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

916 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
employed as a helper in a civil engineering firm. About a year later, in
1892, he assisted R. VV. Nichols in running the lines and surveying the
ground for the first townsite of Hibbing. As a civil engineer 'Sir. Dyer
had varied professional employment for a number of years. He was an
engineer for the Great Northern Railroad Company until he became one
of the resident engineers in the construction of the Alborn branch of the
Duluth, Mesaba & Northern Railroad Company. Upon the completion of
that road in 19G6 he removed to Hibbing and entered earnestly into the
practice of civil engineering and surveying as a profession. In 1910 he
was elected surveyor of St. Louis County and was reelected in I9l2, altogether
filling the ofiice for four years. In 1915 he was appointed county
road engineer for the northern half of the county and looked after the
farming and the laying out and supervision of the construction of county
highways for two years.
In April, 1918, Mr. Dyer formed his present partnership with Oscar
G. Lindberg in the real estate and general insurance business, and has
since given that his principal time and energies. He was elected a member
of the \"illage Council in 1917 and was reelected in I9l8, 1919 and
1929. He is a Republican, a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason,
Shriner, Elk and Red Man. and is a member of the Hibbing Commercial
Club. July 26, 1909, Mr. Dyer married Miss Helen Crary, of Marquette,
Michigan. They are the parents of one son. Jack Crary Dyer.
E. Eugene Esterly. The people of Duluth are too familiar with
the career of E. Eugene Esterly for the biographer to call special attention
to his record other than to give the salient facts in the same, for here he
has spent many years and has gained a prominent place in the esteem of
the people, being universally respected in the business world, for fair
dealing has been his watchward in all transactions. Mr. Esterly is a
native of Germany, where he was born in August, 1872, and he is the
sixth in order of birth of the fourteen children who blessed the union of
Mr. and Mrs. William Esterly. In his native land the subject's father
was engaged in railroading, and saw considerable military duty, having
served in the Franco-Prussian war. In 1879 he brought his family to the
United States, first locating in Minneapolis, where he engaged in painting
and decorating. In 1907 the family came to Duluth, where he spent the
remainder of his life. While living in Minneapolis, the subject of this
sketch spent five years in the employ of W. C. Leber, a prominent jewelry
firm, and there he became an expert workman in the repairing of watches,
and this one thing more than anything else has brought him many of his
best customers, for his work has always stood the test. Mr. Esterly came
to Duluth in 1892 and his first venture in business on his own account was
on a modest scale, his first Shop being in an up-stairs room, twelve by
fourteen feet in size, located at No. 5 West Superior street, but every customer
who came to him was a satisfied customer, and thus his business
grew from year to year until he was compelled to move into larger and
more convenient quarters, moving to the Spalding Hotel block, where he
remained sixteen years. Recently he has moved into and now occupies
a fine salesroom at No. 421 West Superior street, where he carries a large
and well selected stock of jewelry. Mr. Esterly has met with several
financial losses and reverses during his business career, but has refused to
be defeated and has won his way to the front rank of business men in his
adopted city. His sales now aggregate about sixty-five thousand dollars
annually.
On March 27, 1911, Mr. Esterly was married to Lola Pfautz, and
they have one daughter, }^Iaxine Gertrude, born on April 30, 1912, and
one son, E. Eugene, Jr., born August 12, 1920. Fraternally, Mr. Esterly
is a member of the Modern Samaritans and the Knights of Pythias.