Longfellow Gardens
Originally from upstate New York, Robert Jones arrived to Minneapolis in 1876. He got a delivering meat, managed to scrape up $500 and bought a fish market on Hennepin Avenue. Jones was known “The Oyster King” after he took out an ad in the St. Paul Pioneer Press with an illustration of himself as a [...]
S. C. Gale house on Marquette Then and Now
Samuel C. Gale was born September 15th, 1827, at Royalston, Massachusetts. He apprenticed to learn the tanner’s trade until 17 years of age. He studied at the academies of New Salem, Shelburne Falls, and West Brattleboro, Vermont and graduated from Yale in 1854. Gale went on to attend Harvard law school one year and taught [...]
