Pekin, North Dakota
was born in August 1889 at Lesjeskogen and emigrated to America in 1901 to Nelson County North Dakota. He has worked around Pekin, North Dakota, for the last five or six years at the hardware store there. He is a bachelor and is "crazy about books" prefaced his sister.
Source: Norwegians and Norwegian Homes in America by Hans Jervell - 1916 - Page 36