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

790 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
Leonard Young. A service of more than ten years as principal of the
Duluth Central High School has placed the entire community of
Duluth in a relation of obligation to Leonard Young, who is one of
the city's most esteemed citizens and whose career for over twenty
years has been an earnest devotion to education.
He was born March 8, 1871, in Wabash county, Indiana, son of
John D. and Christiana (Stacey) Young. His parents were natives of
Clark county, Indiana. His father throughout a long and active career
followed farming, and is still living in Wabash county at the age of
seventy-six.
The oldest of three children, all living, Leonard Young spent most
of the years of his early life in the Wabash Valley, attending common
and township high schools in Wabash county, for two years was a
student in the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, and in
1898 graduated from the Indiana State University.
His career as an educator began immediately after he left the
university and has been uninterrupted since then. During 1898-99
he was teacher of science in the high school at Wichita, Kansas.
Returning to his native state, he was science teacher in the Evansville
High School from 1899 to 1907 and from 1907 to 1910 was principal
of the Evansville High School. From Indiana he was called to his
work as principal of Duluth Central High School in 1910.
Mr. Young is affiliated with Ionic Lodge, F. and A. M., and has
attained thirty-two degrees of the Scottish Rite. He is a member
of the First Presbyterian Church, the Kiwanis Club and Duluth
Curling Club.
George Spencer. The great natural resources of the northwest have
been developed through the vision, initiative and vigor of men of
unusual caliber, some of whom have passed away, although the results
of their unceasing zeal in behalf of their communities remain to benefit
generations yet unborn. One of the men who was responsible for
the organization of the Duluth Board of Trade, and for many years
extremely active in the grain and elevator business of this city, was
the late George Spencer, whose name stands for reliability and sterling
uprightness of character. He was born at Westminster, Vermont,
November 26, 1843, and was reared on his father's homestead and
educated in a high school of Boston, IMassachusetts, from which he
was graduated. His first business experience was gained in a clerical
position in a store owned by his brother, where he remained until
1870, but in that year he left his eastern home and came west to
Duluth to become manager of the newly organized Union Improvement
Elevator Company. It was not long before his resourcefulness
enabled him to go into business for himself in partnership with M.
J. Forbes, and he subsequently formed connections with the firm of
Spencer, Moore & Company, which he assisted in organizing. He
continued the head of this firm until November 3. 1907, when he
became president of the Consolidated Elevator Company, succeeding
his former partner, M. J. Forbes, deceased, and continued to serve
as such unt41 his death, February 4. 1915. He was one of the organizers
of the Duluth Board of Trade in 1881, became its first vice
president, and its second president, and in 1894 and in 1906 was made
its president again. It is but just to him to say that he was one of
the most successful business men of Duluth. For a number of years
he was a director of the American Exchange Bank, and had many
other interests, being beyond question one of the ablest pioneer grain