Daniel W. Fry

Daniel William Fry was born July 19, 1908 near a small steamboat landing on the Mississippi River called Verdon Township in the Northern part of Aitkin County, Minnesota to Fred Nelson Fry and Clara Jane Baehr. Clara died in 1916 and left Daniel and his older sister, Florence, to be raised by their grandmother while Fred found work where he could as a carpenter and labourer. Fred died two years later in 1918 during the influenza pandemic and left Daniel …