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Source:
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Together with Sketches of it's Cities, Villages and Towns,
Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political
History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and
Biographies of Representative Citizens.
VOLUME I.
Also containing
History of Illinois Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races,
Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and A Brief Review
of its Civil and Political History.
- Illustrated -
Chicago:
Interstate Publishing Co.
1886.
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Adams Twp. -
ANDREW ANDERSON, deceased, was born near
Stavanger, Norway, May 14, 1802. He immigrated to the United
States in 1836, and the first year lived at Ottawa, LaSalle Co.,
Ill. In 1837 he came to Adams Township and settled on section
34, where he engaged in farming. He was first married to
Melinda Anderson, and of the six children born to them only one
is living, a son named Christopher. Mrs. Anderson died
in 1863, and Mr. Anderson was again married in 1866 to
Anna Anderson, by whom he had four children - Andrew, Annie,
Oscar and Adolph. Mr. Anderson was a successful and
enterprising farmer, and at his death, which occurred Sept. 11,
1883, he left a farm of 420 acres, which is still owned and occupied
by his family.
Source: History of La Salle County, Illinois - Vol. I - Publ.
1886 - Page 20 |
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