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

772 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
many years treasurer and director of the Board of Fire Underwriters
of Duluth, which incorporated and is operating the Salvage Corps of
this city. He was also a director and during 1918 was president of the
Dukith Board of Realtors, in addition to which he was connected with
a number of other business enterprises of this city.
Mr. Field was a member of the Duluth Commercial Club, the Kitchi
Gammi Club, the Duluth Curling Club, the Duluth Boat Club, and was
also a member of the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity. Politically he
was an independent Republican, while his religious affiiliation was with
the Pilgrim Congregational Church of Duluth. On April 30, 1907, Mr.
Field was married to Henrietta Barnes. They had a daughter, Elizabeth
Barnes Field. In all life's relations Mr. Field was true to every obliga-
tion and thereby he won and retained the unqualified confidence and respect
of his fellow men.
Willia:m D. Williams has had an active business career of more
than half a century, and for nearly thirty years has been a contractor,
broker and general operator in lumber and forest products at Duluth.
Mr. Williams was born in Wales in April, 1844, and twelve years
later, in 1856, was brought by his parents across the ocean. The family
joined a notable Welsh colony in Columbia county. Wisconsin, where
some of the first and most prominent settlers came out of Wales during
the forties and fifties. Mr. Williams' father was identified with
farming in that part of W^isconsin until his death in 1890.
William D. Williams, oldest of six children, acquired only a limited
education so far as schools were concerned. Perhaps the chief source
of his education and means of opening vip to him a wide communication
with life and affairs was the New York Tribune, a copy of which came
regularly into the Williams home in Wisconsin. That paper was then
at the height of its fame and power under the editorial management of
Horace Greeley, and Mr. Williams attributes to the studious reading
of its columns most of the early education he acquired, and a knowledge
that has been sufficient for his business career. At the age of sixteen
he went to Milwaukee and for five years was employed in a commision
house. After that he was engaged in the produce business on his own
account at Berlin, Wisconsin, for twenty-two years, and on May 22.
1891, came to Duluth and took up the line of work in which he has ever
since been engaged, handling lumber, railroad ties, telegraph and telephone
posts, and similar materials. The past quarter of a century he has
furnished many railroad companies with a large part of their wood
equipment. Mr. Williams is a Republican voter. He married many
years ago Jennie H. Howell, a native of Ohio, now deceased. He has
three children, namely : Walter D. Williams, Western Agent for the
Security Fire Insurance Company, with headquarters in Rock ford,
IlHnois ; Florence, living at home, and Juanita, also at home. Mr. Williams
built a home on Twelfth avenue, East, in 1892, and is still living
there.
Coleman F. Naughton. A native son of Duluth, and now one of
the Board of County Commissioners for St. Louis county, Coleman F.
Navighton is well known in several cities and over a large part of the
Central West for his work as a newspaper cartoonist. He began sketching
while a schoolboy in Duluth, and after deciding to make use of his
talent as a profession he studied art in Chicago, at the same time earning
his living by oftice work, and after gaining recognition his cartoons