John Frederickson, born in Norway in 1846, came to America in 1869, worked on the railroads, married Karen Foslie at Windom in 1872, and settled in Lakefield as the village was being founded; he ran a lumber yard, a machinery business and a land office there, and in 1908 formed the Lakefield Tile & Drainage company. His son Samuel, born in Christiania township in 1880, helped organize the First State Bank of Okabena and became its cashier. A different couple, John and Engebor Frederickson, took a homestead in Christiania township in 1870 and lived on it until their deaths; their son Bendick, born there in 1876, bought the farm from the other heirs in 1901. Every fact below is cited to the 1910 county history.
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Lakefield businessman; secretary of the Lakefield Tile & Drainage company
JOHN FREDERICKSON (1879), one of the members and officers of the Lakefield Tile & Drainage company, cement tile manufacturers, has been a resident of Lakefield ever since the founding of the village. He is a native of Norway and was born September 9, 1846. being the son of Frederick and Mary (Kulungstad) Frederickson.
Our subject spent the first twenty-three years of his life in his native land. He was educated in the public schools and later studied the English language under a private tutor. In I8C9 he emigrated to America and during the first three years of his residence in the new world lived at.several different places, working on the railroad. He spent one month in Madelia and then worked on the Omaha road a short time at Mankato. Next he took a ]>position with the Milwaukee road, but a little later went to St. Paul and for two years worked for the Northern Pacific. Ue spent one harvest season working near Hastings, and then again took a position with the Northern Pacific.
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WILLIAM y. lUUGEWAV (189), of Des Moines township, is one of the early settlers of Jackson county, having resided here since he was eleven years of age. He owns twenty-two and one-half acres of land on the Dos Moines river a short distance up from Jackson. He does very little general farming but he is a successful chicken raiser and deals in wood.
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Cashier, First State Bank of Okabena
SAMUEL FREDERICKSON (1880), cashier of the First State Bank of Okabena, is a native of Jackson county, having been born in Christiania township April 18, 1880. He is the son of John and Carn (Foslie) Frederickson, of Lakefield.
Our subject was educated in the public schools of Lakefield and in the Breck school at Wilder, where he was a student during 1901 and 1902. In 1903 he attended the Minnesota School of Business at Minneapolis. After securing his education he was manager of a store at Wilmont about one year, bought grain for the W. W. Cargiil Elevator company at Oldham, South Dakota, for some time, and for two years was employed in the First National Bank of Lakefield. On October 1, 1900, Mr. Frederickson helped organize the First State Bank of Okabena, and has since been the cashier of that institution. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and holds the office of justice of the peace.
Mr. Frederickson is treasurer of the Okabena
Cooperative Creamery association, and secretary of the Farmers Cooperative Elevator company of Okabena."
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Farmer and cattle and hog feeder, Christiania township
BENDICK FREDERICKSON (1876), Christiania township farmer and feeder of cattle and hogs, is a native of that township, having been born on the farm he now conducts December 7, 1876j the son of pioneer residents of Christiania. His parents were John and Engebor Frederickson, who came from Norway soon after their marriage, and, after living a short time in Olmsted county, settled in Jackson county, taking as a homestead claim in 1870 the south half of the southwest quarter of section 24, Christiania township. On that farm they lived until their death, some fifteen years ago. Bendick is the oldest of a family of four children living. The others are Albert, Henry and Anna (Mrs. Gust Thompson).
With the exception of a few years when he was working out-Bendick has spent his entire life on the home farm. He bought the farm from the other heirs in 1901 and has since resided on the place. Mr. Frederickson is not married and makes his home with the family of his brother, Albert. Recently he has begun feeding cattle and hogs for the market. In addition to his own farm he farms an eighty acre tract on section 24. Mr. Frederickson is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and of the Sons of Norway lodge. He is a director of school district No. 26.
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