Foreign Language Press Service

Robert Lindblom Dead

Svenska Kuriren, Feb. 23, 1907

One of our most prominent countrymen, Robert Lindblom died Friday night. He was 62 years of age. He was born in Sweden, and came to the United States when he was 20 years old. He settled in Chicago in 1877, and became a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. Mayor Hopkins appointed him a member of the school board, and he reorganized the financial system of the Board. Mayor Carter A. Harrison appointed him chairman of the new Civil Service Board. Lindblom supported Bryan for President.

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