St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-12

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and pine for scenes which will never come
again. All their bright hopes of early youth
have been dashed to the earth;
all their gay dreams of wealth
have passed away as the morning dews, and
! still they live and are toiling on to the end.
No wonder they think of mothers, of homes,
of childhoods, of the pleasant pleasures in
cident to youth, and in moments of almost
despair murmur:
'sWeary of sowing for others to reap"
Wishing mothers would rock them to sleep.
Oh, how many heart-burns, how many
sad weary hours the young wives OF pioneer
days have endured, waiting, hoping, wish
ing, praying, pleading for the better times
which never come, and yet through those
long years of constant waiting, so hopeful
and so patient Aye, in agony they cry OUT:
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue,
Mother, mother, my heart calls for you.
Many summer the grass has grown green,
! Blossomed and faded, our faces between;
| Yet, with strong yearnngs and passionate pain,
Long 10 night for your presence again.
Come from the silence so long and so deep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep
JAMES NUGENT.
Born in Philadelphia in 1916, Mr.. Nuge MT
came to st. Paul in 1854; served several
years in the fire department; was the first
driver of engine No. 2; was appointed on the
police force in 1872, and has remained there
ever since While in pursuit OF robber he
fell into an excavation in a private alley,
and so injured his arm that 1t
had to be amputated. he now
occupies responsible position on the police
force at the city hall. Mr.. Nugent is fine
| looking man, and a splendid officer ana Is
very generally esteemed by his contemporaries
! on the police force. Had the alley in which
ne met his accident been public highway,
he would have secured several thousand dol
lars damages, as it was not he received but
a moiety of what ne should. He is steady,
sober, industrious man. He married MISS
Julia German, who has had eight
children, six Of whom are living.
j. G. C. RANK.
Mr. Rank was born in Germany in 1882,
and received his educational advantages in
that country; dealt in stock with his father;
came to America in 1852, locating at New
York; removed to st. Paul in 1854; sur
veyed lumber for Thomas Yardley; opened
seed store; became resident Of Mime
apols, where he manufactured brick; moved
to Greenleaf and engaged in mercantile
trade; held the offices of justice of the
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to st. Paul; engaged in the liquor
business; is the inventor of the broad
cast seeder; and finally became the landlord
of the Farmers hotel, in West st. Paul. [
do not know Mr.. Rank personally, but he is
what miners would call "a rustler''-a man
of original ideas and much force of charac-
ter.
JOHN Z. NEWELL.
De- -, IN, RI A nri0
in 1S4S; lived in New York, Rhode Island,
Wisconsin and Chicago three years; came to
St. Paul in 1854; in 1864 began learning the
timers trade; completed it and worked at it
until 1878, when he was appointed on the
police force and has been there ever since,
an efficient officer and good citizen. Mr..
Newell married Miss Mary Dunn of Dakota
county.
WILLIAM GIBs.
Mr.. Giles was born in Germany in 1924;
educated in the old country; came to America
in 1851; worked at his trade as a baker in
New York city; went to Detroit; was en-
ployed by an uncle in the grocery business;
arrived at St Paul in 1854 and engaged for
George Spence, the
FIRST BAKER IN THE CITY,
who was Scotchman and who came here in
1850. Mr.. Spence kept a bakery first
on Eagle street; then removed to the
Seven corners, and here is where Mr.. Giles
went into partnership with him. After
Campbell of Galena, sold the corner lot to
Moore, Spencer 81 Giles moved to Third street,
Il few doors from the corner. Who does not
remember that little old bakery of over a
quarter of century ago, with its pies: and
candies and doughnuts! Then the firm
bought lot on Fourth street,
nearly adjoining the present Winslow
house, once known as Gruber's hotel,
and here in 1856 they built three story brick
building and moved the Eagle bakery into it.
The firm continued up to 1857. when Spence
removed to st. Anthony ana Giles continued
the business up to 1867, when in connection
with the Eagle bakery, he started steam
bakery at the foot of Robert street and took
in Charles Passavant as partner. In 1868,
Mr.. Giles went TO Europe to visit his father,
the firm giving up the Eagle and carrying
on the steam bakery, and represented St
Paul as one Of the sharp shooters, and en-
says the shooting feast was one of the grand
est things he ever witnessed; the dining hall
where the crowd assembled, seating 5000
persons, and dinner was announced by a
call of the bugle; started for home in 1865,
up his steam bakery aud went back to that
on Fourth street.
OFFICES.
Mr.. Giles was alderman in 1866 from the
Third ward to fill out an unexpired term;
was a member of the school board
for three years and a half; was an
active fireman for eight years, and belongs
now to the exempt iremen's department.
He is an old resident; a man of medium
height; quiet in his manner and has seen
much trouble and many changes. He Is the
father of six children-one boy and five
girls and is at present engaged in the real
estate commission business.
THE EARLY SETTLERS.
The early settlers of this city were mostly
French Canadians, but for some cause or
another they began gradually to drop out in
the years lS53-54 and the German element
began to drop in, so that to-
day We see comparatively but few
Frenchmen to Offset large German popula-
ton. This element inaugurated its migra-
ton to st. Paul about the years
1S53-4-5, and numbers probably
now more than oue-third of our
present population, aud a very valuable ac-
QUESTION il is, composing at present some of
its most solid citizens. The Frenchman is
quick, vivacious, nervous, auxioas to rush mat
tiers, while the German is slow, careful, pru-
dent economical, saving, so that the one
race has come TO the front while the other
has scattered and dropped in the rear. The
Swiss-French of esrly days, who settled in
this city, were worthy class of people and l
commend them in the highest degree, but
the sunny climate OF France would not per-
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mate of the Northwest and hence our state
is rapidly filing up with more hardy people
-Germans, Swedes, Scandnavians, etc,
and TINS clnsa the vear 1SSA