Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected ..edand author of Historical review . eer of the Worlds Columbian Exposition, D. J. G. Giaver comes of an old Norwegian family, which originatedin Germany, while his mothers people (the Holmboes) constituteone of the strongest and most ancient of pure Norwegian families,its record dating back for hundreds of years. Mr. Giaver himselfwas born at Gjovig, Norway, on the 15th of August, 1856, the sonof Jens Holmboe and Hanna Birgette (Holmboe) Giaver. He ob-tained the foundation of his education through priva

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Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected ..edand author of Historical review . eer of the Worlds Columbian Exposition, D. J. G. Giaver comes of an old Norwegian family, which originatedin Germany, while his mothers people (the Holmboes) constituteone of the strongest and most ancient of pure Norwegian families,its record dating back for hundreds of years. Mr. Giaver himselfwas born at Gjovig, Norway, on the 15th of August, 1856, the sonof Jens Holmboe and Hanna Birgette (Holmboe) Giaver. He ob-tained the foundation of his education through private tutors at home,and his technical training at the Technical College of Throndhjem,Norway, graduating from the latter in 1881. Mr. Giaver arrived in America in the spring of 1882, and firstworked as draftsman in the bridge department of the NorthernPacific Railroad Company at St. Paul, Minnesota, filling that positionuntil the fall of 1883, when he became connected with the ShifSerBridge Company, of Pittsburg, and by the spring of 1885 had beenadvanced to the head of the engineering department of that

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