Toensing, the Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1876, and Biographical Sketches of the Officers of the State Government of Minnesota and of the 19th Minnesota State Legislature by C.L. Hall, 1877 list his first initial as C. The Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1877 lists G.
He came to Minnesota in 1857.
"Politically he votes the Democratic ticket." (Biographical Sketches of the Officers of the State Government of Minnesota and of the 19th Minnesota State Legislature by C.L. Hall, 1877, p. 43)
Religion provided by Biographical Sketches of the Officers of the State Government of Minnesota and of the 19th Minnesota State Legislature by C.L. Hall, 1877.