Individual Stories

John Lind

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1905 Payroll and St. Paul City Directory. John Lind was born in Sweden in 1844 and emigrated in 1889. He worked on the Capitol as a laborer. (Apparently not the John Lind who was Governor of Minnesota 1899-1900!)

Nels Lindbloom

Occupation: 

1905 Payroll and St. Paul City Directory. Nels Lindbloom was born in Sweden in 1871 and emigrated in 1892. He joined Carpenters Local 87 in 1900 on the same day as fellow Capitol carpenter Nels Sylvander.

John Lundgren

John Lundgren was born in Sweden in 1873 and emigrated in 1893. He worked as a stone cutter for Butler-Ryan in 1899 but by the time of the 1900 Census he was working as a tile layer. By 1910, still a tile layer, he and his wife were raising 7 children in St. Paul.

Arthur Lynch

Occupation: 

Dale and Bumgardner payroll. Arthur Lynch worked as a teamster on the grading of the Capitol grounds. He was born in Minnesota in 1884 and had moved to St. Paul in 1902 with his parents and siblings from rural Swift County where they were farmers. Lynch married and raised a large family in St. Paul.

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