The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 931 

AUGUST A. SELLIN.

August A. Sellin has been a resident of Yakima county for only a brief period,
taking up his abode here in 1916, but already he has gained recognition as an
enterprising ranchman. He lives on Academy Heights, where he has erected a fine
residence, and his is now concentrating his efforts and attention upon the
development of his property there. He was born in Sweden on the 11th of January,
1879, a son of Andres and Sarah (Abrahamson) Sellin. The father is now deceased
but the mother survives and yet makes her home in Sweden, where Mr. Sellin
followed farming as a life work.

August A. Sellin is indebted to the public school system of his native country
for the educational opportunities which he enjoyed. After his textbooks were put
aside he learned the carpenter's trade and then came to the new world, making
his way to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1910. In that city he followed carpentering for
about six years, or until the spring of 1916, when he arrived in Yakima county
and purchased ten acres of land on Academy Heights. His time and energies have
since been devoted to the development and improvement of this property and in
addition to a fine residence he has added many other equipments of a model farm
property to his place. He has planted four acres of his land to apples and the
remainder is used for the raising of hay and for pasture. In 1918 he bought an
additional ten acres adjoining his original ten acres so that he now has a
twenty acre ranch.

On the 20th of November, 1909, Mr. Sellin was married to Miss Erece Rungren, a
native of Sweden, in which country they were married. They have become parents
of two children: Bertel, five years of age; and Phoebe, who is in her second
year. The parents are members of the Swedish Mission church and guide their
lives according to its teachings. Mr. Sellin votes with the democratic party,
which he has supported since becoming a naturalized American citizen. He has
never regretted his determination to leave his native country and seek the
opportunities of the new world, for in the utilization of the chances which have
come to him on this side of the Atlantic he has made steady progress. he is now
numbered among those who are doing effective work in the development of the
northwest and especially in the reclamation of the and lands of the Yakima
valley, which are rapidly being converted into rich and productive tracts,
devoted to agricultural and horticultural uses.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.