Lantbrukare i Salomonhög. Nämndeman. Ägde och bodde på Salmonhög nr 8 och 9 i Grevie socken vilken gård inhandlades år 1851.

Paret fick sex barn varav tre emigrerade till Amerika under åren 1880 - 86, alla i tidig ålder. Barnbarn Everet beskriver sin far i en intervju på följande sätt; "He was an educated man, and he planned higher education for his five sons and daughter. However, he died when my father was sixteen years old, and his widow, who inherited the place, was a farmer's daughter and didn't believe in higher education.

She took all the children out of school and put the five sons out as farmhands on the large farm.