Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Lundstrum, Alick 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

ALICK LUNDSTRUM. It was largely through the efforts of Mr. Lundstrum that the 
Joliet Builders' Association was organized and he was elected its first 
secretary, an office which he still efficiently fills. When he came to Joliet 
in 1888 he secured employment as a carpenter. Four years later he commenced to 
take contracts and has since had charge of the erection of many public 
buildings and private residences, not only in his home town, but throughout 
Will County and in Grundy and Kendall Counties. Among his contracts are those 
for the Farragut school on the west side, the residences of M. F. Loughran, 
Jerome P. Stevens, C. Howard Calmer and S. F. Goodspeed in Joliet, and the 
high school in Centerville, Iowa. He has erected churches, schools, business 
blocks, residences and buildings of all kinds, and has a business that is 
constantly increasing. Having made a special study of architecture, he is 
enabled to draw up the designs for buildings, and shows considerable taste in 
this direction. He owns his residence at No. 118 Akin avenue, and is 
interested in other real estate. Mr. Lundstrum was born in Westrebothen, 
Sweden, March 3, 1868. His father, Erick, who was born and reared in the same 
place, followed the carpenter's trade and engaged for years in the building 
business in his native country. In 1869 he took his family to Sundswall, where 
he made his home for ten years. Crossing the ocean in 1879, accompanied by his 
family, he settled in Lockport, Ill., where he secured employment as a 
millwright and carpenter with Norton & Co. In 1887 he came to Joliet, where he 
has since worked at his trade, having had charge of jobs for which his son 
holds the contracts. He is still quite active, notwithstanding his sixty-five 
useful years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Anna L. Bostrom, was born 
in Sweden, the daughter of a farmer; she died in Lockport in 1881, leaving six 
children, viz.: Mrs. Emma Anderson, of Lockport; Alick; Mrs. Lydia Walters, of 
Lockport; Freda L., wife of D. B. Coleman, of Lockport; Anna, who resides with 
her father at No. 114 Akin avenue; and Otto, a carpenter. The early boyhood 
days of Mr. Lundstrum were passed in Sundswall, where his education was begun. 
When he was eleven years of age he came to America with his parents, crossing 
to Hull and Liverpool and from there taking a steamer to Boston. After his 
arrival in Lockport he spent a year in the public school, but after that was 
obliged to begin work and could attend school only at infrequent intervals. He 
has been familiar with carpentering from his earliest recollection and has 
always been handy with tools. In 1882 he was employed in the building of the 
Swedish Lutheran Church in Joliet. When he was sixteen he secured a position 
in the dry-goods store of George B. Norton, with whom he remained for thirteen 
months. Afterward he was in the grocery establishment of Skoglund & Co., for a 
year, and spent a similar period in the store owned by F. F. Stowe & Sou. In 
1888 he came to Joliet, where he has since made his home. He possesses 
excellent executive ability, with the power to plan and the energy to execute 
work of an important nature. His contracts have been filled to the 
satisfaction of all concerned, and his reputation is that of a first-class 
builder. A man of strong temperance principles, Mr. Lundstrum has accomplished 
much for the advancement of the cause of temperance. He has organized many 
lodges, particularly of the order of Sons of Temperance, and at one time 
served as grand worthy patriarch of the state of Illinois. In politics he is 
independent and in fraternal relations a member of Matteson Lodge, A. F. & A. 
M. He married, in Unionville, Iowa, Miss Christine Herteen (originally 
Hjertin), who was born and reared in Sweden.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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