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

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dries and such side lines as are usually carried in an up-to-date drug
store. By strict attention to business and courteous treatment of his
customers he has built up a large and representative business, being one
of the leaders in his line in this city.
Politically Mr. Grochau is a Republican. He is president of the
Retail Druggists Association of the Head of the Lakes and president of
the Minnesota State Pharmaceutical Association. Fraternally he is a
member of the Masonic Order, and has been honored by passing through
the degrees of all the bodies of the York and Scottish Rites and belongs
to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also
a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Modern
Samaritans and the Camels of the World. His religious faith is that of
the Congregational Church, of which he is a member and a liberal supporter.
On June 20, 1900, Mr. Grochau was married to Bessie Jones, who
was born at Neilsville, Wisconsin, and was reared and educated in Duluth.
To them have been born two children, Dorothy, born August 6, 1905,
and Maurice, born July 14, 1907. The family moves in the best social
circles of the city and are well liked by all who know them. Mr. Grochau
has not only been successful in his own business afifairs, but has •
given earnest support to all movements for the betterment of the city
along all lines.
Al Blewett. To the man of average success the varied and substantial
results achieved by Al Blewett seem out of all proportion to the
comparatively brief tenure of his career and in no wise remarkable advantages
or opportunities. Richly endowed with the qualities of initative
and resource, concentration and enthusiasm, and with the city of Duluth
as the setting for the working out of his ambitions, his varied responsibilities
at the present time include his position as head of a job printing
concern, leader of the Blewett Orchestra and a partner in the Duluth
Burnall Company.
Mr. Blewett was born October 15. 1876. in Ontario. Canada, and was
four years of age when he came to the United States with his parents^
Mr. and Mrs. Wellington Blewett. His father, a native of Pennsylvania,
went to Canada in young manhood, but returned to the United States
in 1880 and engaged in farming in the vicinity of Crookston, Minnesota,
where he died in 1887. He had ten children^ of whom eight are living,
Al being the seventh in order of birth.
The public schools of Crookston and Duluth furnished Al Blewett
with his early educational training, he having come to the latter city in
1889. Here he began to learn the printing business as errand boy with
Seipel, Miller 8c Hunter, later becoming press operator, and subsequently
foreman for Arthur E. Brown, who conducted the Northland Printery.
After leaving that firm he associated himself with the Boston Music
Company for a period of four years, and then became a partner in that
concern, this association continuing until 1915. In that year he embarked
in business on his own account at No. 18 Lake avenue, North, which is
his present location. Here he does all kinds of first-class job printing and
has built up his enterprise from a modest beginning to one that is important
in its proportions.
About the year 1895 Mr. Blewett organized the Blewett Orchestra,
with three members, which grew in popularity, favor and size, he eventually
employing as many as twenty-five persons. This organization was
employed chieflv in furnishing music for dancing, and Mr. Blewett conducted
the orchestra at the Duluth Boat Club for a period of twelve