Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Lindquist, John Alfred 1861 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

JOHN ALFRED LINDQUIST.

    Among the many native born Swedes, who came to the United States and located
in Marshall county, is John Alfred Lindquist, of Cottage Hill township, who was
born on March 11, 1861, being the son of John and Carolina Larson, who were also
natives of Sweden, where they spent their lives and there died some years ago.
They were among the highly respected people of the district in which they lived
and they were held in the highest regard and esteem. Their lives were spent in
humble, but honorable circumstances. They were of a religious turn of mind, and
they reared their family to be honest men and women. Their lives were spent amid
adverse circumstances, yet they were ambitious to have their children enjoy more
of the pleasures of life than was given to them.

    John Alfred Lindquist remained a resident of his native country until he was
twenty-six years of age, when he decided that he would come to America, where
the advantages were better for young men and where he might obtain a home for
himself. After landing in the United States, without a cent in cash, he at once
proceeded to Waterville, Marshall county, where he engaged as a farm hand, at
sixteen dollars per month. He continued in this work for a year, and then he
rented a farm and engaged in general farming for himself for six years. He saved
all that he could during that time, and then he purchased one hundred and sixty
acres of land, which is a part of his present farm of four hundred acres in
Cottage Hill township. He paid two thousand nine hundred dollars for the place
and there were but few improvements on the farm at that time. He later erected a
splendid house and other farm buildings, but retained the old stone barn that
was on the place at the time he made the purchase. By hard work and close
application he has prospered in his work as a general farmer and stockman and
has increased his farm to its present large proportions, and he is recognized as
one of the substantial and influential men of the township and county.

    On October 6, 1889, John Alfred Lindquist was united in marriage to Matilda
Larson, who was born in Sweden on October 2, 1861, the daughter of Lars and
Christina Gustafson. Her parents were also natives of that country. There the
parents received their education in the public schools and there the father died
in 1884. Three years after the death of the husband and father, Mrs. Gustafson
and her daughter, Matilda, came to the United States, where the other members of
the family had located some time before, and it was here that the mother died
shortly after her arrival in this country. The family located in Kansas and here
Mr. and Mrs. Lindquist met and were later married. To them have been born the
following children: Carl Herman, Endfred Theadore, Hilder Eugenia, Albin
Herbert, Helga Matilda, Ernest Robert, Gerda Elfreda and Lillie Melvena. Carl
Herman is one of the successful young farmers of Cottage Hill township and is
meeting with much success in his chosen work; Endfred Theadore is a farmer of
the county; Hilder Eugenia is the wife of Victor Nelson, a farmer of Cottage
Hill township; Helga Matilda is attending high school at Waterville, and the
other children are at home. Mr. and Mrs. Lindquist are active members of the
Lutheran church and are prominent in all church work as well as in the social
life of the community in which they live and where they are held in the highest
regard and esteem. Mr. Lindquist is a deacon of the church in Cottage Hill
township, and has had much to do with the success of the local organization.

    Politically, Mr. Lindquist is a member of the Republican party and has
always taken an active interest in local affairs. While he is not an office
seeker, he believes that every man should take an interest in the selection of
the best men to administer the affairs of the township, the county and the
state. In the life of Mr. Lindquist is well illustrated the result of consistent
work and close application to business. Coming to this country a poor young man,
he has risen to a position of one of the influential and substantial men of the
county.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)



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