Portraits of ten Minnesota State Officers, incorporated into a six-pointed star: Governor Ramsey; Lt. Gov Donnelly; Secretary Baker; Treasurer Scheffer; Dept of Instruction Neill; Auditor Kraft; Atty General Cole; Statistician Wheelock; Adjt General Acker; and State Printer Van Vorhes.
Rabbi Wechsler (pronounced Wexler) lead the congregation's sponsoring a Jewish farming settlement in the Dakota Territories. The settlement attempted to help Russian Jewish immigrants find livelihoods working the land in the American West. Though the farm colony ultimately failed, he was considered an innovator and modernizer. Late in his career, after leaving Minnesota, he worked to improve educational opportunities in Mississippi for blacks. He served at Temple Mount Zion from 1878-1886.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Truman Smith, early member of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. Smith and his family came to St. Paul in 1851 from Vermont. He became a fruit and vegetable grower in 1858 after real estate and marble ventures. He was elected president of the Minnesota State Horticultual Society in 1873, the year the society became open to women members, and remained president until 1878. He was reelected in 1884-1885.
Schools in south-central Minnesota (1876-1909). In 1877, the sisters of St. Gertrude's Convent in Shakopee* were asked to care for orphan children in temporary quarters on Ninth and Robert Streets in St. Paul. Sisters Benedicta Klein and Agatha Nachbar assumed the responsibility for six orphans. For this they received a salary of $10.00 a month. When this photograph was taken in 1880, Sister Placida Heine had replaced Sister Agatha Nachbar. Because the number of orphans grew to 17 by 1879, a new building was constructed near the Assumption parochial school so that the orphans could be educated there. After St. Gertrude's Convent was amalgamated with St. Benedict's in 1880, the orphanage came under the jurisdiction of St. Benedict's Convent, St. Joseph, MN. For information about St. Gertrude's Convent, see SBM.03e or sbm00016 (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
Studio portrait of Cornelia Day Wilder Appleby (1868 - 1903), daughter of Amherst H. and Fanny Spencer Wilder and co-founder of the Amherst H. Wilder Charity, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Group photo of members of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, Row 1: Prof. W.M.Hays, A.W.Latham, R.L.H Jewett, Clarence Wedge, S. Hilliman, J.M.Undersood, A.H.Heins. Row 2: Wyman Elliot, J Grimes, W W Pendergast, Wm ?, J.L.Harris, Wm. Mackintosh, D. Akin. Row 3: E.W.Randall, J.R.Cummings, E.R.Pond, H.?, W. Liggett, J.H. Bass, L. Hoyt, John Cooper.
Group portrait of the men's football team. Top row (left to right): Archie Cardle, Class of 1894; John Gill, 1993; Fred Sabin, 1896 (mgr); Charles Murray, 1895; Howard Gordon, 1895. Middle row (l-r): (missing); Arthur Vance, 1895; Fred Yerxa, 1896; Charles Stark, 1893. Bottom row (l-r): Frank Balcome, 1895; George Johnson, 1894; S.M. Kirkwood, 1889; Arthur Welbon, 1893; George Leck, 1893.
Portrait of Helen Sutherland, Hamline University graduate (Class of 1863). She served as the university's preceptress from 1865 to 1867 and taught mathematics and English.