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From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
ANTON E. ANDERSON (187 2) is proprietor of the A. E. Anderson elevator in Cottonwood, having in 1909, in company with his brothers, George and Gabriel, bought the Northwestern elevator. The company buys grain and sells coal and wood. Mr. Anderson is secretary and a director of the Norwegian Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Eidsvold and is president of the Home Telephone Company of Cottonwood. He was also one of the organizers and a former president of the Cottonwood Hardware Company.
Anton E. Anderson was born in Coon Prairie, Wisconsin, August 6, 1869. His parents, Endre and Bertha Anderson Barstad, were pioneer residents of Wisconsin and were among the first settlers in Lucas township, Lyon county, locating there in 1872, and taking as a homestead the southwest quarter of section 8. There the parents resided until their deaths, the father in 18 85 and the mother in 1899. Our sub-
As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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