Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Eklund, Eric P. 1836 - 
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      ERIC P. EKLUND, one of the blacksmiths of the village of Grove City, is a
native of Sweden, born July 3, 1836, and is the son of Peter and Lisa Kranz. Having
acquired the blacksmith’s trade in his youth and early manhood, he worked at that
calling in his native land until he was about twenty-five years of age, when he went
to Russia and purchased a smithy, and for three years labored among the Muscovites
at his calling. While there Mr. Eklund was united in marriage with Miss Julia
Paulina Elizabeth Kruger, the ceremony taking place October 13, 1863. The lady, a
daughter of Henry and Louisa Kruger, was born in Russia, July 25, 1843. The same
year Mr. Eklund returned to Sweden, where he worked at his trade for two years more
and then emigrated to the United States in search of a fortune more consonant with
his ideas than was to be found in the Old World. He remained in New York for some
ten months, where he found ample employment at the forge, but at the end of that
time came west and located at St. Paul, where he remained employed as usual until
1868, in which year he came to Meeker county and took a homestead in section 14,
Swede Grove township, on which he made his home for five years. During this time he
erected a blacksmith shop in the village of Grove City, where he now carries on his
trade. Three years later he built his fine residence in the same block as his
smithy, where he now lives.

  Mr. and Mrs. Eklund have been the parents of thirteen children, as follows—
Leontina Louisa, born November 7, 1864, died January 8, 1877; Engelbert, born
September 27, 1866; Amanda Julia, born April 8, 1868; Alga Matilda, born December 4,
1869; Gottlieb Waldimar, born September 22, 1871; Otilia Valeria, born September 3,
1873; Ida Almira, born August 15, 1875, died December 29,1880; Elida Paulina, born
September 25, 1876, died January 16, 1881; Leonhard Eric and Leontina Elizabeth,
twins, born October 27, 1879; the first of whom died February 22, 1881; Arthur Eric,
born June 20, 1881; Hilger Conrad Anton, born June 11, 1883; and Henry Oscar Edwin,
Avbose birth took place October 26, 1885. Amanda J. is married, and with her
husband, Nels S. Strand, is engaged in running a boardinghouse and dining-room at
Helena, Mont.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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