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Louis W. Hill and Glacier National Park Biloine W “A Rented House Is Not a Home” Thomas Frankson: Real Estate Promoter and Unorthodox Politician Roger Bergerson —Page 13 Summer 2010 Volume 45, Number 2 “He Had a Great Flair for the Colorful” Louis W. Hill and Glacier National Park Biloine W. Young with Eileen R. McCormack Page 3 As part of his campaign to promote travel to Glacier National Park on the trains of the Great Northern Railway, Louis W. Hill hired Winhold Reiss (1880–1953) to paint portraits of the Blackfeet Indians who lived in that part of Montana. This 1927 portrait shows Lazy Boy, Glacier National Park, in his medicine robes. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY RAMSEY COUNTY Executive Director Priscilla Farnham Founding Editor (1964–2006) Virginia Brainard Kunz Editor Hıstory John M. Lindley Volume 45, Number 2 Summer 2010 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON DECEMBER 20, 2007: Thomas H. Boyd The Ramsey County Historical Society inspires current and future generations President Paul A. Verret to learn from and value their history by engaging in a diverse program First Vice President of presenting, publishing and preserving. Joan Higinbotham Second Vice President Julie Brady Secretary C O N T E N T S Carolyn J. Brusseau Treasurer 3 “He Had a Great Flair for the Colorful” Norlin Boyum, Anne Cowie, Nancy Louis W. Hill and Galcier National Park Randall Dana, Cheryl Dickson, Charlton Dietz, Joanne A. Englund, William Biloine W. Young and Eileen R. McCormack Frels, Howard Guthmann, John Holman, Kenneth R. Johnson, Elizabeth M. Kiernat, Rev. Kevin M. McDonough, Susan McNeely, 13 “A Rented House Is Not A Home” Debra Mitts Smith, Laurie M. Murphy, Thomas Frankson: Real Estate Promoter Richard H. Nicholson, Marla Ordway, Jay Pfaender, Jeffrey Slack, Ralph Thrane, and Unorthodox Politician Richard Wilhoit. Roger Bergerson Directors Emeriti W. Andrew Boss George A. Mairs* 24 A Saint Paul Chronicle Richard T. Murphy Sr. The Return of the “Black Maria” EDITORIAL BOARD Anne Cowie, chair, James B. Bell, Maya J. Beecham Thomas H. Boyd, John Diers, John Milton, Debra Mitts-Smith, Laurie M. Murphy, 27 Book Review Paul D. Nelson, Richard H. Nicholson, Jay Pfaender, David Riehle, G. Richard Slade, Steve Trimble, Mary Lethert Wingerd. Publication of Ramsey County History is supported in part by a gift from Clara M. Claussen and Frieda H. Claussen in memory of Henry H. Cowie Jr. HONORARY ADVISORY BOARD and by a contribution from the late Reuel D. Harmon William Fallon, William Finney, Robert S. Hess, George Latimer, Joseph S. Micallef, Marvin J. Pertzik, James Reagan, Rosalie E. Wahl. *deceased A Message from the Editorial Board RAMSEY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Commissioner Jan Parker, chair ames J. Hill built the Great Northern Railway as a freight line to carry America’s cargo. Commissioner Tony Bennett JBut his son, Louis W. Hill, attracted passengers to take the train to a new, grand des- Commissioner Toni Carter Commissioner Jim McDonough tination: Glacier National Park. This issue contains an excerpt from the Ramsey County Commissioner Rafael Ortega Historical Society’s new book, where Billie Young and Eileen McCormack tell the fas- Commissioner Victoria Reinhardt Commissioner Janice Rettman cinating story of how the younger Hill developed the park as a tourist mecca, complete Julie Kleinschmidt, manager, with Swiss-chalet-style housing, luring vacationers to its grand vistas. The article also Ramsey County delineates Hill’s complex relationship with the Blackfeet tribe, whom he simultaneously Ramsey County History is published quarterly took advantage of and supported as he sought to popularize the park’s Indian heritage. by the Ramsey County Historical Society, For a perspective on Native Americans in Minnesota history, read Mary Lethert Wing- 323 Landmark Center, 75 W. Fifth Street, St. erd’s new book, North Country: The Making of Minnesota, insightfully reviewed here by Paul, MN 55102 (651-222-0701). Printed in U.S.A. Copy right © 2010, Ram sey County Professor Gwen Westerman. We are lucky to have Wingerd as a member of the Editorial His torical So ciety. ISSN Number 0485-9758. Board of this magazine. This issue also contains Roger Bergerson’s biography of the Mid- All rights reserved. No part of this publica- way area’s real estate developer and politician, Thomas Frankson, and Maya Beecham’s tion may be reprinted or otherwise repro- duced without written permission from the vignette of the St. Paul Police Department’s famous “Black Maria,” horse-drawn paddy publisher. The Society assumes no respon- wagon, which is still available for public viewing. Enjoy! sibility for state ments made by contributors. Fax 651-223-8539; e-mail address: admin@ rchs.com; web site address: www.rchs.com Anne Cowie, Chair, Editorial Board 2 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY “A Rented House Is Not a Home” Thomas Frankson: Real Estate Promoter and Unorthodox Politician Roger Bergerson f people today have any awareness of him at all, it is probably because of kept track of all these holdings is any- the green- and- white- tile- covered mansion Thomas Frankson built almost a body’s guess. century ago at the west entrance to St. Paul’s Como Park. Some know, too, He had what charitably might be called I a down- to- earth sense of humor. An ad- of the buffalo he gave to the city’s new zoo. There was much more, however, vertisement, obviously his own creation, to this businessman who bought and sold farmland across the United States, took the form of a “Testimonial From invested in Missouri timber and Kansas oil, and developed several Como neigh- Ole Larson, Jamestown, Nort Dakota.” borhoods. Frankson also was an independent politician, bankrolling his own This was a tale told by a poor but hard- political campaigns and making a defiant bid for the Minnesota governorship working Norwegian who lacks the re- that failed so resoundingly he never offered his services to the electorate again. sources to wed his ladylove. He sees a Frankson land ad and contacts him: For a time, he was thought to be a million- Fillmore to set up a real estate business. “Vell he, I tell you, be a good fella, aire, though he was not one when he died. Frankson became prosperous and a well- Has plenty land, and dealer in Nor is there landmark legislation that en- known civic leader by being willing to Everything a man can tink of dures as his political legacy. Nonetheless, spend money to make money and believ- From steam engines to a pin.” he led a rich, full life; his contributions ing in the power of advertising, two prin- Ole buys forty acres in North Dakota were many; and his odyssey through the ciples he would adhere to for the rest of world of commerce and politics provides and after several years farming in “Nort his life. Dakota land of promise, finest country insights into an era of expansion and Almost every town of any size in the sometimes turmoil, both for the Twin ever seen,” has saved enough to send for county had a weekly newspaper, some- his wife- to- be. Cities and greater Minnesota. times two of them. The publishers of those Frankson left no personal papers, but “If you know of a young man who papers tended to think highly of Frankson wants to settle down,” Ole says, there is strong evidence that he was a and it is easy to understand why. In 1904, bright, opportunistic yet principled man for example, the editor of the Spring Valley “Tell him go straightvay to Spring Valley and a familiar name to Minnesotans in Sun reported he had “printed a lot of hand Vithout delay Tom Frankson see the early decades of the twentieth century. bills for Thomas Frankson Thursday and I know vat he can do for odders He met with his first successes in Spring will be hanged if he didn’t go and put the By vat he has don for me. Valley, Minnesota, and had he remained same thing into the Stewartville Star and in Fillmore County, just north of the Iowa “He can sell you farm in Nort Dakota, half a dozen papers. He makes his money line, probably would have continued as In Minnesota, or in Tennessee, one of its leading citizens for the rest of by the use of printer’s ink.” On another oc- In Mississippi or Louisiana— 1 his days. Instead, restless energy and an casion, the same paper stated, “It is gener- It makes no difference vare it be.” eye to the potential of the rapidly grow- ally admitted that Mr. Frankson is the most Frankson was an avid collector—of al- ing Twin Cities prompted the forty- four- successful real estate dealer in Southern most everything. When he bought a farm, year- old to uproot his family and move Minnesota,” after only a year or two in there often was a Civil War- era firearm north to St. Paul in 1913, where his future business. left in the barn, which soon went on dis- success was derived from the same tal- Frankson chartered railroad sleeper play in his office or home. He returned ent and business acumen that had already cars to take prospective customers to in- from Tennessee with a flintlock rifle and served him so well. spect land in Texas and brought others a brick from Davy Crockett’s house. from the East to tour Fillmore County. Indian beads and seashells were among Frankson Sells Farmland He traded North Dakota acreage for the the curios. And then there were the ani- The one- time country schoolteacher grad- hotel in Wykoff, Minnesota.
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