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Ramsey County History – Fall 1974: “The 1850s Shaping of St. Paul”
Virginia Brainerd KunzThe 1850s Shaping of St. Paul Author: Virginia Brainard Kunz An 1856 photo of a dogsled team beneath the Summit Avenue bluff displays “the disparity in housing and jumbled placement of buildings” that characterized the city at the time. Minnesota Pioneer editor James Goodhue advocated replatting the whole mess…
Ramsey County History – Special 1979: Board of Directors
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Board of Directors…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1979: “Letters to Fannie Higgins: The Courtship of Patrick O’Brien”
Michael MaherLetters to Fannie Higgins: The Courtship of Patrick O’Brien Author: Michael Maher The author has assembled a portrait of the Irish immigrant Patrick O’Brien, his life, work, and personality from surviving letters. The result is a portrait of life in St. Paul in the 1860s and ‘70s. The letters…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1979: “The Liberated Woman Patrick O’Brien Married”
Michael MaherThe Liberated Woman Patrick O’Brien Married Author: Michael Maher Fannie Higgins worked in her youth as a dressmaker in Hudson, Wisconsin. The same cache of family letters that inspired the previous article about Patrick O’Brien also yields a portrait of Fannie Higgins and her times. She was independent, a…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1974: “Macalester and Its First Forty Years”
Edward SwansonMacalester and Its First Forty Years Author: Edward Swanson Most of Macalester College’s first 40 years consisted of Edward Duffield Neill’s efforts to get it off the ground. Neill came to St. Paul as a young clergyman in 1849, founded the First Presbyterian and House of Hope churches, the…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1979: “A Grandson Describes: The O’Briens’ House on George Street”
George A. ReaA Grandson Describes: The O’Briens’ House on George Street Author: George A. Rea The author remembers his grandparents, Patrick and Fannie O’Brien, and their big house (still standing) at 255 George Street. Initially they lived on Irvine Park, but grandfather “decided to move the day a neighbor’s bantam chickens…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1979: “The Ghost of the Roaring Twenties”
Lucile ArnoldThe Ghost of the Roaring Twenties Author: Lucile Arnold Lucile Arnold grew up in Gladstone, now vanished into Maplewood, in the 1920s. She and her friends danced the Charleston, rode the streetcars, shopped (and worked) at the Golden Rule, talked about Babe Ruth and Nazimova and Charles Lindbergh, saw…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1979: Board of Directors
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Board of Directors…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1978: “The Dynamic Sister Antonia and the College of St. Catherine’s”
Sister Karen KennellyThe Dynamic Sister Antonia and the College of St. Catherine’s Author: Sister Karen Kennelly A description of the events leading up to the opening of the College of St. Catherine in January 1905 and its early history. The college grew out of St. Joseph’s Academy and was founded by…