John Carlson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1228-1229 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				JOHN CARLSON. 

	John Carlson owns and operates an attractive and modernly 
equipped farm of two hundred acres in Brandon township, Minnehaha 
county, where he has spent his entire life. His birth occurred on 
section 17, on the 30th of April, 1874, his parents being Jonas and 
Fredericka Carlson. In 1868 the father emigrated from the northern part 
of Sweden to the United States, locating in Illinois, where he spent 
five years. On the expiration of that period, in 1873, he came to 
Minnehaha county, South Dakota, and took up a homestead in Brandon 
township. He subsequently extended the boundaries of his farm by 
purchasing a forty-acre tract and also bought three forty-acre tracts 
of school land, cultivating most of his property and likewise devoting 
considerable attention to his work as a carpenter. His demise occurred 
on the 3d of March, 1895, and his remains were interred in the Mission 
cemetery of Brandon township, the community thus losing one of its 
early and respected pioneer settlers and substantial agriculturists. 

	John Carlson acquired his education in the public schools of this 
state and when not busy with his textbooks assisted his father in the 
work of the home farm, continuing its cultivation when his school days 
were over. He lost his father when twenty-one years of age and then 
started out as an agriculturist on his own account, having since 
devoted his attention to the operation of a farm of two hundred acres 
in Brandon township, in which his mother has a life interest In this 
connection he has won a gratifying measure of prosperity, arid his well 
improved property presents a most attractive appearance. He is a 
stockholder in the farmers, elevator at Corson and the telephone 
company. 

	On the 18th of December, 1901, Mr. Carlson was united in marriage 
to Miss Hilda Nordstrom, a daughter of Jonas and Margaret Nordstrom. 
Her father, who has passed away, was a prominent pioneer agriculturist 
of this state and is mentioned at greater length on another page of 
this work. Our subject and his wife have two children, Elof Eugene and 
Helen Elizabeth, who are ten and eight years of age respectively. 

	Mr. Carlson gives his political allegiance to the republican 
party and has served as a member of the town board, making a most 
commendable record in that connection. His religious faith is indicated 
by his membership in the Lutheran Mission Friends church. In motoring 
he finds much pleasure and recreation. He is public-spirited and 
progressive and is always ready and willing to do his utmost to advance 
the general welfare of the community, having proven to be a most 
desirable citizen in every sense of the word.