Wefald, Magnus 1900-1991.

Knut Magnus Wefald was born in Hawley, Minnesota (April 21, 1900), the first son of Norwegian immigrants Knud and Sarah Wefald. He graduated from Hawley High School in 1918 and from St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minn.) in 1923. At St. Olaf he met his future wife, Verna Ellingson, whom he married in 1924.

Wefald served (1923-1927) as secretary to his father, Congressman Knud Wefald, while attending George Washington Law School. When his father was defeated in 1926 Wefald remained in Washington, working as a sales and collection correspondent for the National Radio Institute while finishing law school. Upon his graduation from law school in 1929, Wefald moved his family (now 3 children: Knut, Harold, and Martin) to Hawley and opened his own law practice. His only daughter, Marguerite, was born there in 1934.

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