Union County, SD Biographies.....Ericson, Edward C. 1856 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm
************************************************
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com December 29, 2007, 10:00 pm

Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

HON. EDWARD C. ERICSON, a leading and prominent attorney-at-law of the city of
Elk Point, is a native of the Scandinavian peninsula and was born in 1856 in
Sweden. He is a son of Eric and Johannah (Norden) Ericson, also natives of
Sweden, Mr. Ericson died in the old country in 1859, and his wife and two sons
emigrated to America in 1865 and settled in New York city. Eric, the younger
son, is now a resident of Union county, and a representative farmer of Big
Springs township.

   Edward, the subject of this sketch, attended the public schools of New York
and Brooklyn and then entered the New York Free academy, and later on the
College of the City of New York. Fie left college in 1874 and came to Union
county, Dak, Ter., and for a while taught school and farmed till 1879, when he
took up the reading of law in the office of Alexander Hughes, at Elk Point. He
was admitted to the bar in 1881, and in company with Mr. Hughes, under the firm
name of Hughes & Ericson, practiced for two years, when, in 1883, Mr. Hughes
moved to Bismarck, N. Dak., having been appointed attorney-general. Since then
our subject has been alone in active practice of his profession.

   Mr. Ericson is a Republican in politics, and has served in various political
offices. He was a member of the legislature during the sessions of 1886-7 and
1889-90, and in 1892 was a delegate to the Republican national convention. He
was also elected mayor of the city of Elk Point, in which capacity he served for
one term, and has been on the board of regents when the present states of South
Dakota and North Dakota were one territory. He has taken an active interest in
all the public affairs of the locality, and has labored industriously for the
improvement and upbuilding of the community's resources. He has a pleasant home
on the main street of Elk Point, ably conducted by his estimable wife. Mr.
Ericson was united in marriage in 1881 to Miss Sylvia A. Hayes, a native of
Wisconsin and a daughter of Benjamin and Phoebe Hayes, and they are the parents
of three children, viz.: Harry F., Nellie H. and Florence S. He is a member of
the A. O. U. W. society, and the family are members of the Congregational
church, of which he is trustee.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sd/union/bios/ericson248gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/sdfiles/

File size: 3.6 Kb