Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

ALVIN O. ERICKSON

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            Yuba County is to be congratulated upon having for a citizen such a 
man of true worth and unquestionable character as Alvin O. Erickson, a ranch 
owner and president of the Yuba County Fair Association.  He was born on June 
16, 1890, near Braham, Isanti County, Minn., a son of August and Matilda 
Erickson, whose sketch appears on another page of this history.
            Alvin O. Erickson came to Stanislaus County, Cal., with his parents 
in 1900 and was reared and educated in the Delhi school district.  After 
completing the grammar school he took one year in high school and then entered 
Heald�s Business College in Los Angeles, where he was graduated in 1910.  Then 
he was associated with his father.  He came to Arboga and on November 10, 1911, 
he purchased forty acres, and later an additional twenty acres, which he has 
devoted to alfalfa and vineyard.  Then ten acres which is set to vines is 
devoted to the Thompson Seedless variety, but he intends planting some Alicante 
Bouchette grapes.  Mr. Erickson was one of the first ranchers in this district.  
He cleared and leveled the land and built fine ranch buildings and a modern home 
on this ranch.  He maintained a dairy until recently.
            On December 11, 1912, at Turlock, Cal., Alvin O. Erickson was united 
in marriage with Miss Anna Lundell, who was born near Lincoln, Nebr.; she came 
to Turlock, Cal., with her parents when she was a small child.  Her father, 
Charles A. Lundell, who was a farmer, and her mother, Sophia (Anderson) Lundell, 
are the parents of seven children:  Henry, and Mrs. Esther Erlandson, both of 
Turlock; Elna, wife of Rev. Albert Dwight, both of whom are missionaries to 
China; Elbin, in Klamath Falls, Ore.; Anna, now Mrs. A. O. Erickson; Arvid, of 
Turlock; and Mrs. Olive Johnson, of Modesto.  Mr. and Mrs. Erickson have a son, 
Irving.  Mr. Erickson is a stanch supporter of the Republican party.  He is the 
first president of the Yuba County Fair Association.  For some time he has been 
a trustee of the Arboga school district.  He has been an enthusiastic stock 
breeder specializing in Belgian horses and pure bred Jersey cows; in 1921 he 
took nine blue ribbons, and in 1922 he took fourteen blue ribbons at the Yuba 
County Fair. His stock has been exhibited in Yuba, Sutter and Glenn Counties and 
is ranked among the very best in the Golden State.
            
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1253