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 734 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY many waters. To employ a remark made at his funeral, 'With the ingenuity of Vulcan, he would hammer out thunder bolts on the anvil of his mind, and hurl them with the power and dexterity of Jove.' "As a paragraphist he was equaled by few living men. His sentences so leaped with life that when the distant reader perused his sheet he seemed to hear the purling brooks and see the agate pavements and crystal waters of the lakes of Minne- sota, and he longed to leave the sluggish stream, the deadly malaria, and worn-out farms, and begin life anew in the terri- tory of the sky-tinted waters. "When the immigrant from week to week was disposed to despond and give way to the distress of homesickness, the hopeful sentences of his paper in relation to the prosperous future chased that dismal feeling away." Such were the characteristics of James M. Goodhue, the pioneer editor of Minnesota, who was born at Hebron, N. H., March 21. 3810. and who died at St. Paul on Friday evening, August 27. 1852, at half-past eight o'clock. His usefulness had just commenced. At the beginning of his manhood's glory he was called to the brighter shores of the Eternal Beyond. Minnesota never had, and never will have, a truer, more ardent or enthusias- tic friend than James M. Goodhue. Hart N. Cook, chief of the Eed Wing fire department, is a na- tive of Watertown, X. Y.. born December 5, 1857. son of James H. and Sarah A. (Barney) Cook, both natives of New York state. Hart N. received his early education in the public schools of his native city and supplemented this training with a course in the Hungerford Collegiate Institute at Adams. X. Y. After leav- ing school he assisted his father on the farm and then learned the machinist trade with the Davis Sewing Machine Company. In October. 1883, he entered the St. Paul fire department and in March of the following year was promoted to the position of lieutenant. Tn July of the same year he was made captain, re- taining that position until 1889, when he was promoted to as- sistant chief engineer. After nine years' faithful service in this capacity he became the chief of the department and served three and one-half years. In 1901 came to Red "Wing as chief of the fire department, which position he has since retained, greatly to the satisfaction of the people of the city.| Otto A. Ulvin. manager of the savings department of the Goodhue County National Bank, is a native of Norway, but has spent the larger part of his life in "Wisconsin and Minnesota. He was born June 18, 1867, a son of Andrew and Gunhild M. (Lar- son) Ulvin. who came to America when young Otto was a child of five years, and located in Pierce county, Wis. Otto received his earliest education in the public schols of Pierce county, and sup-