Neighborhood Profile
Name: Wilkin's Addition
Neighborhood Information: Alexander Wilkin was born in New York State; member of a prominent family. He came to St. Paul in 1849 where he practiced law. Subsequently he served as the U.S. Marshall to Minnesota and ran for the U.S. Congress as a supporter of Stephen Douglas rather than Abraham Lincoln. But, like most monied Minnesotans while working at these other occupations, he invested in real estate. In 1856, he purchased 80 acres in Stillwater and mapped out Wilkin’s Addition between Wilkin and Moore Streets; between Fourth and William Streets. He named Wilkin Street for himself. (It is Wilkin and not Wilkins Street.) When the Civil War broke out a few years later, Wilkin recruited the first company of the first regiment for the war. Because Wilkin was a small man, weighing little more than 100 pounds, he became known during his war service as The Little Captain. He was shot through the heart in a battle in Tupelo, Mississippi on July 14, 1864.
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