St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-02

| ago. He was president of the town council
OF st. Paul before st. Paul was city; was a
member of the legislature for two terms, and
| city clerk for two years. He was United
States consul at Tehuantepec, Mexico: was
appointed by President Lincoln, without
| solicitation, and held the Office for several
years. He was also lawyer and land agent,
and in early days was quite prominent.
PERSONAL.
| Mr.. Lott is a small, modest, retiring, gray
headed old gentleman, who appears like one
who had let go his hold on the affairs of life
or, rather, like one who didn't care
whether school kept or not. He is kind and
polite, and we never saw him outS of tenn
per. In the early days he was as active as
any one could be in all matters that con-
cerned the city, as the various offices he held
fully attest. He is unselish-not selfish
enough for his own good. He shrinks from
contact with the world, when he ought, with
well directed blow. to hit the world between
the eyes; but Lott won't do this, so we eX-
| pect he will continue on in the even tenor
| OF his way" until gathered in by the reaper
Death. Of late years his health has not
been good, and yet we meet him almost daily
| upon the street, and the same pleasant, smil-
ing face, and the same kind hearted gentle
man of the past, is equally the same kind
hearted gentleman Of to-day. He is fifty
eight years old.
THOMAS BARTON.
Mr., Barton was born in Ohio, in 1910; was
a millwright by trade, and put in the first
water wheel in one of the mills at st. Anthony
falls. He came to st. Paul to reside in 1913,
and purchased several acres on Phelan creek,
near where Bilansh lived; sold this property
| for $500; worth now 100000; removed to
the flats of West st. Paul in 1S49 or 80,
where he laid claim to 100 acres; sold them
for 81, 500-worth now, in view of new
railroads, at least prospectively, $500, 900!
He then purchased IA acres on the Fort road,
for $780, where he lived many years, and
died in 1882 aged seventy-two His prop
erty on the Fort road, is well worth $1,000
per acre, which would have made his first pur-
chase worth near S150,000 OF the original
estate, however, there are only about twenty
acres left, which, on his death fell to his chill
| dren, Mrs. Barton having died some years
before. Mr.. Barton dealt in stock, mostly
horses and furs. He was tall, well-made
man; slow in his movements and in his con-
versation, but honest in his dealings. He
| lived plain, frugal life; hated ostentation
and chung to the old ideas of the past.
| w. T. Barton, his oldest son, now aged 35
years, was born in this city, but has of late
years made Montana his home. Rudolph,
his next son, is dentist. All of the girls
are married but one, who resides with her
| brother.
| WILLIAM D. PHILLIPS.
| Chilly Phillips" was well known among
| all the old settlers, for he had marked pecu-
| liarities which distinguished him above all
other men. He was born in Maryland. and
was lawyer by profession. Although made
butt of in the day in which he lived, yet
he was man of considerable ability. He
was passionately fond of speaking, and if he
had been duly appreciated, no doubt he
would have left a better record behind
him. The only trouble with Phillips was, he
practiced too often at the ''bar," and he
| seemed to be more spiritually inclined than
his associates, and in view of the great lati-
tude of these early days, that is saying a
good DEAL
SIN 1S49, H. NJ. Rice, gave, without con-
| sideration, to Billy D. several lots, one on
upper Third street, about square below the
American house. Mr.. Rice told him to make
| out the deed and he would
sign it, which was done. But be it recorded
as an instance of mean ingratitude, that
Billy subsequently brought claim against
Mr. Rice, of So, and Mr. R. paid it, One lot
Phillips sold in 1852, for s6OO.'
EDWIN A. C. HATCH.
To write about st. Paul and not mention
Mr.. Hatch, would be like playing Hamlet
with Hamlet left out, for he was
among the very earliest men
who attracted the writer's attention
away back thirty-two years ago. There was
something peculiar and striking
about the man, which at once
arrested the attention OF everybody, and
his long familiarity with western life made
him valuable companion. He was born in
New York, 1885, came to Minnesota in 1S43,
and st. Paul in 1S4S. He was largely en-
gagged in the Indian trade throughout the
northwest, and understood the charac-
| ter of the savages as well as
any man living. He was at one
| time agent of the Blackfeet tribe, very cruel
and war-like people, but he held them
in check, and though often narrowly escap-
ing with his life, conquered them. 1t is re-
lated of him that once when the Indians at
/ tempted to appropriate goods without his per-
mission, he coolly opened key of powder
lighted his pipe and told them to go ahead,
and they went ahead, but it was good way
in advance of the powder. Indians
don't like thunder storms of this
character All the old Minnesota soldiers
remember 'Hatch's Battalion Well, he
was major of this battalion in 1868, and
held in check the hostile Indians on our
frontier, for about one year, when he re.
signed.
BAGGED HIS GAME.
When stationed at Pembina, he found
that two of the notorious chiefs who had
taken prominent part in our Indian massa-
Gre, were over the border in Canada
Of course they could not be taken the other
side of the line, so he employed strategy in
the shape of copious rations of fire-water, and
when Mr. Indians became gently impressive,
| they were bound to dog sleds, and the next
morning Shakopee and Medicine Bottle woke
up to find themselves within the boundary of
the United States. They were heldin bondage
for some time at Fort Smelling, and were finally
hung at that place in 1865. Among other
crimes committed by these ferocous Indians,
it is alleged that one of them seized an in
FAINT, crowded itinto the oven of hot stove.
and held the mother tightly in his grasp until
it was roasted.
HIS PERSONALITY.
Major Hatch was an ordinary sized man.
straight as an arrow, with a complexion quite
| ford. He was always cool, digniied, some
what reserved, yet pleasant. Some years ago
ne purchased thirty acres of land on the bluff
overlooking the city, now The
property of Mr. Nettleton, for which he paid
about $40 per acre. He then built a very
fine house upon the premises, and finally
sold the property to the present owner. What
Major Hatch then paid $40 per acre for is
now worth $50, 900, or 81, 900 per acrel A
few years before he died, he was in the en-
ploy of the Manitoba Railroad company. He
was kind-hearted gentleman, an affections