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 . of armories for the ^?ational Guard,at public expense. In politics Mr. Welch hasalways been a Republican, but has neversought nor held any political oUice. He isa member of the Masonic fraternity; of theElks; of the Minneapolis Club, and the LaFayette Club. In religion he affiliates withthe Episcopalians, although he is not enrol-led as a member of the church. He was married November 10, 1887, to Miss ElizabethJones, of Detro
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 . of armories for the ^?ational Guard,at public expense. In politics Mr. Welch hasalways been a Republican, but has neversought nor held any political oUice. He isa member of the Masonic fraternity; of theElks; of the Minneapolis Club, and the LaFayette Club. In religion he affiliates withthe Episcopalians, although he is not enrol-led as a member of the church. He was married November 10, 1887, to Miss ElizabethJones, of Detroit, Mich. They have two chil-dren living: Elizabeth Jeanette, 8 years old,and Victor Stuart, two years old. A daugh-ter, Dorothy, died in infancy. ATWATER. Isaac, of .MiiiiicaiPdlis. wasone of the first settlers at St. Anthcmy, theeditor of the first paper published in that lit-tle hamlet, one of the foremost lawyers in thestate of Minnesota, an occupant of a seat onthe supreme bench of that state for severalyears, and has been connected with the Hennepiu county bar longer than any man nowliving. He is a native of New York state. HISTORY OF THE GREAT ISAAC AT WATER. and was born at Homer, Cortland county,A[ay 3, 1818. His father was Ezra Atwater,a farmer, a native of Connecticut, of Englishextraction, whose ancestors settled in NewHaven about the year 1718. His mother wasEsther Learning, also a native of Connect-icut, of English descent. Up to his sixteenthyear he was employed on the farm and thenentered Cazenovia Seminary, afterwai-dsHomer Academy, where he prejiared forcollege. He entered Yale University in1840, and graduated in the then took up the study of law in thelaw dei)artment of that institution, gradu-ating in 1847, and was admitted to the barthe same jear. He commenced the prac-tice of his profession in New York City, buton account of ill health was compelled toseek a change in climate. In 1850 he camewest and located at St. Anthony,
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