Editing Biwabik, Minnesota (section)

==History==
[[Daniel R. Curtin]], Wisconsin State Assemblyman and businessman, at one time owned the town site of Biwabik, Minnesota. For 10 years, Curtin was in the lumber and mining business.

Biwabik is a town full of firsts. Biwabik was the first to incorporate as a village on the Iron Range in September 1892. It was also the first Iron Range town to be served by two railroads, the [[Duluth and Iron Range Railroad|Duluth and Iron Range]] and the [[Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway]]. Biwabik had the first large mine on the Mesabi and it was the first on the Iron Range with a steam shovel to mine.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Project |first=The Federal Writers' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mvHrc_axisC |title=Wpa Guide to the Minnesota Arrowhead |date=October 14, 2008 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |isbn=978-0-87351-709-6 |language=en}}</ref>

An F3 [[tornado]] destroyed homes in the northern and northwestern parts of Biwabik on October 6, 1900, killing ten people in and near the city and injuring 70; six deaths were in one family.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Grazulis |first1=Thomas P. |title=Significant tornadoes, 1680-1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events |date=1993 |publisher=Environmental Films |location=St. Johnsbury, Vermont |isbn=1-879362-03-1 |page=692}}</ref>

In 1915, a moose visited the town regularly and in the book, ''Honk, the Moose'', the residents named him "Honk" after the noise he made. This children's book ''[[Honk, the Moose]]'', was written by famed author, [[Phil Stong]] and illustrated by [[Kurt Wiese|Kurt Weise]]. Stong was a teacher and coach at the Biwabik school in the 1919–1920 school year. He featured people from Biwabik as characters. The book is a [[Newbery Medal|Newbery Honor]] and on Cattermole's 100 Best Children's Books of the 20th Century. A statue of Honk resides in the city park on Main Street.

[[Peter X. Fugina]] (1908–1994), educator and Minnesota state legislator was born in Biwabik.<ref>'Former state representative Peter X. Fugina, 84, dies,' David Chasen, '''Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minnesota),''' March 31, 1994, pg. 6B</ref>