St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-08

L. Becker. Morton S. Wilkinson, Henry
IL. Moss and perhaps one or two others,
but none Of these gentlemen can be said
to be i'll the active practice of their pro-
fesSion, they all having either retired
or gone into some other business. Judge
FlaAdfAn came to Minnesota five years
before the state was admitted into the
Union, and has been continuously in
practice ever since, with brief eXcep-
tons when he was called to official po-
SitiOnS by the United States and the
state Of Minnesota, and is now the head
of the law firm of Flandrau, SQuires 81
CutcheOn. one Of the leading firms of
the state, and he now fills the honorable
position OF president of the Bar asSOcia-
ton.
Judge Flandrau was born in the city
0f New York Oh July ID, 1928, but was
Amoved to the District of Columbia in
.arly infancy, where he was reared
until he arrived at the age of thirteen
years, when, like most boys who have
active temperaments. he conceived de-
sire to go to sea. Being too young to go
into the navy as midshipman, which
position was offered to him by the secre-
tary of the navy, he shipped before the
mast in the United States revenue serv-
Ice, and remained therein for two years.
afterwards making several short voy-
ages III the merchant service. Having
arrived at the age OF sixteen, he decided
to abandon the sea and seek other en-
plOyment and adventure, which he
found i'll the city of New York, in the
not very exciting occupation of mahOg-
any saving. Although this work lacked
the element of adventure, it was inter-
estlng and instructive, and engaged the
attention of young Flandrau until be
reached the age Of eighteen. when he
entered the law Office of his father in
WhitesbOro, Oneida county, New York,
and commenced the study Of the law.
None OF his early Wanderings we're
Occasloned by necessity, but arose Ell
tlrely from his great desire to see the
outside world and prove his ability to
take care Of himself His mother was
the sister of Gen. Alexander Macomb,
who was cOmmander-in-chief of the
United States army, and in command at
The battle Of Plattsburg in the war of
1912, and his father was one of the first
lawyers of New York, having for many
years been the law partner of the cele-
DRAFTED Aaron Burr, then practicing in
the city of New York; in fact, his early
career was III opposition to the wishes
Of his family, who we're always amply
able to support and educate him.
AT the age of twenty-one he was ad-
mitted to practice in New York, and
formed a partnership with his father,
praeuicing at Whitesboro until the year
1858. when his adventurous spirit again
becoming uppermost, he, in company
with Horace II. Bigelow, of Utica, emf
grated to the West. Having no definite
destination in view. he visited Illinois,
al
admitted 10 the bar of that state by
Judge Cation, an old friend and cotem-
porary of his father. Wandering West,
he visited Davenport, in Iowa, but de-
Gliding to see the end of it, he came up
the river to st. Paul, arriving on Nov. 8,
1853; the steamboat being frozen in that
night, he and his companion were COM
PEELED to remain, as there were in those
days no other mode of transportation
than the river.
The young gentlemen set UP a law
Office in st. Paul in a day or two, where
Mr.. Bigelow has remained ever since.
Not SO with Mr.. Flandrau; before the
winter was over he had engaged to ex-
plore the Minnesota valley, and soon
after located at Traverse des Sioux.
then an Indian trading post and mis-
Sionary station. Here he remained for
eleven years, enjoying during this
period the confidence of the federal
and state governments by being called
to several very important official posi-
tons by both. In 1856 he was appoint
ed by the president United States In
dian agent for the Sioux of the Missis-
sippl, the most important Indian agency
then in the United States. In 1857 he
was elected to the constitutional con-
vention, and while member of that
convention he was appointed associate
Justice OF the supreme court of the ter
TItory, which latter office he held until