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

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He is also an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By a
straightforward and commendable course he has made his way from a
somewhat humble beginning to a respectable position in the business
world, and has earned a reputation as a broad-minded and public-spirited
citizen, which the public has not been slow to recognize and appreciate.
Kenneth Duncan. Through his profession as mining engineer Kenneth
Duncan has been identified with the Range district of northern
Minnesota for over ten years. He now lives at Ely and is superintendent
of the Zenith Mine for the Vermillion Mining Company.
A native Minnesotan, Mr. Duncan was born at Fergus Falls November
13, 1887, son of Dr. William and Eva G. (Herrick) Duncan. He
graduated from the Fergus Falls High School at the age of eighteen, and
soon afterward entered the School of Mines of Minnesota University and
completed his technical course in 1910. Almost immediately he came to
the Vermillion Range as an engineer with the Oliver Mining Company.
In 1912 he was associated with R. B. Whiteside on the Mesaba and Vermillion
Ranges, with headquarters at Hibbing, and his experience covers
much of the mining district of both Ranges. He has been superintendent
of the Zenith Mine at Ely since 1919. Mr. Duncan is not only a master
of the technique of mining engineering, but is a capable executive, and
his hobby is the study of men and their adaptability to the tasks assigned
them.
He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, is a
member and a past director of the Engineers' Club of Northern Minnesota
and is a member of the Masonic Lodge. In 1913 he married Frances
Collier, daughter of O. F. Collier, of Fergus Falls, and they are the parents
of one son, Robert.
Howard R. Weirick, M. D. His long professional service easily
identifies Dr. Weirick among the live and progressive citizenship of Hibbing.
He has carried the heavy burdens of a large private practice, has
also done much hospital work, and has given much of his time to the
duties of village president and other affairs.
Dr. Weirick, who is therefore one of the best known citizens of St.
Louis County, was born at Washington, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1869.
His parents were Israel and Sarah (Thompson) Weirick, the former of
Cierman ancestry and the latter of Scotch-Irish stock. Dr. Weirick grew
up on his father's farm in southwestern Pennsylvania, and gained his
early advantages in a district school. His college education was ac(]uired
in Washington and JetYerson College, where he graduated with the A. B.
degree in 1893. By subsequent work he was awarded the Master of Arts
degree by his alma mater. In the fall of 1893 he enrolled in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons at New York city, now the medical department
of Columbia University, and was graduated in June. 1896. During
his senior year and for several months after his graduation he was an
interne in Roosevelt 1 fospital.
Dr. Weirick has given nearly all of his professional service in Minne-
.sota. lie located at St. Paul in January. 1897, practiced four years in that
city, and two years of the time was assistant city phvsician. In l^Ol he
moved to Virginia, and a year later to Hibbing. In addition to a general
practice he is the oldest physician on the staff of Roosevelt Hospital, and
is a member of the State. County. Range and American Medical Asso-
ciations.
T3r. VVeirick served one term as a member of the X'illage Council and
in 1906 was electe