Biography of Oliver E. 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. Pages 366-367

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OLIVER E. ANDERSON, an influential and popular citizen of Castlewood, is 
the auditor of Hamlin county. He was born on a farm near Highland, 
Fillmore county, Minnesota, February 20, 1868. His father, Martin 
Anderson, was born in Norway and migrated to America in an early day. He 
lived for a short time near Beloit, Wisconsin, and removed from there to 
Fillmore county, Minnesota, settling near Lanesboro, where he still 
lives on the farm he bought at the time of his settlement there. He was 
married in Wisconsin to Miss Bertha Dicken, a native of Norway, who was 
born in 1841 and died in Minnesota in 1881. To this union was born 
eleven children, of whom our subject is the sixth. The father 
subsequently married Mary Leverson, and three daughters have been born 
to them.

	Oliver E. Anderson, the subject of this sketch, lived with his 
parents until he was eighteen years of age. In 1886 he went to Hamlin 
county, South Dakota, where his first position was that of deputy 
postmaster at Estelline. He remained there but a short time, however, 
until he was appointed deputy county treasurer, which position he held 
for five years. He then became bookkeeper in the Merchants Bank at 
Bryant, and was thus engaged for two years. After that he returned to 
Estelline and entered into the real-estate and insurance business, 
continuing the same until the fall of 1896, when he was elected county 
auditor.

	Mr. Anderson was married in DeSoto, Wisconsin, March 16, 1893, to 
Miss Hattie R. Lawrie. Mrs. Anderson was born in St. Lawrence county, 
New York, June 6, 1867, and is a daughter of Walter K. and Delia E. 
Lawrie. To this union have been born two children, Gladys and Bessie, 
the former born in Bryant and the latter in Estelline. Mr. Anderson is a 
Mason and also a member of the Modern Woodmen fraternity. He has an 
excellent business education and well equipped for the battle of life. 
Although he is still a young man, he has met with marked success in his 
various undertakings and has attained a position of considerable 
prominence, and can justly look forward to a brilliant and successful 
future when his influence and service shall be felt in much larger 
fields.