The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 833 

FRANK BERGQUIST.

During the ten years in which he has made his home in Yakima county, Frank
Bergquist has steadily progressed along business lines and is today one of the
successful orchardists of the Selah valley. He was born in Sweden on the 7th of
June, 1855, a son of John Peter and Johanna (Michelson) Bergquist. The father is
now deceased, but the mother survives and is yet living in Sweden.

In the public schools of his native country, Frank Bergquist pursued his
education and there resided until he reached the age of about twenty-four
years, when in June, 1879, he bade adieu to friends and native country and
sailed for the United States. For a few weeks he tarried in the east, residing
in Pennsylvania, but at the end of that time made his way westward to Chicago,
where he continued to live for almost thirty years and during that period was
employed by the Pullman Palace Car Company in the capacity of inside finisher, a
trade which he had thoroughly mastered in early life, becoming an expert
workman. He continued his labors in that connection until 1908, when he
determined to try his fortune in the west. He then made his way to Yakima county
and invested his earnings in ten acres of land on Selah Heights. Like many
others, he took up fruit raising, planting seven and a half acres of his land to
apples, pears, peaches, cherries and other fruits, while the remainder of the
tract is given over to the raising of hay. In 1914 he built a fine stone
residence upon his ranch, has put up large barns and sheds and has every
facility for the propagation and cultivation of his orchards. An air of neatness
and thrift pervades the place and as the years have passed his prosperity has
constantly increased as the result of his wisely directed labors.

In 1882 Mr. Bergquist was married to Miss Marie Anderson, a native of Sweden,
who had been a schoolmate of his in their childhood and who crossed the Atlantic
in 1881, settling in Chicago. They are now parents of two children: Charlotte
Amelia, the wife of James Iler, living in Tacoma; and Oscar B., who now resides
in California. Forty years have come and gone since Mr. Bergquist determined to
leave his native country and seek his fortune in the new world. He has never had
occasion to regret this resolution on his part, for he here found the
opportunities which he sought and, working steadily along well defined lines, he
has in the course of years gained a position among the substantial residents of
Yakima county.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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