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Helge A. Haugan (October 26, 1847 – May 17, 1909) was an American banking executive in 
''A History of The State Bank Of Chicago From 1879 To 1904''
(Chicago: Kessinger Publishing, LLC.)
Chicago Public SchoolsHelge A. Haugan Elementary SchoolHaugan Middle School
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Chicago
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, Illinois
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. Haugan was a founding partner of Haugan & Lindgren Haugan & Lindgren was a bank headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The bank operated from December 8, 1879, until February 10, 1891, from quarters at No. 57 and No. 59 La Salle Street. The bank was a partnership of Helge Alexander Haugan, H. G. Haug ...
and the founding president of the State Bank of Chicago State Bank of Chicago was an American banking firm which conducted business under a state of Illinois charter issued on February 10, 1891. State Bank of Chicago operated from offices in the Chamber of Commerce Building located at the southeast corne ...
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Background
Helge Alexander Haugan was born in Christiania,Norway
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, the younger son of Helge A. and Anna B. Haugan. In 1858, the Haugan family immigrated to Canada, settling in Montreal
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in 1859. In Montreal, Haugan learned the steam fitting and brass finishing trade.
Career
Haugan came toChicago
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in 1862 and continued in the plumbing business—initially as workman, and later as operator of his own plumbing shop on Milwaukee Avenue. In 1879, with John R. Lindgren, he founded the private banking firm of Haugan & Lindgren Haugan & Lindgren was a bank headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The bank operated from December 8, 1879, until February 10, 1891, from quarters at No. 57 and No. 59 La Salle Street. The bank was a partnership of Helge Alexander Haugan, H. G. Haug ...
. This bank specialized in serving the growing population of Scandinavian-Americans in the Chicago area. In 1891, the bank was incorporated as the State Bank of Chicago State Bank of Chicago was an American banking firm which conducted business under a state of Illinois charter issued on February 10, 1891. State Bank of Chicago operated from offices in the Chamber of Commerce Building located at the southeast corne ...
. His elder brother, H. G. Haugan, was a major investor in both banking firms.
Following the death of Helge Haugan in 1909, his son Henry Alexander Haugan became president of the bank. Both Haugan Elementary School and Haugan Middle School in Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, in Chicago, Illinois, is the third-largest school district in the United States, after New York and Los Angeles.
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District 299 are named for Helge A. Haugan.
References
Other sources
*Henschen, Henry S. (1905''A History of The State Bank Of Chicago From 1879 To 1904''
(Chicago: Kessinger Publishing, LLC.)
Related reading
*Strand, A. E. (1905) ''A History of the Norwegians of Illinois'' (Chicago: John Anderson Publishing Co.) * Leonard, John W. (1905) ''The Book of Chicagoans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of the City of Chicago'' ( Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Co.) *Currey, J. Seymour (1912) ''Chicago, its History and its Builders, A Century of Marvelous Growth'' (Chicago: S.J. Clark Publishing Company)External links
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