Henry J. Gjertsen
Henry J. Gjertsen (October 8, 1861 – December 2, 1911) was a Norwegian-born American lawyer of Minneapolis and Minnesota Minnesota Senate, state senator who was interested in civic and policical affairs. He never specialized in any particular branch of the law but continued in general practice. In addition to being admitted to the state bar, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States . Early life and education Henry John Gjertsen was born October 8, 1861, near the city of Tromsø, Norway. His parents were Herman J. and Albertina V. (Wulf) Gjertsen, the latter a native of the same place. Herman J. Gjertsen was a native of Bergen, Norway, son of a business man of that city, and the family is, according to ''Overland's History of Norway'', descended from the King of Mandal, Norway, Mandal, one of the old kingdoms of which Norway was later composed. Like many of the inhabitants of Bergen, Herman J. Gjertsen was a sailor and navigator, and for many years, co ...
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Henry J
The Henry J is an American automobile built by the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation and named after its chairman, Henry J. Kaiser. Production of six-cylinder models began in their Willow Run factory in Michigan on July 1950, and four-cylinder production started shortly after Labor Day, 1950. The official public introduction was on September 28, 1950. The car was marketed through 1954. Development The Henry J was the idea of Henry J. Kaiser, who sought to increase sales of his Kaiser automotive line by adding a car that could be built inexpensively and thus affordable for the average American in the same vein that Henry Ford produced the Model T. The goal was to attract "less affluent buyers who could only afford a used car" and the attempt became a pioneering American compact car. To finance the project, the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation received a federal government loan in 1949. This financing specified various particulars of the vehicle. Kaiser-Frazer would commit to design a vehicl ...
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