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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 899
served as a member of the local United States Defense League and was
otherwise zealous in advancing and supporting the various war measures
of the Government, He is a genuine "Booster" for Virginia, and
has utmost confidence in its. continued advancement and still more important
future. He is an active member of the local Kiwanis Club, and
his political allegiance is given to the Republican party.
On the 10th of June, 1896, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Shanedling to Miss Annie Meyers, of Minneapolis, and they have five
children— Harriet, Monroe J., Evelyn L., Ralph M. and Phyllis L. All
of the children were given the advantages of the public schools of their
native city and those of sufficient age have later been sent to eastern
schools to obtain higher educational training. The son Monroe was a
sergeant in the Students' Reserve Corps at the time of the World war,
but was not called into active service abroad. The family is one of
marked popularity and is prominent in the social activities of the home
community.
Morris Shanedling is associated with his brother Julius, and they
are numbered among the pioneer merchants and representative business
men of Virginia, in which now vigorous and attractive city of St. Louis
County they established themselves and opened a modest clothing store in
the year 1893, when the place was little more than an obscure mining
camp of the great Mesaba Range. Of Julius Shanedling individual mention
is made on other pages of this volume.
Morris Shanedling was born in the province of Lithuania, Russia,
September 5, 1869, and in his native land he received his youthful education
in the common schools. He then became an assistant in his father's
general merchandising store, and continued to be thus employed
until he was twenty-four years old. He then came to the United States
and joined his brother Julius, who had become established in business
in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was in the year 1893 that Morris
Shanedling thus made his appearance in the metropolis of Minnesota,
and before the close of that year he and his brother came to Virginia
and opened a clothing store on Chestnut street. They were thus numbered
among the first merchants of the town, and here they have since continued
to be associated in the mercantile business, in which they have kept
pace with the growth of the community, with the result that they are
numbered among the thoroughly representative citizens and business men
of the city. Prosperity has crowned their well ordered efforts, and thus
has been justified their faith in their adopted land, to which as loyal
American citizens they pay unqualified fealty and appreciation. In 1905
the parents, Philip and Sarah Shanedling, joined the sons in Virginia,
and here the father passed away in 1915, he being the first Jewish citizen
to die in this city, and his widow being now a venerable resident of
F.veleth, this county. Mr. Shanedling is a staunch Republican and is a
liberal and progressive citizen. June 11, 1905, he married Miss Sarah
Roflgers, of Chicago, and they have four children—Marion, Abraham,
Ruth and Pearl.
H.ws C. H.wsEN. A pioneer of the Mesaba Range, Hans C. Hansen,
a resident of Ilibbing who has achieved the distinction of success,
came to this country through a desire to better /himself and won out
through a long and persistent fight against adverse conditions.
He was born in Denmark Xovcmber IS, 1852. His parents were
small farmers, and he grew up with limited advantages in every way.
He had a will to do and a courage that sent him out on his own resources
a stranger in a strange land. He came to this country in 1873,