| 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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