A North Dakota police officer by the name of Ole Anderson was on his way to Minneapolis on this day in 1910 at the request of young woman that he had met nineteen years earlier. The young woman, Miss Clara Dahlberg, requested the officer’s presence in her last will and testament in order that he receive a bequest of $3,000 left by her. Nineteen years earlier, a steamer carrying the infant Dahlberg crashed on Lake Pepin. Anderson rescued the two-year-old girl from the lake’s frigid waters, and the woman never forgot the man that had saved her life. Dahlberg passed away in April of 1909 at the age of twenty-one. Soon after, Anderson was informed of the generous bequest left him by the woman who had grown from the small baby that he had rescued on Lake Pepin so many years ago.

Source: The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican (Evening ed.). February 22, 1910: p. 1.

--Jayme L. Job

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