Albert Anderson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 977-978 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) 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://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm


				ALBERT ANDERSON. 

	It requires special ability to be a successful hotel proprietor. 
In addition to the business qualifications necessary in conducting the 
financial interests there must be tact, patience and courtesy 
manifested in contact with patrons and an unfailing good humor which 
will smooth out all unpleasantness. Possessing all of these requisite 
qualifications, Albert Anderson has made for himself a most creditable 
name and place as a popular hotel man of the northwest and is today 
proprietor of the Hotel Albert of Sioux Falls, a most modern hostelry 
which would be a credit to a city of much larger size. He was born near 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 23, 1872, his parents being Paul G. and 
Anna Anderson. The family afterward removed to Iowa in 1879, settling 
in Forest City, where Albert Anderson acquired his early education in 
the common schools. He was one of a family of several children, having 
four brothers: Bliss, now living in Marshalltown, Iowa; Victor, a hotel 
man of Detroit, Minnesota; Stanley, who is located in Burlington, Iowa; 
and Edward, located at Detroit, Minnesota. The father was well known 
for a number of years as a hotel proprietor at Sioux Falls, in which 
city he passed away in 1908. 

	Albert Anderson entered the workaday world when he joined his 
father in the conduct of a general mercantile business at Forest City, 
Iowa. They afterward erected the Hotel Anderson at Mason City, Iowa, 
also Hotel Anderson at Forest City, Iowa, and Albert remained there for 
a year. Later he worked in the capacity of chef in hotels throughout 
the United States, including Chicago, New York and San Francisco. In 
1907 he joined his father, who had established the Anderson Hotel at 
Sioux Falls, and purchased an interest in the business. He also ran the 
Teton Hotel for five years and built Hotel Albert, which was opened on 
the 1st of January, 1913. This hostelry contains eighty rooms, fifty 
with bath, is of fireproof construction and strictly modern in all of 
its equipments and accessories. It is situated at the corner of Sixth 
and Phillips streets and already the patronage has become of such 
extent that Mr. Anderson is planning to enlarge it. He has introduced 
new ideas for the comfort of his guests and broad experience and 
capability have made him one of the well known hotel men of this 
section of the country. 

	When in San Francisco, in 1900, Mr. Anderson was united in 
marriage to Miss Natalie Peterson and they have three children: Edna 
and Harold, aged respectively twelve and ten years and now in school in 
Sioux Falls; and Dorothy, three years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are 
prominent socially and have a wide circle of friends in the city in 
which they now make their home.