Charles Swanson “CJ” is the great-great Grandfather to my sons. Alvin is the great grandfather who came to Calif. This is an awesome piece of history to add to the family album. Thank you for mentioning CJ’s generosity. That is a trait passed down to each generation with this Swanson clan. This video is amazing! Thank you!
Awesome! Glad to hear you enjoyed it. I had a push to complete it from someone who had benefitted from his generosity. They felt his story should be remembered.
@@MNBricks Wow! Very cool! CJ apparently left a wonderful legacy behind to give others a better life of that of which he fully understood. I researched Sweden in 1869 when CJ came to the U.S. In Sweden there had been prior years of failed crops due to wet/dry weather, famine, and the Lutheran Church was suppressed. CJ fully understood hardship. He gave back what he so hard achieved. I see why he was elected as the state Senator. His son Alvin, bought a gold mine in Eureka, CA in 1939. It didn’t produce much. He ended up running a successful insurance business in Los Gatos, CA and had 5 children. Alvin Swanson married into the Anderson family, old family friends from NY. I saw in your census, the Anderson surname. He and his dad, CJ and mom, Christine, went on a luxury cruise ship to Sweden with the Andersons, a furniture maker in NY. He fell in love with Virginia Anderson, my son’s great grandmother. I have pictures of her holding my son. She passed in 1988. CJ passed on wonderful family traits, the fruits of his labor for generations. He made his mark in the Times he lived. Thank you again. The great-grandchildren never knew this story of CJ or anything about him. This is Swedish American history he carved and gave! Someone wrote a great tribute about him in “Find A Grave”. I wonder if it’s the same person who pushed you to include him? CJ’s manufacturing was enormous! You did a great job depicting the buildings his bricks built, his land holdings, his long time employees, etc. The entire history. It would be very inspiring to visit these places in MN. Job well done!!!! Truly grateful!
Charles Swanson “CJ” is the great-great Grandfather to my sons. Alvin is the great grandfather who came to Calif. This is an awesome piece of history to add to the family album. Thank you for mentioning CJ’s generosity. That is a trait passed down to each generation with this Swanson clan. This video is amazing! Thank you!
Awesome! Glad to hear you enjoyed it. I had a push to complete it from someone who had benefitted from his generosity. They felt his story should be remembered.
@@MNBricks Wow! Very cool! CJ apparently left a wonderful legacy behind to give others a better life of that of which he fully understood. I researched Sweden in 1869 when CJ came to the U.S. In Sweden there had been prior years of failed crops due to wet/dry weather, famine, and the Lutheran Church was suppressed. CJ fully understood hardship. He gave back what he so hard achieved. I see why he was elected as the state Senator. His son Alvin, bought a gold mine in Eureka, CA in 1939. It didn’t produce much. He ended up running a successful insurance business in Los Gatos, CA and had 5 children. Alvin Swanson married into the Anderson family, old family friends from NY. I saw in your census, the Anderson surname. He and his dad, CJ and mom, Christine, went on a luxury cruise ship to Sweden with the Andersons, a furniture maker in NY. He fell in love with Virginia Anderson, my son’s great grandmother. I have pictures of her holding my son. She passed in 1988. CJ passed on wonderful family traits, the fruits of his labor for generations. He made his mark in the Times he lived. Thank you again. The great-grandchildren never knew this story of CJ or anything about him. This is Swedish American history he carved and gave! Someone wrote a great tribute about him in “Find A Grave”. I wonder if it’s the same person who pushed you to include him? CJ’s manufacturing was enormous! You did a great job depicting the buildings his bricks built, his land holdings, his long time employees, etc. The entire history. It would be very inspiring to visit these places in MN. Job well done!!!! Truly grateful!
I bet you get a kick out of the mud flood conspiracy theory
Those people are so frustrating. Impossible to reason with.