James C. Andersen Biography


	This biography appears on page 775 in "History of Dakota 
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				JAMES C. ANDERSEN. 

	James C. Andersen owns and operates a farm of three hundred and 
twenty acres on sections 19 and 20, Red Rock township, Minnehaha 
county, and in the conduct of his agricultural interests has met with 
excellent success. His birth occurred in Denmark on the 13th of August, 
1873, his parents being Christen and Karen Andersen. The father, a 
farmer by occupation, still survives. 

	James C. Andersen attended the common schools of his native land 
in the acquirement of an education and after putting aside his text-
books assisted his father in the work of the home farm for three years. 
On the expiration of that period he emigrated to the United States and 
on the 7th of June, 1893, took up his abode in Sioux City, Iowa. At the 
end of ten years he purchased a quarter section of land in that state 
and there devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits with good 
success until February, 1910, when he disposed of his property and came 
to South Dakota. He made his way to Minnehaha county and bought the 
farm of three hundred and twenty acres on which he now resides, 
purchasing a quarter of section 19 and a quarter of section 20, Red 
Rock township. The well tilled fields annually yield golden harvests in 
return for the care and labor which he bestows upon them and he also 
devotes considerable attention to live stock, feeding forty head of 
cattle and seventy-five head of hogs. 

	In 1908 Mr. Andersen was united in marriage to Miss Hilma 
Swenson, a daughter of Nels and Christina Swenson. They have two 
children, Clarence and Mervin. Mr. Andersen gives his political 
allegiance to the republican party and is a Lutheran in religious 
faith. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to 
establish his home in the new world, for through the wise utilization 
of the opportunities here afforded he has gained a gratifying measure 
of prosperity and at the same time has won and held the respect and 
esteem of his neighbors.