The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-18
GEORGE A. pILLSBURY DEAD
PROMINENT AMONG THE CITI-
ZENS OF. MINNEAPOLIS
He Held Many Positions of Trust,
10th Political and Commercial,
and WIS Associated With the De-
veiopment of the City Which
Was His Adopted Home.

The death of George A. Pinsbury oc-
CURED at 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing at the family residence, 225 Tenth
street south, Minneapolis. from old age.
The deceased was nearly eghty-two
years DID, and for some time before mis-
death was in feeble state.
The funeral services will be held
Tuesday afternoon from the residence.
Mr.. PillSbury has for many years
been prominent in the affairs of this
city and was one of the most influ-
entail business men, having amassed
a considerable estate. 1t is understood
that he leaves large legacy to Pills
bury academy. Owatonna.
George Alfred Piilsbury born Aug. %.
1876 at Sutton n. H. He married Margaret
ough common school education. and at the
age of IS secured employment with a grocer
Boylston market, Boston. After a years time
he returned to Sutton, and engaged in the
manufacture of stoves end sheet-iron ware
with a cousin, John c. Pillsbury. Feb. 1, 1915
he removed to Warner. becoming a clerk In
the store of John w. Pearson, and soon after
wards purchased the business, and continued
II for nearly eight years. In November 1851
Mr.. Pillsbury received from the Concord rail-
ROAD corporation an appointment purchas-
ing agent CT the read. and removing to Con-
cord, entered upon his duties in December
and continued in the same position for nearly
twenty -four years. In 1864 Mr. Pillsbury with
others. organized and put in operation the
First National bank. of Concord. He was a
member of the board of directors. and in 1865
became its president. and continued in that
office until his departure from the state. He
was also instrumen al in procuring the charter
bank. in 1867.
Mr.. Pillsbury was sixty-two years of age
when he settled in Minneapolis. With an
ample fortune, lucrative business, and
record OF over forty years Of active business
70 habit hr, a;,,+ all i,x,z
ceHciuded that the time had come when he
could enjoy in retirement the fruits OF his
industrious life. But the event proved that
he had only entered wider field of oppor-
tunity. and his indomitable energy declined
no call TO labor or service. Municipal Of
fees, financial boards. charitable church and
trusts were thrust upon him. while the cur
rent OF private benevoence flowed in a
steady but enlarged stream.
Soon after his arrival in MINNEAPOLIS he was
made member of the board of education
and was elected to the city council of which
he became president. In 1884 he WIS nomi-
mated by the Republican city convention
as its candidate for mayor. A popular Dem
ocrat had long been at the head of the city
government, and vehement pubic sentiment
called for change. 1t seemed 'for-orn
hope Mr. Pillsbury being pitted against
the mayor then in office. This canvass was
brief but energetic. on DO h sides. Mr. Pills
bury being elected by 5000 majority. His
administration Of the city government was
characterized by devotion 20 detail economy
In expenditure. and rigid control of unruly
elements. Not the least pleasant feature of
MS puohc duties was the graceful manner
IN which he received and welcomed the citv's
guess. AS mayor he was ex-oficio mem
peT or the board of park commissioners and
of wfter works board, as well as head of the
police department. The ancestral motto of
the famrW found in him truthful EXPO
neIS. LaboEs. constant and concentrated. con-
uuered ell.
Among the corporate and quasi pubic
trusts which he has filled are president OF
Of trad NJ ha hon
pitai, of the free dispensary. chamber Of com
merce, PillsSury and Eurlbut Elevator com
rs9ay ". vice president of he Minnesota Loan
and Trust company, direct6r ard president Ct
the Northwestern National bank, director of
the Manufacturers National bank, of the Min
neapolis Elevator c2mpany and of the North
western Guaranty Lam company
He has also served as president of tae St.
Paul and Minneapolis Baptist union, of the
lee OF the Chicago university and in 1882
lat the annual meeting of the American Bap-
fist union. he was elected its president This
organization has its headquarters is Bostoa
and has charge of all the foreign missionary
work of all the Northern and some Of the
southern stsces. distributing annually nearly
$5OpCGp for mission work in foreign fields b.
the Baptist church
In 1885 Mr.. Pillsbury was chairman Of tie
committee to build the Minneapolis Chamber
OF commerce. one of the finest buildings of
Its kind in the Northwest and in which more
actual wheat is bought than in any other
was chairman of the building committee OF
the First Baptist Church of Minneapolis. in
the erection of the third ediice for thar
church, which, when completed, was the larg-
est and most costly church building of any
denomination west OF Chicago.
The Minnesota academy, located at Owa-
tonna, MIMI. school opeAn to all, but un-
der patronage Of the Baptist state convention,
has been beneficiary OF Mr.. Plllsbury's
bounty In 1856 he built. at cost of $50 00O
a ladies' boarding hall. In recognition of this
magnificent gift the legislature changed the
name CT the institution to Pillsbury academy
Three years later the academy was again
favored by its generous patron by the erection
at cost of $40, co., of a academic build
ing. He also contributed $4,000 towards the
endowment fund.