Charles J. Anderberg Biography


	This biography appears on pages 347-348 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				CHARLES J. ANDERBERG. 

	Charles J. Anderberg, residing on section 33, Taopi township, is 
one of the successful and substantial agriculturists of Minnehaha 
county. His birth occurred in Sweden on the 21st of May, 1858, his 
parents being John and Christine (Nicholas) Anderberg, likewise natives 
of that country, who emigrated to the United States in 1870. They took 
up their abode in Chicago, Illinois, where the father worked at the 
painter's trade until 1878, when he went to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 
Four or five years later he purchased and removed to a farm in Grand 
Meadow township, Minnehaha county, which he still owned at the time of 
his death, which took place in June, 1915, when he was in his eighty-
third year. He was widely and favorably known throughout the county 
which had been his home for a period of about thirty seven years. 

	Charles J. Anderberg, who was a youth of twelve years when his 
parents came to this country and located in Chicago, attended the 
public schools of that city. When fifteen or sixteen years of age he 
began an apprenticeship at the painter's trade and after completing his 
term of indenture worked as a journeyman painter in Chicago until the 
spring of 1879. At that time he removed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 
where he opened a shop and was engaged in business as a contractor and 
painter for about nine years. Soon after coming to this state and after 
attaining his majority he filed on his present homestead in Taopi 
township, on which he made the required improvements. He did not take 
up his abode thereon until 1888 but since that time has been 
continuously and successfully engaged in the operation of the farm. He 
gives his place careful personal supervision and always follows the 
best and most modern agricultural methods. 

	On the 2d of July, 1884, Mr. Anderberg was united in marriage to 
Miss Lena Brakke, a sister of C. S. Brakke, who is president of the 
Farmers State Bank in Flandreau, South Dakota. To our subject and his 
wife have been born nine children, eight of whom still survive, as 
follows: Alfred N., who is a homesteader in Montana; Della May, who is 
the wife of P. C. Petersen, a farmer of Moody county, South Dakota; 
Edith Luella, who attended the Madison State Normal School and Sioux 
Falls College and who now follows the profession of teaching in 
Montana, where she is proving up on a homestead; Linda Teresa, who also 
attended the Madison State Normal School and Sioux Falls College and 
who is now a teacher and is proving up on a homestead in Montana; Mabel 
Caroline, who was educated in the Madison State Normal School of 
Madison, South Dakota, and who is now a teacher in the district schools 
and lives at home; Fern Myrtle, who is now in the sophomore year in the 
Sioux Falls high school; Pearl Amy, who is in the junior year in high 
school; and Clifford, at home. In his political views Mr. Anderberg is 
independent, supporting men and measures rather than party. The period 
of his residence in Minnehaha county covers thirty six years and he is 
well entitled to representation among its prosperous agriculturists and 
esteemed citizens.