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Mary Jane Edgerton, daughter of Erastus and Sophronia (Willis) Edgerton.

born:	July 1834; Franklin, Delaware Co., NY. (CR MN1900 St. Paul, Ward 7)
died:	February 20, 1905; St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN. (OB The Saint Paul Globe 2/21/1905) (OB Austin Daily Herald 2/21/1905)
buried:	February 24, 1905; Oakland Cemetery; St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN.

married:

1859; St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN.

Delos Abram Monfort

born:	April 6, 1835; Hamden, Delaware Co., NY.
died:	August 26, 1899; Atlantic City, Atlantic Co., NJ. (OB The Saint Paul Globe 8/27/1899)
buried:	Oakland Cemetery; St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN.

Children:

Florence, b. March 26, 1863; St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN.
Frederick Delos, b. March 6, 1868; St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN.

The following biography of Delos Abram Monfort is abstracted from Pen Pictures of St Paul, Minnesota and Biographcial Sketches of Old Settlers (1886, pp. 672-673) gives the following biography of Delos A. Monfort:

“Mr. Monfort was born in New York in 1835; was well educated; came to St. Paul in 1857; was cashier of the old People's Bank; in 1865 was cashier of the Second National Bank, which position he ably filled for nearly twenty years, and after serving as vice-president he left for Europe and remained there one year. On returning to this city he again engaged in the fancy wholesale and retail grocery business, which he had started years before, and which he continued for a year or so, and then left for the Black Hills to engage in mining. He finally drifted back into the Second National Bank, where he assumed his old position as cashier and in his old familiar way. For the past fifteen years he has been the eminent commander of Damascus Commandery of Knights Templars of St. Paul; has also been Grand Commander of the State. He married Miss Mary J., sister of Erastus S. Edgerton, in 1860, who is a lady very much esteemed for her sunny nature and excellent qualities as a woman and a wife. Mr. Monfort himself is a well-formed man, of ordinary size, straight, always well dressed, and having the appearance of a gentleman of money and of leisure. It is not generally known, but he has one of the finest libraries in the State and is a great lover of literature although his business calls him among money bags and bank bills. He usually wears a silk hat and carries a cane; is quick in his motions, prompt, decided, pleasant, and probably understands the banking business as well as any man in the State, and he ought to for he is the pupil of that prudent and splendid financier, Erastus S. Edgerton, under whose management the Second National Bank has obtained its present excellent reputation.”