Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Anderson, Martin 1857 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County IL 1914

Anderson, Martin – The farmer of today faces many problems. While the price 
paid for farm products has increased, the cost of labor has risen, and the 
difficulty of marketing multiplied. The agriculturalist is not now content to 
trust to luck in his operations, for they cost too much, and upon them depend 
not only his own welfare, but the prosperity of the country, for as are the 
crops, so is national advancement. One of the men who have spent the better 
portion of their lives in making Grundy County one of the leading agricultural 
sections of the State is Martin Anderson, owner of eighty acres of rich 
farming land in Maine Township. On it he carries on general farming with well 
merited success. Mr. Anderson is a native of Denmark, born in that country in 
1857, a son of Simon and Johanna M. (Grader) Anderson. The father spent his 
life in Denmark, dying after a useful life as farmer and butcher, in 1907. The 
mother survives him, making her home in her native place. There were fifteen 
children born these parents, and eight of States, locating first at Racine, 
Wis., where he worked as a laborer. In 1887 he returned to Denmark, married, 
and coming back went to Gardner, Ill., where he worked as a farm hand until 
1899, when he bought his present property.

In 1887 Mr. Anderson married Mary Peterson, and they have become the parents 
of six children: Emma Holm, Clara Sorensen, Anna, Julia, Martha and Bertha, 
the latter being deceased. His religious affiliations are with the Danish 
Lutheran Church. Politically he is a Republican, having served as School 
Director three years and Justice of the Peace four years. A hard-working man, 
he is proud of his county and township, and can be depended upon to do all he 
can to advance their interests.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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