Improvement Era, March 1928

Improvement Era Vol. XXXI MARCH, 1928 No. 5 Edward H. Anderson By Elder Junius F. Wells and Dr. George H. Brimhall IN a loose-leaf volume of typewritten biographical material, Elder Edward H. Anderson compiled, in his orderly, characteristic fashion, the evidences of a remarkably active, industrious, useful life; modestly revealing aspirations of the noblest quality, and an ambition to succeed worthily, by "the patience of hope and the labor of love;" as the Lord should lead and the Almighty direct his prog- ress, from childhood to the grave. There is so much of this material, though but a moiety of his life's achievements, that it is not easy to select and compile, within the space allowed, even the salient points of his busy career of constant effort, of almost incomparable devo- tion to labor, of sublime triumph in overcoming difficulties; winning the applause of his fellow-men and, at last, the welcome plaudit of Him who hath the right and power to say: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. * * Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Of the earliest conscious period of his life, he writes that he was born on October 8, 1858, in Billeberga, Sweden, and when only five and a half years old was on his way, with his parents, on the long and unknown journey to Western America. The company they traveled with, comprising more than nine hundred emigrating Latter- day Saints from Sweden. Norway and Denmark, after reaching Liverpool, early in April, 1864, were packed into the wooden sailing vessel, royally named, The Monarch of the Sea. After six weeks of turbulent rule of the waves, the Monarch, with its precious cargo, arrived at the port of New York. Combining a devious railway journey through Canada, on account of transportation dangers in the States, caused by the Civil War, with delays on the border, ar- ranging for the overland journey across the plains, nearly three months had elapsed before they set out for the valley of the Great Salt Lake: "Day after day progress was rfiade and many exciting incidents, and ups and downs, were experienced, until finally, on the 15th day of September, 1864. the lad and his parents landed on Emigration Square in Salt Lake City. Ox teams had carried