BIO: Andrew FRENDBERG, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 856 & 857.
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  ANDREW FRENDBERG, foreman of the Knox Run mine of the Clearfield County 
Bituminous Coal Corporation, and for more than a quarter of a century a well 
known resident of Peale, Pa., was born in Dalsland, Sweden, March 18, 1864, and 
is a son of Lars and Bertha S. Frendberg.
  Lars Frendberg was born in Sweden, in March, 1841, and there he followed the 
occupation of farmer.  In 1873 he came to America and located at Fallbrook, Pa., 
where he was employed in the mines, and was later located at Stockdale, Arnett, 
Antrim, Houtzdale and Clairmont, also spending a short time in Elk county, Pa., 
having been employed in and around the mines up to 1880.  In that years he went 
back to Sweden for his family, and on July 22nd of that year they all located in 
McIntyre.  Mr. Frendberg has charge of the boilers of the Knox Run mine, and is 
still active and in the best of health in spite of his advanced years.  Lars and 
Bertha S. Frendberg had seven children, the first four of whom were born in 
Sweden:  Andrew; Charles, who is assistant foreman of the Knox Run mine and 
resides in Lanse; Lars, who is engineer of the Knox Run mine; Gust, who is a 
resident of Peale and employed as a miner at Grass Flat; Annie, who is single; 
Amelia, who married Charles A. Carlson, assistant foreman of one of the Winburne 
mines; and Emanuel, who died in Sweden after the family came to America.
  Andrew Frendberg was about sixteen years of age when the family came to 
America, and he went to McIntyre, working there until October 4, 1884, from 
there coming to Peale, where he dug coal, laid track and acted as assistant 
foreman under James Adamson and William Creighton, from December, 1884, to 
February, 1902.  At this time he took a course of educational training from the 
Scranton School of Correspondence, and this enabled him to pass the examination 
for the position of foreman, which he has held to the present time.  Since first 
starting to work at the foot of Big Plain, about one mile east of Ralston, Mr. 
Frendberg has made many acquaintances in the coal fields and he is known by all 
to be a man of capability, honesty and integrity.
  On June 7, 1884, Mr. Frendberg was married to Miss Christina Peterson (or 
Pierson) daughter of Peter Peterson, who died in June, 1887, in No. 2 drift 
tunnelside.  Mr. and Mrs. Frendberg are the parents of the following children:  
Annie Elizabeth, born January 31, 1886, who is a graduate of Upsala College of 
Kennilworth, N. J.; William Robert, born June 21, 1888, who is a student in his 
sophomore year at that same institution; Victor Conrad, born January 12, 1892, 
who is a clerk in the A. F. Kelly store at Grass Flat.  Mr. Frendberg is a 
member of the Swedish Lutheran church at Peale.  In politics he is a Republican, 
and for four years he served as a member of the school board of Cooper township, 
it being during his term that the handsome new school building was erected at 
Winburne.  Fraternally, Mr. Frendberg is connected with Moshannon Lodge, No. 
391, F. & A. M.