Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Staples, Charles A. 1843 - 
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  CHARLES A. STAPLES, a successful merchant of the village of Manannah, is a
native of Waldo county, Me., born February 17, 1843, and is the seventh son of
Jacob C., and Elizabeth (Small) Staples. both of whom were also natives of the
Pine Tree State. The father of our subject was born March 6, 1801, and his
mother March 24, 1805. Their marriage took place March 20, 1828, and they
continued to make their home in their native State until October, 1854, when
they came to Minnesota with their family of ten children, of whom our subject
was one. They settled in Sauk Valley, six miles west of where St. Cloud is now
located, but at that time there was not a house where the city now is located.
They remained in that vicinity until the time of their death, the mother October
17, 1874, the father, November 26, 1879. The latter's demise was caused by
exposure, cold and exhaustion. He was then a man of seventy-eight years and
having been to St. Cloud, upon a visit to a son who still resides there, and on
returning missed his road and landed in the night on Maine Prairie, and being
refused shelter by professed Christian people along the way, was out all night
that cold November night, and died a few days later.

   Charles A. remained at home with his parents until attaining his majority,
during which time he learned the carpenter's trade of his father, also a good
knowledge of farming which afterward he made a success. He came to Meeker
county, and took up a homestead on section 5, Union Grove township, selecting
his land in July, 1864. After filing papers for a homestead in August, he
enlisted, September 3, 1864, in the Fourth Minnesota Infantry as a recruit, with
which he served only about three months, and then being discharged for
disability, he returned to his claim and commenced improving it, and made it his
home until 1882, during which time he had added by purchase some 360 acres to
his original homestead. He then sold his original homestead and went to
Litchfield and entered into a partnership in company with his brothers, J. H.
and N. P., under the firm name and style of Staples Brothers, who were then in
the business of general merchandising. In the spring of 1883 he sold out and
made a trip to Dakota, with the intention of dealing in hardware, lumber and
farm machinery in Spink county, but returned and located at Manannah, and in
November of that year put in a new stock of general merchandise and commenced
his present business in company with his brother, J. H. Staples, and continued
the business as Staples Brothers up to April 13, 1888, when he purchased his
brother's interest and assumed sole proprietorship.. He left home empty-handed
but by diligence and business tact natural to him, before he left Union Grove
township, he had accumlated a fine farm of 240 acres of land and $3,000 in cash.
He was chairman of the board of town supervisors in that precinct, justice of
the peace and town clerk for a number of years, and^ held some office of trust
or responsibility in that town nearly all the time of his residence there. He
was, also, active in all educational work and is now one of the trustees in the
village of Manannah.

   Mr. Staples was united in marriage in the year 1870, with Miss Sarah A.
Hinds, a native of Columbia county, Wis., and a daughter of Isaac and Mary
(Thomas) Hinds who settled in Union Grove in 1864. By this union Mr. and Mrs.
Staples became the parents of three children—Carrie Angelia, born January 4,
1871; Ancil Edmonds, born August 21, 1872; and Frances Ann, born January 1, 1882.


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


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