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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 885
sively to surgery, in which his talents have been widely praised by other
members of the profession and the general public. Doctor Magie was for
twenty-eight years official surgeon of St. Mary's Hospital.* He is surgeon
for the Morgan Hospital, the welfare institution maintained by the
Minnesota Steel Company.
His professional rank is indicated by his former service as president
of the Minnesota State Medical Association. He is a Fellow of the
American College of Surgeons, a Fellow of the American Medical Association,
and Fellow of the Western Surgical Association. Doctor Magie
is a convert to the Catholic religion.
If what has been said is in any way suggestive of his character and
activities it would seem the most naturat thing in the world that Doctor
Magie should have been an ardent admirer of that strenuous and virile
American Theodore Roosevelt. He was a follower of Roosevelt in
politics as well as in other departments of his strenuous life. In the
campaign of 1912 he had a place on the Minnesota Progressive ticket as
presidential elector. In the regular Republican party he has been a
delegate to state and other conventions, but has never sought any office
for himself. Doctor Magie in many ways has worked for the improvement
of schools and good government in Duluth and improved hospital
standards.
In 1876 he married Josephine Shawger. She died in 1898, the mother
of two children, Woodbury and Ida. The daughter is the w'ife of Frank
Stauduhar, and has five children. In 1899 Doctor Magie married Anna
Isabel Henry. Three children were born to their union : W' illiam Henr\-,
John Corbett and Elizabeth Eunice. The daughter died in 1914, at the
age of eight years.
Frank S. Colvin. While only to those who have actively participated
in the wonderful development of the Mesaba Range does the change
make its strongest appeal, anyone at all conversant with conditions a few
vears ago and those of today must realize the remarkable work of the
pioneers of this region. They came into this part of the northwest when
all was a wilderness and naturally, had to endure many hardships and
work under difficulties never encountered today. Theirs was the vision,
and because of their broad outlook and faith in the natural resources they
were enabled to persevere and to them belongs the credit for all of the
subsequent expansion. One of these men who has labored long and hard
to attain to his present commanding position in the lumber trade of the
Iron Range of vSt. Louis County is Frank S. Colvin, who has been a
resident of this part of Minnesota since 1890, and, with his partner, a
pioneer in the lumber business.
Frank S. Colvin was born at Silver Creek. Wright County, Minnesota,
April 14, 1866, a son of Jacob J. and Ann Eliza (Griswold) Colvin,
natives of Ohio and Wisconsin, respectively, who were married at a time
antedating the outbreak of the war between the states. By trade Jacob J.
Colvin was a carpenter, and he lost his life through an accident which
occurred while he was working at it. in 1887. He had homesteadcd land
in Minnesota on which tin- hardwood timber was very heavy, and in 1874
the familv moved to .Xnoka. Minnesota, where his death occurred. His
widow stu'vives him ;ind now makes her houu' at Los .Angeles, California.
They had a familv of seven children, of whom I'rank S. Colvin was the
third child and eldest .son. and after the death of his father the burden
of being the family jjrovider fell upon his shoulders, and he cheerfully
and capably discharged the responsibilities ]iertaining thereto for a num-