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Born 1880
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
SAMUEL FREDERICKSON (1880), cashier of the First State Bank of Okabena, is a native of Jackson county, having been born in Christiania township April 18, 1880. He is the son of John and Carn (Foslie) Frederickson, of Lakefield.
Our subject was educated in the public schools of Lakefield and in the Breck school at Wilder, where he was a student during 1901 and 1902. In 1903 he attended the Minnesota School of Business at Minneapolis. After securing his education he was manager of a store at Wilmont about one year, bought grain for the W. W. Cargiil Elevator company at Oldham, South Dakota, for some time, and for two years was employed in the First National Bank of Lakefield. On October 1, 1900, Mr. Frederickson helped organize the First State Bank of Okabena, and has since been the cashier of that institution. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and holds the office of justice of the peace.
Mr. Frederickson is treasurer of the Okabena
Cooperative Creamery association, and secretary of the Farmers Cooperative Elevator company of Okabena."
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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