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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 859
he was employed in different capacities and in different departments of
the Consohdated Elevator Company, and while there laid the foundation
of his expert knowledge of the grain industry. This was followed by
three years of employment with the Duluth Imperial Mills. He unloaded
all the wheat that came to the mills and also installed the first elevator
in the mill.
About twenty-five years ago Mr. Nelson formed a partnership with
Oscar Peterson under the firm name of Nelson & Peterson, and engaged
in the flour and feed business at 1823 West Superior street. In 1896
they moved to 20th avenue and the Northern Pacific tracks in order to
have better shipping facilities. In 1910 they took up their present quarters
at 1902-08 West Michigan, where they have all the facilities for
business, including the handling of all kinds of grain, and the grinding
of feeds, and they are also dealers in garden and field seeds. They have
equipment to deliver all orders and employ a large force of men and
vehicles. Their elevator, built of solid concrete, has the appearance of
a modern skyscraper and is one of the conspicuous landmarks in the
city.
Mr. Nelson is
Republican voter.
a member of
He married
the Swedish Lutheran Church and a
Miss Ida Johnson, and their children
are : Mamie,
Edgar, Ada, Esther, Ruth and Henry.
Walter Gustaf Zimmermann is recognized as one of the energetic
and successful business men of Duluth, where for more than a decade
he has served efficiently as contracting manager for the American Bridge
Company. In the course of an honorable career he has been successful
in his chosen vocation and has enjoyed the confidence and good will of
those with whom he has been associated.
Walter Gustaf Zimmermann was born in Buffalo, New York, October
25, 1876. From that city the family moved to Chicago, and in
the grade schools of the latter city he pursued his studies until 1889,
when he went to Germany and in the high school at Koenigsberg studied
until 1892. He then returned to his native land and entered the Harvard
Preparatory School at Chicago, which he attended until 1894, when he
entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, completing
his studies there in 1898. After completing his education Mr. Zimmermann
went to Chicago and established himself as a designer and estimator
of structural steel work. In 1903 he became connected with the
American Bridge Company as sales engineer in the contracting department,
continuing in that line of work at Chicago until 1907, when he
was sent to the South as contracting manager of the New Orleans and
Atlanta contracting offices. In October, 1909, Mr. Zimmermann opened
the Duluth office for the American Bridge Company and has been conducting
the business of the company here ever since, being well qualified
by both nature and training for the responsible duties of the position.
The work of the American Bridge Company in Saint Louis County
embraces the designing, fabrication and erection of structural steel work
for buildings, bridges, docks, mine structures, etc., and they also handle
forgings of all kinds for ship con.struction. mine equipment, etc. Notable
among their contracts completed in this county are the following: All
the buildings for the Minnesota Steel Company's rolling mills, benzol
plant, coke plant, etc. ; the steel bridges for the Duluth. South Shore
and .Atlantic, the Duluth, Missahe & Northern and Duluth ^K: Iron Range
Railroads; ore dock and coal dock for the Duluth. Missabe & Northern
Railroad; coal handling bridges and buildings for Zenith I'^urnace Company's
plant at West Duluth ; ore crushing, screening and concentrating