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Ludington Record Appeal
8 December 1904

        MASON COUNTY PIONEER STORIES
           by R. H. Elsworth

        When he who is now L. P. SMEDBERG of Amber township was 14 years of
     age he enlisted as a drummer boy in the Swedish army.  His father's
     name was JOHN and according to custom his name should have been
     JOHNSON, but as the army regulations did not permit of there being two
     men in any one company with the same name, and there was already a
     JOHNSON, the drummer boy was obliged to choose a new name.  Then it
     was that he became SMEDBERG.  He took this name becaus he had once
     known a lawyer, a fine fellow, who bore the name, and he hoped to be
     equally fine.  For four years he beat the drum, then retired, but
     shortly after entered the army again and served the king for ten years
     more.

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