Saturday, April 21, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: April 21

April 21, 1918 – John W. Golden, 85 years, who marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, and a resident of Minnesota for 71 years, died today at his home in Minneapolis.


General William Tecumseh Sherman1



Sherman’s March to the Sea2 

A native of Ireland, Golden came to America in 1834 when a year old with his parents. His parents moved to Minn. in 1847, settling near Rice Lake in Anoka County on a farm.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Golden enlisted with the Fifth Minnesota Infantry, afterwards the Seventy-seventh Infantry. He served in many of the historic battles of the war. After the war he returned to Anoka County, where he continued farming until he retired nine years ago and came to Minneapolis, where he has resided since.

Golden is survived by his widow and five children.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “J. W. Golden, One of Sherman’s Men, Dies. Veteran Had Been Resident of State 71 Years—Funeral Services Tuesday.”; April 22, 1918; p. 6.

1http://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/images/2.gif

2https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/scorched-earth

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Friday, April 20, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: April 20

April 20, 1982 – This Small French Second Empire frame residence was built in Stillwater, Minn., in 1868 for lumberman and surveyor Ivory McKusick. His home was added to the National Register of Historic Places on this date.

http://nrhp.mnhs.org/NRDetails.cfm?NPSNum=82003077




Ivory McKusick Home

Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain April 20, 2018, 
as long as acknowledgement included.  
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Thursday, April 19, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: April 19





April 19, 1920 – Knocked down and robbed by two bandits this evening at the Interior Elevator, St. Louis Park, Elmer Chapel, 56 years old, night watchman, summoned aid by crawling to the boiler room and pulling a cord that blew a fire whistle on the building.

Several St. Louis Park residents responded. When they arrived they found Chapel lying on the boiler room floor, exhausted. He was taken to his home and a physician called. Examination showed Chapel received a bad scalp wound when struck with a blunt instrument.

Chapel, according to the story he told a. C. Kach, A. D. Erkel and F. Bretz, deputy sheriffs, was alone at the elevator when two men approached him. When he refused to let them in, one of the men struck him over the head. Fifteen minutes later, when he regained consciousness, his wallet containing $3 in cash was gone. The men got away before Chapel turned in the alarm.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Victim of Bandit Crawls to Bell Cord. St. Louis Park Elevator Watchman Blows Fire Whistle After Robbery.”; April 20, 1920; p. 1.




http://slphistory.org/interiorelevator/
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: April 18

April 18, 1895 – “The announcement in the telegraph dispatches of today that Chas. Willoughby, of San Francisco, had just perfected a system for telegraphing pictures and the Daily Call of that city had successfully received a picture by it from Los Angeles, attracted the attention of W. H. Lowd, train dispatcher of the Northern Pacific, and he has written Willoughby to inform him that he is infringing on a copyright secured by Lowd several months ago and warning him to desist. Lowd’s plan, however, appears to be considerably better than Willoughby’s, from the published descriptions and requires much less work on the part of the operator.”

Minneapolis Journal; “Willoughby
Must Desist, A Minnesota Inventor Who Holds the Right on Telegraphing Photos”; Minneapolis, Minn.; April 19, 1895.




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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: April 17

April 17, 1911 – On the way to a dance this evening at St. Mathias, Bertha Jordan, aged 14, was shot and killed by her jealous lover, Charles Kunde, aged 21 years.

In the buggy were seated Bertha, her brother Otto Jordon, aged 18, and Kunde. Near the farm of David Wickham, Kunde quarreled with Bertha and threatened to shoot her. The brother attempted to wrest away the revolver and was thrown out of the buggy by the infuriated man. The first shot at the girl missed her. Kunde fired two more and struck her in the temple. The murderer then leaped out and a few minutes later the brother, Otto, who had been injured in the encounter, heard a shot in the bushes and found that Kunde had killed himself, the bodies of the girl and the lover lying 300 feet apart.

The mother of the girl was absent in Brainerd and the father took a lantern and near midnight found his little girl cold in death, her little Easter cloak smeared with her blood. Bertha and Kunde have been keeping company for two years, and it is said she did not care to receive his attentions any longer as he was so jealous. The parents of both are well known farmers.

The Duluth Herald; “Shoots His Sweetheart; Kills Self. Double Tragedy Occurs on County Road Near Brainerd. Charles Kunde Murders Bertha Jordan in Fit of Jealousy. Brother Attempts to Protect Her But Is Thrown From Carriage.”; April 18, 1911; pp. 1 & 6.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainerd,_Minnesota
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Monday, April 16, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: April 16

April 16, 1918 – The mystery of the disappearance of James Edward Marple, the Minneapolis compositor who has been missing since 1 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, has been solved with the discovery this morning of his body in the Mississippi River three and a half miles north of the Crow Wing station.




The floating remains were discovered by a river driver in the employ of the Mississippi and Rum River Boom Company. Coroner Gibson ordered the body removed to Brainerd where Jay henry Long, a brother-in-law of the deceased, positively identified the body at 10 this evening. Identification was only made possible by a ring, which was a wedding gift from his wife, and by the general appearance of the remains, which were badly bloated and gave evidence of having been in the water for several weeks. The ring bore a part of an original inscription that read “From Glory to Eddie. Sept. 24, 1905.” The words “To Eddie” were obliterated in the repairing of the ring, which was accidentally broken a year or two ago.

The generally accepted theory both at Brainerd and in Minneapolis is that Marple boarded a train in Minneapolis with the intention of going to Brainerd to visit his sister, Mrs. Long. He went to Staples and there caught the Northern Pacific Duluth train for Brainerd. Trains entering Brainerd from the west must cross a bridge that spans the Mississippi inside the Brainerd yard limits.



Brainerd Railroad Bridge1

Coroner Gibson believes that the train may have stopped on the bridge, being blocked by a switch engine or a freight, and that Marple thinking he was at the depot, alighted from his coach and fell into the river; a drop of about 30 feet. The theory of foul play is given no credence from the fact that the body bears no marks of violence and from the further fact that in his pockets when the remains were recovered was $13 in cash. A book of rules of Minneapolis Typographical Union No. 42 was also found in the clothing.

Since the disappearance of her husband, Mrs. Marple has been failing in health and when news of Mr. Marple’s remains was given to her this evening, it resulted in her almost total collapse. Both she and her husband have been employed in the mechanical department of the “Minneapolis Journal” for the past 11 or 12 years, she as a linotype operator and he as a compositor. They have no children.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Marple’s Disappearance Solved by the Discovery of His Body. Corpse of Missing Printer Found in Mississippi River Near Crow Wing Station, and Is identified by His Brother-in-Law—Man Mysteriously Left Minneapolis on Jan. 14th—Believed to Have Stepped Off Train to Fall Into the Water—No Indications of Foul Play.”; April 17, 1918; p. 1.

1https://www.soapfactory.org/exhibition/pete-driessen-trestle-support-systems
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Sunday, April 15, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: April 15

*April 15, 2000 - Cal Ripken of Baltimore got his 3,000th hit on this date in the Metrodome in Minneapolis.

http://sabr.org/bioproj/park/b6255f4d




Cal Ripken

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