The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-03-26
KIR0N CITIZEN
DIES SUDDENLY
Carl Christensen, Apparently in GOOD
Health, Passes Away Suddenly
Monday, March oath.
WAS BORN IN SWEDEN IN 1884,
Father Of Seven Children, All OF
Whom Are Living-His Wife
Died in 1896.


Early Monday morning, March Gath,
shortly after o'clock, Mr.. Carl Chris
tenson passed away at his home in
Kiron after a very brief illness. Only
a few days prior to his death he went
about town and his illness was not
considered serious and the report of
his death came as surprise to his
neighbors and friends. From the his
tory of Crawford county we copy the
following sketch of Mr.. Christensen:
carl Christensen, a former agricul-
turist of Crawford county, but more
recently of Ida county, Hayes town
ship, who is now living retired in
kirOn, was born in Sweden on the
18th day of March 1S41. and is son
of X. and Christina (Benson) Chris
tenson. The parents spent their en-
tire lives in their native land, where
seven of their nine children continue
to reside. Our subject and one daugh-
ter, Johanna, who married Olof
Bjorkman, of Stockholm township,
this county, being the only members
of the family to emigrate to the Unit
ed States. Mr.. Christensen spent the
first tWenty-three years of his life in
the old country, remaining member
of his mothers household until he had
acquired his education. In 1865, how
eer, he resolved to become a citizen
of the United States, feeling con
WINGED that better opportunities await
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to have at home, so he took passage
and sailed for America. He first To-
Gated in Allamakee county, Iowa,
where he continued to reside for two
years and then went to Wisconsin to
work in the pineries and the saw
mills. After spending two years in
the lumber country he returned to
Iowa, this time settling in Denison,
where he was employed for a year,
and at the end of that period he pur-
chased two yoke of oxen and engaged
in breaking prairie for several years,
during which time he saved the nee
essary capital to buy an 80-acre tract
of land when he engaged in farming.
He cultivated this for two years and
then sold and purchased another 80
elsewhere in the county, to which he
was able later to add 40 more. He
lived there for some time and in addi-
ton to his general farming and stock
raising made specially of buying
and shipping stock. He finally sold
his homestead and removed to Ida
county, where he bought hundred
and sixty acre farm. He met with a
moderate degree of success in his
various ventures and later was able
to add to his holdings another so
acres. He continued to reside on this
place until 1909, at which time he
retired to Kiron, having acquired a
competence which enabled him to live
in ease and comfort. He was always
a thrifty, hard working man and after
the self-denial and privation of his
early years is able to enjoy the peace
of mind and physical ease his ample
means provide him. 1t was on the 1st
of November, 1871, that Mr.. Chris
tenson was united in marriage to Miss
Margaret Anderson, daughter of An
drew and Christina Anderson, and on
the 10th day of May, 1896, she passed
away. Seven children were born to
them as follows: Edward, living in
Woodbury. county; Leonard, who re-
sides in Kansas; May, who married
Frank Ward, of Emporia, Kans.
Mayme, the wife of Joe Hammerstrom
of Ida county; Virgil, who is living
in Minneapolis, and Arthur, formerly
of Ida county, and Alice, who has been
keeping house for her father up to the
time of his DEATH" Up to the present
writing no definite arrangements have
been made for the funeral, as all the
children have not been reached.