Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Malmquist, Frank 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Malmquist, Frank – The history of the successful men of foreign birth in many 
sections of the United States shows a record of hard work and persistent 
effort that eventually ends in prosperity.  It appears that many of those who 
come here from other countries and take up different kinds of work are so 
earnest and industrious and so naturally frugal that their success is 
certain.  One of the men of Grundy County who has thus prospered is Frank 
Malmquist, a farmer of Vienna Township, who was born at Tida, Rytterns, 
Westmanland, Sweden, October 21, 1872, the youngest of a family of seven 
children of Andrew Gustav and Lovisa (Carlson) Malmquist.  In 1888 he came to 
his present township from Sweden and began working for his brother, who had 
already established himself here as a farmer, having come to Grundy County in 
1878.

On January 14, 1908, at Joliet, Ill., by Rev. A. H. Laing, Mr. Malmquist was 
united in marriage with Ellen Harford, daughter of Aaron and Frances (Dewey) 
Harford.  Their home is one of the old landmarks, Mrs. Malmquist’s maternal 
grandfather, John Dewey, having settled here in 1844.  Their son, Aaron Frank, 
born October 10, 1909, represents the fourth generation of the family to call 
it home.  Mr. Malmquist puts his best efforts into stock raising along with 
his farming operations, being one of the first in the county to establish a 
herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle, those “Bonnie Black Skins”.  He cultivates 320 
acres of land, 200 being devoted to grain culture, and the remainder to 
pasture and timberland. 

In politics Mr. Malmquist is a Republican, and he has proven himself a loyal 
citizen as well as a thorough-going agriculturalist, and has reason to be 
contented with his lot in life.  The following quotation from Joaquin Miller 
is a fitting tribute:

“And I have said, and I say it ever,
As the years go on and the world goes over,
‘Twere better to be content and clever
In the tending of cattle and the tossing of clover,
In the grazing of cattle and the growing of grain,
Than a strong man striving for fame and gain.”

page 859

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

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