BIOGRAPHIES:  Carl J. ANDERSON, Cumberland Township, Barron Co., WI

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Carl J. Anderson, one of the most active and useful of the early settlers
of Cumberland Township, was born in Sweden Aug. 6, 1853, the son of Anders
and Louisa (Carlson) Jacobson, natives of that country, who came to America
in 1888 and spent the remainder of their lives with Carl J., the father
dying in 1917 and the mother in 1907. The children in the family were:
Bridget and Louisa, still in Norway, where the family moved in 1867;.
Jacob, deceased, and Carl J. Carl J. was reared in Sweden, did a little
farm work, and worked in the woods with his father. He came to America in
1881 and found his way to Cumberland, where he arrived September 5. For a
short time he worked in the mill for Anderson & Benson, and then, as the
result of his experience in Norway, secured work as manager of one of the
Knapp, Stout & Co. lumber yards. In the fall of 1882 he bought 80 acres of
land in Section 2, Cumberland Township, and settled there. The tract was
all wild land and partly covered with heavy timber. He put up a set of log
buildings and started clearing the land. For a time conditions were hard
and hardships were many. The severest kind of toil was required to get
things started. Mr. Anderson had the greatest faith in the future of the
township and was one of the most vigorous in assisting in its progress. He
pursuaded settlers to locate here, he made a home for them until they could
get located, he helped them put up their houses, and encouraged them in
other ways. He built roads and, in fact, did everything to help make this a
prosperous, settled community of desirable surroundings. As the years
passed he became one of the leading men of the community. He replaced the
log structures with a good set of frame buildings, he cleared up his land,
erected fences and purchased equipment. Here he continues to successfully
carry on general farming and dairying. He is a stockholder in the Star
cheese factory and the McKinley Telephone Co. He is esteemed, honored and
respected, and his name is inseparably interwoven into the warp and woof of
the history of Cumberland Township. Mr. Anderson was married in Norway Dec.
26, 1880, to Bergeta Elizabeth Peterson, who was born in that country Nov.
11, 1850, the daughter of Peter and Bertha (Larsdatter) Nelson, both now
deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson adopted a bright boy, Carolius, who was
born in 1895. During the World War he served in Company A, 36th Infantry,
74th Division. He is now in the Medical Corps of the regular army and is
stationed at Fort Logan, in Colorado.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 305.


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