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

832 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
loyal service as a member of the Medical Corps of the United States Army
in the period of the W^orld war. He was enrolled as a member of the
medical corps on the 18th of October, 1918, was assigned to duty at Fort
Oglethorpe, Georgia, with the rank of first lieutenant, and there he
remained until December 24, 1918. when he received his honorable discharge.
From 1914 to 1918 Doctor Empie served on the staflf of the
Lemont Hospital at Virginia, and he has been official physician to the
public schools of this city since 1917. He holds membership in the
American Medical Association, the Minnesota State Medical Society and
the Range Medical Society, besides being affiliated with the Phi Alpha
Sigma medical-college fraternity. The doctor's personal popularity in his
home community needs no further voucher than the statement that when
elected mayor of Virginia in 1920 he received the largest majority ever
given to a candidate for this office in this thriving and vigorous municipality.
He is affiliated with the Knights of the IMaccabees, the Modern
\\'oodmen, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks and the American Legion.
October 5, 1914, recorded the marriage of Doctor Empie to Miss Lucy
Sterne, of Ishpeming. Michigan, she having been born at Humboldt, that
state. Doctor and jMrs. Empie have a fine little son. Robert J.
John Grandy. Either as a journeyman carpenter or as a general
contractor and builder. John Grandy has been in close touch with the
building situation at Duluth for nearly forty years. Much of the expert
skill required for the building program of the city has been supplied by
him, and he is one of the oldest contractors in the city and has always
taken justifiable pride in the realibility of his performance of all obligations
assumed by him.
Mr. Grandy was born in Norway. June 3. 1855, and as a young man
acquired a common school education and served a thorough apprenticeship
at the carpenter's trade. He came alone to America in 1881. and
located at Duluth. where he was employed as a journeyman carpenter for
about nine years. Since 1889 he has been taking general contracts for
building work, and his name as a contractor has been identified with the
lists of independent business men for thirty years. During that time he
has handled contracts for many important buildings. Some of the schools
he has put up are the Irving, Jackson, and Cleveland, and his organization
built the McKay Hotel, the Frederick Hotel, the Clarendon Hotel, the
Astoria Apartment Hotel, the Metropolitan Hotel, besides a large number
of the finer residences of the city. He was contractor for a portion of the
First National Bank. Mr. Grandy is a stockholder in the First National
Bank and the Northern National Bank, and a stockholder and director
in the Minnesota National Bank.
He is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran Church and of the Sons
of Norway and a Republican in politics. At Duluth thirty-two years ago
he married Miss Louisa Johnson. Six children were born to their marriage,
and the three now living are Carl J., born in 1889 ; Frederick W.,
born in 1894; and Walter Leo, born in 1899.
George W. Welles. Of the men whose collective energies and enter-
prise have built up the fortunes of Duluth as a great market and dis-
tributing center of the northwest an important place must be assigned to
George W. Welles, a resident of the city for nearly thirty years and with
progressive responsibilities in some of the city's largest mercantile
establishments.