St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-19
FRESHMEN IN THE NORTHWEST.
Nercltants, La,cyers, 1uthors, and Farmers
arI,o hare HON Fame and Honey.
IN Y Sum- March 18th

srIto hare Won Fame aud Honey.
n. Y. Sun, March 16th.I
That Irishmen have made their mark in
the Northwest in commerce and in the pro-
fessions as well as at the plough will be seen
at glance. The Hon. P. H. Kelly, million
aire merchant of st. Paul, is in the grocery
business what A. T. Stewart was in dry
goods. He is also member of the National
Democratic committee. His brother, Mr..
Anthony Kelly of Minneapolis, is also mer-
chant of equally Agh &+anding, although not
known as statesman. The Mayor OF st.
Paul, the Hon. c. D. O'Brien, son of the
late Dillon O'Brien, had fame as lawyer be-
fore he took the municipal reins. Judge
Wilson of Winona left the bench because the
practice of the law was pleasant to him, and
perhaps because the emoluments of good
lawyer are greater than those Of an honest
Judge. He stood very high as Judge, and
stands equally high as a lawyer.
The Hon. Ignatius Donnelly is only one
remove from Irish birth. He is the best
stump orator Minnesota ever had, and in
recent years has made time from his plough
for speculation as to where the garden of
Paradise was, and as to whether comets
came in contact with this planet; hence,
"Atlantis" which showed the location of the
garden, and 'Ragnarok," which charged
the Chicago fire to a comet, and let out Mrs.
O'Leary's COW. Mr.. Donnely is busy now,
in his spacious mansion in the woods, at
Nininger near Hastings on the Mississippi
on thesis to prove that Lord Bacon wrote
the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare The
subject is threadbare, and the public will
not, fancy, take to it, but Mr.. Donnelly
will CLEAN the salient points made by those
who would dethrone the great author.
Further down the Mississippi is the Hon.
P H. Rahilly, a farmer on large scale, who
has been in the Legislature more than once.
His wealth has been cause of loss to him
this winter. He stored 1000 bushels of
wheat because he was dissatisfied with the
price, and a stray spark from pipe caused
the destruction of the granary and its con-
tents.
Still further down the river, at Winona,
Mr.. Andrew Hamilton, lumberman, ranks
with the milionaires. But the Irish have
not all the honors in lumber, for Mr.. John
Paul, on the left bank of the river, at La
Crosse, shows that the sons of Scotia can
successfully grapple with the interests of the
great west. Mr.. Hamilton's business is
done by corporation, but Mr.. PauPs still
larger business is all in his own name, He
is the largest lumberman in the Mississippi
valley, and yet he came to America with
very little. if any money.
At points here and there through the state,
Belle Plaine, Albert Lea, Rosemount, Oak
land, Graceville-named in honor of the es-
teemed Bishop of St. Paul-and in fact, in
all directions, are well-to-do Irish farm COM
munlties, with churches and resident past
ors. The priests have been mostindustrious.
The Rev. Father Venn, of Blue Earth City,
has built dozen churches in different Sec
tons of the state, and the Rev. Father Start
ha, for some time pastor of Red Wing, gives
up the ease of settled mission to plant the
cross in rather poor outskirt of St. Paul.
In every city of Minnesota there are pros
porous Irish merchants and professional
men.