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

828 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
line of endeavor. He is a native of Stillwater, Minnesota, born June 7,
1889, a son of A. W. Phinney, now residing on a farm in the state of
Washington.
Mr. Phinney, a member of a family in which there were four daughters
and one son, was educated in the public schools of Stillwater and
western Canada, and when he was only ten years old was working on a
ranch. For a time some years later he was employed in sawmills, and
while thus engaged worked also in the electrical business as a wireman.
Coming to Duluth in 1913, he secured employment with the steel plant
and later served in the lighting department at Morgan Park under Earl
Bradley for two years. At the end of that time he worked for F. L.
Kriedler and later Messrs. Kriedler and Phinney formed a partnership
under the name of the Western Motor Company. This concern is
engaged in automobile repairing and welding, and maintains an automobile
livery and a large garage, as well as a live and dead storage, and
handles automobile accessories, the plant being located at 529-531 North
Central avenue. West. The company is the distributor for Moon motor
cars and the Studebaker car. The large garage covers a floor space of
60 by 125 feet, and a welding department and battery service are maintained.
Mr. Phinney bought the interest of his partner, thereby becoming
sole owner of the business. He is a Mason, also a Knight of Pythias
and an Odd Fellow and a member of the West Duluth Commercial Club,
the Duluth Automobile Club and the Royal League, and, having descended
on the paternal side from Scotch ancestors, maintains membership in the
Scottish Clans.
On February 20, 1912, Mr. Phinney was married at Duluth to Miss
Loretta Mack, and to this union there have been born two children
Frances Wright and Beatrice Ann. To his superior trade qualifications
Mr. Phinney adds the advantages of keen intelligence, broad and general
information and a personality pleasing, adaptive and confidence-inspiring.
He has many friends and a promising future.
William J. Archer, senior member of the representative law firm
of Archer & Pickering, of Virginia, has been established in active practice
in this thriving little city of the Mesaba Iron Range since the year
1910, and the scope and importance of his professional business bears
evidence alike of his ability and his secure place in popular confidence
and esteem.
Mr. Archer was born on a farm in Clay County, Iowa, June 12, 1884,
and is a son of Richard J. and Jennie J. (Ewing) Archer, who now inaintain
their residence at Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. William J. Archer was
an infant at the time of his parents' removal from the Hawkeye state
to Texas, where his father engaged in farm enterprise. The Lone Star
commonwealth afforded Mr. Archer his early education, and there he continued
his studies in the public schools until his graduation in the high
school at Henrietta. In the pursuance of a higher academic education
he entered Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa, and in this institution
he completed the scientific course and was graduated as a member of the
class of 1904. After thus receiving his degree of Bachelor of Science
he was for one year a teacher in the public schools at Lake City, Minnesota,
and later continued his effective pedagogic service in the public
.schools of Superior, Wisconsin. In harmony with his well defined ambition
he finally entered the law department of the University of Minnesota,
where he continued his studies until his graduation as a member of the
class of 1910, his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws having
been virtuallv coincident with his admission to the Minnesota bar. Soon
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