Morton Alphaeus PEDERSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1909-23259
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1995-MN-025924

Notes:

Although he is Martin in the censuses, he is Morton Alphaeus on his birth certificate. His mother’s maiden name was shown as Kittleson. He is Morton A. on his death certificate and Morton Alexander in his burial records.

Living with Cecil and Henrietta in the 1930 census. His occupation is commercial traveler in the tobacco industry.

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, he is married to Marion. They live at 702 Maple Avenue. Morton is a warehouseman for Fergus Jobbing Co. In the 1937/38 Fergus Falls city directory, he is a driver. They live at the same address. In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, their telephone number is 128LM.

In the 1941/42 Fergus Falls city directory, he is an advertising man for North American Creameries. He and Marion live at 335 Whitford North.

He lived in Minneapolis at the time of his step-mother Judith’s death in 1968.

Died:
according to SSDI, his last residence was Battle Lake

Morton married Marian Elizabeth HAAGENSON in 1930 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Marian was born on 19 Feb 1912 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; died on 14 Aug 2010 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Barbara Beth PEDERSON was born on 31 Jul 1933 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; died on 23 Jan 1939 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1939-MN-011464
• Occupation: Lutheran Minister (Free Church)

Notes:

An obit from Find-A-Grave and “mpederson”:

Elias Pederson was born on Skarland farm near Grong in the county of Nord Trondlag, parish of Holandet, Norway. His parents were from Gausdal, county of Oppland, Norway. After immigrating to the United States, he married Louisa (Lillian) Stuberg at Brandon, Douglas, Minnesota. She died in Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, in 1894. Their son, Edward, died in Brandon, Minnesota, in 1898, at age 8.

On June 4, 1900 he married Hannah Marie Kittleson. They were the parents of 4 children, Henrietta, Reuben, Morton and Luther. She died March 1, 1929 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

On Sept 5, 1933, he married Judith L. Moe.

He was ordained into the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1900, after attending Augsburg Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

His first parish was Zion Lutheran Church in Adrian, Nobles, Minnesota, where he served from 1900 to 1905. Zion Lutheran was founded in 1896 and on June 17, 1900, he helped dedicate the current church building. He was the second pastor of the congregation.

His second pastorate was from 1905 until 1908 at Chippewa Falls, Chippewa, Wisconsin

His third pastorate was at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hills, Rock, Minnesota. The following is a quote from the 100th Anniversary book of Trinity Church, " In 1908, Rev. Elias Pederson was called and he served as pastor until March 1920. Rev. Pederson was an outstanding man both in church and out, and the church made much progress during his many years as pastor. He was active in the community, serving as a member of the school board until he left here. In 1908, the congregations rented the John Nelson house as a parsonage. Though the Hills pastor also served Luverne, they made their home in Hills. Rev. Pederson left in 1920."

After leaving Hills, Rev. Pederson served in Fergus Falls MN. {Where he was pastor of Zion Lutheran Church. He was one of the three founding pastors of the Pioneer Memorial Home.}

“I’m told he preached in long black tail dress coats and did confirmation all around the area at several country churches,” recalls granddaughter Doris Enderson. “Everything in those days was spoken in Norwegian.” She also remembered being told her grandfather worked on the rivers with the logging industry as a young man. He attended Augsburg College and upon coming to Fergus Falls bought a home on Whitford Avenue. Rev. Pederson’s step-daughter, Marilyn Moe Lee, recalled this about her step-father: “He was a very well-liked minister. He was very active and wanted to involve church members in those activities. He had a good business sense and the ability to make money so he was a natural for the fund raising efforts in the early days of Pioneer.”
 
An entry on Elias from the Kuehnel family’s web site:

“In the 1860's teenager Elias Pederson left his home and hometown of Hoylandet, Norway (near Namsos), to make the trip across the ocean, working first logging in Northern Wisconsin. Then, after the TB deaths of his wife and children, he entered the seminary, became a minister, and eventually ended up in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. No one in the Fergus family knew where Elias had come from, and no one in Hoylandet knew where Elias ended up.”

In the 1895 Minnesota census, he and his son Eddie Levin Pederson, age 4, live in Brandon in Douglas County, Minnesota, near the Stubergs. Elias is a “student.” He had been in the state for 7 years and in that enumeration district for 6 years.

Lived in Hills, Rock County, in the 1910 census. He was a minister of “{an}other gospel” and came to the U.S. in 1887. Living nearby was Martin Pederson who was 19 years older than Elias.

Living with Cecil and Henrietta in Fergus Falls in the 1930 census.

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, he is the Rev.Elias and his wife is Judith M. His entry in the directory says “Moved to Winger, Minn.”

In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, he and Judith reside at 116 Bancroft Avenue East and their telephone number is 1367.

According to his death certificate he lived at 116 East Bancroft in Fergus Falls. His wife Judith was the informant for his death certificate. He died from bladder problems and other complications of an enlarged prostate. He had been paralyzed in his lower extremities before he died.

Elias married Hannah Marie KITTELSON on 4 Jun 1901 in Meeker County, Minnesota. Hannah was born on 1 Feb 1877 in Acton Twp, Meeker County, Minnesota; died on 1 Mar 1929 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hannah must have been Elias’s second wife.

Some family trees show her birth as February of 1877 in Acton Twp, Meeker County.

Notes:

Married:
This is the date in MOMS. The couple was called Elias Peterson and Hanna Kittelson.

Peder married Anna ERICKSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]