Bio of Carl EKMAN (b.1851), Ramsey Co., MN

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Carl Ekman (Swedish-Americans of Minnesota (1910) by A. E. Strand, 
pp. 768-9, extracts)
The able and popular manager of Svenska Folkets Tidning, Carl Ekman, 
is one of the stalward Swedish-Americans of Minnesota whose strong 
influence has been felt in the advancement of the business, good 
politics and high-toned journalism of the state. ... He was born in 
Vexio, Sweden, on the 25th of October, 1851, the second child in a 
family of eight sons and one daughter. The size of the family and the 
limited income of the parents made a thorough education for any of 
the children an impossibility. ... After obtaining a good elementary 
education he secured a position in a dry goods store of his native 
town, and was already well advanced in business practice and theory 
when the Franco-Prussian war ended and Germany's great industrial 
revival seemed at hand.

Carl Ekman ...set out for Hamburg ... and soon secured a position as 
bookkeeper and Swedish correspondent with a leading wholesale firm of 
that city. [Soon] he was appointed traveling representative for 
northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden; but although the young man 
worked night and day, he was not favored with the assistance of the 
anticipated revival in the general world of business and commerce. 
... In 1879 Mr. Ekman [arrived] in St. Paul the day before 
Thanksgiving and ... secured employment in a dry goods establishment. 
Within two years he entered business of his own together with one of 
his brothers, Henry Ekman. [Carl Ekman] withdrew from the firm in 
1884, and moved to Lindstrom, Chisago County, where he established a 
general merchandise store. ... [T]he day before Christmas eve, 1888, 
he saw the fruits of his nine years of work and self-denial go up in 
smoke and flame.

Soon after ... Mr. Ekman received an appointment in connection with 
the Minnesota legislature, and in 1891 became chief clerk to the 
secretary of state, Colonel Hans Mattson. Two years later he became 
identified in a responsible position with the Minnesota Stat Tidning, 
St. Paul, and since July 1, 1899, has been general manager of Svenska 
Folkets Tidning, Minneapolis. ... Mr. Ekman was appointed director of 
the Board of State Normal Schools by Governor Johnson in 1908.

Mr. Ekman has been twice married -- first June 20, 1883, to Miss 
amanda Wallmark, who died July 20, 1900. On August 27, 1902, he 
wedded Miss anna Charlotta Peters, and of the twelve children borne 
by his two wives ten are living to do him honor. His children are: 
Irene (Mrs. F. A. Smith), born March 30, 1884, Carl N. F., surveyor 
Great Northern Railroad, August 2, 1885, Claes T. S., civil engineer, 
February 22, 1887; Sidney R., clerk, January 1, 1889; Lincoln G., 
Bank clerk, December 16, 1890; Ruth M., December 31, 1892; Roy H. K. 
A., Octrober 24, 1894; Emma E. S. and Edith E. A., twins, April 7, 
1898; and Robert W. C., January 30, 1907.

[note: a further surviving daughter, Helen, was born in 1917. Carl 
Ekman died in St. Paul in 1929 and is buried in Union Cemetery.]