On This Date in Minnesota History: May 24

May 24, 2010 – A Minnesota man was named the tallest man in the United States on this date by Guinness World Records. Igor Vovkovinsky of Rochester, Minn., measured 7 feet 8.33 inches tall during a session of NBC’s “The Dr. Oz Show.”  The 27-year-old Vovkovinsky “moved to Minnesota with his mother from the Ukraine when he was 7 years old” so he could receive “treatment at the Mayo Clinic for a pituitary disease that spurred his rapid growth.” According to Guinness, “the world’s tallest man is Turkey’s Sultan Kosen, who stands at 8 feet 1 inch tall.”

http://blogs.theworldlink.com/weird_news/tag/minnesota/

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 23

May 23, 2004 - A circus performer fell 30 feet to her death “onto a concrete floor during a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show” in St. Paul. According to a spokesman, “it was the first fatal accident in a Ringling Bros. circus in at least a decade.”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-05-23-circus-death_x.htm

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 22

May 22, 1934 – C. Arthur Lyon died on this date after being “clubbed by strikers” during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike during the summer of 1934. Lyon, a factory executive and “leader in the Citizens Alliance, a group of employers that squashed unions in Minneapolis for 30 years,” had volunteered to help control the strike, signing on as a special deputy. His name was added to the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C. for fallen officers. While not a police officer, he is considered to have died in the line of duty.

StarTribune; “Volunteer killed by strikers in 1934 honored”; Minneapolis, Minn.; May 14, 2012; pp. 9A and 10A.

1934 Minneapolis Teamster's Strike

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 21

May 21, 1917 – Willis Haviland of St. Paul, an aviator in the La Fayette Escadrille, has been awarded the war cross with a palm in recognition of his services in bringing down enemy machines. News of the honor given the 26-year-old young man was contained in dispatches from Paris today.

Haviland went to Europe as an ambulance driver 18 months ago. When he finished his six months’ service in the ambulance corps, he went into the French flying corps. His mother, Mrs. Grace N. Haviland, recently went to Paris to be near her son.

On April 30, Haviland engaged in battle with German air machines at a height of 4,000 feet. After a spirited fight one German plane was riddled with bullets and collapsed.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “St. Paul Boy Wins French War Cross for nerve in Air. Brings German Plane Down After Battle at Height of 4,000 Feet.”; May 22, 1917; p. 4.

French War Cross with Palm
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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 20

May 20, 1920 – Seven days after he is alleged to have deserted his wife and baby in Duluth, Frank W. Hart, 33 years old, is said to have married a widow in Seattle last August. Today he was arrested in Chicago and tomorrow he will be en route to Duluth to answer the charge of abandoning his 7-months-old daughter.

Hart’s trouble started when the two women who claim to be Mrs. Hart accidentally met last week. They compared notes and took their stories to St. Louis County Attorney Greene, who issued the complaint against Hart.

“Mrs. Hart No. 1” formerly was Miss Matilda Tilseth, 29. She is now employed as a clerk. The other was Mrs. Agnes Lawson, 36, of Seattle. She is visiting a sister in Duluth.

While Hart was in Duluth September 13, 1918, on a furlough from Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex., he married Miss Tilseth after they had known each other a year. Hart is said to have told her he had a home and a mother in Minneapolis.

Mrs. Lawson, it is claimed, married Hart on August 20, 1919. She was an attractive widow of Seattle and had met Hart while visiting friends in Duluth.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “2 Women Claim Duluth Man, Cause His Arrest as Child Deserter”; May 21, 1920; p. 8.

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 19

May 19, 1905 – Driven from home by an angry husband and father who said they “couldn’t do enough work to pay for their board,” Mrs. Lizzie Hagedus and her three small children of Forman, N. D., were found exhausted in the Minneapolis Union Station this evening.

All were so weak from hunger that they could scarcely walk and a policeman took them to Central Station where they were given shelter until the following morning.

The woman told her story to Matron Sarah Schaeffer, and said she had no friends to ask for aid. Both she and the children, she said, had worked on the farm of her husband, who abused them continually, and told them to do more work. Finally, the husband decided that she was worthless, and told her to look for another home.

With her children she walked 30 miles to Barrett, Minn., and there the citizens took up a collection to send to Minneapolis, where, they had heard, poor people were well cared for. The money obtained was just enough to purchase the transportation, and the long fast, together with the walk, exhausted the family.

Barrett, Minn.¹

 Forman, N. D.²

The following morning the poor department took up the case and learned that the woman’s story was true. As she is not a resident of Minneapolis, she could not be given aid, and a return ticket to her home was purchased. Arrangements were made with a charitable society at Forman to care for her, and to institute proceedings against her husband.

The Minneapolis Journal; “Driven Out by Brutal Father. Pitiful Plight or Women and Three Children. Turned Away from Home on Dakota Farm Because They Could Not Do More Work—Walked Thirty Miles to Barrett, Minn.—Found Exhausted in Passenger Station in Minneapolis.”; May 20, 1905; p. 6.

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 18

*May 18, 1914 – The Minneapolis district regional reserve bank became a reality today when representatives of five national banks in the district met at the Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis and signed certificates of incorporation. Similar action was taken in the 11 other districts of the Federal Reserve System.

Immediately following the signing of the articles E. J. Decker, president of the Minneapolis Clearing House Association, wired M. C. Elliott, secretary of the organization committee at Washington, that the incorporation had been effected.

The signed articles of incorporation were mailed to Washington in the afternoon.

The incorporation was accomplished in record time. Promptly at 11 a. m.. the time for which the meeting was called, the incorporators met in the directors’ room of the bank.

No chairman was elected, and all formalities were sidetracked. Mr. Decker presented to the incorporators the certificate of incorporation. The 10 signatures were appended in five minutes and the incorporators went to lunch at the Minneapolis Club as the guests of the Clearing House Association.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Reserve Bank Is Reality It Takes Incorporators Just Five Minutes to Sign Articles.”; May 19, 1914; p. 9.

Federal Reserve Bank, Fifth and Marquette, Minneapolis

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