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THOMAS J. ABBETT, head packer in the Lincoln mill since 1892, was born June 10, 1867, in Dakota county. His early schooling was in Hastings, but at the age of twelve his parents removed to Minneapolis, where he finished his education. He was later employed in the Pillsbury and Washburn mills until 1892. He then came to Anoka, and has filled the position of head packer at the flour mill in Anoka ever since. He was married in 1892, on the 20th of September, to Vernie D. Byers, of Minneapolis. He has occupied the position of president of the Anoka Street Fair Association since its inception some five years ago, and is affiliated with the Maccabees, K. P. and R. A. fraternities, while Mrs. Abbett is treasurer of the Anoka school district, having been chosen in 1902. Children, Gladys and Ruth. ~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905
ALANSON GEORGE ALDRICH, M. D., was born in Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, the son of John Rexford and Lois A. Randall Aldrich, and is the grandson of David Aldrich, a well known New England Quaker preacher. He was educated in the public schools of Adams and under the private instruction of Rev. Geo. Harmon, now of Tufts college, Boston, Mass. Dr. Aldrich began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. H. M. Holmes of Adams, and attended his first course of lectures at the medical department of the University of Vermont. He later entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, receiving his degree therefrom in 1879. He practiced medicine in Massachusetts for three years, when he married Flora L. Southard of Westford, New York. In a trip to the Northwest a few months later, when visiting friends in this locality he decided to remain here for a few years. The few years have merged into many, and Dr. Aldrich is still an enthusiastic admirer of the North Star state, making Anoka his home with offices in Minneapolis and Anoka. Dr. Aldrich devotes his practice exclusively to the specialty of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and is ably 'assisted by his wife, Dr. F. L. S. Aldrich. His preparation for this work has been extensive and thorough. In 1887 he took special instructions under Dr. F. C. Hotz at the Chicago Eye and Ear Infirmary, and in a few months thereafter another course in the same city. In 1888-9 he took the best courses obtainable in this country at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, also special work at the New York Post Graduate Hospital. In 1896 he was appointed clinical assistant to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, Eng., and to the Royal Ear Hospital, and the Central London Throat Hospital under the renowned Lennox Browne. This was followed by advanced private courses in the hospitals of Paris, Vienna, and other European cities. Dr. Aldrich is a member of the Hennepin county Medical Society, the State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is a frequent contributor to journals of Ophthmology. He is a thirty-two degree Mason and a Shriner. He is an enthusiastic lover of field sports and of country life. His home, “Colonial Hall,” at Anoka is largely maintained in order to bring him nearer the pleasures he so much enjoys. His private kennel always contains the finest breeds of hunting dogs, all well trained. Both he and his wife are advocates of the simple life; both are enthusiastic students of natural sciences, and their home life is ideal. Dr. Aldrich politically is a radical Democrat and an independent thinker. Among his friends he is known as “a royal good fellow at all times.” ~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905
FLORA L. S. ALDRICH, M. D., was born in Westford, Otsego county, New York. Her ancestors were of the class known as the old Knickerbockers, residents of the Hudson river valley, and the Sutherlands of Otsego county. Her mother was the daughter of Isaac Sutherland, a gentleman of wealth who bestowed upon his daughter the best education procurable in those days, and their home, “Sutherland Place,” was throughout her life a favorite visiting place for the educated and distinguished of the times. Here Doctor Aldrich and her only brother were born, and three generations previous in which were only one son and one daughter in the same family. Her father, S. Wesley Southard, is still living and is a gentle man of the old school, a type of which is now fast passing away. On the eve of young womanhood Dr. Aldrich was bereft by death of this estimable mother’s love and care, and her education which had been largely looked after by her mother, became academic and was procured at the local academies. Her collegiate training was largely private, taken almost entirely under men and women who were specialists in each department. Such careful training, together with the associations of her childhood and young womanhood, has developed a quality of mind and heart which every one of “Mrs. Dr. Aldrich’s” acquaintances can testify to as standing for the highest ideals in everything. In 1883 she was married to Dr. A. G. Aldrich of Adams, Berkshire Co., Mass., and immediately took up the study of medicine. In the autumn of that year they visited the Northwest, and through the influence of friends decided to locate in Anoka. She at once went on with her medical studies with her husband, and within three years received her degree from what is now the medical department of the State University. This was followed by two complete courses in the New York hospitals and in the Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital of New York city. In 1896, she together with her husband, spent nearly one year in the hospitals of Europe. From the beginning of her practice she has not only had a large clientelle in Anoka and vicinity, but great numbers from other North western localities. She is a successful physician and a highly respected woman. For the last two years she has been an able assistant to her husband in the special work of eye, ear, nose and throat, and has become very proficient in this line of professional work. She is a writer of beginning note in medical literature. She is a contributor to various medical journals, and has written a book for mothers, “My Child and I," which has a steady subscription sale by a Philadelphia publishing house. She is a member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. She is a member of the Episcopalian church. In her domestic life she is fortunate and happy, the wife of an able physician who is her co-worker and constant companion. Their home, “Colonial Hall” at Anoka, is one of unusual comfort and elegance. ~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905
WILLIAM J. ANNON was born in Ireland Jan. 7. 1867. He came to America at the age of thirteen. He received his education partly in Ireland and partly in New York city. He came west in 1893 and to Anoka in August of that year, as business manager of the Anoka Water Works, Electric Light and Power Co., which position he still holds. Mr. Annon was married Jan. 2, 1890, to Jennie Shortt. Children: Walter T. and Charlotte Isabel. ~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905 |
