Ms. Agnes Norlin, 1981

George Norlin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gustave W. Norlin, were immigrants from Sweden. Mrs. Gustave W. Norlin's father served as the Secretary of State in Sweden until he died. Mr. Gustave W. Norlin was a high ranking officer in the Swedish Army, serving in a cavalry regiment. The Norlin family, Mr. And Mrs. G. W. Norlin and their eleven children, immigrated to the United States in 1869. The family was advised in New York to move to Kansas, because the government had opened new lands there by way of the Homestead Act. Yet, when they arrived in Concordia, Kansas they found only "Indians, tornadoes, and grasshoppers".

George Norlin was born in 1871, near Concordia, Kansas, a few years later Norlin and his family moved to Fish Creek, Wisconsin. In 1886, after attending public schools in Wisconsin, George Norlin entered Hastings College in Nebraska. After graduating Hastings with an A.B. degree and doing special work at Cornell University, Norlin was appointed instructor at Hastings University, where he remained until 1896. Also, in 1896, Norlin was awarded a Fellowship in Greek at the University of Chicago. The fellowship allowed Norlin to pursue his graduate studies and receive a his Ph.D. in 1900.

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