Bio of LA GRANGE, Robert (b.1880), 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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Vol II, pg 766
ROBERT LA GRANGE
Robert La Grange is the secretary and treasurer of the Twin City Scenic
Corpora­tion. He was born in Garrison, Iowa, on December 19, 1880, and is the
son of Robert and Harriet (Laughlin) La Grange. In 1904 he came to Minneapolis,
where in the same year he formed a connection with his present business
associates. After four years of experience with the Twin City Scenic
Corporation, during which time he gave ample proof of his marked business
ability, he was made secretary and treasurer. Since then Mr. La Grange has
devoted himself enthusiastically to the duties of his position and the success
of his work is amply attested by the nation-wide scope of the business. The
corporation was organized by Theodore L. Hayes and W. K. Brown and is engaged in
the manufacture of scenery for theatres and high schools, for which it finds a
market throughout the United States.
On April 22, 1916, occurred the marriage of Mr. La Grange to Miss Florence
Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. La Grange have a daughter, Lois. The republican party
claims Mr. La Grange's support in political matters. For many years he has
enjoyed the associations of the Masonic fraternity and is a charter member of
Joppa Lodge, A. F. & A. M., in Minneapolis. He also belongs to the Minneapolis
Consistory, to Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and has attained the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. As a member of the Minneapolis
Athletic Club, the Builders Exchange, the Civic & Com­merce Association and the
Lake Street District Association of Commerce, he lends his support to the
movements undertaken to make Minneapolis an ideal city in which to live and
work. In seeking recreation he finds nothing so satisfactory as fishing, and
certainly nowhere in the whole United States could the modern Izaak Walton find
better opportunities for angling than in the "State of Ten Thousand Lakes."