Peder Jakob SVERDRUP

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A large land-owner in northern Norway.

Peder married Hilleborg Margrethe SCHULTZ on 7 Jul 1761 in Nærøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Hilleborg was born on 27 Mar 1743 in Molde, Møre og Romsdal, Norway; died on 17 Mar 1828 in Namdalen, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Laugen gård

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In 1813, Georg Sverdrup was one of the first professors of the University of Oslo in classical philosophy and languages. Georg participated in the Norwegian constitutional convention and was one of the three authors of the final document.

Birth:
Laugen gård

Georg married Petronelle Marie TRESCHOW on 29 Jun 1804 in Roskilde, Denmark. Petronelle was born on 18 Oct 1781 in Copenhagen, Denmark; died on 8 Feb 1849 in Frydenlund, Oslo, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Laugen gård

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Birth:
Laugen gård

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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]

Family/Spouse: Christiana Henrietta BRODTKORB. Christiana was born in 1783 in Hemne, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway; died in 1869 in Nærøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Michael married Ingeborg Margrethe Augusta AARS on 8 May 1837 in Oslo, Norway. Ingeborg was born on 12 Nov 1809 in Oslo, Norway; died on 9 Dec 1896. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Agathe Ursula THURMANN on 27 Nov 1828 in Sem, Vestfold, Norway. Agathe (daughter of Lars Eriksen THURMANN and Agathe Aarsille BACKER) was born on 19 Jul 1811 in Hof, Vestfold, Norway; died on 21 Jun 1889 in Horten, Vestfold, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hanne married Hans Plathe NILSEN on 10 Jun 1831 in Borre, Vestfold, Norway. Hans was born on 16 Feb 1803 in Borre, Vestfold, Norway; died on 7 May 1886 in Horten, Vestfold, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Livia married Anton Elias SMITT on 8 Feb 1834 in Sem, Vestfold, Norway. Anton was born on 1 Nov 1805 in Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway; died on 27 Oct 1875 in Voss, Hordaland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Georg married Anna Cathrine THURMANN in 1836. Anna (daughter of Lars Eriksen THURMANN and Sophia Dorothea) was born on 14 Oct 1814 in Hof, Vestfold, Norway; died on 13 Jan 1894 in Oslo, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edvard married Ida Gulbrandine Marie BØE on 12 Sep 1837 in Biri, Oppland, Norway. Ida was born on 12 Nov 1815 in Biri, Oppland, Norway; died on 2 Dec 1893 in Oslo, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Pastor

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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lawyer, Norwegian Prime Minister

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Johan Sverdrup

Born: 30-Jul-1816
Birthplace: Jarlsberg, Norway
Died: 17-Feb-1892
Location of death: Oslo, Norway
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Head of State
Nationality: Norway
Executive summary: Norwegian Prime Minister, 1884–89
Norwegian statesman, born at Jarlsberg on the 30th of July 1816. His father, Jakob Sverdrup, was a land steward, and the founder of the first school of agriculture in Norway. Johan entered the Storting in 1850, sitting first for Laurvik, and then for the district of Akershus, and was its president from 1871 to 1884, during the whole of the dispute over the prerogative of the Crown. He built up a strong political party, which, relying for support chiefly on the Norwegian peasantry, was determined to secure strict constitutional government and practically to destroy the power of the king. Under his leadership the opposition, in 1872, secured the passing of a bill for the admission of the ministers to the Storting, which was a step to the establishment of the dependence of the cabinet on a majority in that assembly. King Charles XV refused his sanction to this bill, and on its third passing in 1880 Oscar II opposed his veto, at the same time claiming his right to the absolute veto. Sverdrup then proposed the proclamation of the law in defiance of the king's action. The retirement of Frederik Stang removed Sverdrup's chief political opponent from the field. He was aided in his campaign by Björnstjerne Björnson, and after a series of political crises he became prime minister in June 1884. But when he became prime minister he soon found himself at issue with Björnson on church matters. Inspired chiefly by his nephew Johan he secured the refusal of a pension to the novelist Kielland because of his anti-clerical views, and he further wished to give the parish councils the right to strike off the voting list persons who had broken away from church discipline. Therefore, although during his term of office no fewer than eighty-nine measures, many of them involving useful reforms, became law, he failed to satisfy the extremists among his supporters, and was driven to rely on the moderate Liberals. He was compelled to retire in 1889, and died on the 17th of February 1892 at Christiania (now Oslo.)

Johan married Caroline Louise Gundelle SØRENSEN on 14 Oct 1844 in Brunlanes, Vestfold, Norway. Caroline was born on 18 Oct 1819 in Copenhagen, Denmark; died on 18 Jan 1883 in Nordal, Østre Aker, Oslo, Akershus, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Slagen

Gundelle married Anton Elias SMITT on 4 Jan 1842 in Seljord, Telemark, Norway. Anton was born on 1 Nov 1805 in Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway; died on 27 Oct 1875 in Voss, Hordaland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Heloise married Otto Neumann KNOPH about 1828 in Nærøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Otto was born in 1800; died in 1848 in Bindal, Nordland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Rise

Family/Spouse: Frederikke Antoinette Augusta NILSEN. Frederikke was born on 5 Nov 1834 in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 3 Feb 1910 in Oslo, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Rise

Gundelle married Jakob Wulfsberg SEEBERG on 11 Jun 1857 in Sem, Vestfold, Norway. Jakob was born on 22 Dec 1824 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway; died on 15 Dec 1870 in Fredrikstad, Østfold, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Rise

Died:
Rikshospitalet

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Birth:
Rise

Family/Spouse: Martin Muldrup SCHLYTTER. Martin was born on 22 Nov 1833 in Risør, Aust-Agder, Norway; died on 26 Sep 1906 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Rise

Died:
Rikshospitalet

Edvardine married Peter PETERSEN on 27 Oct 1858 in Sem, Vestfold, Norway. Peter was born on 6 Jun 1831 in Borre, Vestfold, Norway; died on 1 Jul 1904 in Oslo, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Rise

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Birth:
Rise

Family/Spouse: Ragna Valborg DAHL. Ragna was born on 21 Dec 1858 in Oslo, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Rud

Jonas married Livia Gundelle Margrethe SVERDRUP in 1874. Livia (daughter of Georg Frederik SVERDRUP and Anna Cathrine THURMANN) was born on 13 Jul 1843 in Slemdal, Telemark, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Tomb

Died:
Kolbjørnsvik

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Birth:
Tomb

Edvard married Ovidia Amalie BERG on 23 Jan 1885 in Oslo, Norway. Ovidia was born on 14 Apr 1861 in Oslo, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Tomb

Died:
Kolbjørnsvik

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Birth:
Moholt

Sophie married Jacob Liv Borch SVERDRUP on 10 Dec 1867 in Froland, Aust-Agder, Norway. Jacob (son of Edvard SVERDRUP and Ida Gulbrandine Marie BØE) was born on 29 Aug 1838 in Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway; died on 2 Jan 1894 in Øyestad, Aust-Agder, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Moholt

Livia married Jonas SMITT in 1874. Jonas (son of Anton Elias SMITT and Livia Gundelle Margrethe SVERDRUP) was born on 20 May 1836 in Nordre Land, Oppland, Norway; died on 28 Mar 1905 in Oslo, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Stabekk

Family/Spouse: Jessie SVERDRUP. Jessie was born in 1855 in London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Thorbjørsbo

Died:
Asdal gård

Jacob married Sophie Dorthea SVERDRUP on 10 Dec 1867 in Froland, Aust-Agder, Norway. Sophie (daughter of Georg Frederik SVERDRUP and Anna Cathrine THURMANN) was born on 18 Jun 1842 in Slemdal, Telemark, Norway; died on 7 Oct 1913 in Østre Aker, Oslo, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lutheran Minister

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Member of Norway’s Parliament 1877-1889 and 1892-1895. Made Bishop of Bergen in 1898.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She had 11 children with Anthon.

Gundelle married Anthon Theodor Johannes THYGESEN on 8 Jun 1871 in Tjugum, Balestrand, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Anthon was born on 9 Nov 1835 in Skien, Telemark, Norway; died in 1885 in Rennesøy, Rogaland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

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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]

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:

• Occupation: Lutheran Minister

Harald married Elise Nikoline SMITT on 16 Aug 1882 in Tjugum, Balestrand, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Elise (daughter of Anton Elias SMITT and Gundelle Louise SVERDRUP) was born in 1854 in Voss, Hordaland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lutheran Minister

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He and Martha had 6 children, all born in Rennesøy between 1886 and 1895.

Family/Spouse: Martha Johanne HANNEVIG. Martha was born on 19 May 1856 in Borre, Vestfold, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also spelled Caroline.

She had 4 children with E O Bruhjell in Kinn, Sogn og Fjordane, between 1890 and 1897.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lutheran Minister
• Baptism: 19 Aug 1861, Balestrand, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Notes:

Johan Edvard Sverdrup (1866-1923) was teaching at the adult school at Sogndal at the time that Harald was born. Johan Edward and his four brothers were ministers of the State Church of Norway (Lutheran). In 1894 Johan Edward became minister in the island district of Solund, about 40 miles north of Bergen. After that, Johan Edward moved to Rennsö near Stavanger. In 1908 he became professor of church history in Oslo, where he died in 1923.

Family/Spouse: Maria VALLAN. Maria was born on 6 Nov 1866 in Norderhov, Buskerud, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She had 5 children with Knud Carl August Holt in Oslo between 1872 and 1884.

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Died:
or July 16

Family/Spouse: Karoline Josephine SVERDRUP. Karoline was born in 1865 in Kragerø, Telemark, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elise married Harald U SVERDRUP on 16 Aug 1882 in Tjugum, Balestrand, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Harald (son of Harald Ulrik SVERDRUP and Caroline Metella SUR) was born on 26 Feb 1852 in Balestrand, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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It is somewhat speculative that this Ulrik is the son of Heloise and Otto.

Ulrik was born on Buøy in Nærøy municipality, at that time Kolvereid municipality. As oldest son he was heir to the Sverdrup properties at Buøya. However, he left it all to his younger brothers and went to Åbygda in Bindal, to the farm named Hårstad, where Otto Sverdrup was born. In 1877 Ulrik and family moved from Bindal to the farm Trana situated outside Steinkjer.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, F. S. Sverdrup was Gaardbruger og Selveier on Hårstad in Bindalens parish.

Family/Spouse: Petra. Petra was born about 1832 in Bindal, Nordland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]