Complex sentence: Veblen was born in Decorah, Iowa to Andrew Anderson and Kirsti (Hougen) Veblen, as brother of the famed-economist-to-be Thorstein Veblen, and earned his B.A. at the University of Iowa (1894-1898).
Split into simpler sentences: Veblen was born in Decorah, Iowa to Andrew Anderson, brother of the famed-economist-to-be Thorstein Veblen, and Kirsti (Hougen) Veblen. Veblen earned his B.A. at the University of Iowa (1894-1898).