| Summary: | COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY lOTi among the sturdy people, who for generations had been able to provide little more than the necessaries of life in their native land and heard such glowing accounts of the advantages of the west. A letter later received from friends in Canada caused a gen-eral and decided movement, resulting in the forma-tion of a colony for emigration, and in August, 1874, a company of three hundred and fifty-two persons embarked on the ship "St. Patrick," arriving in due season in Quebec. Soon after their arrival in America our subject settled in Halifax county. Nova Scotia, and remained there until 1881, when he went to Duluth and from thence, in the spring of 1882, to Pembina county, North Dakota. The father entered claim to land in Beaulieu township and our subject worked in a tlour-mill in Winni-peg and at elevator work in Duluth and during the time applied himself to the study of the English language, gleaning his knowledge from books and jjapers and made remarkable progress in that di-rection and as is characteristic of the nationality, acquired a pure pronunciation and thorough un-derstanding, with a good grammatical style, al-though paying little attention to the study of gram-mar. Air. Brynjolfson went to Dakota for permanent residence in 1885 and assumed charge of his father's farm on section 35, in Beaulieu township, and in 1892 removed to his present location and devoted his attention to general farming until 1897, when he leased the land and now enjoys a well-earned rest from active pursuits. Our subject was married, November 21, 1892, to Miss Groa Johannesson, a native of Iceland, who came to America in 1873, with the first large Ice-landic colony. Air. and Airs. Brynjolfson have refined literary tastes and their library contains volumes in English and Icelandic covering a great range of subjects. Our subject has a retentive memory and his mind is stored with folk lore of his native people, and throughout the state of North Dakota there can be found no more entertaining host or charming hostess than these cultured people from far oft' Iceland. Air. Brynjolfson was a nom-inee for state reoresentative in 1889, but was de-feated, and in 1890 was elected state senator and served one term. He was chairman of the com-mittee on public health and served on the commit-tee on education and also as a member of the other committees of the session. He introduced many measures that have since become important laws and his services for the welfare of his community commended him to all as a citizen of true public spirit. Politically, he is a Democrat and is strong in his convictions. He holds membershi]) in the In-dependent Order of Foresters. SAAIUEL W. RUTLEDGE. AI. D. For twenty years this gentleman has been known to the people of North Dakota as a prosperous and well versed physician, and he enjoys the distinction of being the pioneer homeopathic practitioner of Grand Forks. He was born in Hardin county,- Ohio, De-cember 31, 1852. The parents of our subject, Thomas S. and Louisa (Williams) Rutledge, were natives of Ohio, and the father was a farmer and merchant and moved to Alinnesota in 185O and settled in Olmsted county, and later went to North Dakota, and now makes his home with his daughter at Cando. Dr. Rutledge was one of a family of seven chil-dren, four sons and three daughters, and he was reared and educated in Alinnesota, and taught five years, and then began the stud_\- of medicme. He entered the Homeopathic Aledicgil College of Alis-souri, at St. Louis, and graduated from that in-stitution the same year, and then began the prac-tice in Iowa and remaineil in that state five years. He went to Grand Forks, North Dakota, in 188 1, and has continued his practice there since that date. In 1893 he look a post-graduate course at the Homeopathic Medical College and in 1896 took a course at the Chicago Post-Graduate School. He took a special course in Chicago in 1899 in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College of Chicago, and then took a short course in the New York Post-Graduate Aledical School. Doctor Rutledge was married, in 1877, to Aliss Alarian Fuller, a native of Iowa. Two daughters have been born to Mr. and Airs. Rutledge. Dr. Rutledge is a member of the Homeopathic Insti-tute of Alinnesota, and the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was appointed a member of the state board of medical e.xaminers in 1894, and re-appointed in 1898. He enjoys a remunerative general practice, and as a citizen is deservedly pop-ular with those among whom he has labored for so \\TLLIAAI A. CRARY, for whom the thriving town of Crary was named, is one of the influential citizens of that locality, and has been closely iden-tified with its history and development. He came to North Dakota in the early days, and has aided in extending its financial interests to a marked de-gree, and has a pleasant estate and comfortable home in Crary, Ramsey county, at which place he conducted farming successfully for several years. Our subject wasborn in Fonddu Lac. Wisconsin. July 4, 1858, and when he was two years of age removed with his parents to St. Lawrence county. New York, where he was reared to manhood and received a common school education, and also took a course at the state normal at Potsdam, New York. He went to Floyd county, Iowa, in 1879. anil worked on a farm there until the spring of 1880. when he went to Ottertail county, Alinnesota, and was there engaged in teaching two years. In the spring of 1883 he went to Ramsey county, North Dakota, and located where the town of Crary now stands in Stevens township, where he entered claim to one hundred and sixty acres of land and resided op Internet Archive
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