Bio of John O. ANDERSON (b.1878), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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JOHN O. ANDERSON (1878)

John O. Anderson is a farmer and stock raiser of Sioux Agency township.  He
is the owner of 120 acres of land on sections 13 and 24.

Mr. Anderson has spent his entire life in Sioux Agency township.  He was
born on the farm on section 13 June 26, 1878, the son of pioneers of the
county.  He was educated in the district school and until 1901 lived with
his parents.  Then he bought his present farm, which at the time was without
buildings, grove, or other improvements, and he has since been engaged in
farming for himself.  For three years Mr. Anderson was a director of the
school district No. 93, and he is a member of Rock Valley Norwegian Lutheran
church.

The marriage of Mr. Anderson to Alma Peterson occurred in Sioux Agency
township October 3, 1900.  Mrs. Anderson is the daughter of Mathias
Peterson, of the same township, and she was born in Wisconsin June 19, 1884.
Their five children are as follows:  Owen, born September 27, 1902; Morris,
born March 10, 1904; Irene, born April 6, 1906; Bernice, born August 28,
1909; and Alice, born March 21, 1912.

Ole Anderson, the father of the subject of this review, is one of the very
oldest pioneers of Yellow Medicine county and still makes his home on the
farm he purchased from the government over forty-six years ago, a record of
continuous residence on one farm equaled by few, if any, residents of the
county.

Ole Anderson was born in Norway, March 25, 1828, the son of Andreas and
Rachel Anderson.  Until thirty-two years of age he lived in his native land,
working on farms during the summer months and engaged in deep sea fishing
during the winter seasons.  He came to America in 1861 and for the next six
years lived in Adams county, Wisconsin, working at farm labor and farming
for himself.

In July, 1867, Ole Anderson, accompanied by a party of Norwegians who
located in Yellow Medicine county, drove through with ox teams from Adams
county.  Mr. Anderson purchased his present farm from the government at that
time for $2.00 an acres.  The first winter he and his family lived in a sod
shanty and then he erected the log house in which he has ever since resided.

Ole Anderson has been married twice.  His second marriage occurred in Sioux
Agency township in 1873, when he wedded Christina Iverson.  She was born in
Norway, came to the United States when twelve years old, and to Yellow
Medicine county in 1867.

By his first marriage Mr. Anderson is the father of six children: Andrew of
Sioux Agency township; Johanna, of Willmar; Iver, of Sioux Agency; Rachel,
of Canada; Tom, of Porter; and Christ, of Sioux Agency.  The three children
of the second marriage are Tennes, who resides at home; John, a farmer of
Sioux Agency; and Julia of North Dakota.