Pelican Brick & Tile

Pelican Brick and Tile company, Pelican Rapids; capital stock, $30,000; incorporators, John C. Peterson, William F. Paul and Knute Stenerson, all of Pelican Rapids. (The Saint Paul Globe, Thursday Morning, January 7, 1904, Volume XXVII, Number 7, Page 2)

The Pelican Brick & Tile Co., Pelican Rapids, Minn., has elected the following officers for the year 1905: President, John C. Peterson; secretary, Wm. F. Paul; treasurer, K. Stenerson. (Brick and Clay Record, Volume XXII, Number 5, May 1905, Kenfield Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, Page 247)

Frank Reem is now located at Pelican Rapids where he has a position as superintendent of the Pelican Brick and Tiling company’s yard. He came to Princeton the first of this week after his family and effects and they will become residents of Pelican Rapids, but too late for the census. (The Princeton Union, Thursday, July 6, 1905, Volume XXIX, Number 30, Page 5)

Plant For Sale. For Sale – A first-class Brick and Tile Plant in northern Minnesota, capacity 50,000 daily. Good reason for selling. Address, John C. Petersen, Pelican Rapids, Minn. (Clay Record, Clay Record Publishing Company, Chicago, January 30, 1907, Volume XXX, Number 2, Page 41)

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reams and children arrived here Thursday night and expect to remain for the winter. Mr. Reams has been manager of a brick company at Pelican Rapids for a number of years. We are glad to see them return and hope they will hereafter make this their home. (The Princeton Union, Thursday, December 3, 1908, Volume XXXII, Number 50, Page 8)

Steenerson & Peterson, of Pelican Rapids, Minn., expect to remove their plant to Ada, Minn., if enough money is raised there to operate same. (Clay Record, Clay Record Publishing Company, Chicago, March 30, 1910, Volume XXXVI, Number 6, Page 39)

Stennerson Bros. Pelican Rapids, Minn., and T. C. Halvorsen, Ada, Minn., are planning to organize a company to take over the brick yards at Ada, Minn. (Brick and Clay Record, Kenfield-Leach Company, Chicago, September 1, 1911, Volume XXXIX, Number 5, Page 194)