Merced County CA Archives Biographies.....Youngborg, Axel 1878 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

AXEL YOUNGBORG

   The well-known firm of Youngborg Bros., who operate and own two dairy farms
in the Hilmar Colony, is composed of August and Axel Youngborg, hard-working,
intelligent and successful men. They came together to the Hilmar Colony, from
Stanton, Iowa, in 1903 and have worked together in harmony and have been leaders
in the Hilmar Colony since their arrival. August is single and a maiden sister
keeps house for him. Axel has a wife and family and holds several honorable
positions. He is secretary of the Farmer's Union Telephone Lines, organized May
11, 1909, with the following officers: A. Hallner, president; J. P. Snugg,
vice-president; Axel Youngborg, secretary; and O. A. Lundell, treasurer. It was
started with sixty members, each paying in $36.25, was incorporated with a
capital stock of $25,000, the paid-up stock being $8181, par value one dollar a
share. The present officers are D. E. Johnson, president; Harry Simrris,
vice-president; Axel Youngborg, secretary and treasurer. In addition to the
above there is a board of directors consisting of F. A. Heil, Andrew Schendel
and Albert Peterson.

   Axel Youngborg was born in Sweden, on April 24, 1878, was brought to America
in 1882, by his parents, who settled in Stanton, Iowa, where they farmed. The
father is living in the Hilmar Colony at the age of eighty-three. The mother
died here in August, 1922, seventy-nine years old. There were seven children in
the family, as follows: Charles and Frank, twins; August, who owns eighty acres
in the colony; Hannah, Mrs. Axel Tedborg, of Stanton, Iowa; Axel, our subject;
Huldah, who keeps house for August; Emma, now Mrs. Sederquist in the Hilmar Colony.

   Axel Youngborg grew up on his father's farm in Stanton, Iowa, attended the
common schools, and later took a commercial course in Boyles Commercial College,
in Omaha, Nebr. After graduating he and his brother August came to the Hilmar
Colony in California, bought land and set at work at once to improve it. He was
made secretary of the Mission Church in Hilmar and has held the office for many
years. He helped organize the Hilmar Mutual Fire Insurance Company and is its
vice-president and has served in some official capacity ever since its
organization; he helped also to organize the Farmer's Union Telephone Lines and
has been its secretary continuously since its organization.

   Axel Youngborg was married on June 16, 1909 to Miss Ruth Lindholm, a native
of Marinette, Wis., a daughter of Rev. J. E. Lindholm, a retired preacher living
in Santa Cruz. There are five children of this union, Marian, Pauline, Franklin,
Esther and Donald. Politically, Mr. Youngborg supports the men and measures of
the Republican party.


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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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