Herman Anderson

As printed in 1912

HERMAN ANDERSON (1884) is manager of the C. M. Youmans Lumber Company's yards at Marshall and is an old resident of Lyon county. He was born in Sweden January 8, 1855, and that country was his home until 1880. There he was educated and there he worked as a farm laborer, at the carpenter trade and as a coachman. Upon his arrival to the United States Mr. Anderson* located in Winnebago county, Illinois, resided there four years, and then came to Lyon county.

The first two years of his residence in the county Mr. Anderson farmer; then he entered the employ of M. Sullivan, the pioneer lumber dealer of Marshall, and he has been identified with the one yard for the past twenty-five years. The yard was established by Mr. Sullivan in 1879. Under the latter's proprietorship Mr. Anderson had practical charge of the yards and the stock, and since 1905 he has had the management of the entire business. The present owners purchased from Mr. Sullivan in May, 18 99. The yard is the oldest and largest in the county.

Mr. Anderson is one of a family of three children living and he is the only one in America. The two children residing in the old country are Victor and Clara. Our subject is a member of the Methodist church and of the A. O. U. W. and M. W. A. lodges.

In Marshall, on the sixth of March, 1889, Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Sophia Carlson. To them have been born the following named children: Emory, Selma, Ellis and Violet.

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.