Lewis A. Lindstrom Biography


	This biography appears on pages 243-244 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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			LEWIS A. LINDSTROM.  

	The rapid development of the northwest offers an excellent field 
to the real-estate man, and in that line of business Lewis A. Lindstrom 
is successfully engaged as president of the Lindstrom Investment 
Company of Yankton. With a recognition and utilization of opportunities 
that others have passed heedlessly by, he is working his way upward and 
already occupies an enviable position as an enterprising, progressive 
and prosperous citizen. He was born in Christiana, Norway, on the 28th 
of April, 1879. His father, John Lindstrom, came to the United States 
in the early '80s, settling in Yankton county, South Dakota, where he 
followed farming and stock-raising. At length, having won substantial 
success as the result of his business activity along that line, he 
retired with a comfortable competence and now makes his home in 
Yankton. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Magdalina Larsen, also 
survives and death has never broken into the family circle, which 
includes three sons: Carl M., now living in Nebraska; Lewis A.; and 
Anton E., who is the secretary of the Western Land Company.  

	Lewis A. Lindstrom was but five years of age when brought by his 
parents to the new world. His education was acquired in the public 
schools of Nebraska and Iowa, supplemented by a classical course in 
Yankton College. When his school days were over he went to the Pacific 
coast, where he filled the position of private secretary to the Oregon 
Smelting & Refining Company, a large smelting company, remaining in 
that connection for three years. Later he went to Nevada as secretary 
to the manager of a brokerage company in Goldfield, remaining there 
during the gold excitement at that place. He afterward returned to San 
Francisco, where he had charge of the office for the American 
Multigraph Sales Company for two years. In 1911 he returned to Yankton, 
where he embarked in the real-estate business under the name of the 
Western Land & Securities Company, of which he became the president and 
as such he continues to the present day under the name of The Lindstrom 
investment Company, handling farm properties largely. In this business 
he has been very successful, winning a large clientage. He has brought 
in considerable outside capital and has been largely instrumental in 
exploiting the state's resources in other sections of the country, thus 
inducing many settlers to come to South Dakota. His work has, indeed, 
been beneficial and resultant as well as a source of gratifying success 
to himself.  

	On the 28th of May, 1913, Mr. Lindstrom was united in marriage to 
Miss Ida May Fishbeck, a daughter of Levi and Hattie (Cole) Fishbeck, 
of Yankton county. Her parents came from Wisconsin to this state. Her 
father served as a Union soldier in the Civil war and, being captured, 
was incarcerated for a time in Libby prison. With the exception of this 
period he was on continuous duty with a Wisconsin regiment throughout 
the period of hostilities.  

	Mr. Lindstrom is a member of the Commercial Club and is active in 
its work, recognizing the possibilities before the organization in the 
upbuilding of the city. In politics he is a republican, with 
independent tendencies that manifest themselves in his local ballot. He 
belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and both he and his 
wife are connected with the Rebekah lodge, in which Mrs. Lindstrom is 
most active, having served as president during 1913-14. They belong to 
the Congregational church and their many good qualities have gained for 
them a constantly growing circle of friends in Yankton and that part of 
the state.