The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-12

the Ensuing Year-The Roll of
Members Has Increased to- Total
of 4OO-The business Meeting
Followed by Il banquet, During
which Many Anecdotes Told.
The first annual meeting of the Min
nesota Territorial Pioneers association
convened at the state capitol yesterday
morning. The association has within
the first year of it's existence greatly
increased its membership, having at
present a roll comprising nearly 400
early settlers of the North Star state,
and il is now considered a we'll perfect
ed organization.
The session was taken up entirely by
business matters, which were generally
discussed by the 100 members present
The election of officers resulted in the
choice of the following officials for the
ensuing year:
Judge l.. w Collins, of st. Paul. pres
ident: Ara Barton. Rice county, first
vice president; W. p. Murray, st. Paul,
second vice president; NJ. j. O'Connor
st. Paul, secretary; John o. Stees, ST.
Paul, treasurer.
The election of President Collins and
of the vice presidents was unanimous.
Secretary O'Connor and Treasurer
Stees were reelected to the offices
which they held during the past year.
A number of new members were adj
mitted to the association.
At the conclusion of the business SEES
sion the old settlers adjourned in a
body to the Merchants hotel, where,
about a substantial board, the early
history Of the state was discussed
Judge j. l.. Mcdonald was toastmas-
ter and called upon many of those pres
ent to relate their experience in state
building. The talks were unmarried by
any attempt at formality and the in
cidents recalled or stories related in
sured the congeniality so evidently en-
joyed by the pioneers. 1t was the I'M
folding of history known to none bet
ter than those assembled at the tables,
yet which, retold, kindled anew the
fires of youth and forged closer the
bond which holds together the brave
pioneers who blazed the way for the
builders of the great state of Mime
sofa. The wives of some of the men,
bers also enjoyed the banquet.
Speeches were made by Judge Col
Inns. Ara Barton, Nathan Richardson,
Rev William C. Pope, pastor of the
Church of the Good Shepherd, and
others.
Rev. Mr.. Pope's "reminiscences of the
early days were particularly interesting
on account of their accuracy and the
extensive period covered, dealing as
they did to a great extent with the
lives of those present and other old
settlers familiar to the members Of the
Territorial association. Those present
were:
William c. Pope. St. Paul; George H.
aazzard. St. Paul; Philip Crowley St. Paul
Paul; James Dewitt, st. Paul N. Richard
son, Little Falls; John A. Stees, St. Paul;
O. 7. somett, Minneapolis; Albert Whittier.
Pennington; G.. \. Nash, st. Paul; NJ. ].
OConnor. St Paul; D.. Cavanaugh, Fari
bault; Nicholas Flynn, st. Paul: R. C.
Libby, Hastings; p. H. Smith, St. Paul NJ.
Robert Watson and wife, Minneapolis; Gates
A Johnson, st. Paul; John 7. Ames, North
Geld bd Isaac Line LnGO9 9 St Paul W. H Hoyt
Paul; i. v: collins, S. c:;oud; D. H.
Turner CrOoksO,; G. BE B; Edgertq9 St Pau;
VALLEY; E F; RsrrisfoFd; St. St P-ql
Sueur; Henry Jones. Minneapolis Daniel
Anderson, Cambridge; DIR. j. w. Daniels,
Farihault; F. w. Frink, Farbault; w. G.
Pau; P. L e, st. Paul; Ed win Bell St Pail;
r. L Bailf. Bloomington; j. H. Farrell,
st. Paul; r. ". G. Pease, Minneapolis J.
c. Jensen, St Paul; c. A Boomquist, Min
neapois E. r. Lathrop, Hastings; James
Macdonald, st. Paul; Henry Nipple I'd
Island; B; A. Barnum and wife, St. Pau; p.
John Williams and wife. St. Paul; E. ].
Hodgman, st. Paul; Frank Roberts Ottawa;
w. F Ferguson. Deephaven; N Myerck, St.
P&ul; b. F. Irvine, st. Paul; w. T. Eber-
man. s.. Paul
Rev. DR.. Pope, in response to the
toast The Reason of the Existence of
Dur Association; May 1t Be a Noble
One, and the Members Worthy of Their
High Calling" said:
Aristotle, the prince of them that know.
describes man as a social animal. AS soon
as he is born man becomes a member of
organized society, and before birth
his life is under the protection of law In
order 10 make a man, in the fullest sense of
the word, besides human nature human
environment is required. Mankind does
not live on earth as a lawless mob but
is organized into nations and nations are
subdivided many times, until all reaches
the family and the corporals guard of seven
persons. The instinct with which man is
born compels him to seek the society of his
fellow creatures.
This is the motive cause of the Territor-
ial Pioneers association, and all other So
Men associate themselves together for
mutual enjoyment protection and improv-
ment. So 1t is in the church the state
and innumerable voluntary societies
What is the reason of the particular bond
uniting the different members of this So
historic sense, that he lives not only in
the present, but in the past. He knows him
self TO be an important factor in many tran
sactions in which many persons have en-
gagged. Man is not a being of the present
moment. but knows himself to be the pro-
uucl OF ms past lie.
The life of each of US runs back into
the territorial days of Minnesota. Each one
part and parcel of the body polite of
the territory. May II marks a fact in the
history of the state mindful to each of us.
When the territory entered the Union in
1858 there was a population OF but $50 600.
Today there is a population SO many times
greater that seem but handful Prob
ably not more than 10000 of the terri
torial settlers remain. minority may be
regarded a sign of weakness or a sign
of excellence. We have not organized our
society for the purpose of drawing atten-
possessing something of which others have
not. There are 1900 900 of our population
who are not eligible to this society," Being
part of the advance guard of that grand
army Of civilization which carried the star
of empire westward, and of whom it was
said:
1--WE hear the tread of pioneers,
OF nations yet to be;
The first low wash of waves where soon
Shall roll a human sea.
We deemed 1t proper that the territorial
pioneers of Minnesota they who laid the
Foundation of our magnificent state ard are
bound together by ties of brotherhood and
sympathy, formed and cemented amid the
dangers, trials and pr.va' ions OF frontier life
should, by means of more perfect and fra
ternal organization. be brought more closely
together; and to the end that the memo
rieS and friendships of those early days may
be perpetuated and to assist in the preser-
vstion Of our history covering that period
and for the formation OF a more perfect
union and brotherhood, that this associa-
ton should be organized.
My idea of our association is that 1t should