Nils Forsberg Biography


	This biography appears on page 676 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

	This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit 
	organizations for their private use. 

	Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval 
	system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other 
	means requires the written approval of the file's author.

      This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside
      a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at

      http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm



	NILS FORSBERG, who occupies the responsible office of treasurer 
of Grant county and who maintains his home in Milbank, the county seat, 
is a representative and highly esteemed citizen of this section of the 
state, while he has exemplified that energy and progressive spirit 
which have brought about so marvelous a transformation in South Dakota 
within the past two decades.  

	Mr. Forsberg is a native of the fair Norseland, though he has 
passed practically his entire life in America. He was born in the 
province of Vermland, Sweden, on the 13th of April, 1860, and is a son 
of Henry Hendricksson and Anna (Gustafsson) Forsberg, while he was but 
two years of age at the time of his father's death, his mother 
subsequently becoming the wife of John Liljeman. In 1872 the family 
came to America and located in Duluth, Minnesota, remaining until 1875, 
when they removed to the vicinity of Rush Point, Chicago county, that 
state, where Mr. Liljeman engaged in farming, and where both he and his 
wife still reside. The subject had attended the schools of his native 
land as a boy, having been about twelve years of age at the time of the 
family emigration to America. After completing the curriculum of the 
public schools he entered Gustavus Adolphus College, at St. Peter, 
Minnesota, though he did not remain to complete the full prescribed 
course. In September, 1887, he came to South Dakota and was thereafter 
successfully engaged in teaching in the public schools of Grant county 
until 1894, having become prominent in the local educational field and 
having attained a high degree of personal popularity in the county. A 
stanch Republican in his political proclivities, he was then, in the 
fall of 1894, made the nominee of his party for the office of county 
auditor, to which he was elected by a gratifying majority. Giving an 
admirable administration he was chosen as his own successor in 1896 so 
that he remained in tenure of the office four consecutive years. He 
thereafter served about two years as deputy county treasurer under J. 
N. Safford and in 1900 was elected treasurer of the county, in  which 
capacity he showed much discrimination and ability in the handling of 
the fiscal affairs of his  jurisdiction, while a due mark of popular 
appreciation was that which came in his reelection to the  office, for 
a second term of two years, in the fall of 1902. Mr. Forsberg is 
progressive and public-spirited in his attitude and manifests at all 
times a deep interest in all that touches the  welfare of the county 
and state of his adoption. He and his wife are prominent and active 
members of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran church.  

	In Marshall county, this state on the 10th of October, 1895, was 
solemnized the marriage of Mr. Forsberg to Miss Anna S. Anderson, who 
was likewise born in Sweden, being a daughter of C. J. Anderson, who 
became one of the early and honored pioneers of Marshall county, South 
Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Forsberg have five children, namely: Natalia S., 
Paul G., Wilhelm E. Carl G. and Florence.