He was born in Aurland as a son of Jens Larsen Gjerløw and Anne Marie Nitter Ohnstad.
He took secondary education as well as the entrance exam at the university, but then followed a career in the press.
[1] He was a conservative person, and steered his newspaper Fremskridt in such a direction.
[1] Also in his time, Fremskridt absorbed the struggling Bratsberg Amtstidende, in 1901.
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