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

834 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
for lease on the Chandler Mine at Ely, which had been abandoned by the
original operators, and after an exploration he secured a mining lease in
1910, and has since been operating it as the Chandler Mining Company,
success attending his efforts from the very beginning.
September 10. 1901, Mr. Costin was married to Miss Delia Austin, a
native of Minnesota and a teacher in the Virginia schools. They have
become the parents of three children : Corynne, Virginia and John Hart.
Early in his career in Virginia Mr. Costin took a keen interest in local
development and in local politics. He served as city assessor and later as
city clerk, bringing intelligence and ability to bear on the duties of these
offices. He takes an active part in Masonic affairs ; is a member of the
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, a Knight Templar, a York Rite Mason,
and a member of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine. Mr. and Mrs. Costin are prominent in the social life of Virginia,
where their friends are numerous, and where they give their support to all
projects calculated to advance the public welfare.
LuDwiG A. Larsen. The examples such men as Ludwig A. Larsen
furnish of patient purpose and steadfast integrity, illustrate what is in
the power of each to accomplish, and there is always a full measure of
satisfaction in adverting in even a casual way to their achievements in
advancing the interests of their fellow men and in giving strength and
solidity to the institutions which make so much for the prosperity of the
community, for all will agree it is the progressive, broad-minded, alert,
wide-awake men of affairs who make the real history of a community,
and Mr. Larsen's influence as a potential factor of the body politic is
difficult to estimate.
Ludwig A. Larsen was born August 11, 1868, at Gaarden Tarud,
Skedsmoe, Norway, the son of Julius Larsen and Bertha Tarud born near
Kristiania. He was reared to the age of nineteen in his native land,
receiving his education in the schools of his home community. On
April 24, 1887, he came alone to the United States, locating first at Castle
Rock, Minnesota, where he was employed for four summers on farms,
attending public school in winter. In 1890 and 1891 he attended the
State Normal School at Mankato. and in the latter year he came to Duluth
and engaged in bookkeeping and as assistant to the manager of the Minneapolis
Stockyards and Packing Company, with whom he remained about
three years. He next entered the law office of Draper, Davis & Hollister
at Duluth as bookkeeper and cashier, and read law with them for upwards
of three years. During the following year he took a much-needed rest on
a homestead and then entered the University of Minnesota, where he
remained during 1897-8, covering all legal studies excepting the criminal
branch of law. He then followed a wholesale business in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan for a time, but later returned to Duluth and
engaged in the real estate, investment and mortgage loan business, his
offices being located in the Providence Building. His business has gradually
and steadily increased in volume and importance, giving him connections
with some of the largest corporations and individuals in the
United States controlling and owning real estate in Duluth and the
northwest. The early organization was under the name of L. A. Larsen
& Company, and as the business grew, in 1906 a Minnesota corporation
was formed under the name of L. A. Larsen Company, which has
remained practically a close corporation.
On January 1, 1900, at Pine Island, Minnesota, Mr. Larsen was married
to Lillian Augusta Miller, the daughter of Charles R. and Caroline
Buck Miller, natives of the state of New York, though of Swiss ancestry.