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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 765
hard and soft woods. A fireproof dry kiln, 38x70 feet, is equipped
with the hitest moist-air drying system, and a fireproof engine room
contains a 150-horsepower Atlas engine and two boilers of 170 horsepower
combined capacity. Not only is all equipment strictly up to
date, but so far as possible it is labor-saving and provided with
modern safety devices. A barn and garage. 18x24 feet, shelters the
teams and automobile trucks used in transfer and delivery .of local
business. A spur of the Northern Pacific Railroad runs between the
main building and the dry lumber shed, and raw material is brought
in and manufactured products are shipped out in carload lots. The
local trade is heavy and a goodly percentage of business is drawn
from Upper Michigan, Wisconsin, Southern Minnesota, North and
South Dakota and Montana. Of the raw material used to make the
finished products which have gained such distinction for this pioneer
])lant the oak comes from Saint Louis, the yellow pine from ^lis-
souri, the Douglas fir from Washington, the birch from the same state,
and the white pine from Northern Minnesota.
Mr. Wallinder is one who has been the architect of his own fortune
and he has builded wisely and well. Toda}' he is not only at the
head of a large, profitable and substantial enterprise, but is highly
regarded in the business world as a man of sound integrity, one
whose plant has been shut down only eighteen days during the entire
])eriod of its existence, and an enterprise that has never missed a
payroll. He has always had faith in West IDuluth and has manifested
his confidence by giving his sound support to its institutions and
civic enterprise and by investing his means in its realty. He is a
valued member of the local lodges of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Loyal
League and Alodern Samaritans. Primarily a business man, he is
interested in civic matters, in which he is inclined to lean toward
progressiveness rather than to passiveness and conservatism. Mr.
W^allinder belongs U> the Duluth and Commercial clubs, and since
1910 has been ])resident of the Kamloops Coi)])er Company.
Mrs. Wallinder died in 1912, having been the mother of six children:
William, Arthur, Dan, Esther, Ruth and \'era, of whom Ruth
is deceased. William and Dan are associated with their father and
.Arthur is superintendent of the Kamloops Copper Com})an^• in I'ritish
Columbia. Esther and Vera are at home.
J. P. Meisner, president of the Mesaba I'oiler and jVIanufacturintr
C"ompany of Duluth, has made Evident in his career the value of a
useful trade, of making one's energy count toward one thing and of
forging steadily ahead regardless of obstacles and discouragements.
During the fifteen years that this concern has been in business it has
grown steadily under Mr. Meisner's capable direction from a modest
enterprise into one of the leading enterprises of its kind at Duhitli.
Mr. Meisner was born at Portland, Michigan, .\pril 21, 1883. and
received his education in his native locality. When he was sixteen
years of age he started to learn the boiler maker's trade, and after
he had mastered it worked for a nutnber of years as a journeyman.
In 1905 he came to Minnesota and for a short time was engaged in
the machinery business, but subseiiuently turned his attention t()
the manufacture of all kinds of steam boilers, and in UX)5 became the
head of the Mesaba I'oiler and Maiuifactining Company, of whicli In-
became j^resident : R. I"". Peterson,
treasurer. Mr. .Mtisner brought to
secretary, and J. H. (^pperman.
his business an extcnsixi' experience
in the manufacture i>f sti-el boilers and in all kinds of structural
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