The manufacture of the celebrated Carver brick is Andrew G. Anderson. He is one of the small band of Democratic legislators, being elected to the senate in 1886. Senator Anderson rarely, if ever, addresses the senate, but is constant in his attendance at every session, voting steadily in the public interest. With the exception of one day, Senator Anderson was present at every day’s session of the senate in 1887, and was then in attendance at some committee meeting. He is making for himself a similar record in the session now under way. Senator Anderson emigrated from Sweden in 1855, taking up his residence in Minnesota. He was then fifteen years of age. He served during the war and was made a prisoner at the famous Guntown raid, being confined in Andersonville prison.
Source:
Saint Paul Daily Globe
Tuesday Morning, March 5, 1889
Volume XI, Number 64, Page 11
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ANDERSON, ANDREW G., merchant and brick maker, b. in Sweden in 1840; came to the United States in 1855, and to Minnesota the same year; served in the Ninth Minnesota Regt. in the civil war; settled in Carver in 1865, engaged in mercantile business, and after 1886 in flour milling and manufacture of brick; was a state senator, 1887-9. [30; 32; 169.]
Source:
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society
Volume XIV
Minnesota Biographies 1655-1912
Compiled by Warren Upham and Rose Barteau Dunlap
Published by the Society, June, 1912, St. Paul, Minnesota
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