Sacramento County
Biographies
AXEL EDBIN
ERICKSON
A. E. ERICKSON.--A native of industrially famed Sweden who has been very successful as a general contractor, is A. E. Erickson, who was born on October 5, 1877, the son of Erick and Maga Englebrickson, the former also a contractor, and an experienced farmer besides. Despite his long and arduous service, where for years he has been highly-esteemed by his fellow citizens, Mr. Erickson is still living, amid the scenes familiar to him in the pastoral land of Sweden; but Mrs. Erickson, who was kindness itself to everybody, and whose demise is very naturally mourned, has laid aside forever the cares of life and entered into rest eternal.
A. E. Erickson, whose given name is Axel Edbin, was trained in the excellent schools of Sweden, after which he helped his father on the farm, and at the age of sixteen began to learn the carpenter trade. Six years later, when a journeyman of some ripe experience, he came to the United States, and got as far West as Minneapolis, where he followed his carpentering for twelve years. He entered the service of a large contracting firm, and was made foreman; and he was in responsible charge of the McAllister College in its building, the Vallis Hall, and many large public and other edifices. The opportunity for growth as an ambitious student of contracting was exceptional, and he made the most of his chances.
In 1912, Mr Erickson left Minnesota for California, and soon came to Sacramento, where he bought farm-land and at the same time commenced contracting here; and since then he has built many residences, and is in much demand that he is able to furnish steady employment to half a dozen men at the least. His experience, his original ideas, in harmony with the latest and most progressive notions, and his exemplary methods, commend themselves to many. He belongs to the Builders’ Exchange and the Master Builders, and he endorses the platforms of the Republican party, believing that the G. O. P means “great opportunity promised.” Mr. Erickson has done much to advance the development of North Sacramento. He was among the first to settle in this section and he has built his home and several of the business blocks, the finest in this section. He was united in marriage to Miss Olga Carlson on January 10, 1906, and this union has been blessed with four children; Nellie, Harrington, Franklin, and Auburn.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 958.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.