Christian Osborne Finkenhagen (18861971) was born in Norway and was brought to the United States by his parents as a babe. His parents settled first in Minnesota where his father taught school. They later moved to Lignite, North Dakota. There were three younger brothers and two sisters. Mr. Finkenhagen studied pharmacy at North Dakota University in Fargo and came to work as a druggist at the Dakota Drug Store in Valley City in 1905. In 1907 C. O. Finkenhagen and Mabel Campbell (1886-1950) were married in the home built by her father, later the Dr. Van Houten residence. Mabel's parents William N. Campbell and Lillie I. MacCune were married in 1885 at Waupun, Wisconsin and came to Dakota Territory where they lived for a time in a sod house on the prairie with their three youngsters, before moving into Valley City. Mabel's mother died at the age of thirty-nine, later her father married and moved to Medford, Oregon. Mabel graduated from the State Normal School in 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Finkenhagen lived in Velva, North Dakota where he had his drug store and in Jamestown, North Dakota, before returning to Valley City and the Dakota Drug, a store established in 1889. Mr. Finkenhagen retired after more than sixty years as a pharmacist. Three children were born to this couple: Luella Elaine (1909-1973) married to Albert J. Shriner - one daughter, Mary Suzanne. Mr. Shriner died in 1964 and Luella married Burton Berget in 1967, who died in 1973. William Osborne (1911-) resides in California and has three sons, William Lee, Robert Allen, Bruce Osborne. Pricilla (1920) married Lorne C. Miller of Nome, North Dakota, in 1944. They lived twelve years in Grafton and presently live in East Grand Forks where Lorne is a teacher. They have three daughters - Barbara Jane (1945) Mrs. Richard B. Isackson of Wichita, Kansas; Lorne Lue (1948) resided in Richfield, Minnesota; Patricia Sue (1950) Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 70