Nicholay Andreas Grevstad, editor of Skandinaven, was born in Sondmore, Norway, is a self-made man born of poor parents. He was editor of a paper in Norway, Dagleladet (Daily News), and also in St. Paul, Mingesota where he was editor of Nordvesten (North-west). He came to Chicago in 1892 and has been editor of Skandinaven since. In two articles in the Atlantic Monthly for 1891 and 1893, he has given the Americans a full outline of the principles and workings of the Norwegian courts of conciliation. In the fall of 1906 the order of St. Olaf was conferred upon him by King Haakon of Norway.