North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history . inany movement for the advancement of the towns interests and is a very public-spirited andprogressive citizen. Besides his town property he owns a farm of three hundred andtwenty acres near Glenburn and what he possesses has come to him as the result of his ownindustry and good management. OLAF J. BOSTEOM. Olaf J. Bostrom, proprietor of the Grand Forks Bottling Works, is one of the enter-prising young men that Sweden has furnished to this state. He was born in that country,June 21, 1862, a son of John and Annie (Johnson) Bostrom,
North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history . inany movement for the advancement of the towns interests and is a very public-spirited andprogressive citizen. Besides his town property he owns a farm of three hundred andtwenty acres near Glenburn and what he possesses has come to him as the result of his ownindustry and good management. OLAF J. BOSTEOM. Olaf J. Bostrom, proprietor of the Grand Forks Bottling Works, is one of the enter-prising young men that Sweden has furnished to this state. He was born in that country,June 21, 1862, a son of John and Annie (Johnson) Bostrom, who were natives of Swedenand in 1887 came to America, settling in Minnesota. The father engaged in farming inDouglas county, that state, for a time, and in 1891 removed to Roberts county. South Dakota,while later he removed to Grand Forks, where he continued to make his home until hisdeath, which occurred in 1913 when he was seventy-two years of age. His widow is stillliving in Grand Forks at the age of eighty-four years. In their family were six children:. FREDERICK W. PEGLOW 1- HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 69 Olaf J.; John E., a resident of Grand Forks; Andrew, living in Minneapolis; Oscar, Magnusand Peter, all residents of Max, North Dakota. In his early boyhood days Olaf J. Bostrom attended school in Sweden and when histextbooks were put aside engaged in farm work, but, attracted by the opportunities of thenew world, he bade adieu to friends and native land on attaining his majority and cameto America. He made his way to Minnesota, where he was employed at farm work for twoyears, and in 1888 he arrived in Grand Forks. There he began work at the bricklayers tradeand was engaged in that line six years, his ability being manifest in the construction ofmany of the leading business blocks of Grand Forks. He afterward became connected withthe Grand Forks Soda Bottling Works, and in 1903 he bought out the business which he hassince conducted. Under his direction the trade has steadil
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