Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Cairncross, Alex 
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  ALEX CAIRNCROSS, the head of the firm of Cairncross & Palm, of Litchfield, is a
native of Scotland. When he was about twenty-five years of age he came to America
with his parents, and the latter purchased a farm in Sibley county, Minn. Alex
Cairncross followed steamboat building, together with carpentering, for some years;
later he settled at St. Paul, and was for some time engineer in the International
Hotel in that city. In about the year 1870 he came to Meeker county and opened a
general store at Darwin, where he remained until 1874, when became to Litchfield and
bought out the business of the Nelson Bros. Three years afterward he sold his
interests here and returned to his native land, and later spent some time in
traveling through the East. He then returned to Litchfield, and again entered the
mercantile trade. In 1885 John Palm became a partner with Mr. Cairncross in this
business. In 1882 Mr. Cairncross opened a boot and shoe store, the only exclusive
boot and shoe store in the village. He has always taken an active interest in all
matters calculated to aid in the development of his village or county, and has a
large interest in the woolen mills and also in the creamery. He is president of the
Meeker County Bank, in which he is a stockholder, and he is otherwise heavily
interested in property here.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888

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