N. B. Pinkham
N. B. Pinkham was born in Maine and served in the Nineteenth Maine in the Civil War. He came west in 1868 after two years in college. He studied law and taught school in Wisconsin. He came to Fargo in 1871. He was admitted at the first term of court in Fargo and was elected the first Cass County Attorney. He was Assistant United Sates attorney and served in the state senate.