Index to Locations
Barnesville Barnesville City
Cemetery
Hawley Hawley Cemetery
Moorhead Prairie Home Cemetery
Moorhead Riverside Cemetery
Rollag Rollag Cemetery
Barnesville City
Cemetery
Barnesville, Clay County, Minnesota
Hawley
Cemetery
Hawley, Clay County, Minnesota
Politicians buried
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Knud Magnus Wefald (1869-1936) —
also known as Knud Wefald —
of Hawley, Clay
County, Minn.
Born in Kragero, Norway,
November
3, 1869.
Lumber
business; newspaper
editor; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1913-16 (District 60 1913-14,
District 49 1915-16); U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 9th District, 1923-27; defeated
(Farmer-Labor), 1928, 1930; member of Minnesota
railroad and warehouse commission, 1933-36; died in office 1936.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., October
25, 1936 (age 66 years, 357
days).
Interment at Hawley Cemetery.
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Knut Magnus Wefald (1900-1991) —
also known as Magnus Wefald —
of Hawley, Clay
County, Minn.
Born in Hawley, Clay
County, Minn., April
21, 1900.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state senate 49th District, 1947-58.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died, in St. John's Hospital,
Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak., February
9, 1991 (age 90 years, 294
days).
Interment at Hawley Cemetery.
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Prairie Home
Cemetery
Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota
Politicians buried
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Wallace Barton Douglas (1854-1930) —
also known as Wallace B. Douglas; W. B.
Douglas —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Leyden, Lewis
County, N.Y., September
21, 1854.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 50, 1895-98; Minnesota
state attorney general, 1899-1904; resigned 1904; justice of
Minnesota state supreme court, 1904-05; appointed 1904.
Died in 1930
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Prairie Home Cemetery.
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Solomon Gilman Comstock (1842-1933) —
of Minnesota.
Born in Argyle, Penobscot
County, Maine, May 9,
1842.
Republican. Member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 41, 1876-77, 1879-82;
member of Minnesota
state senate 44th District, 1883-88; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 5th District, 1889-91.
Died in Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn., June 3,
1933 (age 91 years, 25
days).
Interment at Prairie Home Cemetery.
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Epitaph:
"Pioneer citizen of the northwest, sharing in its development and
believing steadfastly in its future. Lawyer, member of the State
Legislature and of Congress; Instrumental in establishing the state
teachers college in Moorhead, Regent of the University of Minnesota.
'Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest; whatsoever
things are just; whatsoever things are pure; whatsoever things are
lovely; whatsoever things are of good report.' He thought on these
things." |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Minnesota
Legislator record |
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Arthur G. Lewis (1860-1900) —
of Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.
Born in 1860.
Mayor
of Moorhead, Minn., 1893-96, 1897-98.
Died in 1900
(age about
40 years).
Interment at Prairie Home Cemetery.
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Erich Carl F. Hansen (1854-1891) —
also known as Erich Hansen —
of Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.
Born April
18, 1854.
Mayor
of Moorhead, Minn., 1889-91; died in office 1891.
Died in Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn., December
7, 1891 (age 37 years, 233
days).
Interment at Prairie Home Cemetery.
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Bottolf T. Bottolfson (1892-1976) —
of Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.
Born December
10, 1892.
Mayor
of Moorhead, Minn., 1927-29, 1962-63.
Died March
27, 1976 (age 83 years, 108
days).
Interment at Prairie Home Cemetery.
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Ole C. Beck (1856-1930) —
of Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.
Born in Vangs Prestegjaeld, Hedemarken, Norway,
August
7, 1856.
Mayor
of Moorhead, Minn., 1913-15.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Ancient
Order of United Workmen; United
Commercial Travelers.
Died of diabetes,
in Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn., March
26, 1930 (age 73 years, 231
days).
Interment at Prairie Home Cemetery.
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George E. Perley (d. 1927) —
of Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 60, 1903-06; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1904.
Died May 17,
1927.
Interment at Prairie Home Cemetery.
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Grace Harriet Geib (1913-2003) —
also known as Harriet Geib; Grace Harriet Hagen;
Mrs. Marvin Geib —
of Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.
Born August
3, 1913.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Minnesota, 1964
(alternate), 1968.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Member, League of Women
Voters; Gamma
Phi Beta.
Died February
9, 2003 (age 89 years, 190
days).
Interment at Prairie Home Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Daughter of O. J. Hagen; married to Marvin J. Geib; granddaughter of
Frank Weld. |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Riverside
Cemetery
Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota
Rollag
Cemetery
Rollag, Clay County, Minnesota
Politicians buried
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![Stephen N. Lee](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/279/57.95.jpg) |
Stephen N. Lee (1860-1942) —
of Parke Township, Clay
County, Minn.; Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.
Born in Rollag, Telemark, Norway,
April
17, 1860.
Republican. Farmer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1911-12, 1917-18 (District 60
1911-12, District 49 1917-18).
Died in Clay
County, Minn., February
15, 1942 (age 81 years, 304
days).
Interment at Rollag Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Nils Nilson Fikkaneiet Lia and Ambjor Torkelsdtr (Wamreeit) Lia;
married 1884 to
Margaret Halvorsen. |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also Minnesota
Legislator record |
| ![](hand.gif) | Image source: Minnesota Legislative
Manual 1917 |
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