In the book's own words, not ours, with obvious scanning errors fixed. Families often supplied these stories to the publisher, so check key dates.
Born 1873
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
GUSTAF A. ANDERSON (1896), proprietor of a photograph gallery in Jackson, was born in Sweden September 22, 1873, the son of Andrew and Sophia (Jonason) Anderson. His father died when our subject was three years of age and thereafter during his residence in the old country he lived with an uncle.
In 1891 Mr. Anderson came to the United jStates and located at Estherville, Iowa, where for several years he lived at the home of an uncle, attending school during the winter months and working on the farm during the summer months. In the fall of 1895 he began learning the photographer's trade in Estherville and the next year moved to Jackson and opened a gallery, renting the Roberts' studio. He remained in that location eight years and then bought Ins present property. He built the operating room and made other iinpruveinents and now lias one of the finest studios in southwestern Minnesota. Miss Louie Itubcock has been employed as retoucher by ilr. Anderson for the past twelve years.
[This passage is too damaged in the scanned book to reproduce. See the original book.]
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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