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- - ��• ... . . .. ..... 682 33UCCE3SFUL SCAI�IDIIZAQIAI�i8 Il�i TH]� II. S. went to sea, emigr&ting to America, however, in 1882. In the fall of the same pear he began work in the emigra,tion d artmmt of tbe St. Paal Minneapolis and Manitoba� �c�^ \ � r � ,� I Railway, remaining there tiU 1883, When tog�ether w�th A�� "�'�'�L`"',% E.Johnson he opened business as emigration agent. This firm, known aa A. E.Johnson and Companp, is now doing a very eztensive business in the sale of passage tickets for the� various steamship companies, and also in the sale of lands�k In the pear 18�1-92 the firm sold over one million acres of land to settlers, for an amount of about $b,000,000. In the same year $3,000,000 in cash was transferred through their house from America to tbe Scandinavian countries; their annual sale of passage tickets Rmounts to about $1,000�000. These sums represent a fair estimate of their annual bnsiness, which is, andoubtedly, the largest done bp any Scandinavian firm in the world. The firm has offices in I�Iew York City; Boston; Chicago; Ishpeming, Mich.; St. Paul, Minneapolis, Dnluth, Little Falls, and Staples, Minn.; Spokane, Tacoma� and Seattle� Wash. $earle is also one of the directors of the Scandinavian American Bank, St. Paul; of the �Nashington Bank, Minneapolis; of the Scandi- navian American banks, in Tacoma a.nd Seattle,Wash.; and of the Securitp Trust Company, St. Paul, �inn. Being a dealer in land, Searle takes great interest in farming. Ae has a farm at Devils Lake, I�I.D., compriRing 1,500 acres of well-tilled landwherea large number of fine horses andsheep n� are raised. In eummer he lives at Lake Minnetonka where� e,� '� he owns a fine honse and 100 acres of land on the Big �-Iv Island, being one of the fii�est places on the Iake. �earle �` � was married in 188?to Dagmar Jobnson. They have one child. �� --. o�,��,�F��>v Uoo�le