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

792 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
now filling that responsible position with ability and energy. Socially
he is identified with the local Kiwanis Club, and is a Knight Templar
of the Masonic fraternity and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He
was married in May, 1903, to Miss Lillie Crago, of Iron Mountain,
and they have four children living : John, Howard, Joseph and Ralph.
Two other children, Dorothy and Raymond, are deceased. Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey are consistent members and liberal supporters of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Carl H. Osterberg has been identified with mining operations since
his early youth, and in this connection he came to the Virginia district
of the Mesaba Range nearly thirty years ago, before the village
of Virginia had been laid out and when its site was known only by
the title of Section 8. He has been closely associated with the development
and upbuilding not only of the now thriving little city of
X'irginia but also with the advancement of the great mining interests
of this section of the state. An expert in mine drilling, he now gives
his attention to contract work along this line as a member of the
firm of Osterberg &; Johnson, of X'irginia. and he and his partner
also conducted a substantial adjunct business in the operation of a wed
equipped machine shop.
Carl Harry Osterberg was born in Sweden, March 11. 1863. His
father was identified with mining operations in Sweden and later
turned his attention to the gardening business there. The schools of
his native land afforded Carl H. Osterberg his early education, and
as a boy and youth he was employed in the iron mines—first as a
wiper and oiler and later as a fireman. At the age of seventeen years,
with a full measure of ambition and self reliance, he left his native land
and came to the United States, where he felt assured of better oppor-
tunities for the winning of independence through individual effort.
He proceeded to Iron Mountain, Michigan, where he found employment
at surface work and later as fireman in connection with mining
operations. In 1883 he took the position of driller's helper, and with
increasing experience became a skilled workman at the trade of driller.
When the great Gogebic Iron Range was opened he went to that district,
in the spring of 1886, and there he was employed two years. In
1888 he came to Ely, St. Louis county, ?*Iinnesota. and found work on
the Vermillion Range. After remaining there a year he engaged in
drilling work in the mines near Tower, this county, and in 1892 came
to the Virginia district, where he gained pioneer distinction in connection
with mining operations in this locality. Here he witnessed the
inception and subsequent upbuilding of the town of Virginia, and here
he did a large amount of important work in connection with mining
operations—first in the employ of the firm of Humphrey, Moore &
Foley, and later in the service of the firms of Cole 8i McDonald and
Brown & Miller. Finally he returned to ]\Iichigan and passed two
years as a driller for the Danorra Mining Company, at Negaunee.
After the steel corporation took possession of the property he continued
in its service at Sudbury, Ishpeming, Negaunee and other
points, and he continued his residence in Michigan imtil 1905. when
he returned to Minnesota and became a driller for Corrigan & Mc-
Kinney in what is now the St. Paul Mine at Keewatin. Itasca county.
In 1906 he formed a partnership with H. O. Johnson at Virginia, and
under the firm name of Osterberg & Johnson they have since been
associated in the control of a prosperous contracting business as
drillers in connection, with general machine-shop Avork.