St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

here bargains in real estate were made; mere
men of means from the east were 1nveigled
into various schemes of speculation, in which
they usually lost their money, and here ran
rampant, ga feast of reason and flow OF
soul.'' Mr. Parker was succeeded by the
Long Brothers, one of whom is dead.
THE ORIGINAL LANDLORD AND LANDLADY.
Of the original landlord Parker, we can
only say he was born in New Hampshire,
somewhere in the year 1914; came to st.
Paul in 1S49; kept the American House-(or
rather his wife did)-secured claim of 100
acres of land near Hamline university, cost
ing him $40 per acre, or rather $4,000, worth
now $3.50, 900; farmed some, and died about
1874, close to 60 years. He was tall, spare
man; quite moderate in his move
ments, owing to ill-health, yet quiet, unob-
| trusive citizen.
Mrs. Parker was a large, masculine look
ing woman, of fine business qualities; stir
ring and energetic; lover of money, and
through her industry and economy, amassed
quite property. She was woman of strong
preiudices, and not having any children,
adopted several, to one of whom she gave
the bulk of her wealth. She died, we think,
in 1883.
THE FIRST STAGE COACH AND FIRST LIVERY
STABLE.
Messrs Willoughby & Powers came to st.
Paul together, in the year 1S49, and erect
ed a barn on the side of ravine near Fourth
street, where they opened the first livery
stable and ran the first one-horse stage to
Saint Anthony. Their business so increased
that they soon put on the route a four-horse
| Concord coach, and then came in the oppo-
| sitiOn lines, snd stages were as plenty as
blackberries.
Mr.. Willoughby was born in Vermont in
! 1912, or IA; mined and drove stages in GA
lena in 1S4S, came to st. Paul in 1S49,
and opened livery stable, as
has already been noted. He acquired
considerable property, and when he died,
which was only few years ago, left an es-
tate worth 100000.
Willoughby was a man of immense
humor; was well known as 'Bishop Will
oughby, of the Aeolian church," was prompt,
pleasant, accommodating, and very com
panionable. He was taken sick and died
suddenly, greatly regretted by large num-
| Der of old friends.
Powers was a man quite eccentric; born
in 1913: died in 1868. He was not so fortu
nate as his partner, in amassing wealth, yet
was good business man, and was much es-
teemed by those who knew him.
CHARLES GILGoRE SMITH.
Mr.. Smith was born in Ohio, 1899; edu-
Gated at Oxford, Ohio; was a lawyer; ap-
pointed Secretary of the territory of Minneso-
| ia, by President Fillmore, in 1S49; came to
st. Paul the same year, was secretary of the
Historical Society; was active in establishing
common schools in the city, and was man
e.
politicians to shoot at, but he survived all
their shafts; resigned his office in 1851, and
died in 1866. We did not know him.
ALEX. NJ. MITCHELL,
Not the great millionaire of Milwaukee, but
the former Marshal of Minnesota, was born
in North Carolina; graduated at West Point
served in the Florida war; also in the Engin-
eering department.; studied law at Yale
College; settled in Cincinnati; enlisted in
the Mexican war; was commissioned Col
onel; was severely wounded; presented with
a sword; was appointed Marshal of Mime
sofa; in 1850 was nominated for Congress,
and-beaten; removed to Missouri where he
died, 1861, aged SO years. Col. Mitchell was
a brave man, pleasant gentleman, but his
own enemy.
ORIGIN OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.
Secretary Smith, who had taken great in
terest in our school system, at a meeting
called to consider the question in 1S49,
moved that committee be appointed to ask
the county commissioners 10 divide the
town into school districts, which was done,
and three school houses were recommended
to be opened-one on lot donated by Mr..
Randall, one in the basement CT the Metho-
dist church, and one in Mr.. Neill's lecture
room; Miss Bishop, Miss Schofeld and Rev.
G. Hobart were designated teachers, and
from this small beginning has grown our
magnificent school system, with some fifteen
elegant school houses, hundreds of teachers
and thousands of scholars. "Tall oaks
from little acorns grow.'
THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN CIVILIZATION
AND BARBARIsM.
Just think of it, reader! In 1S49 the
Sioux Indians owned all the land on the
west side of the river, where the Sixth Ward
now is, and the whites only owned strip on
the east side, so that barbarism had full
sway across the Mississippi, while civiliza-
ton was struggling for foot hold on the
west side. One shrill war-whoop, and every
| soul could have been murdered, but discre-
ton and fairness with the Indians marked
the old pioneers, and soon the silent influ
ences of better life began to push along the
tepees, and with them their inmates, until
now we find the dominant white race occu-
pving almost every foot of soil in the state of
Minnesota, and the process is steadily going
on-pushing! pushing! pushing!