Erick Erickson was born in 1865 in Wisconsin. He homesteaded on Section 1 in Melville Township in 1888. His farm was known as the Maple Leaf Farm. He married Margaret Hayes in 1915, who was born in 1873. They had no children.
Margaret died in 1949. Erick died in 1936. They are buried in the Carrington Cemetery.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 83B