Bio of DAHL, Hon. John A. Dahl (b.1866), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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HON. JOHN A. DAHL - Vol II, pg 489
The Hon. John A. Dahl, judge of the probate court of Minneapolis, is one of our
many foreign-born citizens who has achieved a position of responsibility and
eminence in American public life. He was born in Sweden, on the 20th of January,
1866, the son of John E. and Anna L. Dahl. When he was four years old his family
moved to the United States, settling in Jordan, Scott county, Minnesota, so he
received his entire educational training in Minnesota schools. After going
through the successive grades of the public schools, he attended the Minneapolis
Academy and the University of Minnesota, where he took the law course. From 1893
to 1897 he practiced his profession in Superior, Wisconsin, coming back to
Minneapolis in the latter year, where he continued his private legal work until
1908. For four years, from 1908 to 1912, Mr. Dahl served as assistant city
attorney, filling this office with such distinction that when his name was
presented as a candidate tor judge of the probate court he was elected. Judge
Dahl is considered a remarkably able man by all who have come into contact with
his work, both laymen and the members of the legal profession. He is possessed
of the true judicial temperament, as well as being learned in the law, which
enables him to occupy his position on the bench with credit to himself and the
court over which he presides. That his work in the courtroom has fulfilled the
expecta­tions of the people who elected him to office is proved by the fact that
he was successively reelected in 1914, 1916, 1918, 1920 and 1922.
Judge Dahl was united in marriage to Miss Emma A. Leveroos, in October, 1895,
the ceremony being solemnized at Superior, Wisconsin. Throughout his life he has
been a stanch supporter of the republican party. He is a Mason of high rank,
having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite; is a Knight of
Pythias, a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and the Gustavus Adolphus Society.