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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 863
Company for the Virginia district of the Mesaba Range, his residence
and official headquarters being maintained in the thriving httle city of
Virginia.
George H. Lohneis was born at Sun Prairie, a village near the fair
city of Madison, capital of the state of Wisconsin, and the date of his
nativity was May 11, 1885. His father, George P. Lohneis, was born
in Germany in the year 1856, and was a child at the time of the family
immigration to the United States. He was reared and educated in Wisconsin
and eventually became a prosperous merchant at Sun Prairie, that
state, where he was engaged in the general merchandise business. George
H. Lohneis is the eldest of their six children. The mother, whose maiden
name was Emma Albrecht, was born at Leeds, Wisconsin, of German
ancestry.
The public and parochial schools of his native village afforded to
George H. Lohneis his early educational advantages, and there he was
graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 1902. For
three and one-half years thereafter he was a student in the civil engineering
department of the great University of Wisconsin at Madison,
besides which he there devoted one semester to study in the general
engineering department. He became a member of the engineering society
at the university and was also active in athletic affairs at the institution.
In March, 1906, Mr. Lohneis came to the Mesaba Range as assistant
engineer for the Oliver Mining Company at Mountain Iron. In May, 1908,
he was transferred to the operating department, as night foreman, and
he retained this position until the closing of the mine at the end of
the season of that year. He was then transferred to the Mesaba Moun-
tain Mine at Virginia. In June, 1909, he went to the Pacific Coast in
the capacity of locating engineer for the Oregon Trunk Railroad, and
in January of the following year retired from this position and returned
to Virginia, Minnesota, where he entered the employ of the Republic
Iron & Steel Company for the Virginia district, of which he has been
assistant superintendent since March, 1913. He was the first president
of the village of Franklin, St. Louis County, a position which he retained
two years, and thereafter he served two years as village clerk. He is
a member of the village Board of Trustees at the time of this writing,
in 1920.
In politics Mr. Lohneis is an independent Republican, and his religious
faith is that of the Catholic Church. At Virginia he is affiliated
with Virginia Council No. 1640, Knights of Columbus, and Virginia
Lodge No. 1003, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. During
the nation's participation in the World war he was a member of the
Minnesota Motor Corps, and also gave aid in each of the drives in
behalf of the local support of the Government loans with the exception
of the first Liberty Loan.
At Virginia, on the 12th of January, 1911, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Lohneis to Miss Theresa Murphy, who was born at Iron
Mountain, Michigan, of Scotch and Irish lineage. They have no children.
William White, who holds the responsible office of superintendent
of the great Republic Iron & Steel Company for the Virginia district of
the Mesaba Range, is a native of England, where he was born and
reared in the celebrated mining district of Cornwall, and where he
gained his initial experience in connection with the great industry in
which he became a successful executive in the United States. He was
born in Cornwall, England, on the 21st of August, 1851, and is a son
of William and Hannah White. He received his early education in the