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CARL F.
ANDERSON
The identification of Carl F. Anderson with the business interests and substantial development of California dates from 1900, and with the city of
Stockton since 1915, where he has been engaged in building operations. He was born in southern Sweden, July 13, 1869, and as soon as he was able to use a hammer and saw, began to learn the carpenter trade from his father. At eighteen years of age, he left home for America, first locating in Kansas City, where he followed his trade, then to Chicago. Next he went to Michigan and worked in the sawmills in that state; then he followed his trade in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota, and at odd times worked in the harvest field. In 1896 he went to Texas, where on July 13, 1897, he was married to Miss Annie M. Erickson, also a native of Sweden. Mr. Anderson experienced the discomforts of the disastrous flood in Galveston, and aided in reconstruction work until his removal to California in the spring of 1900. He settled in Stockton, where he worked for Joe Herald in building operations for five years; then he removed to Berkeley, this state, where he conducted a stair building shop for nine years.
In 1915 Mr. Anderson returned to Stockton, where he has since been actively engaged in contracting and building. He has specialized in designing and building his own houses and then putting them up for sale. He owns several lots in the Yosemite Lake subdivision, where he will build bungalows to be sold after completion. He erected the Kent flats at Sixth and Sutter streets; a modern flat building on West Poplar street near Commerce; he also erected a residence for the real estate firm of Albertson & Drais. Mr. Anderson finds no difficulty in disposing of his residences as fast as they are completed, for they are not only artistic in appearance, but are models of convenience and comfort.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have become the parents of two children, Ethel and Clarence C. Miss Ethel Anderson is one of the talented contralto singers of Stockton and is well known in the musical circles of that city. She studied vocal music in Stockton with Mrs. M. R. Green and during the winter of 1921-1922 was in New York City, where she studied with Madame Garrigue. While in New York City, Miss Anderson was soloist in the Reform Church, and upon her return to Stockton, she was soloist in the Grace Methodist Church, and at the present time is soloist in the Presbyterian Church in Stockton. She has given recitals at the Philomathean Club House in Stockton, and her beautiful voice has been heard on many occasions in concert work in Stockton and other cities of the valley. Mr. Anderson is classed among the enterprising, progressive and influential citizens of Stockton, where he is well known, commanding confidence and respect by reason of his reliability in business, his loyalty in citizenship, and his trustworthiness in private life. Mrs. Anderson passed away February 24, 1923.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham,
George H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page 1506. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
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2012 V. Gerald
Iaquinta.
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