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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 817
Mr. Hanson is a member of the Commercial Club of Duluth and a
member of the Methodist Church. He was one of the secretarys and is
now vice president and director of the Duluth State Bank and one of
its largest stockholders.
E. J. W. Donahue. Duluth and Saint Louis county enjoy a high reputation
because of the high order of their citizenship, and none of their
citizens occupies a more enviable position in the esteem of his fellows
than the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch. A
residence in this locality of many years has given his fellows a full opportunity
to observe him in the various lines of activity in which he has
engaged, and his present high standing is due solely to the honorable
and upright course he has pursued. As a leading citizen of his community
he is eminently entitled to representation in a work of this charac-
ter.
E. J. W. Donahue was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, on January
27, 1875, and is the only child born to his parents. His father, Edward
Donahue, was a native of Illinois, who moved to North Dakota, where
he made his home for a number of years. In 1910 he came to Duluth,
but a short time later returned to Bismarck, where he spent the remainder
of his life, his death occurring in 1918. E. J. W. Donahue was
educated in the public schools of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, and at the
age of eighteen years became a stenographer in the offices of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, where he remained about three years. He afterward
was employed as chief clerk to the general manager and superintendent
of the Montana Railroad, but about a year later resigned that position
and became bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery house, where he
was employed several years.
In 1909 Mr. Donahue, in association with others, began exploring in
the Cuyuna Range, their investigations resulting in the opening of the
Cuyuna, Mille Lacs Mine, the Cuyuna Duluth Ironton Mine, the Duluth
Brainerd Mine, the Sultana Mine and others. Mr. Donahue served as
president of the three first named corporations. On July 1, 1914, the
Cuyuna Mille Lacs and Cuyuna Duluth Companies were consolidated
with the Dunbar Furnace at Dunbar, Penn.sylvania, under the name of
the American Manganese Manufacturing Company, of which Mr. Donahue
was secretary and manager of the western end until he resigned in
May, 1915, in order to enter into other business on his own account. In
1916 he became associated with Alexander McKenzie and A. B. Cook in
the purchase of the east half of the southeast quarter of section 28, town
shi]) 47, of range 29, Crow Wing county, ^linnesota. which was later
improved as the Gloria Mining Company and the i)roperty opened for
shipment. In addition to his ore interests Mr. Donahue has also devoted
considerable attention to the oil business, operating properties in the
shallow fields of Kentucky with success. He maintains offices in the
Alworth Building, Duluth. A man of keen discernment and mature
judgment, he has been an important factor in the development of the
country contiguous to the Head oi the Lakes, and because of his energy
and iH'rseverance he has gained a satisfactory measure of success.
On Sei)tember 25, 1902, Mr. Donahue was married to Marv E. Burns,
and to them was born two sons, James and Emmet, but the former died
at the age of seven and one-half years. Emmet Donahue was born December
5, 1906, and is now a student of the Cathedral High School.
I'olitically Mr. Donahue gives his support to the Republican party,
while his religious faith is that of the I\oman Catholic Church. I'ra-
ternally he is a member of the Benevolent and I'rotective Order of Elks.