Eleanor Louisa (Ellen) Anderson
born in Minneapolis on 16 July 1884 to parents Karl (Charles) Anderson and
Anna Louisa (Johansdotter) Anderson.
Charles died 20 March 1933 in Minneapolis, Anna died in Minneapolis about 1886.
Ellen married Alfred Carlson in Minneapolis on 15 August 1907.
Alfred Carlson was born in Alvsborg, Sweden on 26 Sept 1871 and arrived in MN May 1893.
Alfred died 26 March 1940 in Coos Bay, OR, Ellen died 23 Jan 1973, in Coos Bay, OR
They were the parents of Evelyn Marian, born 28 March 1908, Minneapolis, Margaret Bernice born 30 May 1911,
Minneapolis, Lillette Anna, born 28 April 1913, Alfred Kenneth, born 15 Aug 1919 and James Edward born 6 Nov 1920, the last three
children born in Coos Bay, Coos Co., Oregon.
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John Lewis Kronenberg.
One of the greatest individual forces in the commercial expansion and development of Coos county is John Lewis Kronenberg,
a native son. His administrative ability has directed and influenced the organization and establishment of important industrial and business
institutions and his energies have controlled their growth and progress. For well over a quarter of a century his well timed aggressiveness,
his shrewd policy, and his business instinct have been directed toward the accomplishment of large ambitions and have made him a power in important
affairs. He was born in Coos county, December 9, 1861, a son of John and Catherine (Beekler) Kronenberg, the former a native of Hanover, Germany,
and the latter of Baltimore, Maryland. The father came west to California around Cape Horn in 1849 and the mother came to the same section a few
years later. John Kronenberg, Sr., mined in the gold fields of Eldorado county for ten years and gained a comfortable fortune as a reward for his
labors. With this money as a working capital he came north to Oregon, settling in Coos county in 1850, one of the early Oregon pioneers. He took up
a homestead claim on Hall's creek, near Arago, and upon this property lived for thirty years. He cleared the land, built a home and rented his farm,
retiring to Coquille in 1880, in order to rest after an active, eventful, and representative career. He died in that city in June, 1909. He was the
father of five children: Emma, the wife of Joseph Blakely, of Lodi, California; John Lewis, of this review; Fred W., of Denver, Colorado; Rachel, the
wife of A. J. Marsh, of Curry county; and Ida K., the wife of Dr. C. W. Owens, of St. Louis, Missouri.
John L. Kronenberg, of this review, received a limited education in the district schools of Coos county and remained upon his father's farm until
he was twenty-five years of age. Leaving home he went to Parkersburg where he became foreman of a lumber camp and acted in this capacity for twelve
years. His business ability gained him rapid advancement and he eventually assumed entire management of the mill and has never severed his connection
with it. After the death of the owner the business was incorporated under the name of the Coquille Mill & Tug Company with Mr. Kronenberg as director
and stockholder. The other men interested in the business live in various parts of the United States and Mr. Kronenberg as the only local stockholder
has a position of importance and responsibility which he fills ably and efficiently. Among his largest business interests may be mentioned the Bank
of Bandon, of which he is president and director and the Coquille Tow Boat Company, which he organized and incorporated with a capital stock of forty
thousand dollars. He is now its president and manager and also one of the largest stockholders. He is extensively interested in river traffic and also
freight traffic on the Pacific ocean between ports on the coast and has directed his activities along this line for many years. He was responsible for
the building of the ship Oregon, plying along the Pacific coast and owns a large amount of stock in this vessel. He is prominent and well known in the
logging business and has extensive interests along this line, being at the head of a company which handles twelve million feet of lumber every year.
Among the other important enterprises with which he is connected may be mentioned the Bandon Hardware Company, which he organized and the Bandon Dry Goods
Company, of which he is president and a stockholder. On October 29, 1887, Mr. Kronenberg was united in marriage to Miss Ottilie K. Parker, a native of
New York and a daughter of Captain Judah Parker, one of the pioneer ship captains on the Pacific coast and prominent in the Pacific mail service for
a number of years. He died May 20, 1909. In his family were four children: Georgia A., the wife of William Poley, a druggist, of Ashland; W. C., of
Prosper; Allen, who has passed away; and Ottilie, the wife of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Kronenberg have three sons: John, born in November, 1897, who
is a pupil in the high school and is of a mechanical turn of mind; George, whose birth occurred April 15, 1904, and who is attending school; and Harry
Parker, who passed away at the age of twenty years, on the 21st of June, 1908.
Mr. Kronenberg gives his allegiance to the democratic party but his absorbing business interests prevent his taking an active part in political life.
Preeminently a man of large affairs he has made his career a great force in industrial development of his native section. He possesses the power of
making his varied interests separately effective and has the keen discernment, courage, and initiative which make the true type of modern business
man. His ability has commanded many opportunities which his public spirit has made factors in the general welfare.
Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912 by Joseph Gaston, p. 1033
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