Bio of NAGELL, Erick T., 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 215
E. T. NAGELL (Erick T. Nagell)
E. T. Nagell, president of the Nagell Hardware Company, was born in Norway and
received his early education in the schools of that country. In 1898 he came to
America to complete his education and he attended the schools in Sioux City,
Iowa. He found the United States very much to his liking and decided to make
this country his home. After putting his textbooks aside he accepted a clerkship
in a hardware store and he has since been active in this line of business. He
paid strict attention to the thing at hand and took advantage of every
opportunity offered to learn the business. In 1911 he established a hardware
business in Minneapolis on his own account, locating on East Hennepin avenue and
conducting his business in a very modest way. It was not long before he built up
a reputation for himself and in 1917 he incorporated the business as the Nagell
Hardware Company, and two years later he removed to his present store at No. 625
Marquette avenue. Mr. Nagell has been president of the company since
incorporation and under his able guidance the business is ever expanding. The
Nagell Hardware Company is one of the representative enter­prises of
Minneapolis.
In 1906 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Nagell and Miss Mina Halversen and to
their union six children have been born: Harry Martin, Finn, Gordon Harold,
Edna, Einar and Stanley Norton.
In his political views Mr. Nagell is independent, giving his support to the man
he thinks best fitted for the office without regard tor party principles.
Although he has never sought nor desired political preferment he maintains an
interest in civic affairs and his aid can always be counted upon in the
furtherance of any movement for the upbuilding of the community. Along the line
of his business he holds member­ship in the Minneapolis Retailers Association.
His religious faith is that of the Lutheran church, to the support of which he
is a generous contributor. For recreation Mr. Nagell turns to the great outdoors
and his hobby is fishing. The success that he has achieved is the result of his
own labors and the best principles of honesty and integrity have governed him in
all transactions. He is a man of genial and pleasing personality and well merits
the confidence and esteem in which he is held by all who know him.