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Mikkel Frosig, engaged in the wholesale
grocery and produce business at Wilder, was born in Denmark,
November 27, 1871. He came to the United States in 1897, when
twenty-six years of age, and took up the occupation of farming
in Audubon county, Iowa, where he remained until 1903. He then
removed westward to Dillon, Beaverhead county, Montana, where
he devoted his attention to the dairy business, supplying the
town of Dillon with dairy products for twelve years. He
arrived there in February, 1903, and on the 22d of December,
1915, left that place for California. He did not find what he
considered suitable conditions in California, however, and
went to Washing- ton, where he was equally unsuccessful in
search of a location. He therefore returned to Montana and
spent some time in making a trip through Yellowstone Park,
finally selecting some land in the Teton basin. It was
necessary to go to Boise, Idaho, in order to get the
information necessary for further proceedings in regard to the
land and while in Idaho he found his present location and
decided to remain in this state. He bought eighty acres a mile
and a half from Wilder and has since owned and developed the
property. In 1916, associated with J. C. Jacobson, of Idaho
Falls, he established a wholesale produce business in Wilder,
and in 1919 they extended the scope of their activities by the
establishment of a wholesale grocery department. In order to
house their business they have erected a two-story building,
of which a section forty by forty feet is used for the
wholesale grocery, while the remainder, sixty by forty feet,
is used for the produce business, with the second floor
utilized as a rooming house.
In the fall of 1918 Mr. Frosig disposed of his farm, as
he found it necessary to devote his entire time to his growing
wholesale business. On the 1st of April, 1919, he opened a
retail department and is now enjoying an excellent trade. He
is devoting his entire attention at the present time to the
grocery and provision business. When he arrived in Wilder in
1916 the town was very small, but owing to climatic conditions
and the nature of the soil here he predicts a great future for
the place. Land that then sold at from fifty to one hundred
and fifty dollars per acre is now selling at from one hundred
to five hundred dollars per acre. Mr. Frosig has met with
substantial success in the conduct of his business, has
erected a handsome bungalow and expects to make Wilder his
future home.
On the 25th of January, 1918. Mr. Frosig was married to
Miss Nina Boiles, of Wilder, and they are the parents of a
daughter, Ina Caren. Mr. Frosig is an energetic and
enterprising business man who readily recognizes and utilizes
opportunities. He has for sixteen years lived in the west and
the spirit of western development and progressiveness finds
expression in his career. What he undertakes he carries
forward to successful completion and he is now one of the
representative business men of Canyon county. |
