The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

Col. Charles ]. Monfort, president Of
the Windsor hotel company, who suf
fered stroke of apoplexy March 81,
died at 9 o'clock yesterday morning.
Although Col. Monfort had not been
in good health for upwards of a year,
he had developed no serious symptoms.
March 10 he was attacked by pleurisy,
which changed a few days later into
pneumonia. But by the morning of
Thursday, March 81, he had practical
ly recovered. His physician, DR..
Charles A. Wheaton, said that morn
ing:
The colonel will be up and at work
next Monday" Within three hours,
however, the sick man was stricken
with apoplexy. He became uncon-
scious.
Except for brief moments, at long in
tervals, he remained unconscious until
his death. April 2, when his sister,
Mrs. J. K. Keyes, of Oneonta, N. Y,
reached his bedside, he recognized her
and spoke her name. These were his
only ineligible words in the ten days
of hopeless struggle during which his
vitality surprised his medical attend
ant.
The funeral will take place at 2:3O
o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the
apartments of Col. Monfort's sister,
Mrs. John Summers, at the Windsor
hotel. The St. Paul lodge of Elks and
the Junior Pioneers association. Of
which societies Col Monfort was an
influential member, will each attend
the funeral in a body. Gov. Van SAINT.
upon whose staff Col. Monfort held the
rank of brigadier general will be pres
emf with the staff. Members of the city
Workhouse board, of which Col Mon
fort was president, will attend. The
interment will be at Oakland.
The honorary pallbearers will be
Howard Estes, o. o. Cullen, John Fitz-
gerald, Charles w. Copley. Joseph
Jockey, Henry P. Upham, Robert A.
Smith, DR.. A B. Ancker. The active
pallbearers will be John E. King, DR..
F. E. Walsh, William P. Hayes, repre-
sent1ng the Elks, and Henry Haas, P.
j. BOwlin and Philip Justus, represent
Ing the Junior Pioneers.
Was of French Origin.
Col. Monfort was sixty three years
old, having been born March 16. 1841,
at Colchester, Delaware county. New
York. His family, as the name sug-
gests, was of French origin. On the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes the
MonfOrts, like many other Huguenots.
fed to Harlem. About 1850 Pierre
Monfort and his four sons went from
Harlem to the present site of Trenton,
n. j., where the father had secured a
large tract of land. Later in the eight
zenith century Abram Monfort, eldest
son of Pierre, removed to the state of
New York
Charles j. Monfort attended school at
Of age he followed his brother, Delos
A. Monfort, to Minnesota Delos had
reached st. Paul in 1857, and when
Charles arrived here three years
later, his brother was cashier of the
Peoples bank, predecessor of the Sec
ond National bank AS a clerk in this
institution Charles Monfort found his
first local employment. He remained
at the bank until 1868. But during the
Sioux outbreak of the previous year he
early exhibited his public spirit by
Joining party that went out to Fort
Ripley for the purpose of fortifying
that post against an expected attack
by Holein- the Day.
In 1853 young Monfort became clerk
to Maj. Phinney, paymaster of the De-
partment of Dakota. During his three
years of service with the regular es-
Establishment" Mr.. Monfort passed
some months in the South, where he
became incapacitated through repeat
ed attacks of rheumatism.
Went Into Grocery Business.
AS soon as he had regained his health
he organized, with his brothers as ST.
lent partners, the firm of Monfort &
Co, which opened fancy grocery
store in the old Rogers block, Third
street, above Bridge Square. A branch
store was maintained for a short time
at Seventh and Jackson streets. The
firm style changed subsequently to
Monfort Brothers. Within a few years