North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history . ed the Gilbertson & Swanson Company corpora-tion, and started an implement business at Velva, North Dakota, where he remained untilthe fall of 1912. Still retaining his interest in that business, he removed to Minot, NorthDakota, in December, 1912, and organized the Minot Implement Company, Inc., of whichhe has been the president from the beginning. This firm does a general retail businessin all kinds of tools, and equipments for farmers and regular transfer business for thosewholesale houses whose lines they represent. The Minot
North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history . ed the Gilbertson & Swanson Company corpora-tion, and started an implement business at Velva, North Dakota, where he remained untilthe fall of 1912. Still retaining his interest in that business, he removed to Minot, NorthDakota, in December, 1912, and organized the Minot Implement Company, Inc., of whichhe has been the president from the beginning. This firm does a general retail businessin all kinds of tools, and equipments for farmers and regular transfer business for thosewholesale houses whose lines they represent. The Minot Implement Company erected itspresent building in 1912 and now has a total floor space of seventeeen thousand, threehundred feet. Their business has grown steadily and is today one of the important com-mercial undertakings of Minot. Being a stanch believer in the future of North Dakota,he has from time to time invested considerable in North Dakota farming lands, havingone six hundred and forty acre grain and stock farm in the Red river valley, one of three. CARL, B. SWANSON n HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 105 liiiiulipd and sixty acres southeast of Velva, and another of a quarter section southwest ofVelva, together with other tracts. In 1004 Mr. Swanson was united in marriage to Miss Ksther A. Larson, a native ofDunnoU, Minnesota, and to them was born a son, Carl Everett, who is now attendingschool. The wife and mother passed away February 14, 1906, and on the 16th of July,1908, Mr. Swanson married Miss Signe M. Larson, a sister of his first wife and a daughter ofL. M. Larson. There is one child of this second marriage, Willis Roy, at home. Mr. Swanson was confirmed in 18S4 in the Lutheran church in the city where he wasborn, and he and his family now belong to the First Swedish Lutheran church at politics Mr. Swanson has always maintained an independent course, never aspiring topublic office. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in 1902 he became a Noble oftlie Kl Z
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