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Ramsey County History – Summer 2014: “The Stork Family in St. Paul, 1914–1916”
Rebecca A. MavencampThe Stork Family in St. Paul, 1914–1916 Author: Rebecca A. Mavencamp William E. and Grace C. Stork moved to St. Paul from western Minnesota in 1903 along with their children, Florence C. and Norman Clinton. They built a home in the western part of the city near the Mississippi…
Ramsey County History – Spring 2014: “Growing Up in St. Paul: Mike Sanchelli Remembers Swede Hollow”
Steven C. TrimbleGrowing Up in St. Paul: Mike Sanchelli Remembers Swede Hollow Edited by Steven C. Trimble This article is drawn from Mike Sanchelli’s first-person (1915–2003) reminiscences of life in Swede Hollow during the 1920s and ‘30s. The Sanchelli’s first home in Swede Hollow cost $20 plus $20 a year for…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2014: “Who Are These Young Men? The Shell Service Station at Arcade and Jenks”
Linda McShannockWho Are These Young Men? The Shell Service Station at Arcade and Jenks Author: Linda McShannock The article discusses the activities and friendships born out of the neighborhood at Arcade and Jenks streets on St. Paul’s East Side and includes photos from March 1941. A fun-loving group of young…
“Ramsey County History – Fall 2013: “Growing Up in St. Paul: My Family and La Nuova Vita”
Eugene A. RanconeGrowing Up in St. Paul: My Family and La Nuova Vita Author: Eugene A. Rancone This is a memoir of a man who grew up in the neighborhood of St. Paul’s Upper Levee in the 1930s and ’40s. He recounts his immigrant forebears who came to the city from…
Ramsey County History – Spring 2012: “‘As if in a Law Office in Illinois:’ An Interview with President Lincoln”
John B. Sanborn“As if in a Law Office in Illinois:” An Interview with President Lincoln Author: John B. Sanborn This short article is an excerpt from John B. Sanborn’s 1887 autobiographical address titled, “Reminiscences of the Campaigns Against Vicksburg.” Sanborn served as a colonel in the Union Army in the Civil…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2011: “A Different Sesquicentennial: Remembering Fredrick McGhee”
Paul D. NelsonA Different Sesquicentennial: Remembering Fredrick McGhee Author: Paul D. Nelson On October 28, 2011, Author Paul Nelson paused to reflect that Fredrick McGhee (1861–1912) was born on that date 150 years ago. Nelson remembered him that day because he admired the man so much, and because, as his biographer,…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2011: “Growing Up in St. Paul: The West End Neighborhood of the Thirties and Forties”
Douglas R. HeidenreichGrowing Up in St. Paul: The West End Neighborhood of the Thirties and Forties Author: Douglas R. Heidenreich Somewhere, probably in a shoebox filled with curved, faded, brittle pictures shot about seventy years ago on a Kodak Brownie camera, Douglas Heidenreich has a short letter from Gerhard Bundlie, a…
Ramsey County History – Summer 2011: “Growing Up in St. Paul: The Rondo Years, 1948–1950”
Susanne Sebesta HeimbuchGrowing Up in St. Paul: The Rondo Years, 1948–1950 Author: Susanne Sebesta Heimbuch The author describes her years growing up in the Ramsey Hill district in the late 1940s. The neighborhood was a mix of whites and Blacks, as she recalls it, but was known as Cornmeal Rondo and was…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2011: “Growing Up in St. Paul: Louis and Maybelle: Somewhere Out in the West”
John W. LarsonGrowing Up in St. Paul: Louis and Maybelle: Somewhere Out in the West Author: John W. Larson This is John Larson’s evocative view of his aunt, Maybelle, and her husband, Louis, who were proprietors of a nightclub hotel in a Montana boom town, which flourished during the construction of…