Joachim Kurtén

[citation needed] In 1841 the family moved to Vaasa where he finished his upper-secondary final examination at the age of 17.

He went on to study at a business college in Turku after which he went to work as a clerk for businessman A.A. Levón back in Vaasa.

Joachim Kurtén became a prominent figure in Vaasa, where he founded several companies and had a distinguished career in banking.

He chaired the city council for almost twenty years and was the speaker of the Burghers in Finland’s then legislature, the four-estates Diet.

The fact that the railroad extends to Vaasa is supposed to be the work of Joachim Kurtén.