In the summer of 1905, Henry Gurholdt, a 35-year-old White male from Scandinavia, Wisconsin, traveled to La Porte, Indiana, carrying approximately $1,500 in cash and high hopes for a new future. He had responded to a matrimonial advertisement placed by a wealthy widow named Belle Gunness, who was seeking a partner to help manage her farm. Upon his arrival, Gurholdt wrote to his family expressing satisfaction with the arrangement and the farm's condition, even requesting that they send him seed p
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