Bio of ENMARK, Ira (b.1877), 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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IRA ENMARK - Vol II, pg 149-150
Minneapolis is proud to number among her native sons Ira Enmark, who is engaged
in the motorcycle and bicycle business at No. 417 South Sixth street. His birth
occurred on the 28th of January, 1877, a son of Peter and Anna (Loitved) Enmark.
Peter Enmark was born in Denmark, as was his wife, and came to this country in
1871, locating in Iowa. He was one of the pioneers of that state and resided
there for ten years, at the termination of which time he went to North Dakota as
an engineer in a flour mill at Grafton. He was thus employed until 1896, when he
went to St. Paul, where he is now living at the age of seventy-eight years, and
is still actively engaged in business. His wife's father, Hans Loitved, was a
successful farmer in Denmark, in which country he spent his life.
The public schools of Grafton afforded Ira Enmark his early education and he
spent two years in the local high school. After putting his textbooks aside he
went to work in a grocery store for a year or more and subsequently engaged in
the bicycle business on his own account. For one year he conducted a successful
business in Grafton and then went to St. Paul with his father, establishing an
enterprise there. In 1909 he came to Minneapolis and in 1909 accepted the agency
for the Excelsior motorcycle. Subsequently he became agent for the Henderson,
Indian and Cleveland Excelsior, which motorcycles he is now handling, together
with a full line of bicycles. He has built up an extensive and ever-increasing
trade and is numbered among the foremost business men of the city. Honesty and
integrity have governed him in all transactions and he well merits the
confidence and esteem in which he is held by his fellowmen. He is a man of
affluence and owns a beautiful home in this city, valued at eight thousand
dollars, and he has extensive financial interests.
Mr. Enmark has never married. His religious faith is that of the Lutheran and
fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen of America and the Maccabees 2-St.
Paul, and the Yeomen at Minneapolis. His political allegiance has been given to
the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He is
on of the most energetic and resourceful promoters of the city's advancement and
while he is averse to public life, he is always a zealous and practical factor
in the effort made to secure good government for his city and state. He is in
every sense of the word a self-made man and the success he has achieved is
attributable to his own labors and enterprise. Mr. Enmark is essentially an
outdoor man and is interested in all sports, his particular hobby being
motorcycle racing.