Dickinson Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and
Biographical Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and
Marion Counties-L. O. Jaderborg
Portrait and Biographical
Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and Marion
Counties
Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1893
L. O. JADERBORG, a leading and influential
Swedish farmer residing on section 14,
Center Township, Dickinson County, is a
native of Sweden, his birth having occurred on
the 28th of January, 1829, in that country. The
days of his boyhood and youth were there passed,
and in 1855, when twenty-six years of age, he
crossed the Atlantic to America. For fourteen
years he followed the blacksmith's trade in Illinois,
and fur two and a-half years during the war was
thus employed by the Government at Ft. Smith
and Helena, Ark., and at Ft. Scott, Kan.
In 1866, Mr. Jaderborg located upon the farm
which is yet his home. He had pre-empted the land
in 1858, and purchased it the following year. At
that time Augustus Packard was the only resident
of the township. During the past twenty-six years
our subject has given his entire time and attention
to agricultural pursuits and success has attended his
untiring and systematic efforts. He owns three
hundred and twenty acres of bottom land, five hundred
and sixty acres of prairie land, and another
one hundred and sixty acres near the Hiawatha
Lutheran Church, making one thousand and forty
acres in all. He has himself improved all these
farms, but the greater part of his land he has now
rented, retaining only a small portion for his own
use. Upon the farm where he resides he has a fine
orchard of ten acres. He is extensively engaged in
raising cattle, horses and hogs, feeding about one
hundred of the last-named.
On the 31st of August, 1871, Mr. Jaderborg
married Miss Matilda Prince, a native of Sweden,
and unto them have been born three children:
Julia Ann Martha, seventeen years of age; Turk,
who is fourteen years of age; and Lydia, a little
maiden of seven summers. The parents are both
members of the Swedish Lutheran Church at Swenson
Creek, and in his political affiliations, our subject
is a Republican but has never sought public
office, preferring to devote his time to his business
interests, in which he has met with signal success.
Mr. Jaderborg is the founder of the large Swedish
settlement in Center Township, consisting of many
of Dickinson Counter's most progressive and enterprising
agriculturists. He is recognized as their
leader and the father of the community, and his
influence is ever exerted for the best interests of
the town and county. His own life is an example
well worthy of emulation. He takes an active interest
in educational matters and everything pertaining
to the general welfare. Much of the care
and labor of former years he has now laid aside and
is enjoying the reward which years of honest toil
have brought him. With his pleasant family he
resides in his handsome stone residence, which
stands near the banks of a beautiful shaded lake
where once the Smoky Hill River flowed and where
fish and game abound. We are pleased to present
to our readers this brief sketch of so worthy a gentleman
as L. O. Jaderborg.
(c) 2009 Sheryl McClure for
Dickinson County KS AHGP