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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 919
age of fourteen began earning his own way. For a time he was employed
at surveying, and afterward followed other lines of employment.
He acquired a thorough mechanical knowledge not only in mechanical
lines but as an electrician, and finally set up a small business for himself
repairing automobiles. After four years he became associated with George
T. Hale in the firm of Hale & Oppel, and they have conducted a very
flourishing business.
Mr. Oppel is affiliated with the Elks, the Duluth Gun Club, and is well
known in social and public affairs. On May 9, 1912, he married Miss
Gertrude Mueller. They have one daughter, Mary Frances, born June
28, 1919.
Alfred J. Lindsley is a contractor, a business he has followed for
more than four decades. He has lived at Hibbing since 1908, and here
has found many special and heavy demands upon his business experience
and equipment as a contractor, particularly as an experienced man in the
house moving business.
Mr. Lindsley was born at Neenah, Wisconsin, August 13, 1856, son of
Elijah J. and Jane (Hendricks) Lindsley. His father was a building contractor
by occupation. When he removed from Neenah to De Soto, Iowa,
he engaged in farming. From Iowa he went to Concordia, Kansas, and
then to Ashland, Wisconsin, where he and his wife spent their last years.
Alfred J. Lindsley acquired a public school education and was about
sixteen years of age when he took up all responsibilities for his own
destiny. Following different occupations he traveled over many of the
states of the west. While at Concordia, Kansas, he married Clara E.
Grimm. Soon afterward he removed to Calhoun County, Iowa, where he
had his chief experience as a farmer. At Lake City in that county he
also took up the work of contracting and house moving, and that has been
his big business ever since.
In 1887 Mr. Lindslev moved to Ashland, Wisconsin, and from there
came to Hibbing in 1908. He has handled many contracts all over this
section of the northwest. During the winter seasons while living at Ashland,
Wisconsin, he was in the logging camps, employing his personal
facilities and organization in the logging industry.
Mr. Lindsley has been the right man to perform a highly important
and essential service at Hibbing. This village, as everyone knows, is being
gradually moved from its original site in order to make way for active
mining operations The process of moving has been turned over almost
wholesale to Mr. Lindsley and his organization. He has had 90 per
cent of the contracts for moving the town in separate units. For this
purpose he has provided himself with every conceivable ecjuipment, and
has accomplished some remarkable results in moving large public and
private buildings over rough ground and putting them on new locations,
in most instances without a crack or damage to the structures. Few men
have a more intimate knowledge of Hibbing's past and present than Mr.
Lindsley, and he is one of the very public spirited and useful citizens of
the community.
Of the three children born to him and his wife one died in infancy.
Nellie, the older living daughter, is the widow of Charles Keenan, and
has a daughter named Edith. Verna Belle, the other daughter, is the
wife of Thorlief Johnson, and they have two children, Lorraine and Clinton
Gale.
Ole C. Sovde. Twenty-eight years in business at Tower gives Ole
C. Sovde a distinction as one of the pioneer merchants and citizens of that
locality. His associates have found much to admire in his integrity, his