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Harald Ulrik SVERDRUP

Male 1891 - 1957  (65 years)


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  • Name Harald Ulrik SVERDRUP 
    Birth 10 Aug 1891  Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • draft card
    Gender Male 
    Death 6 May 1957  Yakima, Yakima County, Washington Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Usually spelled Harold.

      Registered for the draft as Harold Sverdrup on June 5th, 1917. At that time he was a high school instructor in Winona and was living at 220 East Wabasha St., Winona. He did claim exemption from the draft but no reason is shown. He is described as of medium height, slender build, with blue eyes and light hair.

      He and Lucile were renting Apartment #204 at 1524 Vine Place in Minneapolis at the time of the 1920 census (January). Harold was an accountant for a lumber company.

      In the 1930 census, Harold and Lucile were living at 3544 Hughes Avenue in Los Angeles. They had no children. Harold was a teacher at a private school.

      He registered for the World War II draft in 1942 as Harold Ulrik Sverdrup. At that time, he lived at 305B East 3rd Street in Ellensburg, Washington. He gave as his “person who will always know your address” Mrs. Margaret W Sverdrup of that same address. Harold worked for the Potlatch Yards in Ellensburg.

      He lived in Yakima, Washington, at the time of his half-sister’s death in 1955.

      His obit said that he had attended Augsburg and was a graduate of the state teachers college at Menomonie, Wisconsin. He was a teacher of industrial arts at Jamestown, North Dakota, and later at Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, California. For three years he lived in Juneau, Alaska, where he managed a lumber company. For the past ten years he made his home in Yakima where he was a lumber firm office manager. Surviving are his wife Margaret, a sister Mrs. M. B. Michaelson, and a brother, Edward, of Buffalo, N.Y.
    Person ID I4096  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 2 Jul 2021 

    Father Georg SVERDRUP,   b. 16 Dec 1848, Balestrand, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 May 1907, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Mother Elise Susanne HEIBERG,   b. Oct 1866, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Sep 1942, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage Aug 1890 
    Family ID F3276  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lucile E HUST,   b. Abt 1891, South Dakota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 13 Oct 1913  Winona County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3277  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Jan 2010