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ARTHUR TUBAL CAINE, M. D., graduated from both the old and new courses of the Medical Department of the Minnesota State University, and soon after was chosen interne at the St. Paul City and County Hospital ('98-’99). After practicing at Lake Preston for a couple of years, he came to Anoka in March, 1901. He received his earlier training in the schools of Stillwater, Minn., and graduated from the high school of that city in 1892, and later entered the academic department of the Minnsota State University, where he spent two years. Dr. Caine was appointed health officer in March, 1904, and later in the same year, coroner of Anoka Co., and is surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railway. During the Spanish-American war Dr. Caine enlisted in the Red Cross work and was sent to Cuba. He is a member of the Masonic order, Woodmen, Yeomen, Hibernians, Royal Neighbors and Maccabees. Dr. Caine was born in St. Paul, Minn., May 24, 1875.
~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

CYRUS W. CAMPBELL (deceased) was born at Bedford, N. H., Mar. 23, 1828, and came to Anoka just before the Civil War, where he engaged in the sash and door business and later farmed. He was married in 1851 to Julia Emery. Children: Ella, John W., Charles, C. Newton (Boston, Mass.), and Arthur (died 1884). Mr. Campbell died Dec. 17, 1903.
~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

FRED A. CAMPBELL was born Dec. 14, 1859, at Dowagiac, Michigan. After a short residence in Chicago he came to Anoka in the early seventies, and soon commenced the printer’s trade in his father’s printing office - the Republican office. At the present time he is employed in the Union office. He was married Apr. 30, 1881, to Ida Guderian, and there have been born: Hazel, Frank, Phoebe (died Mch. 1, 1903), Mona Alan, Meryl, Donald, Mildred and Kenneth.
~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

JOHN T. CAMPBELL was born in New Lenox, Will Co., Ill., Oct. 27, 1866. From the age of sixteen he worked in a general store in his native town. Four years later he bought the business and conducted the same until 1892. He afterward worked for the Rock Island Railway Co. and as superintendent of Shawneetown Electric Light Co., Shawneetown, Ill. In 1899 he was married to Anna Grace Gillett. He came to Anoka Co. in September, 1902, and in August of the following year assumed charge of the exchange of the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co. at Anoka. Children: Anna Grace, Marie, Harold, Daisy and John.
~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

CHARLES H. CARD was born at Woodstock, N. B., August 25. 1859. Came to Minnesota with his parents in 1866. He has lived in Anoka most of the time since. Received a common school education and learned the trade of a blacksmith, and later practiced as a veterinary surgeon. Served in 'the fire department for twenty-one years, part of the time as captain of the engine company. May 11, 1882, he was married to Augusta L. Molloy of Anoka. Children: Ethel, George, Susan, Arthur, Charles, Esther and Rebecea Bernice.
~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

STEPHEN A. CARLISLE was born at Calais, Maine, Mar. 15, 1866. At the age of fourteen his parents removed to Minneapolis, Minn., where he attended the public schools. After leaving school he went into the fish and oyster business, which he continued some ten years. In 1897 he purchased considerable tracts of land in the town of Linwood and actively entered the business of dealing in Anoka county lands. He has undoubtedly been the means of bringing more people into Anoka county than any other man during the past eight years. Mr. Carlisle has been quite active in politics, and in 1900 he was chairman of the Republican county committee. He has served two terms as member of the school board, and was postmaster at Linwood from 1898 to 1904, when a rural delivery route was established and the office discontinued. Mr. Carlisle has two land offices, one at Wyoming, Chisago county, and the other at 654 Temple Court, Minneapolis. He was married Nov. 19, 1887, to Nettie L. Johnson, of Brooklyn, Hennepin Co. They have two children, Clifford A. and Fisher A.
~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

HAMPHEN HENRY CARLSON, D. M. D., was born in Meeker county, Minn., Oct. 29, 1876. He graduated from the Litchfield high school in 1896, and for a time was engaged in farming and teaching school. In 1900 he graduated from the dental department of the University of Minnesota, and July 9th of that year, came to Anoka, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Dr. Carlson was married June 26, 19O1. to Grace Williams. They have one daughter, Harriet Elizabeth.
~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

DANIEL P. CARLSTEDT was born at Orstad, Wermland, Sweden, Dec. 12, 1844. He engaged in farming and mining, coming to America and to Minnesota in 1872. He worked in Minneapolis at bricklaying. Dec. 22, 1888, he settled on his farm in section 2, town of Burns, where he has since lived. He was town supervisor one year and a member of the school board from 1891 to 1897. He was married Dec. 3, 1887, to Mrs. Paulina Moline. They have three living children: Martin Hjalmar, Helga V., and Arthur. Mrs. Carlstedt has two living children by a former marriage: Amy N. R. C. Moline and Andros R. Moline. Mrs. Carlstedt’s father, Andros J. Johnson, represented Kalmar in the Swedish Rigsdag for sixteen years.
~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

LEWIS J. CARPENTER was born in Chautauqua Co., New York, Jan 28, 1836. His father removed to Michigan in 1844, where he attended the common schools and worked at farming. He came to Anoka Co., Apr. 1, 1861, settling in section 28, town of Ramsey. He has held various town offices. He enlisted in 1864 in Hatch’s Independent Battalion of Cavalry and served until mustered out in August, 1865. He was married Feb. 14, 1860, to Ann Frankish. Children: Elmer E. (died 1896), Frank S., Herbert (died 1897), Albert (Missoula, Mont.), Clinton C. (now a physician at Bird Island, Minn.), and Annette (Mrs. A. W. Gardner).
~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

ALBERT J. CASWELL was born in Brompton, Canada, Jan. 15, 1835. At the age of 16 his father removed to Vermont, where he remained until 1856, when he came west and located at Mannannah, Meeker Co. In 1859 he went overland to California, where he remained three years. He then returned to Mannannah, and after one year removed to Coon creek, town of Anoka, where he resided up to the time of his death Feb. 29, 1892. In 1864 he was married to Martha Hayden. Children: Arthur A., Irving A., and Herbert.
~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

ALONZO M. CASWELL was born in Melbourne, Lower Canada, Oct. 2, 1833. Came to Minnesota in 1854, and to Anoka Co. in 1863. Died at Minneapolis, May 6, 1902.

~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

ARTHUR A. CASWELL was born at Coon creek in the town of Anoka, Sept. 30, 1867. He attended first the school in district 15, and graduated from the Anoka high school in 1886. While attending the high school he learned the printer’s trade. In 1889 in partnership with his brother, I. A. Caswell, he leased and later purchased the Anoka Herald, which he edited for two years, selling his interest to his brother in 1892. He published a paper at Excelsior, Hennepin Co., two years, and then became editor of the Princeton Union, which position he held six years. In 1898 at the time of the Spanish war he enlisted in Co. M, Fourteenth Minnesota Regiment, and served with that company as first lieutenant until the regiment was mustered out at the close of the war. In 1901 he returned to Anoka, where he has since resided. In 1904 he was elected county auditor. In 1891 he was married to Alice M. McLeod. They have six children: Alice M., Keith P., Robert K., Arthur D., Leigh, Beth.
~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

IRVING A. CASWELL was born in the town of Anoka, Feb. 25, 1870. He received his education at the Anoka high school and the University of Minnesota. In 1892 he purchased the Anoka Herald and was its owner for some ten years, and during the greater part of the time its editor. He was postmaster at Anoka from 1901 to 1905. Mr. Caswell was married June 3, 1899, to Mary D. Woodbury. They have one son, Dwight Woodbury Caswell.
~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

CHARLES E. CHASE was born in Lincoln county, Maine, May 14, 1846. He was engaged in mercantile business at an early age, and came to Anoka about 1871, where he was engaged in the grocery business until 1877. Later he had charge of the shingle mill of W. D. Washburn & Co., and is now manager for the Reed & Sherwood Company at Anoka. Mr. Chase was married May 27, 1876 to Lina M. Giddings. They have two sons, Roe G. and Raymond P.
~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

ROE GIDDINGS CHASE was born at Anoka, Jan. 16, 1878, where he attended the high school. He entered the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1897, graduating with the class of 1901. After leaving college Mr. Chase devoted himself to illustrating for newspapers and magazines, his work taking him into nearly every state in the Union in the search for articles and pictures of interest. After a year spent in this sight began to fail. He was compelled to give up this line of work and recuperate among the trout streams and the deer licks of the far west. Returning to Anoka in 1902, he purchased the Anoka Herald, and has since edited the paper. Personally Mr. Chase is fond of outdoor sports - fishing, hunting and yachting. He owns a fine summer cottage at Lake George, where he spends the summer. His sail boat is the largest and fastest on the lake, and has frequently vanquished the lesser craft in sailing matches. He is an active member of the Methodist church and a member of fraternal lodges, notably the Knights of Pythias and the Masons.
~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

WILBUR F. CHASE was born in Lincoln, Maine, June 6, 1842. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Second Maine Regiment, but was discharged for disability after nine months’ service. He afterward served in the Sixteenth Maine Regiment, and was taken prisoner June 6, 1864, and confined in Libby prison, and transferred thence to Andersonville, and remained a prisoner until the close of the war. After the war Mr. Chase came to Minnesota, and to Anoka about 1872. Mr. Chase has been engaged in the lumber business during the greater part of his residence here, and has served several terms as county commissioner.
~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

CHARLES B. CHURCH was born at Lebanon, New York, March 24, 1838, where he received his education. He lived in Wayne Co., N. Y., several years, and then engaged in the meat business at Tecumseh, Mich., where he remained from 1856 to 1866. In 1867 he came to Anoka, where he has since resided. He has always. taken an interest in musical matters, and in the later seventies was president of the Anoka Musical Association and also leader of the comet band. He was married in 1860 to Mary A. Ayer. They have had one child, Hattie B., who died May 11, 1866.
~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

FRANCIS T. CLARK (son of Josiah F. Clark) was born June 14, 1851, at Brooks, Waldo Co., Maine. He came to Anoka with his parents when a small child and received his education in the Anoka schools. He served a few months as deputy county auditor under L. C. Bixby. He afterward removed to a farm in section 13, town of Burns, where he lived until the time of his death, March 25, 1898. He was married Sept. 25, 1875, to Ada F. Norris. Children: Cecil L., Effie A., Thomas Alonzo, and Ada May.
~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

JOSEPH C. CLARK was born in Perry, Washington Co., Me., Nov. 28, 1836, where he learned the trade of a shoemaker. His health failing, he came west, first to Illinois for a year and then to Minnesota, where he arrived in 1870, and bought a farm in section 3, town of Grow, where he lived up to the time of his death, July 6, 1897. He was married Nov. 28, 1861, to Mary E. Anderson, who died in 1886. He was again married Feb. 11. 1888, to Esther J. Hunter. Children: Mary, Joseph C., Clyde W. and Eleanor.
~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

JOSIAH F. CLARK was the first probate judge of Anoka county after the organization of the state. This was in 1858. His official career thereafter was considerable. In the fall of 1866 he was elected county treasurer, taking charge the following March. He continued in this capacity for four years. He held several other important offices, among which were justice of the peace, and clerk of the school board for four years. Mr. Clark was born in China, Kennebec Co., Maine, Mar. 9, 1823, where he completed his education in the China Academy. He came to Anoka county April 18, 1854, and pre-empted a claim two miles above Champlin. Two years thereafter, having proved up on his farm, he moved to Anoka and worked at his trade, carpentering, but many years after returned to farming. In 1902, however, he removed again to Anoka, where he still lives. He taught a singing school at Anoka in the winters of 1855-6 and 1856-7. He was the first teacher of vocal music north of St. Anthony. He enlisted in 1862 in Co. A, Eighth Minn. Regiment, and was made chief musician, serving until the war closed. Judge Clark was married July 2, 1842, to Louisa Brown. Children: Augusta (died 1865), Georgiana (Mrs. Norris, Anoka), Francis T. (died 1891), and Josiah W. (See portrait, page 118.)
~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

JOHN F. CLEMENTS was born at Monroe, Maine, Apr. 10, 1826. Worked at farming and lumbering until his removal to Minnesota in the spring of 1855, landing in St. Paul May 1st of that year. Worked in St. Anthony one year and in the spring of 1856 took up a claim in section 18, town of Oak Grove, where he has since resided. He was married May 3, 1849, to Margaret Davis, who died Jan. 28, 1903. Children: Silas W. (Hibbard, Fremont Co., Idaho), Eugene P. (Hibbard, Idaho), Margaret W. (Mrs. Frank Moulton, Anoka), Flora J. (Mrs. H. S. Miller).
~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

EDGAR S. CLINCH (son of Edward S. Clinch) was born in Anoka Aug. 4, 1865. Attended the common schools. \Vorked in the saw mills about four years. Since then he has worked in the pineries. Has been foreman of logging crews for several Minneapolis firms. Kept a hotel at Milaca, Minn., two years. Bought his present home in section 14, town of Ramsey in 1897. Mr. Clinch was married Sept. 24, 1895, to Scleda B. Sproul.

EDWARD S. CLINCH was born in St. George, N. B., July 4, 1828. Game to St. Anthony about 1857, lived there about a year, then came to Anoka Co., and took up a claim on Crooked brook in the town of Grow. Lived there until he enlisted in 1862 in Co. A, Eighth Minn. Regiment. Was with Captain Cady when he was killed and with the assistance of Elias W. Pratt brought Cady’s body to Anoka. Was married in 1850 to Anna Brockway. Children: James, (died 1877), Anthony B. (Rush City, Minn.), Maria (Mrs. A. C. Hay, Oaksdale, Wash.), Augusta J. (Mrs. Joseph Dye, Duluth, Minn.), Nelhe May (Mrs. Joseph Thayer, died Jan., 1900), Alice (Mrs. Alexander Frazer, Drinkwater, Assiniboia), Edgar S., Fred G. (died Dec. 1903), Bessie (Mrs. Frank Webster, River Falls, Wis.), Jennie (Mrs. Harry Wheeler, Duluth, Minn.), Carleton W. (Courtney, N. D.).
~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

AMMI CUTTER COLEMAN was born in Anoka, Minn., June 16, 1867, and was educated in the common schools and high school of Anoka. After leaving school he took up telegraphy and bookkeeping. Feb. 15, 1890, he went to Great Falls, Montana, where he has been registrar of water works for fifteen years. He is unmarried.
~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

GUILFORD D. COLEMAN was born at Vasselboro, Maine, Feb. 22, 1832. In 1855 he was married to Ellen C. Webber, and the following year he located at Anoka, where he conducted a blacksmith shop almost continuously until his death Nov. 30, 1903. Mrs. Coleman died in October, 1881, leaving six children: Dana S. (Hankinson, N. D.), Esther F. (Mrs. Fitz, Monterey, Minn.), Eleanor J. (Mrs. King, Bozeman, Mont.), Ammi C. (Great Falls, Mont.), Lucy E. (Mrs. Russell, Lewiston, Mont.), and Nellie W. (Kendall, Mont). Mr. Coleman’s second wife was Mary J. Woods.
~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

OLIVER CONFORTH was born in Waterville, Kennebec Co., Maine, Sept. 12, 1820. When gold was discovered in California in 1849 he went there as a miner. In 1855 he came to Minnesota and in 1884 to Champlin, where he worked at lumbering. He was married in 1841 to Hannah Corson. Children: James A., Clarence (deceased), Grace (Mrs. W. H. Gay), Ida (Mrs. W. H. Miars).
~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

ALBERT D. COOK (son of Alonzo Cook) was born at Manamnah, Meeker Co., Minn., Jan. 21, 1862. In August of the same year the family left Mannannah on account of the Sioux Indian massacre, and settled at Coon creek in the town of Anoka. The father died in 1863, and the family moved to Anoka in 1867. Albert received his education in the Anoka schools. He worked at logging and l.umbering, chiefly for the Washburn Mill Co. until August, 1887, since which time he has been employed in the office of the Surveyor General of Logs and Lumber for the Second District of Minnesota, and has lived in Minneapolis.
~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

ALONZO COOK was born in Milan, New Hampshire, Oct. 16, 1831. Came to Minnesota in 1856, settling at Mannannah, Meeker Co. In August of that year he came to Anoka county and settled on a farm at Coon creek in the town of Anoka, where he died Apr. 27, 1863. His wife was Alma J. Caswell, daughter of Moody Caswell. One son is living, Albert D. Cook (Minneapolis).
~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

CHARLES I. COOK was born at Anoka, Jan. 17, 1865. After leaving school he engaged in printing and publishing, and for a few years was half owner and editor of the Anoka Herald. He served as alderman from the Second ward from 1899 to 1901, when he resigned. Joined Company B, Third Regt. Inf. N. G. S. M. in 1887; was elected second lieutenant in 1890, first lieutenant in 1894, and regimental quartermaster in 1895. Was back in Co. B as first lieutenant in 1897, and at the call for troops for the Spanish-American war, was with Co. B, mustered into the U. S. service as a part of the Fourteenth Minn., Vols., April 8, 1898. Was honorably discharged from the U. S. service Nov. 18, 1898, and from the state service in 1900. Mr. Cook was married Aug. 16, 1884, to Harriette May Stewart. They have three daughters: Florence Emma, B. Frances and Cecil I
~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

JOSEPH H. COOK was born in Crawford Co., Pa., and came to Anoka in 1857. He found employment in Smiley & Woodbury's flour mill, and remained in Anoka until the fall of 1862, when he enlisted in Co. A of the Eighth Minnesota Regiment and served until the war closed. After the war he returned to Anoka, where he was employed in the flour mill many years. He was married in 1861 to Margaret Van Ness. Children: Mrs. A. D. Howard, Mrs. Wesley Field, Julia Cook and George Cook.
~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

JAMES COOPER was born near Belfast, Ireland, June 24, 1805. He came to America about 1834, locating at Quebec, where he worked at shipbuilding about three years, removing thence to Philadelphia, where he lived some four years. About 1841 he established a colony of residents of Philadelphia in what was then a wilderness in Bradford county. Pennsylvania, where he built a saw mill to manufacture the lumber for the houses of the colonists. There he lived some fifteen years. In October, 1856, he came to Minnesota, and took a pre-emption claim in sections 29 and 32 in what is now the town of Bethel. The next spring he brought his family to their new home, which they reached June 24, 1857. About 1863 he was appointed post master at Bethel, which office he held some fifteen years. About 1876 Hugh Spence started a store near Mr. Cooper’s house and the place began to be known as Cooper’s Corners. The store afterward passed into Mr. Cooper’s hands and he conducted it until his death, April 2, 1893. He was married in 1831 to Isabel Neill, who died in 1849. Children: Rachel (died at two years of age), Sarah (Mrs. William Tennison, died 1883), John (St. Cloud, Minn.), William (died 1882), Isabel (Mrs. Benjamin Grinnols, Fairhaven, Stearns Co.), Elizabeth (Mrs. George Secoy, died about 1868), Margaret A. (Mrs. T. C. Hyatt, Fairhaven), and James H. Mr. Cooper’s second wife was Nancy Minard, who died in 1865, leaving two children, Roxie (Mrs. Stephen Dyer), and Samuel F. His third wife was Rebecca P. Milligan, who died in June, 1900, leaving three children: Evaline A. (Mrs. C. H. Gangelhoff, Long Lake, Hennepin Co.), Mary B. (Long Lake) and Laura J. (Mrs. George W. Wyatt).
~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

JAMES H. COOPER (son of James Cooper) was born in Bradford Co., Pa., Aug. 1, 1847. When ten years of age his father came to Minnesota and settled in sections 29 and 32 town of Bethel, where Mr. Cooper still lives. In January, 1882, he was appointed postmaster at Bethel, which office he retained until 1893, during which time he also kept a general store. Mr. Cooper still owns the original pre-emption claim of 160 acres which his father took up in 1856, and still lives in the house which his father built in 1859 with lumber sawed by hand. Mr. Cooper was married in August, 1869, to Rebecca P. Dyer, who died Feb. 18, 1883, leaving four children: Leland J., Levina J. (Mrs. John Dawson, Jr., Fridley), William Guy, and Stephen J. Mr. Cooper was married, second, Dec. 29, 1886, to Sarah L. Mitchell. Children: Elizabeth R., Beatrice L., Olive E., Leah Isabel, Charles H. and Gordon A.
~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

GEORGE E. COTTON was born at Derry, New Hampshire, Nov. 17, 1836. He learned the trade of a tinsmith and followed this business during most of the time of his residence at Anoka, where he came in 1872. Mr. Cotton was elected mayor of Anoka in 1879. About 1890 he removed to St. Paul. He was married Feb. 27, 1863, to Mary H. Gove. Mr. Cotton died Jan. 27, 1892.
~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

JOHN CUNDY was born at St. George, New Brunswick, Jan. 14, 1814. He had a good common school education, acquired in his native province, and took up the business of lumbering, which he followed throughout his life. He came to Anoka, Minn., in 1853, just as the town was being started, and lived there until the time of his death. Mr. Cundy was married Nov. 16, 1837, to Mary E. Gilmor. Children: Wiliam E., Sarah M., Mary E. (Mrs. Alexander Graham, Spokane, Wash.), Olive L., and Frederick G.
~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 E. CUNDY (son of John Cundy) was born at Charlotte, New Brunswick, Aug. 13, 1838. He attended the schools at Baring, Maine, where he also got his first insight into the lumber business. In 1854 he came with his parents to Minnesota, arriving at Anoka October 12th of that year. The family lived at the Fairbanks boarding house until a house could be constructed. Mr. Cundy first went to work at the saw mill of Dunn & Farnham, and worked successively for A. P. Lane, James McCann, Ammi Cutter, W. D. Washburn & Co. and Reed & Sherwood. He enlisted in April 1861, at St. Anthony in Company E, First Minnesota Regiment, and was discharged with his regiment at the close of the three years term. Mr. Cundy participated in the battle of Bull Run, and at Antietam, where he was wounded and captured. He was afterwards exchanged and took part in both battles of Fredencksburg and the battle of Gettysburg. Mr. Cundy was married Sept. 22, 1864, to Alice D. Frost. Children: Ernest W., Alice S. (Mrs. Frederick Godecke), Narcissa L., George B. and John G.
~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

NATHAN W. CURIAL was born in Philadelphia Feb. 22, 1822. His father died when he was five years old, and he was put at hard work on a farm and could only see his mother at long intervals. He learned the carpenter’s trade, and for a time operated a shingle mill in Maine. He came to Anoka in 1854. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment. He was promoted sergeant and was discharged for disability in 1865. After the war he returned to Anoka and engaged in the meat, grocery and provision business with Haney Richards. He was married May 29, 1850, to Mary S. Thorndyke. They had one son, Edward L., who is still a resident of Anoka. Mr. Curial died May 14, 1897.
~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

JOHN CURRY (deceased) was born in Belfast, Ireland, Oct. 1816; of Scotch Irish extraction. Married Mary Hunter in May, 1845. Children: Mary J., John W., Nancy A., and Esther. Came to N. Y. fall of 1845, living at Dansville, N. Y., where all the children were born. Moved to Minnesota in 1856, settling on a farm in section 24, town of Grow. He died July 25, 1883. He was a Mason of high standing in the old country.
~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

JOHN W. CURRY was born May 26, 1849, in Dansville, Livingstone Co., N. Y. Came to Minnesota with his parents and family in June, 1856, and lived on the farm in sec. 24, town of Grow, until about 1903. Married Sarah E. Sheppard Feb. 1. 1880. Children: Clara E., (died July 25, 1884), Ada J. Mr. Curry served on the town board almost continuously after 1880.
~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

AMMI CUTTER (deceased) was born at Westbrook, Maine, May 23, 1819. At the age of twenty he went to Lovell, Maine, where he became sheriff of the county and also a member of the governor’s council. In September, 1857, he came to Anoka, where he engaged in dry goods, grocery and lumber business, afterward adding the manufacture of flour and pork barrels and pails and tubs. In 1862 he enlisted in the Seventh Minnesota Regiment, and was afterward captain and assistant quartermaster in the United States Volunteers. After the war he went through a series of disasters. His saw mill, sash and door and tub and pail factories, upon which there was no insurance, were burned, and his grist mill was swept away by a flood. He continued in the grocery business and later in the dry goods business, for some years. In 1879 he purchased the Sun and Republican, and changed the name to Herald, which he sold after a few years to Alvah Eastman. Later he developed great talent as a megnetic physician, and opened an office in St. Paul. where he was very successful until his death, July 24, 1896. At the age of twenty-one he was married to Olive C. Eastman, who died in 1902. Children: Jennie R. (Mrs. A. Ross, Glen Ellen, Cal.), Henry H. (Palocedro, Cal.), Mary S. (Mrs. O. L. Cut ter), and Charles H. (Oakland, Cal.). (See portrait, page 85.)
~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

OSCAR L. CUTTER (deceased) was born in Westbrook, Me., in 1846. He came to Anoka in 1865. He was a man of extraordinary popularity, and served in some public capacity almost his whole life. He was county auditor several terms, judge of probate, deputy county treasurer, city clerk, alderman, mayor, city assessor, treasurer of school board, chief of fire department, and secretary of the state senate in 1887 and 1889. For some years. previous to his death he was cashier of Anoka State Bank. Mr. Cutter was married about 1868 to Ella Butterfield, who died as the result of an accident, leaving one son, Marcus C. (St. Paul). His second wife was Mary S. Cutter, to whom he was married Jan. 1, 1878. Children: Carl (died Oct. 30, 1885), Harlan (died May 20, 1889), Edward B. and Ross. Mr. Cutter died Sept 4, 1898. Mrs. Cutter is at the present time clerk of the Board of Education. (See portrait, page 122.)
~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