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

824 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
The Talboys family are Methodists, and Mr. Talboys has served as
steward and trustee of the church. He holds membership in the Masonic
fraternity at Duluth and in politics is a Republican. During his long
residence in the Range country he has witnessed all the important changes
and transformations, and as a citizen has lent his influence at every possible
point for betterment and progress.
JoHX D. Lamont, a prominent and prosperous civil and mining
engineer, and otherwise identified with the progressive movements of
Virginia, has been on the Mesaba Range for about thirty years. He
was born at Lake Linden, Michigan, February 22, 1870. His father,
Neil Lamont, was a native of Scotland, immigrated to Canada in the
early '60s, and there settled on a tract of land which he cleared and put
into cultivation.
Neil Lamont married Hughina McPhail. who, as well as her husband,
was born on the Island of Mull—made famous by Robert Louis
Stevenson in "Kidnapped"—on the southeast coast of Scotland.
John D. Lamont lived at Lake Linden. ^Michigan, until he was about
twenty-one years old. After he had graduated from the high school at
that place he entered the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor and
studied civil engineering for two years. At the close of his university
course he came to Virginia and entered the offices of C. E. Bailey, a noted
mining engineer of that period.
In 1903 Mr. Lamont became vice president of the Cole & McDonald
Exploration Company, and has been connected with the same company
ever since. This concern has drilled for practically every mining company
that has been operating on the Range in all the intervening years.
Mr. Lamont, apart from his mining activities, has been interested in
many other projects of local import. For some six years he was a member
of the Library Board and served on the board when the present
library building was erected. When the city took over the water and
light utilities, to be operated for the benefit of the citizens, he became
a member of this board, on which he has served for eight vears and of
which he is now the chairman, and under his guidance the utilities have
developed to the advantage of the whole of the people. He also holds a
seat on the Board of Directors of the American Exchange National Bank.
Mr. Lamont gives his political support to the Republican partv and is
a stanch adherent of its policies and principles. He is a member of the
Kiwanis Club and of the Masonic Order, in the affairs of both of which
he takes a warm interest. In September. 1901, he was married to Mrs.
Grace Wilcox. Mr. Lamont is regarded as an enlightened and trustworthy
citizen of Virginia, and in all matters pertaining to the public
welfare his advice is sought and freely given. During the W^orld war
he was one of the most active supporters with time and money the government
had in this part of the state.
Clyde Wetmore Kelly, architect, has been performing some of the
capable work in his profession at Duluth and vicinity for the past fifteen
years. He has designed many public buildings, and his work speaks for
itself and fully justifies the high reputation he has won in his profession.
Mr. Kelly was born December 2, 1880, at Chicago. His father,
Charles Herbert Kelly, soon afterward moved his family to St. Paul,
Minnesota, where he died in 1884. The younger of two children, Clyde
W. Kelly attended the public schools of St. Paul, and acquired his preliminary
knowledge of architecture while in \\'ashington. District of
Columbia, as a draftsman in the office of the supervising architect of the