St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-28
wears ago. at the age Of 1s wears. he struck

Paul IN 1856; worked that year in lumber
mill. but in 1857 was appointed on the
| police force and served up to 1862, when
| he enlisted in the army, Eighth Minnesota,
| and served to 1865, when he was discharged
on account of disability; on his return to the
city he was reappointed on the police force
and in 1872 was made special detective;
is now captain with detective duties. Mar
ried Miss Herman Brosseau In 1856. Bre-
settle is terror to wrongdoers, and they all
give him a wide berth, as well they may.
JOHN W. BURDICK.
Born of English descent in Connecticut
in 1912, Mr.. Burdick's father moulded
the first clipper ship East and the son drifted
to st. Paul in 1856; removed to Scott
county, where he resided three years: to
Martin county in 1861; engaged in the fur
trade and opened store; enlisted in the
Sixth Minnesota regiment; removed to
Paramount and opened store again; sold
out and travelled two years for III. A.
Bromley of this city; then he became en-
gagged for A. c. Bailey; settled permanently
in St Paul in 1879; was elected secretary and
treasurer of the Bailey Manufacturing COM
pany; was county surveyor OF Martin
county two years and county commissioner
and school superintendent. He is man OF
great energy and good business qualities.
THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.
This immense building was commenced
in 1854. the cornerstone was laid in 1856
and the building completed in 1868. 1t
was originated by Bishop Cretin, who died
before it was finished. 1t was Bishop
Cretin who suggested Rev. John Ireland
for; the ministry. The cathedral was
opened for service On the 18th of June,
1858. and on that day S42S was collected.
On Christmas night 1000 persons attended
mass. The building cost nearly $45, 900.
The Catholic population OF st. Paul is
about 1000.
REIN II. CAPISTRANT
is native of Canada, born in 1887; was
educated in the common schools of MaSsa-
chusetts, and finally graduated from the
college of st. Hyacinthe, Canada; came to
St Paul in 1856; served in the Eighth Min
nesota two and one-half years, and in the
heavy artillery fifteen months; taught
school for Il years; was a farmer for a time;
then abstract clerk and clerk in a dry
goods store; was justice of the peace thir-
teen years and county commissioner six
years. Married Miss Zoe Morisette OF RAM
sey county.
E. H. DEUEL..
A fine man, fine looking, with fine fam
lily, was the old landlord of the Winslow
house as [ knew it in 1854, or thirty-One
years now gone. His pretty girls went out
to battle with life with their male compan-
ions, long time ago, and three OF them
have returned widows. The pleasant and
smooth-faced boys have grown to men
with mustaches and whiskers. The father
and mother are gray, with footsteps feeble.
The old house has gone to ashes. The
trees have been cut down and the
little stream that crossed the road
has been dry these many years. l look for
familiar faces, but they come not. l listen
for dear voices, but all is still. 1 tread the
sidewalk and only the echoes come back
thug. thug, thug, thug! How lonely!
Even the dogs that used to gambol about
the doorway are gone! The old stages that
ratified up to the house to receive passen-
gers have been pushed out on the extreme
frontier by the rapidly multiplying rail
roads, and the old times, and the old build
ings, and the old faces are going-gOing-
going!
Mr. Deuel. was born in New York state
in 1918; came to st. Paul in 1855, and be-
came landlord of the WinslOw house, which
he kept for nearly seven years. 1t stood
on the corner of Third and Fort streets,
(Seyen corners), where Mr.. FOrepaugh's
building now is. He had four girls and
two boys, and left the city in 1862, and is
now, believe. keeping hotel i'll Oswego
county, New York. He was popular
landlord and an excellent good man, and
had very lovely family over quarter of
century ago.
F. A. CARIvEAU,
born in Canada in 1885; was educated and
learned the trade of baker in his native
place and cierked in store for several
years; came to America in 1854 and settled
in Chicago; removed to st. Paul in 1855;
was employed in boot and shoe store
until 1861, when he enlisted in the Fifth
Minnesota regiment; was commissioned
first lieutenant and then captain: returned
to ST. Paul and opened grocery store, and
then connected bakery with 1t, and died
in 1884. His first wife was a daughter Of
Vetal Guerin.
MARK COSTELLO.
Mr. Costello is quiet, unobtrusive, in
dustrious man, who for many years has
been principal contractor and builder in
this city. He was born in Ireland in 1888;
located in Pennsylvania after coming to
America; learned the trade of carpenter
and joiner; removed to ST. Paul in 1856;
has been contractor and builder in this
city for twenty-nine years and has had his
shop on the corner of Market and Fifth
streets for nearly a quarter OF century. lie
is noted for his good work, his upright
character and quiet demeanor.
JOHN DowLAN.
Born in Ireland in 1929; removed to
Canada when young: came TO the United
States in 1850; worked in a shawl and
broadcloth factory in New York; went to
Ohio; spent three years in California in
gold mining; removed to ST. Paul in 1856;
engaged in the wood business and is now
the oldest dealer of wood i'll the city; was
elected street commissioner in 1868, and
served three years; was contractor on the
city water works; elected alderman in
1871: was president of the council in 1881;
reelected alderman in 1884, and still con-
tinues in office. Since 1870 he has
devoted his entire attention to the
wood business He is a man of Or
binary size, of good business habits, an ae
tive member of the Catholic church, has
proved a good alderman, and is quiet,
worthy citizen.
JOHN B. GAUTHIER.
] am trying TO pick up the old stragglers
so to get them all in line at the muster call,
and away back on the road side, sitting on
the green grass and under the shade of an
aged tree, is a somewhat bent form whose
hair is gray and whose eyes are dim. and
who ever and anon mutters to himself,
Eyes, yes: it is long time ago, forty-eight
years, near half a century, since l came
here. Then there was no ST.
Paul; no, no; no whites;
no, no; Indians, elm trees thickly slsirting
the river; teepees, war songs and war
dances; bark! | hear them now! No, no;
only passing thought! Oh, dear, how the
years have fled, and so my children tell me
I'm getting old; guess am" The breeze
comes up from the river, the old man drops