Bio of WHALEN, Andrew J. (b.1886), 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

Vol II, pg 687-688
ANDREW J. WHALEN
Andrew J. Whalen, branch manager at Minneapolis for the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York, is the possessor of those mental characteristics and
qualifica­tions which find manifestation in systematic effort, thoroughness and
progressiveness- qualities which are most essential in the development of an
insurance business. He is regarded as one of the company's leading
representatives and is steadily developing the business in his district. Mr.
Whalen is a middle-west man by birth, training and preference. He was born in
Wilmington, Illinois, May 17, 1886, and is a son of James and Harriet (Geelan)
Whalen, who were also natives of Illinois. His father is deceased.
Having attended the public schools of his native city, Andrew J. Whalen
continued his education in the Spalding Institute at Peoria, Illinois, from
which he was grad­uated in 1903. He afterward engaged in the grocery business
with his father for a few years and thus received his initial training, learning
many lessons of value to him in his later business career. In 1907 he became
associated with his present company as an office boy in the Peoria office. He
has filled all the various positions in connection with the business to the
responsible place which he now fills. He has had experience in the offices of
the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York in Chicago, St. Louis, St. Paul
and Minneapolis. In 1914 he located in St. Paul and was cashier with the company
until he was made branch manager of the Minneapolis office, in November, 1921.
He is yet a young man, having not yet reached the prime of life, but his close
application and progressive spirit have well qualified him to take up the
supervision of the interests now under his care and direction.
On the 26th of September, 1914, Mr. Whalen was married to Miss Jane O'Brien of
Chicago and they have two children, Robert Stanbury and Elizabeth Jane. Mr.
Whalen belongs to the Life Underwriters Association of St. Paul, also to the St.
Paul Athletic Club and to the Minneapolis Young Men's Christian Association.
Those things which interest him are of constructive character, whether in
relation to material, in­tellectual, social or moral interests. He has ever been
actuated by a spirit of advance­ment and his diligence and determination have
carried him to the point of success which he has reached in the insurance field.