Alfred Anderson

As printed in 1909

ALFRED ANDERSON.

While one of the more recent additions to business circles in Royal, Alfred Anderson has already made for himself an enviable position in public regard and is numbered among the progressive and valued merchants of the town. He is associated with C. P. Jones in a general mercantile store which was established on the 15th of March, 1908, and which they are conducting under the firm name of Jones & Anderson.

The junior partner was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on the 12th of May 1880, and is a son of Olaf and Lottie (Olson) Anderson. The father was also born in Stockholm and in the year 1882 he came to the United States. As he looked over the country and saw the opportunities which it offered he believed that he might wisely establish his home on this side the Atlantic and in 1884 he brought his family to the new world, settling at Peterson, Iowa. In his native country he had learned the carpenter's trade in early life and had become a contractor and builder. After crossing the Atlantic he still continued in that field of labor for a time. His wife was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and they were married there. She still survives and is living at Royal. In their family were seven children: Elmer E., deceased; Charles W., a farmer residing in Montana; Anna. the wife of John Switzer, a butcher and stock buyer of Sioux Rapids, Iowa; Lottie, who is the twin sister of Anna and the widow of Ed Colby, of Sioux Rapids; Alfred, of this review; Ellen, deceased; and Olaf. a farmer of Glendive, Montana.

Alfred Anderson was but four years of age when he came to the United States and has since been a resident of Iowa. He pursued his education in the common schools of Peterson and after leaving school started to work as a farm hand, in which manner he was employed for five years. He was always industrious and determined and his labors were therefore valuable to his employers. After five years devoted to work in the fields he began clerking in a general store in Roval and in that way gained a good knowledge of business methods, so that experience well qualified him to engage in business on his own account when on the 15th of March, 1908, he opened a general store in Royal in partnership with C. P. Jones. They have already secured a good trade and are building up a substantial business. They are young men of well known enterprise and of resolute purpose, who carry forward to successful completion whatever they undertake.

In his political views Mr. Anderson is a democrat and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, as every true.American citizen should do. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and his life is in harmony with his professions. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and with the Yeomen. He is popular with a large circle of friends and the trading public know him as a reliable and enterprising merchant.

As printed in History of Clay County, Iowa, from its earliest settlement to 1909 (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.