Personal life

He was born in Ask

Ask, Buskerud

Ask is a village in Ringerike municipality, Buskerud, Norway.The name comes from the Norwegian word for ash tree. The village has a railway station on the Randsfjord Line. Ask is most known for Ask Chapel and for the Ask Manor house owned by the Løvenskiold family.-Ask Farm:Ask Fram is located at...

 as a son of Johan Georg Boll Gram and Fredrikke Severine Mathea Stabell. He was a brother of Andrea Gram

Andrea Gram

Grete Ingeborg Johanne Andrea Gram was a Norwegian painter.She was born in Ask in Norderhov as a daughter of Johan Georg Boll Gram . She was a sister of Jens Gram, granddaughter of Jens Jensen Gram, first cousin of Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram and aunt of Johan Fredrik Gram and Mads Gram...

, grandson of Jens Jensen Gram

Jens Jensen Gram

Jens Jensen Gram was a Norwegian jurist and politician.He was born in Copenhagen as the son of Jens Gram. He studied at the University of Copenhagen from 1798, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1804...

 and a first cousin of Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram

Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram

Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram was a Norwegian jurist and politician, and international arbitrator. He was a Supreme Court Assessor, Norwegian Prime Minister in Stockholm from 1889 to 1891 and from 1893 to 1898 and County Governor from 1898 to 1915.-Personal life:Gram was born in Moss as the son...

. Through his sister Nicoline he was a brother-in-law of Eilif Peterssen

Eilif Peterssen

Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter.-Background:Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway. He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner.He attended the Johan Fredrik Eckersberg School of Painting in Oslo in 1869...

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In July 1867 in Vadernes he married Julie Munch (1843–1928), daughter of P. A. Munch. They had two notable children, Johan Fredrik Gram

Johan Fredrik Gram

-Personal life:He was born in Drammen as a son of Jens Gram. He was a brother of Mads Gram, a maternal grandson of P. A. Munch and a paternal great-grandson of Jens Jensen Gram, a nephew of Andrea Gram and a first cousin of Harald Gram. His aunt Nicoline was married to Eilif Peterssen.In October...

 and Mads Gram

Mads Gram

Harald Mathias "Mads" Gram was a Norwegian physician.He was born in Drammen as the son of Jens Gram. He was a brother of Johan Fredrik Gram, a maternal grandson of P. A. Munch and a paternal great-grandson of Jens Jensen Gram, a nephew of Andrea Gram and a first cousin of Harald Gram...

. Through Mads he was the father-in-law of art historian Irma Ingertha Gram.

Career

He enrolled as a student in 1859, and also studied forestry

Forestry

Forestry is the interdisciplinary profession embracing the science, art, and craft of creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands...

 in Germany a couple of years. When returning home he worked as manager of the family-owned forests. In 1871 he moved to Drammen

Drammen

Drammen is a city in Buskerud County, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the eastern and most populated part of Norway.-Location:...

, where he was the vice consul

Consul (representative)

The political title Consul is used for the official representatives of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the peoples of the two countries...

 for Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 from 1870 to 1906. He took over the company Nils Bache and renamed it Bache & Gran. Thorleif Bache was a co-owner, but pulled out ten years later. The company became important in the city's pulp and paper industry

Pulp and paper industry

The global pulp and paper industry is dominated by North American , northern European and East Asian countries...

, and Gram chaired Skandinavisk træmasseforening and Drammens trælasthandlerdirektion. In 1900 he co-founded Norwegian Employers' Confederation

Norwegian Employers' Confederation

The Norwegian Employers' Confederation was an employers' organisation in Norway.It existed between 1900 and 1989, and was founded as an answer to the foundation of the Workers' National Trade Union in 1899. Jens Gram and Hans William Schrøder have been credited with taking the initiative. In 1989...

, a predecessor of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise

Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise

The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise is an employers' organisation in Norway with more than 16,000 members.It was founded in 1989 as a merger of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, the Norwegian Employers' Confederation and the Federation of Norwegian Craftsmen..The president is Kristin...

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He died in January 1912 in Skoger

Skoger

Skoger is a village located on the border between Buskerud and Vestfold counties, Norway. Of its population of 1,082 as of 2005, 654 were registered as residents of Drammen whereas 428 live in Sande in Vestfold county, Norway....

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