March 4, 1863. Ignatius Donnelly, Republican (Dakota county), March 4, 1863, to March 4, 1869. Eugene M. Wilson, Democrat (Hennepin county), March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1871. John T. Averill, Republican (Ramsey county), March 4, 1875, to March 4, 1877. Jacob H. Stewart, Republican (Ramsey county), March 4, 1877, to March 4, 1879. William D. Washburn, Republican (Hennepin county), March 4, 1879, to March 4, 1883. Knute Nelson, Republican (Douglas county), March 4, 1883, to March 4, 1889. S. G. Comstock, Republican (Clay county), March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1891. Kittel Halvorson, Alliance (Stearns county), March 4, 1891, to March 4, 1893. M. R. Baldwin, Democrat (St. Louis county), March 4, 1893, to March 4, 1895. Charles A Towne, Republican (St. Louis county), March 4, 1895, to March 4, 1897. Page Morris, Republican (St. Louis county), March 4, 1897, to March 4, 1903. C. B. Buckman, Republican (Morrison county), March 4, 1903, to March 4, 1907. Charles A. Lindburgh, Republican (Morrison county), March 4, 1907, to March 4, 1915. At the election in November, 1914, Mr. Lindburgh was re-elected for the term ending March 4, 1917.
CHAPTER IX.
BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.
Nehemish Parker Clarke. Few men in Minnesota have achieved greater success along the chosen lines of work than did Nehemiah P. Clarke. A man of untiring energy, of indomitable perseverance, of keen insight, and of unusual business acumen, he went into large enterprises with perfect confidence of final success, and success was almost invariably the result of his efforts. Two fields of endeavor and opportunity claimed practically the sum of his efforts—business and the raising of the highest grades of stock. In both he won a place among the foremost, and his reputation as a stock breeder was national, if not international. Mr. Clarke was born April 8, 1836, at Hubbardston, Worcester county, Massachusetts. His father, Dr. Shepherd Clarke, was a practicing physician, but the son, having no desire to follow in his father's footsteps, early left home, and made his first venture in Kentucky as a book agent at the age of fourteen. He remained in that state two years and was so successful that thirty years later the firm wrote urging him to take up the business again. He was called home by the death of his only brother, John Flavel Clarke. After attending school for a year and a half at Westminster, Vermont, he went to Detroit at the age of eighteen, and secured employment in a wholesale grocery house, where he remained for a year. In September, 1855, he went to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and worked in a Deacon's hardware store, by these experiences laying the foundation for
