St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-01

| battle SCARED veteran, VINO, having fought
many good fight, as he has, now rests UPON
his laurels. Some years ago he wroe
''Poltical History of Minnesota, +" but for
some reason the manuscript was never pub
lished He is now quietly enjoying the re-
pose of rural life on the st. Croix.
VI. y. KELLOGG.
! Mr. Kellogg was born in New York state,
in 1922; enlisted in the army in 1915; vent
to Mexico in 1917; was in the war one year,
or until 1S4S; removed to Jefferson barracks
that winter, and in the spring of 1S49 came
| to Fort Smelling and from thence, the same
year. moved TO st. Paul, where he has re-
sided ever since, or 80 years. He was in the
Sixth regiment band as a clarionet player;
was in the army five years, and discharged
in 1850. Engaged in the drug business with
Mr.. Hitchcock in 1850, and the firm built
brick store corner of Cedar and Third streets.
The seventy eight foot lot upon which this
store stood, cost $500; now worth about
| $4,000.
In 1853 he entered into 4 partnership with
j. W. Bond ran the business up to 1857,
when he sold to Bond, and in 1858 bought
out the stock of toys and notions owned by
B. Presley. He continued that business I'M
til 1882, when he was obliged to relinquish it
| in consequence of the failure of his eve
sight. He purchased a lot in Rice IL Irvine's
addition, on Sixth street, in 1854, for $50;
sold the same in 1888, for about IS, 600 This
property was sold again in less than a year
after, for So, 1000, SIG, 500, and 5000 NJ.
Kellogg was married in 1855.
THE MAN HIMSELF.
Mr.. Kellogg is a rather small gentleman,
OF an active, nervous temperament, and has
been very industrious citizen. Although
burnt out twice, losing nearly all he had, yet
he plunged in again, and soon obtained his
footing. He has toiled, almost uninterrupt-
edly, for thirty odd years, and very few men
have been more dssiduous to business than
NJ. \. Kellogg. He has an active brain,
moves with CELEBRITY, arrives at conclusions
quickly, and nobody can say that he ever cheat
ed him out of cent. He is very temperate
man, never drinks, chews or smokes.
he is also frugal, economical and strictly
honest; has always minded his own business,
and in many respects has been and is now,
model man. For many years he took
pride in preserving, in scrap book, impor-
tant events which had transpired in this city,
but when he sold out this scrap book, with
other important papers, were accidentally de-
stroyed, very much to his regret and his sor-
row. About two years ago his eye-sight be-
gan to fail him, and now he is almost entirely
blind, yet with this terrible effiietion upon
him, he is philosophical, cheerful, hopeful,
manly. All the old settlers we know have,
and We trust many new ones will have,
kindly feeling for NJ. N. Kellogg.
FIRST REAL ESTATE DEALER.
Charles Il. Conway hung out his single as
real estate dealer, in little small white
office, which stood on hill, where Mr..
Schurmeier's building now stands, on Third
street, between Cedar and Minnesota, in the
year 1850. He claims to be the first real es-
tate dealer in the city.
FIRST DAGUERREAN ARTIST.
George c. Nichols took daguerrean pictures
in the old American house, in 1919, and was
the first artist of this character in the city.
He sold out to G. T. Whitney, who carried on
gallery for many years, corner of Third
and Cedar streets.
FIRST MARKET WOMAN.
The hundreds of market women who now
vend vegetables at our market and else
were, will regret, as well as we do, that we
can't just now recall the name of the first
market woman, who came from Little Cana
da, twelve miles from st. Paul. with single
OK hitched TO a cart, and who sold her pota-
toes, cabbages, pumpkins and other vegeta-
bles, in as approved style as do our market
women of to-day. This branch of business
has grown to an enormous extent, and il is
quite proper that the pioneer of this trade
should have place among the Pen Pictures
of to-day.
FIRST BURIAL GROUND.
From all we can learn, the first burial
ground was that owned by the Catholics, and
occupied quite space back of the Stees' fur
niture store, on Minnesota street. A small
log stable stood where the Pioneer Press office
now stands, and directly in the rear Of this,
on the bluff, was the first chapel, erected by
Father Galtier The burying ground belonged
to the chapel, and is the same piece of prop
erty upon which Stees building after being
erected twice, fell both times.
THE VERY OLDEST HOUSE IN THE CITY.
1t is now claimed by some of the most
ancient and venerable gentlemen of the past,
that the house on Fourth street, between
Minnesota and Robert, which has the card ON
it of the Ramsey County Old Settlers asso-
citation, as the Oldest house in Saint Paul, is
not correct, but the oldest house is that on
Sixth street, now owned by Uri Lamprey.
1t stands just back of the boarding house of
Mr.. Brewster, on Sixth street, and was orig
inally the property of Louis Roberts. His
first house was burned; this was his second.
1t would be well to have this question def
nitely settled so it could pass into history,
for ''when doctors disagree, what are we go
ing to do!'
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS ONE CITY.
Thirty-fve years. Reader, stop thinking of
business for minute and ponder over the
march of eventsl What will be the future OF
the country west of st. Paul in the next 35
years? What will be the status of this city?
We will anticipate your reply by prophesying,
that St. Paul and Minneapolis will then BIZ
united as one city, with population OF
500, 900 people, and these cities, thus united, ,
will supply an empire beyond of 5000, 900
inhabitants "Oh, but" you say, "this cam
never be done" Not so FAST my friend .
Look at the past! st. Anthony has been'
swallowed up on the one side and West ST.
Paul on the other, and street cars and motor
cars, and railroad cars and other appliances
are now at work drawing together slowly but
surely these two cities, and when they come
together, as they certainly will, it will be like
the swapping jaws Of the mud turtle
ALL AT ONCE.
Then the new capitol building, costing several
millions of dollars, will be located ON 100
acres of land midway of the one great city,
and grand hotels will invite the world at
large to partake Of food unparalleled in
sweetness and delicacy, and luxurious beds
will beckon tired bodies to sweet repose.
The superficial thinker, who never gets above
his nose, may and no doubtwill scott at these
ideas, but he can't change either the immu-
table laws of nature or the immutable laws of
God; and just as sure as the cars rumble to
the Pacific ocean, just so sure will st. Paul
and Minneapolis, not many years in the
future, be united and march to power and TO