G. T. Christianson was born near Deerfield, Wis., Nov. 3, 1885, and died in Minnewaukan, N. D., Jan. 29, 1910. He came with his parents to western Minnesota in 1862; studied law at Iowa University, and was admitted to the bar in 1879; settled in Renville, was county attorney for Renville County, 1883-89 and 1891-93; removed to Minnewaukan in 1901, when he was president of the First National Bank.