Fresno County Biographies

ANDREW ERICKSON

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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is another one of the representative citizens of Kingsburg, Fresno County.  He 
is a native of Sweden, born June 9, 1857.  He had a brief experience in both 
mechanical and farm work in his native land, and in 1879 emigrated to America, 
locating in Michigan, where he remained for a period of seven years, employed in 
a machine shop.  While he was in Michigan an emigrant society was formed of 
which he became a member.  He was subsequently selected on behalf of the society 
to make a trip to California, examined its resources and report to the society, 
which he did.  So well pleased was he with this coast that he remained in 
California.  In 1886 he settled in Kingsburg, Fresno County, where we find him 
to-day.  The result of his report to the Michigan society, it may be added, was 
so favorable that a colony came from that State and settled in this locality.  
Mr. Erickson is comfortably located here on twenty acres of valuable land, which 
he has set out to raisins.  Another tract he has laid out in lots.  This tract, 
known as the Erickson addition, is situated on the highest elevation in the 
town, and its avenues, tastefully adorned with trees, make it an attractive spot 
for a home.
	Before leaving the home of his nativity, Mr. Erickson was married to 
Sophia Wesman, also a native of Sweden, the date of their marriage being in 
April, 1877.  They are the parents of one child.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 p. 483