The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 6, 1916, Page 5

A Small Section of the Sea of Faces in Front of the Auditorium Friday. When the Crowd Went Out to Have iis Photo Taken it C EU THE NONPARTISAN LEADER A Street Full of Leaguers in Front of the Big Auditorium Entire Block. nn J. Frazier for FIVE R0 logged the Street for an —Photo by Leader Staff Photographer overnor Life Stfy of the Man Chosen by the Farmersfl;' Called From a Farm to Make the Race for Office Lynn J. Frazier for governor of North Dakota. This is: the: eall sounded at the convention: massmeetings of theFarmers’ Nonpartisan League in Fareo lazt week for the first time. It will be: heardi move freguently every-day hereafter in every corner of the: state. Whe: is; Lynn: J. Frazier? How oldiis: he? What does he loek like? Where does he hail-from? Wihai is his business? These ave: the: questions: that: everybody in: North Dakota: willl want to have answered. It will be:the business of the Nonpartisan Leader to: anmwer some of them: andt a heginning: sheuld: be: made now. In the fiest place then; get these facts into your head: —a farmer—not an: imitatior farmer noy a: tewn farmes, e Lynn: Frazier is a native American, 4l years old and a farmer. tew, but 2 real one; who has been tilling his section: of land' in: Pembina couan- Get that ty for many yesrs. He was: net bovn in: this: state but he has: lived: in it for nearly thirty-five years. He is now farming the same home- steadi on: which: his: father settled in: 1881 ‘state: e eiean. The: man: whe: is: to: be: thie: next governer of North: Dakota: is a: college graduate who was cducated entirely in the schools of this He: liolds. a. diploma: frem: the Univessity of North Dakota: at Grand: Forks. : He is a teetotaler: He: has: never touched: intoxicating liquer in his life. cooperative: enterprises: and is: respeeted and honerved by the people of hLis ew:n com farming and: in; business.. He: is: an able man;, physically rugeed and: meataily and’ 100 oo Ho do2s not use tobaceo.. He is interested in several ity, vio know him best. He is successful in . Those wiie: have heand him on: his. vevy: few appearances on a. publie platform testify that le is a convincing talker. He has a dignified bearing: and: speaks: distinetly: in: a: deep,. bass. voiee: With: the foregoing summary, let us: take up im: greater detail the faets in the life of as man whose name is soen to be a house- hold werd in: this state and: later is: to:be known: all over the nation. Lynn J. Frazier was born on a.farm in Rice county, Minnesota, on Decem- ber 21, 1874. His father came with his family to North Dakota in the spring of 1881, and settled on. Sec- tion| 33 of township 159, range 54, in Pembina county, then in Dakota ter- ritory. Thomas Frazier, Lynn Fra- zier’s father, built there a little sod house in which his family lived for several years. Lynn. I'razier’s present home is on tlic same. place, It is: the old homestead, practically. the only home he has ever known. The boy Lynn began his education in: the country sehool in. his neigh- borhood: After that he went to- Graf- ton high school, where he graduated at the age of 17, something of a re- cord’ for a country boy who had his chores to do and was able to do a man’s work in the summer time. His: father had died a year before and he. and his brothers had taken up- the work of running the farm. The next fall Lynn, mature and manly for ‘his: age, began teaching country school. e was at that two years and he developed an. ambition to become a well educated man, hav- ing wvisions: of a. profession. He thought of being a lawyer and then of being a doctor. Later it was to- ‘th ward that profession that his aims began: to- shape themselves. SAVING MONEY TO LEARN A PROFESSION. He saved a little mo;ley in two. years of teaching and he hiked off to Mayville. when' 19 to enter the Nor- mal. He had improved his time so. well that he was able to complete the course there in a year, graduating with that institution’s first class in 5. With his teachers and classmates predicting: for him. a. brilliant future in whatever profession he might The Lads from Conway Making Music for the Marchers - He was 20 years old then. '‘become of age until the following adopt, but with his savings used up, Lynn went back to teaching school. He didn’t winter. He kept at country school teaching again for two years, saving up money and nursing his ambition, A brother was to succeed to the farm. He was to be free for the distinguished career for which his family all knew he was destined. Fame and distinction some- times come in ways not expected. In the fall of 1897 young Frazier then nearly 23, entered the state uni-« versity: at Grand. Forks. He had a little- money, but not much, enough to