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

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wrenches, and do much other work possible in a modern and well equipped
drop forging plant.
Of this prosperous and promising Duluth industry Mr. Swanstrom
is still president ; L. T. Peterson is vice president, Al De Vohn, secretary
and treasurer; E. C. Peterson is second vice president and Frank Swanstrom,
third vice president. Mr. Swanstrom is a member of the Lutheran
Church and a Republican voter.
June 24, 1899, he married Miss Sarah Amelia Lindberg. She was
born in Minnesota of Swedish parentage, who came to America as children.
She was educated in the public schools of Duluth. They have two
children, a daughter, Gladys Irene Swanstrom, born July 24, 1900, and
a son, Arthur Raymond Swanstrom, born August 2, 1901. Both children
are now students in the Duluth High School.
Andrew Bergquist. A highly respected citizen of Duluth who, although
an American by adoption only, has had the interests of this community
at heart for many years is Andrew Bergquist, a man who has
won success in life because he has been persistent and never permitted
obstacles to thwart him in a course when once he knew he was right.
He came here practically without capital, but by earnest efiforts, honest
work and good management has during the subsequent years forged ahead
and is now numbered among the leading contractors and builders in his
community.
Andrew Bergquist is a Scandinavian by nativity, having been born in
Sweden on the 14th day of September, 1862. He was reared to manhood
in his native land and received his education in the schools of his
home locality. In 1887, when twenty-five years of age, he came to the
United States and located at once in Duluth, where he obtained employment
at the carpenter trade, the vocation which he had followed in his
native land. After working at his trade as an employe for about four
and a half years he. in 1891, began contracting on his own account. In
the following years he took in his brother, Louis M. Bergquist. as a part-
ner, and the same firm, under the name of Bergquist Brother, is still in
active and successful operation after an eminently prosperous career.
They have constructed many of the most important business blocks and
finest residences and apartment houses in Duluth, among which was the
Commercial Club Building, and through all these years they have enjoyed
a most excellent reputation in business and commercial circles because
of the high character of their work and the splendid business methods
which they have ever followed. Their office is located in the Exchange
Bank Building.
On December 28. 1892, Mr. Bergquist was married to Selma M. Person,
of Duluth, and to them have been born four children, namely : Melvin
D., Harold A.. Milton N. (deceased), and Laura S. Mr. and Mrs.
Bergquist are members of the Baptist Church, to which they give generous
.support, and polticially Mr. Bergquist is affiliated with the Republican
partv. By a straightforward and commendable course he has made
his way from a somewhat humble beginning to a respectable position in
the business world, winning the hearty admiration of the jieople of his
adopted city and earning a reputation as an enterprising, progressive man
of affairs and a broad-minded and ujiright citizen which the public has
not been slow to recognize and a|)preciate.
JoTTX H. MrlxM.s. a well-known citizen of \''irginia. assistant gen-
eral sunerintendent of tlie Interstate Tron Cnmr>an\-. i>; a native of the
state of Michigan, boni at Ishpeming. May 11. 188.>. His parents, Neil