On this day in Duluth in 1914, Duluth Mayor William Prince and members of the Commercial Club announced to the Duluth News Tribune that they were in favor of a plan by the Chicago Chamber Association to “push the hands of the nation’s clocks forward one hour, and give the entire country more daylight at…

On this day in Duluth in 1980, noted Proctor athlete Terry Egerdahl collapsed and died from a heart attack while warming up to play a pick-up basketball game at the Duluth Air Base. He was 27 years old. According to Twin Ports baseball historian Anthony Bush, “Terry Egerdahl was an athlete par excellence. He was known as…

On this day in 1856, the namesake of Hibbing, Minnesota—Frank Hibbing—was born in Kirchboitzen, Hanover, Germany. When he was 18 Hibbing immigrated to the U.S., settling first at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He worked for a time on a farm and then in a shingle mill, where an accident with a saw took three fingers from…

On this Day in what would soon become part of Duluth in 1892, the trustees of the City of Lakeside met for the last time, as the community was set to officially become the Duluth neighborhoods of Lakeside and Lester Park on January 1, 1893. In the 1880s, pioneer William Sargent and a few friends…

On this day across the bay in 1908, Superior civic leader and baseball enthusiast George Hislop died from complications after surgery to remove his right leg above the knee at Superior’s St. Mary’s Hospital. Hislop had been suffering from sciatic rheumatism and he had blood poisoning and “necrosis of the bone”in his right leg. At…

On this Day in 1820, Superior and Duluth pioneer George Stuntz was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania. By the mid 1840s he was working as a surveyor in Iowa. In 1852 he accepted a contract to survey at the head of Lake Superior. He settled first in Superior and surveyed Douglas County. In 1854 he…

On this day in Duluth in 1915, the Duluth Elks Club announced it had received approval from city officials to open a zoo in Lester Park. The Elks had been pushing city officials on the idea of a zoo all year, pressing hard in November. On December 6 the city adopted a measure for the…

Despite what she claimed, on this day in Duluth in 1898, silent film star Carol Dempster was born in Duluth to John and Carrie Dempster. (Dempster would often say she was born in 1900.) John Dempster held a variety of jobs in Duluth before packing up his family and moving them to California in 1904.…

On this day in Duluth and Superior in 1961, the Duluth-Superior Bridge opened to automobile traffic, the first modern bridge to span the St. Louis Bay between the neighboring cities. The new span replaced the Interstate Bridge, a swinging toll bridge that stretched from Rice’s Point in Duluth to Connor’s Point in Superior from 1897…

On this day in 1940, the USS Paducah—training vessel of the Duluth Naval Militia—and her crew of naval reservists from Duluth arrived in Brooklyn, New York, where it would spend the next few years training sailors for battle during the Second World War. Launched in 1904, the Paducah was a Dubuque-class gunboat that joined the…