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Senator Irving Lenroot
Thanks for the reply, Greenbean2. The Lenroot family (Larsson in Sweden) was well known at the head of the Lakes, both in Duluth and Superior. Two of the decendants, John and Robert had funeral homes in the two cities. The father of Irving, Lars Lenroot, was an influential business man in Superior. He is said to have had the first commercial boat in the harbor after he commissioned it built in Cleveland. Lars's sisters husband had a fishing hotel in Spirit Lake and owned the property that the US Steel plant was built on as well as the community where the workers lived in Morgan Park. Irving first marriage was to Clara Clough, daughter of a famous judge in Superior. Clough Island in the St Louis river was named after him. All of this sucess from a father who died in the poor farm working as a bonded farmer in Sweden. Ain't it a great country! I have been doing Genealogy on all of my wife's ancestors and mine from Scandinavia for 20 years. I have all but 1 branch going back to at least 1540. That branch is French Huguenots and I'm having a hard time tracing their exiles, and immigration activities to various countries before coming to the USA.
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