Bio of CARLSON, Carl M. (b.1855), Wright Co., MN
(Partial bio)
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376           HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

Carl M. Carlson, president of the Cokato Canning Company, was born in 
Sweden, September 21, 1855, son of Carl and Cajsa (Bergman) Carlson. 
Carl Carlson, the father, brought the family to the United States in 1859, 
and settled at Marine Mills, Washington county, this state. In 1867 he 
brought the family to Wright county and located a mile south of Stockholm, 
in Stockholm township. He secured a tract of eighty acres, erected a log 
building, and with the ox team that he had brought with him started to clear 
the land. He was one of the real founders of the township. He was one of 
the three men who named the town, and served the town as clerk and as 
justice. He also assisted in organizing the Stockholm church. He died in 
1882 at the age of sixty-five. His wife died in 1905 at the age of ninety. 
Their children were Carl M., Louisa, Caroline and Mary. Carl M. Carlson 
was brought to Wright county as a boy. In 1888 he came to Cokato, and 
operated the Western Hotel for twenty-five years. At the end of that period 
he retired from the arduous