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

842 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
Apart from these last mentioned activities Mr. Hendrick has always
lent his aid and influence to the promotion of every project calculated
to advance the moral and social progress of his adopted city, and he is
generally recognized as a citizen in whom the community has implicit
confidence.
Anton Charles Weiss has all the honors and dignities attaching to
veteran experience in Minnesota journalism, and has served for practically
three decades as editor and publisher of the Duluth Herald, one of
the oldest papers of northern Minnesota, and for many years the undisputed
leading daily of Duluth.
Mr. Weiss was born at Sheboygan. Wisconsin, September 20, 1862, a
son of John and Louise (Fleischer) Weiss. He has been a resident of
Minnesota since 1870 and of Duluth since 1884. He acquired his education
in the public schools, and gained his early training in newspaper
work in the office and on the stafif of the Pioneer Press of St. Paul. He
served that great Minnesota paper for ten years.
The Duluth Herald was established in 1883 by Myron Bunnell, who
after six years sold out. One of its editors was J. Adam Bede, the distinguished
Minnesota congressman. A stock company was formed to
acquire the ownership of the Herald plant in 1891, and it was in November
of that year that Mr. Weiss bought a financial interest and became
president, treasurer and general manager of the company. He had been
in Duluth for several years as the Duluth representative and correspondent
of the Pioneer Press of St. Paul. Mr. Weiss has been the inspiration
and guiding genius of the Herald for thirty years, and has made it one
of the leading papers of the northwest, both in quality of service and
also in the high standard of its mechanical equipment.
He was a director of the Associated Press from 1910 until 1921. He
has long been prominent in Democratic politics and public afifairs. The
first public office he held was as alderman of Duluth in 1888-90. From
1890 to 1893 he was a member of the Board of Managers of the Minnesota
State Prison. He was a delegate at large to the National Convention
of the Democratic party at Denver in 1908, and also a delegate
at large and chairman of the Minnesota delegation at the Baltimore
Convention in 1912, and during that campaign was a member of the
Advisory Board of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Weiss
served as a member of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety during
the World war. He is a member of the Commercial Club of Duluth,
the Kitchi Gammi and Northland Country Golf Clubs, the Duluth Curling
Club and the Duluth Boat Club. On October 5, 1887, he married Mary
D. Sherwin, of McMinnville, Tennessee.
Charles Van Stone Greer. The Greer Printing Company of
Duluth is one of the most successfully equipped and efficient organizations
of its kind in the northwest for general book and job printing and all
classes of printing work. The active head of the business and its founder
is Charles Van Stone Greer, one of the veterans of the trade at Duluth,
who first came here nearly thirty years ago.
Mr. Greer was born in Huron County, Ontario. Canada, June 4. 1871,
and learned the printing trade during his youth after attending common
schools. In October, 1891, when he was twenty years of age, he came to
Duluth and went to work as a compositor for the Daily Tribune. He
remained in Duluth until March, 1892, when he went out to Seattle,
Washington, was employed on the Post Intelligencer until October of
that year and was then in the office of the Spokane Review until April,