Individual Stories

Edward Anderson

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1904 City Directory Edward Anderson was born in Sweden in 1866 and came to Minnesota in 1888. In 1904, when Edward was working on the Capitol as a laborer, he was living at this boarding house with his wife, Gertrude, and their new baby. Olaf B. Hanson also lived here.

George Anderson

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1903 City Directory. Carpenter George Anderson was born in Denmark in 1851 and emigrated in 1878. He and his wife, Mary, raised a family in St. Paul while he worked as a carpenter. Anderson lived a long life and was still living in St. Paul at the age of 85 in 1940.

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