 Linderfelt was born in Sweden in 1847 . He became an orphan after the deaths of his mother when he was five and his father when he was eleven . Linderfelt persevered and earned a doctorate from Uppsala University . He emigrated to Milwaukee in 1870 and taught classics at Milwaukee College . In 1875 , he was married to a woman whose name has been reported as Maggie Cooper or Margie E. Parker . By 1880 they had the first two of their four children , a son and daughter , and lived modestly at 278 Pleasant Street . 
