Bio of NORTHF1ELD, Luke Wesley (b.1872), 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 446-449
L. W. NORTHF1ELD (Luke Wesley Northfield)
L. W. Northfield, president of the L. W. Northfield Company of 2532 Central
avenue, Minneapolis, was born in Stearns county, Minnesota, on the 16th of
December, 1872, son of Job B. and Esther (Britton) Northfield. His father came
to the United States from England in 1848, settling at Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
He enlisted in the Seventeenth Wisconsin Regiment, Company H, and served in the
Union army during the last two years of the Civil war. Shortly after the close
of the war, in 1866, he took up a homestead in Stearns county, Minnesota, which
he farmed until 1880, when he moved to Sauk Center and later to North Dakota,
where he remained two years before coming to Minneapolis in 1886. His son, the
subject of this sketch, obtained his education in the public schools of the
places where his family lived during those migratory years and also did some
work in night schools. After the family came to the Flour city he attended the
Minneapolis Academy and the Minneapolis School of Business. For the first six
years after leaving school he worked for W. W. Wales, whose business was located
where Powers Arcade now stands.
In 1893, on the 3d of January, Mr. Northfield embarked in business for himself,
transacting the business in his own name. The enterprise that he established is
now known as the L. W. Northfield Company. It was incorporated in 1909, with Mr.
Northfield as president and treasurer. The firm has a large trade in builders'
supplies- including cement, plaster, brick and lime-coal and wood, and conducts
a storage and transfer business as well. The thirty years of prosperity that
have composed its history are due chiefly to the able management and good
judgment of Mr. Northfield, who is generally recognized as one of the leading
merchants in this line of business in Minneapolis. He is an authority on the
materials in which he deals and a successful executive as well.
In the month of September, 1898, Mr. Northfield married Miss Harriet M. Green,
and they have three sons and a daughter: Harold L., Wesley A., Glenn H. and
Margaret E. The oldest son was in the air service of the United States army for
nine months during the World war. Answering the call for a thousand air
mechanics, he enlisted for this work and was stationed at Hazelhurst and Camp
Mills.
Mr. Northfield is a member and active worker in the Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church, of which he has been the treasurer for years, and is also deeply
interested in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association. Fraternally he
is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a
republican and a prohibitionist, but maintains that the character of the
aspirant for office should ever be the first consideration. Believing that the
future welfare of the nation depends upon the upholding of the ideals that have
inspired the great leaders in America and that a country can be no greater than
its citizens, Mr. Northfield is a strong advocate of clean morals and high
ethical standards in public and private life. His own loyal support of the
institutions and movements concerned with the betterment of public and personal
morals and character speaks eloquently of his personal devotion to the highest
ideals of manhood and citizenship.