The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-05-03
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cHAs. r.. FLANDRAU.
Chas. f. Flandrau. candidate for al
derman at large, was born July Is,
1928. IN New York city. His life has
been filed with many stirring and ro-
mantle Incidents. In the latter part OF
November of 1853 Mr.. Flandrau, in
company with Horace f. Bigelow
landed in st. Paul, where they imme-
diately opeued a law Office on Third
street under the firm name Of Blgelow
& Flandrau. At that early day the
practice of law IN Minnesota was neither
arduous nor specially remunerative,
therefore most lawyers found them
selves with more or less time OH their
hands. 1t 50 happened that during the
winter Of 1884 certain capitalists in
st. Paul engaged the services OF MIR.
Fiandrau to make explorations Ill the
Minnesota valley and negotiate for the
purchase Of property connected there
with. and especially of tbs Captain
Dodd claim at Rock Bend, now St.
Peter. His report was favorable to the
purchase, and he was so impressed with
the prospective advantages of the coun-
try that he decided to locate in the
valley himself. St. Peter was then I'm
known. Traverse DIES Sioux was the
only settlement in The vicinity, and
consisted Of few Indian traders asd
their attaches aud a number OF mission
aries. Here he located. Here he met
Stewart 3. Garvie. Scotchman. who
had just been appointed clerk of the
district court OF 4Nicollet county by
| Judge Chatheld. and occupied an office
with him. AS may we'll be imagined,
law business was exceedingly limited,
out it grew better with the opening OF
the season or 1854. when immigration
began to pour into the Minnesota val
lev. He first entered political life IN
1855. having been elected In the fall of
| that year as member OF the territorial
| council.
Ha resigned in 1856 owing to the
pressure o. other duties. and on the l6th
Of August, the same year. be was ap-
pointed by President Fierce United
States agent for the Sioux Indians of
the Mississippi. He resigned, however,
in 1857 and was thereafter elected a
member OF the constitutional conven~
tion presided over by Hon. Ell. Ell. Sibley
July IL, 1857. Mr.. Flandrau was ap
pointed by President Buchanan asso
ciate justice Of the supreme court OF the
territory Of Minnesota. On the 25th OF
October, 1853. he was appointed by Gov.
Sibley judge advocate general of the
state of Minnesota. AT the Democratic
convention held In 1857 for the nomi-
nation Of state officers, he was nomi-
mated as associate justice Of thesupreme
court for the term of seven years and
was elected, and for nearly seven years
following his whole time and attention
were given to the new and arduous
duties which he had undertaken.
1t was in the summer of 1852 that the
most exciting and absorbing event in
the life of Judge Flandrau and Of the
history of the state occurred. On the
eighteenth of August of that year,
without warning, like thunderbolt
from clear sky. the news was flashed
over the state that the whole tribe OF
Sioux Indians were on the warpath,
and unfortunately massacreing men,
women and children on the frontier.
The news Of the outbreak reached
Judge FIandrau at his residence in
Traverse DIES Sioux, at four o'clock in
the morning Of the nineteenth of
August, by a carrier who had been sent
from New Ulm. a German town distant
about thirty-two miles from Traverse.
Approaching the situation instantly.
he put all his women and children into
a wagon, and Instructed them to dy to
Che Mississippi river at st. Paul or
Minneapolis, which were about ninety
miles distant, and there await events.
This done preparations for the d.
fence were instantly made, Judge Flan-
drau proceeding to st. Peter, where he
ORGANIZED q company of over 100 men.
On the formation Of the company he
was made its captain. He FASTENED to
place the men under his command
under the best discipline attalnable,
and spent the time between the day of
his arrival and the next Saturday, being
the twenty third Of August. in strength.
enlng the defenses of the town. On
the morning OF the enty.third, the
lIndians who had been besie1Jng Fort
Rldgley abandoned their attempt on
that post and attacked New Uim in full
force They had about six hundred
and 6fty men. all we'll armed with rifles,
while the defenders Of New Ulm did
not muster more than three hundred
men. the large majority OF whom were
armed with shotgdns. The Indians
were finally defeated. This was I'M