About 1860 my grandfather with his family embarked on a ship bound for America, and settled near Sauk Center, Minnesota, where he took up a homestead and built his first home in America–a log cabin. It was here that my father spent his early life .
The Rev. C. S. Harrison, writing for the Minnesota Historical Society, gives an account of the activities of my grandfather during the early days in Minnesota.
There were very few schools in Minnesota at that time, and my father's boyhood days were spent mostly in hunting and fishing. His education consisted largely of home study with an occasional short term at country schools.
He was educated at Grove Lake Academy, Minnesota, and graduated from the law school at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with an LL.B. degree.
He began his law practice in Little Falls where he served as County Attorney. He later became interested in politics, and was elected to
