Clarence A. Remington (May 28, 1859 - May 5, 1939) was best known as a local lumberman.

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Born on May 28, 1859, in Lorraine, New York, to Daniel J. & Margaret M, he was the second of four. He grew up on his father's farm and, from an early age, was interested in steam engineering; he pursued marine engineering (Van Brunt, 1921). By 20, he held a government license in marine engineering on the Great Lakes. Afterwards, he had his first taste of the lumber industry after his first job as a laborer in Manistee, Michigan, in the late 1870s (Van Brunt, 1921). In 1880, he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he worked as an engineer in a lumber mill (Polk Directories 81-84)(1880 Census). He first lived at 823 3rd Avenue NE for the first couple of years before moving to 101 10th Street SE for the remainder of his time there. In 1885, he moved to Waconia, Minnesota, originally to build and install boilers in steamboats with his partner Andrew F. Schutz (The Weekly Valley Herald, 3/12/1885, & 7/2/1885), but the two later built and operated their own lumber mill (The Weekly Valley Herald, 12/23/1886). In Waconia, he met his wife, Eleanor Kohler, and together they got married at the Catholic Church on September 26, 1887 (The Weekly Valley Herald, 10/6/1887). By 1892, they lived in St. Anna, Minnesota, and had bought up lumber mills in the Albany and Avon region.  By the winter of 1898-1899, business had been slowly declining (The Weekly Valley Herald, 2/17/1899), so he offically moved to Hibbing on October 20, 1899 (Genealogy Trails), and set up a sawmill on the Power-Simpson Logging Road, close to the Duluth, Missabe, & Northern Railroad, and opened in November (Hibbing News, 9/23/1899). The Schwinghamer Bros Lumber Company purchased all of Remington's properties in the St Anna and Albany region (The Weekly Valley Herald, 11/17/1899).

It wasn't easy at first, as small fires were breaking out across northern Minnesota in 1900; one such had burned the neighboring town of Virginia down. In April of 1900, a fire reached the Remington Mill, but it was quickly put out; the losses were quickly covered by insurance money (The Weekly Valley Herald, 4/27/1900). In July, the rest of his family joined him (Genealogy Trails). By 1903, Remington moved his offices to Third Avenue, where he also built a planing mill for his raw cut wood to be made into finished dimensional lumber (Mesaba Ore, 8/1/1903)(The Weekly Valley Herald, 5/1/1903). Shortly after, he moved his planing mill operation to First Avenue in 1904 to make way for Keheller's Hotel. In 1911, the mine was encroaching on his lumber mill, so he relocated to the southern edge of town on Third Avenue. (1968 Jubilee ). Remington later retired from the business, leaving it to his sons Winfield and Raymond in 1920 before the two split the company, with Winfield moving his operations to South Hibbing in 1927. That same year, he took over the Gopher Journal (No Citation). The two lumber companies later closed in the 1960s, with the South Hibbing mill closing first and the North Hibbing one soon after. This decade marked the end of an era in the history of lumber companies.