Bio of CHRISTIAN, William P. (b.1875), 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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WILLIAM P. CHRISTIAN - Vol III, pg 749-750
William P. Christian is today the vice president of the Northern Bag Company and
a prominent figure in financial circles. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
November 30, 1875, and is a son of Peter B. and Mary C. (Howe) Christian, the
former a native of New York, while the latter was born in Ohio. In the year 1858
Peter B. Christian came to Minnesota, settling in St. Anthony. For over fifty
years he was actively engaged in the farm implement business in Minneapolis as a
member successively of the firms of Christian & Dean, Christian & Orvis
(managers for Minneapolis of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co.) and Christian
& Faber. In 1915 he retired from active business and in 1919 went to Donna,
Texas, where he now resides. The family were among the
pioneer settlers of Minneapolis and came into prominence by reason of attractive
social qualities and business ability, combined with hearty and tangible
interest in all that pertained to the city's welfare and growth.
William P. Christian was educated in the public schools of Minneapolis and
afterward entered the employ of the Minnesota Loan & Trust Company, with which
he was identified from 1892 until 1898, working his way upward from office boy
through various intermediate positions until he became teller of the banking
department. He was filling that position when he enlisted in the Thirteenth
Minnesota Volunteer Infantry and went to the Philippines as a member of Company
I, of which Captain Frank T. Corriston was in command, while General Charles
McC. Reeve was at that time colonel of the regiment. He remained in the
Philippines for a year, being on active duty throughout that period, after which
he returned to Minneapolis. He had participated in the campaign that led to the
capture of Aguinaldo, the leader of the Filipino insurrection.
With his return to Minneapolis, Mr. Christian spent three months as an employe
of the First National Bank and then became identified with the Hardwood
Manufacturing Company as one of the office force, being elected to the position
of secretary and treasurer in 1904. The name of this company was changed to the
Northern Bag Company in 1915 and Mr. Christian continued in the same position
with the company until 1918, when he was made vice president and secretary,
while in 1920 he was elected vice president and continues as the second
executive officer of this corporation, which is one of the largest concerns of
the kind in the Northwest. The company now occupies its new building at Nos. 622
to 712 Washington avenue North, a five-story and basement building of pressed
brick and reinforced concrete construction, modern in every sense. In addition
to being vice president of the Northern Bag Company, Mr. Christian is a director
of the Hancock-Nelson Mercantile Company; vice president and director of the
Progressive Products Company, Inc.; a director of the Red Cliff Brick & Coal
Company of Red Cliff, Alberta, Canada; vice president and one of the directors
of the H.-B.-C.-Building Company; and a trustee, secretary and treasurer of the
Citizens Aid Society. He is likewise the treasurer and one of the directors of
the Home Financing Corporation, a director of the Minneapolis Trust Company, and
executor of the George H. Christian estate.
On the 16th of September, 1903, Mr. Christian was married to Miss Mary Eleanor
Turner of Minneapolis and they have three living children: William Turner,
sixteen years of age; George Henry (II), a youth of fourteen; and Harvey Gordon,
who is a lad of twelve.
Mr. Christian's activities and interests embrace many public and semi-public
interests. He is now the treasurer of the Hennepin County Tuberculosis
Association, is a member of the board of governors and treasurer of the Citizens
Club, and belongs to the Minne­apolis Club, the Lake Harriet Commercial Club,
the North Side Commercial Club and the Golden Valley Golf Club. He is likewise a
director of the Civic & Commerce Association and cooperates heartily with all
these organized forces which are looking to the further business development of
Minneapolis and to the advancement of those civic organizations which take into
consideration the public needs and opportunities. He is under modern-day
conditions carrying on the work instituted by his ancestors during the pioneer
development of Minneapolis.