Bio of LOVELL, Charles P. (b.1837 d.1921), Hennepin Co., MN
=========================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information
on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities,
as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is
obtained from the contributor of the file.
These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or
presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to
use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written
consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter,
and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.

If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives 
Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm
Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find 
the submitter information or other files for this county.
FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Laura Pruden
Submitted: June 2003
=========================================================================
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
========================================================
EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
========================================================

Vol II, pg 334-337
CHARLES P. LOVELL
Reared on what was then the western frontier of Wisconsin, searching for gold at
Pikes Peak, Colorado, farming in Iowa and eventually becoming a resident of
Minneapolis, Charles P. Lovell was in the later part of his life one of the most
prominent real estate dealers of the city and was also an active factor for some
years in the successful conduct and direction of several corporate interests. He
had attained the age of eighty-three years when he passed away in this city,
April 4, 1921, his birth having occurred at Hyde Park, Vermont, on the 2d of
November, 1837. During the colonial epoch in the history of this country his
grandparents came from England and settled in that section, which in honor of
their native land they called New England. Various changes have occurred in the
orthography of the name but in its present form it can be traced back for many
generations. Randall Lovell, father of Charles P. Lovell, was proprietor of a
tannery at Hyde Park, Vermont, until 1844, when he removed with his family to
Waukesha county, Wisconsin, and there engaged in farming but was not long
permitted to enjoy his new home, as his death occurred two years later. He left
a family of ten children, of whom Charles P. was then but nine years of age.
Charles P. Lovell spent the days of his boyhood and youth, following his
father's death, in Dodge and Waukesha counties until he had reached the age of
nineteen years, when he came to Minnesota and for three months was employed at
mowing hay in Steele county, but was unable to collect the larger part of his
wages. On the 1st of March, 1859, attracted by the gold discoveries in Colorado
he started for Pikes Peak, making the journey across the almost trackless plains
to Denver. By the middle of June the party with which he traveled had reached
Idaho Springs and there he began mining and prospecting. A few weeks later news
of the discovery of gold at Black Hawk was received and the miners hastened to
the new location. With the zeal and enthusiasm of youth Mr. Lovell worked long
and hard until the exposure of life in the open had undermined his health and he
was obliged to abandon his western project.
Mr. Lovell then returned to Iowa and for a few months was employed on the
building of one of the early railroads of that state. For this work he was paid
eighty cents per day and when he completed the task he had saved just twelve
dollars. With that amount he again started for Colorado, with the intention of
making the journey on foot but while en route he fell in with a wagon train that
needed drivers, so that he secured employment for the remainder of the trip as a
bullwhacker and reached Denver with sixteen dollars in his possession. At the
end of two years as the result of his indefatigable industry and economy he had
saved a thousand dollars, at the end of which time he entered into partnership
with a friend and in twenty months had cleared up twenty thousand dollars. For
eighteen years he continued a resident of the west and then again went to Iowa,
and later purchased a farm in Dodge county, Wisconsin, spending the spring and
autumn months on the farm for twelve or thirteen years, the winter seasons in
Milwaukee and the summer months in Minneapolis.
Mr. Lovell made his initial step into the business circles of Minneapolis as a
real estate dealer and associated with E. S. Corseler and W. A. Barnes he became
the owner of the Oak Park addition, which proved to be a particularly fortunate
investment, the property being purchased in 1880 for thirty-two thousand dollars
and increasing steadily in value until it is worth approximately seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Lovell also took an active part in organizing
the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company, of which he became vice president and
director and he was also vice president of the Pioneer Savings & Loan
Association and a member of the board of directors of the Minneapolis Plowing
Works. During the financial panic of 1893, however, he gave up all business
except his real estate, in which he continued active to the time of his demise,
and he was chosen one of the directors of the Real Estate Exchange.
In August, 1882, Mr. Lovell was united in marriage to Miss Margaret S. Cook of
Chillicothe, Ohio, and they became the parents of five children, four of whom
are living: Charles C., now residing in Oregon; Eleanor; Mary; and Margaret. One
daughter, Katharine, is deceased. The mother of these children passed away in
1895. In 1900 Mr. Lovell married Katharine W. Cook, a sister of his first wife.
In politics he was always a stanch republican and in 1880 served as one of the
presidential electors on that ticket, supporting James A. Garfield. In 1888 he
was elected alderman from the fifth ward for a term of four years and acted as
chairman of the committee on taxes and ways and means. Throughout his life he
never allowed difficulties nor hardships to discourage him but recognized the
fact that persistency of purpose and unfaltering determination will win in the
end. He therefore advanced steadily, making use of the opportunities which came
to him in the natural processes of settlement and development in the west. He
lived to see remarkable changes in the Mississippi valley and bore his part in
the onward march of progress. He attended the Plymouth Congregational church and
was a member of the Minneapolis, Lincoln and Real Estate clubs.