Bio of ANDERSON, James S. (b.1874), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

J. S. ANDERSON  (James S. Anderson) - Vol II, pg 566-567
All credit is due a man who carves out his career unaided. Such a man is 
J. S. Anderson, vice president of the U. S. I. Realty Company of 
Minneapolis. He was born in Denmark, in March, 1874, a son of Soren and 
Maren (Larson) Anderson, likewise natives of that country. The father 
died in Denmark, in 1880, at the age of fifty-five, while the mother 
passed away in Minneapolis, in 1921, when she was in her eighty-third 
year.

J. S. Anderson attended the public schools of his native land until 
eleven years of age. In May, 1885, he came to the United States, locating 
at Geneva, Minnesota, where he continued his education. Subsequently he 
pursued the advanced course of study in the Winona State Teachers' 
College, being graduated from that institution in 1897, and during the 
succeeding decade followed the profession of teaching in various places 
throughout the state. It was in 1907 that he came to Minneapolis and 
became associated with the U. S. I. Realty Company, being now vice 
president of the concern and in direct charge of its bond department. Mr. 
Anderson is a man of high intellectual attainments who has made a deep 
and continuous study of business methods applicable to his particular 
line. He has steadily advanced in those walks of life demanding 
intellectuality, business ability and fidelity and today commands the 
respect and esteem not only of the people of his community but of the 
entire state. He has not permitted the accumulation of a competence to 
affect in any way his actions toward those less successful than he and 
has always a cheerful word and pleasant smile for all with whom he comes 
into contact.

On the 6th of August, 1902, at Fargo, North Dakota, was celebrated the 
marriage of Mr. Anderson and Miss Maude Hodgson, a daughter of Rev. John 
Hodgson, a Methodist minister of Toronto, Canada, whose demise occurred 
in 1898, when he was in his seventieth year. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
Anderson two children have been born: Walter, twenty years of age; and 
Wilton, eighteen. The elder son has evinced much talent along musical 
lines and a brilliant career is prophesied for him by his many friends.

Since attaining his majority Mr. Anderson has given his political 
allegiance to the democratic party and the principles for which it 
stands. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine 
and is likewise identified with the Benevo­lent Protective Order of Elks. 
As reading is his hobby, he finds his greatest enjoyment with a good book 
in his own home. He is essentially public-spirited, being interested in 
all lines of progress and improvement, and his cooperation can be counted 
upon to further the material, intellectual and moral upbuilding of the 
city.