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ANDREW EDWARD ANDERSON
An esteemed citizen, whose good
fortune in attaining to a comfortable retirement is a real satisfaction to his
many friends, is A. E. Anderson, the proprietor of a store and hall, and also a
small Delta farm embracing three and one-half acres at Anderson’s Corner, on
Tracy Road, in the Middle Division of Roberts Island. He was born in Vestelige,
Smoland, Sweden, on February 6, 1852, the son of
Andrew Peter Anderson, a farmer, who had married Johanna Rebecca Anderson, and
they had eight children.
Our subject attended the public
school and received a good education in his boyhood and youth. Then he went to work on his father’s farm and
continued there until he had saved enough money to come to America. He joined his uncle John, and they arrived at
New York in the fall of 1866, from which city they went direct to Lockridge, Jefferson County, Iowa. There the young man found work on a farm, and
then he spent the following years in Biggsville,
Illinois, where he worked for three years.
After that he returned to Iowa and took up ranching there. In 1867, his parents and family moved to Iowa
from Sweden.
In 1880, A. E. Anderson went to Nye
County, Nevada, and located near Belmont, where he spent about four years as a
farmer. Four years later, he came to
Tyson, in San Joaquin County, and established a roadhouse and store, which he
conducted successfully for twenty-two years.
In 1911 he bought land on Roberts Island, and soon after moved his
family there. He has built up a good
business at his new place, and holds the esteem and respect of the
community. He is a Republican in
politics.
In 1886 Mr. Anderson was married at
Stockton to Mrs. Willa Anna (Smith) Parley, who had crossed the Great Plains
when a baby with her parents in 1852, and four children have been born to
them. Ada is the wife of Ray Freeman of
Lodi, and they have two children, J. E. and Sybil. The second is Eva; May is the wife of Charles
Guggolz of Lodi, and the youngest is Elsie.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1211-1212. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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