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- 819 St. Clair Avenue, St Paul, MN: Built in 1923. The building is a two story, 12 room, five bedroom, two bathroom, 2900 square foot, frame house, with a detached garage.
The 1930 city directory indicates that Marcellus L. Countryman, Jr., assistant general counsel for the Northern Pacific Railroad, and his wife, Ruth Countryman, resided at this address. In 1934, Marcellus L. Countryman, Jr., and Ruth Murray Countryman resided at this address.
Marcellus L. Countryman, Jr. (1894- ,) with Walker Downer Hines (1870-1934,) represented the Great Northern Railroad before the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1924 on the question of the consolidation of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, the Great Northern Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad, and their subsidiaries, and represented the Northern Pacific Railroad in an arbitration proceeding before Mr. William T. Faricy in 1938 over a dispute between the Great Northern Railway Company, the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, and Northern Pacific Railway Company over the division of revenues under the 1924 Seattle-Portland pool train contract. M. L. Countryman, with E. C. Lindley and Thomas R. Benton, unsuccessfully represented the railroad in Great Northern Railway Company v. State Of Minnesota ex rel the Village Of Clara, 246 U.S. 434 (1918,) which challenged a Minnesota statute that required railroads to build sidewalks where the right of way of the railroad crosses the street as an exercise of State police power.
M. L. Countryman, with C. W. Bunn and D. F. Lyons, successfully represented the Director General of Railroads in Davis v. Wallace, 257 U.S. 478 (1922,) enjoining the collection of a special excise tax assessed against each of five railroad companies for the years 1918 and 1919 under a North Dakota statute.
Marcellus L. Countryman, Jr., with Anthony Kane, Louis E. Torinus, Jr., Charles A. Hart, Martin L. Cassell, Jordan J. Hillman and Richard Musenbrock, unsuccessfully represented the railroad in an appeal from an adverse Interstate Commerce Commission decision concerning through routes and joint rates for rail traffic moving in the Pacific Northwest in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company v. the United States 366 U.S. 745 (1961.)
M. L. Countryman, Jr., of St. Paul, was the head of the Northern Pacific Railway’s Legal Department, was appointed a Vice-President and Western Counsel of the Northern Pacific Railway, was associated with the Northern Pacific Railway since 1924, and was its General Counsel since 1949.
Marcellus L. Countryman ( -1944) died in Ramsey County.
Marcellus L. Countryman, Jr., (1894-1975) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Simmons, and died in Dakota County, Minnesota.
The 1880 federal census indicates that Marcellus Countryman (1863- ,) a farm laborer who was born in Minnesota, resided with his brother, Ambrose Countryman (1850- ,) a lawyer who was born in New York, in Appleton, Swift County, Minnesota. In 1880, the Ambrose Countryman household also included his wife and daughter, Jennie Countryman (1851- ,) who was born in England, and Helen L. Countryman (1877- ,) who was born In Minnesota, and his brother-in-laws and sister-in-law, Albert Beswick (1862- ,) a farm laborer who was born in Minnesota of English-born parents, Minnie Beswick (1866- ,) who was born in Minnesota of English-born parents, and Peter Beswick (1864- ,) a farm laborer who was born in Minnesota of English-born parents.
Morman Church records indicate that Marcellus L. Countryman (1862-1944) was born at Nininger or Hastings, Dakota County, Minnesota, his parents were Peter Fort Countryman (1829-1905/1906) and Elizabeth E. Gleason Countryman (1828-1899/1900,) and he had 12 siblings, Ambrose Countryman (1850- ,) Levi Alasco Countryman (1851- ,) Florence Countryman (1854- ,) Emily J. Countryman (Mrs. Llewelleyn) Cobb (1856- ,) Harriette Lana "Hattie" Countryman (Mrs. Stephen Daley) Cecil (1858- ,) John Countryman, Mary Countryman, George E. Countryman (1865- ,) Daniel Melville Countryman (1867- ,) Minnie Lulu Countryman (1870/1972- ,) Luceba "Lulu" Countryman (Mrs. E. H.) Maskrey/Mascrae (1870 - ,) and James Harvey Countryman (1875- .)
Ambrose Countryman married Jennie Beswick. Levi Alasco Countryman married Sarah Strathers. Henriette Countryman Cecil and Stephen Cecil (1855-1926) were married in 1878 and the couple had two children, Reuben Marcellus Cecil (1881-1919,) and Emily 'Enna' Louise Cecil (1885-1970.) Marcellus Countryman (1862-1944) married Cora Mae Simmons (1865-1947.)
Peter Fort Countryman was a County supervisor in 1871 and a County clerk in 1872 and 1873.
Social Security/Railroad Retirement System records include Marcellus L. Countryman (1895-1975.)
Peter F. Countryman was the brother of Levi Nelson Countryman (1832-1924) and was involved in the business of Tozer & Countryman.
Levi Countryman was born in LaFargeville, New York, and moved to Hartsville, Indiana (ca. 1848-1850) where he taught school and attended Hartsville College. In 1851, he married Alta Chamberlain, and in 1855 they moved to Hastings, Minnesota, for reasons relating to Levi Countryman's health. In Minnesota, he farmed in Dakota County, attended and graduated from Hamline University, Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1861, was mustered into Company D, Second Minnesota Regiment (February 7, 1865) and mustered out (May 2, 1865), and returned to farming in Nininger, Dakota County. Later, Levi Countryman was employed in the farm implement business, primarily with the Buffalo-Pitts Company, where he worked and headed the Fargo, North Dakota branch from 1883 to 1892 when he moved to the Minneapolis branch where he worked until his retirement in 1907. Levi N. Countryman (1832- ) was born in Orleans, New York, moved to Minnesota at 1855, settled in Hastings, Minnesota, graduated from Hamline University, Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1861, served during the American Civil War, was engaged in the sale of threshing machines, moved to Minneapolis, and died in Minneapolis.
Marcellus L. Countryman (1862- ) was born in Hastings, Minnesota, studied law at Washington University, was admitted to the practice of law in 1885, settled in St. Paul in 1886, and was an attorney for the Great Northern Railroad.
Peter F. Countryman (1829-1906) was born in Jefferson County, New York, moved to Minnesota in 1855, settled in Hastings, Minnesota, initially was engaged in a mercantile business, served in the Second Minnesota Regiment during the American Civil War, subsequently was a farmer, and died in Hastings, Minnesota.
Ambrose Countryman (1850- ) was born in St. Lawrence County, Minnesota, moved to Minnesota in 1855, graduated from the Washington University Law School in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1874, practiced law in Minneapolis from 1874 until 1878, and moved to Appleton, Minnesota in 1878.
The property was last sold in 1999 with a sale price of $285,000. [1]
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