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Charles D. Gilfillan, "The Early Political History of Minnesota." (1898).

Charles Duncan Gilfillan practiced law in St. Paul with his older brother James Gilfillan, the future Chief Justice, from 1857 to 1863, when he went into business. For the next thirty years, he was a successful banker, real estate developer and entrepreneur in St. Paul.

He was also on...