Henry B. Anderson Biography This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography, including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 293-294 Scan, OCR and editing by Maurice Krueger,mkrueger@iw.net, 1998. 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 HENRY B. ANDERSON, county auditor of Davison county, is one of the many citizens of central South Dakota who have attained success, and whose career has been marked with energy, prudence and persistent effort. His well-directed labors have resulted in the attainment of a good farm in Tobin township, on which he has placed those improvements and home comforts which make life enjoyable. Mr. Anderson is a native of Vexjou, Sweden, his natal day being September 15, 1859. He is the second in the order of birth of a family of three children, and was quite young when his mother died. By his father's second marriage he was practically thrown upon his own resources, and, in fact, contributed to the support of the second family of children, of whom there were five. When eleven years of age he came to America, and most of his education was obtained coring the winter months of the first few years he spent in America, working for his. board and attending school. Before he attained his majority he came into possession, through his own thrift and economy, of a farm of eighty acres of land in Nebraska. This, however, he soon disposed of, and emigrated with his young bride, and made his home on the plains of Dakota, whither his wife's parents had preceded him. He located his present farm in 1883, and now has a well-improved piece of land and a well chosen herd of milch cows, it being his intention to develop a home dairy as soon as he can sink an artesian well. Mr. Anderson has always taken a keen interest in matters pertaining to the local government, is well informed on the topics of the day, and a stanch and enthusiastic supporter of the Republican party. He is a man true to his convictions, is not ashamed to express his belief, and, when satisfied that he is on the right side, will not yield his point even for the sake of friendship. The party of which he has been a lifelong supporter have manifested their confidence in him by intrusting to his care the duties of the offices of assessor, a member of the board of trustees and of county commissioners, the latter of which he held from 1888 to 1891, and in 1898 received the nomination of the Republicans for county auditor of Davison county, and was elected the following November. In 1882 our subject was united in marriage to Miss Ida C. Lindahl, and to this congenial union have been born eight children, six of whom are now living, and the following is a list of their names, in the order of their birth: Hilda L., Annie E., Norman H., deceased; Minnie E., Arthur A., Esther E., Carl E. and Ethel.