Minnesota Biographical Dictionary 1879. Material: paper, brown leather cover with gold spine print: "The United States Biographical Dictionary Minnesota 1879; 604 gilded pages of biographical sketches as well as a portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men in Minnesota; Waseca men included are Hon. P. C.Bailey, Hon. James E. Child, Dr. Henry J. Young, Hon. Warren Smith, Hon. Benjamin Lowell and Postmaster William Young.