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FRANK E. CHARLSON was born in Sweden, June 26, 1845. At the age of twenty-one he came to America with his father, John, and mother, Fredreika Charlson, who settled in Altoona, Knox county, Ill., in 1866, migrating to southwestern Missouri in 1868. Jasper county became the home of his parents, where his father died, July 20, 1869, and his mother in 1875. The subject of this sketch, who is at the present writing a bachelor, came to Jasper county in 1867, and now lives with his brother-in-law, Olat Charlson, in Twin Grove township. Mr. Frank Charlson has been improving a farm of 120 acres in this township. Thirty-five acres sown to wheat averaged thirty-five bushels, and twenty sown in oats made forty bushels to the acre. There are good buildings going up, besides a fine young orchard of six acres commencing to bear. Mr. Charlson is a carpenter by trade, which he learned in the old country. He built some of the first houses in the City of Joplin, and has worked at his trade for twenty years. Mr. Charlson is improving another farm in Twin Grove township, for which he has the industry and enterprise.