Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Anderson, Eric 1855 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

Eric Anderson

   Leaving his native Sweden in company with his parents at the age of nineteen

to embrace the larger opportunities presented to young men of enterprise and

capacity offered by this Western world, Eric Anderson, of Montrose county,

comfortably settled on an attractive little farm of forty acres located four

miles west of the town of Montrose, is realizing his hopes and at the same time

aiding in developing and building up the section of the state in which he has

settled.  He was born in Sweden in 1855, and is the seventh of the twelve

children of Andrew and Christina (Ericsson) Anderson.  His parents were Swedes

by nativity and of Swedish ancestry running back to the time when the Norse

kings held sway over the northern seas and made all Europe tremble at their

power.  They were prosperous farmers in their native country, and came to the

United States in 1874, making their home at Denver, this state, where the mother

is now living at the age of eighty-three, and where the father died in 1897,

aged eighty-seven.  They felt that they had finished their life work when they

left their native land, and from the time of their arrival in this country they

lived retired from active pursuits, enjoying the fruits of their previous

fruitful labors and winning the regard of the people around them by their

sterling worth and genial manners.  At his death the father was laid to rest in

that beautiful city of the dead, Fairmount Cemetery, in Denver.  Their son Eric

was well educated in the state schools of Sweden, and came to his new home on

this side of the Atlantic well prepared for the stirring activities in which he

was destined to engage.  He at once began prospecting on his own account and

acquired valuable claims, among them the Trapper and the Independence mines in

Idaho, and worked them for a period of eleven years.  He then turned his

attention to merchandising at Montrose which he followed for a year, then

settled on the beautiful ranch which he now occupies, on which his principal

industry is the production of choice varieties of fruit, although he does some

farming in a general way, and raises a few cattle.  When he took hold of his

place it was nearly all given up to wild sage brush, and would have looked

unpromising to any but a man of enterprise and indomitable spirit.  But Mr.

Anderson went to work on it with the energy characteristic of his people, and

has transformed it into a garden of fertility and beauty, and enriched it with

substantial buildings and other improvements, enduring and attractive in

character and modern in style and equipment.  He also has interests in a

mercantile business conducted by his brother, A.L. Anderson, in St. Louis.  Mr.

Anderson was married in 1895 to Miss Mathina Nelson, a native of Sweden and

daughter of Nelse Nelson, who passed his life in that country and is now

deceased.  One child has blessed and brightened the Anderson household, William

T. Anderson.  During his mining days the head of the house did not confine his

operations to one locality, but tried his hand at Leadville as early as 1878,

and later also at Cripple Creek.  He is prosperous in his present business and

deserves his success as he does the general esteem of his neighbors and friends

which he richly enjoys.

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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