Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Lawson, Andrew O. 1855 - 
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   ANDREW O. LAWSON, senior member of the general merchandise firm of A. O. Lawson &
Co., one of the leading merchants of Grove City, was born in Sweden, November 3,
1855, and is the son of Lasse and Christina Ostradson. In 1872 he crossed the ocean
in search of fortune and happiness, and for a time was engaged in taking care of and
driving the carriage horses of a business man in Minneapolis. During the summer of
that year he came to Acton township and worked in the harvest fields of this
locality, and spent the following winter here in attending school. In the spring he
returned to Minneapolis, where he was variously employed for some two years.
Returning to Meeker county he entered the employ of Peter E. Hanson, with whom he
remained five years. In the spring of 1881, in company with O. H. Peterson, he
started in the grocery trade in Grove City, but sold out to his partner in the fall,
and made a trip to the home of his boyhood, and returning in the spring he again
engaged with P. E. Hanson in the real estate business, where he remained some two
years. About that time the present firm of A. O. Lawson & Co. was formed between him
and T. G. Forster, since which time they have been engaged in this line.

   Mr. Lawson was united in marriage, October 16, 1884, with Miss Betsey Larson, the
daughter of Ole Larson, of this county, and they have been the parents of two
children — Cora, born September 7, 1885; and Josephine, whose birth occurred
February 25, 1887.

   In his political views Mr. Lawson is entirely independent of party lines,
preferring to cast his ballot for the best men or the best measures, irrespective of
political platforms or dictates.


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Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888

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