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

744 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
mander of Duluth Conimandery No. 18, K. T., is a past grand master of
the Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Minnesota, a past sovereign of St.
George's Conclave, Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine, and a member
of all the Scottish Rite bodies in Duluth and the Aad Temple of the
Mystic Shrine.
October 5, 1887, Mr. McGonagle married ]\liss Sarah L. Sargent,
daughter of Samuel G. and Sarah E. Sargent, of Methuen, Massachusetts.
Mr.\nd Mrs. McGonagle have had three sons and one daughter : Joseph
Sargent, Robert Emerson, Mary and William Albert, Jr. Their oldest
son attended the Duluth High School, Dartmouth College, took the short
course in agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, and is now managing
a large farm at Hamilton, Montana, and is president of the Chamber
of Commerce of that town. The son, Robert, also attended the Duluth
High School and the University of Pennsylvania, and during the
World War volunteered with the forces of Canada and served two years
in France and Belgium, where he was wounded and gassed. He is now
in business in Duluth. president of the Duluth Double ^^'all Construction
Company. The daughter, Mary, is a graduate of the Duluth High
School and graduated with the class of 1919 from Mount Holyoke College
at South Hadley. Massachusetts. The youngest son graduated from
High School, class of 1920, attended Dartmouth College and died September
13, 1920.
Walter M. Evered is president of the National Iron Company of
Duluth, one of the largest industries in the city and one that furnishes
a large volume of the iron and steel finished products that are shipped
out of Duluth every year.
The Evereds as a family have been distinguished for mechanical skill
through several generations. The grandfather of Walter Evered was
Joseph Evered, who came from England and settled at Rochester, New
York, where for a number of years he owned and operated a flour mill
and feed shop. His son was the late Joshua D. Evered, a pioneer in the
iron industry of Duluth and long one of that city's most substantial citi-
zens. He was born at Rochester, New York. July 16, 1845, and at the
age of ten years was left an orphan and had to make his own way in the
world. He inherited a taste for mechanics, and all his life was a student
of machinery, an inventor of many devices and improvements, including
some changes that perfected the threshing machine. He was also a good
business manager. For a number of years he had his home at Dayton.
Ohio, and in 1882 brought his family to Duluth. He became one of the
organizers of the Northwestern Iron Company, which is 1884 was merged
into the National Iron Works. In 1896 this business was taken over by
the firm of J. Evered & Son. and in May, 1897, the National Iron Company
was incorporated by Toshua D. Evered, \\'alter M. Evered and
Harry R. Armstrong. Joshua Evered remained as president of the company
until his death, on May 29, 1903, and was then succeeded by his
son, Walter, as president. Harry R. Armstrong continues as secretary
of the company. Joshua Evered was completely devoted to his business
and family. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, belonged to the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was a Republican. In 1866. at
Detroit, Michigan, he married Anna Rose, a native of Ontario, Canada,
and daughter of John and Mary Ann (Allen) Rose, her father having
been a shipowner.
Walter M. Evered, only son of his father, was born at Dayton, Ohio,
attended the grammar and high schools of his native city and of Duluth.
and was fifteen years of age when he came to the Zenith City. Even as