Crook County WY Archives Biographies.....Erickson, August 
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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

AUGUST ERICKSON.

   Every land has contributed of its best and most serviceable elements to build
up and develop the great Northwest of the United States, and from none has come
a more thrifty, more industrious, more law-abiding or more progressive people
than from the land of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles the Twelfth, the land of
manly spirit and intellectual progress, the land of frugality and industry, fair
Sweden that basks in the radiance of the midnight sun. Among those of our
citizens of Swedish nativity August Erickson, of near Inyankara, a prosperous
and progressive farmer and stockman on Canyon Springs Prairie, twenty miles
south of Sundance, has made a lasting impression on the community in which he
lives and secured a firm hold on the esteem and confidence of its people. He was
born at Stockholm, Sweden, on November 8, 1857, the son of Lars Erickson, and
lost his mother by death when he was but a child. He remained with his father
until he was fourteen years old, attending school and learning what he could of
men and life by observation, at that age being apprenticed to a stonemason of
Stockholm, and after reaching his majority worked at the trade there for
fourteen years. In 1892 he came to America, and after making a visit to his
brother in Kansas and working at his trade for a short time in Kansas City,
removed to Wyoming, where he was employed as a mason by Kilpatrick Bros. &
Collins for a year and a half. He then settled at Inyankara and worked at his
trade in that vicinity until 1895 when he took up the ranch on which he now
lives and conducts a profitable enterprise in farming and raising stock, and
here Mr. Erickson has not only redeemed a goodly portion of the virgin soil of
Wyoming from its wild condition and making it to smile with the white harvests
of peace and plenty, but has given an example of sterling manhood, zealous
industry and fidelity to duty which has made him a potential force for good in
the community. he was married on March 3, 1883, at Stockholm, Sweden, with Miss
Annie Johnson, also a native of Sweden, where for generations her forefathers
were among the productive elements of a progressive civilization. Four children
have blessed their union, Eric, August, Oscar and Louis. The family render
allegiance to the Lutheran church in religious affiliation and in politics Mr.
Erickson is an unfaltering Democrat.


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PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

ILLUSTRATED

A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
generations.—.MACAULAY.

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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