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 HIST0R1 OF GOODIIUK COUNTt 965 at home. The family faith is thai of the Norwegian Lutheran church. Erick P. Erickson is now serving his second term as a member of the board of supervisors of Belle Creek township and has been on the School board for a number of years. He was born in Sweden November 12. 1867. and received his education in the schools of his native land, also in Rock [sland, 111., where he lived from 1884 to 1887. He has devoted his time to farming since early boyhood, and still continues in that occupation, with his father and brother in this township, making his home with his parents. Politically he is an independent voter and fra- ternally he associates with the .Modern Woodmen, the Royal Neighbors and the Red Men. Peter and Betsy (Johnson) Erick- son, parents of Erie 1< 1. came from Sweden to America in 1884, and after remaining in Rock Island, 111., three years, came to Belle Creek, where the father, in company with his four sons, rented 320 acres of land, upon which they have since conducted general farming and stock raising. In the family are four brothers and three sisters. Erick P. is the oldest. John P. was born March 24. 1869; Carl P. was born December 14. 1870, and lives in San Francisco; Nels P. was born July 24. 1874, and died November 20, 1907: Ellen was born January 31, 1877. and lives in St. Paul; while Margaret, born November 14, 1878, and Anna, born April 2. 1881, both live at home. The family faith if the Ericksons is that of the Swedish Lutheran church. Walfred Anderson, of Belle Creek township, was born in Sweden November 20, 1852, son of Andrew and Catherine An- derson, natives of Sweden, who came to America July 3, 1864, locating in Leon township, where they purchased eighty acres of land, remaining until 1869, when they sold and purchased 120 acres in Belle Creek township, section 19, which the father broke and improved, following general farming until his death, January 19, 1908. at the age of eighty-nine years. The mother died February 12, 1893. "Walfred received his education in the common schools and worked on the farm with his father. In 1877 he took charge of the old homestead, made many improve- ments, built a new house and barn and has since followed general farming. In addition to his farm, upon which he resides, he owns 101 acres adjoining and fifty acres of timber land in Leon township, a total of 271 acres. Mr. Anderson was married No- vember 26, 1880, to Christine Johnson, daughter of John and Johannah Johnson, natives of Sweden. They came to America in 1854, locating in Chicago, where they remained for two years, after which they came to Leon township and took up a claim of 160 acres and engaged in farming until the father's death, five years later. The mother died in July, 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Ander-