Bio of PILLSBURY, Charles Lucien, 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 589-590
CHARLES L. PILLSBURY
Charles Lucien Pillsbury, treasurer of Munsingwear, Inc., and of its
subsidiaries The Munsingwear Corporation of Minneapolis, and Wayne Knitting
Mills of Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a native son of Minnesota and of Minneapolis.
Although he devotes his entire time to his financial and executive duties in
connection with the extensive textile businesses referred to, and as secretary
of Vassar Swiss Underwear Company of Chicago, he is perhaps better known as an
engineer, having practiced as consulting engineer for many years.
His father, who died in 1887, was Charles F. Pillsbury, attorney-at-law and real
estate broker, born in Kingfield, Maine, who, after a few years of law practice
there, settled in Minneapolis in the late '60s. His mother, Frances H. (Boynton)
Pillsbury, who is now living with him in Minneapolis, is a native of East New
Portland, Maine. Both parents were descendants in the sixth generation of
families founded in New England in the early colonial era by English ancestors,
representatives of both sides having fought as patriot soldiers in the War of
the Revolution.
Mr. Pillsbury attended the public schools of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis
Academy. He was a special student in engineering at the University of Minnesota
and at Purdue University.
During the pioneer electrical period from 1895 to 1899, Mr. Pillsbury held the
position of city electrician of Minneapolis. From 1899 to 1901 he was general
su­perintendent of the Minneapolis International Electric (Light, Heat and
Power) Company, which was absorbed by the Minneapolis General Electric Company.
He then engaged in engineering contracting and for several years was proprietor
of the Northwest Engineering Company of St. Paul.
From 1906 until 1917, when he became associated with The Munsingwear
Cor­poration, Mr. Pillsbury was engaged in consulting and valuation engineering,
with offices in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and with a staff of engineering
associates. Dur­ing all this time he served as consulting engineer to the
Minnesota State Board of Control, and he and his staff designed and supervised
all of the various engineering features of many of the large state institutions,
including the new Minnesota state prison. Aside from the design and supervision
of public utility and industrial plants, Mr. Pillsbury specialized largely in
public utility valuation work. He acted as valua­tion engineer for various trust
companies and bond houses for the cities of Minneap­olis, St. Paul, Duluth, and
for many other cities in the valuing of public utilities. From 1914 to 1916 he
served as chief engineer of the valuation bureau of the Public Utilities
Commission of the District of Columbia, and in this capacity had charge of the
making of cost of reproduction valuations of all of the public utilities of the
district, as provided for under an act of congress. For several years Mr.
Pillsbury served as professional lecturer on valuation and financial engineering
at the Univer­sity of Minnesota.
Mr. Pillsbury was married, in 1899, to Eva M. Kinsey of Minneapolis, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac P. Kinsey, both now deceased, who had moved to Minneapolis
from Albany, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Pillsbury have one daughter, Frances, and
one son, Robert Kinsey Pillsbury.
Mr. Pillsbury is a Scottish Rite Mason, thirty-second degree, a member of the
Mystic Shrine, a member of Minneapolis Athletic Club, Interlachen Country Club,
Minneapolis Golf Club, Six O'Clock Club, and Rotary Club of Minneapolis. He is
an honorary member and past president of the Engineers Club of Minneapolis, and
a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and of The American
Institute of Electrical Engineers.