LUNDGREN, August, brick manufacturer and dealer in farm implements; born at Wargarda, Sweden, March 31, 1855; educated in common schools of Sweden. Came to America, 1880, and located in Minneapolis, remaining there, 1880-81; removed to Warren in Fall of 1881; began manufacturing brick under title of Warren Brick Yard, 1883, and has successfully continued in that line; also president Warren Building & Loan Association; secretary and treasurer Lundgren, Withensten & Co.; secretary Peoples Trading Co.; director Swedish American State Bank. Mayor of City of Warren since 1903 (elected 4 years without opposition); member city council since 1890; treasurer Marshall Co., Minn., 1887-88. Democrat. Lutheran. Married at East Union, Minn., April 2, 1888, to Miss Mary L. Lindquist (family of 6 girls and 4 boys, all living). Club: Commercial. Address: Warren, Minn.
Source:
The Book of Minnesotans, A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the State of Minnesota
Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis
A. N. Marquis & Company, 1907
Page 318
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Another State Bank
The state bank of Warren, Minn., was yesterday given a legal existence by Bank Examiner Kenyon. The capital stock is $25,000, and the incorporators are J. Taralsetl, Andrew Grindeland, John E. Ostrom, August Lundgren, of Warren; Hans L Melgaard, Peter I. Holen, of Argyle, Halvor Steenerson and Lars K. Aaker, of Crookston.
Source:
The Saint Paul Daily Globe
Wednesday Morning, March 16, 1892
Volume XIV, Number 76, Page 3
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August G. Lundgren
Date of Death: 26 June 1944, Marshall County