Charles Anderson 1853 - 1909

ANDERSON, STOLTENBERG

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Mapleton Press
28 January 1909

Charles Anderson was born in Oldeslee, Germany on the 15th day of February 1853, the son of Henning and Charlotte Anderson. He emigrated to the United States with his parents when sixteen years of age, locating near Clinton, Iowa.

When still a young man he engaged in the mercantile business at Bryant, this state. In the year of 1876 he was joined in marriage to Miss Emma Stoltenberg and from this happy union was born five children, four of whom are left, with the wife and mother, a brother and sister, to mourn his untimely death.

In the year 1886, he with his family, moved to Mapleton, where he has since been engaged in the mercantile business.

He departed this life on the 25th day of January 1909, aged 55 years, 11 months and 10days.

The foregoing is a brief relation of the career of one of Mapleton’s best known and most highly respected citizens. The sudden ending of his busy life came as a shock to most of his friends and acquaintances, as his sickness was of short duration.

Pneumonia was the immediate cause of death, although other ailments of long standing are supposed to have enervated his vitality.

Mr. Anderson’s long and successful business career here has made him many acquaintances and friends, and his genial ways and hearty greetings will long be remembered and greatly missed by them.

His closer friends knew him to be a devoted husband and father and a loyal friend. He was a lover of nature and the beautiful to a degree. Many there are who will remember his passionate fondness for flowers, and many of those who contributed to the lavish abundance of floral offering yesterday will recall with pleasure the delight he manifested in distributing the beautiful bouquets, gathered by his own hands, to his friends. With the poet he believed that “flowers are words, which even a babe may understand.”

By the death of Mr. Anderson Mapleton loses a business factor it can ill afford. Endowed with an indefatigable energy and blessed with an optimistic temperament he was undismayed by reverses, business depressions, and the usual losses sustained by the average merchant.

These phases of his character enabled him to build up a large and prosperous business, now existing.

Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. T.J. Brookes, rector of Trinity Church, and the remains were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.

“Useful in life, patient in suffering and peaceful in death.”

“God has commanded time to console the bereaved.”

Those from a distance who attended the funeral were: Adolph Anderson, a brother of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Groth, Sac City, Lela Anderson, Chicago, Mrs. Vonda Schmedke of Schleswig, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hoyt of Wall Lake, Mr. and Mrs. H. Specht, Clinton, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Holt, Mr. and Mrs. P.W. Wilholte, Henry Rohweder, Chris Ripple, Walter Bamfus and Miss Annie Engleman, Wall Lake, and William Sweet, Woodbine.