August Waddel
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Weddel and Wedall are incorrect spellings found for August Wedell. See the entry under this spelling
Individual Stories
Arvid Wahlberg
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1905 Payroll and 1903-1905 St. Paul City Directories, family account. Arvid Wahlberg was born in Sweden in 1875 and emigrated in 1901. He married Clara Mathiason. Clara made lace curtains for the governor's residence, 25 University Ave. W. in St. Paul during William Rush Merriam's term (1889-1893). Her granddaughter, Mary Jane Wahlberg Hand, recalls that Clara was lacemaker for the King and Queen of Sweden before emigrating. Arvid and Clara's son Lloyd Arvid Wahlberg was born in 1912.
Ole Wahlberg
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1905 Payroll and St. Paul City Directory. Ole Wahlberg was born in Sweden in 1852 and emigrated in 1881. Carpenters' Local 87 records indicate that he joined the union in 1899. Wahlberg worked both for the general contractor, Butler Bros., and directly for the Capitol Commission in 1905. He and his wife, Hedda, raised a large family in St. Paul and he died here in 1934.
Oscar Waldon
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1904 City Directory. Oscar Walden worked on the Capitol as a laborer.
Mary E. Walker
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Staff Payroll. Mary E. Walker got hired onto the staff of the new Capitol as a "toilet attendant," though in the 1900 Census she gave her occupation as "nurse." She was one of the earliest African American settlers in St. Paul. She was born in Virginia maybe in 1834 (Census records vary)and by 1857 she was married to Nace Walker and living in St. Paul. Nace died in 1883 and his obituary said he had moved to St. Paul in 1849. They had no children.
William Wallace
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1904 City Directory. William Wallace worked as a laborer on the Capitol.
Thomas Walsh
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This was a popular rooming house for Capitol workers. John Westlund, Edward Ecklund and others lived here.
Joseph Wampach
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1902 Beam painting payroll. Joseph Wampach was born in Minnesota of German parents in 1878. He worked on the Capitol as a painter and traveled around with his work, but eventually died in St. Paul in 1961. Painter S.O. Felt also lived at this address.
Frank Warpecha
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1904 City Directory. Frank Warpecha worked as a laborer on the Capitol. Many other Capitol workers boarded here.
Frank Washick
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Frank Washick was born in Bohemia in 1872 and came to America in 1875. He and his wife Elizabeth, (née Bochek) raised a large family in this house in the West 7th St. Area while working as a stationary engineer. He died here in St. Paul in 1929 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Maplewood, MN, according to a Find a Grave entry.