BURGESON, ALBIN

BURGESON, STENBAUM, ERICKSON, LARSON, ANDERSON, WESTMAN

Posted By: Jean Kramer (email)
Date: 5/20/2004 at 15:43:05

Biography reproduced from page 459 of Volume II of the History of Kossuth County written by Benjamin F. Reed and published in 1913:

Albin Burgeson is one of the well known farmers of Kossuth county, where he is successfully engaged in the cultivation of two hundred and four acres which he rents, located on section 6, in Swea township. He was born August 11, 1869, and is a son of C. and Maria Anna (Stenbaum) Burgeson, who became the parents of three children, as follows: Emil, deceased; Albin, of this review; and Josephine, the wife of Erick Erickson, a farmer of Swea township. A more extended mention of the father is published on another page of this work in the review of Erick Erickson, a brother-in-law of Mr. Burgeson.

Albin Burgeson when a child of two years came with his parents to America and received his early education in the public schools of the district in which his father lived. He remained under the parental roof until he was twenty-four years of age, at which time he rented his mother’s farm of two hundred and four acres located on section 6, in Swea township, where he has since been successfully engaged in general farming and stock-raising. In addition to his farm interests he is also one of the stockholders of the Farmers Elevator Company of Armstrong, Iowa.

Mr. Burgeson was united in marriage August 12, 1892, to Miss Emma Erickson, a daughter of Erick and Anna (Larson) Erickson, both of whom were natives of Sweden. The father was by trade a carpenter and followed that occupation for a long time, or until the time of his death, which occurred in his native land on December 18, 1896. The mother is still living and makes her home with her daughter, Elma Erickson, who resides near Orebro, in the province of Westmanland, Sweden. To Mr. and Mrs. Anderson five children were born, as follows: Annie, the wife of Carl Westman, a truck farmer and storekeeper residing near Stockholm, Sweden; Emma, who married Mr. Burgeson; Sophia, deceased; Erick, a farmer of Swea township; and Ellen, who married Albert Anderson, a farmer living near Salida, Colorado. Mrs. Burgeson emigrated to America in 1890 and settled in Swea township, Kossuth county, where she celebrated her wedding. To Mr. and Mrs. Burgeson seven children have been born, namely: Freda Elvira, who was born on the 11th of October, 1893, and is a member of the class of 1915, of the Armstrong high school; Allen, who was born September 24, 1894, and died at the age of four years, nine months and twenty-eight days; Roy, born January 26, 1896, who assists his father in the work of the home farm and also attends district school No. 3 of Swea township; Lee, whose birth occurred July 27, 1897, and who is also pursuing his education in the school of district 3; Helen and Edith, born on the 17th of November, 1898, and the 20th of November, 1901, respectively, who are also attending that school; and an infant son who passed away in the year 1905.

Mr. Burgeson is a member of the republican party and he and his wife are members of the Swedish Baptist church of Swea township. Mrs. Burgeson is a member of the Ladies Aid Society of that church. Mr. Burgeson is one of the well known and enterprising farmers of Swea township and a man who is interested in every public enterprise intended to improve the conditions of the people in the community in which he lives.