Born 1827; died 1923. Previously an artillery non-commissioned officer (command sergeant), subsequently a postal coachman, and latterly a level-crossing keeper on the Brattøra railway — a career trajectory that one notes with the mild admiration due to a man who managed to find employment in several distinguished capacities. He is described as being of dictatorial intelligence but slovenly habits. His father had served in the war of 1807–08. He reported that soldiers in those days received brandy in lieu of coffee at breakfast — an arrangement one suspects was not without its appeal.