Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-16
BISMARCK WEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY. JAN. Is 1901


settled IN North Dakota in 1888; is mar
ried and is at present engaged in the hotel
business; enlisted in the Second Wisconsin infan.
try May Il, 1851, and served two years and nine
months, wounded and discharged; his regiment
W WAS ga attached S. 6 to the famous n "lrSa Brigade army
and was elected state senator as q democrat.
PlNKHAM, NATHUM B.: of Fargo. Cass
county, was born in the county of Somerset, state
of Maine, on the 2lst day Of August, 1912; ances-
Normal school; settled in North Dakota in 1871:
IS married and at present engaged in farming;
was the first district attorney elected for Cass
county, and was for the same term deputy United
States district attorney; was a member of the
last house of representatives; served twenty-six
months as private and non. commissioned officer
First brigade, Second division, Second army
corps, Army of the Potomac; was elected to the
senate of 81 as a republican.
SVENSRUD, ANTON, of Bottineau, Bottineau
county. was born in the county of Worth,
state of Iowa, on the Oath day of September. 1852;
ancestry, Norwe ian; was educated at North
wood high school, settled in Dakota in The year
1854, in Bottineau county; is single and at pres
emit engaged in farming; taught school one year
in Worth county, Iowa; worked in a general store
Northwood, Da.; has held the offices of Justice Of
the peace in 1886, and county assessor in 1888; was
elected to the first state senate of North Dakota
as a republican,, and reelected to the senate of
81 on the republican tickets
SVENNUNGSEN, STEINER, of Petersburg.
Nelson county, was born in Norway on the 10Th
day of February. lS43; ancestry Norwegian; was
educated at Luther college, DEBORAH, Iowa; set
tied in North Dakota III the spring OF 1883; is mar
ried and is at present engaged in the ministry;
he graduated for the ministry at the Luther The
ological Concordia seminary at st. Louis, Mo-, in
1869, and served in the ministry for fourteen con-
%secutive years at different places; on account of
failure i'll health he moved to North Dakota, and
TOR about hye years occupied his time in different
positions; since 1888 he has served in the ministry
in Nelson county belonging to the Lutheran
church,; was elected state senator on the farmers
ticket.
WEISER, JOEL s., of Valley City, Barnes
county, was born in county of Berks, state of
Pennsylvania, on the Slst day of August, 1884;
nationality, American; ancestry, German; was
educated in common schools; settled in North
Dakota November 8, 1867; is married and at pres
emit engaged in farming and fruit store; has held
the offices OF mayor, trustee, alderman, county
lt IT. ;Ss9r r,I benz, ing aIRapoiaated by Governor Howard
rector of the school board; was a member of the
territorial council in 1887; served in company l,
Ninth Minnesota i%nfentry AS a private; was
elected to the senate OF 9l as a republican.
WORST, JOHN H, of W%illiamsport. Emmons
state Of Ohio, on the Esd day Of December, 1850,
of Holland. German ancestry; was educated at
Smithville, Ohio, academy, and Salem college,
near WilliamSpOrt, EmmOns county; began life as
a farmer; sandwiched in a dozen terms of school
between summers on the farm; engaged in the
the ministry for a period of years, editing during
most of the time the leading religious paper Of
his denomination; about 1880 he took charge of
the Lancaster, o., Free Press, and when it was
merged into the Republican he continued as its
editor until 1883, when he came to North Dakota:
was appointed county superintendent Of schools
for Emmons county in October, 1883. and
held the position several years; is married
and at present engaged in farming and stock
rai,ing; was elected to the first state senate
and reelected to the senate of 81 as a republican,
without opposition.