Merced County CA Archives Biographies.....Lundquist, P. A. 1856 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

P. A. LUNDQUIST

   It is from Sweden, Denmark and Norway that the United States gets many of its
energetic, reliable and progressive people, who make loyal citizens, and typical
of the best in those races we have P. A. Lundquist, owner of a forty-acre
well-improved ranch in the Fairview precinct of the Hilmar Colony. On a
five-acre addition, which he later acquired, he has built a comfortable home
which will serve him and his wife during their declining years.

   The son of Andrew E. and Catherine Lundquist, P. A. was born in Skaraborg
Lan, Sweden, on May 19, 1856; and he came with his parents to America and
settled with them in Jefferson County, Iowa, being the youngest of three
children, two sons and one daughter. He entered heartily into the work of
helping to clear up and develop his father's farm. In 1886 the parents moved to
Montgomery County, Iowa, where the parents and sister died. The brother, John
G., is still living retired in Stanton, Iowa.

   In 1892, P. A. Lundquist was married in Montgomery County, Iowa, to Miss
Louisa Holm, a daughter of a merchant-tailor in Sweden. As a young girl of
sixteen she courageously migrated to Iowa. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Lundquist bought an eighty-acre unimproved farm in Montgomery County, Iowa, upon
which they carried on a general farming business. Three children were born of
this union. The oldest, John E., served in France during the World War and is
now a farmer north of Hilmar; Agnes married Arthur Nilsen, and is the mother of
three children, Arnold, Leonard and Reuben, and resides on the home ranch; David
W., who graduated from Heald's Business College of Oakland in 1920, is a young
man of sterling worth and is working for the Standard Oil Company.

   Mr. and Mrs. Lundquist became interested in the Hilmar Colony in California
and in 1915 they left Montgomery County, Iowa, and came here. They brought with
them considerable means and have wisely invested it and have improved their
property. They are active members of the Swedish Mission Church and are among
the best people of the Hilmar Colony.   In politics they are Republicans.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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