1904 City Directory and 1905 Census. Bernard McLaughlin was born in Canada of Irish parents in 1857 and moved to Minnesota in 1885. He married here in 1888 and was living with his three children at this address in 1905.
1902 City Directory. Charles McMillan was an apprentice when he worked on the Capitol.
1905 St. Paul City Directory and Census. John H.McMurtry was an African-American born in Georgia in 1866. He was experienced in working with marble and moved his wife and large family to St. Paul during the Capitol construction.
Fellow Capitol construction worker, Ernest Jones and his family was also living at this address in 1905.
1904-1905 Butler Bros. Payroll. Teamster Frederick McNeely was born in Canada in 1886 and had only recently come to live in St. Paul.
1904 City Directory and 1905 Payroll. Teamster David Mead was born in Minnesota of English parents in 1864. Dale and Bumgardner Payroll. Mead's name is in the Dale and Bumgardner Payroll and he also named Butler Bros. as his employer in the 1904 City Directory.
Goff was changed to Humbolt in 1916.
Stone cutter John Meyer was born in Germany in 1863 and emigrated in 1884. He continued working as a stone cutter in St. Paul and raised his family here. Project researchers believe he died in St. Paul in 1934.
1904 City Directory and Capitol Staff.. Martin Mierva was born in 1845 in Poland and emigrated in 1870. He worked on the Capitol as a laborer and is also listed as a janitor at the new building in February of 1905. He reported in the 1920 Census that he was working as a laborer for the City at the age of 77. He and his wife, Mary, raised a large family in this house, (which was later torn down for the freeway), and was still living here in 1930 when he was 90 years old.
