Dan Andker has been engaged in business as an undertaker of Oakland since 1909, in which year he organized the firm of Andker & Company, of which he is the president. His birth occurred in Odense, Denmark, on the 19th of April, 1865, his parents being Anders and Mortensen Andker. He attended the public schools until a youth of fourteen and afterward worked with his father, a gardener, until twenty years of age. Subsequently he spent three and a half years as a soldier in the army and on the expiration of that period emigrated to the United States, settling in San Francisco, California, where he worked in a tailor shop for three years. At the end of that time he came to Oakland and here was employed as a tailor by Joseph Poeheim for six years. Subsequently he spent two years in the service of Lancaster & Rehor, tailors, and was then engaged as a tailor with John J. Andersen until 1909. In that year he embarked in the undertaking business, organizing the firm of Andker & Company, of which he has since served as president. Success has come to him in this connection, for his is a well appointed and up-to-date establishment and the service rendered is of the very best.
Mr. Andker has been married twice. On the 21st day of December, 1889, in San Francisco, he wedded Miss Clara Andker, whose demise occurred in August, 1906. On the 28th of December, 1909, in Sacramento, California, he was again married, his second union being with Miss Ella Biggi. His children are three in number, namely: Exe, twenty-one years of age; Carla, who is fourteen years old and a public-school student; and Norman Dan, who is two years of age. The last named was born of his second marriage.
In his political views Mr. Andker is a republican, while his religious faith is that of the Lutheran church. He is a member of all the Danish societies and likewise belongs to the Masonic order, the Fraternal Brotherhood, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World and the Improved Order of Red Men. Coming to the new world in early manhood, he here found the opportunities which he sought and in their wise utilization has won a place among the substantial and representative citizens of his community.
Past and Present of Alameda County California, Vol. II
Published in Chicago by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1914
Pages 106-107
Transcribed by Linda Jackson 5/28/2008
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