Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Lindeen, Alfred 1856 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

ALFRED LINDEEN.

    Alfred Lindeen, one of Lincoln township's well-known and substantial farmers
and the owner of a fine farm home there, is a native of the kingdom of Sweden,
but has been a resident of this country and of Marshall county since 1886, He
was born on July 16, 1856, son of Gust Anderson and Anna Johnson, also natives
of Sweden, who spent all their lives in their native land.

    Reared on a farm in his native Sweden, Alfred Lindeen received his schooling
there and grew to manhood on the home farm, becoming in turn a farmer on his own
account, and, there he remained until he was thirty years of age, when, in 1886,
he came to the United States and proceeded on out to Kansas, locating at
Frankfort, in this county. In that vicinity. Mr. Lindeen, who had arrived in
this country with very little money, secured employment at farm labor, at a wage
of fifteen dollars a month, and for two years was thus engaged. He then rented a
farm and for three years worked the same quite successfully. At the end of that
time he bought eighty acres of the farm on which he is now living and, in the
meantime having married in 1889, established his home there. Mr. Lindeen is a
good farmer and as he prospered in his operations added to his land holdings
until now he is the owner of two hundred acres of excellent land in Lincoln
township, forty acres in section 17, eighty acres in section 16 and eighty in
section 28. He has a fine farm house and farm buildings in keeping with the
same, his farm plant being operated along modern lines, and he is doing well. He
has an excellent orchard on his place and in addition to his general farming
devotes considerable attention to the raising of cattle, Shorthorns and Polled
Angus, and Poland China hogs, the latter being of the white-spotted variety, a
splendid type of big, rapid growers.

    As noted above, it was in 1889, about three years after he came to this
county, that Mr. Lindeen was married. His wife, Clara Back, is also a native of
Sweden, born in 1859, who came to this country in 1887. To that union five
children have been born, namely: Freda, wife of John Anderson, a farmer, living
on section 15 of Lincoln township, this county; Eben, a farmer; Albin, who
married Ellen Odell and lives at Axtell, and Emil and Albort, at home. Mr. and
Mrs. Lindeen are members of the Swedish Lutheran (Solem) church, of which Mr.
Lindeen has been a member of the board of trustees for twelve years and for five
years a teacher in the Sunday school. He is a Republican and gives his earnest
attention to local political affairs, but has not been a seeker after public
office.


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History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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