Chas. N. Anderson Died 1912

ANDERSON, JOHNSON

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Date: 12/3/2018 at 19:51:18

Sioux City Journal
29 February 1912

Chas. N. Anderson Dies On Street Car
Suddenly Taken With Apoplectic Attack, He Falls in Street and Expires Soon

While waiting for a street car at Sixteenth and Pierce Streets at 10 o’clock last night, Charles N. Anderson was stricken with apoplexy and died almost instantly.

As a southbound Pierce street car came to a stop, Mr. Anderson fell head-long to the pavement. His predicament was noticed by Conductor Thompson, who, with several of the passengers, lifted him on the car, which was run back a block to the Samaritan hospital on Seventeenth Street. Death came while Mr. Anderson was on the rear of the car, and the body was taken to the Westcott undertaking parlors.

A postmortem examination was held at 10:30 o’clock this morning by Coroner J. E. Garver. The cause of death was declared to be cerebral hemorrhage.

The death of Mr. Anderson came as a shock to his family, he having been in apparent good health early in the evening.

He was 61 years old and is survived by five sons and four daughters. The sons are Chaffin, Van, Walter and Fred, all of Sioux City and Arthur of Spokane, Washington. The daughters are Miss Anna Anderson, Mrs. Charles Moline, Mrs. Harold Larson and Miss Evelyn Anderson, all of Sioux City.

The surviving brothers are Nels Anderson and Gust Anderson of Sioux City and Andrew Anderson of Faribolt, Minnesota. One sister, Mrs. Peter Mordahl, of Sioux City, also survives.

Mr. Anderson had resided in Sioux City for 35 years and came to this country from Sweden, 45 years ago. He married Miss Emma Johnson in Sioux City in 1882. His wife died 10 years ago. Mr. Anderson was first employed here by the W. H. Livingston company, a wholesale and retail dry goods store at Fourth and Pearl Streets. Later he entered the retail dry goods business with A. P. Mordahl, whose death occurred this winter. Mr. Anderson later became treasurer of the Union Dry Goods company and afterward entered the employ of the Davidson Bros.’ company. He had been in the service of the Lindholm Furniture Company for the last two years.