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This term pertains to the stone workers who migrated from Georgia to Saint Paul to process the marble that was quarried in Tate County, Georgia. 

John McAteer

1900 St. Paul City Directory and Census. John McAteer was born in Pennsylvania in 1872 of Irish parents. The Aug. 2, 1900 St. Paul Globe reported that "John McAttler" a member of the International Stone Sawyers Union of Tate, GA. was moving from St. Paul to work in Sandstone, MN. He was back in St. Paul working for Butler Bros, however, by 1902 and is also found in the 1905 Payroll records. 

Phillip Elliot

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1899 and 1900 St. Paul City Directories. Phillip Elliott was a stonecutter from Georgia who came to St. Paul in 1899 with the marble. He stayed in Minnesota and moved to Sandstone to work in the quarry there. He died there in 1913 of "stone cutters phithysis" (silicosis).

John Duckett

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1899-1902 City Directories. John Duckett was born in 1880 in Georgia and came here in 1899 with the marble and worked as a "stone sawyer" in the shed. He became a union bricklayer and although he was in Atlanta in 1905 working as a bricklayer (Union Advocate Feb. 5, 1905), he returned, married, and raised a family in St. Paul. He died here in 1952.

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