The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 793 I. BENEDIKTSON. Actively connected with the management of one of the most important interests of Yakima is I. Benediktson, who is the vice president of the Cascade Creamery Company. He was born in Iceland in 1873, a son of Benedikt Krist Janson. Both the parents spent their entire lives in their native country of Iceland. The son acquired a public school education there and afterward went to England, where he learned the creamery and dairy business. Later he went to Denmark, where he took up the trade of butter making. which he followed for two years. gaining broad and valuable experience in that country, where dairying in all of its branches has reached a great height of perfection. The new world, however, attracted him and he crossed the Atlantic to Canada about 1905. After remaining in that country for a brief period he made his wav across the border into the United States and journeyed westward to Washington, establishing his home near Tacoma, where he entered the employ of the Lake Park Creamery Company. His experience throughout his entire business career has been along the line in which he is now engaged. For the past three years he has been connected with the Cascade Creamery Company, of which he is the vice president, and throughout the decade he has acted as manager of manufacturing. His broad experience and wide knowledge along this line well qualify him for the important and responsible duties that devolve upon him in connection with the control of one of the largest and finest creameries of the entire state. In 1909 Mr. Benediktson was married to Miss Bergthora Magnusson, of Duluth, Minnesota, and they have become parents of four daughters. Fraternally Mr. Benediktson is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to leave his native country and seek his fortune elsewhere, and least of all has he had occasion to regret his resolution of becoming an American citizen. Here he has found the opportunities which he sought and in their utilization has steadily worked his way upward. His ability and determination have brought him to the front along his chosen line and he is today accounted one of the foremost creamery men of the state. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.