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records appropriate resolutions in regard to Mr.
Johnson’s death. Mike Holm, Secretary of State for
Minnesota, was at a subsequent meeting elected to fill
the vacancy in the Council.
* * *
The death of John Aspegren in New York, which
occurred early in November meant not only that one
of the most striking personalities among the Swedes
in America passed, it would seem, altogether too early
from the scene—he was only 48 years of age—but it
meant also that the movement to preserve the best in
Swedish Culture in America and make it a wholesome
element in American life sustained a serious loss. Mr.
Aspegren exemplified in a striking way the opportunities
that America offers to people that come to her from
abroad and have integrity and ability. After receiving
a most thorough theoretical training in the schools of
his native land, he came to America in 1899 at the age
of 23. Already many years before his death he was
rated one of the leading financiers and industrial leaders
of New York, and at the time of his death held the
position of President of the New York Produce
Exchange and of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce,
besides serving as director in a number of other
industrial concerns. As chairman of the executive
committee of the John Ericsson Memorial Association, he
took a leading part in securing funds and legislation
that insure the placing of a worthy John Ericsson
monument in Washington. John Aspegren was perhaps the
richest Swede in America, but—and the “but” is used
advisedly, for men, and the Swedes in this country,
surely no less than the rest of them, certain fine excep-
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