1900 St. Paul City Directory and Census. Carpenter Frank Thiery was born in France in 1875 and emigrated in 1879. His leg was broken in the accident that killed Alfred Swanson at the Capitol on April 27, 1900. After the accident he moved to Pittsburgh but was back in Minneapolis by 1905.

French Canadian stone cutter Thomas Belair (Bellaire) was born in Canada in 1853 and came to the U.S. in 1866. He died in St. Paul in April of 1910. This is approximately where 131 Robertson would have been located. Note regarding Thomas Belair's residence: 131 Robertson Street in Saint Paul no longer exists. We believe that he lived in the vicinity of 76 River Park Plaza, Saint Paul, Minnnesota instead.

Anthony Provost was a French Canadian born in Canada in 1856. He came to the U.S. in 1889.

French Canadian, William Mullinox was born in Canada in 1870 and came to the U.S. in 1885. John McAteer also lived at this address.

1899 City Directory. Adam Miller worked as a laborer on the Capitol. In the 1900 Census he is found living with his wife, Sopie, and their daughter at 321 rather than 361 Colburne and he listed his occupation as a laborer at a stone quarry. Miller was born in France in 1864 and immigrated in 1895.

French Canadian Louis Pinsounnault, an itinerant stone cutter, was born in Canada in 1855 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1879. The Stone Cutters' Journal of February 1898 reports that Pinsounnault came into the St. Paul union local on a card from Sault Ste. Marie. He and his step-son, also a stone cutter on the Capitol, Camille Steffen, were both active in the Union and by 1910 they had moved on to Los Angeles.

Camille Steffen was born in France in 1877 and came to America in 1879. In 1900 Steffin moved to 272 Strugis where he lived with his step-father, Louis Pinsounnault, also a stone cutter at the Capitol. They were both active in the Stone Cutters Union while here and by 1910 they had moved on and were working in Los Angeles.

French Canadian Xavier Moore was born in Canada in 1859 and came to St. Paul in 1898. He and fellow stone cutter Charles Duchene lived at 170 Lafond Ave. in 1900 with their wives and children - 13 people in all. He was initiated into the St. Paul Local of the Journeyman Stone Cutters Union in October of 1901.

1898-1900 and 1905 St. Paul City Directories and 1905 Payroll. John Bedard was a French Canadian stonecutter who was born in Canada 1857 and came to the U.S. in 1881. He was active in the Stonecutters Union.

French Canadian stone cutter Charles Bourgoin was born in Canada in 1835 and came to St. Paul with his family in 1879. It was reported in the St. Paul Globe (13 Sept. 1901) that his Stone Cutter Union dues were reduced fronm $10 to $5 because of his age. He would have been 66 at that time.