Dakota Datebook

A Hero’s Bequest

by Jayme L. Job

February 24, 2020 — 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 yea…