Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... general manager of the manufacturing department. They make a specialty of ginger ale, and also handle bar supplies, as well as beer imported from Germany. Mr. Hawkinson is thorough master of the details of the business in which he is engaged, and makes use of the most modern and up-to-date methods of handling same. Socially he is a member of the Swedish Brothers, Society Gustavus Adolphus, the Druids, and of the Red Men, the lodge to which he belongs and of which he is a charter member being the first one instituted in the state of Minnesota. S1gfr1d J. Cheleen, B. A., M. D., of Minneapolis, is one of the brightest and most thoroughly educated among the Swedish-American practitioners of that part of the state. Still a young man, he has been not only carefully trained as a progressive member of his profession, but has enjoyed a broad and classical education, and has earned, through his scholarship, the degrees of B. A. and M. D. The doctor was born in Essunga parish, Vestergotland, Sweden, February 15, 1874, and is a son of Jonas and Ingrid (Larson) Anderson, farmers. This couple had twelve children, all of whom are living but one daughter, Mathilda, who died when twenty-nine years of age. The other eleven are as follows: Carl August, a farmer at Stromsburg, Nebraska; Johan Alfred, a miner in Colorado; Emma, married to Johannes Lundstrom, a farmer in Sweden; Anna Maria, now Mrs. Hans Engstrom, whose husband is a painter in Minneapolis; Ida Christina, unmarried, who lives in Minneapolis; Sigfrid J., of this sketch; Augusta, living in Sweden; Eva, married to Carl Johanson, a railroad man in Sweden; Hanna Elizabeth, single, a dressmaker in Minneapolis; Lars Victor, a cabinetmaker in Los Angeles, California; and Hulda, a dressmaker in Sweden....