Will County IL Archives Biographies.....HULTGREN, S.J. 
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S.J. HULTGREN is one of the leading Swedish-American builders in Joliet, and 
has been quite successful in his work in this city.  Among his most important 
contracts have been those for the Eastern Avenue Baptist Church, the addition 
to the Eastern Avenue school, Lull's block on Cass street, St. Joseph
Hospital annex, the Swedish Mission, and many residences, including his own 
home on the corner of Stirling and Stevens avenues.  In partnership with Alfred 
Wenberg, in 1898 he built an oatmeal mill, an addition to the E. Porter 
brewery, a brick store on the corner of Oneida and Center streets, and another 
on Jackson street.
  In Jonkoping, Smaland, Sweden, Mr. Hultgren was born February 9, 1851, a son 
of Johennes and Anna (Isaacson) Hultgren.  His mother, who was born in Sweden 
in 1821, and is still living in that country, is a daughter of Isaac Isaacson, 
a farmer.  Our subject's father, who was born in Smaland in 1819, was reared on 
the home farm, and engaged in the milling business, owning two mills.  His last 
years were devoted to farm pursuits, and he died on a farm at the age seventy-
five years, in 1896.  Of his six children, three daughters and one son are now 
living, the daughters all remaining in Sweden.  The son, our subject, early 
learned the miller's trade and remained with his father until he was twenty-
one, after which he was foreman on the Eastern Trunk Line Railroad in Sweden.  
For seven years he engaged in railroading and putting up
telegraph lines, after which he began stone mason work on the railroad.  He 
also built a few basement foundations on contracts.
Coming to America in the spring of 1882, Mr.Hultgren spent three months in 
Arlington as a railroad employe.  In August he came to Joliet, and for two 
summers he worked in a stone quarry.  He soon became interested in a quarry 
with Wenberg Bros., with whom he worked as a mason. He accompanied them to 
Englewood, Ill., remaining with them as a workman for two years. Afterward, for 
six years, he was their foreman in Joliet, putting up many buildings for them.  
While out hunting, March 3, 1891, through an accident his right limb was shot 
below the knee, and he was so seriously injured that for seven months he was 
unable to leave his room.  When finally he began work again, in the fall of 
1892, he became a partner of Louis Wenberg, but after two years the partnership 
was dissolved, and he has since been alone, with the exception of 1898, when he 
put up some buildings in connection with Alfred Wenberg.  In Sweden, 1874, Mr. 
Hultgren married Miss Anna K. Magnuson, who was born in the same place as 
himself.  Her father, Magnus, was a son of John Vermo, who was a soldier in the 
Swedish army.  Magnus continued to cultivate a farm until his death.  He 
married Inga Elisa, daughter of Johannes Elisa, a farmer in Sweden.  They
became the parents of two children, Mrs. Hultgren and a daughter still living 
in Sweden.  By the marriage of our subject and his wife nine children were 
born, namely:  Carl A.; Mrs. Thilda C.Davis, who lives in Joliet; Alma S.; 
Lydia, deceased; Minnie; Emma E.; David, Enoch and Isaac.
Mr. Hultgren is a member of the Joliet Builders' Association and the Swedish 
Republican Club, and is an active worker in the Republican party.  In the 
Swedish Mission, of which he is a member, he has for some time held the office 
of deacon and is also interested in Sunday-school work.            

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