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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 871
son was educated in the public schools of Duluth and at Williams College,
and was a lieutenant of artillery during the World war, his two
older brothers also serving during that great struggle; the fourth son
was educated in the public schools of Duluth and at Andover Academy.
Politically Mr. Spencer is an earnest supporter of the Republican
party. He served one term as president of the Duluth City Council and
was in the State Senate in 1895-97. He belongs to the Free and Accepted
Masons, in which he has been honored by the conferring of the
thirty-second degree. Religiously his faith is that of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
William Lundy Jackson is among the favorably known and representative
citizens of Duluth and Saint Louis County, in which he has
spent the major portion of his life. He has by his indomitable enterprise
and progressive methods, contributed in a material way to the
advancement of his locality, and during the course of an honorable
career has met with splendid success as a real estate dealer, being a man
of energy, sound judgment and honesty of purpose.
William Lundy Jackson was born on the first day of January, 1852, in
the county of Norfolk, Ontario, Canada, and is the son of Joseph Jackson,
who is now deceased. The father spent his early life in Ontario,
where he was engaged in lumbering operations and became a man of considerable
prominence and influence in his community. He was a member
of the Commons for four years and later, until his death, he served as
sheriff of Norfolk County. He died in 1909, secure in the confidence and
regard of his fellow citizens. By his first marriage he was the father
of six children, five daughters and a son, William Lundy being the first
born of the children. William L. Jackson completed his general studies
in the grammar school of his home community and took a commercial
course in a business college. He then became connected with his father
in the lumber business, remaining with him until early in 1884, when he
came to Duluth and engaged in the dry goods business, which claimed
his attention for two years. He was next engaged in the real estate
business until 1904, when he was appointed city assessor of Duluth,
which office- he held for four years, and at the end of that period he
again entered the real estate business, with which he has been identified
ever since. He has been interested in the selling of residence properties,
vacant lots and farm lands, and in the placing of loans and insurance.
By his energy and strict attention to business he has built up a large
and representative clientele and is considered one of the most accurate
and reliable real estate men in his comnnmity.
Mr. Jackson has been married twice, first on October 1, 1879. to
which marriage were born two children, a son and a daughter, who now
live in Tonawanda, New York. On October 19, 1902, in Port Rown,
Ontario, Mr. Jackson was married to Mary E. Francis. Politically he
has long been an ardent supporter of the Democratic ])arty and has taken
a deep interest in public affairs, especially as pertaining to the locality in
which he lives. His religious membership is with the First Presbyterian
Church, of which he was an elder. In all that constitutes true manhood
and good citizenship Mr. Jackson is an exam])le. his career having been
characterized by duty faithfully performed and by industry, thrift and
wisely directed efforts. He is a public spirited, unassuming, genteel
gentleman whom to know is to respect and admire.
Andrew Andren is proprietor of "The Painters' Supply House," a
business that is a result of more than a quarter of a century's enterprise