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

860 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
plants for the Oliver Iron Mining Company and Rogers-Brown Iron
headf rames, hoisting
Company and several others on the Mesaba Range ;
engine houses, shop buildings and other mine structures for the majority
of the mines on the
variety of structures
Mesaba and Vermillion Iron Ranges, also a large
for the Calumet and Hecla and the Quincy Mining
Companies in the upper Michigan copper country ; school buildings, public
of
buildings, highway bridges, water towers and other steel structures
various descriptions. The American Bridge Company has operated
in St.
tation
Louis County since 1900 and has always enjoyed a high repu-
because of the uniformly high quality of the work performed
by them.
On December 18, 1909, Mr. Zimmermann was married to Virginia
B. Gambrell, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Gambrell of Abbeville,
South Carolina. Mrs. Zimmermann died on November 12, 1917.
During her life she was actively interested in the Matinee Musicale and
was a member and active worker in the Endion Methodist Episcopal
Church. To Mr. and Mrs. Zimmermann were born two children, Eliza-
beth, on March 12, 1912, and Walter, Jr., January 4, 1915.
Mr. Zimmermann is a member of the Commercial Club, the Kitchi
Gammi Club, the Northland Country Club, the Duluth Engineers Club,
American Society of Civil Engineers, Citizens Alliance and the Technology
Club of Lake Superior. He is also a member of the Sigma Chi
college fraternity. He is a well-educated, symmetrically developed man
and his technical knowledge of structural problems, especially as relating
to the use of steel, has caused his long retention in a position where a
high standard of excellence has been required. Because of his earnest
life, high attainments, well rounded character and large influence, he is
eminently entitled to representation in a work of the character of the
one in hand.
Kenneth S. Cant was born October 1, 1889, in Duluth, Minnesota.
He attended the Duluth grade schools and high school, and the Universities
of Minnesota and Wisconsin. In 1912 he graduated from the
law department of the University of Minnesota and was engaged with a
Arm of attorneys in Minneapolis for a short time. During vacations,
while attending school and college, he was employed in various capacities
on surveying work and finally acquired a good practical knowledge
thereof.
In 1913 he was called upon to serve the Canadian Northern Railroad
Company in both a legal and engineering capacity, investigating the
origin and extent of the great fires in northern Minnesota which in
1910 destroyed the villages of Spooner, Baudette and other places and
caused the loss of many lives. He was also employed by the Government
as engineer on the Indian Reservations in Minnesota for about
one year. In 1914 he opened an office in Duluth for the purpose of
dealing in real estate and has been engaged in this work ever since.
Mr. Cant was president of the Duluth Board of Realtors during the
year 1918-1919 and director of the Commercial Club during the years
1919-1920. Besides the above mentioned, he is a member of the Kitchi
Gammi Club, Ridgeview Golf Club and Kiwanis Club.
Frank Edward Johnson. The skill and experience of a thoroughly
competent city engineer are absolutely necessary in every organized community
to ensure safe, proper and satisfactory public utilities and certain
important building structures, and to these qualities Virginia, Minnesota,
is indebted to Frank Edward Johnson, city engineer, for adequate water