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

874 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
and complete line of dry goods, shoes and men's furnishings, and his
trade is a large one and comes to him from Proctor and a wide territory
contiguous to it.
Reared a Catholic, he has given the support of his mature judgment
to and is a true son of the Church. He belongs to the Knights of
Columbus and the Loyal Order of Moose. In politics he is a Democrat.
Not only does Mr. Fay conduct his business according to methods which
reflect credit on his ability, but he also gives to the best movements of
his community an unqualified support, and is correctly numbered among
the worth-while men of St. Louis County.
Bridgeman-Russell Company. The Bridgeman-Russell Company
has Duluth as its headquarters and is a produce and dairy products enterprise
involving the handling, distribution and marketing of products from
the entire northwestern territory tributary to Duluth. The company has
the distinction of being the largest manufacturers of butter in the north-
west.
The senior member of the company, Henry Bridgeman, engaged in
a modest business in Duluth October 1, 1888, under the style of Bridgeman
& McGibbon. About one year later Mr. McGibbon was succeeded by
Mr. Robert A. Peers, the firm name being changed to Bridgeman & Peers,
On April 1, 1892. Mr. Peers was succeeded by Mr. N. F. Russell, the
firm name being changed to Bridgeman & Russell. This partnership was
continued until April 1, 1903, when the company was incorporated under
the name of Bridgeman-Russell Company, with a capitalization of $100,-
000. The capitalization in 1907 was increased to $250,000, and in 1920
to $1,000,000.
The company is large manufacturers of butter and ice cream, condensers
of milk, and dealers and distributors of butter, eggs, cheese,
poultry, ice cream, milk and cream. They operate eight large creameries
in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and
altogether have about six hundred employes at the different plants. Their
business involves the services of several hundred agents and buyers of
produce in the above states. They sell and distribute butter and eggs
from coast to coast, shipping large quantities of such supplies as far as
New England. They do a large business in Duluth, including a complete
milk distribution service with daily delivery of pasteurized bottled milk
and cream. In 1917 the company completed their new building at 1110-
1122 West Michigan street, conceded by experts to be the finest dairy
product plant in the United States. This building is seven stories high,
nearly one block wide and approximately one-half block deep. This
building is equipped with the most modern and up-to-date equipment
obtainable from an efficiency and sanitary standpoint in the handling of
dairy products.
the official personnel of the Bridgeman-Russell Company today is:
Henry Bridgeman, president : N. F. Russell, vice president ; Mark Baldwin,
vice president; B. M. Ruse, treasurer and general manager; and
H. O. Ahl, secretary.
Albert H. Comstock for a quarter of a century has been actively
identified with a great Duluth business, which under the title Marshall-
Wells Company has a commercial prestige extending all over the northwest
and Canada as wholesalers, manufacturers and importers of machinery,
hardware and a large variety of other essential equipment and
supplies.