BIO: John F. EDLUND, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 823 & 824.
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  JOHN F. EDLUND, general merchant, doing a large business at Winburne, 
Clearfield county, Pa., was born in the Province of Dalsland, near the city of 
Wennersburg, Sweden, November 7, 1866, and is a son of Jonas and Sophia 
(Anderson) Edlund.
  The parents of Mr. Edlund were natives of Sweden, where the father was born 
March 21, 1842, and the mother, in 1841.  The paternal grandfather of Mr. Edlund 
was a soldier in the Swedish army and died in 1892.  His widow still survives 
and is now in her ninety-seventh year.  Mr. Edlund has the following brothers 
and sisters:  Christina, who is the wife of August Levin, of Glen Richey, 
Clearfield county; Mary, who is the wife of Gustav Carson, of Winburne; Anders 
Gustav, who lives at Patton, Pa.; Anna, who is the wife of Oscar Frid, a 
railroad man, in Sweden; and Augusta, who is the wife of Otto Thorwaldson, who 
is a stone-cutter and farmer, living at Prestbacka, Norway.
  John F. Edlund attended school in Sweden until he was fourteen years of age 
and then engaged in cutting timber and farming.  On May 28, 1888, he came to 
Peale Station, Clearfield county, Pa., and worked in the mines at Winburne and 
Munson, and several months for Jones & Company, and later in a saw-mill at 
Ford's Run.  After being in the United States for four years he returned to 
Sweden, in March, 1892, where he remained until the following October, when he 
returned, accompanied by his wife, and resided at Winburne working in the mines 
for Somerville & Co., until 1901, when he embarked in the mercantile business.  
He was associated with E. L. Graham for two years but later sold his interest to 
the Central Trading Company and was employed by the same until 1906, when he re-
embarked in the mercantile business in partnership with A. G. Anderson.  
Subsequently Mr. Edlund bought Mr. Anderson's interest, the latter returning to 
Rostock, Sweden.  Since then Mr. Edlund has carried on his business alone and 
through honest methods and careful attention has prospered and now is numbered 
with the reliable and substantial business men of the place.  He stands high in 
the estimation of every one and in the honorable way in which he has managed the 
small estate belonging to the three orphan children of a sister, exemplifies his 
trustworthiness.  He has reared these children together with his own large 
family, has cared for and improved their property and has never asked any 
remuneration.
  Mr. Edlund married a daughter of Anders and Christiana (Handsdotter) Jansen, 
the latter of whom still lives at Rostock, Sweden.  Mr. and Mrs. Edlund have had 
eight children:  Ellen V., who is a student in the Winburne High School; John 
Albert, who is also in the High School; Arthur Wilhelm; Anna Elizabeth, and four 
who are deceased.  Mr. Edlund and family belong to the Swedish Lutheran church.  
He is identified with Winburne Lodge, No. 164, Odd Fellows, and with the Benefit 
Association of Boston, belonging to this fraternity.  Mr. Edlund is a sensible, 
far-seeing man and has provided for the future through a substantial life 
insurance policy.  His wife and thee children are leaving, May 22, 1911, for a 
visit to Sweden and other parts of Europe.