ERICKSON, GEORGE HENRY

ERICKSON, CARLSON

Posted By: Jean Kramer (email)
Date: 4/23/2004 at 12:03:59

Biography reproduced from page 342 of Volume II of the History of Kossuth County written by Benjamin F. Reed and published in 1913:

George Henry Erickson is one of the well known citizens of Swea City, Iowa, where he is successfully engaged in the pursuit of his profession as a civil engineer. He was born on his father’s farm on section 9, Swea township, May 23, 1887, and is a son of Claus A. and Carrie (Carlson) Erickson, of whom more extended mention is made in another part of this work. He received his elementary education in district school No. 2, of Swea township, and in 1904 he entered the Iowa State University at Ames, where he pursued the required course in engineering and was graduated from that institution with the degree of Civil Engineer with the class of 1907. Immediately following his graduation he located at Armstrong, Iowa, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession until the spring of 1912. He then removed to Swea City, where he opened his office and has since continued to devote himself to the interests of his business as a civil engineer, making a specialty of drainage engineering. In 1909 he became a member of the Iowa State Engineering Society and was at that time the youngest civil engineer in the state of Iowa. In the spring of 1912 he entered the field as a candidate for county supervisor of the fifth district of Kossuth county on the republican ticket. He is a loyal adherent of the republican party, of which political organization his father is one of the strong leaders in northern Kossuth county.

While at college Mr. Erickson was a member of the Civil Engineering Society of the Iowa State University. He has fraternal relations with the Masonic lodge of Swea City and is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a faithful member of the Swedish Lutheran church of Swea township. He is one of the rising young men of his part of the state and in addition to his general adaptability to his chosen profession he has also had the advantage of study at the best schools of his state to prepare himself for his life work. He is in every respect a successful man in his field of operation and is one of the influential citizens of the younger class in Kossuth county.