Biography of Gustav A. Lindskog

	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 307.

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GUSTAV A. LINDSKOG, one of the successful business men of Brookings 
county and its present sheriff, has been a resident thereof since 1878. 
He was born in Ljungby, Sweden, May 26, 1863, and is a son of Anders and 
Kaysa Peterson, both natives of the same locality. Anders Peterson was a 
dealer in real estate and also bought and sold horses and other live 
stock. In 1871 he moved with his family to America and located at 
Mankato, Minnesota, and in 1878 came to Brookings county, South Dakota, 
where he died in 1885 at the age of seventy-two years. He was an 
intelligent and progressive citizen and filled public positions in his 
native country. After coming to America he lived a life of retirement. 
His faithful wife died at Mankato, Minnesota, in 1877, at the age of 
fifty-five years.

	Gustav A. Lindskog, the subject of this sketch, received his 
education in the public school at Mankato and the C. C. Curtis Business 
college at St. Paul, Minnesota. At the age of twelve years he began work 
on the construction of the C., St. P., M. & O. railroad, and has been 
employed in a similar manner much of the time since. In 1885 he took a 
contract on the line of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad between 
Brookings and Castlewood, and has filled other contracts for that 
company. He has also filled contracts for the Illinois Central and the 
Great Northern railroads, and has built portions of the latter road as 
far west as the Rocky mountains. In the fall of 1894 he was elected 
sheriff of Brookings county and re-elected in 1896, the duties of that 
office now occupying the most of his time. He also owns a section of 
farm land in Oakwood township which he rents.

	Our subject was united in marriage in 1894  to Miss Nellie Brown, 
daughter of Frank Brown, of Des Moines, Iowa, now of Council Bluffs, 
Iowa. She was born near Kasson, Minnesota. Fraternally Mr. Lindskog 
affiliates with the I. O. O. F.. Iocal lodge, the Modern Woodmen of 
America, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen; while he and his wife 
are both members of the Rebeccas and the Degree of Honor. Mr. Lindskog 
was reared in the Lutheran faith, but Mrs. Lindskog is a Methodist.