Oscar Suddeth
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1899,1900, 1902 and 1904 City Directories. Isaac's son, Oscar, was born in Georgia in 1887, worked on the Capitol as a "polisher" in 1904 at the age of 17. Oscar died in St. Paul in 1915.
Individual Stories
William L. Sudeith
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William Sudeith was a teamster and according to his great grandson Rudy Thell, MD, he was involved in transporting and hoisting the Quadriga statue into place above the main front entrance of the Capitol building.
Andrew Sullivan
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No employer listed but this is where Michael Giordano and many other Capitol stone cutters lived.
Michael J. Sullivan
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Michael J. Sullivan was born in Minnesota in 1868. He was from Minneapolis where he was active in the union and served as Corresponding Secretary of the Local in 1897. He moved back to Minneapolis and was profiled in the "Prominent Stone Cutters" feature of the Stone Cutters Journal in Nov. and Dec. of 1905 when he was elected as a State Representative to the Minnesota Legislature from Minneapolis. This was a popular address for itinerant stone cutters. Others include: Albert and Charles Laughlin, James Payette, Otto Raschick.
Albert Swanson
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Albert Swanson, a 20-year-old mold caster from Sweden, was killed in a strange accident. A St. Paul Globe headline summarized, “Passing Wagon Drives Over Rope Used to Hoist Material, and Scaffolding, on Which Men Stood, Falls.” Swanson and fellow worker Frank Thiery both plunged forty feet. Swanson collided with timbers and died before hitting the ground. But Thiery landed in a pile of sand and miraculously got away with only a broken leg and he checked himself out of the hospital and went home that night.
Alfred Swanson
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1900 Minneapolis City Directory and Newspaper reports. Alfred Swanson was a Swedish emigrant who died in a fall from scaffolding at the Capitol on April 27, 1900. He worked on the crew doing in-place stone carving. He was about 30 years old and unmarried. His grave is in the Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery in Minneapolis.
Andrew Swanson
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Andrew Swanson worked as a laborer. Ecklund and Westlund also lived at this address.
John Swanson was born in Sweden in 1869 and emigrated in 1885. The 1900 Census has him living with his wife and two children at 106 Viola with fellow stone cutter, Jacob Zadow and his family.Andrew Swanson worked as a laborer. Ecklund and Westlund also lived at this address.
Carl Swanson
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1902 City Directory. Carl Swanson worked as a laborer on the Capitol. William Anderson and Peter Windberg also lived at this address.
Edward Swanson
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1904 City Directory. Edward Swanson worked as a laborer on the Capitol.
Emil Swanson
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Emil Swanson was born in 1859 in Massachusetts of Swedish parents.