Biographies:  Andrew ANDERSON, Barron Twp., Barron Co., WI 

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Andrew Anderson was born in Vermland, Sweden, Sept. 13, 1865, the son of
Andrew and Marie Anderson, the former of whom is dead and the latter of whom 
is still living in that county. In the family there were six children: 
Andrew; Karl, of St. Paul; Hilma, deceased; John M., of St. Paul; Marie, of 
Sweden; and Anna, of Sweden.  Andrew came to America in the spring of 1888, 
and first located at Stanton, Minn.  With this beginning he devoted his 
attention to farm work in Wisconsin and Minnesota, working also a few winters 
as a helper in the lumber woods.  In the winters of 1892 and 1893 he was 
employed as a lumberman in Barron county, little dreaming at that time that 
in the future he would be a prosperous farmer here.  On May 12, 1900, he 
bought 80 acres in sections 6 and 7, Barron Township, all wild.  There were 
no buildings on the land, and the only roads connecting it with the outside 
world were the old lumber "tote" roads.  But Mr. Anderson set to work with 
courage, and as the result of hard work has developed a most excellent farm, 
65 acres of which are under the plow, and the remainder in timber land and 
pasture. The place is only five miles northwest of Barron City. The buildings 
are good and the equipment adequate, and Mr. Anderson's farming and dairying 
operations have been most successful. An automobile places the family in easy 
access to all the surrounding towns and villages. Mr. Anderson's fraternal 
relations are with the Modern Woodmen. He is a stockholder in the Barron 
Co-operative Creamery. Mr. Anderson was married Dec. 3, 1889, to Ida C. 
Carlstron, born in Smaaland, Sweden, Dec. 1, 1867, daughter of Swan and
Christine (Carlson) Carlstron. Mrs. Anderson came to America in 1886, and
took up her home with an uncle, Swan Widholm, at Cannon Falls, Goodhue County,
Minn., where she was joined four years later by her father and mother, the
former of whom died Dec. 23, 1906, and the latter, Sept. 21, 1900. In the 
family there were four children: Augusta, now Mrs. August Sundberg, of 
Ogilvie, Minn.; Ida C., now Mrs. Andrew Anderson; Amanda, now Mrs. A. Franzen, 
of Cannon Falls, Minn.; and Oscar, of New Hampton, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. 
Anderson are the parents of four children: Elphie M., born Dec. 10, 1890 
widow of John Stone, of Minneapolis; Alvin H., born April 16, 1894, now of 
Minneapolis; Delmar C., born June 7, 1903; and Viola F., born June 24, 1906. 
The family adheres to the Swedish Lutheran Church, in which faith the parents 
were reared.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 129.