The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 921 AXEL CARLSON. Axel Carlson is the owner of ten acres of rich and productive land on Academy Heights in Yakima county, in addition to which he cultivates forty acres of rented land. Sweden has furnished many substantial citizens to this section of the country, of which number Axel Carlson is a representative. He was born in Sweden, February 6, 1886, a son of Carl and Sarah Eliza (Pearson) Carlson. The parents came to the United States in 1901 and settled first in Omaha, Nebraska, where they resided until 1914 and then made their way across the country to Yakima county, where the mother passed away in the same year. The father is now living with a son and has reached the age of eighty years. Axel Carlson acquired a public school education in Sweden and there began working for wages as a farm hand and also in machine shops. He accompanied his parents to the united States in 1901 and in 1905 went with the family to St. Paul, Minnesota, where they resided until they removed to Yakima county in 1914. In the meantime Axel Carlson had worked industriously and saved his earnings, so that he and his brother were able to bring their parents to the west. On removing to this section of the country he invested in ten acres of land on Academy Heights in Yakima county and has since given his time, thought and energy to the improvement of the farm. he built a fine new home upon his place, also erected large and substantial barns and has added all of the equipment and accessories found upon the model ranches of the northwest. He is also giving much attention to the cultivation of a forty-acre tract of land which he rents and he is classed with the successful orchardists of the county. On the 27th of January, 1916, Mr. Carlson was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Hilstrom, a native of Chicago, Illinois. They attend the Swedish Mission church and are people of the highest respectability, enjoying the confidence and warm regard of those with whom they have been associated. Mr. Carlson has proved his worth as a business man and being still a young man, undoubtedly has before him a prosperous future. From each experience in life he has learned the lessons therein contained and by the faithful performance of each day's duties he has found courage and strength for the labors of the succeeding day. Step by step he is advancing and each forward step brings to him a broader outlook and wider opportunity, which he eagerly and wisely utilizes. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.