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

930 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
W. C. Agnew, and architect for P. H. Cinder, D. Holmes, Mrs. Norman
McDonald, C. H. Marshall at Pike Lake, H. N. Williams, Simon Clark,
etc. PI is work in commercial architecture is represented by the First
National Bank at Nashwauk, the Northwestern Textile Factory, the
United Display Company's Factory, the People's State Bank of Duluth,
the F. A. Patrick warehouse and store, the D. & I. R. Railway office building
at Two Harbors, the Duluth Edison Electric Company's sub-station of
West Duluth, etc.
Mr. Fitzgerald is affiliated with Ionic Lodge of Masons, is a member
of the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of British
Architects, the Duluth Engineers Club, Duluth Commercial Club, Duluth
Architects Association, Kiwanis Club and attends the First Presbyterian
Church.
W]i>LiAM Philip Hei.mbach is one of the oldest lumber operators in
the northern district of Minnesota. He was born in Walworth County,
Wisconsin, July 12, 1856. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and
his mother of New York. His father was an early settler and pioneer in
Walworth County, developed a farm from the wilderness, and lived a
life of such indus'try, conscientious efifort and public spirit that he earned
and well deserved the highest esteem of his community.
William P. Heimbach was fourth in a family of ten children. He was
reared and educated in the country district of Walworth County, and at
the age of twenty left the farm and served an apprenticeship at the miller's
trade, which he followed afterwards for three years, receiving a yearly
salary of $3,000. Too much dust in that line caused him to change to
outside work, and he entered the lumber industry. In the fall of 1881 he
came to Duluth and forthwith engaged in the lumber business, and has
been continuously identified with the city in the role of a lumberman now
for forty years. He was one of the original officials of the Oneota Lumber
Company of Duluth. In 1883 he opened a lumber yard in Jamestown,
North Dakota, and personally managed that for two years. Selling out,
he returned to Duluth and resumed the lumber business under the firm
name of the W. P. Heimbach City Lumber Yard. This was incorporated
under the title of the Heimbach Lumber Company in 1896. He was also
owner and operated for six years a sawmill at New Duluth. Mr. Heimbach
is now president of the following lumber organizations: The Heimbach
Lumber Company, the Endion Lumber Company, the Gary Lumber
Company and the Hazelwood Lumber Company, and with the assistance
of his sons, W. P. Heimbach, Jr., and C. M. Heimbach, who own substantial
interests, and who assist in the direction of these institutions, Mr.
Heimbach's burden is lighter materially. On account of his long and
active business career he is well known in Duluth and has always given
a sustaining participation in affairs outside of his immediate business and
affecting the growth and welfare of the city and county. Politically he
is independent.
Bmil S. Gustafsox. As a family the Gustafsons were identified
with the pioneer wave of settlement in the agricultural district of St. Louis
County, and the farm they developed from the wilderness is still owned
and occupied by them. Several of the second generation have profitably
engaged in business at Duluth, and Emil S. Gustafson is a member of the
Gustafson-Pierson Hardware Company, one of the leading firms of the
West Side of the city.
He is a son of Carl G. and Matilda Gustafson. Carl G. Gustafson,
who died in 1899, was a native of Sweden, and brought his family to
America in 1872. Nearly half a century ago he came into the wilderness