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

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his own. For a number of years he has been one of the dependable merchants
of Proctor, and as senior member of the rehable mercantile house
of Fred Hansen & Company is one of the well-known men of St. Louis
County.
Fred Hansen was born in Norway December 30, 1867, and remained
in his native land until 1885, when he came to the United States, making
the trip alone. At that time he was but eighteen years old, but he was
industrious and had little difficulty in securing employment as a clerk in
a mercantile house at Ironwood, Michigan. There he remained until
1892, when he returned to Europe on a trip to his old home. Coming
back to the United States, he resumed his business connections at Ironwood
and continued in that city until he went to X'irginia, Minnesota.
There and at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, he continued as a mercantile
clerk, during all of this period learning the business from the bottom up.
In 1909 he came to Proctor and with Fred Newman in 1919 formed his
present mercantile house. The firm carries a full and varied line of
timely stock in men's furnishings and dry goods. Because of their
knowledge of their business, their excellent connections with wholesalers
and jobbers and their insight into the needs of their customers
the partners have been able to build up a very valuable trade, which
shows a healthy increase with each year.
Mr. Hansen belongs to Euclid Lodge No. 198. Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, of West Duluth, Minnesota : to the Odd Fellows,
Modern Woodmen of America and United Order of Foresters, all of
Proctor. As a member and worker of the Methodist Episcopal Church
he is of value in raising the moral standards of Proctor.
On March 1, 1910, Mr. Hansen was married to Miss Winifred
Mumma, whose parents are residents of Whitewater, \\'isconsin. Mr. and
Mrs. Hansen have no children of their own, but they have adopted a boy
and given him the name of Raymond Kennett Hansen, whom they are
rearing with tender parental tare and love.
S. B. Shepard, highway construction engineer for St. Louis County,
was selected for his present duties about the time St. Louis embarked on
its great program of paved road building in 1919. Mr. Shepard became
known to the county officials through his wide experience and responsible
connections with highway departments in the east.
He was born at Ilion, New York, August 29, 1887, son of A. C. and
Idella V. (Owens) Shepard, both natives of New York state and still
living at Ilion, his father at the age of seventy and his mother at sixty-
eight. His father for many years has been employed in the plant of the
Remington Arms Company at Ilion as head of time and cost department.
Mr. Shepard is of English and Welsh ancestry, and is the fourth of five
children, three of whom are still living.
He acquired his early education in the schools of his native town.
He was only thirteen when he introduced a practical side into his education,
going to work on a drill press in the plant of the Remington Arms
Company. In subsequent years he alternated between employment in
that plant and in other capacities and attended school. In 1905 he graduated
from the Ilion High School and after that was in the service of the
New York State Highway Department continuously until 1908. In that
year he entered Ohio State University, pursuing the civil engineering
course, but each summer vacation returned to his employment with the
New York State Highway Department. He was graduated with the
degree of Civil Engineer in 1913, and from that year until 1919 was one
of the technical and engineering stafif of the Ohio State Highway