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E. L. AURELIUS
Vol. 3, p.1103-1104

During the past five years the name of E. L. Aurelius, president of
The Aurelius-Swanson Company, Incorporated, has become as familiar to
the residents of Oklahoma City as a household word, being
indissolubly associated in the mind of the public with a number of
enterprises, which have not only added to the city's prestige, but
have also placed comfortable homes within reach of the industrial
classes, and have incidentally added to the projector's fortune.
These achievements, it may be added, have been accomplished before
their architect has reached the age when slower minds are beginning
to comprehend life's possibilities.

Mr. Aurelius was born at Pecatonica, Winnebago County, Illinois, in
1883, and is a son of J. P. and Ida (JOHNSON) Aurelius. His father, a
native of Sweden, is a minister in the Lutheran Church and with Mrs.
Aurelius resides at Fremont, Kansas. There were two sons and three
daughters in the family: E. L., of this notice; Harry E., a graduate
of Bethany College, at Lindsborg, Kansas, class of 1914, and now
associated with his brother in business at Oklahoma City; Mrs. J. E.
LILJEDAHL, who is the wife of a minister at Salina, Kansas; Miss
Esther, who resides with her parents at Fremont, Kansas; and Miss
Ruth, who is attending the high school at Salina, Kansas.

E. L. Aurelius received his preliminary education in the graded
schools of Wakefield, Nebraska, and his high school training at El
Campo, Texas. Thereafter he spent several years as a student at
Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, and when he left college, in
1901, accepted a position as traveling salesman, a capacity in which
he represented several wholesale houses during the next few years. In
1909 he came to Oklahoma City and entered the real-estate and loan
business, in which he developed his now well-known system of home-
building. In five years he and his associates have built over 100
modern residences in Oklahoma City, and recently that feature of the
business has been extended to Norman, the seat of the University of
Oklahoma. The Aurelius-Swanson Company was organized and incorporated
in 1914, with a capital stock of $50,000 and a financial
responsibility of $100,000 and Mr. Aurelius has continued as
president of this concern and in active management of its affairs.
The company has a suite of offices on the tenth floor of the State
National Bank. Building. Its principal business is the selling of
first mortgages on city and farm real estate and its clientele is
found in many states of the North and East. Dr. J. E. SWANSON, a
member of the company's directing board, is a capitalist of Sioux
City, Iowa. On the theory that mortgages on improved city real estate
are considered the choicest of all investments, this company has
brought hundreds of thousands of dollars in to Oklahoma for the
development of city property. Their securities are actual first liens
on improved real estate that is worth several times the amount of the
mortgage.

Mr. Aurelius is a member of the Swedish Lutheran Church. He belongs
to the Oklahoma City Ad Club, and has been a helpful factor in a
number of movements for civic betterment

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, November 11, 1998.