 1910-1911 Directory of the University of Minnesota indicates that Olof I. A. Sohlberg and Karl C. Wold, students, both resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. Karl C. Wold, Dr. O. I. Sohlberg, Dr. and Mrs. Olof Sohlberg, and their daughter all resided at this address. World War I veterans Olof I. Sohlberg and Alvin P. Wold both resided at this address in 1918. 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 I. A. Sohlberg (1859-1918,) the son of Olof Sohlberg, a painter, 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 Minneapolis Hospital Medical College 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 Captain in the U. S. Army assigned to Ambulance Company No. 135 at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, during World War I, 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 fellow 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, was the secretary of the First Swedish Lutheran Church, owned a summer home at Forest Lake, Minnesota, officed at 329 East Seventh Street in 1907, and died of a cerebral hemorrhage on a train en route to St. Paul. 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 all 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. J. E. Ricketts was a graduate of the Law School of the University of Michigan in 1887 and then relocated to Minnesota. Walter Stewart Grubbs was a member of the Class of 1905 at Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and was the vice president of the the Justus F. Lowe Company in Minneapolis in 1920. In 1948, in Securities and Exchange Commission Release No. 34-4138 (1948,) Walter S. Grubbs was found to have engaged in investment churning with a turnover of two and one-half times in something in excess of three years deemed to be excessive. 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 all 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 all 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 McKim and Michael McKim were financial supporters of the Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries in 2004 and 2005. [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 both 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 both 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) of the American Expeditionary Force 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,) the son of Dr. Isaac Briggs and Elizabeth Briggs, was born in Arcadia, Wisconsin, largely was educated in the country schools and graded schools of Arcadia, Wisconsin, 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 & Trust Company in 1887, was a lawyer in St. Paul, was a partner of George L. Bunn in the law firm of Briggs & Bunn in 1890, married Jessica Pierce in St. Paul in 1891, was a law partner of M. L. Countryman in 1894, was a law partner of J. L. D. Morrison in 1897, became the general attorney for the Chicago Great Western Railway in 1901, was a Republican, was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and was a member of the American Bar Association, was a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association, and officed at the Metropolitan Opera Building in 1907. 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. [See note on George L. Bunn for 794 West Linwood Avenue.] [See note on Marcellus L. Countryman for 819 St. Clair Avenue.] [See note on the Chicago Great Western Railway.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 Gray 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 member of the Mu Chapter of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity in 1917, 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, was a member of the Minnesota Club, helped organize the Minnesota territorial centennial celebration in 1949, and resided at 1060 Goodrich Avenue in 1917. 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. [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 all resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. James Cleary and their daughter all 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 all 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, graduated from Princeton University in 1933, and graduated 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 its 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. Walter Lewis Mayo, Jr., 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 all 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 20 years of Eliot's incumbency as American Unitarian Association 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 married 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.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Parkhouse resided at this address. In 1920, the United States Adjutant-General's Office U. S. Army Register, Volume VIII, indicates that Theodore Lional Parkhouse (1897- ,) a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry Section, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates 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. Theodore Parkhouse (1897-1965,) the son of Herbert Hull Parkhouse (1870-1948) and Alice J. Beere Parkhouse (1868-1953,) was born in Minnesota, and died in Orange, California. 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 Loyal Morrison (1863-1926,) 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 police officers. 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. Michael Boylan (1880-1960) was born on a farm in Boscobel, Wisconsin, was educated in the elementary and secondary schools of Kalamazoo, Michigan, attended the University of Notre Dame, was a plumber, was an alderman in Virginia, Minnesota, was mayor of Virginia, Minnesota, was elected to the Minnesota Senate on a Progressive Labor platform, and represented St. Louis County, Minnesota (District 61) from 1919 until 1926. The current owners of record of the property are James L. Peterson and M. Susan Peterson. In 2010, the license to practice medicine and surgery in Minnesota of Amanda J. Wycoff, M.D., a resident at this address, was suspended by the Minnesota Board of of Medical Practice. [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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, both 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 all 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 all 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 all 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 all 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 all 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. Otto Kueffner was a St. Paul attorney, a Mason, and was the brother of General William C. Kueffner. Otto Kueffner was a bird watcher and a contributor to the Minnesota State Horticultural Society publication. 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. The C. D. Strong Hardware Company was founded in 1858 in St. Paul, became the Strong, Hackett Hardware Company in 1885, became the C. W. Hackett Hardware Company from 1889 until 1902, became Hackett Walther Gates Hardware Company after two new members came into the firm in 1902, and again changed names in 1912 to Hackett, Gates & Hurty. 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 all 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 all resided at this address. The 1896 city directory indicates that F. B. Moore, J. P. Moore, and Mrs. M. V. Moore all resided at this address. The 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Howes and Mrs. C. M. Squire all 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. In 1907, Alexander Donald 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. Alexander Donald (1848- ,) the son of William Donald and Anna Wright Donald, was born in Hamilton, Hancock County, Illinois, attended the public schools of Hamilton, Illinois, attended the Normal, Illinois, State Normal School from 1865 until 1867, married Mary Frances Ferguson, the daughter of William G. Ferguson, in Odin, Illinois, in 1871, received a medical degree from the Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, in 1878, was a school teacher at Odin, Marion County, Illinois, and Lostant, Illinois, was an insurance agent, was a Homeopath, practiced medicine in Chicago, Illinois, practiced medicine in Stillwater, Minnesota from 1880 until 1887, was a founder of the Stillwater, Minnesota, Toboggan Club, moved to St. Paul in 1887, practiced medicine in St. Paul after 1887, officed at the Endicott Arcade in 1907, was the surgeon for the Wisconsin Central RailRoad for 25 years, was a U. S. pension examiner after 1909, was a Republican, was a member of the Union League in 1864, was a Mason, was a Shriner, was a Knight Templar, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, was a member of the National Homeopathic Association, and was the first president of the National Association of Memebers of Committees on Medical Legislation. Alexander Donald and Mary Frances Ferguson Donald were the parents of three children, Walter B. Donald, Madge Anna Donald, and Helen Donalda Donald (Mrs. L. G.) Schneidt. 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. [See note on Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Company for 406 Maple Street.] [See note on the Wisconsin Central RailRoad.]
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 all resided at this address and the 1898 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mackey and Miss F. A. Mackey all resided at this address. The 1900 and 1902 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mackey resided at this address. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that Joseph Sherwood Mackey resided at this address in 1907. The St. Paul Pioneer Press did a newspaper story in 1932 about Amelia Mary Earhart (1897- ,) the daughter of Edwin Earhart, a Great Northern RailRoad employee, and Amy Earhart, when she lived at this address with her family during the 1913-1914 school year as a Junior at the St. Paul Central High School, taking English, Physics, Mathematics, and German and playing on the girl's basketball team. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Leslie and their daughter all 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 all 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. Joseph Sherwood Mackey (1857- ,) the son of Daniel Mackey and Sarah Howber Mackey, was born in Gilbra, New York, was educated in the public schools of New York, graduated from State Normal College at Albany, New York, read the law with W. L. Baldwin for two years, moved to Minnesota in 1881, was initially engaged as financial agent, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1884, married H. Ina Reed in Gilboa, New York, in 1885, was the president of the Minnesota Mortgage Loan Company, a mortgage loan and discount company established in 1885, was a Democrat, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, was a member of the Royal League, pursued fishing as a hobby, officed at the First National Bank Building in 1896, and officed at the Pioneer Press Building. Amelia Earhart also attended St. Clements Episcopal Church in 1913 and 1914 and sang as a soprano in its choir. Before 1913, Amelia Earhart attended a high school in Des Moines, Iowa. Amelia Earhart's parents separated in 1914 because of Edwin Earhart's alcoholism and Amelia Earhart graduated from the Hyde Park School of Chicago, Illinois, in 1915. 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 Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946,) 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. [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 all 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, both resided at this address. In 1901, 1904, 1907, and 1913, Isaac Seddon was listed in the city directory as a purchasing agent employed by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad. Isaac Seddon (1861- ,) the son of Mark Seddon and Flora Good Seddon, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was educated in the public schools, was a railroad official, was employed in the auditing department of the railroad service from 1875 until 1879, was the railway storekeeper at Hudson, Wisconsin, from 1879 until 1880, was the stationer at St. Paul in charge of purchase and distribution of stationery supplies from 1880 until 1885, married Frances J. Johnson of Hudson, Wisconsin, in 1882, was the chief clerk to purchasing agent of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad from 1885 until 1899, was the purchasing agent of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad after 1899, was an incorporator of the Chippewa Valley & Northwestern RailRoad in 1901, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a Mason, and officed at the corner of Fourth Street and Rosabel Street. 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. < a href= "https://www.angelfire.com/mn/thursdaynighthikes/stalb1_arch.html"> [See note on Isaac Seddon for 822 Fairmount Avenue.] [See note on Louis Lockwood.] [See note for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad.] [See note for the Chippewa Valley & Northwestern RailRoad.]
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. Lori J. Sommerfield previously managed Wells Fargo & Company's Corporate Fair & Responsible Lending Compliance Program, is now an attorney in Washington, D.C., with BuckleySandler LLP, practicing bank regulatory law, with an emphasis on consumer financial protection law and fair and responsible lending, and was a financial supporter of the Summit Hill Association in 2010.
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.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 1916 University of Minnesota Alumni Directory indicates that James Trent Christison resided at this address. 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,) the son of Joseph Hallam and Mary Wood Hallam, was born in Linden, Wisconsin, attended Wisconsin country district schools, graduated from the Dodgeville, Wisconsin, High School, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1887, graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1889, moved to Minnesota in 1889, married Edith Lott ( -1942) in St. Paul in 1892, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1889, practiced law from 1889 until 1905, was a jurist, 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, 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, was a member of the Minnesota Bar Association, was a member of the American 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 Republican, was a Congregationalist, was a Mason, was an Odd Fellow, was a member of the Kiwanis Club, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the St. Paul Town & Country Club, was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club, and officed at the Ramsey County Court House. 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, __?__ Miller (Mrs. Robert J.) Lewis and __?__ Miller (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. James Trent Christison (1865- ,) the son of James Christison and Isabella Smith Christison, was born in Southampton, England, emigrated to Canada, was educated in the public schools and collegiate institute of Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, attended the medical department of the University of Michigan from 1887 until 1889, received a medical degree from the Long Island College Hospital in 1890, received a medical degree from the medical department of the University of Minnesota in 1891, was a member of the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity, married Margaret Godwin Edgerton, the daughter of George B. Edgerton, a judge from St. Paul, and Alice Josephine Godwin Edgerton, was a physician and surgeon, was a visiting physician in the department of pediatrics at the City and County Hospital, was a visiting physician in the department of pediatrics at St. Luke's Hospital, was a visiting physician in the department of pediatrics at St. Joseph's Hospital, was a visiting physician in the department of pediatrics at the West Side Hospital, was a visiting physician in the department of pediatrics at the General Hospital, was a member of the medical staff of the Charles T. Miller Hospital of St. Paul, was a professor of the diseases of children at the University of Minnesota, was the chief of staff of the St. Paul Free Dispensary, was a member of the staff of the Baby Welfare Association, was a member of the Minnesota Academy of Medicine, was a member of the American Medical Association, was a president of the Minnesota State Medical Association, was a member of the Ramsey County Medical Society, was a member of the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the University Club, was a member of the St. Paul Automobile Club, was a Mason, was a Shriner, was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, resided at 682 Dayton Avenue in 1907, officed at the Endicott Arcade in 1907, was the owner of the Sherwood Forest Camp on Deer Lake near Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and was the grand sovereign, in 1937, of the Imperial, Ecclesiastical and Military Order of the Red Cross of Constantine and Appendant Orders for the United States of America, Mexico, and the Philippines, a Masonic organization. In 1951, Margaret Edgerton Christison sold Sherwood Forest Camp to Maxine Gunsolly (1928- ,) a counselor at Sherwood from 1947 through 1950, and she operated it as the State's premier girls summer camp until 1990. James Trent Christison and Margaret Edgerton Christison were the parents of two children. 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. Patricia A. Zurlo is an attorney in St. Paul. [See note on the White Bear Yacht Club for 18 Kenwood Parkway.] [See note on the St. Paul Town & Country Club for 952 Wakefield Avenue.] [See note on the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks for 334 Cherokee Avenue.]
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 all resided at this address. The 1898 and 1900 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cooper and Miss Ruth Cooper all resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Hitchcox and Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Friend all 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. George Herbert Fairclough studied at the Toronto Conservatory, was an organist, resided in Minnesota, and organized the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. 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, Upper Canada/Ontario, Canada, graduated from the Hamilton, Ontario, public schools in 1886, was an organist after 1880, played the harmonium at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Hamilton, Ontario, played the three-manual Warren organ in the Church of the Ascension in 1884, was the organist at the Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1886, was the organist and choirmaster at All Saints' Episcopal Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1887, attended the University of Toronto for three years, attended the Toronto, Ontario, Conservatory of Music for three years, was the organist at St. Mark's Church, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1887, 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, was the director of music at the Brantford Ladies College from 1890 until 1892, studied music at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, Germany, studied music at London, studied music 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 1897, 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 Mount Zion Hebrew 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, was the director of the largo choruses at the Sangerfest in 1906, resided at 95 Mackubin Street in 1907, officed at the Raudenbusch Building in 1907, 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. [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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. [See note on Martin P. Thori.]
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 all resided at this address. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that Edson Russell Hubbell and Joseph Alexander Rogers both resided at this address in 1907. 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 all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Lillian Rogers, the widow of Joseph A. Rogers, resided at this address. Edson Russell Hubbell (1856- ,) the son of Albertson Hubbell and Mary Jane Furness Hubbell, was born in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, was educated in Canadian public schools, employed in flour mills in Michigan until 1881, moved to St. Paul and engaged in the furnishing goods business from 1881 until 1886, was a partner in Hubbell & Bishop, a real estate firm, from 1886 until 1898, married Katherine Clarke in 1889, was a partner in Hubbell & Talmadge from 1898 until 1900, was employed alone after 1900, and officed at 94 East Fourth Street in 1907. Joseph Alexander Rogers (1865- ,) was the son of John Rogers and Delia Carney Rogers, was born in St. Paul, was educated in the common schools, the Catholic school, and a business college in St. Paul, first engaged in the railroad business with Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad and Northern Pacific RailRoad until 1885, then entered the fire insurance business, representing a number of large companies, married Lily A. Dowlan in 1888, was the president and a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Fire Insurance Patrol & Salvage Corps, was a member of the St. Paul Board of Fire Commissioners in 1901, was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Board of Fire Underwriters Inspection Bureau and Association, was the vice president of the Minnesota Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents in 1910, was a charter member of Company "E" of the First Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Junior Pioneers, was a member of the Knights of Columbus, was a member of the Royal Arcanum, and officed at 105 East Fourth Street in 1907. Frederick Gerald Ingersoll was a vice president in the Joseph A. Rogers Insurance Company in 1922. 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. [See note on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad.] [See note on the Northern Pacific RailRoad.] [See note for the St. Paul Fire Insurance Patrol for 161 McBoal Street.] [See note on the St. Paul Commercial Club for 505 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Frederick G. Ingersoll for 542 Portland Avenue.]
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. Judge H. S. Gifford (1879-1961,) the son of Elmer W. Gifford (1858- ) and Carrie A. Sheldon Gifford (1859- ,) was born in Story County, Iowa, was a member of the Class of 1903 of the Iowa College of Law, married Lillian A. __?__, died in St. Paul, and was buried in the Nevada Cemetery, Nevada, Story County, Iowa. 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 all resided at this address. The 1900 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Garland and their daughter all resided at this address. The 1902 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Garland and their daughter and R. D. Garland all 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. Harvey Alvaro Blodgett (1869-1946) was an early 20th Century financial expert and financial advertising company executive and was the author of Getting More Business With Fewer Salesmen, published by the Brown, Blodgett & Sperry Company in 1917, The Art of Saving, published in St. Paul by the Harvey Blodgett Company in 1918, Thrifty Alexander with F. G. Cooper, published in 1922, Double Your Savings; It Can Be Done, Your Estate: Building It, Conserving It, Do Bankers Lack Vision?, published by the Blodgett Press in 1924, Man alive!, When the Banker Discovers His America, and Making the Most of Your Income, published in New York by the MacMillan Company in 1933/1937. Sarah Matthews Baker Blodgett, the wife of Harvey Alvaro Blodgett, was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution by virtue of her great great grandfather, Captain Thomas Hubbard, Fourth Company of the Third Middlesex Regiment of the Massachusetts State Militia in 1776, and his wife, Abigail Brown Hubbard. In 1920, the United States Adjutant-General's Office U. S. Army Register, Volume VIII, indicates that Harold Edwin Blodgett (1893- ,) a First Lieutenant in the Infantry Section, was associated with Brown, Blodgett & Sperry, located at the corner of University Avenue and Wheeler Avenue. In 1955, Mrs. Harold E. Blodgett was the president of the Sheltering Arms in 1955. 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. [See note on Edward A. Merrill.] [See note on Martin P. Thori.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 (according to 1934 "Who's Who" of the Twin Cities)/Harold Rose (according to his son, Professor Jonathan Rose, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University,) 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 the Rose Brothers Fur Company, 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 (1857- ) and Nellie Langsdorf Herman (1864- ) of Springfield, Missouri, owners of the Herman Tailoring Company. The Rose family were members of the Minikhada Country Club in 1934. According to Jonathan Rose, Harold Herman Rose (1907-1988) graduated from the St. Paul Academy in 1925, attended Yale College, and was the president of Rose Brothers Fur Company. Karl Herman Rose ( -2000) was the twin brother of Paul Herman Rose and the brother Nancy Nell Rose Robinson, was a partner in the Rose Brothers Fur Company, showed horses for many years, collected Pennsylvania Dutch antiques, and was buried at the Mount Zion Cemetery. The Rose Brothers Fur Company was the successor in St. Paul to Joseph Ullman's fur trading business, which he sold sometime after 1875 to his cousins before returning to live in Europe. Nathan Simon Rose married Hortense Herman in 1906. 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.] [See note on Isidor Rose for 19 Kenwood Parkway.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
862 Fairmount Avenue: A. C. Floan House; Built in 1911; Georgian Revival in style; Buechner & 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.] [See note on Charles William Buechner.] [See note on Henry W. Orth.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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. The Alumni record of the College of Liberal Arts of Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois, indicates that Edward Jones Pearson and Gertrude Eva Simmons Pearson resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Olin B. Lewis resided at this address in 1906. The 1909 University of Minnesota Catalogue indicates that Arthur Sweeney, M.D., a professor of medical jurisprudence, resided at this address. 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. Gertrude Eva Simmons Pearson (1870- ) was born in Clarence, Iowa, graduated from the Clarence, Iowa, High School, graduated from Northwestern University, studied languages in Paris, France, taught at the Clarence, Iowa, High School from 1891 until 1892, taught at the Evanston, Illinois, High School from 1892 until 1899, married Edward Jones Pearson in 1899, moved to Minnesota, resided in St. Paul, and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Edward Jones Pearson (1864-1929,) the son of Leonard Pearson ( -1909,) the general superintendent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas RailRoad, and Lucy Small Jones Pearson (1833-1929,) was born in Rockville, Indiana, graduated as a civil engineer from Cornell University in 1883, was engaged in terminal construction in Portland, Oregon, from 1883 until 1884, was a railroad official with the Wisconsin Central RailRoad, the Atlantic & Pacific RailRroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul RailRoad, the Chicago & Calumet Transfer RailRoad, the Chicago Terminals RailRoad, the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain RailRoad, the Missouri Pacific RailRoad, the Texas & Pacific RailRoad, and the Northern Pacific RailRoad, was the vice president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford RailRoad from 1916 until 1917, was the president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford RailRoad, succeeding Howard Elliott, from 1917 until 1929, was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, was a member of the American Railway Association, and died at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital at Baltimore, Maryland. Olin B. Lewis (1861-1936,) the son of Zeria D. Lewis and Rebecca Horning Lewis, was born in Weyanwega, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, graduated from high school in 1879, graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1885, graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1889, moved to Minnesota, practiced law, was elected to the St. Paul City Council in 1894 and was re-elected in 1896, was elected a judge of the district court for the Second Judicial District in 1896, was re-elected judge in 1902, served as a member of the Minnesota Crime Commission in 1926, was a member of the Minnesota Club, and was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club. 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. Arthur Sweeney (1858- ,) was born in Aurora, Illinois, attended Georgetown University, graduated from St. John's College in New York in 1880, received a medical degree from the Harvard University Medical School in 1886, was a neurologist at the City & County Hospital, was a neurologist at St. Luke's Hospital, was a neurologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, was appointed a professor of medical jurisdiction at the University of Minnesota in 1897, was a member of the Minnesota Medical Association in 1921, practiced in the area of mental and nervous diseases, was the Chairman of the Committee on Hotels for the 1901 American Medical Society convention in St. Paul, was the secretary of the St. Paul Institute in 1918, was the author of the article "Mental Tests for Immigrants" in the The North American Review, published by the University of Northern Iowa in 1922, was a member of the American Medico Psychological Society, was a member of the American Medical Association, was a member of the Minnesota Academy of Medicine, was a member of the Ramsey County Medical Society, resided at 1525 Summit Avenue after 1910, and officed at the Lowry Arcade in 1901. 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.] [See note on the St. Paul Town & Country Club for 952 Wakefield Avenue.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 1916 University of Minnesota Alumni Directory indicates that George W. Peterson 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. George W. Peterson (1872- ) was born in Aberdeen, Minnesota, graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1893, graduated with a master's degree from Columbia University, graduated with a bachelor of law degree from George Washington University, was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1897, was the county attorney for Todd County from 1898 until 1904, was a Minnesota assistant Attorney General from 1907 until 1911, was a partner in the law firm of Moore, Oppenheimer & Peterson, unsuccessfully represented the produce company over stamp taxes on seized adulterated butter in Lynch v. Tilden Produce Company, 265 U.S. 315 (1924,) was a member of the Ramsey County Bar Association, was a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association, and was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1922. 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 all 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, the son of Calvin Luther Brown (1854-1923,) 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 J. Donnelly (1861-1918,) the son of Ignatius Donnelly and Catherine/Katherine McCaffery/McCaffrey Donnelly, was born in Nininger, Dakota County, Minnesota, was educated in the common schools of Hastings, Minnesota, attended St. John's College, Collegeville, Minnesota, attended Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., studied law in the law office of O'Brien, Eller & O'Brien, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1885, was a lawyer, was a sole practitioner until 1887, was a member of Company A, Light Artillery, of the Minnesota National Guard from 1885 until 1888, was the clerk of the Judiciary Committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1887, married Jennie M. O'Brien, the daughter of Dillon O'Brien, in 1887 in St. Paul, was an assistant to the Minnesota Attorney General, Moses E. Clapp, from 1887 until 1891, was the clerk of the Judiciary Committee of the Minnesota Senate in 1891, was a partner in the law firm of Butler & Donnelly from 1891 until 1893, was an assistant Ramsey County attorney from 1891/1893 until 1896/1897, was the candidate for Ramsey County Attorney of the Democratic/Populist fusion party in 1896, was the attorney for the State Game and Fish Commission for two years, was a member of the law firm of O'Brien, Donnelly & Haggard, was a partner in the law firm of Dickson & Donnelly from 1899 until 1901, was a partner with E. J. Cannon in the law firm of Cannon & Donnelly from 1897 until 1899, was a sole practitioner from 1901 until 1902, was a Roman Catholic, participated in the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the St. Paul Cathedral in 1901, was the administrator of the estate of Ignatius Donnelly in 1901, was a partner in the law firm of O'Brien, Donnelly & Haggard after 1902, was a member of the Junior Pioneers, was a Roman Catholic, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Knights of Columbus, engaged in the hobby of hunting, officed at the Globe Building in 1907, and resided at 808 Laurel Avenue in 1907. 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 graduated 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. Montreville Jay Brown (1884-1971,) the son of Calvin Luther Brown and Annette Marlow Brown, was born in Morris, Minnesota, was educated in the public schools of Morris, Minnesota, refused an appointment to West Point in 1902, completed his education at the University of Minnesota, was a baseball pitcher in college, was the captain of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team in 1906, was admitted to the practice of law in 1909, moved to Bemidji, Minnesota, served as a Bemidji, Minnesota, school board member, served as the Bemidji, Minnesota, city attorney, served as a member of the Beltrami County draft board during World War I, was elected the Grand Master of the Minnesota Masons in 1933, was appointed assistant attorney general of Minnesota in 1918, moved to Minneapolis in 1918, resigned from the Attorney General's office in 1923, returned to the private practice of law in 1923, moved to St. Paul in 1926, served as a member of the Ramsey County draft board during World War II, and was a creator, in 1943, of and subsequently the general counsel of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission. Montreville Brown married Minnie Stinchfield in 1910, and the couple were the parents of four daughters, Alice Katherine Brown, Louise Stinchfield Brown, Margaret Annette Brown, and Joanne Marie Brown. Edward W. Buckley ( -1923) and Stanilaus D. Donnelly ( -1948) both 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. [See note on the St. Paul Commercial Club for 505 Summit Avenue.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.] [See note on Moses Edwin Clapp for 513 Summit Avenue.] [See note for Dillon O'Brien for 230 Banfil Street.] [See note on the William Mitchell College of Law for 875 Summit Avenue.]
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. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that Frank Daniel Williams resided at this address in 1907. 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. 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. Frank Daniel Williams (1873- ,) the son of John Williams and Caroline McEvers Williams, was born in Plainville, Ontario, Canada, married Genevieve V. Gervais in 1899, was educated in the common and high schools of Plainville, Ontario, Canada, attended Albert College, Bellville, Ontario, Canada, was engaged in banking in Canada from 1889 until 1895, moved to St. Paul in 1895, was employed by the Ohio Coal Company from 1895 until 1897, was a merchant, engaged in the retail coal business for himself under firm name of the Holmes Fuel & Supply Company from 1897 until 1899, was the manager of the city department of the St. Paul & Western Coal Company after 1899, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, and officed at 85 East Fifth Street in 1907. Harry Trevor Drake (1857-1933,) the son of Elias Franklin Drake (1813-1892,) a Minnesota state legislator, and Caroline Matilda McClurg Drake, the daughter of Alexander McClurg, was born at Xenia, Ohio, moved to Minnesota with his family in 1863, graduated from the St. Paul High School, attended the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, entered business in 1882, initially engaged in the jobbing business in hats, caps and furs in St. Paul from 1882 until 1890, married Emma Bigelow (1860-1940,) the daughter of Charles Henry Bigelow and Alida Wood Lyman Bigelow, in 1882, was engaged in the logging business on the St. Croix River between 1890 and 1896, was the president of the National Live Stock Insurance Company since 1893, was the president of the Franklin Investment Company, was the president of the Drake Company, was the president of the Clovis Fruit Company, was the president of the Drake Company, was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, was the secretary and treasurer of the Drake Realty Company, invested in Fresno, California, fruit ranches and in the transportation of green fruit to the East, was a Republican, was a Baptist, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, officed at the Drake Block in 1907, resided at 435 Portland Avenue in 1907, and died at St. Paul. Harry T. Drake, Jr., was a graduate of Yale University. 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 Wilberforce 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, moved to Minnesota in 1862, 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 representing Ramsey County (District 24) 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 Drake, 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. 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 financial 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 William Hurley Lightner for 318 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Harry T. Drake and Harry T. Drake, Jr., for 874 Fairmount Avenue.] [See the note for Elias Franklin Drake for 324 Bates Avenue.] [See the note for the St. Paul & Sioux City RailRoad.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.] [See note on the St. Paul Commercial Club for 505 Summit Avenue.] [See note for the fifth entry after the entry for 1605 Summit Avenue for information on Macalester College.] [See note on the White Bear Yacht Club for 767 Goodrich 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 Bergen 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 Peter Linhoff.]
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 1909 University of Minnesota Catalogue indicates that Eugene L. Mann, M.D., dean of the College of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery and professor of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, 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 a 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- ,) the son of Horatio Eugene Mann and Mary Augusta Williams Mann, was born in Minneapolis, graduated from the St. Paul High School, 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 Homeopathic 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 Homeopathic Medical School of the University of Minnesota in 1895, was a member of the medical staff of St. Luke's Hospital, was a member of the medical staff of the City and County Hospital in St. Paul, and was the dean of the Homeopathic Medical College at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Mann was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, was a member of the American Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society, was a member of the Minnesota State Homeopathic 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 law partner of William D. Washburn and Judge Cornell, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing 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 Homeopathic 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, John 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 United States. 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.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
883 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1890 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; John H. 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 Hallam Miller (1893-1975) was the daughter of Oscar Hallam (1865-1945) and Edith Lamb Lott(1870-1942,) served as the president of the St. Paul Women City Club, and was a writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Stanley F. Miller, Jr. (1916-1991,) the grandson of Oscar Hallam, to represent Minnesota at the Boy Scouts of America World Jamboree in Godollo, Hungary. Cornelia H. Miller (1894-1975) had a mother with a maiden name of Lott and died in Ramsey County. Thaddeus C. Field III (1918-1971,) was the son of T. C. Field II and Florence Mary Shield Fields. 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. [See note on Oscar Hallam for 743 Goodrich Avenue.] < a href="https://www.angelfire.com/mn/thursdaynighthikes/stpacademy.html"> [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.] [See note on John H. Nickel.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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 all 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. [See note on James T. McMillan for 900 Lincoln Avenue.]
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 all 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, all 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. [See note on John H. Nickel.]
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 1916 University of Minnesota Alumni Directory indicates that Walter Lewis Mayo resided at 892 Fairmount Avenue. 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 at 892 Fairmount Avenue in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Walls and their daughter resided at at 892 Fairmount Avenue. The DeCoster family resided at this address from 1925 until 1940. 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 890 Fairmount Avenue. In 1934, Donald W. De Coster and Marie Miland De Coster resided at 890 Fairmount Avenue. 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. Walter Lewis Mayo graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1900, graduated with a master's degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1901, was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, was a member of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity, was the secretary of Schuneman & Evans, Inc., was the executive secretary of Schuneman & Mannheimers from 1912 until 1926, was the president of Schuneman & Mannheimers from 1926 until 1946, was the chairman of the board of Schuneman & Mannheimers after 1946, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, and was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club. Walter Lewis Mayo, Jr. (1902-2003,) prepared at Saint Paul Academy, attended Princeton University, Class of 1933, attended the University of Minnesota, served in the Army Air Corps in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, married Ruth Herbert ( -1995,) joined the family enterprise, the Schuneman Department Store, after the war and became vice president and chief financial officer, retired after a merger with the Dayton Hudson Company, was for several years the office manager of the Oppenheimer law firm, was a member of the University Club of Saint Paul, was a member of the Saint Paul Athletic Club, was a member of the Minnesota Club, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Walter Lewis Mayo and Ruth Herbert Mayo were the parents of two sons, David Mayo and Walter Mayo, a 1958 graduate of Princeton University. 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. 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 participation 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 Walter Stevens.] [See note on Walter Lewis Mayo for 802 Fairmount Avenue.] [See the note for the St. Paul Academy.]
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,) the son of Samuel Willard Temple (1834-1912) and Emma Willard Crossman/Grossman Temple (1841-1871,) was born in Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan, Born Oct 27, 1864 in Tecumseh Mich, was educated in public schools of Tecumseh, Michigan, attended the Tecumseh, Michigan, high school, was a public accountant and auditor, began his accounting practice in 1888, was the president of the Minnesota Society of Public Accountants, was a fellow of the American Association of Public Accountants, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the St. Paul Town & Country Club, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, officed at the Germania Life Building in 1907, and 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 Mortimer Temple 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. [See note on the St. Paul Commercial Club for 505 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Town & Country Club for 952 Wakefield Avenue.] [See note for the Minikahda Club for 702 Fairmount Avenue.]
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. In 1907, Edward Grace resided at this address. The book of Minnesotans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of Minnesota, edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, indicates that Edward Grace resided at this address in 1907. The 1914 Annual Report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota indicates that R. W. Heaton, a member of the board of directors of the Minneapolis & Northern RailRoad, resided at this address. 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. Edward Grace (1861- ,) the son of William Grace and Catherine Van Wriper Grace, was born in St. Clair, Michigan, graduated from the St. Clair, Michigan, high school in 1878, read the law from 1879 until 1881, was admitted to the practice of law in Michigan in 1882, was the secretary of the United States Electric Company of Denver, Colorado, was the secretary-treasurer of the Denver Residence Company from 1884 until 1885, was the secretary and manager of the St. James Hotel Company, Denver, Colorado, from 1886 until 1888, married Minnie V. Arnett at Denver, Colorado, in 1887, was the secretary and manager of the Broadway Hotel Company, Denver, Colorado, from 1889 until 1892, was the general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Denver, Colorado, from 1893 until 1894, was the general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Winona, Minnesota, from 1895 until 1896, was the general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of St. Paul after 1896, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, engaged in the hobby of gardening, and officed at the YMCA Building in 1907. R. W. Heaton ( -1953) died in Ramsey County. Edward Grace 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. [See note for the Minneapolis Northern RailRoad.] [See the note for the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) for 277 Harrison Avenue.]
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, all 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. In 1917, Harry Kuller was associated with the Liberty Knitting Mills, 440-450 Pleasant Avenue, and was the proprietor of the Minnesota Knitting Mills, 503-507 W. 7th Street. 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 all 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 all 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. [See note on J. A. A. Burnquist for 1082 Summit Avenue.]
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 1916 University of Minnesota Alumni Directory indicated that Carl Benjamin Teisberg resided at this address. 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 all 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 Benjamin Teisberg (1879- ,) the son of Even Teisberg and Anna Sophia Hustvedt Stephens, graduated from the Park Region Luther College at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1897, graduated from Luther College at Decorah, Iowa, in 1901, was a 1905 graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School, was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, was a member of the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity, interned at Luther Hospital, was a physician and surgeon, practiced medicine briefly at Baudette, Minnesota, was the superintendent of the Pokgama Sanitarium at Pine City, Minnesota, for two years, married Mary Victorine O'Brien, the daughter of Christopher D. O'Brien and the niece of Dr. Henry J. O'Brien, in 1908, was a partner in a medical practice with Dr. Henry J. O'Brien, Dr. C. K. Williams, Dr. I. A. O'Connor, and Dr. G. J. Leonard, was a member of the Knights of Columbus, was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club, and officed at the Lowry Building in 1916. Carl B. Teisberg, a Norwegian, assisted the City and County physician in 1911. Carl Benjamin Teisberg and Mary Victorine O'Brien Teisberg were the parents of Carl Benjamin Teisberg, Jr. (1910- ,) Mary Geraldine Teisberg (1913- ,) and John Edwin Teisberg (1914- .) Carl Benjamin Teisberg, Jr., graduated from Cretin High School in 1928. 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. [See note on the St. Paul Town & Country Club for 952 Wakefield Avenue.]
Specific Structures. The following presents available information on the housing styles of specific structures located along the hike:
Hike Architectural Notes, Part 1
Hike Architectural Notes, Part 3
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