Individual Stories

James Ross

Occupation: 
Stone worker
Stone cutter

James Ross was active in the Journeyman Stone Cutters Union and served as vice president of the Local in 1901 and delegate to the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly in 1902. He was born in Scotland in 1857 and emigrated in 1886. By 1906 he had moved on to Winnepeg.

Ingvald Rossebo

Occupation: 
Laborer

1902 Beam painting payroll. Ingvald Rossebo was born in Norway in 1872 and emigrated in 1894. He married in St. Paul and his first son was born here before he headed west, eventually settling in Idaho where he died in 1949.

John Rowland

Occupation: 
Stone worker

John Rowland was one of many stone cutters to live at this address. Others include: Giordano, Ellis, McKenna, Charles and Peter Anderson and Pickering. He joined the St. Paul Stone Cutters in May of 1899 the same week as Purdy and Laughlin.

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