A comparative newcomer in Fresno County, but one who is gifted with the enterprise for hard work and has amply demonstrated a high order of business ability, and whose home is a center of interest in educational and religious work, is Otto Anderson, who has half a hundred or more acres on Grant Avenue, two miles north of Kingsburg, where he is assisted by his two sons.
Born in Sweden, in the centennial year of the United States, and growing up in that northern land, he came to America at the beginning of the present century. He was reared a farmer, and crossed a wide ocean and continent to enter California, the most promising of all farming lands.
His father, a farmer before him, was Andrew Peter Olafson, who had married Margaret Anderson; and they had eleven children, ten of whom are still living. Five of these are particularly fortunate in being in California, although the other five are also happily situated in Sweden. Otto attended the usual public schools and at fourteen was confirmed in the Lutheran Church. For a year he was employed in the wood and coal business at Gottenburg, but for the most part he was busy farming, learning those A B C's of agriculture applicable the world over. However, he decided to bid goodbye to his native land, and in March, 1900, he sailed from Gottenburg.
Crossing the Atlantic to New York. Mr. Anderson stopped awhile in New Hampshire and in Connecticut, where he found plenty of work in machine shops ; but he longed for a more out-door activity, and so turned his face westward to California.
Once in the Golden State, he was not long in finding Kingsburg and choosing it as essentially promising, taking up his residence here in 1904; and on the first of August, four years later, he was married to Mrs. Satterburg, widow of Gust A. Satterburg, who was originally Alma Josephine Olson, a native of Sweden and daughter of Claus Olson who died when she was ten years old. His wife was Beata Olson before her marriage; and she was the mother of eleven children. In 1908 she came to America, and she died at the home of the subject of this sketch, in 1911, in her seventy-third year.
Mrs. Anderson had five children by her first marriage, the eldest of which is Lilly, a graduate of the Selma High School, class of 1916, and now a graduate of the Fresno Normal and a teacher at the Ross School, in Fresno County; while next are Arthur and Milton, who help run the ranch ; and Elvera and Walter, who are at school.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have one child, Stanley. During the years intervening between 1905 and 1908, Mr. Anderson improved a twenty-acre ranch and, after bringing it to a fine state of cultivation, sold it at a profit. Later he acquired another twenty acres, an alfalfa ranch, in Tulare County; and this property he still owns. The nucleus of
their present home place on Grant Avenue was a tract of thirty-two acres owned by Mrs. Anderson, and to that he added ten acres already planted and, finally, another ten in the neighborhood, so that now they have fifty-two acres, irrigated by means of two wells, two pumping plants and the service of the Consolidated Ditch. He enlarged and remodelled the dwelling, and now he has a comfortable residence, with a beautiful lawn, a garden of flowers, trees and shrubbery. He built a tank-house, and also a good barn; and he has a full complement of horses and farm machinery, together with a touring car. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are active members of the Swedish Baptist Church at Kingsburg. and their children also belong and attend the Sunday School. When Mrs. Anderson joined, there were only five families and thirteen members, and now there are over 350 members, and the congregation is preparing to build a dignified edifice. When the history of Kingsburg shall be written in fullness and detail, the family name of Anderson will find an honorable place. Mr. Anderson's parents have recently come from Sweden, and they are pleasantly situated on a near-by ranch of ten acres, devoted to fruit and raisin culture.
Born in Sweden, in the centennial year of the United States, and growing up in that northern land, he came to America at the beginning of the present century. He was reared a farmer, and crossed a wide ocean and continent to enter California, the most promising of all farming lands.
His father, a farmer before him, was Andrew Peter Olafson, who had married Margaret Anderson; and they had eleven children, ten of whom are still living. Five of these are particularly fortunate in being in California, although the other five are also happily situated in Sweden. Otto attended the usual public schools and at fourteen was confirmed in the Lutheran Church. For a year he was employed in the wood and coal business at Gottenburg, but for the most part he was busy farming, learning those A B C's of agriculture applicable the world over. However, he decided to bid goodbye to his native land, and in March, 1900, he sailed from Gottenburg.
Crossing the Atlantic to New York. Mr. Anderson stopped awhile in New Hampshire and in Connecticut, where he found plenty of work in machine shops ; but he longed for a more out-door activity, and so turned his face westward to California.
Once in the Golden State, he was not long in finding Kingsburg and choosing it as essentially promising, taking up his residence here in 1904; and on the first of August, four years later, he was married to Mrs. Satterburg, widow of Gust A. Satterburg, who was originally Alma Josephine Olson, a native of Sweden and daughter of Claus Olson who died when she was ten years old. His wife was Beata Olson before her marriage; and she was the mother of eleven children. In 1908 she came to America, and she died at the home of the subject of this sketch, in 1911, in her seventy-third year.
Mrs. Anderson had five children by her first marriage, the eldest of which is Lilly, a graduate of the Selma High School, class of 1916, and now a graduate of the Fresno Normal and a teacher at the Ross School, in Fresno County; while next are Arthur and Milton, who help run the ranch ; and Elvera and Walter, who are at school.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have one child, Stanley. During the years intervening between 1905 and 1908, Mr. Anderson improved a twenty-acre ranch and, after bringing it to a fine state of cultivation, sold it at a profit. Later he acquired another twenty acres, an alfalfa ranch, in Tulare County; and this property he still owns. The nucleus of
their present home place on Grant Avenue was a tract of thirty-two acres owned by Mrs. Anderson, and to that he added ten acres already planted and, finally, another ten in the neighborhood, so that now they have fifty-two acres, irrigated by means of two wells, two pumping plants and the service of the Consolidated Ditch. He enlarged and remodelled the dwelling, and now he has a comfortable residence, with a beautiful lawn, a garden of flowers, trees and shrubbery. He built a tank-house, and also a good barn; and he has a full complement of horses and farm machinery, together with a touring car. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are active members of the Swedish Baptist Church at Kingsburg. and their children also belong and attend the Sunday School. When Mrs. Anderson joined, there were only five families and thirteen members, and now there are over 350 members, and the congregation is preparing to build a dignified edifice. When the history of Kingsburg shall be written in fullness and detail, the family name of Anderson will find an honorable place. Mr. Anderson's parents have recently come from Sweden, and they are pleasantly situated on a near-by ranch of ten acres, devoted to fruit and raisin culture.
A comparative newcomer in Fresno County, but one who is gifted with the enterprise for hard work and has amply demonstrated a high order of business ability, and whose home is a center of interest in educational and religious work, is Otto Anderson, who has half a hundred or more acres on Grant Avenue, two miles north of Kingsburg, where he is assisted by his two sons.
Born in Sweden, in the centennial year of the United States, and growing up in that northern land, he came to America at the beginning of the present century. He was reared a farmer, and crossed a wide ocean and continent to enter California, the most promising of all farming lands.
His father, a farmer before him, was Andrew Peter Olafson, who had married Margaret Anderson; and they had eleven children, ten of whom are still living. Five of these are particularly fortunate in being in California, although the other five are also happily situated in Sweden. Otto attended the usual public schools and at fourteen was confirmed in the Lutheran Church. For a year he was employed in the wood and coal business at Gottenburg, but for the most part he was busy farming, learning those A B C's of agriculture applicable the world over. However, he decided to bid goodbye to his native land, and in March, 1900, he sailed from Gottenburg.
Crossing the Atlantic to New York. Mr. Anderson stopped awhile in New Hampshire and in Connecticut, where he found plenty of work in machine shops ; but he longed for a more out-door activity, and so turned his face westward to California.
Once in the Golden State, he was not long in finding Kingsburg and choosing it as essentially promising, taking up his residence here in 1904; and on the first of August, four years later, he was married to Mrs. Satterburg, widow of Gust A. Satterburg, who was originally Alma Josephine Olson, a native of Sweden and daughter of Claus Olson who died when she was ten years old. His wife was Beata Olson before her marriage; and she was the mother of eleven children. In 1908 she came to America, and she died at the home of the subject of this sketch, in 1911, in her seventy-third year.
Mrs. Anderson had five children by her first marriage, the eldest of which is Lilly, a graduate of the Selma High School, class of 1916, and now a graduate of the Fresno Normal and a teacher at the Ross School, in Fresno County; while next are Arthur and Milton, who help run the ranch ; and Elvera and Walter, who are at school.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have one child, Stanley. During the years intervening between 1905 and 1908, Mr. Anderson improved a twenty-acre ranch and, after bringing it to a fine state of cultivation, sold it at a profit. Later he acquired another twenty acres, an alfalfa ranch, in Tulare County; and this property he still owns. The nucleus of
their present home place on Grant Avenue was a tract of thirty-two acres owned by Mrs. Anderson, and to that he added ten acres already planted and, finally, another ten in the neighborhood, so that now they have fifty-two acres, irrigated by means of two wells, two pumping plants and the service of the Consolidated Ditch. He enlarged and remodelled the dwelling, and now he has a comfortable residence, with a beautiful lawn, a garden of flowers, trees and shrubbery. He built a tank-house, and also a good barn; and he has a full complement of horses and farm machinery, together with a touring car. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are active members of the Swedish Baptist Church at Kingsburg. and their children also belong and attend the Sunday School. When Mrs. Anderson joined, there were only five families and thirteen members, and now there are over 350 members, and the congregation is preparing to build a dignified edifice. When the history of Kingsburg shall be written in fullness and detail, the family name of Anderson will find an honorable place. Mr. Anderson's parents have recently come from Sweden, and they are pleasantly situated on a near-by ranch of ten acres, devoted to fruit and raisin culture.
Born in Sweden, in the centennial year of the United States, and growing up in that northern land, he came to America at the beginning of the present century. He was reared a farmer, and crossed a wide ocean and continent to enter California, the most promising of all farming lands.
His father, a farmer before him, was Andrew Peter Olafson, who had married Margaret Anderson; and they had eleven children, ten of whom are still living. Five of these are particularly fortunate in being in California, although the other five are also happily situated in Sweden. Otto attended the usual public schools and at fourteen was confirmed in the Lutheran Church. For a year he was employed in the wood and coal business at Gottenburg, but for the most part he was busy farming, learning those A B C's of agriculture applicable the world over. However, he decided to bid goodbye to his native land, and in March, 1900, he sailed from Gottenburg.
Crossing the Atlantic to New York. Mr. Anderson stopped awhile in New Hampshire and in Connecticut, where he found plenty of work in machine shops ; but he longed for a more out-door activity, and so turned his face westward to California.
Once in the Golden State, he was not long in finding Kingsburg and choosing it as essentially promising, taking up his residence here in 1904; and on the first of August, four years later, he was married to Mrs. Satterburg, widow of Gust A. Satterburg, who was originally Alma Josephine Olson, a native of Sweden and daughter of Claus Olson who died when she was ten years old. His wife was Beata Olson before her marriage; and she was the mother of eleven children. In 1908 she came to America, and she died at the home of the subject of this sketch, in 1911, in her seventy-third year.
Mrs. Anderson had five children by her first marriage, the eldest of which is Lilly, a graduate of the Selma High School, class of 1916, and now a graduate of the Fresno Normal and a teacher at the Ross School, in Fresno County; while next are Arthur and Milton, who help run the ranch ; and Elvera and Walter, who are at school.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have one child, Stanley. During the years intervening between 1905 and 1908, Mr. Anderson improved a twenty-acre ranch and, after bringing it to a fine state of cultivation, sold it at a profit. Later he acquired another twenty acres, an alfalfa ranch, in Tulare County; and this property he still owns. The nucleus of
their present home place on Grant Avenue was a tract of thirty-two acres owned by Mrs. Anderson, and to that he added ten acres already planted and, finally, another ten in the neighborhood, so that now they have fifty-two acres, irrigated by means of two wells, two pumping plants and the service of the Consolidated Ditch. He enlarged and remodelled the dwelling, and now he has a comfortable residence, with a beautiful lawn, a garden of flowers, trees and shrubbery. He built a tank-house, and also a good barn; and he has a full complement of horses and farm machinery, together with a touring car. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are active members of the Swedish Baptist Church at Kingsburg. and their children also belong and attend the Sunday School. When Mrs. Anderson joined, there were only five families and thirteen members, and now there are over 350 members, and the congregation is preparing to build a dignified edifice. When the history of Kingsburg shall be written in fullness and detail, the family name of Anderson will find an honorable place. Mr. Anderson's parents have recently come from Sweden, and they are pleasantly situated on a near-by ranch of ten acres, devoted to fruit and raisin culture.
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