Individual Stories

Leroy Heylman

Occupation: 
Engineer

1902 City Directory and Payroll. Leroy Heylman, son of Charles Heylman went to work there as a "toolboy" at the age of 15 in 1903. Charles is found in a April 27, 1902 Payroll for extra work when he was part of a select crew that spent that day, a Sunday, setting the statues. They both worked as engineers for their entire lives in St. Paul and raised families here. I believe their descendants still live in the area.

John Hilliard

Occupation: 
Carpenter

John W. Hilliard was born in Canada in 1858 of Scottish and English parents and came to the U.S. in 1881. He was a carpenter and contractor and worked as a foreman on the Capitol. He moved with his wife and family to Duluth in 1900.

August Holz

Occupation: 
Stone sculptor

1900 City Directory. August Holz was born in Minnesota in 1865. He worked for the ornamental stone carving firm, Purdy and Hutcheson as a stone carver. Like the other carvers he was a member of the Journeyman Stone Cutters Union and, according to a report in the St. Paul Globe, was accepted into the St. Paul Local from Chicago in May of 1900.

Charles Hubbard

Occupation: 
Stone worker
Stone cutter

This address is from the 1900 Census.
Charles T. Hubbard was born in England in 1840 and emigrated with his wife and four of his children in 1884. He is listed as a foreman for Butler-Ryan in the City Directory. He was an activist in the Journeyman Stone Cutters Association and was involved as early as 1887 when he was elected President of the St. Paul Branch. He served in several other offices while he was working on the Capitol and in 1902 he was elected delegate to the International Convention of his Union.

John Humphrey

Occupation: 
Stone worker
Stone sawyer

1898 City Directory. This is probably the same John Humphrey, who appears in the 1900 Census in Pickens, Georgia working as an engineer. He was born in Georgia in 1860 and evidently came to St. Paul in 1898 to work on the Capitol, then returned to Georgia where he had a wife and family.

Louis Hurd

Occupation: 
Painter - Artwork and Decorative

1902 Beam painting payroll. Louis Hurd was a painter hired to paint steel beams for rust proofing. He was born in Illinois in 1857 and he and his wife, Ella, eventually settled in St. Paul in 1889 and raised a large family here. (Hubbard Ave. was called Wesley in 1902.)

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