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

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ting of these stones is a large business in itself, and has brought a large
trade to Henricksen Brothers from the tourist population that throngs
Duluth in the summer. A large section of their store is also devoted to
dealing in the curios found in Northern Minnesota.
A. L. Henricksen has always taken a great pride in his home city.
He is a member of the Commercial Club, the American Sons of Norway,
and he and his brother promoted a company for the manufacture
of puncture proof tires for automobiles. This company now operates
a large factory at Newcastle, Indiana.
A. L. Henricksen has always taken a great pride in his home city,
has five children, all living, namely: Sigurd, John, ErHng, Signy and
Herald.
Thomas Kileen. The great lumber industry so long centered at
Duluth has recruited to this city and to the work some of the choicest
spirits of the great northern woods. One of them is Thomas Kileen,
who practically grew up in the atmosphere of logging camps in Wiscon-
sin, and who is now head of the firm, Thomas Kileen & Company, loggers
and contractors, operating a large organization of men and facilities
in the lumber woods of the northwest, while Mr. Kileen personally is
owner of and associated with the ownership of great tracts of cut-over
timberland in the northern district.
He was born in Wisconsin October 14, 1861. His parents are now
deceased. His father who died in 1907, at the age of seventy-four, was
a substantial Wisconsin farmer, a good citizen, enjoying the confidence
of the entire community, and had a family of ten children, five of whom
are still living.
Third among these children, Thomas Kileen acquired his early
education in the country schools of the Badger state. At the age of
eighteen he left home and went to work in the pine woods and logging
camps and soon developed special skill and proficiency in all phases of
work, including the dangerous art of driving logs down the rivers. At
the age of twenty-three he had advanced so far as to begin taking contracts
for getting out logs and operating drives, and soon afterward he
established his headquarters at Duluth. Recognized as an expert logger
and timber man, he has commanded the confidence of woodmen, and
has kept together one of the most efficient organizations for work in
this line. His employes have at times aggregated as many as five hundred,
and in different years he has got out and sent to the mills between
twenty-five and thirty-five million feet of logs. Incidental to his business
as a logger he has handled the sale of cut-over timber lands. He has
owned and still owns large sections of former timber land both in Wisconsin
and Minnesota, and some of his principal holdings were in Doug-
las county, Wisconsin, land that has been sold and developed largely
through his organizations, and much of it now constitutes valuable farms.
Mr. Kileen is also extensively interested in mining operations on the
Mesaba Range.
He is an independent voter and a member of the Knights of Columbus.
In 1896 he married Miss Katie Finnigan. They have two children,
Edward, born October 10, 1899, and Morine, born May 1. 1901. The
son Edward finished his education in the University of Wisconsin, and
since leaving university has been associated with his father in the logging
and farm business.
W. H. Cook. The Cook family have been residents of Duluth thirty
years, and during that time W. H. Cook and in former years his father