prison contract, and engaged in making cooperage. He was one of the
founders of the firms of Seymour, Webster & Co. and Seymour, Sabin &
Co. (the Northwestern Car Company). He was sheriff of Washington
county for two years.
FRANK A. SEYMOUR, only son of George M., was cashier of the First
National Bank of Stillwater for four years, and subsequently cashier
of the Merchants Bank, St. Paul.
MARION O., only daughter of George M. Seymour, graduated from Mount
Holyoke Seminary in 1880.
[Illustration: LOUIS HOSPES]
LOUIS HOSPES, for many years identified with the Schulenberg-Boeckeler
Lumber Company, and father of A. C. Hospes, surveyor general of logs
and lumber, E. L. Hospes of the Schulenberg-Boeckeler Company, and
Otto G. Hospes of the hardware firm of A. C. Hospes & Co., died April
9, 1888. The deceased was born in the landgravate of Hesse-Cassel,
Germany, Feb. 8, 1809, and attended school in the city of Witzenhausen
until he was sixteen years old. He then became a farmer, which
avocation he followed for four years. He then entered the University
of Gottingen, where he made a special study of the theory and practice
of agriculture and of veterinary medicine and surgery. Retiring from
the university, for two years he took charge of the farms on some
large estates. In 1832 he sailed from Bremen for America, arriving at
New York on September 4th of that year. Leaving that city on the
eleventh of the same month, he arrived in St. Louis on October 18th.
From that city he went to St. Charles county, where he engaged in
agriculture and other pursuits until 1840. During his residence there
he married Elvira Wurdeman, who survives him. In 1840 he removed to
Green county, Southwest Missouri, where he made his home for the next
six years among the Ozark mountains, where he and two brothers engaged
in the distilling business. In 1848 Mr. Hospes went to St. Louis and
entered the employ of Schulenberg & Boeckeler, where he remained until
Oct. 21, 1854, when he came to Stillwater to take charge of the
business of his employers here. In 1856 he became a partner in the
concern, and continued so until 1874, when the firm reorganized as the
Schulenberg-Boeckeler Lumber Company. When he retired, his son, E. L.
Hospes, succeeded to his interest, which he now holds. In 1871 Mr.
Hospes visited Europe with his family, spending a year abroad. In
1862, with his associates, he organized the First National Bank of
Stillwater, of which he has been president for twenty years. His life
in this city has been that of an active, energetic and generally
successful business man, and though conservative in his business
operations has always been ready to lend a helping hand to any
deserving or practical business enterprise. He was marked for that
fixed and reliable character which made his name a tower of strength
to any enterprise with which he was connected, and his integrity,
extending to little things, became proverbial. Besides the sons named
he left two daughters, Mrs. H. E. Mann, of Milwaukee, and Mrs. J.
Schlenk, of St. Paul.
DAVID TOZER was born in Miramachi, New Brunswick, in 1823. His early
opportunities for obtaining an education were somewhat limited, and he
obtained only three months' schooling. He came to Stillwater in 1856
and engaged in lumbering, working by the month for five years, and
afterward independently or in partnership with his brother Albert, and
in the firm of Sauntry & Tozer, cutting and rafting lumber. He was
married in Canada, in 1867, to Margaret McKay. Mr. Tozer has been an
industrious and successful man.
DAVID BRONSON was born in Anson, Maine, in 1834. He clerked in Boston
from 1850 to 1855, when he came to Stillwater, where he has since been
engaged in selling goods, lumbering and manufacturing. He was married
in 1861 to Ianthe Davis.
JOHN MALOY is of Irish descent. He was born in Ireland, and emigrated
to New Brunswick. He came to Stillwater with his family in 1853, and
engaged in lumbering. His family consisted of nine sons and three
daughters. The daughters are married. Four of the sons are living; two
of them. Patrick and William, in Oregon, and the others, James and
Robert, in Stillwater.
MRS. SUSANNAH TEPASS, _nee_ Burkhart, was born in Germany, Aug. 10,