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          KURIKKA, MATTI, colonizer, journalist, and publicist; b.!

          Request of his close friend Matti Kurikka, who the previous year had established a.

          KURIKKA, MATTI, colonizer, journalist, and publicist; b. 24 Jan. 1863 in the parish of Tuutari, Russia, one of the four children of Aatami Kurikka, a wealthy Finnish farm-owner, and Anna Pöyhönen; m.

          first 12 Jan. 1886 Anna Henriette Palmqvist in Helsinki (Finland), and they had one daughter; divorced 1898; m. there secondly 23 May 1906 Hanna Räihä, and they had one daughter; divorced 1911; d. 1 Oct. 1915 in Westerly, R.I.

          From a bourgeois home, Matti Kurikka attended school in his native region of Ingermanland for three years before moving with his parents to Helsinki in 1872.

          Born in and educated as far as university, Kurikka had for two decades been prominent in Finnish radical circles.

        1. Born in and educated as far as university, Kurikka had for two decades been prominent in Finnish radical circles.
        2. A story of the nineteenth century Finn, Matti Kurikka, who led over one hundred of his followers to Queensland, Australia, in search of a utopia.
        3. KURIKKA, MATTI, colonizer, journalist, and publicist; b.
        4. In , Kurikka — an esteemed journalist, philosopher and speaker — joined of his countrymen and women in settling on Malcolm Island.
        5. Born to well-to-do Finnish parents in Ingria, Russia, on January 24, , Kurikka died at Westerly, Rhode Island on October 1,

          6. In 1881 he entered the University of Helsinki but he left for Kuopio without graduating. There he associated with Minna Canth, playwright, socialist, and women’s rights advocate. He also made friends with novelist Arvid Järnefelt and socialist Augusti Bernhard Mäkelä and in 1884 wrote his first notable play, Viimeinen ponnistus [Last effort], on the theme of c