Biographies:  Per Erik PERSSON , Stockholm, Pepin Co., WI

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Chuck Miller <chuck_miller@hotmail.com> 20 September 1999

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PER ERIK PERSSON (LINDER) was born in the Lindesberg parish of Örebro län 
(county), Sweden on September 30, 1830 and he was one of ten children born 
to Petter Persson Skans and Christina Andersdotter, both of Lindesberg 
parish. On June 22, 1854 he married Anna Lovisa Andersdotter in Gusselhyttan, 
Lindesberg parish. To this marriage nine children were born, Carl Erick; 
Anders Gustaf; Johanna Lovisa; Johan August; Albert Eddie; Amelia Lovisa, 
wife of Carl Victor Wahlstrom; Hilma, wife of Alfred Johnson; Edward; and 
Alma, wife of William Runkle. On August 21, 1865 after the birth of their 
first 4 children, the family immigrated from Sweden to settle in the 
Stockholm, Pepin county, Wisconsin area. After the family came to America, 
Per Erik Persson changed his last name to reflect his Swedish home and so 
he became Per Erik Linder (also known as Peter Eric Linder). Apparently the 
new world and fertile land appealed to him and was probably reflected in his 
communication home since his brothers, Adam and Johannes (John) immigrated 
in 1869 from Sweden to join him. Sometime after the 1865 immigration and 
before the 1870 Federal census, the Linder family suffered the loss of two 
of their children, Johanna and Johan. When the family first arrived, they 
were listed as being members of the Säbylund Lutheran Church in Stockholm, 
Wisconsin and later they are listed as members of the Lund Mission Covenant 
Church in Lund, Wisconsin (a short distance out of Stockholm, WI). During 
his life, he worked as a farmer starting with 80 acres and eventually 
increasing the farm to 120 acres. In 1898, Per Erik Linder died and he was 
buried in the cemetery at the Lund Mission Covenant Church. His wife, Anna 
Lovisa died on October 21, 1913 and she was buried in the cemetery at the 
Lund Mission Covenant Church. So together they now sleep, side by side in 
the area that they helped settle and one of the most beautiful regions of 
the world, Pepin county, Wisconsin.  

--Written by Chuck Miller