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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 111
became a feature of several metropolitan journals and were syndicated
and published from one end of the country to the other.
Mr. Naughton was born in Duluth, May 24, 1877, his birthplace being
the home on First street near First avenue, West. He is a son of Coleman
F. and Margaret (Connelly) Naughton. His father, a native of
Ireland, came to America in 1855, was a railroad worker in Pennsylvania,
and in 1875 moved to Duluth and was superintendent for the Northwestern
Fuel Company of this city until his death. The family of six children,
two sons and four daughters, are all living.
Coleman F. Naughton, Jr., youngest of the children, was educated in
the grammar and high schools of Duluth. While working as a bookkeeper
and in general office work in Chicago he attended the Art In-
stitute, where he perfected himself for his profession. As a cartoonist
his work appeared for several seasons in the Minneapolis Tribune, later
he was on the art stafif of the Louisville Times, then with the Boston
American, and finally with the Duluth Herald in his home city. Mr.
Naughton was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners
in November, 1917, and began his term of four years, January 1. 1918.
He is a Republican and a member of the Kiwanis Club and Elks Club.
August 12, 1905, he married Sarah J. Buskirk. They were married
at Minneapolis, but Mrs. Naughton was born in Indiana, a member of
an old family of that state. Her ancestors were Holland Dutch pioneers
of New Amsterdam, and through the military service of other ancestors
she is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
F. .S. Mills. During the three years that it has been in existence,
the Mills Transfer Storage Company has enjoyed a wholesome and con-
sistent growth, its success evidencing the value of its business policy as
outlined in its slogan, "The acme in service at the most reasonable rates."
The founder of this Duluth industry, F. .S. Mills, has enterprisingly
forged his way to a position of recognized substantiality in his field of
endeavor. He was born July 8, 1874, in Bigstone county, Minnesota, a
son of Albert Mills, a native of New York.
F. S. Mills, the eldest in a family of four children, was educated
in the public schools of Ortonville, Minnesota, and spent the early part
of his life in agricultural pursuits, becoming the owner of a valuable
farm, which he later sold. He had varied experiences in commercial
enterprises prior to coming to Duluth in 1917, at which time he became
identified with the Bridgman-Russell Company. Not long after his arrival
he founded the Mills Transfer .Storage Company, associating with
him his son, E. C. Mills, who graduated in the class of 1917 from the
University of Minnesota. Since that time another son, A. W. Mills,
has been admitted to ])artnershi]). At this time the company's transfer
headquarters are located at 213 Fourth avenue. West. This concern
does all kinds of draying, moving, freight baggage packing and shipping,
and makes a specialty of moving furniture, for which purpose it has
three of the largest van motor cars in the city. The company receives its
full share of patronage and its customers are daily growing in volume.
It has been the aim and ])olicy of the company to serve each and everyone
of its customers to the best of its ability, believing that a satisfied patron
)s Its best advertisement. 1 he furniture equipment of the Mills concern
is of the best, and its furniture craters and packers are among the most
efficient to be found at the Head of the Lakes. In the transfer line daily
deliveries are made to and from Duluth. .Superior. West Duluth. River-
side. Smithville, Morgan I'ark, Ciary and New Duluth.