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 . Great Northern from Minot to Helena, in 1887, he laid inone day ten and one-half miles of track, andon several occasions laid over eight miles aday the same season. The principal of econ-omy and thrift which Mr. Grant adopted atthe outset, together with his great businesssagacity, has enabled him to accumulate alarge fortune. He is interested in a numberof manufacturing enterprises, and is directoi-in three banks. He is also
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 . Great Northern from Minot to Helena, in 1887, he laid inone day ten and one-half miles of track, andon several occasions laid over eight miles aday the same season. The principal of econ-omy and thrift which Mr. Grant adopted atthe outset, together with his great businesssagacity, has enabled him to accumulate alarge fortune. He is interested in a numberof manufacturing enterprises, and is directoi-in three banks. He is also principal stock-holder in the well known Orinoco Company,which secured a valuable concession from theVenezuelan goveinment some years ago, andis largely interested in the Kio Verde CanalCompany of Arizona. Mr. (Jrant enjoys anenviable Ieputation as a man of integrity,and has the confidence of business men in alarge degree. He is a Republican in politics,but has never sought political was, however, induced to accept the officeof mayor of Faribault, and served for twoterms, in 1892 and 18!»;5, being indorsed byboth Democrats and Kepublicans. Dec. 25,. ) (;i;.\.\T. 1S(J0, he was married to Mary Cameron, towhom has been born six daughters and oneson: Samuel, Ellen, Katherine, Isabella,Emma, Mary and Margaret Jane. MERRILL, Galen Allan.—No duty of thestate is more imperative than that of takingcare of the weak and helpless. This servicemay well be regarded as a distinguishingcharacteristic of a Christian community, forin no other system of religion is this humaneduty made obligatory, or even general is the recognition of the necessityof this work of caring for the unfortunateand helpless that a trained class of educatedmen has arisen who are experts in the specialfield, and whose services are indispensableto the well-being of these wards of the of the pioneers in this noble work in thestate of Minnesota is Galen A. Merrill, thesuperint
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