Bio of BLACKSTAD, Robert A. (b.1889), 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
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ROBERT A. BLACKSTAD - Vol II, pg 575
An energetic and progressive young business man of Minneapolis is Robert A.
Blackstad, who is active in the conduct of a concern selling all kinds of
musical instruments and sheet music. He is a native of this city and his birth
occurred on the 5th of July, 1889. His father, Ole P. Blackstad, was born in
Norway and came to the United States in 1877. He first located in Iowa and
continued to reside there until 1887, when he came to Minneapolis, where he
lived for ten years and then removed to Detroit, Michigan. From Detroit he went
to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906, and resided in the latter city until his death
in 1920, at the age of fifty-nine years. His wife was Rosa Golberg, a daughter
of P. Golberg of Iowa. Her death occurred in 1889, at the age of twenty-eight
years.
Robert A. Blackstad received his education in the public schools of this city
and attended school in Detroit for a year. After putting his textbooks aside he
went to work in an insurance office in Detroit, in which connection he was
active for a year. At the termination of that time he went to St. Louis,
Missouri, and entered the employ of the Belding Silk Company, with whom he
remained six years. In 1913 he came to Minneapolis and went into the music
business with his uncle. Some seven years later his uncle retired from active
business life and Mr. Blackstad formed a partnership with Al Peterson and M.
Dahl. The business has a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars and a complete
line of musical instruments and sheet music is carried. Mr. Blackstad is very
ambitious and continued success is assured him, for he is progressive, although
conservative, and he enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him.
Upon the entrance of the United States into the World war Mr. Blackstad put all
personal interests aside and enlisted in Minneapolis in the Forty-sixth
Battalion, United States Guards. He was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, for
three months and was then transferred to Camp Grant, Illinois. He received his
honorable discharge as sergeant of Company C, Forty-sixth Battalion.
In his political views Mr. Blackstad is a stanch republican and he is a firm
believer in the principles of that party as factors in good government. His
religious faith is that of the Lutheran church, and he is an active member of
the American Legion, holds membership in the Commonwealth Club, and is fond of
all sports, but his hobby is music.