HEADSTROM

LEWIS HEADSTROM, Postmaster and real estate agent at Stromsburg, also
agent for the U. P. R. R., was born in Sweden, May 24, 1834. He came to
the United States in 1856, locating first at Galesburg, Ill., where he
remained for three years working at the carpenter's trade, and then
removed to Galva, where he started a cabinet shop, and was also
superintendent of Olof Johnson's farm for two years. He was married in
Galesburg, Ill., in 1859, to Miss Carrie Anderson, who was also
a native of Sweden. In 1869, he took a trip back to the old country to
see his friends, and when he returned be brought over a number of
emigrants. In the spring of 1871, he was the instigator of the
Scandinavian colony that came to Nebraska in the same year, settling in
Polk County, where the present village of Stromsburg now stands, the
subject of this sketch being the founder of said town and also
laying it out. He made his home at Galva, Ill., until 1872, when he
moved his family to Stromsburg, Neb., and in 1873 was appointed
Postmaster at that place, and also started the first store there. 

Source: Andreas' History of Nebraska 1883, Polk County, Town of
Stromsburg
Submitted by Susie Martin-Rott
rootbound2@geocities.com

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