Biography of L. Frederickson

	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, 1898. Pages 419-420

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L FREDERICKSON is the proprietor of the Hotel Farrington, the principal 
first-class hotel of Volga, Brookings county, South Dakota, which he 
recently leased. Mr. Frederickson was born at Christiana, Norway, April 
2, 1854. His mother died when he was a child between four and five years 
of age, and his father sent him to board with a family of friends. He 
attended school at Christiana until he was twelve years of age, when the 
family that was keeping him decided to move to America, and the lad 
prevailed on his father to allow him to accompany them. They took 
passage in 1866, in a sailing vessel, and were seven weeks and three 
days making the trip which steamers now make in about six days. While on 
board the ship, the lad amused himself by climbing over the rigging and 
could go aloft as well as an old sailor. They landed at Quebec and went 
from there to Vernon county, Wisconsin, where our subject left the 
family that was paid to keep him and went to live with a man that owned 
a number of horses, which were a great attraction for him, and with this 
man he engaged to work for his board and clothes and remained with him 
about three years and a half. He then went with a minister, Price, who 
gave him one day per week schooling, which, together with his earlier 
schooling, educated him sufficiently to transact any ordinary business. 
He worked for various farmers until he was eighteen years of age, and 
then bought a team of horses and went into the pineries and worked there 
during the winters and during the summers did breaking and teaming, and 
in this way accumulated considerable means.

	At the age of twenty-two years, Mr. Frederickson was united in 
marriage to Miss Mary Tallofson, daughter of Tolf Anderson, a native of 
Norway, and one of the first settlers in Wisconsin. Miss Mary was born 
in Wisconsin, March 4, 1858. He then bought forty acres of land on Coon 
Prairie, settled upon the same and began clearing it and getting it 
ready for cultivation. He soon decided, however, that the farm would be 
too small, and, in the fall of 1877, went to South Dakota and entered a 
claim to a quarter section in Moody county, and returned to Wisconsin. 
The following year he moved to his new home with his team and wagon, 
driving his cattle and sheep, in nineteen days. Soon after arriving he 
purchased a threshing outfit and followed that line of work during the 
threshing seasons for fourteen years. He remained on the claim six 
years, made a number of improvements, and then sold out and moved to 
Kingsbury county. Here he preempted a quarter section farm, broke sixty 
acres, which he cultivated, and also cultivated two hundred acres in 
Moody county, sixty miles from home, making eleven trips during the 
season. About this time Mrs. Frederickson was quite ill, and made two 
trips to Wisconsin to be treated, and the second time died in Wisconsin, 
in the spring of 1884. January 24, 1885, Mr. Frederickson married Anna 
M. Ernest, a native of Denmark, born October 18, 1865. Soon after he 
went to Edmonds county, South Dakota, and built a hotel at Bowdle, and 
operated the same for two years and then sold out and returned to the 
farm. In 1894 he traded the farm for a hotel in Volga.

	To Mr. Frederickson and his first wife were born three children, 
as follows; Hilda, who died between two and three years of age; Anna and 
Henry. His second wife has borne him five children, viz: Alfred; Adolph; 
Hilda, who died at the age of nine months; Hilda and Johnnie. The family 
are all members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Frederickson is a Republican 
and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.