Bio of ILLSTRUP, Carl (b.1860), 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

CARL ILLSTRUP - Vol III, pg 388-391
For more than four decades Carl Illstrup has been connected with the city
en­gineer's office of Minneapolis, during which period he has always done
efficient and conscientious work, and he is now serving as sewer engineer,
having filled that position for the past thirty years. A native of Norway, he
was born December 27, 1860, and his parents, Jens and Ingeborg (Knutson)
Illtrup, were also natives of that country, in which the father engaged in the
wholesale leather business. Subsequently he emigrated to the United States, and
made his way to the Northwest, settling in Min­neapolis, where he turned his
attention to the hotel business. Both Mr. and Mrs. Illstrup have passed away.
Carl Illstrup acquired his education in his native land and after his graduation
from high school he entered a college at Christiania, Norway, in which he
completed a course in civil engineering. In 1881, in company with his parents,
he came to the United States and the family located at Minneapolis. For five
months Mr. Illstrup was employed as assistant engineer on railway construction
work in northern Wisconsin and in January, 1882, he secured a position under
Andrew Rinker, at that time city engineer of Minneapolis. He has since been
identified with this department of the municipal government, covering a period
of forty-one years, and in 1885 was made assistant sewer engineer. He continued
to act in that capacity until 1892, when he received his present appointment as
head of that department. In point of continuous service Mr. Illstrup is one of
the oldest officials of the city and he has built every sewer laid in
Minneapolis since 1886, employing day laborers and thus saving the city the
expense of hiring contractors and engineers, and during the working season he
frequently utilizes a thousand workmen. When he first came to Minneapolis about
one and a half miles of sewers had been built and today the city has a sewerage
system of about five hundred miles, constructed at a cost of approximately
fifteen million dollars. He has the technical skill and practical experience
needed for the important duties which devolve upon him, and added to these
qualities is a public-spirited devotion that prompts him to put forth earnest
and effective efforts in behalf of his city.
Mr. Illstrup was married November 11, 1912, to Miss Rosa Odquist and they have
two daughters, Frances and Evenna. He is vice president of the municipal pension
board and a member of the Odin Club, the Minneapolis Automobile Club and other
organizations of the city of a social and fraternal nature. He is also
identified with the Association of Civil Engineers of America and is a life
member of the Engineers Club of Minneapolis. His professional career has been
marked by continuous progress and his life has been devoted to public service.
His labors have ever been of a con­structive nature and manifestly resultant,
and the worth of his work is widely ac­knowledged. He is a man who would be a
valuable acquisition to any community, and Minneapolis has greatly benefited
through his citizenship.