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Andrew Sannes, Hubert Humphrey's grandfather on his mother's side, had been a sea captain in Norway. He was born Guttom Andreas Sandnæs in 1847, on the farm Sandnæs in Tveit, just off the Norwegian port town Kristiansand, he came as younger son unlikely to inherit a tidy little valley farm, where his family had lived for generations. So when he was fifteen he went to sea, first as a cabin boy, then as chef helps, then as deksgutt on sailing ships at that time yet was used for much of Norway's trade with the world. At the time he married Abel Tomine Larsen, daughter on a farm in the same small fjorddal, he had become the master of his own ship and had sailed as far as to Cuba to bring back a cargo of sugar. On an even longer journey he had with him bride and infant daughter Anna, they sailed to China and back. But sailing vessel could no longer compete with steamers, and Captain Sandnæs had therefore looked for an opportunity to try something else. In the year drew thousands of Europeans to try a new life in America. The new world beckoned to the hardy seaman. Spring 1884.