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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 905
contest resulted in a tie vote and he and his rival drew straws for the
nomination, Mr. Sandberg getting the short one.
Fraternally he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
Elks, Mystic Workers, Yeomen, Moose and Modern Brotherhood
of America. He and his family are members of the Peoples Church
at Virginia. June 9, 1906, he married Miss Clara Rye of Ely. Their
two children are Evelyn and Romeo.
P. M. Shaw, Jr. Duluth's veteran lumberman, P. ]\I. Shaw, Jr.,
was for many years closely identified with the lumber industry of northern
Minnesota and northern Michigan, and in recent years has extended his
operations to the Pacific Coast and to the South Atlantic states.
He was born in Clinton County, New York, June 23, 1863, and when
he was six years of age his parents moved to Saginaw, Michigan, where
he grew up in the heart of the Michigan lumber industry. He acquired
an education in the public schools, and at the age of thirteen was working
as a tally boy for a lumber company. Successively reached the position
of inspector, and later began the shipping of lumber, the phase of the
industry with which he has been especially identified through all the subsequent
years. From Saginaw he came west to Duluth in 1890, and on
l^ecember 6, 1890, opened a local office for C. H. Bradley, having active
charge of the business for three years. He then began operating with
his own capital, with offices on the third floor of the Lyman Building.
During his career at Duluth he has shipped out approximately 2750
million feet of lumber. Mr. Shaw is now heavily interested in the Moor
Land & Lumber Company, with extensive mills in Georgia, and has other
important interests in Great Lakes vessels and cargo shipping on the
Pacific.
On July 11, 1899, he married Miss Zillah Eaton. They have one
daughter, Phyllis, born August 25, 1903, now completing her education in
Mount Vernon Seminary at Washington, D. C.
Edward F. Burg. The Burgs were among the first families to locate
at Duluth, and have been residents of the city for more than half a
century. Edward F. Burg is a son of the pioneer, and has had a long
and active business career. He is head of E. F. Burg Company, hotel
and billiard supplies and soda fountain supplies, a line of business in
which he has been engaged for a number of years and in which he is the
leader in this section of the northwest.
Mr. Burg was born at Rockland, Michigan, November 24, 1865. His
father, Herman Burg, was nine years of age when he came to America
from his native (lermany, and in 1852 located in Illinois, later moved to
Michigan, worked in the copper mines of that state until 1865, then lived
at West Superior, Wisconsin, until 1868, and in the latter year moved to
Duluth, then a frontier village at the Head of the Lakes. Herman Burg
was the pioneer dealer in livestock and retail meats in Duluth. All his
cattle were driven overland from St. Paul, and merchandise had to be
hauled by ox teams. He continued in the butchering business until 1885,
when he retired. He died I-^bruary 2, 1907, after having lived at Duluth
nearly forty years. He took great pride in the growth of the city, was
very public spirited, and a man who commanded the esteem of all classes.
For two ternvs he was a city alderman. He was the father of five children,
three of whom are still living, lulward F. being the second in age.
Edward F. lUirg ac(|uired his early education in the schools of Duluth.
also attended a commercial college at St. Paul, and at the age of eighteen
left home to see the world for himself. He traveled both east and west,
over .\orth Dakota and Colorado, went to Xova Scotia, but his e.xperi-