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The Poorhouse Keeper's Daughter & The Man She Married |
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| Corine is the author of
a beautiful Poorhouse Christmas
Letter. Her parents were John Mathiesen and Lena Olson who began to keep the poorhouse in 1921. |
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Corine Beatrice
Mathiesen
-- who failed first grade
because she only spoke Norwegian!Wahpeton High School Valedictorian 1935 |
Paul Gilbert
Peterka
sitting on fender of Buick 1932 plates |
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