The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-02
MINNESOTA MILLIONAIRES.

The Secretary of the Minneapolis
Real Estate Board has been looking
over the list of Millionaires as com
piled by the New York Tribune and he
finds the list to be practically correct.
He also found that large majority of
them either made the greater share of
their fortune, or added largely there
toby dealing in real estate. This
discovery will have a tendency to
wound the feelings of the free traders
who, although they have never made
thorough investigation into the
matter, have been very positive that
the greater share of the millionaires
of this country have been the direct
result of the protective policy. To
prove false this idea upon the very
eve of a political campaign and show
to the world that the great majority
of something over four thousand
millionaires of the United States
gathered their wealth in unprotected
industries is indeed the height of
cruelty. But the then free trad
er is getting use to being pounded by
facts and he will probably survive.
The Secretary of the Minneapolis
Real Estate Board also finds that there
are eighty-nine milliOnaires in Mime
sofa. Whether the list he has pre-
pared is absolutely correct or not, the
FREE PRESS does not know, but gives
them as published in the Minneapolis
Tribune. Forty-four of them he locates
in Minneapolis, as follows:
b. W. Brown, H. C. Akley, estate of Joseph
Dean. L Menaae, Thomas Lowry, P B Win
ston, 7 Walker, John Z Oswald, L NJ Stew
art, II Brown, Goodrich, s G Cook, 81
Thompson, Il Mcknight, John Ms rtin, estate
OF A Sawyer, Geo III Christian, w Benton,
L Gilfllan, w johnson, w II Dunwoody, C
Prior, Welles F II Peavy, w W Eastman
H G Sldle. estate OF c Washburn, Geo New
ell, Levi L Cook, d Morrison, Clinton Morrison
estate of William McNair. J W Pense. John s
Pillsbury, Geo A Pillsbury, T Casey, Peter
wolford, II Linton, Richard Chute, H letch-
err F. G.. Winston, Chas. A. Pillsbury, Samuel
c. Gale, r. B. Langdon.
ST. Paul is credited with the follow
ing
Frederick Weyerhauser, R Jefferson, H P Up
ham, james HILL Mrs; James Hill, estate
Norman, Il Kittson, William Dawson, Crawford
Livingston, d Shepard, Peter Stems, Dennis
Ryan,A Wilder, c w Griggs, Ansel Oppenheim
B Stickney Samuel MayalI, w r Merriam,
III Kelly, ID Gilfllan, estate f Drake, Theo-
dore l. Schurmeier, Col. John Merriam estate
Horace Thompson, estate Henry Hale, estate
Conrad Gotham, estate w F Davidson, Charles
E DeGraff, estate of William Lindeke.
While around the state he found
the following scattered.
Rochester, George W VanDusen. Red Wing,
James Lawther: st. Cloud, n Clark; Still
water, Isaac Staples, Jacob Bean, estate of Sam
uel Hersey; Winona, Fl W Lamberton, Simp-
Duluth, Joseph Sellwood, A NJ Miller, John ID
Howard Luther Mendenhall; Mankato, John A
Willard r D Hubbard.
And it might here be added that
while these eighty-nine men have
been successful by their thrift and
industry in gathering together large
fortunes, it has been period of unex-
ampled prosperity for the people of
as whole. Thousands
have gathered unto themselves COM
petence, and the number of homes
owned by workingmen is ever on the
increase, while everywhere the people
indulge in comforts and luXuries that
twenty or twenty-five years ago were
deemed within the reach of only the
very wealthy.