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I ran across this picture while I was working on the biography of George Herbert Anderson.  George was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1897 but came to live with his grandmother, Christina Olson Long, in Stockholm township, Pepin county, Wisconsin after the death of his mother in 1901.  He lived most of his life in the Stockholm area until later in life when he moved to Minneapolis.  He is pictured here holding a dead wolf.   The wolf population of Wisconsin prior to European settlement was estimated to be from 3,000 to 8,000.  No one really knows for sure.  What we do know is that as fur trappers and farmers began to move in to the area in the 1830's, the animals that the wolves preyed on began to disappear. Typically the wolves prey included bison, elk, and white-tailed deer in the south and moose, deer, caribou, and beaver in the north. Hungry wolves began to feed on easy-to-capture livestock.  This was unpopular with farmers as one would expect...

John Peter Anderson was born August 17, 1932 in Stockholm, Wisconsin, the fifth child of George Herbert and Mabel Elenora Johnson Anderson.  He was the name sake of his grandfathers, John Peter Johnson and Peter Anderson (Per Andersson).  John was baptized at the Little Pl um Lutheran Church located in Frankfort, Wisconsin, a few miles outside of Pepin.  The Little Plum church was the Johnson family church. John entered the Air Force on July 30, 1951 and graduated a year later from radio school at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. In 1953 he was stationed in Gottingen, Germany.  He served in the Korean and Vietnam Conflict as a radio operator.   John married Mary Elizabeth Thompson on July 28, 1956.  They were blessed with the birth of two daughters, Denise and Diane.   John passed away at his home in Red Wing, August 1, 2020  at the age of 87.