History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . s afterwards repro-duced in the leading magazines of the Armstrong decided in 1877 to return toilinnesota and accordingly (oncentrated hisbusiness affairs, and in 187S located at , filling the position of railroad landagent. In 1878 he organized the Old Bankof St. James and has since remained in thatbusiness, and is known as one of the mostprominent business men in southern Minne-sota. He is a writer of known
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . s afterwards repro-duced in the leading magazines of the Armstrong decided in 1877 to return toilinnesota and accordingly (oncentrated hisbusiness affairs, and in 187S located at , filling the position of railroad landagent. In 1878 he organized the Old Bankof St. James and has since remained in thatbusiness, and is known as one of the mostprominent business men in southern Minne-sota. He is a writer of known ability, andis the author of a recent historical work of400 pages, entitled The Early EmpireBuilders of the Great West. He is a lifemember of the Dakota Historical Societyand of the Minnesota Historical prominence of the Armstrong familyhas not been confined to one member, asThomas H. Armstrong, a brother, hasserved as lieutenant governor of Minnesota,and another brother, Augustus Armstrong,served four years as United States marshalfor Minnesota, and his youngest brother,Edward (\. Armstrong, the only one nowliving, is a well known lawyer of Olmsted. \UMSTl:0.\G. county, Minn. He was married in 1872 toJIartha Bordens, of Detroit, Mich. He hasno children living. ^ BARTHOLOMEW, Joseph Milton, ofthe supreme court of North Dakota, is one ofthe first selections by the people of thatstate for that position. This fact will al-ways be an honorable distinction. He wasborn in McLean count}-. 111., in I84;i, andconus of old American historical grandfather was General Joseph Bar-tliolomew, an associate and warm personalfriend of President William Henry Harri-son, being second in command under at the celebrated battle of Tippe-canoe. Judge Bartholomews father was afarmer and civil engineer in moderate cir-<nmstances. He was an early pioneer ofWisconsin, settling in Columbia of Wisconsin—as the region wasthen called—in 1845. He wa
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