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ERICK OLSON was born in Snulmark in the
southwestern part of Sweden, Feb. 11, 1848. He worked on his
father’s farm until the age of twenty-one, when he came to Red
Wing, Minn., near which place he remained about three years. He
went to Minneapolis in 1872, and made that city his home until
1876, when he came to Anoka Co., and a year later purchased a farm
in the town of Burns. He now owns 80 acres in section 11. He was
married Oct. 12, 1877, to Sophia J. Olson. Children: Mary H. (Mrs.
Charles J. Swanson, Minneapolis), Charles H. (died May 31, 1902).
N. P. OLSON was born in southern Sweden Feb. 23, 1854. He came to
America with his parents at the age of ten. After living two years
at Lansing, Iowa, the family moved to Meeker Co., Minn., where his
father took a claim. There he lived until sixteen years of age,
when he took a course at the University of Minnesota. About his
first newspaper experience was with the Litchfield Ledger. In 1876
he took charge of the Hutchinson Enterprise, which he moved to
Glencoe, where it is still published. Later he started the
Meeker Co. Tribune. In 1894 he became connected with the
Minneapolis Daily Penny Press, and was promoted to city editor
and finally to managing editor, which position he held until about
the time the paper was discontinued. He then started
the Minneapolis Democrat, which he moved to Anoka in 1901,
changing the name to Anoka Free Press. The paper gained rapidly in
circulation, and was soon placed on an enduring basis. Mr. Olson
was married Feb. 20, 1878, to Frederika Pfaff. Children: Florence
M. (died in October, 1903), Alice G., August H., Elmer W. and Fred
H. ~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905 |
