Chisago County MN Archives Obituaries.....Wallmark, Andrew Peter December 9, 1912
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Chisago County News Thurs. Dec. 12, 1912
Prominent  Old Settler At Rest.

After a lingering illness of protracted duration, caused principally from infirmity,
Andrew Wallmark, one 
of the oldest settlers in this community, passed away at his home near Chisago City
last Saturday at 
fifteen minutes of 1 a. m., having attained the rather advanced age of 86 years.

In the death of Mr. Wallmark this community looses one of the early pioneers of this
community, a man 
who has for years been a prominent citizen of this county, having held many
positions of public trust, 
amongst others that of the register of deeds of Chisago county, which he held for
nineteen years. He 
was therefore well known all over the county, was a trusted official, a devout
church member, of firm 
character and enjoyed the respect and esteem of all his friends and fellow
citizens.

Andrew Wallmark was born in Asige, Knobesholm, Holland [sic], Sweden,  Feb. 19,
1826. He emigrated 
to the United States in 1854, arriving in this colony that same yer and was thus one
of the charter 
members of the Swedish Lutheran church at Center City, with which church he
affiliated until about 
three years ago, when he joined the Lutheran church in Chisago City.

When Mr. Wallmark first came to his country he stopped at Chicago for a short time,
but soon came to 
Minnesota where he remained in St. Paul for a brief period prior to locating at
Chisago Lake.

He was drafted for military service in 1865 and was in the northern army for abut
three months.
Soon after his arrival in this colony he engaged in farming, locating on the old
Wallmark farm near 
Chisago City, where he has ever since resided. He was married shortly after settling
on his farm to Mary 
Shaleen, a sister to the late Hon. John Shaleen, who represented this district in
the state legislature for a 
number of years. Mrs. Wallmark died in 1900. About a year or so ago, Mr. Wallmark
sustained a fracture 
of his hip and since then has been failing continually.

The funeral will be held from the Wallmark home this afternoon, at 1 p.m., Rev. C.
E. Slätt of Chisago 
City, officiating. Interment will take place at Center City cemetery.

Mr. Wallmark is survived by four children, viz. Mrs. Benny Benson of Wyoming, Minn;
Mrs. Emil Nelson 
of Chisago City, George Wallmark who still resides on the home farm and Theodore
Wallmark, who is in 
the employ of Wyman, Partridge & Co., of Minneapolis. Two other children are dead,
viz., Mrs. Carl 
Ekman and Carl Albert Wallmark. Peace to his ashes.



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