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Progressive Men of
Minnesota
Minneapolis Journal
1897
 ARTHUR NEWMAN DARE the
editor and publisher of the Elk River, Minnesota,
“Star News,” is a man whose success, achieved in
newspaper publication, has been due entirely to
his own unaided efforts. He was born in Jordan,
Onondaga County, New York, May 25, 1850. His
father, Alfred Dare, was a miller in moderate
circumstances. He was a native of Wales and came
to this Country in 1838, when but twenty years of
age. He died in 1888. Mary Matilda Allen (Dare),
the mother of the subject of this sketch, was born
in Vermont, in humble circumstances.
The subject of this
sketch had only the advantages of a common school
education, with a short attendance at the village
academy of his native town. He came to Minnesota
with his parents in 1867, locating in Minneapolis.
Here he entered the printing office of the
Minneapolis Tribune, learning the trade of
printer. He worked at his trade for three or four
years in the Tribune office until a desire for
travel took hold of him. He embarked as a sailor
on a whaling ship from New Bedford. Massachusetts,
in 1872, and was gone two and a half years. During
this time he had many exciting adventures in New
Zealand and the Pacific Ocean. On his way home he
made a trip through England. Coming back to
Minnesota he settled at Elk River and commenced
working at his old trade. He was made local editor
of the Elk River “Star,” and a year later bought a
half interest in this paper. The following year he
bought the “Star” outright. In 1881 he bought the
Elk River News and consolidated the two papers as
the “Star-News.” This paper Mr. Dare has edited
and published since that time. He has built up a
paying circulation, and established for his paper
a good reputation, so that locally it exerts a
large influence. Mr. Dare is a Republican in
politics.
He has no ambition politically, though he
has always taken active interest in the welfare of
his party. He has been Chairman of the County
Republican Committee continuously for fifteen
years, and in 1894 was elected to the State
Legislature, though the nomination for this latter
office came unsought. He was re-elected in 1896.
He has for thirteen years been a member of
Sherburn Dodge, A. F. & A. M. In 1879 he was
married to Susan May Albee. Mr. and Mrs. Dare have
three children. Daphne, Susan and
Laurence.
 FRANK
THURSTON WHITE Sherburne County, Minnesota, has
for its attorney a young man who has carried on a
very vigorous contest for existence and success.
The energy which he has displayed, even if it were
not coupled with more than ordinary ability, must
insure results out of the ordinary.
Frank Thurston White
was born April 9, 1866, at East Burlington, Kane
County, Illinois, the son of Edgar and Emma C.
Thurston White. His parents were farmers of
moderate means. Mr. White is descended on his
father’s side from good old New England stock, his
great-grandfather, James White, having been an
orderly sergeant in the Continental army, and one
of the “Green Mountain Boys.” On his mother’s side
the family were residents of Ohio and
Pennsylvania, since the early settlement of that
country. Mr. White was brought to Minnesota by his
parents when six years of age, coming overland in
an emigrant wagon and arriving in May, 1872.
The family settled upon
a farm near the Big Bend, in the town of Clear
Lake. In those days game was abundant, and the
first money earned by Frank was for furs caught by
trapping. It was necessary for him to assist his
father on the farm as soon as he was old enough to
do so and his education was gained under
difficulties, in the public schools at Clear Lake
and Clearwater, Minnesota; at Creston, Illinois,
where he acted as a janitor of the high school in
order to pay tuition; in the high school at
Monticello, and in the spare hours which he was
able to snatch from his other work at home.
On leaving the high
school at Monticello, Mr. White began the study of
law with J. W. Perkins, in Minneapolis. After a
few months he returned to assist his father on the
farm. Returning to Minneapolis in a short time he
was employed in the office of Hector Baxter, E. S.
Gaylord, and other attorneys, assisting part of
the time in the care of the law library. During
this period he worked at the noon hour in a
restaurant and carried the morning newspapers. He
taught the village school at Clear Lake during the
winter of 1888 and 1889, and immediately
thereafter went to California, where he was
employed in the sugar factory of Claus Spreckles.
He returned to Minneapolis in 1891, resuming the
study of law and took lectures in the night class
at the University. In the winter of 1892 and 1893
he taught school in the Cater district in the town
of Haven, and during the spring of 1893 he taught
school in his home district and managed his
father’s farm. The fall of that year he resumed
his course at the law school, taking day and
evening lectures, and completed his legal studies
June 7, 1894. The following day he was admitted to
the bar on motion of Dean William Pattee, and was
ready to open an office. His financial condition,
however, was such that he was not able to do so,
and he returned to the farm for a short time.
It was during this visit to
his home that he was nominated by the Republicans
of Sherburne County for county attorney. He was
opposed by the party bosses and by a combination
between the Democrats and Populists, but he made a
vigorous canvass and was elected by the narrow
margin of seven votes. Mr. White has conducted the
office with ability and to the satisfaction of the
public.
He is, as already stated, a Republican.
He is
a member of the Knights of Maccabees, the Odd
Fellows and the Ancient Order of United
Workmen.
He joined the state militia in the summer
of 1887 and was a member of Company B, First
regiment, about two and a half years. He has never
married.
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