Swanson, Andrew G.

SWANSON

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/25/2006 at 19:11:32

SWANSON, ANDREW G.

Andrew G. Swanson is a young man of much more than the usual character and force, and already enjoys the respect and confidence of the community to a marked degree. He was born in Sweden, June 10, 1880, where his father, Adolph Swanson, had long been engaged in farming. When he was eight years old he accompanied his parents to Canton, South Dakota, where they settled on a farm. The family entered this country through the port of New York, and hastened on to their home in a new and promised land. Their young Andrew G. started in a farming career for himself while still very young.

Mr. Swanson has the management and care of a farm consisting of a quarter section of land, and has easily proved himself a bright, capable member of the great farming class.

He is a close student of political affairs, and takes a strong position with the Republican party, though always ready to recognize the need of men of character and business worth in public position. His friends are confident that he will soon become prominent in Lyon County, for they see already strongly operating in him those qualities that always command success, industry, thrift, honesty and a downright integrity

Source: Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Lyon County, Iowa. Published under the Auspices of the Pioneer Association of Lyon County. Geo. Monlun, Pres.; Hon. E. C. Roach Sec’y; and Col. F. M. Thompson, Historian. Geo. A. Ogle & CO., Published, Engravers and Book Manufacturers. Chicago, 1904-1905

Transcribed by Roseanna Zehner, Darlene Jacoby and Diane Johnson