| Robert Hofsinde was born in Denmark in 1902 and came to the United States twenty years later. He settled in Minneapolis, where he took a job making scientific drawings for the Minnesota Academy of Science. On a painting trip in the north woods of Minnesota, Hofsinde came upon a young Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indian boy who had fallen into a pit trap and severely broken his leg. Hofsinde rescued the boy, set his leg, and carried him back to his village on a sled. In gratitude, the boy's family adopted H (showing 500 of 1680 characters). |
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