Bio of APPLIN, Clarence D. (b.1885), Hennepin Co., MN
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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

C. D. APPLIN (Clarence D. Applin) - Vol II, pg 541-542
C. D. Applin, manager of the K. & W. C. Erickson Company, Realtors, of 
Minneapolis is a stanch booster of this city. He was born in Minnesota on 
the 4th of May, 1885, a son of C. D. and Mary V. (Pieton) Applin. His 
father was a native of Wisconsin, the Applins having been among the 
pioneer settlers of that state. He engaged in farming for the greater 
part of his life and his death occurred in 1902, at the age of forty-two 
years. Mrs. Applin was a daughter of Victor E. Pieton. She is making her 
home in Minneapolis and is sixty-one years of age.

The public schools of Kasson, Dodge county, afforded C. D. Applin his 
early educa­tion and after graduating from high school he came to 
Minneapolis and took a course in a business college. His first position 
was with the Milwaukee Railroad and he re­mained with that road as clerk 
for three years. For the following three years he was with the Kettle 
River Company as clerk and he then accepted a position with the Walstad 
Pearson Investment Company for two years. At the termination of that time 
he became associated with the K. & W. C. Erickson Company, Realtors, and 
for the past ten years he has been manager of this progressive 
enterprise. He is likewise secretary for the Anaconda Gold Mining 
Company, a corporation with a paid-up capital of five hundred thousand 
dollars, and secretary of the Interior Oil Company of Minne­apolis. In 
early life Mr. Applin determined to pay close attention to the thing at 
hand and take advantage of every opportunity offered him to advance. As a 
result he has attained a position of affluence in business circles and is 
readily conceded to be one of the leading citizens of Minneapolis.

Since attaining his majority Mr. Applin has maintained an independent 
course in politics, giving his support to the man he thinks best fitted 
for the office without regard for party principles. He is an active 
member of the Calhoun Commercial Club and of the Minneapolis Young Men's 
Christian Association. His religious faith is manifest in his attendance 
upon the services of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. 
Applin finds his greatest recreation in hunting and fishing and he is a 
close follower of all seasonable sports. He is a man of genial and 
pleasing personality and he enjoys the confidence and esteem of his staff 
of workers. He is essentially public-spirited and is a firm believer in 
Minneapolis. His cooperation can always be counted upon in the 
furtherance of any movement for the benefit of the community at large and 
he wields a great influence for the public good. He is un­married.