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CHARLES H. PAGE, now in the ice business at Anoka, was born at
Burlington, Maine, March 15, 1845, where he spent his boyhood
days, being educated in the schools of his native town. In 1868 he
located at St. Paul, Minn., for a few months, but for about three
years thereafter he changed about, and finally located in Anoka in 1872. For a period of three
years here he followed lumbering, later entering railway service,
continuing at this work until recently, when he engaged in the ice
business. Mr. Page has been married twice; first in 1876, to Abbie
L. Chase of Wisconsin, who died in 1884, leaving one son, Guy C.
Page, of Everett, Washington. On Nov. 12, 1901, Mr. Page was
married to Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Connant (nee Hammond).
SIMEON C. PAGE was born in Burlington, Maine, Dec. 10, 1847, and
was married at Waterville, Maine, to Nancy Gonyer. He came to
Anoka in 1881, and resided here continuously until his death, May
28, 1900. He was employed by his brothers in the lumber business
after his arrival, and later acted as bookkeeper for Sawyer & Co.
and M. J. Scanlon & Co. He also served one term as county
superintendent of schools. Children: Irving, George, Viola,
Margaret, May and Louise.
REV. SAMUEL S. PAINE was born in Anson,
Somerset Co., Maine, Aug. 10, 1831. Attended first the common
school and afterward the academy at Anson, finally taking a course
at the theological school at New Hampton, New Hampshire. Came to
Minnesota in April, 1861, and lived first at Dayton village. During
his stay there he had charge of a circuit of Free Will Baptist
church organizations at Champlin, Trott brook, Dayton, Otsego and
Orono. He enlisted in Company D, Second Minn. Cavalry as a
private, and was shortly afterward elected chaplain of the
regiment, in which capacity he served until the end of the Civil
War. After the war he lived some twenty years at and near Fargo,
N. D. He came to his present home in the town of Ramsey in 1903.
Mr. Paine has been twice married. His first wife was Mrs. Elizabeth
Moore, who died in October, 1861. His second wife was Rebecca
Shumway, to whom he was married Jan. 20, 1865. The living children
are: Ella Frances (Mrs. O. Dickinson, Helena, Mont.), Almyra
(Mrs. Otradovec, Anoka), Lula M., Edgar R.
T. G. J. PEASE was born in Anoka July 12, 1870. He is a graduate
of the Anoka high school and since leaving school has been engaged
in printing and reportorial work. He is now local editor of the
Anoka Union. Oct. 26, 1892, he was married to Mary Bertena Chase.
Children: T. G. J., Jr., and Mary Bertena.
ED L. PEET was born at Oneota (Duluth), Minn., Aug. 7, 1859. His
father, Rev. James Peet, was a Methodist minister, and the family
came to Brooklyn Center, Hennepin county, the
following year, and thence to Anoka. After several more removes
they returned to Anoka, where the father died in 1866. Mr. Peet
received his education chiefly at the Anoka high school, and worked
variously as a printer, farmer and traveling showman in several
states. He has been editor and part owner of several newspapers at
Minneapolis and elsewhere in the state. About 1895 he purchased
the Grantsburg Journal, Grantsburg, Wis., of which he was editor
until January, 1905, when he sold the greater part of his interest
in the paper. He has served two terms as president of the Northern
Wisconsin Press Association, and in 1904 was chosen as a
presidential elector for the state of Wisconsin. and was
further honored with the task of delivering the vote of the state
in Washington. Mr. Peet was married Nov. 25, 1893, to Nettie E.
Montgomery. They have four boys.
HERMAN G. PERSKE was born in Stettin, Prussia, Dec. 8, 1852.
Attended the common schools of his native town. Came to America in
September, 1872, and lived at Berlin, Wis., about two years and at
Ripon, Wis., about four years. At the latter place he learned the
cooper’s trade. Came to Minneapolis in 1878. He had charge of a
cooper shop in Minneapolis belonging to Michael Pauly employing
some sixty-five hands. Was superintendent two years for David
Syme, a manuafacturer of cooperage supplies at River Falls, Wis.
Through the recommendation of Mr. Syme, he was employed in 1882
to take charge of the cooperage department of the Washburn Mill
Co., at Anoka, which position he held almost continuously until
the new mill was turned over to the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills
Co. about 1891. At that time he engaged in the cooperage business
on his own account, which he continued until 1897, when the
continued depression in the milling business and allied industries
compelled him to make an assignment. In 1898 he was elected
register of deeds, and filled the place with remarkable fidelity for
six years.
LIELTTENANT COLONEL FRANCIS PETELER was born in Bavaria, Germany,
April 19, 1828, and came to New York in June, 1840. He enlisted in
Company A, Eighth United States Infantry, and was sent to Mexico.
His uncle had been in charge of government forests in Bavaria,
and he was accustomed to the woods. Although but twenty years of
age, he was promoted corporal on the field of Vera Cruz, the
adjutant who read the order being Pickett, afterward a Confederate
general. Longstreet, another Confederate general, was first
lieutenant of Company A. After the war Mr. Peteler lived in New
York until 1853, and then came to Minnesota, finding employment in
August on the Anoka dam. In the spring of 1854 he took a claim
near Round lake. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he drilled
recruits at Anoka in the St. Lawrence Hotel, and soon after
received permission from the secretary of war to raise a company
of sharp shooters, receiving his appointment as captain Sept. 17,
1861. This was the second body of troops to leave the state, and
consisted of the most expert hunters and frontiersmen. It became
Company A of the Second Regiment, United States Sharpshooters, of
which Captain Peteler was made Lieutenant Colonel. After the
second battle of Bull Run Colonel Peteler was granted a furlough
on account of the Indian outbreak in Minnesota. During the winter
of 1862-3 he was in command of Fort Abercrombie. After the war he
purchased a farm in Bloomington, Hennepin Co., where he lived
until 1871, when he began the manufacture of dump cars. In 1871
he graded the first six miles of the M. & St. L. Railway. He was
president and owner of the Peteler Car Works at Minneapolis until
Jan. 1, 1905, turning the business over to his sons on that date.
Colonel Peteler was married in May, 1853, to Margaret Heines.
Children: Edwin, Philip, Frank C. (died Nov. 1, 1903), Minnie
(Mrs. Edwin Ellingsen, Bloomington Ferry), and Charles. (See
portrait, page 99)
CLARENCE B. PORTER. (son of RICHARD B. PORTER), was born at Anoka March 7, 1865, where he attended the public schools. He has been engaged in farming practically all his life. He has eighty acres just inside the city limits of Anoka and eighty acres in section 22, town of Ramsey. Both tracts are substantially all under cultivation. Mr. Porter has been county commissioner for the past two years, his term. expiring Jan. 1, 1907. He was married May 13, 1888, to Flora M. Wall. Children: Daisy M., Charles, Alice, Stella, Edna and Clarence Richard.
RICHARD B. PORTER, one of the
pioneers of Anoka county, was born at Dansville, Livingston
county, New York, Feb. 18, 1821. He attended the schools at
Dansville and Orshon in that state, and became a farmer. He
arrived in Minnesota territory Sept. 1, 1853, and Dec. 24, of that
year began the construction of a house in section 34 of what is
now the town of Ramsey. He worked on the first dam at Anoka; but in
the fall of 1854 returned to New York, where he stayed until
October, 1856, when he returned to Minnesota and soon after
located at Paynesville, where he lived seven years. After the
Civil War broke out he enlisted in Hatch’s Battalion, and served
throughout the war. In 1880 he purchased eighty acres of land just
inside the city limits of Anoka, where he lived up to the time of
his death. Mr. Porter was married Feb. 27, 1845, to Jane
Henderson. Children: Catherine (died Sept. 27, 1893), Lunette
(Mrs. John W. Hall), and Clarence B. (See portrait,
page 57.)
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'ROBERT B. PORTER.'
STEPHEN JASPER POWELL was born in Seneca, Mich., Feb. 11, 1845. He
came to Anoka May 11, 1857, living here about a year and then
moving to a farm in section 25, town of Grow. He enlisted in
October, 1862 with Henderson’s Company of Mounted Rangers, served
one year on the frontier in the Sioux Indian war; he then went
south with Company I, Second Minn., Regiment, and served until the
end of the war, including the march to the sea with Sherman. He
served as supervisor and constable in the town of Grow and also
served on the school board in district number eight. He was
married to Adeline Haskell, Dec. 18, 1876. Children: William J.,
Wilbur Hersey (deceased), June and Alfred.
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