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The family background of a Danish-born immigrant who spent his childhood and youth in Oslo. He attended the University there and became a teacher and minister in Norway before his emigration to La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1869. He was assistant editor of Fædrelandet og Emigranten until 1973. He moved to Minneapolis and became part owner and editor of Budstikken. He returned to Fædrelandet og Emigranten as editor in 1975. He bought that paper in 1878 and moved it to Minneapolis in 1886. He was United States Consul to Point Stanley and St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, 1890-1892. At the time of his death he was editor of Nordmanden in Grand Forks, North Dakota. For a résumé of his career, see Norsk-Amerikanskernes Festskrift, 1914, pages 43-45.
Clippings about an Oslo-born "sailor and sculptor" who studied in Paris under Louis Ernest Barrias and in New York under Daniel Chester French and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. He was active in California in the early part of the century. Frolich founded the "Norse Studio Club" in Hollywood in 1923, and made portrait busts of persons like James J. Hill, Edvard Grieg, Luther Burbank, Roald Amundsen, Anna Q. Nilsen, and Jack London, who became a close friend. His work also includes monuments like "The Spirit of the Pacific." The collection provides information and illustrations of his work.