========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Laura Pruden Submitted: June 2003 ========================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ======================================================== EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical ======================================================== MAX THUE BENTZEN (Maximillian Thue Bentzen) - Vol II, pg 370-373 Max Thue Bentzen is prominent in the business circles of Minneapolis as vice president and general manager of the Northwestern Metal Ware Company. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1880, a son of O. Von Bentzen and Nathalie Bentzen, also natives of that country. The father was an army officer and later a prominent bank official in Copenhagen. To Mr. and Mrs. Bentzen two children were born, a son and a daughter, Max Thue being the younger. In the acquirement of his early education Max T. Bentzen attended private schools and colleges of his native country and subsequently entered the Denmark Military School, from which institution he was graduated in 1899, with the rank of second lieutenant. He served in the Danish army thereafter until he resigned and came to America in 1907. In this connection it may be mentioned that the family has been prominent in the Danish army for several generations. On arriving in the United States, Mr. Bentzen located in New York city, where he engaged in the banking business until 1911, when he came to Minneapolis and here turned his attention to the sale of sheet metal products, while subsequently he began their manufacture. It was in 1916 that he organized the Northwestern Metal Ware Company, of which he became vice president and general manager. Subsidiary plants are operated in Portland, Oregon, and in Winnipeg, Canada. The success which Mr. Bentzen has achieved is the result of his business ability. At St. Louis, Missouri, on the 24th of September, 1908, Mr. Bentzen married Miss Alice Baer, a daughter of Adolph Baer, a prominent manufacturer of that city. Mrs. Bentzen is active in club and musical circles. The religious faith of Mr. Bentzen is that of the Lutheran church and fraternally he is a Scottish Rite Mason. He is a member of the Odin Club and the Minnetonka Country Club ----- NOTE: The biography states that he emigrated in 1907, however Ellis Island records have him arriving in 13 Jul 1905 at the age of 25; Ship Deutschland leaving from the port of Cuxhaven, Hamburg, Germany.