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Gustave Adolph Anderson

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Gustave Adolph Anderson

Birth
Bersbo, Åtvidabergs kommun, Östergötlands län, Sweden
Death
14 Jan 1934 (aged 73)
Douglas County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Garfield, Douglas County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
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Gustave A. Anderson, pioneer settler of Douglas county and one of the first rural carriers out of the Alexandria post office, lost his life Sunday morning when his farm home near Lake Miltona was destroyed by fire, aged 73 years. At the time of the tragedy, Mr. Anderson and his son, Alfred, who lost his sight in a dynamite explosion a few years ago, were alone on the farm, except for Alfred's five-year-old son. Mrs. Alfred Anderson was in the hospital at Alexandria for medical treatment and her sister had been keeping house for the men, but was not there Sunday morning. Gustave Anderson had been ill for several days and was confined to his bedroom on the second floor of the farm home. Alfred was doing the milking, when a neighbor, Ben Pittman, discovered that the house was on fire. The building had originally been a log house, to which frame additions had been made in later years, and the fire gained quick headway and burned fiercely. The fire started on the ground floor, presumably having been started by the little boy, who ran out of the house when he had done the damage. By the time Mr. Pittman discovered the fire the whole ground floor was a mass of flame and it was impossible to rescue the aged invalid.
Gustave Adolph Anderson was born at Bersbo, Ostergotland, Sweden, on November 10, 1860. He came to this country with his parents when he was 13 years old, the family locating at Ishpeming, Michigan. Three years later, in 1876, he came to Douglas county and located on the farm in Carlos township. Thirty years ago he entered the rural mail delivery service when it was established at the Alexandria post office, and was the first carrier on Route No. 3. He served as a rural carrier for fifteen years on that route. On December 15, 1882, he was married to Carolina Engstrom, who preceded him to the great beyond January 29, 1927. To this union thirteen children were born of whom four sons and six daughters survive their parents: Anna and Mrs. Alma Matthews, who live in Minneapolis; Emil and Mrs. Edith Smith of Spruce Hill township; Theodore and Mrs. Hilda Bedman, Ida township; Mrs. Sigrid Olson, Miltona; Alfred and Eugene, Carlos; Mrs. Frances Affield, Leaf Valley. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Odd Fellows hall in Alexandria, that lodge, of which Mr. Anderson was a member, having charge of the services. Burial will be beside his wife in the Lake Ida Cemetery.
(Park Region Echo, 18 Jan. 1934)
Gustave A. Anderson, pioneer settler of Douglas county and one of the first rural carriers out of the Alexandria post office, lost his life Sunday morning when his farm home near Lake Miltona was destroyed by fire, aged 73 years. At the time of the tragedy, Mr. Anderson and his son, Alfred, who lost his sight in a dynamite explosion a few years ago, were alone on the farm, except for Alfred's five-year-old son. Mrs. Alfred Anderson was in the hospital at Alexandria for medical treatment and her sister had been keeping house for the men, but was not there Sunday morning. Gustave Anderson had been ill for several days and was confined to his bedroom on the second floor of the farm home. Alfred was doing the milking, when a neighbor, Ben Pittman, discovered that the house was on fire. The building had originally been a log house, to which frame additions had been made in later years, and the fire gained quick headway and burned fiercely. The fire started on the ground floor, presumably having been started by the little boy, who ran out of the house when he had done the damage. By the time Mr. Pittman discovered the fire the whole ground floor was a mass of flame and it was impossible to rescue the aged invalid.
Gustave Adolph Anderson was born at Bersbo, Ostergotland, Sweden, on November 10, 1860. He came to this country with his parents when he was 13 years old, the family locating at Ishpeming, Michigan. Three years later, in 1876, he came to Douglas county and located on the farm in Carlos township. Thirty years ago he entered the rural mail delivery service when it was established at the Alexandria post office, and was the first carrier on Route No. 3. He served as a rural carrier for fifteen years on that route. On December 15, 1882, he was married to Carolina Engstrom, who preceded him to the great beyond January 29, 1927. To this union thirteen children were born of whom four sons and six daughters survive their parents: Anna and Mrs. Alma Matthews, who live in Minneapolis; Emil and Mrs. Edith Smith of Spruce Hill township; Theodore and Mrs. Hilda Bedman, Ida township; Mrs. Sigrid Olson, Miltona; Alfred and Eugene, Carlos; Mrs. Frances Affield, Leaf Valley. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Odd Fellows hall in Alexandria, that lodge, of which Mr. Anderson was a member, having charge of the services. Burial will be beside his wife in the Lake Ida Cemetery.
(Park Region Echo, 18 Jan. 1934)

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