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

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can Express Office at Duluth. After seven years he was made American
Express Company's agent at Ashland, Wisconsin, and performed the
duties of that position with fidelity for sixteen years. For seven and a
half years he had charge of the American Express Company's office at
Evansville and then returned to Duluth to engage in the transfer and
storage business, associated with his brother. They organized the Hart
Transfer and Storage Company, which is incorporated, with Eli Hart
as president and manager. The headquarters of this company are at
17 North Fifth avenue, West. They have all the equipment and personnel
for an adequate transfer and storage business, including many automobile
trucks, warehouses and other equipment for light and heavy hauling,
furniture packing, shipping and storage of furniture and other commodities.
About twenty-fiVe men are in the pay of this organization.
Mr. Hart is a member of the Catholic Church. He married, September
1, 1903, Anna McKinnon. Thev have one daughter, born April 23,
1906.
Joseph Peterson, a resident around the Head of the Lakes for over
twenty years, has always been recognized as a man of great skill and
proficiency in the wood working trade and is a member of the well
known contracting and building firm of Berglund, Peterson & Person,
whose headquarters are at 131 West Second street.
Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden January 4, 1878, and was twentyone
years of age when he came to the United States in 1899. Already
perfected as a journeyman carpenter, he was employed in the mines of
Iron Mountain, Michigan, for two months, and then located at Duluth,
where for a time he was in a cabinet shop, subsequently in a sash and
door factory, and spent two years in the West Superior Shipyards. For
nine years he was in the cabinet shop of Scott & Graft, for one year
was with the well known contracting firm of Anderson & Gaw, and five
or six years ago became associated with Mr. Berglund under the firm
name of Berglund & Peterson, which by subsequent reorganization
became Berglund, Peterson & Person, contractors and builders.
Mr. Peterson is an active member of the Modern Woodmen of
America and is a member of the Lutheran Church. In 1898 he married
Miss Cora Allerey, a native of Sweden. They have two children, Violet
E. and Joseph K. Peterson.
John K. Maki. A resident of Hibbing since December, 1896, John
K. Maki gave nearly a quarter of a century of time, personal enterprise
and industry to the commercial life of the village, and is still an influential
factor
affairs.
in tlie community, though nominally retired from commercial
Mr. Maki was born in Finland February 21, 1872, and has achieved
success in life after overcoming many early handicaps. His father,
John K. Maki, Sr., came to
of establishing a home in a
the United States in 1881 for the purpose
land of better economic opportunities, and
was first employed in coal mines in Wyoming. In the meantime his son
joined him in Wyoming, and afterward they went to Minnesota, where
the father homesteaded a hundred sixty acres in Ottertail County. He
converted this into
As soon as father
a farm and subsequently bought another forty acres.
and son had accumulated sufficient capital they sent
back to the old country for the wife and mother, whose maiden name
was Lydia Ruohonen, and the remaining four children. The mother
was born in Finland and her husband, Eric Suttergreen, was born in
Sweden. When he went to Finland he changed his name to Maki. The
reunited family thereafter lived on the farm in Ottertail County, and