Morgan J. Flaherty was born at St. Cloud, Minn., Feb. 11, 1889; attended parochial and public schools at St. Cloud, graduating from high school at St. Cloud in 1907; graduated from St. Cloud Normal in 1908; taught school two years; graduated from St. Paul College of Law in June, 1913, and practiced law in Duluth one and a half years immediately before coming to Olivia in July 1915.