Algot
Carlson, who conducts a grocery and meat market at Streator, was born in
Langemala parish, Smaland, Sweden, Feb. 2, 1851. Twenty years later he came to
the United States and lived for some five years in Jamestown before locating
permanently here. He has now resided here continuously for thirty years and has
been a merchant for twenty-five years. He has been repeatedly elected president
of the Scandia Club of Streator, is a prominent member of the local lodge of Odd
Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Maccabees. Confessionally he is a Methodist,
belonging to the First American M. E. Church of Streator. Mr. Carlson's parents,
Carl Magnus and Lena Kajsa Pehrson, are farmerfolk at Langemala. Mrs. Carlson is
a daughter of John Samuels of Streator, and was born in this city, Nov. 10,
1863. The couple were married Nov. 15, 1879. Mrs. Carlson died April 3, 1903.
The following six children have been born to them, viz., Carl A., John E., Oscar
A., Linda J., Alma A. and Arthur W., the last named being dead.
Extracted 17 Sep 2016 by Norma Hass from the History of the Swedes of Illinois, published in 1908 by Engberg-Holmberg Publishing Company, Part 2, page 209-210.
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