1902 City Directory. Ole Husford was an apprentice working on the Capitol when he lived in the Scandinavian boarding house in 1902. Fellow Capitol worker Mons Johnson also lived here. In 1900 Alfred Magnuson, John L. Olson and Ole Moe were also living at this address at the time Magnuson fell to his death at the Capitol.
William J. Hutcheson was half of the Purdy and Hutcheson Co., a Chicago based ornamental sculpture firm, that did the stone carving at the Capitol. Hutcheson was born in Scotland in 1857 and died in St Paul in 1907. Like the other stone carvers he was a member of the Journeyman Stone Cutters of North America and he cleared into the St. Paul local in February of 1900. Hutcheson had worked as a stone carver in Paris and Glasgow before coming to America. In the U.S. he worked in New York in 1888 and also on Burton Hall at the University of Minnesota in 1894. He settled in St.
Edward F. Hyland (1850-1931) was born in New York of Irish parents and made his living working as a bricklayer in St. Paul. He died in the Ramsey County Alms House.
1905 Payroll, 1904 St. Paul City Directory and 1905 Census. Norwegian Peter Ingerson was born in 1855 and emigrated with his wife in 1882. He worked as a laborer on the Capitol construction. The Ingersons lived at 190 1/2 Martin (now W. Central Avenue). Peter's son, Carl Ingerson, was a musician and activist in the Musicians Union who later became a physician and served as Ramsey County Coroner from 1918 to 1955.
1905 Payroll and St. Paul City Directory, 1900 Census. Another Swedish stonemason was a man named Eric Isaacson (1860-1934). Isaacson, the son of a charcoal maker named Isak Andersson and friend of Nils Nelson, grew up in Grangärde parish in Dalarna province. Born in 1860, he was the third son in the family and he left for America in 1880 at the age of 20. He named Rush City as his destination and he may have lived there for a few years, but by 1884 he was living in St. Paul at 718 De Soto and working as a mason.
1903 City Directory. Richard Jackson worked as a carpenter on the Capitol.
Dale and Bumgardner Payroll. Walter Jackson was born in Minnesota in 1878. He worked for Dale and Bumgardner grading the Capitol grounds.
Dale and Bumgardner Payroll. August Jahnke was born in Germany in 1833 and emigrated with his wife in 1863. In 1905, at the age of 71, he worked as a teamster grading the Capitol grounds.
1905 Payroll and St. Paul City Directory. William Jameson was a teamster.
Judge Jarrett (1880-1965) was one of the African Americans from Georgia recruited by the Butlers to work on the marble in St. Paul. He arrived in 1902 and his name is found in the payroll records of 1904-5. His mother and sister and her family also moved to St. Paul. At the time of the 1905 Census, Jarrett was living at 886 Park with fellow Capitol worker Issac Suddeth. After the completion of the Capitol, Jarrett went on to work in the quarries at Kasota and then for the Northern Pacific Railroad. Jarrett is listed in the 1902-1904 St. Paul City Directory and 1905 Payroll.
