Formal studio portrait of Napoleon B. Merritt, his second wife Mathilda Tilly Cronston Merritt, with Napoleon's adult children, spouses, and grandchildren.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Team of men winner of Junior Eight Race, Winnipeg, Manitoba, time 8.25, Northwestern International Regatta and Intermediate Eight Race, Peoria, Illinois, NAAO Regatta, time 6.16 world's record.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Black and white portrait of a N. J. Quickstad wearing football attire and holding a football and football helmet, text on picture frame. Quickstad was an alum and former instructor in physics and chemistry
Rev. William McKinley, 1834-1918. His obituary dated January 13, 1918 [newspaper not identified], reads: "Early Methodist Divine Dies at Home in Winona. Rev. William McKinley, dean of Minnesota Methodism, active as a lecturer, author and divine in various parts of the state since 1854, died late yesterday at his home in Winona, where he has lived since his retirement from active ministry ten years ago. Dr. McKinley was 84 years old and was known prominently throughout the Northwest as an author and preacher. In the Civil War he gained his early experience as a chaplain among the Union soldiers. His first pastorate was at Hastings, where he lived as boy on a farm. Subsequently he was pastor of Hamline Methodist Episcopal church of this city, Central Park church and of First Methodist Episcopal church of Minneapolis, besides serving as district superintendent of the St. Paul district. He was an intimate friend of Edward Eggleston, the famed minister-author, in whose church in New York ci
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Portrait of Kermit A. Olson. He was a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a major in horticultural science. Following graduation, he became superintendent of the Soil Conservation Service Nursery at Winona. After four years of military service during World War II�in the South Pacific with the 303rd Air Force�he served as the landscape consultant for the Veteran�s Administration, and the manager of the Grandview Seed Store in Edina, the Farm Store in Excelsior, and the Danish Seed Store in Minneapolis. At the time of his death, he was head horticulturist at the Veteran�s Administration Hospital in Minneapolis.
Minnesota State Horticultural Society officers Nathan Siegel and Glenn Ray greet Gov. Rudy Perpich as he arrives at the 1977 Minnesota State Horticultural Society convention banque.t
Amo Township Red Cross Auxiliary with two ladies in the front row holding a sign with the name of their organization. Four rows of ladies all dressed in floor length, dark colored dresses.
Schools in north-central Minnesota (1871-1909). Some of the sisters teaching in Duluth before the separation of the Duluth sisters from St. Benedict's in St. Joseph are identified as follows. Top Row - left to right: S. Catherine Siefner, Clementine Jastrzenska, Florentine Cannon, Augustine Terhaar, Margaret Dellwo (Delleveaux); (Bottom Row - left to right): S. Bertha Cherrier, Regina Otto, Cornelia Berg, Anastasia Gerard, Magdalen Walker. Duluth was first settled because of a short-lived rumor in 1854 that copper and ore were found on the North Shore. It was not until 1869, when Duluth was connected to St. Paul by railroad, that the population began to grow. Though Duluth experienced a five-year set back in 1873 when Jay Cooke's (financier of the railroad-to-the-Pacific) financial empire collapsed, it became the ore capital and the grain and lumber harbor of the Northwest. Parish communities and schools began to flourish and the Benedictine sisters from St. Joseph, MN, responded to invitations to teach there: in 1881, five sisters from St. Joseph opened Sacred Heart School for over 200 children in an old carriage shop, but the pastor closed that school; in 1883, seven sisters returned to Sacred Heart Parish and taught in a public school building until a new school (St. Thomas Aquinas) was built; in 1885 sisters began teaching in St. Stanislaus School in the Polish parish, St. Mary Star of the Sea; in 1887 they opened St. Clement School and also the Store-Front School on Garfield Avenue for the French parish; in 1891 the sisters opened St. Anthony's School. All of these mission schools, as well as St. Mary's Hospital, were transferred to St. Benedict's new daughterhouse which was established in Duluth in 1892. Prompted by her deposition as prioress in St. Joseph, it was the energy and the independent pioneer spirit of Mother Scholastica Kerst that effected the separation of the sisters in Duluth from the motherhouse in St. Joseph. While only 20 of the 43 sisters in Duluth opted to join the newly-formed community, Villa Sancta Scholastica, the separation strained the resources of both communities. However, both rallied and flourished in Minnesota. The Benedictines in Duluth today conduct the College of St. Scholastica and a Benedictine Health Care System (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives; Olsenius, pages 23-24).
This is a photograph of E. St. Julien Cox, the first mayor of St. Peter from 1865 to 1867. Cox was a captain in Company E of the Second Minnesota Regiment during the Civil War. He led volunteers to fight at New Ulm during the 1862 uprising. Cox served as judge of the Ninth Judicial District from 1876 to 1882.
This is a photograph of William Carey Brown, a Nicollet County native. Brown, who became a Brigidier General, received many honors, including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Silver Star.
Portrait of the Reverend Jabez Brooks, Hamline University president, 1854-1857 and 1861-1869. Prior to coming to Hamline, he was principal of a seminary in Watertown, Wisconsin, and a professor of Greek and mathematics at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. After leaving Hamline, he became a member of the faculty at the newly opened University of Minnesota.
A studio portrait of Dr. Chauncey Hobart, 1811-1904. Presiding Elder of the Minnesota District of the Wisconsin Conference, 1884. He presided over the first Annual Conference Session of the Minnesota Conference held at Red Wing 1856. Hobart Methodist Church, Minneapolis was named for him. Hobart wrote two books, "Recollections of My Life" (1885) and "History of Methodism in Minnesota" (1887).
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Class of 1901, Mankato State Normal School: Lottie Nott, Fannie Jacobs, Gertrude Keeley, Nellie Coughlin, Benj N. Zeiske, Emma Thornquest, Mamie Ericson, Anna Jerdee, Ella Billington, Bonnie Andrews, Irene Newton, Cathrine Byrue, Bertha Sandstrom, Florence Pond, Loiuse Braafladt, H.I. Pettis, Lillie Stohl, Margaret Davis, Ruth Jones, Dorathea Schneider, Rose Foley, Bernita Booth, Leo Carney, Bertha Paine, Hattie Gilmore, Jessie Woodbury, Minnie Nelson, Lena Rinkel, C. Rosenmeier, Mabel Sherin, Gertrude Sherman, Florence Odjard, Alberta Ackerman, Lucy Gainer, Nellie Sheldon, Margeurite Madden, Katherine O'Grady, Lillian Paff, Isabella Boyd, Ella McCarthy, Adelia Monson, Ida Geske, Didrick Oleson, Florence Pierce, Edith M. Pinney, Frances Hammer, Bertha Bradley, Montie Sutton, Mary Griffiths, Minnie S. Leavitt, Grace Hurd, Guy Robinson, Edith Phelps, Marie Schrepel, Laura Torston, Hilda Hammer, Edward Gugisberg, Rose Sahr, Sigurd Pederson, Winifred Lawrence, Eugene W. Bohannon, George E. Partridge, Defransa ASwann, President C.H. Cooper, Harreit McCarthy, Francis Hill, Henry Detamore, Ethel Jones, Pearl Murphy, Rances McBride, Harriette Marlowe Webb, Emma Scheiderich, Grace B. Clork, Alice V. Robbins, Jessie Spencer, Ida Mabel Basterdes, Martha V. Collins, Helen Ronald, Frances Cook, Eva Boegen, Lotta Larson, Della Grill Hattie Austin, Frederick Lyle Searing, Kate H. Sparrow, Ulysses O. Cox, Achsa Parker, Helen M. Philips, Dora Schram, Edith Hoagland, Lina Hensel, Helen Upham, Ida Stevenson, Louise Meile, Carolyn M. Robbins, Minnie Sweetland Parry, Charles F. Koehler, Fred L. Holtz, Charles E. Olson, Ressa Paschke, Nora Howat, J.K. Parker, Eliza Tenney, Anna Attenburg, Alice Williams, Cora A.N. Carney, Edith Horr, Caroline Christman Minnie Crist, Josephine Woolson, Mary Forsberg, Mamie Smith, Ella Lowe, Francis Wills, Harriet Weir, Lillian Smith, Emma Griffin, Elizabeth Stevens, Auguste McGonagle, Frances Powell, Laura Baumhoefeuer, Gertrude Yates, Ida H. Braadladt, Cleora Ramsdell, Herman Froehlich.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Studio portrait of a group of students. Front, left to right: Harry D. Horton, Ruth Drake, Alice V. Robbins, Emma Firestone, Paul Callaghan. Middle: Myrtle E. Holmes, Royal C. Burnett, William S. Lindsley, Edyth Thompson. Back: Otto A. Drews, Nellie L. Tyler, Lottie Roberts, William J. Janssen
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Studio portrait of the 1913 football team. Team captain Meredith Griffith holds a football marked, "MHS - 13." Back row: Harry Freeberg, Clarence Pond, Engrel Nelson, Prof. Carl W. Smith, Clifford Peterson, Prof. Vernon A. Looper, Reed Rose, Guy Cahoon, F. O'Brien. Middle Row: Percy Hall, C. Keesey, Jay Hodson, Captain Meredith Griffith, Oscar Wendlandt, Vincent Keesey, Willard Wigley. Front Row: Gust (?) Widell, Dan Lloyd.
Front, left to right: August Christian Dahl, Hattie L. Hoffman, Hiram J. Llloyd, Jennie C. Ekle. Middle: Anna E. Morris, Paul Arthur Callaghan, Stella Lumley, Hans M. Olson. Back: Effie Johnson, Edmund Franklin, Ella F. Hodson. See Mankatonian 3/1899.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Front: Paul A. Callaghan, Otto A. Drews, Hiram J. Lloyd, Harry (Henry) D. Horton, Ernest B. Pierce, Clifford V. Pierce Back: William W. Rubble, Ambrose Hays, Chas. E. Berg, George Earl Orsborn, Edmund Franklin, Otto J. Graff. See Mankatonian 7/1898.
Contributing Institution:
University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Raymond P. Kaighn, Class of 1898. He was Hamline University's first physical education director and Hamline's coach for the first intercollegiate basketball game ever played, which was against the Minnesota School of Agriculture in 1895. He also played on the first basketball team under the direction of James Naismith at the international YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts.
These five sisters and four lay nurses formed the first group to be trained by Ms. Wilma Johnson, a superintendent of nurses from Chicago engaged by the School of Nursing. Fom left to right seated: Sisters Julitta Hoope, Leobina Gliszhenski, Standing: Sisters Natalia Schmidtbauer, Cunigund Kuefler, Salome Amschler (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives; McDonald, page 258).
Expansion of Monastery (1880-1909). Mother Cecilia (Mary) Kapsner born in Prussia in 1859, came to America at age 15 with her family who settled in Pierz. Two years later, Mary entered St. Benedict's Convent and professed vows in 1878. In 1901 she was elected to serve as prioress, a position she held for three consecutive terms. Mother Cecilia was the first prioress whose background was similar to the majority of the members of St. Benedict's Convent as well as the people in the St. Joseph area. With keen perception and ready judgment she led the community through considerable building expansion. Especially noteworthy is the construction of the Sacred Heart Chapel and the Teresa Hall addition to the college, both having been in the planning stages as early as 1909 (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
This is a photograph of E. St. Julien Cox, the first mayor of St. Peter from 1865 to 1867. Cox was a captain in Company E of the Second Minnesota Regiment during the Civil War. He led volunteers to fight at New Ulm during the 1862 Uprising. Cox served as judge of the Ninth Judicial District from 1876 to 1882.
This is a photograph of Dr. Asa W. Daniels from St. Peter. Daniels served as a surgeon at Fort Ridgely in Nicollet County and as a medical officer at the Lower Sioux Agency before he moved to St. Peter to practice medicine. He tended the wounded in 1862 during the attack on New Ulm by the Dakota.
This photograph shows the members of the Essler Mandolin Club in St. Peter. From left to right, the men are: Charlie Volk, Joe Rhiner, John Essler, Stephen Spiess (note the incorrect spelling on the photograph), Fred Veith, and George Essler.