FREDERICK L. GOODMAN. A prominent position as a citizen and business man is accorded this gentleman, and he is deservedly gaining the confidence and esteem of his fellow townsmen. He is engaged in the real estate, loans, and insurance business in Hillsboro, and is one of the best known men of Traill County. He has interested himself largely in the financial enterprises of the city and in all matters of a pubic nature and all projects tending to the development and improvement of that locality he has taken an active interest and aided by his counsel and liberality.

Our subject was born at Fort Ann, New York, February 24, 1861, and was the youngest of four children born to Origin.W. and Mary J. (Farr) Goodman, both of whom are now deceased. The Goodman family dates in America to Colonial days and the first authentic record in 1646.

Our subject was but one year of age when his father died and his mother re-married when he was ten years old. At seventeen years he entered the Troy Conference Academy at Poultney, Vermont, and took a classical course, and in March, 1881, he left the institution to accept a position in the real estate and loan department of the First National Bank of Fargo, North Dakota. He assumed charge of that department in the fall of 1882 and in the spring of 1886 established an office in partnership with S. W. Shields, and has since engaged in that line. He handles loans and has paid much attention to placing loans throughout the Red river valley.

Our subject was married in 1888 to Miss Harriet B. Angevine, a native of Vermont, and a graduate of the Boston School of Liberal Arts. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Goodman, as follows: Cecyl B.; Elma F., deceased; Paul A. and Donald F. Mr. Goodman has served in the city council two terms, and in 1898 was mayor of Hillsboro, and has taken an active interest in local improvements, including city water works and electric light plant. He is a member of the First Congregational church and is prominent in secret society circles, holding membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias. He is the present grand representative of the last named order. Politically he is a stanch Republican.

"GOOSE RIVER FARMER," a weekly Republican sheet of extensive circulation in Mayville and throughout Traill county and surrounding country, was established in February, 1890, by C. Cranston. The paper was later purchased by Stewart & Drew in June, 1896, and recently passed into the hands of Joseph M. Stewart, as sole owner. Mr. Stewart is the present manager and editor and has made a success of his work. The plant is well equipped for job work and does an extensive business in that line.

Joseph M. Stewart is a native of Canada, and was born at Cheapside, Ontario. He was educated in the Hamilton Collegiate Institute and started the study of theology preparatory for the church, but gave up the notion and pursued a course of general private reading for a number of years. He went to Manitoba, where he managed a general store for three years and taught school two years. He went to Hope, Steele county, in February, 1890, en route for the coast, and established a barber shop in Hope and later invested in the furniture business. He became manager and editor of the paper with which he is now connected in 1896 and the paper has increased in circulation and now covers an extensive territory. Mr. Stewart is a gentleman of excellent education and his push and energy has gained him a prominent place as a citizen and business man.

Our subject was married in 1887, to Miss Beatrice A. Drew. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, as follows: Gordon, Alice, Lloyd and Earl. Mr. Stewart is a thirty-second-degree Mason and member of El Zagel Shrine, Fargo, and is a master of Dakota Lodge, No. 55, Mayville, North Dakota. He is identified with the Republican party in political belief and is generally a delegate to county and state conventions of his party. He is a student of the questions of the day and is an intelligent writer and conversationalist.

Mr. Stewart was the eldest of four sons born to Benjamin and Mrs. Alice J. (McGregor) Stewart, both of Scotch descent.

JAMES GRASSICK, M. D. This gentleman enjoys the distinction of being the oldest resident physician of Traill county. North Dakota. He is a gentleman of intelligence and excellent education and has taken a prominent position as a citizen and practitioner, and enjoys a liberal patronage and the highest esteem of those among whom he has lived and labored. He is interested extensively in several business enterprises in that locality and farm lands near the town of Buxton, and has accumulated his fortune single handed.

Our subject is a native of Aberdeen. Scotland, and was born June 29, 1850. He was the youngest in a family of seven children born to Donald and Helen (Edward) Grassick. The father died when our subject was a small child, and when he was six years of age he came to America with his mother and step-father, Peter Grant, and resided on a farm in Huron county, Ontario, Canada. When seventeen years of age he began teaching school and devoted himself to that profession twelve years, the last five of which time he was principal of the Hensall public schools in Ontario. During this time he began reading medicine in the office of Dr. J. McDiarmid. of Hensall. and afterward entered Ann Arbor College and took a year's study, and then entered the Rush Medical College in Chicago and graduated with the class of 1885. He worked six months in the Toronto general hospital and Burnside Lying-in hospital and then went to Dakota, thinking the West the best place for a poor man to make a start. He went to Buxton in the fall of 1885, penniless, and as he remarks, "with his whole kit in his vest pocket." He established his office at once, and for the first few years covered territory forty miles north and south, west to Mayville and east into Minnesota. After two years of practice he returned to Ann Arbor College and in 1888 received a diploma from that institution, and then returned to his former field. He took a postgraduate course in Chicago in 1896, and strives to perfect himself in his profession. He has built up an extensive practice and has met with remarkable success. Mr. Grassick has an archeological collection of Indian relics and curiosities of the Northwest, which is said to be the finest in the state. It is well arranged, and much patient care has been expended in bringing it to its present state of order and display. Mr. Grassick is a shareholder in the Farmers' Lumber Company, and a shareholder and director of the State Bank of Buxton.

Our subject was married, in 1889, to Miss Christina McDougall, a native of Canada. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Grassick, as follows: Jessie Christina and Donald James, deceased. Mr. Grassick is a thirty-second-degree Mason, and also holds membership in. the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a Democrat in political sentiment and earnest in his convictions.