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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 895
in the Ninety-ninth Ohio Infantry, served with General Thomas at Chickamauga
and his Hfe was shortened by the the arduous nature of his duty
as a soldier. After the war he was a general merchant at Kalida and
also filled the ofiice of justice of the peace.
Dr. George T. Ayres is next to the youngest in a family of seven
children. His brother Lloyd is a physician at Glenview, Illinois. George
Ayres graduated from the Columbus Grove High School in his native
state at the age of sixteen, took ^his literary work in Wooster College
at Wooster, Ohio, spent two years in medical studies at Western Reserve
University at Cleveland, and in 1897 graduated from Rush Medical College
of Chicago. He had one year of service as interne in the Presbyterian
Hospital of Chicago, and since then his professional interests have
been identified with Ely.
At Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1901, Doctor Ayres married Miss LTna M.
Morning. They have three children, William, Florence and Jane. Doctor
Ayres is a member of the St. Louis County, Minnesota State and American
Medical Associations. He is a Knight Templar, thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and is also affiliated with the Knights
of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal League.
During the World war he was medical examiner for the local draft
board, also a captain of the Home Guard, and on August 9, 1918, was
commissioned a captain in the Medical Corps, being first assigned to
duty with the Aviation Department at Scott Field, Illinois, then at Fort
Sill, Oklahoma, and finally at Caruthers Field at Fort Worth, Texas.
He was honorably discharged January 20, 1919. Doctor Ayres is vice
president of the First National Bank of Ely. He was the first master
of Ely Lodge of Masons, and has been a member of the City Council
and for a number of years was on the School Board.
Calvin A. Dahlgren has spent practically all his life since boyhood
in the big woods of the northwest. He knows the forest resources of
this section from every point of view, from timber cruiser and lumberjack
to the technical and important responsibilities of a guardian of
the forest. His work has taken him into nearly all the big forest reserves
of the northwestern states, but for a number of years his home
has been at Ely, where he is supervisor of the Superior National Forest.
He was born at Anoka, Minnesota, May 25, 1880, and his middle
name was given in honor of the town of his birth. His parents, Adolph
and Inga (Lindin) Dahlgren, were natives of Sweden, where his father
was employed as a forester on a large estate. The parents came to the
United States in 1871, locating near Duluth, wtliere Adolph Dahlgren
was employed on railroad construction on the first railroad to enter
Duluth territory. Later he moved to Anoka and was superintendent of
the planing mill of the W. D. Washburn Lumber Company. In later
years he had charge of the retail lumber yard of Sawyer & Arnold at
Paynesville, Minnesota. This veteran lumberman died September 1,
1908, at the age of seventy-nine, and his wife died in the spring of 1913,
at the age of seventy-eight. They were devout Lutherans in religion.
Of their six children Calvin A. was the fifth in age. He remained
in the public schools at Anoka until he reached the seventh grade, and
then, at the age of sixteen, ran away from home and had some moiUhs of
sightseeing and ex])erience in the Dakotas and Montana. After nine
months he returned home and resumed his work, finishing the studies
of the eighth grade. For a year after leaving school he was employed
in the North Star Boot and Shoe factory, and then sought the line of
work for which all his talents seem to have best fitted him. He hired
out for wages of $30 a month with the firm of John Goss & Sons and