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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 767
September 21, 1914, Air. Erickson was one of the incorporators of
the Consolidated Realty Company, and has been president from the
beginning. This company has been successfully engaged in a general
real estate business in the city, to its special credit being assigned
the handling of the sale of the Merrit Park Division and the platting
of Grant Park Addition to Duluth, which was put on sale September
1, 1919. The directors of the company are David J. Erickson,
president; C. A. Carlson, vice president and secretary, and H. T.
Lundgren, treasurer.
Well established in his profession and in business, Mr. Erickson
first became a candidate for an important of^ce when he was elected
to the Minnesota Legislature from the Fifty-ninth District in November,
1917. He was re-elected for his second term in November, 1919.
During the 1917 session he served as a member of the committee on
banks and banking, general legislation, military afifairs, state normal
schools, workmen's compensation, towns and counties. During that
session he was interested in increasing the workmen's compensation
from fifty to sixty per cent. Another subject that received a large
share of his attention was promoting the marketing of farm products
in the larger cities and states, and with that in view he was author of
the bill providing for a State Department of Foods and Markets.
During the 1919 session Mr. Erickson was instrumental in enacting
a law providing for a State Department of Agriculture, and also
sponsored an amendment of this law authorizing the commissioner
of agriculture to establish local markets in municipalities throughout
the state. In the session of 1919 he was chairman of the committee
on corporations and a member of the committees on education,
reconstruction and relief, judiciary, and appropriations. With his colleague,
Mr. Bernard, he sponsored the fire relief appropriation in the
appropriations committee for the relief of the fire-stricken districts in
Northern Minnesota. He was also an influential member during the
special session of the legislature called by the governor. September
8, 1919. In that he was also a member of the appropriations committee,
which looked after the soldiers' bonus h\\\, and the bill providing
for fire prevention in Northern Minnesota. He was also on
the committee on markets and marketing, which drafted the cold
storage legislation enacted during the special session. This committee
also had charge of carrying out the program of legislation
called for in the governor's message in reference to the high cost
of living. In the special session Mr. Erickson opposed the enactment
of tonnage tax on iron ore, thereby expressing the sentiment of his
constituency and also his personal convictions that such a tax is
unfair to the iron industry of Northern Minnesota and to the people
in general. During this special session Mr. Erickson was author of
the bill providing a City Market in the city of Duluth, a bill that
passed the house without a dissenting vote, but failed to pass the
senate. He was also a member of Mayor Magney's committee to
investigate the high cost of living in Duluth.
Fraternallv he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of .-\merica,
and is a member of the West End Commercial Club. June 2. 1917.
he married Miss Frances Sykes. Her father was an Englishman,
while her mother was born in Minnesota.
M. M. Ronn. superintendent of the .Alworth Building, learned the
machinist's trade in early life and for the past thirty-five or forty years
has enjoyed manv res[)onsil)ilities and has exenij)litie