| August Klagstad was born in Norway at Bingen in the Drammen area on August 14, 1866, to Torger and Karen Klagstad. The family emigrated to the United States in 1871 settling in Manistique, Michigan. Klagstad's early schooling was in Michigan but in 1884, he entered the Valparaiso Normal School and Business Institute in Valparaiso, Indiana. Although he planned to study bookkeeping, after meeting an artist at the school who encouraged his artistic abilities, he quickly changed co (showing 500 of 4834 characters). |
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