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

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schools of his native land, and at the age of twenty-one years he severed
home ties and came to America. He passed about two years in
the Dominion of Canada, and then, in 1874, came to the United States.
After passing several months in the City of Detroit, Michigan, he
proceeded to the copper-mining district on the Upper Peninsula of
that state, where he continued to be employed as a mechanic at the
mines until 1879. He then went to Isle Royal, where he remained about
a year, during which he was employed as a mechanic and for a time
as a workman in Island Mine. He passed the following winter at the
Ouincy Mine, Houghton, Michigan, and in the spring of the following
year returned to Isle Royal. In the fall he found employment at the
Silver Island Mine, and here it was that he gained specially valuable
experience in connection with technical and practical mining operations.
Thereafter he worked at various mines in the upper country, including
the Rabbit and Beaver Mines in Canada. In 1890 he came to the Mesaba
Range in Minnesota, established his headquarters at Tower, St. Louis
County, and engaged in exploring the Sheridan property, a work to
which he gave his attention about two years. He then assumed work
in the exploring and opening of the Sheridan Mine at McKinley, and
after giving two years of eiTective service in this connection he became
superintendent of the Cincinnati Mine at Biwabik. While at McKinley
he sunk the exploration shaft of the Hercules Mine. Upon leaving the
Cincinnati Mine he became mining captain at the Si)ruce Mine, and
later was made superintendent of the Roberts Mine at McKinley.
Within these years Mr. White had done a large amount of exploring
along the Range, and had become an authority in his field of service.
From the Roberts Mine he went to Buhl to open the Grant Mine. He
removed the timber, stripped it and sunk a shaft. W^ith Henry Roberts
he took the contract to remove from this mine 5vS,000 tons of ore. His
next service was as superintendent of the Meadow Mine at Aurora,
and later he assumed a similar position at the Fowler Mine. In 1905
Mr. White was made superintendent of the Virginia Mines of the Republic
Iron & Steel Company, and in this office he has made an admirable
record of service, the while he holds place as one of the representative
figures in mining affairs on the great Mesaba Range. He is affiliated
with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, and in politics accords allegiance to the Republican party. Captain
W'hite, as he is familiarly known, has a host of friends throughout
the Mesaba Range region, is one of its pioneers, and his popularity is
not the less by reason of his remaining a bachelor.
Robert W. Hotciikiss. Among the alert and enterprising men who
have utilized the opportunities ofifered for business preference at Duluth
during recent years and have gained thereby gratifying success is
Robert W. Hotchkiss, manager of the Duluth office of the Wells-Dickey
Company, handling trusts and estates and doing a general banking business.
Mr. Hotchkiss was born July 14, 1889, at Des Moines, Iowa, and
is a son of W'. A. Hotchkiss.
W. A. Hotchkiss was born in Connecticut, whence he went west in
young manhood, and in 1902 came to Minnesota and engaged in the
mortgage loan business with the Minnesota Title, Insurance and Trust
Company. Later he was with the Wells-Dickey Company, and at the
present time is identified with the Hennepin Mortgage Company and
resides at Orchard Gardens, south of Minneapolis, aged about sixtythree
years. The only child of his parents, Robert W. Hotchkiss received
his early education in the public schools of Des Moines and