His parents changed the family name from Waaranperä to Östros when they moved from Norrland to Västerås.
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In his later years, Grafström was a vocal exponent of the expansion of the railway network into Norrland.
Häggviks stave church is a replica of a stave church in Häggvik, Nordingrå court district, Norrland province of Sweden.
It has over the years have disappeared from southern Sweden and is now only locally in the Norrland coast (Västerbotten and Norrbotten) as well as Canada and Alaska.