History Mystery

Dennis Nelson brought in this photo of his maternal grandfather (back row, third from right) taken in the early 1900s. He figures it's a group of Lumberjacks who went to the photography studio, where they borrowed suits for the occasion, but he's not sure. Nelson knows the identity of only two of the people pictured: his grandfather, Louis Flesvik Johnson, and his grandfather's brother, name unknown, who is pictured in the back row, first on the left. "He (LFJ) came here in 1903 from Norway. He was a lumberjack in Duluth, then he moved north of Duluth for two or three years as a lumberjack," Nelson said. "Then he got married to a Norwegian girl from Superior and they moved to Grantsburg, Wisconsin." Nelson wondered if anyone would recognize their own ancestors in the photo he shared, or might recognize the studio background from their own family photo.

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