Edvard F SVERDRUP

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Chemist for tire company

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Usually spelled Edward.

Living in Buffalo, New York and the time of the 1930 census with his wife and one-month-old son.

He and his family were still in Buffalo in the 1940 census. He was a chemist for a rubber plant.

Died:
SSDI last residence

Edvard married Marjorie SCHIPPER on 6 Sep 1928 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Marjorie was born on 17 Dec 1904 in Minnesota; died in Oct 1977 in Irwin, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Edward F SVERDRUP, Jr was born on 24 Feb 1930 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York; died on 20 Oct 2011 in Libby, Lincoln County, Montana; was buried in Libby Cemetery, Libby, Lincoln County, Montana.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1907-57-766
• Occupation: Teacher, Theologian

Notes:

From a biography in the History of Hennepin County and The City of Minneapolis: SVERDRUP, George was born in the western part of Norway. December 16th, 1848. He attended school at Christiana from 1862 to 1865, when he entered the University in the city of Christiana. During 1870, he traveled through Italy and Germany, and in 1871, passed theological exanimation at the University. The year 1873, he spent in Paris, in the study of the Semitic languages, Assyrian antiquities and other sciences connected with the study of the old testament. In 1874, he received a call from this conference since which time he has been closely identified with the history of Augsburg Seminary.

He was the second president of Augsburg College (then called Augsburg Seminary). He served from 1876 until his death in 1907. This 31-year tenure is the longest of the college’s presidents.

Shown as born in Norway in 1849 according to his death certificate. That is also the birthdate shown in the database for emigrants from Balestrand.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, he is probably the Georg Sverdrup who is a student of Theology in Aker at Rosenhoff af Blinderen. He was born in Balestrand.

The database for emigrants from Balestrand shows that the 25 year-old Georg Sverdrup, “cand. th.”, emigrated “over Bergen frå Balestrand” on July 22, 1874. He was married at the time. He departed on the Kong Sverre line.

In the 1880 census (June 14th), Georg and family are living in Minneapolis. Georg, 31, is a professor of theology. The rest of the family is Catherine G., 26, Carl U., 5, Elsey M., 2, and George, 10 months. Also living with them was Catherine’s brother Jurgen Heiberg, 21, and Caroline Herslet, 31, a servant. The three children were born in Minnesota and the rest in Norway. Jurgen was a miller. Two doors away from the Sverdrups were the Sven Oftsdahls: another future president of Augsburg.

It would appear that Georg the father went back to Norway, where Inga was born, after George the son was born in the United States. Georg the father’s first wife apparently died in the 1880s and Georg remarried (to Elise) in the late 1880s. {She married at age 20, which would have been 1886 or 1887, according to the 1930 census.}

“Professor G. Sverdrup”, age 40, arrived in New York on 18 September 1886. He is headed for Minnesota. He arrived on the ship “Alabama” via Glasgow, Scotland, and Larne, Ireland. He appears to be traveling with someone either born in Iowa or destined for Iowa but the name is obscured by the fold in the original document.

Living with Georg and his family at the time of the 1900 census were two “pupils” from Norway: 30 year old Gilbert Olson and 33 year old Henry Ytrehus each of whose occupations were shown as students. The family was living at 728 22nd Avenue S. in Minneapolis. Georg the father was a teacher at Augsburg Seminary.

Founder of the Lutheran Free Church.

There is a Georg Sverdrup society organized in December 2003 and open to anyone interested in the life and work of Georg Sverdrup (1848 - 1907), considered as among "the ablest theologians" in the history of Norwegian-American Lutheranism. The society is registered in the state of Minnesota as a 501(C)(3) nonprofit corporation.

Died:
“paralysis of the heart”

Buried:
Section 16, Lot 56, Grave 2

Georg married Elise Susanne HEIBERG in Aug 1890. Elise (daughter of Andreas Severin HEIBERG and Else Cathrine Reusch FAYE) was born in Oct 1866 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway; died on 10 Sep 1942 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Sep 1942 in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1942-MN-021331

Notes:

Also shown as having been born in 1864. Emigrated in 1889. Shown in the 1900 census as having had 3 children, one still living. In the 1910 census, that’s shown as four children, four still living.

Elise is the little sister of Georg’s first wife.

Elise Heiberg, 24, single, and from Bergen, arrived in New York on August 30, 1889, aboard the S.S. Columbia.

She and her son Edward returned from Norway aboard the S.S. Hellig Olav on March 28, 1908. They landed in New York and had departed from Christiansand on March 16th.
 
In the 1910 census, she is shown as owning the house that the family lives in at 710 21st Ave. S.

In the 1920 census, she is 55 and is also shown as the owner of 710 21st Avenue. At that time (January 2nd), George and his family were living with her as was Elise’s daughter Ragna M., 34, Elise’s son Edward F., 15, and a servant, Hilda Slattum. Ragna is a bookkeeper at a school (probably Augsburg).

In the 1930 census she was living with her step-son George Sverdrup.

In the 1940 census, she was Elsie Sverdrup, a 75 year-old widow living at 710 21st Avenue in Minneapolis with her niece and step-daughter Ragna. This was a house Elsie owned, worth $1650 and is the same house in which she and Ragna had lived in 1935.

Buried:
Section 16, Lot 56, Grave 1

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Pastor

Notes:

In the 1865 census, Harald and his family (except Georg who is studying in Bergen) live on the Lunde farm in Balestrand. Harald’s occupation is Sognepræst Stortingsmd. The family has two servants living with them.

Member of Norway’s Parliament 1851-1873. He also was involved in many enterprises, from fruit growing to banking to shipping.

Birth:
Jarlsberg

Harald married Caroline Metella SUR on 4 Jul 1844. Caroline was born on 24 Jun 1816 in Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 27 May 1903 in Balestrand, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Last name also spelled Suur.

Could not find her in the Slidre birth record.

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The family was living at 7-21a in the Nykirkens Sogn quarter of Bergen at the time of the 1865 census. Andreas is shown as the “house owner.” His occupation is shown as Kjøbmand (merchant). The household has 22 people: Andreas’s sister, born in 1818, Andreas, his wife, their 7 children, and 12 “tjenestetyende.”

Andreas married Else Cathrine Reusch FAYE. Else was born on 27 Oct 1827 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Shown with “f. Faye” at the end of her name in the 1865 census.

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Jacob became an expert in land management and established the first agricultural school in Norway.

Birth:
På Laugen

Jacob married Jean Gundelle Birgitte SCHANCH on 19 Aug 1802. Jean was born on 1 Feb 1780 in Norway; died on 22 Dec 1820 in Jarlsberg Sems, Vestfold, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Rudersdal?