Bio of PARTRIDGE, T. M., Hennepin Co., MN
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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
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Vol II, pg 445-446
T. M. PARTRIDGE (Thomas Murdock Partridge)
T. M. Partridge, president of the T. M. Partridge Lumber Company of Minneapolis,
was born in Rochester, New York, a son of Samuel Selden and Frances (Bellamy)
Partridge. E. B. Partridge, the prominent magazine writer, is a brother of T. M.
Partridge, and represented the Sunset Magazine in France during the World war.
In the acquirement of his early education T. M. Partridge attended the public
schools of Phelps, New York, and in due time enrolled in Hobart College at
Geneva, N. Y. He withdrew from college in his senior year and came to
Minneapolis in 1885. He immediately went to into the lumber business as an
employe of the Nothern Mill Company at Thirty-second avenue North, and the
river. He remained in the employ of that company about seven years and then
became associated with the Brainard Lumber Company, which had headquarters in
Minneapolis. He was active in that connection until 1900, when he went into
business for himself and organized the T. M. Partridge Lumber Company, of which
he became president. This company is a whole­sale lumber and manufacturing
concern and is enjoying substantial success. Mr. Partridge being of a decidedly
progressive nature has started an innovation in the timber land, buying leases
on cut over forest areas and cutting ties, etc. He has been very successful in
that enterprise. He not only holds extensive lumber interests in this state but
operates in the Rainy river district in Canada, where he has in­corporated a
Canadian company, under the name of the T. M. Partridge Lumber Com­pany, Ltd.
That company was incorporated in 1907. He also operates a line of retail
lumberyards in Iowa. Mr. Partridge is one of the most prominent lumbermen in the
state. The extensive interests he now controls he acquired by intelligently
directed efforts, laudable ambition and innate ability and no man is more
rightly entitled to the proud American title of self-made man. The high and
honorable principles which he employs in the conduct of his various enterprises
have won the confidence and respect of all and he is really conceded to be one
of the state's representative business men.
On the 3d of February, 1886, occurred the marriage of Mr. Partridge to Miss
Frances Bellamy, his wife's name being the same as his mother's. Mr. and Mrs.
Partridge have three children: George B., who married Edna Matthews of Fergus
Falls; Elizabeth, who is now the wife of Fred G. Sedgwick of this city; and Carl
H., who married Gertrude Dobler, also of this city. Mrs. Partridge has always
been active in the club and social circles of Minneapolis.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Partridge has given his political endorsement
to the republican party, having firm belief in the principles of that party as
factors in good government. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons and has
reached the Shrine by the York Rite. He is conceded to be an exemplary member of
the craft. Although Mr. Partridge has had little time for anything except
business, he is essentially a public-spirited citizen and is ever cognizant of
the duties and responsibilities of good citizenship. He is identified with all
organizations that have for their purpose the development and improvement of the
general welfare and no worthy movement seeks his aid in vain. Mr. Partridge is a
man of well proven ability, calculated to inspire all with his splendid
character and manly qualities.