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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 931
of northern Minnesota and took up a government homestead in Herman
township, St. Louis County. He contended with the difficulties of that
inhospitable region, developed and subdued the land, made a good farm,
and since his death his widow has continued to live on and occupy the
homestead.
Emil Gustafson was the sixth in a family of eight children and was
born on the farm in St. Louis County October 21, 1889. He was ten
years of age when his father died, and most of his education had been
acquired previously in Independent District No. 6 of Herman township.
After the death of his father he lived with his mother and assisted her
for three years. On leaving home he entered the employ of his brother
Charles A. Gustafson in the hardware business, making himself valuable
as a worker and at the same time absorbed all the knowledge he could of
the hardware trade. In 1910 he became associated with his brother as
the Gustafson Hardware Company, and in 1917, when Charles A. Gustafson
withdrew from the business, he was succeeded by the present
Gustafson-Pierson Hardware Company, the other member of the partnership
being George G. Pierson. Their location is at 18 North Nineteenth
avenue, West, and they have a store completely stocked with shelf
and heavy hardware, stoves and furnaces, paints, oils, agricultural implements
and building material, and also automobile accessories.
Mr. Gustafson is one of Duluth's younger merchants, but has achieved a
place of high standing in the community. He is a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Brotherhood of America, the
Modern Woodmen of America, and is active in the Duluth Retail Merchants
Association, the Commercial Club and the Alpha and Omega Club.
Politically he votes independently. In 1911, at Duluth, Mr. Gustafson
married Marguerite Pierson, daughter of G. W. Pierson. She was educated
in the Duluth public schools. They have two children : Lucille,
born May 16, 1912; and Charlotte, born December 23, 1916.
Carl H. Schuster. An attorney who has used his abilities both to
establish a good reputation and business in the law and also handle capably
many public interests and trusts is Carl H. Schuster, present postmaster
of Biwabik.
]Mr. Schuster was born at Rochester, Minnesota, August 13, 1889. son
of Henry and Wilma (Albirdie) Schuster. The father was born in Wisconsin
in 1862 and the mother in Minnesota in 1872. Henry Schuster
and his brother Fred are actively associated in business at Rochester.
Henry being president of the Schuster Realty Company. These brothers
have been prominent in politics, and the civic and material upbuilding
of Rochester for many years. The children of Henry Schuster and wife
are Carl Henry, Paul and Albert.
Carl Henry Schuster is a graduate of the Shattuck Military Academy
at Faribault with the class of 1907. Following that he si)cnt five years
in the University of Minnesota, taking both literary and law courses and
graduating from law school in 1912. The following year he gained considerable
familiarity with metropolitan practice at Minneapolis and then
came to Biwabik. Almost from the time he came to Biwabik he has
served as village and township attorney. In 1919, after passing the Civil
Service examination, he was appointed postmaster. He is also attorney
for the First National Bank of Biwabik. and is interested in military
affairs, having been major of the I-'ighth Battalion of the Home Guards
organization. He votes independently.
Jiuie 10, 1916, Mr. Schuster married Melinda Kathcrine LaX'allee,
of Duluth. Their son is named Carl Henry. The first son in the Schuster
family is by a custom prevailing through seven generations always given