Bio of JOSLYN, Charles Addison (b.1838 d.1915), Olmsted Co., MN

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This is my g-great-grandfather's bio sketch+, which I transcribed from 

the cited reference, for inclusion in the Olmsted County, Minnesota 

USGenweb Archives.

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CHARLES [CHAS, aka Charlie] ADDISON JOSLYN, 30 Apr 1838 - 19 Oct 1915



Reference Citation:  Leonard, Joseph A. (1830-1908) History of Olmsted County, 

Minnesota, Goodspeed Historical Association, Chicago, IL, 1910, 674 pgs.



Chapter 18, City of Rochester; p. 236.



Charles A. Joslyn was elected alderman in 1890 and served two terms. He was 

also city engineer in 1905, by appointment of Mayor Heffron. He was from the 

State of New York and was agent for the Morgan reapers. The city is under 

obligation to him for the town clock that ornaments the tower of the central 

fire station, as he solicited the subscriptions for its purchase and 

superintended its erection.



Bio Sketch, pp 525 & 526



CHARLES ADDISON JOSLYN, president of the Rochester city council, was born in 

Brockport, Monroe county, New York, April 30,1838, a son of Isaac and Minerva 

(Peters) Joslyn. The progenitors of the family in America were three brothers, 

who were soldiers Cromwell's army and came to this country in the English ship 

"Increase." Isaac Joslyn, the father of our subject, was a merchant and stock-

buyer in New York, which line of business he followed through life. His son, 

Charles Addison, received his scholastic training in Brockport Academy, now the 

State Normal School, but when sixteen years of age left school, and for several 

years worked in a hardware store. He then entered the employ of Seymour, Morgan 

& Company, the first manufacturers of self-rakes. etc., and traveled for them 

and their successors, D. G. Morgan & Company, of Brockport, New York, for a 

period of eighteen years, his duties as salesman and collection agent taking 

him all through the grain raising states. He then resigned to go with the 

Champion Harvester Company, but after one year thus employed entered the 

hardware establishment, at Rochester, Minnesota, of A. D. Vedder, and here 

remained for five years. During that time he acquired considerable property 

interests in the city, and has since devoted his time to his holdings here. 

Mr. Joslyn is a staunch Jeffersonian Democrat, is positive and consistent in 

political affairs, has served as city engineer one year, alderman two terms, 

has been delegate to eight state conventions and has twice been summoned as a 

member of the United States jury at St. Paul. He was especially active in the 

nomination of Dr. W. W. Mayo as state senator, and in the spring of 1910, in a 

city strongly Republican, was elected president of the city council, carrying 

every ward. On September 17, 1859. Mr. Joslyn was united in marriage with Miss 

Cornelia Graves, of Brockport, New York, and to them the following named 

children have been born: Charles Ezra, expert accountant, of Chicago; Isaac, 

foreman of egg department in establishment of W.J. Eaton Company, Rochester; 

Sarah, now Mrs. Date, teacher of sixth and seventh grades of Holmes school, 

residing with her two children in the home of her father; Dayton, traveling 

salesman for a Chicago surgical instrument manufacturing concern; and Susan, 

twin sister of Dayton, died in infancy. Mrs. Joslyn passed away eighteen years 

ago in Rochester, and now lies at rest beside her daughter in the family lot. 

Mr. Joslyn came to Minnesota June 5, 1860. Mr. Joslyn and family have resided 

in their present home for forty-one years. The children have grown, as they 

were reared, to honorable and useful lives, and Mr. Joslyn has always 

contributed from his time and means to the support of any enterprise for 

the betterment of the community.

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