34 Facts About Elmer Andersen

Elmer Lee Andersen was an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who built a successful business career with the H B Fuller Company.

Elmer Andersen never understood why his parents separated and never questioned them.

Elmer Andersen moved with his mother and infant sister, Caroline, to Muskegon, Michigan.

At the age of nine Elmer Andersen contracted a mild form of polio but, through exercise, regained his strength.

Elmer Andersen carried travelers' bags from the boat docks to the train station.

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Elmer Andersen wrote short essays on birds that were published in the Muskegon Chronicle.

Elmer Andersen's mother was devoted to church work and saw to it that the children were raised in the Lutheran church; Elmer Andersen was confirmed at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Muskegon.

Elmer Andersen died at home on March 3,1925, with Andersen at her bedside.

Elmer Andersen graduated from high school in 1926 and became a member of the first class of the newly established Muskegon Junior College.

Elmer Andersen heard through an associate that the H B Fuller Company in St Paul, Minnesota, a manufacturer of school paste, was looking for someone to hire in sales promotion.

The goal Elmer Andersen had set decades before of doubling their sales volume every five years was still being met.

Elmer Andersen retired as president and chief executive officer of Fuller in 1974, at the age of 65, turning the company over to his eldest son, Tony.

In 1953, twelve years after becoming president of the H B Fuller Company, Andersen entered the dairy business, buying a farm held by his wife's family on Deer Lake, near St Croix Falls, Wisconsin.

In 1974 Elmer Andersen began a new career as a newspaper publisher and writer.

Elmer Andersen acquired two newspapers to form the Princeton Union-Eagle, which eventually became part of ECM Publishers, which published a number of weekly local newspapers and shoppers.

Elmer Andersen wrote editorials for the ECM papers, many of which are gathered in Views from the Publisher's Desk.

Progressive Republican, Elmer Andersen served in the Minnesota legislature from 1949 until 1958.

Elmer Andersen described this moment as one of the most touching memories in his life.

In 1960, Elmer Andersen ran for governor against incumbent Democrat Orville Freeman.

Elmer Andersen said in 1999 that he decided to run after hearing Freeman wish he could again call the Minnesota National Guard to bust a strike at an Albert Lea meatpacking plant, after a federal judge blocked that decision.

Elmer Andersen lost his reelection bid two years later, by the closest margin ever in United States history.

Elmer Andersen remained in the Republican Party for the rest of his life, although he became unhappy about how conservative the party had become.

Elmer Andersen served on the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota from 1967 to 1975 and as chair from 1972 to 1975.

Elmer Andersen believed there was an additional mission to the three central missions—teaching, research, and community service—of the university: an archival one.

Elmer Andersen developed a passion for books as a child and collected them all his life.

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Elmer Andersen was well acquainted with book and auction catalogues; paging through them became a welcome break in a busy day.

Elmer Andersen intended to read his books, know them well, catalog them, and care for them.

Elmer Andersen revealed in his autobiography that while writing his Princeton Union-Eagle editorials, he wrote a column on book collecting using the name, Arne Kjelsberg, his father's first two names.

Elmer Andersen did not reveal his authorship of the column for many years, though a close friend correctly guessed.

Compilation of the volume commenced while Elmer Andersen lived, and he expressed hope to attend its publication party.

Much of the collection at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Library, which bears the Elmer Andersen name, is a direct result of their generosity.

Elmer Andersen met Eleanor Anne Johnson at Grace University Lutheran Church while they were both students.

Elmer Andersen was the eldest child of Gustav A and Elizabeth Johnson, both Swedish immigrants.

Elmer Andersen died in Minneapolis on November 15,2004, just months after a gala celebration for his 95th birthday held in the library that bears his name.