City of Saint Peter, Minnesota history

M.B. Stone, John Johnston, Daniel Birdsall and S.L. Wheeler. It was standing in good form in 1874, with numerous additions, and was the residence of Rev.

NORTH WING BURNED IN 1880 The saddest event in connection with the pioneer hospital of Minnesota was the burning of the north wing, on the night of November 15, 1880, when the flames were discovered about seven o'clock in the evening-after dark-in the basement of the male department.

GRAIN SHIPMENTS In 1881 there was shipped from St Peter wheat as follows: St Paul & Sioux City Elevator Company, 169,784 bushesls; William Schimmel, 76,000 bushels; Sackett & Fay, 100,400 bushels; Winona & St Peter Elevator Company, 45,000 bushels: Harkee's Mills, 21,000 bushels.

These two, in connection with A.J. Lamberton and W.I. Couplin, constituted the board of directors in 1883-in their hands the affairs of the company rested.

The story in brief, of the present public library is as follows: On February 23, 1901, Andrew Carnegie was asked to donate toward founding a permanent library at St Peter.

August 25, 1903, the building site committee reported that it had purchased the lot at the corner of Minnesota avenue and Mulberry street for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

Rhoda Peterson became assistant librarian in 1908 and is still serving.

The Home Dress Manufacturing Company is a corporation established in 1909 by F.M. Donahower, E.S. Sackett, Doctor J.L. Holmberg and William M Amundson.

The factory employs sixty persons, largely women, at the plant in St Peter, while fifty more were engaged at a branch establishment at New Ulm in 1910.

The postal savings department was established here on July 1, 1912, but owing to the large amount of banks in the city and the four per cent interest allowed on money, the deposits in the postoffice are quite small.