. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 309 nativu city, and was a student of English, French,(unman and his own language. While still a hoy,he accompanied his parents to this country,whither niaiij- tif tlieir relatives and friends hadl)receded them, and the family located in fialway,hn- one year. Later they came to Eockfi>rd. The father, Cha
. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 309 nativu city, and was a student of English, French,(unman and his own language. While still a hoy,he accompanied his parents to this country,whither niaiij- tif tlieir relatives and friends hadl)receded them, and the family located in fialway,hn- one year. Later they came to Eockfi>rd. The father, Charles A. Sandehn, was born inSmoland, Sweden, and was a tailor from boyhoodu|). lie died in Roekford In February, ,when lifty-live years of age, following his wife tothe grave, her death having occurred in January,1889, when forty-nine years of age. Both wereworthy members of the Swedish Methodist Episco-pal Ciiurch of Roekford. Of the nine childrenborn to tiieir marriage, six are dead. One daugh-ter, Olive 11., born August 10, 1864, died July 7,1890; the rest died in infancy; one son, Harold, isresiding with our subject, and is in the city schools,and a daughter, Anna, became the wife of WilliamA. Johnson, a machinist, with the Roekford WatchCo
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