A. Frank Segerstrom

SEGERSTROM, JOHNSON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 11/16/2004 at 10:29:18

Classed with the progressive and representative citizens of Mount valley township, Winnebago County, is A. F. Segerstrom, who is now engaged in farming on section 27, where he has a tract of land whereon he took up his abode in 1910. He had previously been connected with commercial pursuits and has ever occupied a prominent position in business circles of this section of the state. He was born in Worthington, Minnesota, July 24, 1875, and is a son of Nels and Bengta (Swenson) Segerstrom, both of whom were natives of Sweden, where they were reared and married. About 1867 they crossed the Atlantic to the United States, establishing their home in Osage, Iowa, where they continued to reside until 1874, when they become residents of Worthington, Minnesota, Mr. Segerstrom afterward spent twenty years in California and in later years he returned to Iowa now making his home in Winnebago county.

At the usual age A. F. Segerstrom became pupil in the district school near his father's home and afterward had the benefit of instruction in the Forest City high school. He came to Winnebago county with his mother in 1887, at which time they settled in Forest City. Soon after reaching his thirteenth year A. F. Segerstrom became a apprentice to the tinner's and plumber's trade in Forest City and for several years was thus employed, in fact was continuously engaged at his trade and in the hardware business for twenty-two years. In 1897 he established a hardware store, which he successfully conducted until 1910. He then retired from mercantile business on account of his health and took up farming, removing to his present place in Mount Valley township.

In 1909 M. Segerstrom was united in marriage to Miss Hilma Johnson of Mount Valley township, Winnebago county, her father being O. K. Johnson, who came to this part of Iowa from Illinois in 1882, but is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Segerstrom have two children, Milton A. and Mildred E. Mr. Segerstrom exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party. He and his wife are members of the Swedish Baptist church, take and active interest in developing the work of the church, thus promoting the moral progress of the community, and for twenty years he taught a Sunday school class. He is interested in all those forces which work for public progress. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company and in the Farmers Elevator of Forest City and he has studied closely and intelligently questions which affect the business welfare and material development of the district. His has been an active and useful life characterized by honorable purpose and attended by success.

Source: History of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa, 1917, page 118.