St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-21
HENRY o'GoRNAx.

HENRI " SOftAaA|s
Mr.. O'Gorman is a son of Capt. John
)'Gorman (now dead, )and was born in Bos-
on in 1s47, where he received a common
school education. He subsequently, attended
.he Cathedral and Adams schools at St. Paul,
and came to this city with his parents in
1852. He was for time in the military
headquarters Of General Sibley, in 1851, as
clerk, and continued there during the war,
and we remember him as a quiet, pleasant
young man, and an excellent penman.
He removed to st. Louis in 1868, and was
employed as a clerk in an abstract office, and
during this time he attended the ST. Louis
law school, and graduated in the senior class
of 1872. Returning TO St. Paul that year he
engaged in the practice of his profession, and
continued so up to 1877, when he served as
Judge of Probate of Ramsey county, 10
which he was elected with considerable
unanimity, and which he filed with
very general acceptability. In 1882 he
ran for Sheriff of Ramsey county, and after
legal contest with Mr.. Richter as TO who re-
ceived the greatest number of votes, he was
declared elected, and has held the Office for
two years.
THE MAN HIMSELF.
Mr.. O'Gorman is gentleman OF medium
size, with a round face, well developed phys
zeal organization, and very undemonstratiye
He is quite even in his temperament, gentle
manly in his manners, and destitute of os
tentation. He married Ellen NJ. Dicks, OF
ST. Louis, in 1858.
WILLIAM o'GoRMAS.
This is another son of Capt. John O'Gor-
man, (now dead,) and was born in Boston
in 1916. He came to St. Paul in 1852, and
here he received his education. In 1862 be
enlisted in company X, Tenth regiment, but
was on detail duty in the commissary depart
ment, under Captain Newson, for year OF
so. and then Joined his regiment in the Six
teeuth army corps under General A. j.
Smith. He served three years in the army,
and after being honorably discharged, ae
companied a party TO Vermilion lake
in search of gold, and subsequently
became clerk in the postofhct
for one year; was three years in the rea
estate business in st. Louis; returned to 81.
Paul: clerked for different firms some ter
years; then engaged in the cigar and tobacco
business for himself, and is now secretary
the Central Firemens' association.
LITTLE DIFFERENT.
Sergent ''Billy," as we used to call him
is little different in general makeup to hi
brother Henry. He is lively, active
stirring man, full of vigor ant
manhood. and vet all this energ
does but little good towards bringing him
fortune, however much he may deserve II
He is honest, capable and trustworthy, pu
| like many others was no doubt born unue
an unlucky star, yet he is philosopher an
proposes to trudge on TO the end. lie ha
| his advantage. he is in the prime of man
hood, and has th:rty-two years Of solid exp'
rience in the ups and downs of western lif'
SO he is much better prepared for the ills in
cident TO living, than the ''old codgers" VIII
have nothing to hope for, but-DEATH! :
"Sergent Billy l'-move TO the front!
JOSEPH vILLAUME.
An old straggler has just come into head
quarters and reports that he was born
France in 1912; that he was in the employ
the French government as police officer Il
fourteen years; that in 1S4S he emigrated
this country and landed in New Orleans
that be arrived at st. Paul in 1s49, or
wears ago; that he embarked in the India
trade, as at that early period there we
only a few houses where now stand
ST. Paul, and the balance Of the populatio
was made up of red men, who occupied
good many tepees. He states that then the
were hills and valleys. and running stream
and brush, and trees, and rocks, where u
city now rises into greatness and into gra
deur. and that nobody could even imagine
that early day that st. Paul could by al
possibility grow into respectable sized Y
lage. TO say nothing of city OF 1850
peoplel And yet, he says, here it is. Al
look at
THE CONTRAST
There, nesting in modesty on Fifth sire
and ineditating on the past, is a little o
story and half French building, the old
, house in the city of st. Paul, while just
: the right of it, fronting on Robert street,
the elegant seven story ediice of the chaml
of commerce, and diagonally across frt
this fine specimen of architecture, rises IL
, majesty and into beauty, the new Sl,00O,C
hotell The little brown house, now forty
/, | years old, looks out upon the scene with VIZ
i dermeutl When it first reared its head il
civilization, how proud and grand 1t VI
How it doomed up against the board shant
and wigwams of decaying barbarisml ii
/ the owner and his wise-both gone into
land of dreams-praised, and pettcd, O
: admired It! How visitors snugged down
: its cozy parlor and laughed at the beat
storm that howled on the outside! How
green vines twined their loving arms abb
h its broad, square, good-natured face q
e naeked in at the windows And how II
k children Cazed up in awe At its mass
e heighthi Poor, little, humble nobody nj
e You live only in the shadows OF the or
buildings that frown down upon you'll II
hardly know you by reputation, and IL Il
v did know YOU. they would care less for y
J. To them the past is nothingl What OF
:. day? What of next year. and so u
! comes and goes, and by aud by, and
u soon too, the little old brown house will
5. missed from its accustomed place; its
e tired and wearied timbers will be carried
e their long home, and only history will dro
y tear over its memory
!, .tJust so,m said the aged Frenchman
IT inst so.'' and we saw red Handkerchief
y his hand. and little black speck 10 his {
and a tear upon his cheek, and turning
pazed for a moment upon the little uni
rs tending brown house. and then upon
Of great mass of brick that lowered heavenw
IS on the opposite corner, and moving
/ with tottering steps, we heard him mutter
- Yes, the contrast!--l see I'll JUST 50
- lust sop' And his form faded, faded, ia
" and was-gone!
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