He was the youngest of twelve children born to an immigrant family from Norway. When he was three years old, his father died and his mother died when he was eleven. In 1924, he and two of his brothers moved to Chicago with a patent for a plastic window material he had developed.
He was the youngest of twelve children born to an immigrant family from Norway. At the age of three, his father passed away, and his mother died when he was eleven. In 1924, he and two of his brothers relocated to Chicago with a patent for a plastic window material he had invented.