Mr. Sigurd E. Anderson This is Me

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   SIGURD E. ANDERSON has been president of the New Monarch Machine & Stamping Company of Des Moines from the time of its organization until the present, and his technical ability and progressive administrative policies have brought this corporation to marked success and precedence as touching the industrial and commercial prestige of the capital city.
   
   Mr. Anderson was born in Norway, August 10, 1873, and is a son of Otinius and Anna (Johnson), the former of whom passed his entire life in his native land and the latter of whom came with her fatherless children to the United States in 1891, the family home having been established in the City of Chicago and her death having there occurred in 1895.
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   Sigurd E. Anderson received his early education in the excellent schools of his native land, where likewise he received three years of excellent training for the work of the machinist's trade, this, with further technical discipline, having made him a specially skillful artisan. He was eighteen years of age when he accompanied his widowed mother to the new home in Chicago, and there he was employed ten years in machine shops and die and stamp works. He next gave four and one-half years of service as foreman of a machine shop in the City of Evansville, Indiana, and he then, in 1906, came to Iowa and established his residence in Des Moines. Here he held during the ensuing four and one-half years the position of superintendent of the E. L. Watrous Manufacturing Company, and he then associated himself with others in organizing the New Monarch Machine & Stamping Company, of which he has since continued the president, John Torgerson being its vice president and Russell Smith, its secretary and treasurer. This progressive corporation has its well equipped manufacturing plant and steel warehouse at 406 Southwest Ninth Street, and controls a large business in the various lines of press metal stamping. Products are shipped into the most diverse parts of the United States and also to foreign countries. In 1928 the company shipped to London, England, 1,059,000 of its celebrated and notably superior devices known as Bull Dog Floor Clips, besides making large shipments to other foreign lands.
   
   Mr. Anderson is signally loyal to and appreciative of the land of his adoption, and as a progressive American citizen he gives his allegiance to the Republican party, though he has manifested no desire for political preferment of any kind. He and his wife are zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church an din the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with the Scottish Rite bodies, as well as with the Mystic Shrine, he having been at one time chairman of the Shrine Patrol of Za-Ga-Zig Temple in Des Moines. He is a member also of th local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and has membership in the Iowa Engineers Association. He was active in local patriotic movements in the World war period, and his two sons were in active service in that great conflict.
   
   In the year 1894 was solemninzed the marriage of Mr. Anderson and Miss Rodna Goodmanson, who was born and reared in Chicago, and the children of this union are five in number: Frank, who is now superintendent of the comp[any of which his father is president, enlisted in teh United States Navy when the nation became involved in the World war, and his service was mainly in the naval shipyards; Clarence, who is now purchasing agent for the New Monarch Machine & Stanping Company, was in the destroyer in and about the British Isles in the World war period; Norma is the wife of Gerald Combs, who is connected with the gasoline department at the state capitol in Des Moines; Rodna is the wife of Henry Hughes, of Des Moines; and Helen remains at home.
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   Mr. Anderson has achieved independence and prosperity through his own ability and well directed efforts, and has won a place as one of the representative business men and loyal and public spirited citizens of the fair capital city of the Hawkeye State.