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

926 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
P. H. Martin, who was sixth in his father's family of nine children,
was educated in the country schools of Osceola, Fond du Lac County,
Wisconsin, and worked and looked after the home farvn more or less continuously
until he was about thirty years of age. He also had some mining
experience on the Menominee Range, being assistant engineer at Stambaugh,
Michigan, until that mine closed down on account of hard times
in 1890. In 1892 he first came to Duluth, and was engaged in mining on
the Mesaba Range, employed by Gridley & Hale at Merritt. There he set
up one of the first steam boilers on the Range. In October, 1892, on
account of the death of his brother, he discontinued this work and
returned to Wisconsin. When he came again to Duluth in March, 1893,
Mr. Martin brought with him his father and his three sisters. He and
two of his sisters, Miss Alice and ]\Iiss Bridget Martin, all live together
at 5517 West Sixth street at Duluth. The third sister, Mrs. J. L. Keehan,
is also living in Duluth.
As noted above, Mr. Martin opened his offices in the Manhattan Building
in 1894 and for several years handled real estate, including timber and
mineral lands. In 1899 he also engaged in the forest products business,
and was one of the first shippers of pulpwood out of this district to Wisconsin.
Mr. Martin is in a position to furnish some interesting data concerning
the forest products of northern Minnesota. In 1899 not more'
than five hundred cords of pulpwood was sent out of this district. Since
then Mr. Martin as an individual has shipped out as high as thirty thousand
cords a year, and the aggregate shipment of pulpwood to the paper
mills in Wisconsin \"alley has reached the imposing volume of two hundred
thousand cords annually. While pulpwood slill represents a large
part of Mr. Alartin's interests in forest products, he has contracted in
other lines, especially in railroad ties. He says the first railroad ties he
sold at 12 cents apiece were of the same quality as ties that today bring
a dollar apiece.
In 1915 Mr. Martin became associated with A. F. Gross in organizing
the Mangan Iron & Steel Company. They have developed two shipping
m.ines at Ironton, Mangan No. 1 and Mangan No. 2. Air. Martin is vice
president and treasurer of this company.
Outside of his extensive business he has found some other diverting
and important interests. He is a member of the Catholic Order of
Foresters, and for twenty years has been president of the state organiza-
tion, which now has a membership of over fifteen thousand. He has also
been long identified with the Commercial Club and is a charter member
of the West Duluth Commercial Club. In politics he supports the Democratic
party in national affairs and is independent in county and local
elections.
Dennis F. Haley. Gosely associated with the birth and subsequent
development of Hibbing, Dennis F. Haley has been and is one of the
noted characters of this locality. He is one of those loveable Irishmen
who win affection and appreciation wherever found. He grew up clean
in mind and body, of a keen discernment and possessed of a fund of
wit and humor. He has taken a very important part in the history of
Hibbing from its beginnings, both civic and political, for, as is natural
in one of Irish extraction, he is a born politician, so that it has been
but natural for him to mix in the campaigns. He learned politics in
the days when philosophy was dift'used from a dry goods box by the old
timers as the shavings fell from the sticks whittled by the swift-moving
knife. His homely philosophy, keen observation, his invariable good
humor will be remembered when the present generation shall have been
gathered to their fathers. With it all Dennis F. Haley has lived the