Bio of CEDERSTROM, Charles Johan (b.1857 d.1912), 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
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CARL JOHAN CEDERSTROM (Charles Johan Cederstrom) - Vol II, pg 538-541
Though a decade has been added to the cycle of the centuries since Carl Johan
Cederstrom was called from this life, he is yet remembered by many with whom he
was associated through business or social relations and who cherish his memory
as that of a most highly respected man, a progressive citizen and a devoted
friend, ranking high in business circles as the general agent of the Eisenstadt
Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, having jurisdiction for this firm over the
northwest territory. He thus figured prominently as a wholesale jeweler and was
active in the development of a large trade in this section of the country.
Carl Johan Cederstrom was born in Elfsbacka, Vermland, Sweden, November 22,
1857, his father being Carl Johan Cederstrom, Sr., who was also a native of
Elfs­backa, born in the year 1822. In 1868 he removed to Nyed in the same
province and spent his last years at Harlberg, his homestead property near the
village of Fernsvicken in Nyed parish, there departing this life in 1897. For a
number of years he had survived his wife, who bore the maiden name of Christina
Jonsson and who died in 1883, at the age of fifty-one years. They had a family
of seven children, of whom five are living, including Carl Johan of this review.
The daughter, Louise, who was born in 1860, became the wife of Carl J.
Palmquist, a civil engineer in the employ of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and a
resident of St. Louis. The second daughter, Ida, born in 1866, is the wife of
Eric W. Palmquist, a mechanical engineer in the employ of the American Steel
Company of St. Louis. Anders Wilhelm, born in 1870, is engaged in the clothing
business at El Dorado, Arkansas. Gustaf Albin, born in 1876, is now secretary of
the American Stove Company of St. Louis.
Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Carl J. Cederstrom obtained
his education in the schools of his native province and also under private
instruc­tion, continuing his studies to the age of sixteen years, when in 1873
he started out in the business world by securing a position in the Nysell
hardware store at Pilipstad, Sweden. There he remained for six years, gaining
valuable knowledge and experi­ence in business methods. Attracted by the
opportunities of the new world, he bade adieu to friends and native country in
1879 and sailed for the United States, making his way at once to St. Louis,
Missouri, where he was employed by a hard­ware concern until 1884. Ambitious to
engage in business on his own account, he then established a wholesale jewelry
house but afterward disposed of this and entered the employ of the Attleboro
Jewelry Company, a leading exporting concern of St. Louis. He became one of the
stockholders of the company, which he also repre­sented on the road as a
traveling salesman for five years, largely covering the trade in Mexico and
South America. On the expiration of that period he sold his interest in the
business and became one of the stockholders in the Eisenstadt Manufacturing
Company of St. Louis, with which he was identified for many years. He was made
general agent for the northwest territory with headquarters in Minneapolis,
where he established his home in 1905. The company not only conducts an
extensive trade as wholesale jewelers but also conducts a large business as
importers of diamonds and other precious stones. Their business is one of large
and profitable proportions and Mr. Cederstrom was a potent element in the
development of the trade in the northwest, displaying marked initiative and
executive ability in promoting the busi­ness of the house. He spent a
considerable portion of his time on the road and his personal characteristics,
as well as his sound business judgment and enterprise, con­stituted a potent
force in the development of the trade.
In the year 1893 Mr. Cederstrom was united in marriage to Miss Hilma Vinberg, a
native of Vestervik, Sweden, and a daughter of Gustaf Vinberg, who was a
success­ful shoe manufacturer and an honored and influential citizen of that
country. He was also well known as one of the chief promoters in the
organization of the temperance union in his home city. Mr. and Mrs. Cederstrom
became the parents of three chil­dren: Eva, Carl and Gertrude. Eva, the eldest,
is the wife of Armand J. Dalton and has one child, Charles J. Carl and Gertrude
are twins. Carl enlisted as a private in the Marines in 1918, for service in the
World war and six months later was made a corporal. Since the close of
hostilities, remaining with the Marines, he has taken up automobile work and is
now in the wireless service as operator, stationed at Quantico, Virginia. He has
also been in Cuba and South America and was one of the crew called to Porto Rico
during the disturbance there. His sister Gertrude is the wife of De Lisle Orde,
a son of George Orde, connected with the Lincoln National Bank of Minneapolis.
While Mr. Cederstrom spent a portion of his time in St. Louis because of his
business connections with the Eisenstadt Company, he always considered
Minneapolis his home and was a loyal supporter of every interest that was
calculated to upbuild the city or promote its welfare. He passed away December
21, 1912. He was a republican in his political views and gave loyal support to
the party. While a resi­dent of St. Louis he was an active member of the
Gethsemane Swedish church, while after coming to Minneapolis he and his wife
became valued and helpful members of the Methodist Episcopal church. His life
was ever actuated by high and honorable principles and was the expression of
motives which neither sought nor required dis­guise. All who knew him spoke of
him in terms of high regard. He had a wide acquaintance through his extensive
business and social relations and his friends were legion. He never had occasion
to regret his determination to come to the new world, for here he found the
business opportunities which he sought and in their utiliza­tion obtained a most
substantial measure of success, while his residence in his adopted country fully
met his requirements as to the intellectual, social and moral phases of life. In
1914 his widow purchased land and built thereon a fine residence at No. 3021
Irving avenue, South, in Minneapolis, where she still makes her home.