| Summary: | 1070 COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY Wheeler, a native of Illinois. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, who are named Urni W. and Marian Gladdis. Mr. Perkins is a gentleman of broad mind and is actively interested in the welfare of his community, and takes a leading part in all public affairs, and is one of the citizens of Kamsey county of whom his fellow men may well be proud. WILLIAM ELLIOTT, deceased. In the death of the late William Elliott, Ramsey county lost a worthy citizen and prominent farmer, and the fam-ily lost a most devoted father and husband. Mr. Elliott was engaged in farming in Minnewaukon township for many years prior to his demise, and prospered in his vocation, and as a result of his well directed labors a good farm was acquired upon which his family still reside. Our subject was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, May 12, 1837. He was reared in his native county, and after attaining his majority lo-cated in Iowa, living in different places in that state for twenty years, until 1882. In the fall of that year he went with his family to North Dakota, and settled in Minnewaukon township, Ramsey county, where he resided during the remainder of his ca-reer. Mr. Elliott was married Xovember 11, 1856, to Mrs. Maria Harmon Swope, who was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Six children we're born to Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, as follows : Sylvester H. Daniel, who died in childhood; William H., Luther U. : Frank, who died in Minnewaukon township, September 18, 1889, when twenty years of age; and Laura, who died in infancy. Mrs. Elliott was for-merly the widow of Levi Swope, who died in Lan-caster, Pennsylvania. She is the mother of three children by her first marriage, named Samuel, George and Saloma. The two eldest children are now deceased. Mr. Elliott tlied in Ramsey county. North Dakota, September 25, 1899. His was the record of an upright life, devoted to his home and his community, and in all public enterprises which tended to upbuild the social or financial interests of his township and county he took a hearty interest, and was most highly esteemed by his fellow men. DR. SAMUEL I'AKiE JOHNSON, the pioneer dentist of the city of Grand h'orks, and the second to locate within the limits of the state, is one of the most widely known men in North Dakota. Dr. Johnson is a native of Essex county. New York, and was born I-"ebruary 4, 1852. His par-ents, Samuel and Lura (Fisher) Johnson, were na-tives of New York, and the father died when our subject was an infant. To the public schools of his native state, principally the union free schools of West Port, our subject is indebted for his prelimi-nary education. In 1873 he went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and there entered the State L'niversity, and was in attendance at that institution for three years. In 1877 he began the study of dentistry in the Minneapolis Dental College, having studied prior to that time for three years under the instruc-tion of Dr. Bowman, of Minneapolis. He began the practice of his profession in ^linneapolis, and continued there three years, until he came to Grand Forks in the spring of 1881. He opened an office in Grand Forks and has continued to practice there since. In 1887 Dr. Johnson took a special course of lec-tures under Dr. Howard, of Chicago, and has been a constant student of the art and science to which he has devoted so much attention. He is a member of the State Dental Society of North Dakota, and was secretary for seven years of the state dental exam-ining board. He has made a success of his profes-sion, and has built up a large and well established practice. The first wife of Dr. Johnson was Miss Lucy A. Pierce, wliom he married in Minnesota in i88i. She died in 1887, leaving no children, and Dr. Johnson was again married in 1889 in the state of Wisconsin to Aliss Laura B. Bowman. To Dr. and Mrs. Johnson two children have been born, one son and one daughter. Dr. Johnson is a highly esteemed member of the community, and is popu-lar in social circles. He is a member of the Inde-pndent Order of Odd Fellows and of the American Yeomen. He has attained a degree of renown for his inimitable lectures and impersonations, and is well known throughout the state, as well as in the neighboring states of Minnesota and Wisconsin, where he has attracted attention by his humorous productions from the platform. HON. SKAPTI B. BRYNJOLFSON, who is now retired from active labors, engaged in farming many years in Beaulieu township and has a pleas-ant home in section 36 that is the center of true and generous hospitality. He settled in the midst of the Icelandic colony of Pembina county, and his countrymen have conferred upon him much honor and he has proven himself worthy of their confi-dence in every instance. The lines of his portrait, published in connection with this biography, in-dicate a strong but kindly spirit and show a noble face. Our subject was born in Forsealudal, \'alley of Shade, Iceland, the place of his nativity being Huna-vatnssysla. in the county of Bear Cub Lake. His birth is dated October 29, i860, and he is the fourth child of seven born to Brynjolfur and Thorun (Alafsdottir) Brynjolfson. Under his father's guidance our subject acquired the rudiments of ed-ucation in his own tongue and about 1873 a pamphlet written in Danish by a Scandinavian resident of Texas, Lhiited States, came into the hands of his father and was read with much interest, as it de-scribed life in the New World, and by him was translated into Icelandic and read to the neighbors, and in consequence caused some dissatisfaction Internet Archive
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