Elsie Sverdrup MILLS

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1957-MN-025473

Notes:

Not listed in the index of Minnesota births.

Single and living at home with her father and step-mother in the 1930 census. Elsie, 21, is a saleslady at a furniture store.

Elsie married Randel Emerson HORTON on 17 Jan 1931 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Randel (son of Georges HORTON and Anna M WARTNER) was born on 25 Dec 1899 in Bancroft, Kossuth County, Iowa; died on 24 Oct 1972 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1959-MN-025496
• Occupation: Professor, Hospital administrator

Notes:

His mother was Norwegian, his father English.

In the 1920 census, he and his family were living at 3507 12th Avenue S. in Minneapolis. William, 40, is an assistant superintendent at a hospital. Inga, 38, was born in Norway and came to this country in 1883. (There is some other writing on the census form that is illegible but appears to explain her being born in Norway.) Elsie is 11 and Anne is 10. They have a roomer, 63 year-old Karen Adsem, a single lady, a dressmaker born in Norway.

In the 1930 census, he has remarried and his still living at 3507 12th Ave. S. He is a superintendent at a hospital. The household consists of William, 50, Jessie E., 39, Elsie, 21, Ann M., 20, and two children of Jessie’s: Carlton E., 12, and William H., 6.

William married Inga SVERDRUP on 29 Dec 1904 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Inga (daughter of Georg SVERDRUP and Cathrine Elisabeth HEIBERG) was born on 9 Aug 1881 in Norway; died on 20 Apr 1927 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1927-MN-018513

Notes:

Shown as having been born in Norway in the 1900 and 1910 censuses. Also shown as born in Norway on Elizabeth Katharine’s birth certificate.

John married Anna BAKKEN. Anna was born on 9 Apr 1854 in Gulbrandsdal/Gudbrandsdalen region, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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 Cathrine Elisabeth HEIBERG on 25 Jun 1874 in Nykirken, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway. Cathrine (daughter of Andreas Severin HEIBERG and Else Cathrine Reusch FAYE) was born on 4 Nov 1853 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway; died on 9 Oct 1887 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 23 Jun 1921 in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

“Catherine” on gravestone.

Buried:
apparently a reburial; Section 16, Lot 56, Grave 5

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]

Notes:

Last name also spelled Suur.

Could not find her in the Slidre birth record.

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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