A. Hjalmar Edgren

August Hjalmar Edgren (1840 to 1903) was a Swedish-American professor, writer and linguist. who was born in Östanås, in the Älvsbacka parish of Värmland, Sweden. The son of Axel Edgren and Mathilda Berger, Edgren was educated in Karlstad and Stockholm, and graduated from the University of Uppsala and the Royal Military School of Sweden. In 1860 Edgren passed the officer's exam in Stockholm, and from 1862 served as a lieutenant in the Union Army during the American Civil War (99th New York Regiment).