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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 823
for a time operated two stores, but on March 19, 1918, consolidated
the two stores into the "One Big Store Only" at 410 West Superior
street. This store carries a complete line of watches, imported diamonds
and high class jewelry and is also headquarters for many of
the curios found at the Head of the Lakes.
Mr. Esterly has seen his business steadily increase, and in 1919 the
aggregate volume was approximately sixty thousand dollars. He is a
Republican, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Duluth Boat
Club, Automobile Club, and a number of other social organizations.
Since coming to Duluth he has built two beautiful residences, his present
home being a modern bungalow at 4731 Robinson street.
March 16, 1911, at Duluth, he married Miss Helen Sullivan, a woman
of fine culture and education, educated in public and normal schools,
and a successful teacher before her marriage. They have one son, George
Wendell, born September 1, 1914.
Frederick C. Talboys was one of the pioneer merchants of the Range
country, going there nearly thirty years ago. He had the distinction of
establishing the first store at Chisholm and also the first at Eveleth.
He is now actively identified with a business of great magnitude at
Aurora, a complete department store, one of the largest and most liberally
patronized in that section of the Range.
Mr. Talboys, who acquired a thorough mercantile training while a
boy, was born at Osceola, Wisconsin, September 29, 1856, son of Wil-
Ham A. and Mary Ann Talboys. His father was an Englishman, an
early settler in Wisconsin, was in business as a merchant at Osceola and
for many years served as county treasurer, taking an active part in
Republican politics. From Wisconsin he moved his family to St. Paul
and finally to Chisholm on the Range. He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and a Mason, and died at the age of eighty-six,
his wife being eighty-seven at her death. Their family consisted of three
sons and one daughter. The daughter is Mrs. Adelaide Wood, who formerly
lived at Chisholm and is now a resident of Bisbee, Arizona. The
son W. E. Talboys, now deceased, was formerly an editor at Chisholm.
Frederick C. Talboys was reared at Osceola, acquired a grammar
school education there, and later supplemented this with a business
course at St. Paul. As a boy he gained familiarity with merchandising
in his father's store at Osceola, and at the age of twentythree
was proprietor of a country store. He sold this business in 1886
and for seven years was in the wood and coal business at St. Paul.
Leaving St. Paul, Mr. Talboys came to the Range in 1893. That
was a panic year and he was then at the lowest ebb of his financial
resources, being in debt some six or seven thousand dollars. Many years
ago he was able to pay off his obligations, and his abilities have kept
him moving ahead to higher stages of progress nearly every year. Mr.
Talboys in his mercantile experience has conducted stores in Virginia,
Chisholm, Eveleth. Sparta and part of the time two stores. In 1911 he
bought the stock of goods of the Aurora Mercantile Company, and with
George Schuhmehl as a partner has developed a large department store,
carrying a complete line of household f^.irnishing goods, dry goods and
clothing, meats and groceries, and everything to meet the demands of town
and country trade.
In 1876 Mr. Talboys married Miss Henrietta Hanscomb. They have
two sons and two daughters: .'\rthur \\'.. associated with his father in
business; Henrv H., who is with the Ingersoll Rand Company in the
zinc belt at Joplin. Missouri; Mrs. Edward Hatch and Mrs. E. J. Banks,
both residents of Eveleth.