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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 781
at 131 West Second street for the manufacture of office and store furniture,
and have an organization of some sixteen or eighteen experienced
workmen in this branch of their business.
Mr. Berglund is independent in poHtics, and is an active member of
the Bethany Lutheran Church, in the rebuildmg of which his firm had
an important part. June 12, 1909, Mr. Berglund married Miss Elvera
Horngren, of Duluth, but a native of Sweden. They have three children,
Phoebe, William and John.
Edward A. Dahl, who was a resident of Duluth nearly a quarter of a
century, and whose sturdy character and splendid efforts brought him
from modest beginnings to a position of comfort and influence in the community,
was the type of citizen who could not well be spared and whose
death on October 14, 1920, was a great loss to the business and civic
interests and ideals which he had so faithfully served. His life was one
of unceasing industry and perseverance, and the systematic and honor-
able methods he followed won for him the unbounded confidence of his
fellow citizens of Duluth.
Edward A. Dahl was born in Norway on the 1st day of August, 1860.
He was reared and educated in his native land, where he remained until
twenty-three years of age, coming in 1883 to the United States. He first
located in Kslu Claire. Wisconsin, where he obtained employment for one
year with the Northwestern Lumber Company. He then moved to
Chippewa Falls, \\'isconsin, where he worked at the carpenter trade for
about three years. He came to Duluth in April, 1887, and engaged for
a time in work at his trade, and then went to Superior, Wisconsin, and
was employed in a sash and door factory up to 1889. He then engaged
in the contracting business in that city, in which he met with splendid
success, erecting the John Brickson School, one of the fine school houses
in that city, besides a number of bridges and docks. Mr. Dahl engaged
in the contracting business in partnershijj with Martin O. Haugner. under
the firm name of Haugner & Dahl. This association after being continued
about three years dissolved. Afterwards Mr. Dahl took up the
street paving business in Superior, Duluth and the Ranges, and up to
his death was active in that line, including the construction of waterworks
and drainage ditches, the latter class of work demanding his spe-
cial attention. He operated alone until March 31. 1913. when his business
was incorporated under the name of E. A. Dahl & Company. The
officials of the company were at the time E. A. Dahl. president; J. A.
Robertson, secretary; R. M. Hughes, treasurer. This firm has done
considerable street paving in Duluth and Braincrd. Minnesota, and in
Michigan and Wisconsin. Prior to Mr. Dahl's death the company was
handling extensive drainage contracts in Beltrami county. Minnesota,
comprising two hundred and forty miles of drainage and two hundred
and twenty miles of road leveling, an enterprise involving nearly half a
million dollars. Prior to that the company had built state rural highways
across Beltrami county for a distance of alK)ut fortv miles, and
also had two drainage contracts in Koochiching county. Mr. Dahl was
a widely recognized expert in this class of work, and his reputation was
based not only on his practical ability but the thorough honest wav in
which he handled his undertakinsrs, there being no "come back" on any
contracts performed by him. This undoubtedly was the secret of the
splendid success which came to him and which won Iiini the confidence
of all who knew him.
Tn .Superior. Wisconsin, in 1887. Mr. Dahl married Miss Ella Auij;-
vick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ole .\ngyick, now deceased, who lived
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