Biography of G. W. Anderson

	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. Page 294.

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HON. G. W. ANDERSON, one of the well-to-do and enterprising farmers of 
Kingsbury county, South Dakota, whose farm is situated in section 32, 
Manchester township, is one of the prominent public men of eastern 
South Dakota. He was born in Sweden, November 24, 1853. His father, 
Henry Anderson, was born in 1819 and died March 8, 1897, at his home 
near the village of Manchester. His mother, whose maiden name was Miss 
Anna Luckberg, is also a native of Sweden and is now living in 
Manchester township.

	Our subject came to America in 1869, and lived about eighteen 
months in Chicago. In the fall of 1870 he moved to Houston county, 
Minnesota, with his parents, and there worked on a farm and attended 
school. In the fall of 1871 he returned to Chicago for two years, and 
then went back to Minnesota, and there he followed the vocation of a 
farmer until the fall of 1878, when he went to Brookings county, South 
Dakota. The following spring he moved to Kingsbury county and filed a 
tree claim to the southeast quarter of section 30, and pre-empted the 
northwest of section 32, Manchester township, both of which he still 
owns. Mr. Anderson is a man of much energy, and is a wide-awake and 
thoroughgoing business man, who, whatever line of work he may engage 
in, devotes to such task the energy and systematic arrangement that 
brings success. His farm is in a high state of cultivation, and the 
improvements upon it are far above the average.

	April 11, 1875, Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Anna 
Nelson, at Houston, Minnesota. Mrs. Anderson is also a native of 
Sweden, where she was born July 1, 1853.  To this union have been born 
eight children, four sons and four daughters: Alvin B., born January 
14, 1876; George L., February 25, 1880; Otto William, February 14, 
1886; Helen, September 6, 1877; Edith, March 20, 1884; Dorathea, born 
March 24, 1891; and a son and a daughter who died in infancy.

	Politically Mr. Anderson is a Populist, and on that ticket has 
been twice elected a member of the state legislature, and is at present 
serving his second term. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of 
Manchester, in which he holds the office of elder. He is also a member 
of the A. O. U. W. On another page of this work is presented a portrait 
of Mr. Anderson.