The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 909 

CARL A. DANIELSON.

The career of Carl A. Danielson is a notable example of the wise use of time,
talent and opportunity. Left an orphan when less than eight years of age, his
has been a busy, active and useful life and one that has been of much benefit to
his fellowmen. He was born in Sweden, February 26, 1869, a son of Frederick and
Louisa Danielson. He came to the new world in 1887, when a youth of eighteen
years, snaking his way to Oakland, Nebraska. There he took up the trade of
harness making, which he followed for a time, and later he attended a
theological seminary of Chicago and became a minister of the Swedish Mission
church. He engaged in preaching in Illinois, Rhode Island, Connecticut and
Pennsylvania, continuing active in the work of the ministry until September,
1908, when he made his way to the northwest with Yakima county as his
destination. On reaching this district he purchased ten acres on Pleasant hill
and has since planted it to apples. He built a nice home upon his place and also
cultivated land for others for several years, having in charge one hundred
acres. He is now engaged in the further development and improvement of a tract
of thirty acres in addition to his home place of ten acres, and he is one of the
representative and progressive horticulturists of the valley. In 1913 he built a
fine packing house and storage warehouse and he has splendid equipment for the
fruit which he is now raising in large quantities.

On the 16th of November, 1898, Mr. Danielson was united in marriage to Miss
Elvera Matson, a native of Sweden, who came to the United States in her girlhood
clays. By her marriage she has become the mother of two children, Evaline Elvera
and Harriet Evangeline, both at borne. The older daughter is a graduate of the
Selah high school.

Mr. Danielson and his family are members of the Swedish Mission church and
during the first four years of his residence in this section he engaged in
preaching. he has always taken a most active interest in the work of the church,
putting forth every possible effort for its upbuilding and the extension of its
influence. He has also done notably successful work as a horticulturist and is a
member of the Selah Fruit Growers Association and a stockholder of the
Naches-Selah Irrigation District. He has closely studied the problems which
confront the agriculturist and the horticulturist in this region and his aid and
influence have ever been on the side of progress and improvement. He has
followed the most advanced methods in the development and propagation of his
orchards and his labors have indeed demonstrated what can be accomplished in the
way of transforming the once wild land that only a few years ago was covered
with sagebrush into fine bearing orchards, the fruit from which is shipped to
many sections of the world.

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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.