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BIOGRAPHIES OF TRAILL COUNTY - S - |
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1853-1934
Jacob
L. Skrivseth was born December 26, 1853 in Nördmore, Norway.
He came with his parents to America in 1869. They
first settled in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
Jacob
Skrivseth was educated in Norway and Minnesota. He learned the photography trade in Albert Lea, Minnesota. From there he moved to Fairbault, Minnesota, then to Fargo around 1878 or 1879. Although F. Jay Haynes was the first photographer to operate in the Fargo-Moorhead area, Skrivseth was the first to open a studio in the Fargo city limits on March 6, 1879. The exact location of his studio is unknown, it was located somewhere on Broadway. In the fall of 1879, Skrivseth became a partner
of O. E. Flaten in Moorhead, Minnesota. The two men apparently built a traveling wagon with a built-in
dark room. Flaten stayed in Moorhead
and Skrivseth traveled throughout the Red River Valley shooting town and
farm scenes. Flaten
and Skrivseth also were the official photographers for the St.
Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railroad (Later to become the Great Northern), according to an article in the
February 1881 Moorhead Weekly Argonaut.
Mr. Skrivseth
was married to Bertha Christenson on June 10, 1880 in Fargo, and they
had three children, Henning, Margaret, and Jay.
In
1881 he dissolved his partnership with Flaten and moved to Buxton, North
Dakota. He then moved to Hillsboro,
North Dakota in 1882 where he opened a studio. While in Hillsboro he rose to prominence and served as the community’s mayor.
Around October 1896, Mr. Skrivseth returned to Fargo and bought the studio of Reis Larson, but after several weeks he sold this studio to C. L. Judd and left town.
By 1898 he opened a
studio in Mayville, North Dakota and then one in Crookston, Minnesota. By 1905 he had moved to Minot, North Dakota
and erected the Skrivseth Block. He
went to Seattle during the year of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
and worked there as a photographer. After
the Exposition he returned to Minot and continued his business. In 1925 he moved to Williston with his wife and son Jay.
He died
February 23, 1934 in Williston, North Dakota.
County Coordinator Note: In October 2004 while I was visiting Moorhead, Minnesota we were walking through the main Moorhead Downtown Shopping Mall. In one hallway was posted a blown up (probably eight by five feet) picture of downtown Moorhead. The sign on the side of a building which stood out the most was: FLATEN & SKRIVSETH PHOTOGRAPHERS It was taken by O.E. Flaten Photos in 1879. The view was from Main and 3rd Street corner looking east. The picture was provided by the Clay County Historical Society. Adapted and Transcribed From North Dakota State University, Institute of Regional Studies and Traill County History, Volume One by Mike Peterson. |
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1900-1995
Katherine Sorlie was born on May 25, 1900 in Buxton, North Dakota. Her father was Oscar James Sorlie and her mother was Blanche (Esterley) Sorlie. After graduating from Buxton High School, she attended the University of North Dakota from where she graduated in 1921. The next years she taught high school English in several towns in North Dakota. In 1927 she married E. B. McLeod in Buxton. The couple lived in Jamestown, North Dakota; Hibbing, Minnesota; Atlantic, Iowa; Cherokee, Oklahoma; Pond Creek, Oklahoma; and Enderlin, North Dakota, before they settled in Lisbon, North Dakota. E. B. McLeod worked as superintendent of schools in Lisbon and Katherine McLeod worked as a substitute teacher. The couple had three children, Donald Bartlett McLeod, Katherine Mary (Kay) McLeod and Alexander Oscar McLeod. Katherine McLeod's father O. J. Sorlie and her brother O. J. Sorlie II both served for a time in the North Dakota Legislature.E. B. McLeod died in 1976. Katherine McLeod died on July 10, 1995.
Adapted and Transcribed From North Dakota State University, Institute of Regional Studies by Mike Peterson.
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John Flittie was born in Norway and is 28 years of age. He is engaged in the
real estate business at Mayville, to which point he came in 1880 from
Minnesota. He resigned the Mayoralty of Mayville last year to come to the
council. He graduated at the Mankato, Minn. Normal school and studied for a
short time at the State University. Present Post Office address, Mayville
From the The Bismarck Weekly Tribune, Bismarck, North Dakota, January 16, 1885; Brief sketches of the Statesman Assembled at the City of Bismarck. |
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