The Irish standard., 1910-05-28
IN A HISTORICAL VEIN
Men From Various Occupations and
Callings in the Lime-Light.
JUDGE Loren w. Collins.

err, Mass, to Minnesota in 1853, set
thing upon a farm in Hennepin coun-
ty. He commenced the study of law
at Hastings, Mimi, in 1850, enlisted
Aug. 9, 1862, in the Seventh Mime
sofa Infantry, became a first lieuten-
ant in January, 1868, was breveted a
captain on March 80, 1865, and was
mustered out with his regiment in
August of that year. While in the
service he commanded the military po-
lice of the city Of st. Louis, about six
months, was q staff officer nearly all
the time that his regiment was in &C.
tive service-a part of the Third Bril-
corps-and became post adjutant at
| Selma, Alabama, in July, 1865.
Soon afterwards he located at St.
Cloud, Stearns county, Mimi, where
he held the Office of county attorney
a number of years and also represent
ed his district in the legislative ses-
sions of 1881 and 1888. On April z,
| 1888, he was appointed district judge
for the seventh judicial district of
ton in November, 1884, and served
until appointed associate justice of the
supreme court of the state on Nov. 16,
1887, by Governor McGill. He was
elected associate justice in 1888, re-
elected in 1894, and again in 1900. He
resigned March 81, 1904, and now re-
sides in the city of Minneapolis.
! Judge Collins has been a member
of the G. A. R. since the year 1868. He
was a charter member of James NJ.
! McKelvey Post, No. 1874, of st. Cloud,
Mimi. and is still affiliated with that
! Post. He was judge advocate gen.
eral, G.. A. R., for the year 1907-S, and
is now commander of the department
of Minnesota. He is now practicing
law, member Of the firm of Collins
& Eaton, with offices in the Security
Bank building, Minneapolis.
Edmund Prendergast.
Edmund A. Prendergast, the general
attorney for the Northwestern Tele-
phone Exchange company, was born
Oct. 16, 1874, in st. Paul, Minn., the
son of Patrick Henry and Bridget
Louise Prendergast. Both parents were
born in Ireland, the mothers maiden
name having been Delaney. The
families on both the paternal and ma
ternal sides settled in st. Paul in
1856, where Mr.. Prendergast's father
was at one time engaged in the news
paper business, and later in the book
and stationery business.
Mr.. Prendergast took the classical
course at the college of st. Thomas,
and later a course in philosophy
in Grand seminary, Montrea,
Can. He then took the law course at
the University of Minnesota, from
which he graduated and was admitted
to the bar of this state in 1894.
For the next ten years he was en-
gagged in the practice of law in Mime
apolis, and was the attorney for the
Wisconsin Central railway and other
corporations. In 1904, being at that
time 30 years old, he was appointed
the general attorney for the North
western Telephone Exchange company
and subsidiary Bell telephone compa-
MES, with Offices in this city, which
position he occupies at the present
time.
Mr.. Prendergast is member of the
Minneapolis club, the Lafayette club,
the Minneapolis Commercial club, the
st. Paul Transportation club and the
Minnesota club of St. Paul.
He was married in April, 1909, to
Georgia Kelly Wiley, daughter of
the late Mrs. Anthony Kelly of this
city.
John Henry Van Nest.
John Henry Van Nest, a member OF
/ the Minneapolis city council and the
, president of that body, is a Mime
apolitan by birth and devotedly by
choice. His father, Hiram Van Nest,
settled in this city in 1850 and be-
came a progressive and prosperous
citizen. At the time of his death in
/ 1894 he was the owner of great deal
of real estate and other property, which
! John Henry has managed since then.
At one time Mr.. Van Nest was a men,
Der of the firm of Babindrier & Van
Nest, proprietors of the homeopathic
pharmacy on Nicollet avenue.
/ Mr.. Van Nest has made a study of
city government. In 1902 he was
elected alderman from the thirteenth
ward and was reelected four years
later for another term, and in all these
years of service to the city he has at
all times taken the side which stood for
clean politics and business-like meth
DDS. In 1905, during the re-organiza-