"History of Cottonwood and Watonwan Counties of Minnesota, 1916"



Dr. Carl Cornelius Andersen, a well-known veterinary surgeon, of St. James, is a native of Denmark, born in the city of Elsinore, on the island of Seeland, at the narrowest part of the Sound, the point where for many years the Sound dues were collected and the assumed scene of Shakespeare's tragedy of "Hamlet." Upon completing the course in the Latin school of his home town, he entered the Royal Veterinary College at Copenhagen and was graduated from that institution in 1892. Thus admirably equipped for the practice of his profession, Doctor Andersen came to the United States in that same year and proceeded straightway to Minnesota. After a short stay at St. Paul, he came to this part of the state, arriving at St. James on August 17, 1892, and has ever since made his home in that city.

Upon arriving at St. James, Doctor Anderson opened an office for the practice of his profession and was soon firmly established in practice there, for years having been recognized as one of the leading veterinary surgeons in this part of the state. In 1895, about three years after locating at St. James, Doctor Anderson married and established his home in that city. He has a delightful home in Armstrong Park, in the northern side of the city, and he and his family are pleasantly situated. Doctor Anderson is a Republican and gives a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, but has never been included in the office-seeking class. He is a Mason, a member of Libanus Lodge No. 96, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at St. James; a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and for twenty-two years a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Doctor Anderson stands high in the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He has filled all the chairs in the local aerie of that order and is now department president of that body for the aeries situated in the second congressional district, including the cities of Mankato, Worthington and St. James. He also has served as a delegate to the state conventions of the Eagles and has done much to advance the cause of that order throughout Minnesota. He and his wife are members of the Swedish Lutheran church and they take a proper part in the general good works of the community, ever displaying their interest in such movements as are designed to advance the common welfare hereabout.

It was on December 23, 1895, that Dr. Carl C. Anderson was united in marriage to Emma Matilda Carlson, who was born in Sibley county, this state, November 17, 1869, daughter of John and Ingred Carlson, natives of the kingdom of Sweden, who came to the United States in 1869, proceeding to Minnesota and settling in Sibley county, whence, the following year, 1870, they moved over into Watonwan county and homesteaded a tract of eighty acres of land in Nelson township, one-half mile east of the East Sveadahl church, where they established their home and where John Carlson spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1879, he then being forty-six years of age. His widow survived him twenty years, her last days being spent in the home of Doctor Anderson, where she died in 1899, at the age of sixty-nine years. Mrs. Anderson is the fourth in order of birth of the five children born to her parents, the others being as follow: Marie, deceased; Augusta, deceased; Caroline, wife of Nels Tropp, of Minneapolis, and Carl Herman Carlson, of northern Minnesota. To Doctor and Mrs. Anderson have been born five children, namely: Berda Eleanor, born on January 30, 1897, who was graduated from the St. James high school in 1915 and is now a student at Gustavus Adolphus College at St. Peter; Ernanuel Cornelius, who died in infancy; Blanche Eugenia, born on January 30, 1901, now a student of the St. James high school; Harriet Roxanna, June 7, 1904, and Margaret Viola Walburga, February 24, 1910.



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