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798 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 799 years and the orchestra at the Lester Park Dancing PaviUon for about the same number of years. Of recent years his musical work has been necessarily neglected to some extent, as he is now a partner in the Duluth Burnall Company, a business organized for the instaUing of fuel savers on heating plants, which takes the greater part of his time that is not devoted to his printing business. Mf. Blewett, as his various activities would indicate, is enterprising, progressive and ambitious. He is a popular member of the Masonic Blue Lodge and Chapter, the Modern Samaritans, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Independent Order of Foresters, and in his political belief maintains an independent stand. He is unmarried. John E. Hanson is prominently identified with the lumber manufacturing industry in the Mesaba Range district as assistant treasurer of the Virginia and Rainy Lake Company, with headquarters in the city of Virginia. He was born at Manistee, Michigan, August 21, 1882, and is a son of Andrew and Matilda (Hanson) Hanson, both of the same family name but not of kinship. The parents were born and reared in Norway, but their marriage was solemnized at Manistee, Michigan, Andrew Hanson having been a young man when he immigrated to America from his native land and having made his way to Manistee, Michigan, in which locality he found employment in connection with lumbering operations. He continued his alliance with this industry not only during the period in which it was one of maximum importance in that section of Michigan but also after operations became greatly circumscribed with the reduction of the timber resources. He was thus actively concerned with the lumber business until his death in 1918, and his sterling character gained to him unqualified popular esteem in the land of his adoption. His widow maintains her home at Manistee. John E. Hanson continued to attend the public school of his native city until he had attained to the age of seventeen years, when he tocjk a minor clerical position in the local office of the Manistee and Northeastern Railroad at Manistee. He continued his service until he had won promotion to the position of assistant chief clerk, and later he was employed about six months in the Chicago offices of the Chicago

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 799<br />

years and the orchestra at the Lester Park Dancing PaviUon for about<br />

the same number of years. Of recent years his m<strong>us</strong>ical work has been<br />

necessarily neglected to some extent, as he is now a partner in the <strong>Duluth</strong><br />

Burnall Company, a b<strong>us</strong>iness organized for the instaUing of fuel savers<br />

on heating plants, which takes the greater part of his time that is not<br />

devoted to his printing b<strong>us</strong>iness.<br />

Mf. Blewett, as his vario<strong>us</strong> activities would indicate, is enterprising,<br />

progressive and ambitio<strong>us</strong>. He is a popular member of the Masonic<br />

Blue Lodge and Chapter, the Modern Samaritans, the Modern Woodmen<br />

of America and the Independent Order of Foresters, and in his<br />

political belief maintains an independent stand. He is unmarried.<br />

John E. Hanson is prominently identified with the lumber manufacturing<br />

ind<strong>us</strong>try in the Mesaba Range district as assistant treasurer of the<br />

Virginia and Rainy Lake Company, with headquarters in the city of Virginia.<br />

He was born at Manistee, Michigan, Aug<strong>us</strong>t 21, 1882, and is a<br />

son of Andrew and Matilda (Hanson) Hanson, both of the same family<br />

name but not of kinship. The parents were born and reared in Norway,<br />

but their marriage was solemnized at Manistee, Michigan, Andrew Hanson<br />

having been a young man when he immigrated to America from his<br />

native land and having made his way to Manistee, Michigan, in which<br />

locality he found employment in connection with lumbering operations.<br />

He continued his alliance with this ind<strong>us</strong>try not only during the period<br />

in which it was one of maximum importance in that section of Michigan<br />

but also after operations became greatly circumscribed with the reduction<br />

of the timber resources. He was th<strong>us</strong> actively concerned with the<br />

lumber b<strong>us</strong>iness until his death in 1918, and his sterling character gained<br />

to him unqualified popular esteem in the land of his adoption. His widow<br />

maintains her home at Manistee.<br />

John E. Hanson continued to attend the public school of his native<br />

city until he had attained to the age of seventeen years, when he tocjk<br />

a minor clerical position in the local office of the Manistee and Northeastern<br />

Railroad at Manistee. He continued his service until he had won<br />

promotion to the position of assistant chief clerk, and later he was<br />

employed about six months in the Chicago offices of the Chicago

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