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

896 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
spent a winter in the logging camps on the headwaters of Run River in
northern Minnesota. From 1899 to 1904 Mr. Dahlgren was in the service
of the State of Minnesota as a scaler. In 1904 he became scaler under
the Federal Department of the Interior on ceded Indian lands in
Minnesota. In 1909 he became a forest guard in the National Forest and
the same year took the civil service examination and was appointed
forest ranger with headquarters at Ely. In January, 1913, Mr. Dahlgren
went to the Coeur d' Alene district of Idaho and subsequently, fol-
Towing another civil service examination, was appointed lumberman in
the h'orestrv service. In October, 1918, he was transferred to the district
including Wyoming, Nebraska, Minnesota, Michigan and Colorado,
with headquarters at Denver. Then in June, 1919, he returned to Ely
as supervisor of the Superior National Forest. Under his jurisdiction
is one and a quarter million acres of National Forest land.
This brief outline of his promotions hardly conveys an adequate
idea of the tremendous energy Mr. Dahlgren has put into his chosen
work and profession.. He is one of the three supervisors in the service
of the United States Government who are not college or technical school
graduates. He grew up in the woods, had the practical experience,
worked alongside graduates of forestry schools, used his powers of observation
and studied their methods, and every examination he passed
successfully. His experience has been under all kinds of conditions, and
he knows tihe character of the old-time lumberjack and also the timber
thief.
Mr. Dahlgren is a popular member of the Ely community, is a member
of the Forest Committee of the Commercial Club, a member of the
St. Louis County Club and fraternally is a Mason and Yeoman. He married
Signie Skoglund, of Ely. They have one daughter, Jane Audry.
C. Alton Palmer is well known in Duluth financial circles and has
been steadily in the service of local banks since he left school. He became
assistant cashier of the Riverside State Bank when it was organized and
opened for business, April 12, 1919, and is now cashier of that institution,
which has grown rapidly and has a capital and surplus of $60,000. Other
ofificers are A. Miller McDougall, president, and Lewis G. Castle, vice
president, while some of the directors are Julius H. Barnes, E. M. Lam-
bert, Alexander McDougall and Ward Ames, Jr.
Mr. Palmer was born November 23, 1889, in Duluth, son of John A.
and Mary Ann (Randall) Palmer. His father was born in Michigan and
his mother in Toronto, Canada. His father is an engineer for the
Northwestern Oil Company.
C. A. Palmer was the first born of three children, and was six years
of age when his mother died. He attended the public schools and the
Duluth Business University and at the age of sixteen went to work
as a messenger boy for the News-Tribune. He was with that Duluth
paper three years, and since then all his time and energies have been devoted
to banking. He began as a messenger boy with the Northern
National Bank, was promoted to bookkeeper, then to teller and to audi-
tor, and altogether spent ten years in the service of that old Duluth in-
stitution. He left the Northern National on the organization of the
Riverside State Bank in 1919, and January 15, 1920, was promoted to
cashier.
He is a Republican voter, a member of the Duluth Boat Club and the
Order of Elks. January 3, 1916, he married Miss Ora A. Englesby,
whose father was a native of New York and whose mother was born
in Wisconsin. They have a daughter, Mary Ann, born June 28, 1915.