St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-02-17
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sions. OF course he has endured many hards
ships and has seen many changes. Last
year he visited Montreal for the first time in
ffty-four years, and in response 10 our ques-
tion-''How many old friends did you meet
there!'' he responded-''Three all the
rest are dead'' While absent on his visit,
he met sister 102 years old. She was blind,
and deaf, and bent over. Yet she could sing
well, and did sing for him. sob, 1 don's
want to live so longln he said, with a sor-
rowful tone, ''we be so much trouble"
This aged sister has since died. One of his
daughters, aged forty years, now the mother
of family, said she could scarcely realize
that when a little girl she used to attend school
in the log hut which then stood on Bench
street, and yet such was the fact. Mr.. Rou-
leau is pleasant man, and good deal OF
philosopher. Judging from what we saw OF
him, he throws out rays of sunshine wherever
he goes, and we trust he may live long
to enjoy longer serene and genial old age.
CHARLES RoULEAU, JR.
This is q son of Mr.. Rouleau of whom we
have been writing. He was born
in St. Paul in 1916, or thirty-nine
years ago, and was in the numbering
business from the age of Is years
up to 1871, since which time he has been on
ranks among the oldest members-No 3.
He is an excellent specimen of a well pre-
served physical man; large, well proportioned,
with fine, clear complexion, indicating
sobriety, and is one of the best officers on
the force. He may well be proud of his
father, and his father may well be proud of
| him.
AN OLD LANDMARR-THE WILD HUNTERS
HOTEL.
| A. L. Larpenteur, Esq, of whom we have
hitherto spoken, bought of David Faribault,
in the year 1915, or 3S years ago, seventy
feet of land on Jackson street, running to
Fourth, now the property of Henry Hale, Esq,
and paid for it the sum of SG2.50. It's pres-
ent worth is considerably over $780, 900. He
was offered another seventy feet adjoining,
for S45, but Larpenteur was too shrewd u
man to load himself down with real estate Mt
such ruinous prices, and so declined the
| offer In 1S47 he concluded to build on this
lot, so timber was procured ut $40 per thou-
| sand, and carpenters were set to work, and in
due course Of time, what is now known as
the Wild Hunters hotel, sprang into being
| as tirst-class city residence, costing the
owner 5000. 1t was erected on the corner Of
Third and Jackson streets, where the ticket
office now is, but in 1866 was
moved to its present location.
Mr.. Larpenteur lived here eight
years, and in this house five of his children
were born, and here he passed some of thd
pleasantest hours of his life. The hotel Of
the Wild Hunter was kept for many years by
Mr.. Mueller, who died in 1866. 1t is IL
peculiar building, made so mostly by the adj
ditions which have been added to it, and
while it has stood the blasts of 81 winters,
this is its last, for in the spring, like good
many other old settlers who have gone be-
fore, it will probably pass out of existence
forever, to make way for an imposing block
of brick stores.
BENJAMIN W. BRUNsoN.
Mr. Brunson is a son Of Rev. A. Brunson,
of Prairie du Chen, and is a brother of Mrs.
j. w. Bass, of this city. He was born in
Detroit in 1923. We first hear Of Mr.. Brun-
son in the milling business in Wisconsin,
when, in May, 1917, he removed 10 st. Paul,
where he has resided thirty-seven years, OF
near a half a century. He is lawyer and a
very competent surveyor and engineer. He
assisted in surveying the town plat OF
Saint Paul, and having secured property
east of Trout Brook, laid it out in an add
l tion. The original cost of the land to hin
was comparatively little, but the property ii
: now worth many hundred thousand dollars
In 1861 Mr.. Brunson entered the Union
army, CompanynK, Eighth regiment, anC
, served three years. He is and has been q
: great Odd Fellow and Mason, and has proba-
bly, seen as many ups and downs as any man
l in the state. He has been {
2 justice of the peace, member
} of the territorial legislature fol
two terms, general manager in the postollice
and is now connected with the goyernmen
of the Union depot.
AS WE SEE HIM.
, Mr.. Brunson is a quiet, unobtrusiye man
, with decided opinions Of his own, and quite
Independent in character. He never says
''that's so, but he speaks what he believes
is fact, and others echo-''that's so." HI
| is not a large man; moves anC
talks in a moderate manner, and thinks
a good deal more than he utters. He and hi
son are both energetic business men, an(
have the confidence Of not only their asso
! ciates, but of the public at large. Perhaps i
Mr.. Brunson had had more policy and les
manhood, he would, in the common parlanc
2 of the world, have been more successful
C financially, and perhaps he Wouldn't
great deal of life is governed by luck, ant
. many times the most ignorant and The
meanest get the most money. Mr.. BrunsOI
is sixty-one years old, but is bright, cheerful
and active.
0 THE FIRST REGULAR PHYsICIAN-DR. J. J
= DEWEY.
5 Dr. Dewey arrived at Saint Paul in July
. 1847, and in 1S49 established the first dru
t store, not only in this city, but in the state
!. At one time he built up quite practice, bu
of late years has lived a somewhat retire
. life. He is a man about sixty years old
| n -
i moves over the sidewalks wit
e appearance of person who
g disappointed with the world, and yet it ma
be only the peculiarly of the man. He is
quiet, undemonstrative gentleman, and gen
orally walks with his hands behind him. On
/ looking at him would scarcely believe that Ii
;. was the Oldest physician in st. Paul, and ha
ii resided here thirty-seven years. He has see
d many changes and has followed many an oil
; settler to the grave, but he is a well preserve
,r man, and bids fair to live many years longer
THE FIRST TAILoR-PARsoNs X. JOHNsoS
r The old saying that tailor is but th
: ninth part of a man, is not true in the cas-
! of the subject of our sketch, for those wh
know him, say he is a person with larg
L fund of information; great humorist, Law
: yer, although never admitted to the bar,
d good tailor, farmer, worthy man. Il
st was born in Vermont in 1916, and is {
:, years old. His relatives were col
}. nected with the family of Jonathan Carye
and when a boy ne was a schoolmate {
:, Stephen A Douglas. He came to st. Paul
= july 1847; was member of the first terr
torial legislature; in 1850 marie
n Miss Bivens, sister of Mrs. Jael
d son; carried on the first tailo
If ing business in this city; removed to Mar
v kato in 1852; was subsequently postmast'
at that place, justice of the peace, an