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 This
is my family object. It is a picture of my great-grandfather Axel
Anderson. He immigrated from Sweden in the late 1880s. He arrived to
America at Ellis Island in New York. At this port he was told there were
too many people with the last name Anderson so he must change it to be
allowed in. He changed his last name to Sandborg, which in Swedish means
"iceberg". This name was later more Americanized and spelled Sandberg. He
further migrated to Medelia, MN and was hired as a helper for a local
farmer. He enrolled in the Homestead Act of approximately 1895, in
Minnesota and received his lot with the agreement that he would have to
work the land to create a harvest. My great-great-grandfather, in the mean
time, sent Axel a girl to wed as he wanted his son to marry a Swedish
girl. Axel did not like the girl chosen by his father and sent her back to
Sweden. His father sent another young girl to America to marry him, and
this one he liked. They ended up have 13 children, of which only 11
survived. In the following years, Axel worked extremely hard and ended up
providing a new home and land to each of the 11 children. |
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