Individual Stories

Alfred Mortenson

Occupation: 

1905 Payroll and St. Paul City Directory. Alfred Mortenson (or Martinson) was born in Sweden in 1877 and came to Minnesota in 1896. He worked for Butler Bros. as a machinist on the construction.

Gustave Bergman also lived here in 1900.

May Mullaly

Occupation: 

Staff Payroll February 1906. May Mullaly was born in Minnesota in 1888. Her name first appears on a list of cleaners at the Capitol in December of 1904. She would have been about 16 at that time. She later got hired as a "scrub woman" on the Capitol staff.

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