St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-20

by confederate by the name of Sawyer.
They read-'tBank of st. Croix, st. Paul,
Minnesota" These bills were quoted in Wall
street at one per cent. discount, and of
course were fraud. Young disappeared,
and the affair collapsed
The first Masonic lodge was instituted in
1S49. and the first Mason made in the terri
tory that year, was a man by the name of
Scott
This year also witnessed the organization
of the Odd Fellows, and the Sons of Tenn
perance. Indeed, We may say that 1849 was
''boss year, for Minnesota.
ST. PAUL BECOMES TOWN.
Up to November, 1S49, st. Paul was legal
ly nothing but ''place.n This year the
legislature passed BILL which was approved
by the governor, making the ''place" the
clown Of st. Paul" Ramsey county was
created, and st. Paul was made the county
seat. Provisions were effected for the APP
pontment of officers, and the resi-
dents of the little hamlet be-
came as proud as the citizens of
any big town could be, over the prospective
growth and greatness of ''our city," And
from that day to this, st. Paul has been
stretching, growing, spreading out, until she
has reached the magnificent proportions of
$4,000 people! Truly, ''great oaks from
little aco1ns grow"
DIR. THOMAS r. POTTS.
Dr. Potts was born in Philadelphia in 1910;
graduated at the medical depar !ment of the
University of Pennsylvania in 1881; resided
at Natchez, Mississippi, ten years; in 1871
removed to Galena, Illinois; came to St.
Paul in 1S49, where he practiced medicine
for twenty-six years; was at one time con-
tract surgeon at Fort Smelling; pension sur
geon; medical purveyor of the district; physi
clan to the Sioux, ETC.; in 1850 was president
of the town board; in 1866 city physi-
clan; health officer in 1873; was married
at Fort Smelling, in 1S47, to Miss Abbey
Steele, died suddenly in the city of Saint
Paul, October, 1874, aged 81 years.
PERSONAL.
Dr. Potts was an ''institutfon'' of the city,
having practiced here for over quarter of
century, and was well known among all the
old settlers. He was a decided allopath; be-
leved in heavy doses, and ridculed the
efficacy of small pills. At the time of his
death he was the Oldest practicing physician
in Saint Paul. He was man of strong pre-
dilictions full of fun and humor; social in
his nature and kind-hearted in his practice.
He resided for many years in small, white
house on Robert street, and though having a
large practice and number of offices, yet
he had only slight appreciation Of money,
and left but little property
to his widow, who is still
living and residing in the family of Gen.
Sibley. One looking upon her tall and grace
full form and pleasant countenance, though
saddened by care and sorrow, is forcibly re-
minded of the DID, old times, which have
gone, never to return.
CHARLES r. CONWAY.
Among the old and original characters of
the past, is Charlie Conway, an old editor
and an old printer, man Of considerable
ability, but unable to show it. He was born
in Indiana in 1922; removed to Michigan in
1881; to Illinois in 1887, where he attended
the university at Battle Creek and also at Rock
ford in 1888. He began his apprenticeship at
the printing trade in Detroit; in 1874 started
and edited the Rockford Forum; sold out and
returned to Madison, Wisconsin, and in the
fall of 1916 enlisted in the Mexican war,
where he remained nearly two years;
returned again to Madison IN 1S4S,
ocrut: ran it about one year and then sold
out; married Miss Jane E. Nichols, and in
1S49 moved to st. Paul; was the first fore
man of James NJ. Goodhue, of the Pioneer,
and superintendent the public printing, and
in 1850 formed a copar Dership-Lambert,
Conway q Nichols-to carry ON the real es-
tate business; in 1851 firm dissolved by the
death of Nichols, and Conway left for Cali
fornia, where he started the Los Angeles
NeeCS, which he ran six years during the re-
belliOn; sold out and returned to st. Paul in
1867 and in 1869 went to Rochester, Min
nesOta, and founded the Central Record, and
took an active part against the $4,000, 900
railroad bonds; left the paper and went on a
farm removed to Lacrosse to give his children
an education, and from thence to Dresoach,
Minnesota, where he now resides, and where
he has discovered certain ingredients that
make an elegant brick.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
He once owned 200 acres on Goose lake,
adjoining White Bear, for which he paid
$1.25 per acre, or $3.50; worth now $50, 900.
His house and office formerly stood on Third
street, near Cedar and the so feet which cost
him. then $3.50, are now worth close to
200. Lots in PattersOn's addition, which
he sold for $25 and $50 per lot, are now
worth 81, 600 per lot He owned ten acres just
north of the Manitoba shops, for which he
paid $40 per acre; and sold for $25 acre;
now worth $4,000 per acre.
CONWAY PERSONALLY
He is a slender gentleman; deliberate in
his speech; comical and original in his ex-
pressions, but disconnected in his converse
ton. Having seen good deal of human
nature, he hasn't much confidence in that
commodity. He knows how to make money,
but he can't get it, because he won't lie and
steal. He has an inventive turn of mind,
and if he could only Glitch up'' with some
supremely selfish specimen of humanity,
Conway might be a rich man. As it is, he
is quiet, pleasant, honest, clever gentle
man, whose reward if he gets any, will be
in another world, not this. And so, with
one more article, we hope to close the record
of 1S49.
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