Anton E. Anderson

As printed in 1912

ANTON E. ANDERSON

Of Cottonwood, Who Has Lived in Lyon

County Forty Years.

ject attended the country school and worked on the home farm until the age of fifteen, then hiring out as a farm hand for a number of years. At the age of eighteen he engaged in business in Cottonwood, continuing until his marriage three years later.

July 20, 1890, occurred the ceremony which made Anton E. Anderson and Martha Orwoll man and wife. To this union were born eight sons: Endre B., Sylfest M., Virgil L., Archie M., Nuel Fridtjof (deceased), Fridtjof B., Nordal O. and Earl R. Mrs. Anderson died December 17, 1907. After his marriage Mr. Anderson moved to his farm in Lucas and ran the place five years, then engaging in the grain business at Cottonwood, where he represented the Minnesota <fe Western Grain Company of Minneapolis fifteen years, until buying the Northwestern Elevator Company's business.

Mr. Anderson has been a member of the school board eight years, seven years of that time as secretary. He is active in church circles of the Norwegian Lutherans, being secretary of Silo Church of Cottonwood. He is one of the board of directors of the annuity fund and financial secretary of the Montevideo district of the United Norwegian Lutheran church of America.

Our subject has living the following sister and brothers: Dena (Mrs. O. H. Hatlestad), of Cottonwood; Tonnes, on the old homestead in Lucas; Henry E., of Minneota; John, of Parkland, Washington; Gabriel and Anton, of this sketch, both of Cottonwood.

June 9, 1911, Mr. Anderson married a second time, taking for his wife Selma Nelson, a native of Pipestone county, born March 15, 1882.

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.