Bio of LUNDQUIST, Charles Oscar, 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 361-362
CHARLES OSCAR LUNDQUIST
Many large business enterprises profit by the cooperation and keen sagacity of
Charles Oscar Lundquist, a prominent realtor and financier, whose labors have
con­stituted strong factors in the development and upbuilding of Minneapolis and
also of the state. He was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and his parents were
John and Mary (Mark) Lundquist. His father was a native of Sweden and his mother
was born in Norway. He attended the grammar and high schools of his native city
and then entered the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated in
1903, with the LL. B. degree, having completed a course in law. In the same year
he was admitted to the bar and in 1904 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the
degree of Master of Laws. He successfully followed his profession for several
years and then became interested in colonization work, with which he has since
been identified, organizing the Lundquist Realty Company, of which he is
president and manager. He handles only the properties owned by the company and
is controlling a very large business, being president of about twenty
corporations, including the Farmers Land & Cattle Company, which has for sale
eighty-five thousand acres of land in Wisconsin and forty thousand acres in
Minnesota. He is also president of the Liberty Investment Company, another large
business enterprise. In 1916 he turned his attention to financial affairs, in
which he has also become a dominant figure, and is vice president of the State
Bank of Plato and president of the State Bank cf Augusta, Minnesota, secretary
and trust officer of the Farmers & Public Trust Company of Glencoe, this state,
and is a director of about a dozen other banks. He finds genuine pleasure in
solving intricate and involved business problems and is characterized by his
ability to think in large terms and to carry his plans forward to a successful
issue. He has organized and guided all of the corporations with which he is
connected and is a man of unusual executive genius and broad vision.
Mr. Lundquist married Miss Virginia Tobin, who died, leaving three children:
Virginia, Mary Jane and John O. A. Mr. Lundquist is a member of the
Congregational church and his political support is given to the republican
party. He is connected with the Civic & Commerce Association, the Minnesota
Realty Association, the Minne­apolis Real Estate Board, and the Minneapolis
Athletic, Colonization, Cooperative and Lincoln clubs. He is also a member of
the Masonic order, belonging to Ark Lodge, No. 176, F. & A. M.; Minneapolis
Consistory, A. & A. S. R.; and Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His clear
insight has made him master of many situations and his labors have been
far-reaching and resultant. His professional training was acquired by working
his way through college and he is a self-made man whose record con­stitutes a
notable example of splendid achievement through individual effort. Such a record
is one which the American public holds in highest honor.