The Fifteenth Legislature of Minnesota: Biographical Sketches, St. Paul: Press Printing Company, 1873 lists his birth year as 1837. Toensing lists 1832. He's listed as being 43 years old in the Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1879.
He came to Minnesota in 1857.
His party affiliation was provided byThe Fifteenth Legislature of Minnesota, 1873, p. 39.