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John Alfred Seaholm


JOHN ALFRED SEAHOLM -- The name of John Alfred Seaholm is enrolled among the agriculturists and stock raisers of Jackson township. and he is also the son of a farmer, Johns Seaholm, a native of Ostergotland, Sweden. He was a farmer and stock raiser in his native land, and there married Johanna Peterson, a native of the same place as her husband, and they became the parents of four children, namely: Charles, who was a structural iron worker in Chicago, Illinois, married Augusta Johnson, a native of Sweden, and died at the age of fifty-four years; Emily became the wife of Charles Laram, who is farming in Kansas; Hilda, now deceased, became the wife of Mr. Aronson, of Altoona, Illinois; John Alfred is the fourth and youngest of his parents' family. Johns Seaholm, the father, died in 1854. and his wife survived him for many years, dying on the 8th of August, 1896. They were members of the Lutheran Presbyterian church.

John Alfred Seaholm was born January 6. 1856, in Ostergotland, Sweden, and after attending the common schools of his native town he began farming. On the 30th of June, 1881, he arrived on American shores and first located at Pardoe, Pennsylvania, where he followed coal mining for three years. Moving then to Stoneboro, he lived there for four years, working in the mines, and during a similar period following worked in the mines at Halls Shaft: at the close of that period abandoning the work of a coal miner to engage in agricultural pursuits. He purchased a farm of forty-three acres in Jackson township, and has since lived on this homestead, engaged in farming and raising stock.

Mr. Seaholm married on the 15th of May, 1881, Anna Matilda Anderson, born December 25, 1861, in Ostergotland, Sweden, a daughter of A. P. and Charlotte (Pearson) Harold, who came from Sweden to the United States in 1880, and located in Pardoe, Pennsylvania, where he followed coal mining. As there were so many families of Andersons living in that section the father changed his name from Anderson to Harold. Both parents are now deceased, the father dying on the 26th of December, 1907. Four children have been horn to Mr. and Mrs. Seaholm, namely: Andrew Robert, born August 12, 1882. is a graduate of Mercer Academy and is a bookkeeper for the Colonial Trust Company of South Sharon; Anna Willomena, born September 9. 1886, is the wife of Arthur Nelson, a miner of Stoneboro, and they have one child, John; Emma Oliva, born March 13. 1889, attended the Mercer Academy and is now a teacher in school No. 1 of Jackson township: and John Elmer, born March 21, 1896, is a student in the schools of Jackson township. In politics Mr. Seaholm is a Republican, and with his family he is a member of the Bethany Lutheran church. He is one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of Jackson township.

Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, pages 944-945



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