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

822 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
Soon after America entered the war with Germany he enlisted in the
Dental Reserve Corps, was called into active service September 13, 1917,
and for about eight months was a dental officer with the rank of first
lieutenant at Camp Funston, Kansas. He left Camp Funston May 22,
1918, for overseas, accompanying the 355th Infantry of the 89th Division
landing in England and afterwards going to France. He was with
his command throughout the war and came home with it. He was on
sion, landing in England and afterward going to France. He was with
duty during the St. Mihiel Drive and the battle of the Argonne, and
after the signing of the Armistice accompanied the 89th Division to Germany
with the Army of Occupation. While in Germany he was promoted
to the rank of captain. Dr. Helm returned home June 22, 1919.
Abel E. Person. In the building of the fine homes of Duluth one
of the firms that has performed the largest aggregate of service has
been Berglund, Peterson & Person, and the strength of that organization
has been greatly amplified during Abel E. Person's membership in the
partnership.
Mr. Person, who has spent his life in the wood working trades, was
born in Sweden October 8, 1879, and came to this country along in 1903.
He was reared and educated and learned his trade in his native land.
On locating at Duluth he followed cabinet making for six years, and
then became a foreman in the factory of the Woodrufif Lumber Company,
where he remained nine years. He left that to go into business
for himself as a partner in the firm of Berglund, Peterson & Person.
Mr. Person is independent in casting his vote, is a member of the
Modern Samaritans, Trinity Lodge of Masons and the Duluth Glee Club,
being a man of musical tastes and accomplishments. December 19, 1908,
he married Miss Anna Peterson, who came from Sweden three years
after his immigration. Five children were born to their marriage, the
three now living being Grace Wilhelmina, born in 1912. Dagner Charlotte,
born in 1916, and Mary Jane, born in 1919.
Roland W. Esterly. Duluth is proud of its "One Big Store Only"
for watches, diamonds and jewelry, at 410 West Superior street, a business
that has been built up and developed by Roland W. Esterly, a
man of expert knowledge in the jewelry trade and well and familiarly
known throughout northern Minnesota.
Mr. Esterly was born at Minneapolis July 20, 1885, son of William
and Emma (Hyers) Esterly. His father, now retired from business, is
living at the age of eighty years. The early ancestry of the family came
from Germany.
Roland W. Esterly is the youngest of twelve children, and acquired a
public school education at Minneapolis. At the age of fourteen he was
employed as clerk in a grocery store in that city, and later learned the
decorating and paper hanging trade with C. H. Andrews, acquiring a
proficiency that made him one of the recognized experts in the business
in that city.
He left Minneapolis to come to Duluth and go to work in the jewelry
business for his brother, E. Esterly. He became an expert salesman
both outside and inside, and while the logging and lumbering industry
was still in its high tide in northern Minnesota he visited all the important
camps and sold watches to the laborers, thus developing an immense
trade for his brother's establishment. For five years he traveled in this
way all over Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. Using his limited
capital and his wide experTence, he then entered business for himself, and