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Show Alif Ericksen Dies In Canada Relatives here have been advised ad-vised of the death of Aiif EricK-en, EricK-en, 81, former prominent business busi-ness man ox tnis cuy. Mr. Erick-cen Erick-cen died Tuesday at his home in xuiymond, Alberta, Canada, after everai months' illness following a paralytic stroke. iiLt. Ericksen was born in Spanish Fork July 14, 18o8, and -aine with his parents, Henry and Ingeborg Ericksen, to Mi. l leasant in 1860, the year after .ue citv's settlement. InlciiU he anu nis brother, the late Henry Ericksen, founded the ericksen Meat and Grocery company. com-pany. He was a director of the Mt. Pleasant Roller Mills, a stock-aolder stock-aolder in the first electric light company, served three years as a cuy councilman and also served as Sanpete county tax collector. From 1889 to 1892 he filled an L. D. S. mission to Norway. He married Augusta E. Dehlin n Salt Lake City January 5, 1882. in April 1903, Mr. Ericksen and j7 other Mt. Pleasant people left here to settle in Alberta, Canada. ii.s lamily joined him there six weeks later. He engaged m laiiu-mg laiiu-mg and stock growing. He took two car loads of Short Horn cattle from this valley to Canada. Among that group of people were the Moroni Seely family, :he Kimber Barton family, Clair Barton, the W. O. Barton family, Allie Bennett and family, Nels 'Eliason and family of Moroni, tut P. C. Meiling family and the I Jesse Wilcox family and Ed. j Ericksen and family also went ; about that time. Surviving are his widow; three daughters and two sons, Mrs. Allie Bennett, Raymond, Canada; (Mrs. Orval Olsen, Provo, Utah; (Mrs. Daisy G. Sterling, Canada; j and Allen Ericksen, Wrentham, . Canada. ! Funeral services and interment will be in Raymond, Canada. Mr. Ericksen is the last of an old pioneer family whom the people of Mt. Pleasant well remember. re-member. The members of that family were Erick Ericksen and Mrs. John Waldemar, born in Norway; and Henry, Alif and Edward Ed-ward Ericksen born in Utah. |