Alfred Rosenquist, rancher, grain farmer and coal miner in the Lehigh section of Judith Basin County, came to Montana in 1917, and here has become known as a man of substantial industry and public spirit. His interest in community affairs led to his election as a member of the first board of county commissioners of Judith Basin County.
    Mr. Rosenquist was born as Skane, Sweden, May 8, 1878, son of Bengt and Anna (Olson) Rosenquist, who were born in the same locality. In 1880, on Alfred Rosenquist's birthday, his parents were at Hamburg, Germany, enroute to America. The first year in this county they spent on a farm near Stanton, Iowa, then moved to Minnesota and took up land, and in 1886 moved to Nebraska. Bengt Rosenquist died in Clay County, Nebraska, in 1926, at the age of seventy-six. ......... His first wife, Anna Olson, died in 1887 in Fillmore County, Nebraska. Her children were: Nels, of Shickley, Nebraska; Alfred; Ben, a farmer in Fillmore County; Anna, wife of Clyde Burnam, of White Sulpher Springs, Montana; and Mrs. Blanche King, of Los Angeles. The second wife of Bengt Rosenquist was Hulda Peterson, and the children of that union are: Mabel, wife of Harry Matson, of Denver, Colorado; Carl, professor of agriculture in the University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Mrs. Della Prunty, of Denver; Ed, a field man for the Travelers Insurance Company, living at Omaha; and Ruth, a teacher in the schools of Superior, Nebraska, where her husband is a merchant. 
    Alfred Rosenquist spent his first years in America on his father's homestead in Kittson County, Minnesota. After having lived there five years his father sold out and moved to Nebraska, becoming one of the early settlers of Fillmore County. ......... 

Start of Abstract: Alfred Rosenquist graduated 1900 from the high school at Shickley, Nebraska. Taught three terms there. Attended State Normal school at Peru and took teachers training courses. "His last term of teaching was at Ong in Clay County, Nebraska." He became a business man at Shickley, member of the school board, a deputy county clerk, and one term chief deputy county clerk. He was a member of the Methodist Epsicopal Church. Moved to Lehigh, Montana and is a farmer and rancher. In 1922 he opened a coal mine in Judith Basin County... end abstract

    Mr Rosenquist married at Ong, {Clay County} Nebraska, Miss Ada Bottom, who was born at Ong, daughter of Frank Bottom, the local postmaster. She died a year after their marriage, leaving a son, Vyvian, who is a graduate of the Stanford High School and now connected with the State Highway Department. 

{There's more on his second wife, Katie Nicholas of Neligh, Nebraska and their 9 children.)

Transcribed by Darla Stimbert January 2004

Author; Robert George Raymer:  Montana : the land and the people
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1930, 2579  pgs. (Vol 3 parts of pages 298-300)