1905 Payroll, 1901 and 1904 City Directories. Joseph Butler, a bricklayer, was born in Minnesota in 1879. He was still working for the company in 1918. He and his sister, Catherine, who worked for Butler-Ryan as a stenographer, lived at this address with their parents. Joseph joined the Bricklayers Union in August of 1899. He worked all his life as a bricklayer and died in St. Paul in 1943.