Ole J. Finstad

Finstad was born in 1878 on a farm near Avoca in Murray County, Minnesota.[1] When he was two or three years old, his mother died so he was raised in Christiania Township south of Windom, Minnesota by a Johnson family.[1] He married Mabel Sheets (1882-1958) on April 7, 1906.[1] He died on February 7, 1960, less than two years after the passing of his wife on November 23, 1958.[1] His funeral occurred on February 10 at the Methodist church in Windom.[1]

Finstad attended elementary school in Delafield Township and high school in the Windom public school system.[1] He attended college at the University of Minnesota Law School and received his law degree on June 4, 1903.[1]

Finstad was admitted to the Minnesota State Bar Association on June 5, 1903.[1] From then until his 1959 retirement he practiced in the City of Windom.[2] He also worked as a school teacher.[3]

Finstad served in the Minnesota Senate from 1931-1946.[3] He served in the 47th-54th Minnesota Legislatures in District 10.[3] Finstad was preceded by Moses Frost[4] and succeeded by Bjarne Elgar Grottum.[5] He also served on the School board in Windom, as a County attorney for Cottonwood County, and as a member of the Minnesota State Historical Society.[3]