St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05

j. p. LEITNER.
A short, thick-set, chubby man is Mr..
Leitner, who was formerly printer, but
who kept cigar store for many years on
the corner of Third and st. Peter streets.
He was in the Union army, and enlisted in
the Sixth regiment in 1862; was mustered
ont sergeant in 1865: was member of
the fire department in 1860; exempted from
service in 1866; became member of
the U. A. o. ID. in 1865; was
grand secretary of the grand grove;
is member of Ancient Landmark
Lodge No. 5, A. f. and A. NJ, and of
Champion Lodge No. Is, X. of p, holding
the rank of p. c.; held clerkship in the
poStoffice in 1866, and remained there up to
1871; gave up his store in 1885 and was ap-
pointed clerk in the Office of register of
deeds, where he now is. Mr.. Leitner is a
good deal of a quiet politician, and is pc
culiarly noted for his smooth, low-toned
conversation. He is an industrious, unob-
trusive man. Born in Bavaria, Germany,
in 1910, he received good education in the
common schools of Germany, when
he was admitted into the Royal
Bavarian School of Husbandry, which
he left in 1885, in anticipation of emigrating
to America; came to st. Paul in 1856, and
THOSE HoGSi
An old settler, not many years ago, went
into the business of raising hogs, and after
getting together good crop he was obliged
TO drive them east to sell them, as there was
no market at home. OF course the long
journey and expense ate up the profits, and
on his return his neighbor asked him how
much he had made. ''0h," he said, Il
lost money, but then had the company of
the hogsI"
WILLIAM LISDEKE.
The Lindeke brothers have built them
selves up from comparatively nothing to
atfluence, and they deserve all they have
secured, for it has been obtained by honest
labor and strict attention to business. Will
lam was born in Prussia in 1885; received
but limited education; emigrated to Amer
lea III 1854; spent two years in travelling
through the states; came to st. Paul in 1856;
worked as a laborer in the numbering
business for six months and then learned
the trade of a miller, and worked for three
years in the old city mills, and in 1853 was
placed in charge of the milling department
and continued in that capacity up to 1862,
when he rented the mill, purchased the
ground the next year, erected the Union
mills thereon, and kept both in operation
until 1865, when he turned his attention to
his own mills exclusively, assisted by his
brother Frederick, who had had general
charge of the business for some years. In
1871 Mr.. Lindeke became associated with
his brother, A. H., in the mercantile trade,
but in 1881 sold to Lindeke, Ladd ~ Co.,
and since then he has been largely engaged
in the wholesale department. He was
county commissioner for four terms, first
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election.
PERSONALLY.
Mr.. Lindeke is a gentleman of fine ap-
peaTance, with black hair, black ewes and
black whiskers, possessing winning and
pleasant ways, and has an intelligent concep-
ton of human nature. This, with his
natural shrewdneSs and disposition for fair
ness in business has made him good name,
and a good name has won him many
friends. and his many friends have given
him good trade, and a good trade has made
him well off financially.
JAMEsJ. o'CoNNoR.
One who hears of wonderful deeds, on the
part of some wonderful detective, is sur
prised on confronting him to find him only a
man.
"a LITTLE CUSsw
which occurred in my own individual his
tory years ago. The paper l edited was the
organ of the 81, 600, 600 railroad loan bill.
and on submitting the question to the peO-
pie it was Endorsed by popular vote of
is, 600 majority. Immediately afterward
gentlemen from the rural district wanted to
make my acquaintance, and, on being intro
duced, remarked: Il am a good mind TO
knock you downI' ''Why?" | in
quired. because" he said, II took
you TO be six feet tall, but you are
only little cussv' In Imagination
he saw me a large, tall, powerful man.
when, in fact l weighed but ninety-five
pounds, and was small and far beneath his
conception of what | should be for the
amount of work rendered i'm the canvass Just
passed. And so we magnify men by their
deeds, and Mr.. OConnOr comes in for his
share. although he is man of considerable
muscle, though not large and cumbersome.
He was born in Kentucky in 1855, and in
1856 his parents removed to this city with
him, where he received an education. and at
the age of 16 years was employed in the
grocery store of J. 81 NJ. Butler; con-
tinued there until 1872, when he entered
the wholesale grocery house of p. IL.
Kelly, and from that he was appointed de-
very efficient officer. He is cautious, care
full, shrewd, quick, decisive, and with nerve
enough to carry to completion anything be
may undertake.
JOHN o'DoNNELL.
Mr.. O'DOnnell is a native of Ireland.
born about 1880; emigrated to New York
maker in Albany, n. Y: worked at Herki-
q oh
and Willet of Chicago; came to
st. Paul in 1856, and opened a carriage es-
Enlistment on Exchange street, where he
carried on business fifteen years, when. in
1873, he started a livery stable near his old
shops, and ran it up TO about one year ago.
when he became deputy in the sheriff7s
Office, where he now is. He is a small man.
with a round face and ford complexion.
very undemOnstrative, and, like many other
Old settlers, has been on the teen-ter-taun-
ter board of life, now up and now down,
for some twenty-nine year.
D. L. CURTICE.
Mr.. Curtice was born i'm New York. in
1928; was a student of the late Dr. TAYLOR.
deceased; also student with Roscoe
Conkling, Augustus and Frederick Seward.
at the Auburn, n. Y, academy, and was
prepared for college, but abandoned the
idea and took a course in civil engineering:
was in the engineering department on the
first railroad built in Canada West in 1851:
was engineer on the L. o. A. & y. Y. rail-
road from 1852 to 1855; came TO St. Paul in
1856; was with j. A. Case, city engineer.
st. Paul, in 1856 and 1857; was city en-
gineer in 1859; married i'm 1859; i'm 1862
located the st. Paul d Pacific railroad from
Big Lake to st. Cloud; was city engineer
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