Individual Stories

Ole Moe

Occupation: 
Carpenter

1905 Payroll and St. Paul City Directory. Carpenter Ole Moe was born in Sweden in 1860 and emigrated in 1870. He was a member of Carpenters Local 87. In 1900 he was living in a boarding house with at 607 Jackson with Alfred Magnuson at the time Magnuson fell to his death while working at the Capitol.

Peter Molin

Occupation: 
Mason

1905 Payroll and 1904 St. Paul City Directory. Peter J. Molin was a mason who had a farm in Chisago County where his family lived as he was working on the Capitol in St. Paul. He was born in Sweden in 1858 and emigrated in 1878.

John Mompas

Occupation: 
Laborer

1905 Payroll and St. Paul City Directory. John Monpas worked as a laborer for Butler Bros. on the Capitol though he gave teamster as his occupation in the 1905 City Directory.

Joseph Monpas

Occupation: 
Laborer

1905 Payroll and St. Paul City Directory. Joseph Monpas was born in St. Paul in 1881. He worked as a laborer for Butler Bros. on the Capitol though by June of 1905 he had got a job with the City Gas Co.

Xavier Moore

Occupation: 
Stone worker
Stone cutter

French Canadian Xavier Moore was born in Canada in 1859 and came to St. Paul in 1898. He and fellow stone cutter Charles Duchene lived at 170 Lafond Ave. in 1900 with their wives and children - 13 people in all. He was initiated into the St. Paul Local of the Journeyman Stone Cutters Union in October of 1901.

Robert Morey

Occupation: 
Laborer

1903 Payroll. Robert H. "Harry" Morey was born in Wisconsin in 1875 and moved to St. Paul in about 1903. He worked on the Capitol as a laborer but he became an itinerant carpenter. He and his wife, Alva, moved their family around quite a bit and they were living in Fort Worth in 1920 and Los Angeles in 1930.

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