BIOGRAPHIES:  August SAHLSTROM, Stockholm, Pepin Co., WI

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AUGUST SAHLSTROM, hardware merchant, Stockholm, commenced about a year
ago here in the hardware business. He came to Stockholm first in 1867
directly from Sweden and followed farming for about three years, then
moved to Chicago and went to manufacturing refrigerators, was burned
out in the great Chicago fire, then went to Pie City in the southwest
part of Missouri, where he remained until about two years ago, when he
returned to Stockholm, Wis. He was born in Amal, Sweden, June 11, 1824,
and afterward lived in Orebeo, Nerike, until he came to the United
States in 1867. He was married Nov. 2, 1842, to Miss Louisa Larson, of
Nerike. They have four children living-Anna Louisa (Mrs. Loeffler),
Lars August, Caroline Sophia, Hans Gustaf.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 706


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