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ANDREW JOHN LANNES, editor of the Swedish paper, “Our New Home,” is a son of Andrew and Louise Lannes, and was born in the county of Ydre, Sweden, November 8, 1860. His grandfather, Andrew Lannes, Sr., was a native of Sweden, a soldier in the standing army of that country, dying on the battlefield in the wars against Napoleon I. He belonged like his progeny to the Evangelical Lutheran church. He married Margerita Hakanson, with whom he had six children, all of whom, except one son, came to America, where the Lannes family is quite numerous in different states. Andrew Lannes (father) was born in Sweden in 1805, and served during a long life in the army of that country. In 1859 he abandoned bachelorship and married Louise Larson, by whom he had one child, a son, the subject of this sketch. Andrew Lannes (father) died in Sweden in 1871, when he was sixty-eight years old; his widow is in her sixty-fourth year and still lives in Sweden.

Andrew John Lannes received his education in the colleges of Eksjo and Linkoping, Sweden, and in a three years’ course at the University of Upsala, Sweden. The curriculum followed in these seats of learning, copes successfully with any college in that country, both in depth and variety of subject. In October, 1885, he emigrated from Sweden to the United States, stopping first at Kane, McKean county, Pa., where he obtained a position as clerk with a dry goods firm, but in six or seven months afterward, he moved to Buffalo, N. Y., where he followed the trade of machinist for three years. In 1889, he removed to Jamestown, since which time he has filled the position of editor of “Vart Nya Hem,” formerly “Folkets Rost,” a well-known organ of national repute among the Swedish-Americans. The “Folkets Rost,” or the “People's Voice” was established in 1874 by a stock company composed of prominent Swedes in that section of New York. Being a paper of great influence, it now follows the principle of independency to any political influence. The paper j was published under the title of Folkets Rost for nine years. In 1883 the name was changed to Vart Nya Hem, which title it still bears. When first issued, it was a folio, seven columns to a page, but when the title was changed to Our New Home, it was enlarged to a quarto in size. It is a large weekly paper and has a great circulation all over the United States.

Andrew J. Lannes is well fitted by education and experience for the position which he now occupies as editor of a paper published in the interests of the Swedish-American citizens in their adopted country. Especially in western New York and western Pennsylvania is its influence felt.