John B. Erickson is engaged in business as an undertaker and funeral director at Iron Mountain, county seat of Dickinson county, and his mortuary establishment is known for its metropolitan facilities and service. Mr. Erickson was born in Sweden, August 13, 1884, and the death of his father, Erick J. Erickson, occurred in the following year, the widowed mother, whose maiden name was Anna Lagerlund, having later come to the United States, in 1892 and is now a resident of Norway, Dickinson county. She married Barnard Rehn, who has since died. She is an attendant of the Swedish Methodist Episcopal church. The schools of his native land afforded John B. Erickson his youthful education and he was fifteen years of age when, in 1899, he came to the United States and established his residence at Norway, Michigan, where for three years he was in the employ of the Oliver Iron Mining company. During the ensuing four and one-half years he was there employed in the hospital conducted by Dr. E. P. Lockhart, and in 1907 he took a position in the undertaking establishment of L. G. Zackrel, at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. In 1909 he took a course in the Barnes School of Embalming, in the city of Chicago, and in 1910 he returned to Norway, Michigan, and engaged independently in business as an undertaker and funeral director. In 1913 he removed his business to Iron Mountain, the county seat, and he has continued as one of the leading morticians in this city during the intervening years. He has served as county coroner since 1918, is now a member of the board of cemetery trustees in his home city, and is a Republican in politics, he having become a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1904. Mr. Erickson is a member of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors association, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, and the Order of Vasa. His wife has membership in the Order of the Eastern Star, the Pythian Sisters and the Woman's club, of Iron Mountain. September 21, 1912, Mr. Erickson was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Bredesen, who was born at Florence, Wisconsin, of Norwegian parentage. Mr. and Mrs. Erickson have one child, Everett, who is attending the public schools of his home city.