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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 879
Oliver Renstrom secured his education in the public schools of Duluth
and at the age of seventeen years entered the service of the Park State
Bank of this city as bookkeeper. After being thus employed for one year
he was advanced to teller and assistant cashier, and after another year
was made cashier of this institution, a position which he has since filled
with marked ability and fidelity.
Mr. Renstrom has many friends among the patrons of the bank, as he
has also among his fellow members in the local lodges of the Independent
Order or Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Maccabees, as well as in
the Morgan Park Club. In religious faith he is a Protestant, while in
politics he takes an independent stand. He married Miss Lillian Heir,
daughter of Edward and Martha Heir, of Duluth.
Herbert Schell. Probably no one man in a community comes any
closer to his fellow citizens through personal service than does the druggist,
for not only is he called upon to render an expert professional
service which goes hand in hand with that of the physician, but he is
expected to be the confidant, advisor and mediator, to carry a full line
of medicines, toilet articles and kindred goods, cigars and tobacco, stationery,
candies and oftentimes magazines, and to permit the general
public the use of his establishment as a meeting place, and to furnish any
chance visitor to his store with stamps and telephone service. In fact,
the drug store today is the clubroom of the average citizen of both sexes,
and without it much pleasant community life would die out. Proctor is
no exception to the rule, for it has need of the services of its druggists
just as both smaller and larger communities have, and one of the men
who is living up to the best conceptions of this important calling is
Herbert Schnell.
Herbert Schnell was born at Staynor, Canada, November 6. 1885. a
son of Alexander Schnell, who came to the United States in 1887, locating
at Superior, Wisconsin, where he went into the logging business and
later developed into a contractor. He died at Superior in 1912, having
become one of the important men of that place. Of the nine children
born to him and his wife six survive, and of them all Herbert Schnell
was the fourth in order of birth.
When he was fourteen years old Herbert Schell left school and
began working as a clerk in a drug store, and was so employed at Superior
until 1907, when he embarked in the drug business for himself and at
one time operated one drug store at Duluth and another at Proctor, but
later disposed of the former one. In addition to his drug business
Mr. Schell is also engaged in the automobile business, acting as agent
for one of the leading cars.
On July 31, 1907, he was married at Superior to Miss Mary E.
Keneff, and they have two children, Herbert A. and Patricia. In politics
Mr. Schell is a Republican, but has not been a candidate for office. By
inheritance and conviction he is a Catholic. Both he and his wife have
many warm, personal friends at Superior and Proctor, and are popular
in both communities.
Fred Hansen. Earnest endeavor along any one line is bound to bring
satisfactory results. The man who concentrates upon learning thoroughly
the details of his chosen business oftentimes makes more of his life than
the one who fritters away his time and efforts in making many changes.
Fred Hansen early in life decided upon becoming a merchant, and with
that object in view has worked hard and saved his money, and when
the opportunity came he was able to establish himself in a business of