1899-1903 City Directories, 1905 Payroll and Census. John Mackie was born in Iowa in 1862 and moved to Minnesota at a young age. He was a stone cutter and was hired by Butler-Ryan in 1899. He worked on the Capitol construction for several years and was hired as a janitor upon completion.
Cleaning Payroll July 1905. Minnie Madigan worked on a crew doing the final cleaning of the Capitol in July of 1905. She was born in Minnesota in 1881 and was recently married and had one child at that time. She and her husband, Edward, a teamster, eventually had 7 children and we believe she died in St. Paul in 1953.
1902 Beam painting payroll. John Madson worked as a laborer.
On June 25, 1900 Alfred Magnuson, also a stone mason and nephew of Nils Nelson, became the fourth death on the job when he fell while setting roof trusses over the Senate chamber. He was brought to the hospital but died four days laterat the age of 23.[1] Magnuson, the son of Nil’s older brother Magnus Jeppsson, was unmarried and he had only been in the country four years. He was five years old when Nils struck out for America back in 1882 so he may have had some memory of his uncle and read some “America letters” from him. His family moved around within th
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Louis Magnus Magnuson was born in Sweden in 1858 and came to America in 1886. He raised a family in St. Paul working as a laborer and died here in 1921. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Maplewood, MN according to Find a Grave.
Otto Manke-The Man on the Top of the Minnesota Capitol Building
1906 Payroll record. Steamfitter William Manuel was born in Wisconsin of Welsh parents in 1873.
Herman Marquardt was born in Prussia in 1877 and worked on the Capitol as a teamster hauling the stone from the train depot up to the construction site. The Pioneer Press reported on March 28, 1898 that he was injured, though not seriously, while unloading at the Capitol.
