St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-17

acted on temperament not well adapted to
bear it. Sensitive, shrinking, ever clinging
to old associations, he lives too much with
sad and severed memories. His remaining
children, four in number, one half of his
original family, are all married, and live in
St. Paul. They and their children form a
valued and affectionate circle, where he finds
a pleasant and ever recurring welcome.
MARVIN AS A MAN.
He is quick, earnest, sensitive, active,
honorable, honest, religious; was an un-
finching, outspoken, ant-slavery man, when
1t was very unpopular to be so, and lives
more in the past and in the future, than in
the present. He has a highly poetical tenn
etry, of which the following is an extract of
some thirteen hundred lines written some
three years ago.
The heart its own bitterness truly may know,
Yet know not its share in the causes of woe:
Man hides from himself in the dust of the fight,
And oft in the wrong, will deem himself right;
Will parry and thrust, with passion for guide
Till truth shall fold pinion and stoop to his pride
Each cicatrzed wound may hide with it's scar,
The sting of defeat, or point like a star
To triumphs that flushed the warm light of the
soul,
And heightened the glory that flashed from its
goal;
But WEAKNESS comes with the twilight of years,
And low burns the lamp Of his hopes and his
fears.
There shall be day when to know and be
known,
And problems now dark, shall all be his own;
From thence, looking back on the drama of life,
Amazed he shall glance n ar ira n strife
When fools had wrought folly land wise men had
smiled,
And echoed the folly by folly beguiled.
COLONEL JOEL D. CKUTTENDEN.
Col. Cruttenden left st. Louis in 1916,
and removed to Prairie de CHEN, where he
was employed by Brisbois 81 Rice. In 1S4S
he came to St. Paul. where he remained up
to 1850, when he took up his residence in st.
Anthony, and engaged in business with R.
P. Russell He then went to Crow Wing and
was connected with Maj .J.W W. Lynde. In 1857
he was elected to the house of rep
resentatives, and on the breaking
out of the war, was commissioned
captain assistant quartermaster; was taken
prisoner, and on being exchanged, rose to
the rank of colonel. At the close OF the war
he was honorablN discharged, and soon af-
ter removed to Bayfield,, Wisconsin, where
he has held many offices and is greatly es
teemed. Heisa pleasant genial gentleman,
well known, and well liked.
COL. JOHN BANFILL.
When the Indian war broke out in Florida,
Mr.. Banfill resided in New Orleans, and on
hearing of Dade's massacre, he volunteered
and took an active part in the campaign.
He removed to Prairie du Chen in 1910,
and came to st. Paul in 1915. He resided
in this city for some time, and then moved
to Manomin He helped build the steamer
H. NJ. Rice, which ran above the falls, also
mill located at Manomin. In 1857 he was
elected State Senator, and in 1865 removed
to Bayfield,, where he has remained ever
since. He is man of sterling worth and
greatly respected by all who know him, now
about sixty years of age.
FREDERICK OLIVIA.
Frederick Olivia was born at Prairie du
Chen, Wis, in 1S16;-came to st. Paul
temporarily in 1913, and then to reside per-
manently in 1S47. He clerked for Henry
jackson; clerked for Louis Robert, and in
1886 clerked for Gen. Sibley. Was at one
time Deputy Register Of Deeds under Louis
Olivier. He steamboated good deal, and
bought furs. He is now in the employ of
Mr.. Langevin, in the Sixth Ward, and has
reached the age of GO years, and yet he has
not gray hair in his head He remembers
when the flats and indeed all the river
bottom on the west side of the city was thick
with large elm, ash and other trees. He was
at the head Of thirty men who felled these
trees, and they were so thick-the trees-that
wagon roads had to be cut through them to
enable the teams to get out Of the forest.
There is now only one solitary elm left, and
some provision should be made to preserve
it as link Of the past. Mr.. Olivia is quiet,
trustworthy man, unmarried and has no re-
lations in this country except an uncle at
Prairie du Chen.
MAJOR GEORGE H. SPENCER.
Major Spencer (who justly derives his title
from being Indian agent) was born in Ken
lucky in 1882; educated at Asbury academy
in Indiana clerked in q hardware store at
Terre Haute; came to st. Paul in 1851; was
engaged by A. L. Larpenteur for eight years,
and as Larpenteur's trade was mostly with
the red men, here he became intimately ac-
quainted with the Indians, their language,
their mode of living, and here he made q
friendship with Chaska, oldest son or first
born) who subsequently saved his life; was
once partner with Major Forbes, who did
general Indian business at Il trading post on
the west side of Big Stone lake; was there I'M
til just before the breaking out of the Indian
massacre in 1862; was at this time at the Red
Wood agency procuring supplies, and having
made his purchases, was getting ready to go
home, when he noticed a number of Indians
in town who appeared to be on the war path;
didn't suspect anything wrong; didn't APP
pRhend any danger; was standing in the
door of Nathan Myrick's store, when he OBJ
served that the Indians were surrounding all
the buildings, but his fears were dispelled
when they told him that they were in search
of Chippewas who had been seen in that vi
entity only few days before.
THRILLING scENE-sPENCER SHOT.
While thus looking unsuspectingly upon
the scene, the American colors on Myrick's
flag staff were run up, as they usually were
every morning (and as itappeared afterward,
was the signal for the Indians to commence
the fight, when instantly from four
to five hundred Indians opened fire upon
everybody and everything within their
reach, aud the whites fell in every direction
Spencer was hit in the right arm, then in the
breast, the ball striking q rib and glancing
OFF; then In the abdomen, tearing open the
flesh and making frightful wound. He
staggered to the stairs, closed the door after
him and barred it, crawledup to the floor and
threw himself upon bed, while below he
could hear the crack of the Indian rifles, the
horrible yels of the warriors, and the groans
of the dying. All was in terrible state of
confusion. In the room in which he lay
were guns and ammunition, and this the In
dams knew, so they dared not venture as
they were well aware that Spencer could dis
nufn the nsssape of the stairway and fhav