he had his main store on Superior Street and a branch store on First Street. On Superior Street have also been Point and Axelson's men's clothing store and also William Laakso's. Clothiers on the "Point" have been Ely Sampson and Aate Suhonen, while Edward Johnson kept a candy and tobacco store there. The Savolainen brothers - Peter, Abraham and Alex - bought in 1917 the jewelry store of Geist and Erd, which had been founded in 1882; it was renamed the Savolainen Company and for a time (1953-56) had a branch store in the West End. Lintula owned Johns' Jewelry, while the firm started in 1919 by Hagman and Laitinen remained in Otto Hagman's possession until 1925. For some ten years Merikanto and Heino had a large bakery in the West End, while Fred Sahlman had a bakery on Lake Avenue in the 1920s. Farther west there was John Pekkala's West Duluth Ice and Fuel Company, and Walter Salmio and Axel Edward Dahlberg had a paint store which came into Salmio's exclusive possession some twenty years later and became one of the state's largest stores of this kind. Wayne E. Käkelä has worked with the Retailers' Association and in 1936 was appointed Secretary of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce.

In the banking field, Charles Emil Taylor became bookkeeper with the Northern Minnesota National Bank in 1923, was promoted to auditor in 1942, assistant treasurer in 1946, and assistant vice-president in 1948; in 1961 he became president of the Hibbing First National Bank. Another Finn, Rudolf Jacobson, was in 1956 vice-president of the First and American National Bank.

Others in the banking field have been A. W. Havela and John Asiala, whose names have been cited in connection with the Red River banks. The careers of these two men began in real estate in 1911 they founded the Pellervo Land Company in Duluth, procuring chiefly farm lands for Finns; they also sold large tracts in the Deer River region and in the Eveleth and Virginia areas. When land sales began to decrease after World War I, the two partners began to buy up forests in Minnesota and Michigan and exploited them for marketable timber. In 1938, Havela took over sole control of these interests; he sold off a part of the machinery and gave the remainder to his son, Aaro Havela. The work of A. W. Havela on behalf of Finland has been recognized by the granting of the Finnish White Rose decoration by the Finnish government.

Jacob (Jack) and John Saari have been engaged in forestry contracting. Parviainen and Riipakka (Riback), and later (1921) John Wiinamäki and Vaino Salo accepted contracts for state,

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