Saline County Bios
"Portrait and Biographical Record of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and Marion Counties," 1893
OLOF ANDERSON is the owner of a farm on section 34,
Smolan Township, Saline County. His birth
occurred April 13, 1840, in
Sweden. He was reared to manhood on a farm
in his native country, living there until 1864,
when he went to Denmark, remaining there for
two years. He served in the capacity of foreman
on a large farm during that time. In 1866, he
emigrated to America, and for three years engaged
in making agricultural implements in Chicago
Ill. In August, 1869, he came to Saline County,
Kan., and pre-empted one hundred and sixty
acres of land on section 34, Smolan Township.
He also purchased one hundred and sixty acres
on section 27, but settled on section 34, where he
has since resided with the exception of about a
year and a-half spent in Salina, where he was engaged in the lumber business. He has made his
chief business in life the carrying on of agricultural pursuits. At present, he is the owner of one
hundred and twenty acres of land, which is under
a high state of cultivation, and on which he has
erected a pleasant home and various necessary
farm buildings.
The marriage of Mr. Anderson was celebrated
in Chicago, on the 15th of November, 1868, Miss
Wilhelmina Lundburg being the lady of his choice.
She is a native of Sweden, her birth having occurred March 20, 1847. To Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson have been born eleven children: Rudolph,
Alfred, David, Emma, August, Edward, Elna,
Minnie, Theo and Frances. One child died in
infancy.
Mr. Anderson has been School Clerk and Township Clerk, and also Justice of the Peace. He has
discharged the duties of these offices with fidelity
and good judgment, and is recognized as a public-spirited and influential citizen. Politically, the
Republican party has his support and sympathy.
Our subject and his wife are members of the
Evangelical Swedish Mission Church, and in all
church work they take an active interest. Their
home and family are very pleasant and hospitable,
and they number many friends in this vicinity.
Personally, Mr. Anderson is a very pleasant, genial
man, and has won his measure of success through
his own well-directed and industrious methods.
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