He was born on 15 August 1910 ®2859 at the Lone Jack Location of Missabe Mountain Township, Minnesota. (Missabe Mountain Township has since been absorbed by the cities of Virginia, Eveleth and Gilbert). He had severe mitral insufficiency, aortic stenosis and congestive heart failure, renal failure and cardiac arrest. He had coronary bypass surgery and a stroke about six years before he died which left him blind in one eye. ®2859 He was never in the United States Military. He farmed in the Town of Hendron, Route 1, Willard, Wisconsin 54493.