St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-06

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DO they work? Have they bodies? How
IS 1t possible among all the crowd OF bill
ions for one to find his relatives and
friends? How can they all nestle in Abra-
MANS bosom? The dead must exceed many
times the living, and there are now on the
earth at least 900 900 600: and it puzzles
the thinking mind to know where they are
ana Wilat tiey are doing. One is impressed
with these thoughts by the fact that less
IMAM one year ago the writer commenced
his Pen Pictures and since then eighteen
old settlers have gone to Join that great
crowd beyOnd-where?
JAMES GILFILLAN.
Chief Justice Gilfian of the surname
court of the state of Minnesota was born in
| Scotland in 1929. and emigrated to New
York in infancy, where he received an aca-
demic education; studied law at Ballston
Spa and Buffalo, and was admitted to the
bar at Albany in 1850; came to st. Paul in
1857 and Immediately commenced the prac-
tice Of his profession. In 1862 he enlisted in
Company IL. Seventh regiment, and was
commissioned captain in August of that
year; served with the regiment in its Indian
campaigns, and afterwards at the South, at
Tupelo Tallahatchee in pursuit of Gen.
Price, and in other battles and
campaigns. On the 18th of September,
1862. he was promoted to colonel Of the
| Eleventh Minnesota; commanded that until
mustered out in June, 1865: in 1869 was ap-
| pointed chief Justice OF the state OF Mime
sofa; again appointed in 1875. and elected
| the same year for the full term OF seven
years. Judge Gilfillan is large man, who
walks very straight, and is naturally very
reticent and somewhat reserved, yet he is
good lawyer and has made an excellent
chief justice. Perhaps | cannot portray
his character any better than to say that he
is solid man; solid in looks. solid in move
ment; solid in thought, solid in his decisions,
and, withal is solid citizen. He moves i'll
his own individual sphere and keeps his own
counsel; is quiet and undemonstrative, and
confines himself to his peculiar profession.
EDWARD L. ALLEN.
Some men slip along through life quietly
and pleasantly, with no trouble no sorrow,
no miShaps, while others are doomed to
mlStortunes OF the most overpOWering and
OF the most aggravating character. Why
this is so | cannot divine and especially is
this unaccountable to me in view of the
fact that those people who have the most
trouble and the most sorrow are usually
the best The wicked flourish like "a
green bay tree" money flows into their
Golfers and material success attends their
efforts, but the honest, hard working,
which crush him to the earth. We all hope
that there is just and merciful being, but
sometimes our faith is greatly shaken when
we see innocence suffer and good men weep
over Affections brought upon them by no
act of their own. The most analytic and
the most metaphysical thinker can't answer
satisfactorily the question-''why? while
the bare facts stare us in the face from
thousand sources.
Mr.. Allen is a small but very active man;
full of hope, of energy and of grit He has
been constantly in active business since he
came West, some tWenty-eight years ago,
and there seems to be no let up to his un-
firing efforts. and yet during those twenty
eight years he has seen sorrow enough to
put an ordinary man inside of the walls of
an insane asylum. Hope, or faith, or some
thing else has kept him up, and he con-
tinues his round of years, now and then
peering out into the future to catch a
glimpse of the loved ones gone before. He
was born in Connecticut in 1929, where he
was educated and where he worked on q
farm until he was 81 years old, and then
entered a store in Fishkill, n. Y, as
clerk and subsequently clerked in Newburgh
for two years; came to st. Paul in 1857 en-
tered the dry goods establishment of D. w.
Ingersoll, and after serving in the capacity
of employees twelves months, became partner
and remained in the business up to 1860,
when he removed to Minneapolis and
opened large dry goods house there. and
| the respective firms were Allen & Howe,
Allen 81 Fletcher, E. L. Allen. Allen q
Brakeman. He bought out Brakeman i'll
1875 and the firm became E. J.. Allen. The
year previous he built business block near
Nicollet avenue. and was so prosperous in
his affairs that he had property all over
the city.
TERRIBLE AFFLICTIoN.
Just in the height of his prosperity that
terrible disease diphtheria, entered
his household in the year 1874 and his wife
and child died in one week. and from the
18th of May to the oath of the same month
four of his family died and were buried
all from the same disease.
DEPRESsED-sOLD OUT.
Disheartened, he sold out his business;
hard times came; his property slipped
away from him and he decided to move to
ST. Paul. Before matters could be CONSUME
mated, his oldest and only daughter was
taken sick with the typhoid fever and laid
down the burden of life in 1880. and in 1881
he again became a resident of this city,
where he has remained ever since. For
several years he has acted as agent for
| Bradner, Smith g. Co., but is now in bust
ness for himself. The property he lost in
Minneapolis is now worth from $3.50, 900 t.
5000, 900, but he still trudges on, hoping
unto the end.
ROBERT L. WHARTON.
! Mr.. Wharton was born in Pennsylvania
in 1927; educated there and learned the
trade of a carriagemaker; removed to Della
ware, where he remained one year; re-
turned to Pennsylvania and carried on the
| orr;o
to St. Paul in 1857; opened shop on Rob-
! ert street for the manufacture of carriages,
and then removed to Jackson street,
where he continued the business on large
scale until about two years since, when he
commenced dickering in real estate. placing
mortgages, etc. Like almost everybody
else who came here in early days, Mr. Whar-
ton has seen severe times, but he has paid
up nearly all his Indebtedness at the rate Of
one hundred cents on the dollar.
He is a prompt quick-motioned man:
sensitive, and has struggled manfully
through years of adversely, but never lets
go his grip. The black hair and black
whiskers of over quarter of century ago
have turned gray, and the once healthy COM
plexion now bears the autumnal tints OF
age, still MI. Wharton tolls on, retaining
his old time independence and the hopeful
ness of the true philosopher.
| INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC INTRODUCED.
Notwithstanding 1857 was noted forsits
| failures, its depreciation III real estate, its
scarcity of money. its gloom distress and
general Infringing of business, yet it was
the year when the Munger brothers, from
New Haven, Conn.,, arrived and introduced
] four musical instruments. upon which they
PLAYED some elegant music. The fiddle
| had previously been the great musical in