Isakson, Oscar

Isakson, Oscar, salesclerk – Portland – born in Göteborg in 1855. He was employed for more than three years by Strömman & Larsson’s lumber yard in Göteborg. He moved to America in 1883. After working as a timber measurer at a saw mill in Iron Mountain, Michigan, he traveled to San Francisco, Honolulu, New Zealand and finally Sidney, Australia. He spent a year there and then moved back to Sweden via America, where he continued his employment as an inventory clerk at Strömman & Larsson’s in Göteborg. In the autumn of 1888, he moved directly to Portland, Oregon. In the spring of 1889 he traveled to California and signed up as a member of the well-known, but unsuccessful, socialist colony Kaweah. He stayed only a couple of days before visiting Marshfield, Oregon, on the way back to Portland. For a while he worked at saw mills and lumber yards, and then for 12 years as a member of the police force, followed by stints as a collection agent for the gas company, as an agent for a life insurance company, and as a night watchman at the large Security Savings & Trust Company bank building. He owns his own home on 326 8th St. N. E. He is a member of Linnea and the Swedish-American National Association. He is a prominent public speaker and diligent newspaper correspondent. He married Carolina Swenson from Göteborg in 1890. They have two sons, of which the oldest is enrolled at Stanford University in California.

Isakson, O. F.
Isakson, O. F.