| Summary: | 1-22-i COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. for the next seven rears. Peter at this time was a manly lad and desired to make a way for himself. He went into a store at Lesje, where he worked two years for his board and two years for wages. In 1891 he went into the southern part of Xorway and engaged with a mercantile firm for two years. He determined about this time to seek a home in America, and June 16, 1893, he landed in New York City on his nineteenth birthday. He was alone in a new world, but he knew his fortune was to be found here by industry and courage. He spent some time in Chippewa and Barron counties, Wis-consin. For two winters he worked in lumber camp. In the spring he was on log drives and in the summer on neighboring farms. Mr. Scott made his first appearance in Bottineau county in the spring of 1895 and did farm work the following summer. In the fall he worked ten weeks with a threshing machine crew. In the winter he worked with W. H. Mcintosh & Com-, pany, in their general store and also in the Patrons' Exchange. In this latter establishment he was a clerk until the fall of 1897. He had learned the English tongue and as he was fluent in the three Scandinavian laneuages, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, he was regarded as an invaluable clerk. In 1897 Mr. Scott returned to the employment of Mcintosh & Company and spent the next two years with them. November 5, 1899, he was appointed register of deeds in place of F. A. Thomas, resigned. The appointment was bestowed upon him by a unanimous vote, and he is now serving to the satis-faction of the patrons of the office. He is a Re-publican and for a young man he is exerting much influence in political matters. He is quite a fra-ternal society man and is a familiar figure in the gatherings of the C)dd Fellows, the Modern Wood-men of America and the Knights of the Maccabees. In this last order he has served as commander for four terms. He belongs to the Lutheran church and is recognized as a man of character and much promise in the community. Mr. Scott and Aliss May L. King were married February 12, 1900. Slie was born in Canada and is of English blood. She is a lady of much char-acter and education and was a teacher in the public schools for five years preceding her marriage. She began teaching when only sixteen and retains her in-terest in everything that relates to the public school. Mr. Scott owns a farm of two hundred acres and his wife has a quarter-section in her own right, so that she may justly regard herself as an equal partner in the matrimonial firm. Her father died in Canada and her mother removed to Manitoba with three children : May L., Florence L. and Al-bert. Presently the mother brought her little family to North Dakota and settled on government land and lived in a claim shanty for a few years. They passed through pioneer experiences in good shape. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are both young and full of life and energy and face the future bravely and hope-fully as they iiave a right to do. HENRY W. WALLACE, widely known as a merchant and agriculturist, is a pioneer settler of Pembina county, and one of the first to establish a mercantile business in the town of Drayton. He conducts the harness business there and also deals in horses and has extensive farm land near there and also Minnesota lands in the Red river valley. He operates the farm near Drayton and leases the lands in Minnesota and is one of the progressive and energetic men of his community. Our subject was born in Ontario, Canada, No-vember 12, 1856, and was the fifth in a family of nine children born to Hugh and ]\Iargaret (Met-calf) Wallace, both of whom are deceased. The father was Scotch and the mother of English de-scent. At the age of sixteen years our subject began work as a harnessmaker, and in 187S quit the bench and started for Manitoba and from there came to Pembina county. North Dakota, and filed on land in section 25, in Drayton township, and devoted himself to farming. He shipped a carload of horses from Alason City, Iowa, in 1888 and this was the beginning of a business which he has since con-ducted with remarkable success. He has brought into the country a class of farm horses well adapted to general work and his sales average over two hundred and fifty head per annum. He established the first harness shop in the town of Drayton and continues in that business. His farm near the city comprises one half-section and he is actively en-gaged in its improvement and cultivation and has made a success of that line of work. Our subject was married, in 1882, to I\Iiss Lot-tie Larter. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, named as follows : Edna H., Hattie M., Reginald L. and Earl H. Mr. Wallace is active in affairs of a public nature and has served as alderman of the first ward in the town of Dray-ton. In political faith he is a Republican and a delegate to county conventions of his party and an earnest worker for party principles. ELIS THORWALDSON, postmaster and mer-chant of Mountain, Pembina county, North Dakota, is the pioneer merchant of that village, and is well known as a progressive and energetic citizen. He was born in Iceland, September 22. 1867. On another page of this work will be found a portrait of Mr. Thorwaldson. Our subject worked at home when a boy and was tutored in Iceland and in 1881 emigrated to America and located in Pembina county. North Da-kota, and remained in Akra township one year and then went to his brother's farm in Cavalier county in the Pembina mountains, and there followed farm-ing for about three years, after which he worked at farm labor for others about two years, and in the fall of 1887 went with his brother Horace to the Pacific coast. He worked in a furniture store in Seattle, and upon the introduction of the electric street railroad in that city worked as motorman Internet Archive
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