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

858 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have three children: Curtis L., born March 21,
1903; Irene L., born July 25, 1904; and Helen, who was born September
7, 1907 and died in 1909. During the World war Mr. Hayes was
a member of the local Motor Corps. He belongs to the Rotary Club,
North Bend Lodge No. 346, A. F. & A. M., and Virginia Lodge No.
1003, B. P. O. E. In political matters he supports the candidates and
principles of the Republican party. He is a Protestant in his religious
faith.
John Carl Brozich, who was born in northern Michigan and has
spent his conscious years in the environment of the great mining dis-
trict of northern Michigan and Minnesota, is one of the leading citizens
of Aurora, where he is local superintendent of the Miller Mine.
He was born at Dollar Bay, Michigan, December 24, 1890, son of
George and Catherine (Kobe) Brozich. His parents were both natives
of Austria, where they were married. George Brozich came to America
m 1885, his wife following him in 1888. He had worked in copper mills
in Austria, and his familiarity with the copper industry led him to locate
in northern Michigan, at Calumet, and later at Dollar Bay. For a number
of years he followed the trade of carpenter, in 1892 moved to the
Vermillion Range at Tower, and in 1893 went to Biwabik and later
to Virginia, then spent another period at Biwabik, and in 1904 moved
to Aurora. In 1906 he homesteaded land in Koochiching County and
lived there, working his farm until his death in April, 1916, at the
age of seventy-four. His widow survives him and spends part
of her time at Ely and also with her son at Aurora. George Brozich
did a great deal of work as a carpenter at the mines in northern
Minnesota. "He located at Tower before a railroad had been built to
that point. His family consisted of three sons and two daughters, three
of whom are still living. The son George is now connected with the
Ely State Bank. The only living daughter is Marie, wife of Jacob
Jaksha, of Aurora.
John Carl Brozich spent his boyhood in the several localities of Minnesota
above named and acquired most of his education in the grade
schools at Biwabik and the high school at Ely. At the age of fifteen
he began earning his living at work in one of the camps of the St. Croix
Lumber Company. After about a year, in 1907, he took up a service
which has been continuous, beginning as timekeeper for the Miller Mine
at Aurora. His abilities secured his advancement to other responsibilities,
and since 1910 he has been superintendent of that mine.
Always public spirited and active in his community, he served as
village trustee in 1912-13. During the World war he was a top sergeant
in the Home Guards organization and also a factor in promoting
the success of the Red Cross and in securing the quota for the Liberty
Loans. July 27, 1916, Mr. Brozich married Gladys Shriver, daughter
of Charles W. Shriver. They are the parents of one daughter, Charlene.
Edward N. Nelson is the senior member in the firm of Nelson &
Peterson, a partnership of long and successful standing as elevator men
and manufacturers and jobbers in grain and stock feed. They have
developed one of the largest businesses of the kind in the Duluth
district.
Mr. Nelson, who has been in Duluth for nearly forty years, was
born in Sweden November 17, 1859. In the old country he acquired
a substantial education, and was twenty-three years of age when he
came to America alone and located in Duluth in 1883. For seven years