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

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steel work, and his firm now does an extensive business all over the
Northwest. The shops and boiler works are located at 212-218 Gar-
field avenue, where there is maintained a large force of experts in
boiler manufacturing- and structural steel work.
Mr. Meisner has a number of civic and social connections and
numerous friends in these as well as business circles, w^here he is
known for his integrity, fair-mindedness and sense of justice. He was
married at Duluth in 1910 to Miss Smith of Superior, Wisconsin.
H. M. Blackmarr, president of the F. I. Salter Company of Duluth,
is a young business man of wide and varied financial and commercial
experience, whose associations with Duluth aflfairs run back over
a period of a quarter of a century.
He was born August 4, 1878, and has been a resident of Duluth
since 1887. He finished his education in local schools, and as a boy
went to work for the National Bank of Commerce as an errand boy.
After three years he went with the Commercial Bank of Duluth as
assistant cashier, and three years later, at the death of his father,
became manager of the Alesaba Bank at Proctor. He later disposed
of his interests in that institution and for the eight years following was
assistant manager of the insurance rating office, leaving that position
to become identified w^ith the F. I. Salter Company. He is a member
of Kitchi Gammi Club and the Ridgeview Golf Club.
David J. Ericksox. His duties as a lawyer, real estate man and
legislator have given Mr. Erickson a very busy program of usefulness
since coming to Duluth eight years ago. His name has become widely
known throughout the state as an able public leader of that type
which merits public confidence and esteem.
Mr. Erickson w^as born at Warren, Pennsylvania. December 3,
1888. son of L. P. and Christine (Anderson) Erickson. His parents
were natives of Sweden, and his father came to this country about
1870, locating in Warren county. Pennsylvania. He is still living, at
the age of seventy-seven. For many vears he was an active farmer
and was one of the pioneer settlers of Elk township of Warren county,
where many years ago he bought 120 acres of land covered with dense
timber. He has developed this farm and for many years his specialty
has been dairying, and he made his own example a powerful influence
in bringing into the county a good line of cattle and horses.
a Republican and a member of the Swedish Mission Church.
He is
Of his
nine children, eight are living. David J- being the youngest.
He attended a country school in Pennsylvania, also the Corydon
Grammar School, graduated from the Warren High School in 1908,
and in the fall of the same entered Pennsylvania State College, where
he was a student in 1908-09. following that with the regular law
course of the Universitv of Michigan, where he graduated with the
degree LL. B. in 1912.
In November. 1912. a few months after graduating in law, Mr,
Erickson came to Duluth and was employed by the law firm of Abbot,
Merril & Lewis until August, 1913. i
He
was admitted to the Michi-
gan bar in June. 1912. and in June. 1913, took the Minnesota bar
examination and was admitted as a practicing attorney in this state
in July. On September 1. 1913, he formed a law partnership with
William A. Pittenger. which continued until March 1, 1914, under the
firm name Erickson & Pittenger. Since then Mr. Erickson has
handled a large general practice alone, with offices in the West End,
near Twenty-first avenue, West.