California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


GUSTAV HENRY SWANSON.� A very enterprising and self-made man 
is Gustav Henry Swanson, born May 22, 1875, in Smaland, Sweden, where 
he grew up on the farm and received a good education in the local schools. 
In 1892. when a youth of seventeen years, he came to America and the spring 
of 1892 found him in Winnipeg, where he spent six months in the employ of 
the Canadian Pacific Railroad. At the end of this period he came to Caspar, 
Mendocino county, and found employment with the lumber company at that 
place, working in different departments in their mill until 1902. In that year 
he entered the filing room and continued as a filer until 1905, when he ob- 
tained his present position as head filer for the Mendocino Lumber Company. 
Since then the has made his home in Mendocino, where he owns a comfortable 
residence and two acres of land. 

While living at Caspar Mr. Swanson formed the acquaintance of Jennie 
Olson, a native of that place, and there they were united in marriage. Mr. 
Swanson was made a Mason in Mendocino Lodge No. 179, F. & A. M., of 
which he has served as master. He is also a member of Mendocino Chapter No. 
88, R. A. M., and with his wife is a member of Ocean View Chapter. O. E. S. 
He is also a member of Stella Lodge No. 213, I. O. O. F. In political affilia- 
tions he espouses the principles set forth in the Republican platform. He 
was reared in the Lutheran faith and adheres to those doctrines. Personally 
he is well and favorably known and his exemplary habits coupled with his 
progressive and enterprising views make him greatly appreciated by the 
citizens of Mendocino and vicinity.