San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 9/26/2009
A.E. 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, Ill., 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, Nev., 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.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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