The New Leader, October 7th, 1991
FRIENDS CALLED HIM Charlie or Sandy. He was the shy yet ambitious teenage son of hard-working, dirt poor Swedish immigrants, and had been born right there in the little prairie town of Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878. Although he completed the eighth grade, he missed his graduation because his parents could not afford to buy him a suit. His older sister required every spare penny so that she might finish high school and receive her teacher's diploma.
Charlie put in a year delivering milk for a local dairy, but he longed to follow the trains that ran through Galesburg on their way out West. So ...
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