ANDERSON, ANDREW M. Proprietor of the blacksmith and repairing establishment and agricultural implement depot at Ipava, IL, he is one of the enrgetic and successful business men of this section of Fulton Co. He is fully alive to the unusual opportuni- ties which America presents to those of foreign birth. Mr. Anderson is still a young man, having been born at Aamot Modum, Norway on the 25th of March, 1873. He received his schooling in his native land and there entered the blacksmith's trade. In 1890 he emigrated to America, being drawn to the great Northwest which was thickly populated by his countrymen who there found their own native industries of agriculture and lumbering. The youth of seventeen first settled in Belgrade, Minn. In order to get his bearings and determine his future course, he visited his brother Carl and a married sister, Stina, wife of Jacob Thomas, after which he was employed on a farm for a year. He then entered the great Red River Valley on the western border of Minnesota, to engage in black- smithing, where he soon foreman of a large repairing shop. He was thus employed for about five years, going to the pineries of Wisconsin and Minnesota during the winter months. For a time Mr. Anderson traveled through the country further south. He decided in favor of Mason Co., IL and remained there for about two years. In 1899 he located in business in Ipava, renting a blacksmith shop and added to the trade of general repairing. In 1903 he bought property of Noah Hall, whose business he later bought, and now carries a complete line of agricultural implements, and dealing in surreys and buggies, hardware and wire fence (Pages--a speciality), and paints and oils. For its accommodation he bought the building formerly occupied by Oliver Wood & Son. On June 2, 1896, Mr. Anderson married Rhoda Robinson, a native of Walker Grove, Mason Co., and one child, Edwin, was born to them on Sept. 21, 1897. Mrs. Ander- son is a member of the M. E. Church, and her husband of the Lutheran. Fraternally Mr. Anderson is a K. P., a Mason and a M. W. A. In politics he is a Republican, but, before everything else he is an American. Joan