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In 1917 he was married to Thelma Moe, a daughter of John Moe, of Fairbanks, Alaska. As long as the Order of Eagles maintained a local organization at Biwabik Mr. Lommen served it as secretary, and for three years was a dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose. A strong Republican, he is very active in local politics, is a member of the County Central Com- inittee of his party, and has been sent as a delegate to the State Conven- tions. Enthusiastic, reliable and willing to render service whenever the occasions offers, he is one of the rising young men of his district, from whom great things are expected in the near future.
WILLIAM P. ALLRED, JR., one of Duluth's prominent architects, has been a resident of the city since 1906.
He was born near Seymour, Iowa, September 1, 1879, and as a youth chose architecture as a profession. For a number of years he was em- ployed at the carpenter's trade and familiarized himself with every detail of the building industry. He also took the architectural course of the International Correspondence Schools at Scranton, and was awarded high honors in scholarship. His first professional connection apart from work at his trade was with the firm of Libby, Nourse & Rasmussen at Des Moines, Iowa. The head of this firm was the state architect of Iowa. Subsequently he was with W. R. Parson & Son Company, Des Moines architects. A year later they put him in charge of their branch office at Duluth, that being in 1906, and he looked after the business of the company in the northwestern territory for about three years
January 1, 1909, Mr. Allred formed a partnership with Frank L. Young as Frank L. Young & Company, and during the next four years they planned and supervised the construction of many prominent buildings in Duluth and northern Minnesota. After that period Mr. Allred became sole owner of the company and has been in practice under his own name, and there is a large volume of work including the supervision of remodel- ing of the Lyceum Theater to prove and exemplify his taste, his talent and special technique. He is a member of the Duluth Architects' Asso- ciation, the Kiwanis Club and the Commercial Club.
FRANCIS H. FITZGERALD. Before coming to Duluth to practice archi- tecture Francis H. Fitzgerald had the benefit of study and training under the greatest masters of the art in Scotland and England and also with several prominent firms in America.
Mr. Fitzgerald was born in Scotland May 28, 1880. He was liberally educated and holds diplomas and other certificates of proficiency from the Royal Institute of British Architects, the London Institute of Technology and the Technical Schools of South Kensington, London. He came alone to the United States in 1907, and for a time was employed as an archi- tectural engineer at Martin's Ferry, Ohio. He was an architect's assist- ant to the firm of Janssen & Abbot at Pittsburgh, and similarly was engaged at Chicago with Shepley, Rutan & Collidge, and also with two foremost Chicago architects, Jarvis Ilunt and D. II. Burnham & Com- pany. In 1913 he came to Duluth and a year later opened an office for himself in the Alworth Building.
Mr. Fitzgerald is associate architect of such notable homes as those of J. G. Williams, G. F. French, C. H. Bagley, M. F. Fay, G. H. Spencer,
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W. C. Agnew, and architect for P. H. Ginder, D. Holmes, Mrs. Norman McDonald, C. H. Marshall at Pike Lake, H. N. Williams, Simon Clark, etc. His work in commercial architecture is represented by the First National Bank at Nashwauk, the Northwestern Textile Factory, the United Display Company's Factory, the People's State Bank of Duluth, the F. A. Patrick warehouse and store, the D. & I. R. Railway office build- ing at Two Harbors, the Duluth Edison Electric Company's sub-station of West Duluth, etc.
Mr. Fitzgerald is affiliated with Ionic Lodge of Masons, is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Duluth Engineers Club, Duluth Commercial Club, Duluth Architects Association, Kiwanis Club and attends the First Presbyterian Church.
WILLIAM PHILIP HEIMBACH is one of the oldest lumber operators in the northern district of Minnesota. He was born in Walworth County, Wisconsin, July 12, 1856. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of New York. His father was an early settler and pioneer in Walworth County, developed a farm from the wilderness, and lived a life of such industry, conscientious effort and public spirit that he carned and well deserved the highest esteem of his community.
William P. Heimbach was fourth in a family of ten children. He was reared and educated in the country district of Walworth County, and at the age of twenty left the farm and served an apprenticeship at the miller's trade, which he followed afterwards for three years, receiving a yearly salary of $3,000. Too much dust in that line caused him to change to outside work, and he entered the lumber industry. In the fall of 1881 he came to Duluth and forthwith engaged in the lumber business, and has been continuously identified with the city in the role of a lumberman now for forty years. He was one of the original officials of the Oneota Lum- ber Company of Duluth. In 1883 he opened a lumber yard in Jamestown, North Dakota, and personally managed that for two years. Selling out, he returned to Duluth and resumed the lumber business under the firm name of the W. P. Heimbach City Lumber Yard. This was incorporated under the title of the Heimbach Lumber Company in 1896. He was also owner and operated for six years a sawmill at New Duluth. Mr. Heim- bach is now president of the following lumber organizations: The Heim- bach Lumber Company, the Endion Lumber Company, the Gary Lumber Company and the Hazelwood Lumber Company, and with the assistance of his sons, W. P. Heimbach, Jr., and C. M. Heimbach, who own substan- tial interests, and who assist in the direction of these institutions, Mr. Heimbach's burden is lighter materially. On account of his long and active business career he is well known in Duluth and has always given a sustaining participation in affairs outside of his immediate business and affecting the growth and welfare of the city and county. Politically he is independent.
EMIL S. GUSTAFSON. As a family the Gustafsons were identified with the pioneer wave of settlement in the agricultural district of St. Louis County, and the farm they developed from the wilderness is still owned and occupied by them. Several of the second generation have profitably engaged in business at Duluth, and Emil S. Gustafson is a member of the Gustafson-Pierson Hardware Company, one of the leading firms of the West Side of the city.
He is a son of Carl G. and Matilda Gustafson. Carl G. Gustafson, who died in 1899, was a native of Sweden, and brought his family to America in 1872. Nearly half a century ago he came into the wilderness
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of northern Minnesota and took up a government homestead in Herman township, St. Louis County. He contended with the difficulties of that inhospitable region, developed and subdued the land, made a good farm, and since his death his widow has continued to live on and occupy the homestead.
Emil Gustafson was the sixth in a family of eight children and was born on the farm in St. Louis County October 21, 1889. He was ten years of age when his father died, and most of his education had been acquired previously in Independent District No. 6 of Herman township. After the death of his father he lived with his mother and assisted her for three years. On leaving home he entered the employ of his brother Charles A. Gustafson in the hardware business, making himself valuable as a worker and at the same time absorbed all the knowledge he could of the hardware trade. In 1910 he became associated with his brother as the Gustafson Hardware Company, and in 1917, when Charles A. Gustai- son withdrew from the business, he was succeeded by the present Gustafson-Pierson Hardware Company, the other member of the part- nership being George G. Pierson. Their location is at 18 North Nine- teenth avenue, West, and they have a store completely stocked with shelf and heavy hardware, stoves and furnaces, paints, oils, agricultural imple- ments and building material, and also automobile accessories.
Mr. Gustafson is one of Duluth's younger merchants, but has achieved a place of high standing in the community. He is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Brotherhood of America, the Modern Woodmen of America, and is active in the Duluth Retail Mer- chants Association, the Commercial Club and the Alpha and Omega Club. Politically he votes independently. In 1911, at Duluth, Mr. Gustafson married Marguerite Pierson, daughter of G. W. Pierson. She was edu- cated in the Duluth public schools. They have two children : Lucille, born May 16, 1912; and Charlotte, born December 23, 1916.
CARL H. SCHUSTER. An attorney who has used his abilities both to establish a good reputation and business in the law and also handle cap- ably many public interests and trusts is Carl H. Schuster, present post- master of Biwabik.
Mr. Schuster was born at Rochester, Minnesota, August 13, 1889, son of Henry and Wilma ( Albirdie) Schuster. The father was born in Wis- consin in 1862 and the mother in Minnesota in 1872. Henry Schuster and his brother Fred are actively associated in business at Rochester, Henry being president of the Schuster Realty Company. These brothers have been prominent in politics, and the civic and material upbuilding of Rochester for many years. The children of Henry Schuster and wife are Carl Henry, Paul and Albert.
Carl Henry Schuster is a graduate of the Shattuck Military Academy at Faribault with the class of 1907. Following that he spent five years in the University of Minnesota, taking both literary and law courses and graduating from law school in 1912. The following year he gained con- siderable familiarity with metropolitan practice at Minneapolis and then came to Biwabik. Almost from the time he came to Biwabik he has served as village and township attorney. In 1919, after passing the Civil Service examination, he was appointed postmaster. Ile is also attorney for the First National Bank of Biwabik, and is interested in military affairs, having been major of the Eighth Battalion of the Home Guards organization. He votes independently.
June 10, 1916, Mr. Schuster married Melinda Katherine LaVallee, of Duluth. Their son is named Carl Henry. The first son in the Schuster family is by a custom prevailing through seven generations always given
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the name Henry and the first child during the seven generations has been a boy. Mr. Schuster is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity and the Phi Delta Phi law fraternity, the Episcopal Church, has attained the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, and is a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs and the Moose and Elks.
EDMOND A. BERGERON. While for many years in business on the iron ranges of northern Minnesota, Edmond A. Bergeron is even more widely known and appreciated for his sterling patriotism and good citizenship. He is in the hardware business at Hibbing, and has been a prominent factor in that village for a number of years.
Mr. Bergeron was born in Stillwater, Minnesota, January 28, 1879, son of John W. and Elise ( Normand) Bergeron. His parents were of French ancestry and natives of Quebec, and came to Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1869. The first year John W. Bergeron drove a "tow team" along the Minnesota River, "toting" supplies to the trading posts of St. Peter and as high as Lake Traverse, and returning with skins. Subsequently for a period of thirty years he was superintendent of a large saw mill at Still- water, and he and his wife still make that city their home, where they are honored old timers.
One of seven children, Edmond A. Bergeron grew up in Stillwater, acquired a public school education, also attended a business college, and at the age of eighteen was working in a saw mill. A year later, when only nineteen, he put himself in the ranks of independent business men by keep- ing a feed, flour, mill and elevator, which he operated two years. A year following this he was foreman in the Amreican Grass Twine Fac- tory at St. Paul, and then for five years served as a guard and foreman in the twine plant at the State Prison in Stillwater.
He came into the iron range district in 1906, and for a year was chief clerk during the construction of the Duluth, Rainy Lake & Winnipeg Railroad, now part of the Canadian Northern. His headquarters were at Virginia on the Mesaba Range. In 1907 he sold the townsite of Ranier, on which he built a shack and established a hardware business. The new place grew, and Mr. Bergeron naturally became one of the fore- most citizens and served as president of the first village board, was the first postmaster, and was also a member of the International Falls District School Board, of which Ranier was a part.
Selling out his interests in that village, Mr. Bergeron in February, 1910, came to Hibbing and bought a hardware business and for ten years has been its owner and directing head. While building up a profit- able business he has taken part in all the matters affecting the welfare of the community. During the World war he was elected chairman of the Council of Defense, served as vice chairman of the St. Louis County Safety Commission, assisted in organizing the War Chest Committee and was its vice president, took the lead in organizing the Home Guards and served as sergeant of the company, and was also chairman of the Recruiting Committee.
Mr. Bergeron since 1918 has been a member of the Hibbing Library Board and is now president of that board. He was one of three local citizens that organized the Boy Scouts, and is chairman of its Honor Roll Committee. He is treasurer of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Catholic, at Hibbing, for two years served as grand knight of the local lodge of the Knights of Columbus, vice president of the Commercial Club, and a member of the Kiwanis Club. On May 22, 1909, he married Miss Maud Miller, of Stillwater. Their two children are Bertram L. and Susane.
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