Iver EVERSON

1886 - 1967  (81 years)

• Name	Iver EVERSON
  Birth	1 Jan 1886	Bremsnes, Kvernes, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	14 Mar 1886	Bremsnes, Kvernes, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
  Death	10 Feb 1967	Santa Cruz County, California
  Notes	Born Iver Iverson Gustad before his parents’ marriage. His father was already in the U.S. when he was born. No Gustads participated in his baptism. Ever is listed as a nine year-old, born in Norway and living with his parents in Farm Island Twp in the 1895 Minnesota state census. Listed in the 1900 census as 14 year-old daughter “Eva”, born July 1885. But that is also the census that called Esther “Arthur.” The census enumerator, Charles Howe, may not have understood the Norwegians’ broken English. He is 19 year-old male Iver Iverson, living with his parents and sisters in Farm Island Twp in the 1905 state census. In the newspaper account of his sister Anna’s marriage to Everett Mackaman, he is described as “Ever Everson Jr.” and with bride. That account further implies that Ever and his bride were married in Duluth on March 5th. The 1930 census also shows Iver as first married at age 22. With that newspaper account in mind, he is probably the Iver Evenson, age 24, a laborer in a mill in the village of Deer River, Itasca County, in the 1910 census. His wife, to whom he has been married for 2 years, is Johnna or Johanna, age 26, born in Illinois to parents born in Scotland. They have a son, James, three months old. He’s not listed in the 1920 census. In between those censuses, he registered for the draft as Iver Everson on September 12, 1918, in International Falls. His permanent home address was the Fredrick Hotel in International Falls. His occupation was foreman at International Lumber Company in International Falls. He claimed to be a naturalized citizen by his “father’s naturalization before the Registrant’s majority.” He gave as his nearest relative Ever Everson of Rt 2, Aitkin. He was described as of medium height and build with brown eyes and brown hair. A different Iver Iverson, 34 year-old Iver H Iverson, born in Norway and having come to the U.S. in 1887, lived with his wife Alma in Spokane, Washington, in the 1920 census. Iver was a locomotive fireman. Alma was 28 and had been born in Minnesota. The couple had no children. This Iver and Alma were still in Spokane in the 1930 census. In the 1930 census, he was the census enumerator for the page on which he appears. He was Iver Everson, age 44, born in Norway, who came to the U.S. in 1887, a lumberyard foreman in South International Falls. His wife was Mildred, 29, and his mother-in-law, living with the couple, was Clara Zoesch, a 50 year-old divorcee. Iver and Mildred were married in about 1922 but Iver had been first married in about 1908. They had had no children. Iver was not a veteran. Iver was the informant for his parents’ death certificates. He was living in International Falls when his father died in 1935. He was living in Aitkin when his mother died in 1937. According to the article on the wedding of Dorothy Mackaman and Darrold Parks in the fall of 1937, out-of-town guests included “Mr. and Mrs. Iver Everson and Mrs. Zoesch of International Falls.” In the 1940 census, he and Mildred, along with Clara M “Zonah”, mother-in-law, and Lorraine M “Zonah”, niece, age 14, lived on 2nd Street East in South International Falls. Iver, who was the informant for the information in the census form, was the proprietor of a liquor store and Mildred was bar waitress. Iver had been educated through 1 year of high school. Lorraine had been born in Minnesota but five years previously had lived in Omaha. {Lorraine Mildred Zoesch, mother’s maiden name Walsh, was born in Rice County on 29 Sep 1925 (1925-26288). In the 1930 census, Lorraine, her sister Yvonne (then 5) and their mother Mary were living in Faribault with Mary’s parents, Thomas and Mary Walsh.} According to a 60 year look-back in the 2014 International Falls Journal is this from what would have been the January 29, 1954 edition: Iver Everson, well-known South International Falls resident and businessman, announced the sale of Holler Liquor Store to Chester Sumner, 1033 Second Street. In California Voter Registrations, and in some city directories, Mrs. Pearl Everson is the wife of Ivar V Everson, a plasterer. They lived in Palo Alto in the 1940s. They are recorded also in the 1930 census as living in San Francisco and having a daughter Shirley born in 1928. They later had a daughter Beverly in 1931. That Pearl was born in 1904 and had the maiden name Stevens. Both Pearl and Ivar were born in Washington. Ivar died in 1946 in San Mateo County. Our Iver’s obit in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 12th edition, says that he was a two-term mayor of South International Falls. He had moved to Santa Cruz 13 years before and was a retired mill superintendent. His wife was “Pear”, who apparently is the mother of the “step-son”, John P Scholl of Minneapolis. No natural children of Iver are mentioned.
  Person ID	I555	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Ever EVERSON,   b. 15 Jun 1858, Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway d. 9 Apr 1935, Aitkin County, Minnesota (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Bente Andersdatter ODEGÅRD,   b. 23 Oct 1860, Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway d. 16 Jan 1937, Aitkin County, Minnesota (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	4 Jun 1887	Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F85	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Joanna V CALLAHAN,   b. Mar 1882, Wisconsin d. 1964, Washington (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	5 Mar 1908	Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota
  Divorce	1913
  Children	1. James Edward BURGHARDT,   b. 4 Feb 1910, Itasca County, Minnesota d. 7 Apr 1990, Seattle, King County, Washington (Age 80 years)   2. Mark Lester BURGHARDT,   b. 5 Dec 1911, Wisconsin d. 27 May 1972, Olympia County, Washington (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F15458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2014

  
  

  Family 2	Mildred (Frieda Emilie) ZOESCH,   b. 21 Oct 1899, Butternut Twp, Ashland County, Wisconsin d. 27 May 1983, Sacramento County, California (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	11 May 1921	Koochiching County, Minnesota
  Divorce	Aft 1940
  Family ID	F399	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2012

  
  

  Family 3	Pearl A,   b. 5 May 1900   d. 6 Nov 1992, Clallam County, Washington (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	3 Sep 1949	Koochiching County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F19357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2018