Carl A. Myhre, jeweler and watchmaker, was born March 17, 1898 to Margit and Knut Myhre at Leeds, North Dakota. Knut Myhre died on March 19, 1898 leaving Margit Myhre with five children. One only two days old. Two years later Margit married Even Midhus, a widower and suddenly there was a family of ten - five boys and five girls.

Carl was raised on a farm until fourteen years of age, when he left to fend for himself. He spent two years working on a farm, then a year at a business college and then a year in a munitions plant in Minneapolis making 155 MM shells. After the war in 1918 he entered the employ of a jewelry store in Grand Forks as an apprentice watchmaker and jeweler; while here he married Ann Brassat in 1922.

In 1925 the family moved to Valley City where Carl was employed by Frit & Co. In 1931 he opened his own store and has been in business since that time.

To this union were born three children: Carl Jr., Phyllis, and Curtis. Ann Brassat Myhre passed away in 1953.

Carl Myhre and Jennie Larson were married in 1968. Jennie Larson Myhre was born in Norway in 1902 and came to America with her parents in 1910. She married August Larson and to this union were born three children: Raymond, Jeanette (Bevins) and Marilyn (Indicke). August Larson died in 1945. In 1968 Jennie Larson married Carl Myhre. Both are members of the Epworth Methodist Church.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 166