Nils Anderson (1854 - 1929)

Born 20 Jan 1854 in Nyland, Åre socken, Jämtland, Sweden

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Helena (Blom) Anderson — married 1878 in Fröån, Jämtland, Sweden

Descendants

Died 5 Sep 1929 at age 75 in Leander (near Cook), Minnesota

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Biography

1854 jan 20? born^[1]Nils (Nels) was the second son of Anders Göransson and Kerstin Nilsdotter.

Picture from Arkiv Digital of Undersåker AI:6 (1861-1876) Household record Rista[1]

After his family moved to Fröå (1870), he worked in the copper mine there. In Fröå he married Anna Hilina Blom (May 4, 1861- Apr. 21, 1895). They had two children, Brita Kristina and Anders Gustaf, by the time that they decided to emigrate from Sweden to Minnesota in 1884. From late 1884 to about 1896/99, Nils worked in the Breitung mine; the family lived in the “company town” of Breitung, where their four younger children, Oscar and William (twins), Anna, and Frederick Arvid, were born. Sometime between 1896 and 1899, Nils established a homestead on the Rice River. In 1920, he sold the farm to Hans and Mabel Forsline, but kept a few acres for himself and built a retirement home, where he lived with his youngest son Arvid until the time of his death (at home) on Sept. 5, 1929. He was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Tower, and reburied in Angora Hillside Cemetery after the Tower cemetery was closed.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Undersåker AI:6 (1861-1876) Image 1140 / page 106 (AID: v115376.b1140.s106, NAD: SE/ÖLA/11100)