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

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in 1898, just about the time the Spanish-American war broke out. He
was on board the flagship Brooklyn during the great naval battle off
Santiago, which ended that war. Altogether he w^as in service five years,
being ordered to the Philippines when the insurrection broke out in those
islands, and later was in China during the Boxer rebellion. While at
Taku he received his commission at ensign. He was in Hong Kong six
months and visited various other places in the Orient. In 1901 he
returned to the United States to act as a witness before the Board of
Inquiry in the famous Schley-Sampson controversy. Following that he
was ordered to duty on the Pacific Coast, and in the course of duty made
a trip to Panama to protect American interests and had some part in the
creation of the Republic of Panama. He was next ordered to Samoa, and
was there during the time the authority of the United States was established
over that island. Then returning to the United States and after
a short period on a torpedo boat he resigned with the rank of junior
lieutenant.
After leaving the navy Mr. Marble entered the School of Mines of
Columbia University, graduated in 1905, and entered the service of the
Oliver Iron Mining Company as assistant engineer as Ishpeming, Michigan.
In 1907 he became chief engineer at Tyrone, New Mexico, for the
Chemung Copper Company, remaining in the southwest until 1910, when
he returned to Duluth and was appointed assistant engineer for the Oliver
Iron Mining Company. In the spring of 1911 he became chief engineer
of the Mahoning Mine at Hibbing, and gave his full time to the duties
of this office until America entered the war with Germany.
In December, 1916, he tendered his service to the Government and
was enrolled in the Naval Reserve and was called to active duty May 1,
1917, being assigned with the rank of lieutenant to the former German
raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich, later renamed the DeKalb. He had charge
of the Construction Department and later the Ordnance Department, and
altogether made ten trips across the Atlantic in transport service to
St. Nazaire and Brest. October 1, 1918, he was detached and assigned
to duty in the Personnel Division of the Navy Department at Washington.
December 12, 1918, Mr. Marble was released from service with the
rank of lieutenant commander and at once resumed his civil duties at
Hibbing, with the new title of general superintendent of the Mahoning
Mine.
October 24, 1906, Mr. Marble married Miss Julia L. Duncan, ot
Duluth. Their family consists of two children, Elva and Helen.
Lewis J.ames White, cashier of the First National Bank of Ely. has
been a resident of that mining community since early boyhood, and has
given the energies of his mature manhood most effectively to business
affairs and the substantial interests of the town.
Mr. White was born at Parish, New York, July ii, 1877. son of
James H. and Elda (Jennings) White, of the State of New York. His
grandfather White came to this country from Scotland. James H. White
took his, family to Ely in 1888, and he and his wife still live there, he at
the age of sixty-eight and she at sixty. He has been identified with different
business concerns and has served as an alderman of Ely. The
mother is an active Presbyterian.
Lewis J. White acquired a good education in the public schools of
Elv, following which he clerked in Lewis Stettcn's store and in Miller's
store, and in 1898 was appointed assistant postmaster. He performed
the duties of this position until 1903, and for the following seven years