The Saint Paul globe., 1898-08-14
ihENGE ssssfDlEss. FINAL YRsNi,
THE PASSING or 4 PReTGElNEslgr
EIENlgEA2eLES nIAM

5dentiied With. the Tissssncial Mds-
tory OF the City, and President
During His Active BUSINESS Ca
reer os the First National ~I;ansS
-Deasl, After am Illness OF onls-
Three elss-asSnneapolis News.
r MlNNEAPOIFs, Aug. 1S.--This aft
erpoon at , o'cl@ctS occurred the death
of Henry G. Side, at his residence
An the Colonial eats, Eighteenth street
ard Park avenue. The afiliction which
carried hiha away was Inflammation
OF the bowels. Mr.. Side was a man.
advanced in years, but his constitution
ard health had borne him along with
less suffering than usually falls to men
of his age, and it Was some surprise
that he sUcculnbed to this attack. He
had been sick less than a week.
His wife and some of the members
OF his family We're present at his bed;
side as he bi'eathed his last. He leaves
two sons. both of.whom are very we'll
known in Minneapolis, Charles and
Henry X. Sidle.
The announcement of the funeral
services will be made later.
Henry Godfrey Sidle was bonn at York. Pa.
July % 1922. lie was the youngest of three
sons born 10 Henry and Susannah K,cts
Side. His great grandfather, Godfrey Sidle,
whose Rame he bears, was native OF Ham
burg Germany, whence he emigrated to this
country, in the early part of the last ceu-
tury. His grandfather served in the army
of the Revolution. Henry Side learned the
trade of a blacksmith, but engaged in mer-
chandise. to which he trained his sons. Henry
had the advantage of the public schools of
York, and at the age of II was taken INTO
his father relinQuished the business to his
two sons, j. X and Henry. who conducted
,sNs,, I,.,.tn
Like many ambitious young men they be
came dissatisfied with the limitations of an
Eastern town, though so thr wing one as was
York, and in 1851 j. X. 3 die made tour
through the West. In Minneapolis he found
conditions and prospects wnicn satisfied him.
and determined to locate here. He had as
sociated with him Peter Woford. wealthy
= capitalist of York county. They opened "a
private banking house yuader the style o.
OF the Nicollet house, the firm took one of
the office on the ground floor, fronting Wash
Years. Years Henry continued to carry on the store
at York until 1863 when the business was
sold, and Henry Joined his brother in Mime
apolis, and entered the banking firm, in
which, however, he had had an interest
In 1866 the banking firm of Side, Wolford
& Co. was dissolved Mr.. Wolford engaging
in other business. The Side brothers now
organized bank. under ate charter, with
the name of Minneapolis bank, with capi-
tai stock of $4,000. 1t issued circulating
notes and carried on a regular banking bust
ness J. X. Sidle was president and H. e.
. Sidle was cashier When the national bank
ing system established, the First Ma
| tional Bank OF Minneapolis was organized in
1865 and the business of the Minneapolis
bank transferred to it. 1t the continual
tion of the old bank under new name, with
the same capital. officers and business.
The bank was very successful at the star.
and has always enjoyed the fullest confidence
of the community. The capital was success
fully increased as its enlarging business re-
quired to $l00,0O0. s40GQC0 600, and final
ly, about 1879 to $4,000 While the bank
was always managed by the Sides. so that it
was fam:liarly spoken of as Sides bank, 1t
had nevertheless a substantial board of di-
rectors, who represented in the fullest degree
the conservative and substantial element Of
business in Minneapolis.
Upon the death OF j. X. Side, in 1885, the
board of directors unanimously elected H. g.
Side to tn presidency, and appointed his two
sons Henry X. and Charles X, cashier and
|. assistant cashier.