Bio of LAMPSON, Frank E. (b.1869), 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 III, pg 75-76
F. E. LAMPSON (Frank E. Lampson)
F. E. Lampson, president of the Minneapolis Transfer & Warehouse Company, is one
of the substantial citizens of Minneapolis. A native of Illinois, his birth
occurred at Harvard, on the 17th of May, 1869, a son of W. C. and H. A. Lampson.
F. E. Lampson received his early education in the country schools of his native
state and subsequently enrolled in the South Dakota State College, completing
his course there in due time. He then entered a business college and upon
putting his textbooks aside accepted a position as bookkeeper for the old Flour
City Transfer Company in Minneapolis. In a year's time he was made manager of
that company and was active in that important capacity until the Boyd Transfer
Company bought out the firm. He became secretary and manager of the Boyd
Transfer Company and remained with them until he started in business for
himself. In 1904 he organized the Minneapolis Transfer Warehouse Company,
becoming its president. The business was successful from the start and today it
is one of the representative business interests of this city. The warehouse,
which has a ground space of one hundred and thirty by one hundred and sixty-two
feet, is fireproof and is especially adapted to the storage of household goods.
It contains three hundred fireproof rooms, and the capacious basement is used
for storing merchandise. As to the transfer end of the business, Mr. Lampson
started with three teams and today has several large, powerful auto trucks. The
company now has three hundred and fifty thousand dollars invested in plant,
equipment, etc. Working his way up from a minor position, there is no phase of
the business with which Mr. Lampson is not familiar and he gives every
department his personal attention. His keen foresight and executive ability have
stood him in good need and Minneapolis is proud to number him among her foremost
business men.
On the 24th of October, 1894, Mr. Lampson was united in marriage to Miss Maxwell
McCallum of Minneapolis, and they have a daughter, Phyllis. Both Mrs. Lampson
and her daughter are socially prominent.
The political allegiance of Mr. Lampson is given to the republican party and the
principles for which it stands. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons,
holding membership in Minneapolis Lodge, No. 19, F. & A. M., St. John's Chapter,
Zion Commandery, and Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a prominent
member of the Lake Harriet Commercial Club, the Traffic Club, the Kiwanis Club,
the Automobile Club and the Y. M. C. A. Along strictly business lines he is
chairman of the central district of the household goods division of the American
Warehousemen's Association. Mr. Lampson's interest in the public welfare has
been manifest in many tangible efforts and his entire career has been actuated
by a spirit of progress that has been productive of substantial results, his
worth to the community being widely acknowledged.