title gatsby

1890

James Gatz is born in North Dakota with two farm parents

1906

Works as clam a digger & salmon fisher on South Shore of Lake Superior

1906

Attends Lutheran college of St. Olaf in Minnesota and works as janitor

1906

drops out of school and moves back to Lake Superior

1907

Dan Cody’s yacht drops anchor at Lake Superior shore

1907

Sails with Cody to the West Indies and Barbary Coast

1907

Changes name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby

1912

Ella Kay comes on board and Cody dies

1912

Gatsby inherits 25,000