Gurolle Blestren Ager, late 1800s. Born in Trømso, Norway, in 1873, she emigrated to America as a young girl, growing up in Eau Claire. She met Ager at the Excelsior Temperance Lodge and the couple wed in 1899. Over the next two decades she gave birth to nine children, and died on Christmas Day, 1951. "I did the best I could with the little I had to do with,"she told her son.