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Born 1857
From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
CARL ANDERSON.
Carl Anderson, a farmer of Exerts township, who owns a splendid farm in section 16. three mile from Battle Lake. Minnesota, is a native of Norway, where his birth occurred on December 31, 1857.
Mr. Anderson is a son of Andreas Sakkariasen and Gunhild Marie Sakkariasen, both of whom were natives of Norway, and spent their entire lives in that country.
Car] Anderson received his education in the public schools of his native land, and after leaving school came to America and settled in Minnesota in 1881, working for the Northern Pacific Railway Company until iSS; In the latter year Mr. Anderson returned to Norway, hut came back to the United States in iooj. and in [908 purchased the farm which he now owns. This farm consists of eighty acres, and here Mr. Anderson carries mi a general system of farming and Mock raising, in which he has nut with commendable success.
In 1SS6 Carl Anderson was married to Gertie Christenson, a native of Norway, where her birth occurred in [853, and to this union have been born four children. Conrad Arthur. Bertha Marie, Thora Mathilde and John Henry
.Mr. Anderson has made practically all of the improvements which are now 'in his farm, and within recent years has built a new house. For ten years he rented land and after buying his farm in 1908 still continued to rent land for three years, lie moved to his own farm in 1913.
.Mr. and Mrs. Carl Anderson and family are active and devoted members of the Lutheran church of Everts township, and take an active interest in the affairs of that congregation. Mr. Anderson is one of the foremost advocates in Everts township of public improvements. He has a host of friends in the township and community where he lives.
As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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