Bio of HALLUM, Julius C. (b.1859), 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

J. C. HALLUM (Julius C. Hallum) - Vol III, pg 254-257
The life history of J. C. Hallum, capitalist, of Minneapolis is indeed
interesting. A native of Spring Grove, Minnesota, his birth occurred on the 14th
of March, 1859, a son of Christian and Karen Hallum, natives of Norway.
J. C. Hallum was reared on the home farm and attended the public schools near
by. Subsequently he took a course in a business college. In 1878 his parents
moved to North Dakota and J. C. Hallum started out into the world on his own
account. With abso­lutely no financial backing, but with a fund of
resourcefulness he was determined to achieve success. At the age of twenty years
he had in his possession a shot gun and five dollars. He traded the gun and the
five dollars with a squatter for two hundred and twenty-four acres of land. The
man gave immediate possession and Mr. Hallum found himself a farmer with no
implements and no money to buy them. He was not long in going about to earn the
necessary money, however. When just a lad he had learned to play the violin and
so for the first winter he played for dances and earned some eighty-five
dollars, with which he bought a yoke of oxen. In the meantime he took a trip on
foot to Fargo and secured a position selling farm machinery for a farm
imple­ment company. On his walk back, in eight days, he made one hundred and
forty-three dollars commission and with this purchased another yoke of oxen and
a plow. He then started in to cultivate his land and in 1883 broke seventy
acres. In September of that year the machinery people in Fargo offered him a
contract. He accepted the contract and they supplied him with a horse and buggy
to travel throughout the country. He sold his oxen for more than he had paid for
them, let out his farm on shares and set about selling machinery to the farmers.
The first year he cleared eleven hundred dollars in that business and the farm
paid him seven hundred dollars. By this time he was gaining a firm footing and
when the Fargo Southern Railroad was built and the town of Abercrombie sprang up
within a mile of his farm, the value of the farm was greatly increased. A man of
natural business ability, keen foresight and sagacity, he was quick to take
advantage of every opportunity that came to him and in 1884 he established the
first mercantile store in Abercrombie, in the conduct of which he was active
until 1897. He also built the first home in Abercrombie and his son Clarence was
the first child born in that city. In that year he came to Minneapolis and
engaged in real estate and banking. For the past seven years he has also been
actively identified with manufacturing circles and is president of the
Perfection Manufacturing Company, which concern makes milking machines and pumps
for dairy purposes. J. C. Hallum is president of three banks: The Driscoll Bank
of Driscoll, North Dakota, the First State Bank of La Porte, Minnesota, and the
Farmers & Merchants State Bank of Lawler, Minnesota. He is also director of the
Merchants & Manufacturers State Bank of Min­neapolis. Mr. Hallum has achieved
the success that was his boyhood ambition, and in so doing has not trampled on
the rights of others but has given his assistance to many worthy young men. The
best principles of honesty and integrity have governed him in all transactions
and his success is well merited, for it is the result of his own labors. Mr.
Hallum has never been self-centered, and since coming to Minneapolis he has
contributed in a marked degree to the improvement of the city. He was one of the
original founders and a member of the first board of the United Church Hospital
Asso­ciation, which controls Fairview Hospital. He is the only member of the
original board still active. He maintains a deep interest in the institution and
has even acted in the capacity of business manager when necessity demanded.
On the 20th of March, 1883, was celebrated the marriage of J. C. Hallum to Inger
Marie Blexrud, and to their union six children were born: Clarence; Katherine,
who is now Mrs. M. D. Finsetl of North Dakota; Agnes, who is the wife of Dr. C.
0. Robin­son of Bismarck, North Dakota; Ebba, who is now Mrs. Elmer Anderson of
Driscoll, North Dakota; Vernon; and Constance, who is the wife of Henry Lobden
of Minneapolis. The two sons are farmers in North Dakota and are married. Mrs.
Hallum died August 3, 1914. On the 26th of October, 1918, Mr. Hallum married
Miss Lilla Snedden.
In his political views J. C. Hallum is a republican. Although he has never
sought nor desired public preferment he is ever cognizant of the duties and
obligations of good citizenship and is conversant on all important questions and
issues of the day. His only club is the Odin Club. His religious faith is that
of the Lutheran church and he has been president of the board of trustees of the
United Norwegian Lutheran church for nine years. Mr. Hallum is essentially a
home man and is a devoted hus­band and father. His life has been so full of
interests that today he is younger and more active than many a young man making
his initial start into the business world. His life is an example of what may be
accomplished when determination, stanch courage and laudable ambition lead the
way. His friends are legion and he is held in the highest confidence and esteem
by all who know him.