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

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treasury department. While working there during the day he attended
night courses in architecture at George Washington University. On
leaving Washington he was employed for a year in the architectural
department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and in 1905 returned
west, spending five months in Winnipeg and then coming to Duluth.
Here for a year or so he was in the service of other architects, including
John Wagenstine and the firm of German & Lignell. In 1907 he
began practice for himself, and afterward was associated with Mr. Lignell,
later with O. J. W^illiams, and since January, 1917, his partner has
been Thomas J. Shefchik, under the name Kelly & Shefchik. To a large
degree Mr. Kelly's work as an architect has been on public or semipublic
structures. He and his firm have designed many schools and
other public buildings. One of the most conspicuous of the large school
buildings designed by the firm is the Morgan Park School.
Mr. Kelly has been a member of the Naval Militia for seventeen
years and practically at the beginning of the World war, on April 7, 1918.
was called to duty and was in service until December 16, 1919. During
most of the war he had command of the U. S. S. Massachusetts. He
holds a license as master of any gross tons steam vessel, upon the waters
of any ocean.
Mr. Kelly is a member of the college fraternity Delta Tau Delta, is
a 32 degree Mason and a member of Aad Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
He is also a member of the Elks, a charter member of the Rotary Club,
belongs to the Duluth Commercial Club and is a member of the Board
of Governors of Ridge View Golf Club. In politics he is a Republican.
Henry C. Doerr is one of the young bankers of the Range country,
cashier of the First National Bank of Aurora. He entered banking as
vacation work, finding in it opportunities for advancement and service
that satisfied him to make a permanent career.
Mr. Doerr was born in Two Harbors, Minnesota, January 4, 1890,
son of Henry C. and Dolena (McKay) Doerr, the former a native of
Philadelphia and the latter of Canada. They were married in Marquette,
Michigan. Henry C. Doerr, Sr., when a young man entered the service
of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad, has been continuously with that
company for thirty-five years and is now general foreman of the air
brake department. The parents are both active Presbyterians, the father
is a Republican and a member of the Masonic Order. They have three
living sons: Fred W., a student in the University of Minnesota; H. H.,
cashier of the First State Bank of Duluth; and Henry C.
Henry C. Doerr graduated from the Two Harbors High School in
1908. At that time he had his plans fully arranged to continue his education
in the State University. Before the opening of the fall term he
went to work in the Commerce State Bank of 'Vwo Harbors, and did so
well that the officials induced him to remain. Four years later he became
assistant cashier of the l-'irst State Bank of Two Harbors, and when
the First National P)ank was organized at Aurora he went there as
cashier, a post of duty that gives him exceptionally broad opjiortunities
for banking service in that community.
October 1. 1914, Mr. Doerr married Gretchen Roth f us. daughter of
C. T. Rothfus of Two Harbors. They have one daughter. Marjorie.
Mr. Doerr is a Knight Templar ^'ork Rite Mason and Shriner and is
now taking the Scottish Rite degrees. He is also affiliated with the
IndejK'ndent Order of Odd Fellows and in politics is a Re])ublican.