Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Wallin, Fritz 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Wallin, Fritz – The modern farmer is a man of many plans and enterprising 
methods or else he would not succeed in this day of strong competition and 
struggle for survival of the fittest. In the conduct of his farm the Grundy 
County agriculturalist in particular strives to use the same systematic rules 
which apply in any other line of business, with the result that he ranks high 
among those of his class in the country. One of these enterprising and 
eminently successful farmers of Grundy County is Fritz Wallin, owner of 160 
acres of fertile land in Maine Township, on which he is carrying on general 
farming.

Fritz Wallin was born in Sweden in 1861, a son of Andrew and Gustava Wallin, 
farming people of Sweden who never left their native land, where the mother 
died in 1906 and the father in 1908. They had the following children: Edwin, 
who died at Rockford, Ill.; Alfred, who was accidentally killed by a street 
car in Chicago, October 11, 1913; Fritz, Fred and Axel. Growing up in Sweden 
Fritz Wallin attended the local schools and learned farming. In 1880, deciding 
that there were not enough opportunities offered at home, he left Sweden for 
the United States and first located at Braceville, Ill., Grundy County, where 
he was employed in the coal mines, but as he desired to become a farmer in 
1897 he rented land in Maine Township, and in 1908 was able to buy his present 
farm which he has since operated.

In 1890 Mr. Wallin married Christine Olsen, and they have eight children: 
Ethel, who died in infancy; Ida Burns, Arthur, Esther, Ruth, Fred, Elsie and 
William. Mr. Wallin belongs to the Methodist Church. Politically he is a 
Republican, while in fraternal matters he affiliates with the Knights of 
Pythias at Braceville.

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

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