| Summary: | COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 'AND BIOGRAPHY. of the company, until 1881. He organized the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company in 1878, and was elected general manager of the same, serving until March, 1880. After leaving the serv-ice of the Northwestern Telegraph Company in 1881, he settled in Brightwood township, Richland county, North Dakota. He has a fine estate with excellent improvements, and engages extensively in farming. He has divided his time between that line of work and the contracting for construction of telegraph lines, and has built the following lines: hVom Chicago to Minneapolis; from Louisiana, Missouri, to Kansas City, Missouri the line for the bankers and merchants from Chicago to Minneapolis. These have been absorbed by the Western C'nion Tele-graph Company. He also built the telegraph line for the Soo railroad and all their branches west of the Red river. He constructed the tirst telegraph line built in North Dakota, or British North Amer-ica, in 1871, and personally superintended the con-struction from Moorhead to Winnipeg, and also from Fargo to \'alley Center, and from thence to Bismarck. He has engaged in the real estate busi-ness in Minneapolis since locating on his farm and at his office in Hankinson now conducts the real estate and loan business and contracting. He en-gaged in the mercantile business from 1886 to the fall of 1S97. Our subject was married at Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 20, 1868, to ]\liss Sarah E. Mar-tin, a native of Michigan. Mrs. Hankinson died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in JNIarch, 1874, leaving one son, Herbert L., who is now in the grain busi-ness in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our subject mar-ried IMiss Etta M. Wilson, a native of Minnesota, September 27, 1876, at Minneapolis. One daugh-ter has been born to Ivlr. and Mrs. Hankinson, named Elsie E. Mr. Hankinson is a prominent member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Knights of Pythias and the Masonic fraternity, and has passed the Knights Templar degree in the last named order. He was elected to the first state legislature in 1889, and served one term, and was again elected in the fall of 1896. He takes an active part in local affairs, and the town of Hankinson was named for him in appreciation of his services. HON. W ILLIAM T. McCULLOCH, an exten-sive land owner and successful farmer of Griggs county, is one of the pioneers of that region, and has acquired his possessions by judicious management and industrious habits. He is a man of active public spirit and his labors for the advancement of his county and township have gained him many friends. His present home is on section 14, in tow^n-ship 147, range 60. Our subject was born in Hamilton. Ontario, Canada, November i, 1842, and was a son of James and Elizabeth McCulloch. He removed to Blanch-ard township, in Pearth county, Canada, with his parents when he was a young child, and there grew to manhood, and made his home with his parents until twenty- four years of age, when he began farm-ing on rented land in Pearth county, and remained there in that vocation until 1880, when he went to Barnes county. North Dakota, and settled on land northwest of Sanborn, where he lived two years, and then removed to his present land in Griggs county, which he had previously entered claim to. He erected a shanty thereon and has resided on that tract continuously since 1882. He is now the owner of seventeen hundred acres of land in that vicinity, and has met with unbounded success in his calling. Our subject was married, at the age of twenty-four years, to Miss Sarah A. Sonsborn, a native of Canada, who was born in 1849. ^frs. AlcCuUoch is a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Sonsburn, and her father was a fanner by occupation. Mr. and Airs. AlcCulloch have been the parents of six children, as follows : James A., Elizabeth J., Will-iam A., Graham, Maggie and Norman. The eldest daughter, now Mrs. George Pratt, resides north of Cooperstown, North Dakota. Mr. AlcCulloch served as a state representative from 1891-95, dur-ing wdiich time a special session was called to make an appropriation for the World's Columbian Expo-sition. He is a man who casts his vote and in-fluence for the principles which he thinks will best benefit his county, apd he is a leader among his as-sociates, and as a man of extensive financial affairs he is recognized among the leading men of northern Griggs county. GENERAL ELLIOTT S. MILLER, the adju-tant- general of North Dakota, has attained distinct-ive preferment in military and political circles, and is one of the representative and prominent citizens of Bismarck. He w^as born in AIcLean county, Il-linois, November 15, 1846, a son of Sanford C. !Mil-ler, a native of Harrisonbury, West \"irginia, who removed to Illinois in 1836 and died in that state. The mother died during the infancy of our subject and he never knew her given name. General Aliller was reared and educated in Bloomington, McLean county, Illinois, and when the Civil war broke out he enlisted, in August. i86r, in Company B, Tiiirty-ninth Illinois \'olunteer In-fantry. He took an active part in the West \'ir-ginia campaign, and in the engagements in the Shen-andoah \'alley. including the battle of Winchester, in March, 1862. After the battle of Antietam the regiment was transferred to South Carolina and was in the battle of Morris Island. They veteranized January i, 1864, and were brought back to General Butler's army on the James river. Later they par-ticipated in the battles of Petersburg and Rich-mond and in the famous charge on Fort Gregg, and were in the engagement at Appomattox just before the surrender of General Lee. The governrrtent presented the regiment with their eagle in recogni-tion of the gallant charge on Fort Gregg. General Miller was wounded in the head on Morris Island, Internet Archive
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