1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

520 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
blocks 10 and 11, and allow some to revert to the townsite owners,"
the
the
Duluth
land to
Mining- and Investment Company, provided they
David T. Adams *'for immediate construction of a
deed
good
first-class hotel building" thereon. Although that project did not
carry, it is stated that David T. Adams built the first hotel in Eveleth.
It was called the Mclnnis Hotel and was situated on the southeast
corner of Grant Avenue and Jackson Street. Charles Jesmore was the
first manager. The building still stands.
First SchooL—The first school was "in the valley by the creek."
It was opened in 1895, and the first teacher was Florence Kent, who
came from Virginia. The schoolhouse was "a. one-story frame shack,"
and its furniture consisted of "two benches and a plank table," with
a small table for the teacher. Some of the pupils enrolled at that
school in 1895 were : Charlie Higgins, Rosie Walker, Fred Chilters,
and several of the children of the Gross, Springer, and Van Buskirk
families. There were five or six of the Gross children, three girls and
they drove to school each morning from their
two or three boys ;
homestead, about two or three miles away. There w^ere two Spring-
THE PRESENT MORE HOSriTAL, EVELETH. (THE FIRST MORE
•HOSPITAL WAS "ON THE SLOPE" WITH THE PIONEERS; AND
IT WAS "a LITTLE RED SHACK")
ers, Bert and Otis ; and of the Van Buskirk family, Tony, Mae, and
Anna attended the first school. By the way, Tony Van Buskirk, now
city clerk, was the first boy to come to Eveleth, it has been stated.
He came with his mother and sisters, from Crystal Falls, Michigan,
in 1893, or 1894, to join their father, who had come earlier. They
came by rail as far as Virginia, or rather as far as the Auburn mine,
walking from there into Eveleth. The family had to live in a tent
for a couple of weeks while a house was being built for them.
First Church.—The first church built in Eveleth was in 1896,
for the Methodist Episcopal society, which was organized on September
17. 1895. Services were held in the schoolhouse until March,
1896, when "a neat frame building was dedicated." The Rev. Olin
J. Gary, a local preacher, was the first pastor. He and Russell
and Howard Buokthought were the first trustees, and the church was
built under his supervision. "On February 12, 1896, lots were secured,
as donation, from E. M. Fowler, of Chicago, and a subscription paper