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Charles Oluf Olsen was born in Denmark on November 13, 1872, and came to America at the age of 16. “After drifting around looking the country over to find the best place to live in,” he settled in Oregon in 1899. His occupations have been those of blacksmith, cook, salesman and lumberjack before he began writing feature articles, verse and fiction for the newspapers and magazines. In 1922 he married Elizabeth Thompson, who is also well known as a writer of verse.