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Frederick Eberhardt
Frederick emigrated from Germany to the United States for the mining industry. However, like our Italian friend Antonio he soon found economic opportunity in a different sort of business. While mining he realized that he lacked anything adequate to sleep on, and this unpleasant experience encouraged him to develop his first mattress. Eventually Frederick established his own company called Salt Lake Mattress and Manufacturing. Later, in the 1930s, the company became Serta Salt Lake. Today Serta is now located on Redwood Road.
13 August 1907.
1950
In 39 years time this company expanded significantly. Railroad tracks ran adjacent to the eastern side of the building enabling easy shipment of mattresses. Also apparent are several new buildings.
SCANDINAVIAN SAGA Peoples of Utah William Mulder In every census in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, Utah residents born in Scandinavia as well as those of Scandinavian stock (those having Scandinavian or mixed parentage) appear consistently as the second largest group of foreign-born or foreign stock in the state, second only to British-born and those of British stock. In 1900 Scandinavians formed 34 percent of Utah's foreign-born, and Scandinavian stock that year formed 16 percent of the total population. [They were] . . . farmers . . . artisans . . . masters . . . journeymen . . . apprentices . . . blacksmith . . . carriage makers . . . tailor[s] . . . carpenters . . . cabinetmakers . . . coopers . . . wheelwrights . . . joiners . . . turners . . . seamstresses . . . dyers . . . weavers . . . smiths . . . iron founders . . . ooppersmiths . . . tinsmiths . . . Machinists . . . shoemakers . . . tanners . . . saddle- and harness-makers . . . stonecutters . . . masons . . . bricklayers . . . butchers . . . brewers . . . bakers . . . millers . . . fishermen . . . seamen . . . ropemakers . . . house painters . . . a miner, a matmaker, a hairdresser, a hunter, a bookbinder, a printer, a thatcher, a sailmaker, a shipbuilder, five watch- or instrumentmakers, four clerks, four potters, and a furrier complete the inventory of occupations.