BIOGRAPHIES: Charles H. ANDERSON, Lincoln Township, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Charles H. Anderson (index says Andreson), whose well cultivated farm of 
230 acres is located in sections 26 and 35, Lincoln Township, was born in 
Dane County, Wisconsin, Dec. 15, 1865.  He is a son of Bennett and Ellen 
(Everson) Anderson and is of Norwegian ancestry.  His grandfather, Gilbert, 
married Inger Flategar.  Gilbert had consideralbe property in Norway and 
during a famine gave it all away to feed the starving.  His mother, aged 80 
years, had a life interest in the old home, and this she sold to provide her 
son Gilbert and his family with funds to come to America.  They reached 
Milwaukee with no money and this aged lady walked from Milwaukee to Dane 
County, Wisconsin, with the family and the ox team.  Bennett Anderson, father 
of Charles H., was reared in Dane County and there married Ellen Everson.  
After living in Dane County until 1868 he homesteaded land in Arcadia 
Township, which was his home until his death.  He and his wife had nine 
children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth.  
Charles H. Anderson lived on the old home in Arcadia Township till 1887.  He 
then went to Yellowstone Valley in Montana, where he worked at railroad 
construction work for eight years.  Then in the summer of 1896 he bought his 
present farm, which is a well improved piece of agricultural property.  He 
raises Shorthorn cattle, keeping 50 head, and keeps 40 acres of land in 
clover and timothy.  Mr. Anderson has served six years on the township board, 
during three years of which he has been chairman.  He was married April 14, 
1897, to Mrs. Marian Skaug (nee Wald), widow of Christopher Skaug, of Unity, 
Wis.  They have had 11 children, of whom three -- Charles, Omer and Rudolph 
R. -- died in infancy.  The living are:  Blanche, Laura, Jane, Julia, Eleanor, 
Myrtle, Casper and Doris.  Mr. Anderson is a member of the Synod Norwegian 
Lutheran Church.

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917", page 623