- ANDREW ANDERSON, a farmer and painter living in Clinton township,
Rock County, is an
- industrious and hard-working man, and has made his living
by his own efforts.
- Mr. ANDERSON is the third child and second son of Rev. Dr.
Ole ANDREWSON, of whom
- a biographical history appears elsewhere in this volume.
Our subject was born near Ottawa, La Salle Co., Ill., Nov. 24,
1848, and while still a young boy moved with his parents to Clinton,
Wis. Here he worked on a farm until about 1865, in which year
he entered a store as clerk, and was engaged for some three or
four years in that capacity in the different stores of Clinton.
After the great fire of 1871 Mr. ANDERSON went to Chicago, and
there learned the trade of painting, which has been his main
business to the present time. He is now living five miles southeast
of the village of Clinton, owning a home of forty acres, to which
he attends in intervals of his work at painting. He is well
situated and is comfortably fixed.
- Mr. ANDERSON and Miss Nellie HAWKINSEN, a daughter of Ole
HAWKINSEN, of
- Manchester, Ill., were married Nov. 4, 1873. They have had
ten children, three of whom are now deceased; the living are
Ruth Amelia, Hannah Irene, Sarah Louisa, George Henry and Grace
Henrietta (twins), Otto Paul, and Emma Helena. The two eldest
lived in Sharon, Wis. The young people are bright and helpful,
and are bound to become useful citizens.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 389.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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