Christofer ANNASSON LIND

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Glass And Iron Merchant

Notes:

Other sources have his birth on 15 Mar 1788 in Eskilstuna, Södermanland.

He was employed in glass manufacturing and lived in several places.

Died between 1821 and 1823.

He married his cousin’s daughter.

Jan Johannson calls him Christofer Olofsson (Lind).

Died:
Jan Johansson says between 1821 and 1823.

Christofer married Eva Sophia WENNERBERG on 27 Dec 1811 in Järlåsa, Uppsala län, Sweden. Eva (daughter of Lars WENNERBERG and Hedvig LUNDSTRÖM) was born on 6 Jun 1795 in Norrtälje, Upplands län, Sweden; died on 17 Jan 1842 in Hova, Västergötland, Skaraborgs län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lars married Carolina OLOFSDOTTER on 31 Dec 1837 in Hova, Västergötland, Skaraborgs län, Sweden. Carolina was born on 30 Jan 1819 in Hägghult, Hova, Skaraborgs län, Sweden; was christened on 30 Jan 1819 in Hova, Västergötland, Skaraborgs län, Sweden; died on 31 Oct 1894 in Bräckan, Hova, Skaraborgs län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Nov 1816, Hjulsjö, Örebro län, Sweden

Notes:

Birth location also shown as Östra Grängshyttan Pilabo Hjulsjö Sweden. Born as Maja Lisa. Also known as Maria Elisabet.

Her birthdate in the Torup Household Examination for Öfregards Nybygge 1861-1866 is 5 May 1817.

Birth:
WikiTree says 1815

Maja married Johan Mårten (Martin) Persson LUNDBERG on 2 Feb 1840 in Karlsborg, Skaraborgs län, Sweden. Johan (son of Andreas Pehrsson (Anders Persson) Berger LUNDBERG and Elin STRÖMGREN) was born on 3 May 1817 in Kristianstad, Skåne län, Sweden; died on 22 Apr 1872 in Torup N Lumpsamlare i Rydö Pappersbruk, Hallands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Christian HÄGERBECK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to the 1900 census, she had borne 7 children, 3 still living. She came to this country in 1881. The family was living in Pine Creek Township, Morrison County, at the time of the 1900 census.

In the 1910 census, only Hugo is still living at home with her in Little Falls. In that census she is shown as having had only 3 children, all 3 still living. Her name in the census is Sophia Peterson. She has no occupation.

Her property was foreclosed upon in 1914. It’s probable that that had some bearing on she and her children moving to Canada.

A family history of Hugo Peterson incorrectly assigns a fourth child to Aleck and Sophie, a so-called Anna Peterson, born and died in Minneapolis and married to a “Mr. Likevold.” It appears that the author of the family history confused Olga with this non-existent sister.

She is not the “Mrs. Sophia Peterson” who died in Morrison County in 1939. That was a younger woman, the widow of a Gust Peterson.

She may have died in Canada.

A brief mention in the 10 Dec 1920 edition of the Little Falls Herald:

Mrs. S Liekvall and children and Mrs. Liekvall’s mother, Mrs. Sophia Peterson, are here to spend the winter and living on Eighth street northwest. They came here from Nokomis, Canada.

Maria married Erich (Aleck) LARSON PETERSON about 1880 in Stockholm, Sweden. Erich (son of Lars PETERSON) was born in 1845 in Sweden; died on 2 Oct 1900 in Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota; was buried on 4 Oct 1900 in Oakland Cemetery, Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y

Notes:

She is not the Anna Anderson who died in Morrison County on 24 Oct 1944 (1944-MN-008505).

Jan Johansson says that Emibas has her getting permission to leave Sweden (from Gustafsberg, Värmdö, Stockholms län (Uppland)) on 26 April 1882 and actually leaving the country for New York on 12 May 1882. She is shown as unmarried. She and her two daughters, Anna and Astrid, left Sweden the second time on 25 June 1886. The embarkation point was Göteborg both times.

In the 1905 state census, she and her family lived in Pike Creek Twp next to Sophia Peterson and her two children. Still living at home with Anna was Esther, 20, a domestic. The remainder of the children must have been listed on the back of the page, on a page that is missing, or were otherwise unrecorded.

The 1900 census reports that she had borne 8 children, all 8 still living. The 1910 census said only 7 still living. Harry, Herman, and Ethel were listed at home in 1910.

She was living in Minneapolis with her daughter Anna and Anna’s husband, as well as her daughter Ethel, at the time of the 1920 census.

Anna is living in Pike Creek Twp, Morrison County, in the 1930 census. Her widowed daughter Anna McCollem is living with her. Neither woman has an occupation.

Died:
At the home of her daughter, Mrs. Olaf Jackson (Ethel). (Obit from the Little Falls Daily Transcript, 18 Feb 1948, cited in TempestCHICK’s Jackson-Tracy Family Tree.)

Anna married Alfred ANDERSON on 22 Jul 1884 in New York, New York. Alfred was born on 13 Dec 1859 in Skaraborgs län, Sweden; died in Feb 1900 in Pike Creek Twp, Morrison County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Aug 1839, Hova, Västergötland, Skaraborgs län, Sweden

Notes:

Johan Vilhelm Lundberg, född 1839-08-14 i Berget, Hova R. (f).

Not listed with the family in an 1840s clerical survey for Rydo,Torup.

Notes:

Karl Johan Lundberg, född 1841-11-11, död 1843-05-03 i Varberg N.
(hfl).

His death is not listed in the 1843 or 1853 Torup death records. His death year may be 1842.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 Oct 1843, Torup, Hallands län, Sweden

Notes:

Emma Wilhelmina in her birth record in the Torup church records.

Terry says: Emma lived near Kånna in Sweden and at one time lived in town there with Salomon. At the time that she emigrated, they had been living at farm Berghem Vastergarden in Kånna Parish, Kronoberg län, Småland, South Sweden. (From the Household Exam records, she had moved the family from Andersgarden to Westregarden in 1879.)

The two women with whom Karl Oskar and Johan Alfred are shown as living with in the 1882-1891 Kånna Household Examination, Ingrid Kajsa Erlandsdatter (b. 1834) and Caroline Erlandsdatter (b. 1844), are also living in the Grönlund apartment in Berghem Westregard in the 1877-1881 Household Examination.

Cora said that Al had told her that Emma was a genteel lady, used to servants. She was supposedly part French and Al was proud of this. It’s unlikely that the servants part is true. The French part certainly isn’t.

From Jan in June of 2005: The info I have is that the Lundberg/ Lind families were what is called "Travellers" - kind of like Gypsies. The Travellers went all over Europe, USA and Canada. They say they are not Gypsies. They moved around a lot, some of them were quite violent. Some arrested for theft and one was listed as beaten to death. Some did own property in Sweden but they were not well treated, maybe because of their violent nature and reputation? If you search on the internet , you will find several websites that tell you about the "Roma people." It seems each country calls them a different name. In Sweden they called them "Travellers."

“Got her moving papers May 16, 1881.”

Emelie Vilhelmina Lundberg, född 1843-10-20 i Rydö, Torup N.
(f,hfl). E1881.. Amerika 188100516-? (?0510).
Adress Torup N ?-18670520,
Annerstad sn Socknens Slut P.359 piga 18670520-1867,
Annerstad sn Annerstad Hulugård 1867-?,
Kånna sn Berghem Andersgård ägare 18731107-1879,
Kånna sn Berghem Västregård lägenheten Grönlund ägare änkan {”widow, owner of apartment in Grönlund”}
1879-18810516, Amerika 18810516-?

Not listed in the in-migration records of Annerstad.

From the Emibas CD:

Post 244730

Lundberg, Emelie Wilhelmina
Ägare (property owner)

b. 10/20/1843 in Torup, Hallands län (Halland)

Emigrated 5/16/1881
from Berghem Westregård, Kånna, Kronobergs län (Småland)
to Nordamerika

Source: Emibas migration file ID: Kånna G 1881 015


Post 244731

Lundberg, Josefina Karolina
Dotter (unmarried woman)

b. 7/11/1865 in Torup, Hallands län (Halland)

Emigrated 5/16/1881
from Berghem Westregård, Kånna, Kronobergs län (Småland)
to Nordamerika

Source: Emibas migration file ID: Kånna G 1881 016

Post 244732

Lundberg, Karl Johan August
Son (unmarried man)

b. 10/20/1867 in Annerstad, Kronobergs län (Småland)

Emigrated 5/16/1881
from Berghem Westregård, Kånna, Kronobergs län (Småland)
to Nordamerika

Source: Emibas migration file ID: Kånna G 1881 017

Post 244733

Lundberg, Hedda Sofia Linnea
Dotter (unmarried woman)

b. 12/9/1876 in Annerstad, Kronobergs län (Småland)

Emigrated 5/16/1881
from Berghem Westregård, Kånna, Kronobergs län (Småland)
to Nordamerika

Source: Emibas migration file ID: Kånna G 1881 018

Frank, 35, “Anna”, 37, Carl, 16, Ida, 14, and Sandy, 4, were in Cannon Falls in the 1885 Minnesota state census.

Emelie and Frank were still in Cannon Falls in 1895 according to entries in the 1895 Minnesota state census. The family consisted of Frank, 43, a tinner born in Sweden; Mrs. F, 42, born in Sweden; Oscar Fogelquist, 19, a common laborer born in Sweden; and Emil Fogelquist, 14, born in Minnesota.

The 1900 census said that she had 13 children, 7 of whom were living. We can identify only 6 still living at that time so either the 7 is simply incorrect or there is another child alive in 1900 that we don’t know about.

From Carl Johan’s sources, Emelie’s maternal haplogroup may be J1b3a.

Died:
date and location from the First Covenant Church records

Buried:
reburial by Ida Deiters, was originally buried in Superior

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

Emelie/Emmeli married Salomon CARLSSON on 13 Jul 1867 in Annerstad, Kronobergs län, Sweden. Salomon (son of Carl Gustaf NILSSON and Anna ANDERSDOTTER) was born on 6 Sep 1839 in Annerstad, Kronobergs län, Sweden; died on 23 Dec 1876 in Kånna, Småland, Kronobergs län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emelie/Emmeli married Frank J E FOGELQUIST on 22 Dec 1881 in Cannon Falls, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Frank was born on 4 Apr 1853 in Kalmar, Sweden; died on 30 Jan 1930 in Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin; was buried on 1 Feb 1930 in Graceland Cemetery, Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Nov 1845, Torup, Hallands län, Sweden

Notes:

Stayed in Sweden and did not emigrate.

Johan Alfred Lundberg, född 1845-11-14 i Rydö, Torup N, död 1890-02-14 i Drängsered N. Järnhandlare Bleckslagare.

According to Jan Johansson, Johan Alfred Lundberg, a sheet-metal worker, was released from prison on 11 December 1885. He had been in prison for 3 years for assault. He had also been imprisoned in 1866 for theft and in 1870 for theft and assault.

Family/Spouse: Helena Bernhardina BLOMQVIST. Helena died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Berndikta Kristina JOHANSDOTTER. Berndikta died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Dec 1847, Torup, Hallands län, Sweden

Notes:

Karl Oskar Lundberg, född 1847-12-02 i Rydö, Torup N.
Kopparslagare Bleckslagare i Kobbol 1894, Torup N. (f,hfl).
Adress Torup N ?-18701024,
Annerstad sn Annerstad Hulugård torpet Berget
kopparslageriarbetare 18701024-18711105,
Kånna sn Berghem Bergsgård torpet kopparslageriarbetare
18711107-18730107,
Kånna sn Knänjarp Södregård torpet Berget kopparslageriarbetare
18730107-1876,
Kånna sn Knänjarp Södregård inhyses kopparslagare under Bengt
Peterssons 1877-18821116,
Kånna sn På Socknen P.183 18821116-18830611,
Torup N 18830611-18831224,
Kånna sn På Socknen P.184 kopparslageriarbetare 18831224-18850331,
Torup N 18850331-?, Torup N Kobbol 1894.

Died:
he “fell off the wagon” from research by Carl Johan

Family/Spouse: Magdalena (Maja Lena) CARLSDOTTER. Magdalena (daughter of Carl Gustaf NILSSON and Anna ANDERSDOTTER) was born on 23 Mar 1848 in Annerstad, Kronobergs län, Sweden; died on 7 Dec 1904 in Torup, Hallands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Feb 1850, Torup, Hallands län, Sweden

Notes:

Terry says born born in south Sweden, just across the strait from Denmark.

Or Karl.

Karl Gustaf Lundberg, född 1850-02-12 i Rydö, Torup N. (f,hfl). E1881..
Amerika 18810919-?.
Adress Torup sn ?-18731202,
Kånna sn Kvänjarp Södregård torpet Berget Dräng 18731202-18741002,
Kånna sn Berghem Andersgård torpet Björkelund dräng
18741002-18771029,
Kånna sn Berghem Södregård torpet Berget 18771029-18810919,
Amerika 18810919-?

The 1871-1876 Kånna household examination suggests that Carl and Britta came to Ljunga, or at least Berghem Andersgård, on October 2, 1874, two months and twenty days before they were married.

They lived near or with his sister Emelie and family on Andersgård.

The Anbytartforum confirms this, saying: “Carl Gustaf came in December 1873 to Kånna from the parish of Thorup. He then moved in with his brother Carl Oscar at the Berget cottage under {near?} Kvänjarp. In October of 1874, he moved with his bride-to-be Britta Maria of the Björkelund cottage under {to? in?} Berghem Andersgård. They married that December. In October of 1877 they moved to Berget cottage under {in?} Berghem south farm. Then on July 17, 1881, the family emigrated to America.” (This may have been the date on which they were permitted to leave and actually left Sweden sometime in September.)

Lived in Kånna, a small town northwest of Södra Ljunga, until they emigrated. Left Sweden in September, 1881, with the destination of Red Wing, Minnesota. Terry says: They left from Malmo, Sweden on the Ship ALEXANDRA, arriving at Grimsby, England (east coast) taking the train to Liverpool. I have a picture of this ship. It never made it back to Sweden as it sunk in a major storm on the return trip to Sweden. Captain Johnson and crew probably all drowned but I never found about that yet. I have all the ship's crews names and home towns. The name of the ship owner was the South Sweden Steamship Company of Malmo, Sweden, which is on the south tip of Sweden directly across the Strait from Copenhagen in Denmark so there probably were Danish passengers too?
 
The name of the shipping carrier was the INMAN Line with tickets to New York destined for RED WING, MINNESOTA. The big ships from Liverpool were usually called CITY of xxx......... but I have not found the exact ship name they were on yet as some of these ships had six hundred people on them and there were many ships each day to New York. Annerstad is near to Kånna and South Ljunga in Kronoberg län, SMALAND, Sweden.

Britta, Tilda, and baby Emma (but, apparently, not Charley) arrived in New York from Liverpool on October 14, 1881, on the City of Paris which had sailed from the Swedish port of Malmö. The stated destination of the three was Red Wing, Minnesota. Carl Gustaf may have gone ahead earlier and then sent for his wife and children. All four are shown as leaving the Berghem Södregård parish at Kånna in 1881.

According to Terry, Charley, a 31 year-old tinsmith traveled from Glasgow to New York on the Devonia, arriving June 7, 1881.

In an 1885 census, the family was living in Cannon Falls Twp. The family consisted of Charles Lundberg, 35, Maria, 40, Mathilda M., 9, Nanny C., 6, Laurina, 4, and Alfred, 1.

In the 1895 Minnesota state census, the family lives in Athens Twp, Isanti County. They had been there for a year-and-a-half.

In the 1900 U.S. census, the family was living in East Barton, Pierce County, North Dakota. The family consisted of Carl, 50, Maria, 54, Walter, 18, and Ida, 14. Both children had been born in Minnesota. Carl is a farmer, Walter a farm laborer, and Ida a servant. Carl and Maria came to the U.S. in 1881. Maria has had 8 children, 5 still living. Carl and Maria had been married for 22 years.

He moved to Naicam, Saskatchewan, Canada, with his second wife. But at the time of the 1910 U.S. census, he and Hannah were living in Milaca Township not too far from the John Quaid family.

Not listed in the 1911 Canadian census.

In the 1916 census, he and Hanna lived in Lake Lenore. He and Hanna came to Canada in 1911. Charles became a Canadia citizen in 1914, Hanna was still an American citizen. They were both Protestants.

As Jan found, Charey and Hannah lived in Preeceville Twp, Saskatchewan, in Canada’s 1921 census. They lived alone and were still engaged in farming. They still claimed, respectively, Swedish and Danish citizenship. Both claimed to be Lutherans.

Terry says: He probably never went to school since his land records in CANADA are marked by an " X" but even that I do not know for sure since he may have been able to write in Swedish and not in English.

Terry says: the LUNDBERGS in Sweden always used that name which is very unusual as most Swedes used Johansson, Svensson, Pederson, etc. and changed their name every generation. I have most of the Swedish records but can not find them in the USA; maybe they became Carlssons, Johnson, Anderson, etc. and thus so common a name it is hard to trace them in the USA....?? 

Jan says: Charlie Gustaf Lundberg's land

16 NW 15 40 19 W2
Part Section Township Range Meridian

Reference:
Liber: 748
Folio: 436
File reel number: C-6536
Names: Charles G Lundberg

Terry says:

Yes, That is his Homestead in year 1912.
NW Quarter of Section 15 Township 40 Range 19 West of 2nd Meridian.
It is 1 Mile West and 1 mile south of John Quaid's Homestead.

On Map Page 14 of Naicam History Book and on Page 58 You will see a Small Map that shows Oscar Johnson owning the Land next to the Quaid Homestead.

Johan August Lundberg owned the Land across the Road from Paul Jestin.

Fred Jestin owned the land to the east of John Quaid a mile plus or so.

Birth:
incorrectly entered as 2 Dec in the British Columbia Death Registrations on Family Search

Died:
Jan, on Find A Grave, says 26 Feb

Buried:
probably an unmarked grave

Carl married Britta Maria (Mary Or Mare) SVENSDOTTER on 22 Dec 1874 in Södra Ljunga, Småland, Kronobergs län, Sweden. Britta (daughter of Sven JACOBSSON and Maja Lisa NILSDOTTER) was born on 18 Aug 1845 in Södra Ljunga, Småland, Kronobergs län, Sweden; died on 27 Oct 1902 in Foreston, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Carl married Inger Johanna CHRISTIANSON on 18 Jul 1907 in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Inger was born about Apr 1854 in Denmark; died on 11 Nov 1933 in Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Kermaria, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 Jun 1852, Torup, Hallands län, Sweden

Notes:

Had 6 kids. Also emigrated to North America.

According to the parish register of Långaryd, 1881-1890, Johan August was 1/24 part owner of Gässlingabo farm. They had moved to Långaryd from Torup in 1881. Johan was found guilty of theft in 1882.

There is also a record of Johan August as half owner of Segelsbo farm in Långaryd. The family (less Emma, who emigrated in April of 1889) moved to Södra Hestra parish on October 7, 1890. There is a suggestion that Johan August was found guilty of theft again on March 5th of some year.

In the 1890 Swedish census, according to one of Terry’s researchers, the family was living in Kindhult, Södra Hestra parish, Jönköping län. Terry believes that Johan August owned the Kindhult farm.

The Södra Hestra Household Examination for 1891-1897 shows the family living on Kindhult Södra until October of 1894 at which point they moved to Spjuthult Nestra, still in Södra Hestra. They (Gus, Albertina, Karl Johan, Laurentia, and Mathilda Charlotta) emigrated to North Amerika in 1896.

Johan August Lundberg, född 1852-06-08 i Rydö, Torup N. Hemmansägare
i Sandshult, Torup N. Långaryd N 1882-?. (f).

The 1867-1876 Torup Household Examination shows that Johan August left for Transhult in 1875.

Johan August, age 44, his wife Albertina, 45, and their three youngest children, Carl, 19, Laurentia, 17, and Matilda, 14, arrived in the U. S. in the port of Boston, on May 17, 1896, on the S.S. Cephalonia. This ship had departed from Liverpool on May 7th. The Lundbergs’ last residence is shown as S Hestra, Sweden. The ship’s manifest lists their son, Carl O. of Boston, and their daughter, Emma Miller of Boston, as relatives already in the U. S. who will be meeting the immigrants. Emma’s address is shown as 129 Telestron Street, Boston. The family is noted as having arrived with the sum of $650.

There is a reference to a Johan August Lundberg being a member of the Norden Society in Minneapolis in the period 1903-1906.

In the 1905 Minnesota state census, August and “Mrs. Albertine” Lundberg, ages 53 and 54, respectively, are living by themselves on a farm in New London Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, where they had been for 2 years. This census also shows that they had been in Minnesota for 7 years.

In the 1910 census, August and Albertina are living in Union Grove Township, Meeker County, Minnesota with an 11 year-old adopted son named Antone Anderson who was born in Minnesota. The census form says that the couple had been married for 38 years and that Albertina had had 6 children, 4 still living. The census erroneously lists their arrival date in the U. S. as 1866 instead of 1896.

In the 1916 Canadian census, August, Albertine, and Anton live in Humboldt, Saskatchewan. Also in the household were their daughter Emma Griffin and her husband William.

Terry says: JOHAN AUGUST LUNDBERG also came to Canada {apparently Winnipeg}. I do not know what name Johan August Lundberg used in the USA but I suspect it was CARLSON or Johnson . I only have border crossing records for him visiting his daughters in Orr, St. Louis County, Minnesota and the other daughter in the Boston, Mass. area named Elsie MacFarlane. I have a complete residential addresses for the daughter in Boston but I have not been able to check any further yet on her.

The border crossing records show two crossings for August Lundberg. On June 19, 1923, he crossed at Ranier, Minnesota. He was a farmer from Watson, Saskatchewan, and he gave as his nearest relative his son Oscar Lundberg of Watson. August’s destination is Boston, Massachusetts, where he intends to visit his daughter, Elsie MacFarland of 22 Edgerton Road. He intends to remain in the U.S. for 5 months. He is described as 6 feet tall, of medium complexion, with gray hair and brown eyes. He gives as his place of birth “Heaplopsocher, Sweden.” August claimed to have been in the U.S. from 1896 to May of 1906.

The other border crossing is for John August Lundberg, a farmer of Watson, Saskatchewan, who is leaving Canada at the port of Winnipeg in September of 1919 with his destination Orr, Minnesota. He still claims to be a Swedish citizen.

Terry says: Johan August Lundberg came to Saskatchewan, Canada and takes out a homestead and in his records he claims to be a USA citizen (?). I also found him again travelling to the USA in the American Border records claiming to be Canadian and going to visit another daughter in Orr, St. Louis County, Minnesota.

As Terry points out, the John Lundberg living next door to Charlie and Ida in the 1911 census may be Gus.

An old news clipping given to Jan by Rose shows that Gus sold his farm land, and, presumably, moved into town in 1919.

Terry also says: One relative remembers a relative named "Gus” who died upstairs above their cafe in Naicam, Sask., and who was rooming there. {This is the cafe Oscar and Tilley owned.} He said he was a relative and was very old. In the Lutheran Church records in Naicam they have named Charley Lundberg as dying there but Charley actually died in the City of Nelson, years later, so I assume it was Johan August Lundberg who died above the Naicam cafe located across the street from the train station.

A couple of the locals remember Gus’s house burning down in 1927 which may be the reason that he ended up living above the cafe.

Jan found a border-crossing record for Gus visiting his daughter Mrs. Charles Okman in April of 1928. At that time, Gus was living in Naicam and was expected to spend six months in “Salmon”, Oregon.

Johan married Albertina Josefina Wilhelmina ROSENGREN on 28 Dec 1874 in Drangsered, Hallands län, Sweden. Albertina (daughter of Johan Fredrik ROSENGREN and Fredrika Wilhelmina HOLM) was born on 28 Oct 1851 in Dagsås, Hallands län, Sweden; died on 16 Apr 1919 in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Naicam, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Known as “Store-Wille” (Big Willie).

Vilhelm! Lundberg, född 1854-09-10 i Torup N. Bleckslagare
i Kobbol P.10 fb 1910-1930, Torup N. (hfl,ej i fb).
Adress Torup N Övregård bleckslageriarbetare 1886.

In 1886 he is shown as a tinsmith, owner of two acres of land. His wife is Cecilia Kristiansdotter of Göteryd in Småland.

Not listed in the 1850-1855 Household Examination. But Carl Johan has confirmed the 1854 birth date from the church book.

According to Carl Johan:

Big-Willy's full name was likely Johan Wilhelm Herdinius Lundberg. This is based on his oldest brother named Johan Wilhelm and the others Johan Alfred, Johan August and Johan Leander. He also had two sons named Johan Alfred and Johan Axel. In an interview with my father's cousin, he says that his grandfatherwas a friend of Wilhelm and that he told him his other name was Herdinius. Compare this to the names of Hjalmar's two oldest sons, Helge Wilhelm and Elfving Herdinius.  

Wilhelm married Amanda Cecilia Kristiansdotter LINDQVIST on 3 Mar 1886. Amanda was born in 1864 in Lijehul, Göteryd, Kronobergs län, Sweden; died on 1 Sep 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Apr 1858, Torup, Hallands län, Sweden

Notes:

+ Maria Matilda Lundberg, född 1858-04-14 i Härhult, Torup N,
död 1861-11-20 i Torup N. (f,hfl).

Notes:

Five children.

Leander Lundberg, född 1863-02-27 i Torup N, död 1893-03-18 i Kobbol,
Torup N. Bleckslagare i Kobbol 1883-1893, Torup N. (f,hfl).

Johan married Josefina Helena LUNDQWIST in 3 Apr. Josefina was born on 1 Sep 1863 in Södra Ljunga, Småland, Kronobergs län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sofia married Johan August SÖDERLUND on 25 Aug 1861 in Stockholm, Sweden. Johan was born on 21 Aug 1835 in Stockholm, Sweden; died on 5 Jun 1918 in Stockholm, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1947-MN-009220

Notes:

She is called Olga V. G. S. in the 1895 state census. Married to Sven and living at 607 12th Street in Little Falls in the 1905 state census.

Not listed in the 1910 or 1920 censuses so it seems likely that they were in Canada during that period.

Because she married an alien, she had to reapply for U.S. citizenship.

She is shown as a widow in the 1940 census. In that census, she lives with her son Clarence in Little Falls in the same house in which both had lived in 1935. Neither were employed. That census shows Olga’s place of birth as New Jersey.

Birth:
Find A Grave says she was born in Hoboken, New Jersey

Olga married Sven Knute LEIKVOLL on 14 Mar 1905 in Morrison County, Minnesota. Sven was born on 10 Oct 1880 in Buskerud, Norway; died on 21 Aug 1963 in Morrison County, Minnesota; was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1938-MN-000643
• Occupation: Sign Painter

Notes:

Called Hugo A. E. in the 1895 state census.

Shown as born in Minnesota in the 1910 census.

He is not listed in the draft registration or the 1920 census. It’s possible that he went to Canada with his sister and brother-in-law (and, maybe, his mother).

In the 1930 census, Hugo and Eva Peterson lived in Bemidji. Hugo was a sign painter for a decorator. He was not a vet of the World War. They had no children. Hugo gave his place of birth as New York.

In the 1937-38 Bemidji city directory, Hugo and Eva lived at 2123 Irvine Avenue.

Died as Hugo Alex Peterson, “of Carcinoma of prostate Metastasis to pelvic bone, it lasted six months.”

Buried:
oddly, his death date on his gravestone says 1936

Hugo married Eva Adeline SKINNER on 8 Oct 1928 in Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota. Eva (daughter of Clark Allen SKINNER and Minnie Kristena HANSEN) was born on 13 May 1910 in Minnesota; died on 13 Aug 1994 in Beltrami County, Minnesota; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Sep 1898, Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota

Notes:

Called Eugenia, age 5 months, in the 1895 state census. Called Eyen in the 1900 census. Called Mary V., age 10, in the 1905 state census. Not listed at home with her mother and brother in the 1910 census.

An article in the 22 Jan 1904 edition of the Little Falls Herald:

A little daughter of Mrs. Sophia Peterson of the West side was knocked down by a horse Thursday last week but escaped with a scalp wound.

An article in the 25 Jun 1909 edition of the Little Falls Herald:

Mary Peterson, the fifteen year-old daughter of Mrs. Sophia Peterson of the West side was brought before Justice Gerritz’s court yesterday afternoon on the complaint of her mother who asked that she be committed to the Red Wing school for the incorrigibles as she was unable to do anything with the girl. The justice recommended that the girl be sent and, if Judge Taylor approves, committment papers will probably be received here today.

In the 1910 census, she is probably the Mary Peterson, 15, an inmate at the Minnesota State Training School in Red Wing. Her nativity is shown as born in Minnesota to a father born in Norway and a mother born in Sweden.

An article in the 3 May 1912 edition of the Little Falls Herald:

Mary Peterson, a daughter of Mrs. Sophia Peterson of the West side, who only eight months ago had been paroled from the Girls’ Home at Sauk Centre, was caught masquerading as a boy in Minneapolis the latter part of the week and detained. She had purchased some boys’ clothing at the Val. E. Kasparek Clothing store, ostensibly for her husband whom she said was in Canada but in reality to masquerade as a young man and travel.

The girl had gone to Minneapolis and there purchased her ticket for Chicago and sent her trunk ahead of her when her peculiar actions in men’s clothing and imperfect disguise was noticed by a detective who placed her under arrest. Upon being taken to the matron at the police station she owned up to her sex and stated that never more would she go masquerading in boys’ clothes as the trousers were too hard to keep up. They were slipping down on her and she was smoking a cigarette when taken into custody.

She has been returned to the Girls’ Home at Sauk Cente.

A family history of Hugo Peterson claims that she, as Marie Peterson, died in Tombstone, Arizona. That woman, according to the SSDI, was born 14 Nov 1894 and died September 1982 in Douglas in Cochise County, Arizona. Her Social Security number had been issued in Minnesota.

Baptism:
probably Bethel Lutheran

Died:
SSDI as Marie Peterson

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1946-MN-009059

Notes:

Shown in the 1900 census as born in Dec 1881.

She is a 46 year-old widow living with her mother in the 1930 census.

She died of heart failure. Mrs. Olaf Jackson (sister Ethel) was the informant for her death certificate.

Died:
as Mrs. Anna Charlotte McCollum at St. Gabriel Hospital in Little Falls

Anna married Peter MCCALLUM on 30 Jun 1915 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Peter was born about 1877 in Canada; died on 2 Feb 1928 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Middle name is supplied by the 1884-1894 Clerical Survey of Hova, Skaraborg, Sweden. The name is, however, difficult to read. The name in her birth record in the Födelsebok for Hova is Astrid Alfrida.

In the 1905 state census, she is living at home with her mother. She is a domestic.

She is a servant in the household of Charles Weyerhaeueser in Little Falls in 1910 and 1920. At this time, Charles managed the Pine Tree Lumber Company in Little Falls.

In the 1930 census, she is still a servant in that Weyerhaeuser family which now lives at 708 Summit Avenue in St. Paul. Charles’s widow Maud is now the head of the household. Esther’s birth place is erroneously shown as Illinois and her age as 39.

In the 1940 census, she is still a house maid for Maude Weyerhaeuser on Summit Avenue in St. Paul. Esther is shown as age 50, born in Illinois.

An Esther Anderson with the right birth date died in Sioux City, Iowa, in October of 1981. Given that Ethel lived in Sioux City, that Esther is probably the right one.

She is not the Esther Anderson of 1945-MN-008836.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Oregon Death Certificate: 4239

Notes:

Or Gustav William. He was Gust W. in the 1900 census.

He was William G. in the 1910 census. At that time, he and his family lived in Little Falls. William was a coachman for a private family.

On the 1913 birth record for his son Virgil Alvin, William’s occupation is listed as coachman.

He registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, in Grant County, North Dakota. He was a self-employed farmer, was married, and had a wife and five children. His birth date is shown as August 13, 1887, and his birth place is shown as Troy, New York. He was described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and light hair.

His wife’s 1918 death record notes her county of residence as Grant County, North Dakota.

He was a farmer in Valley View Twp, Grant County, North Dakota, in the 1920, 1930, and 1940 censuses. The 1940 census showed that since 1935 they had relocated from another farm in Grant County. They were renting their farm in the 1940 census.

According to the 1940 census, he and Nancy had eighth-grade educations.

William married Theresa BAKER on 12 Feb 1908 in Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota. Theresa (daughter of Alfred BAKER and Frederika) was born on 2 Dec 1887 in Minnesota; died on 13 Dec 1918 in Grant County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Nancy Emily DARBY on 20 Oct 1919 in Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota. Nancy (daughter of Moses DARBY and Mary Bell CLAYBURN) was born on 10 Dec 1891 in Osceola, St. Clair County, Missouri; died on 2 Dec 1981 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon; was buried in Lee Mission Cemetery, Salem, Marion County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Oregon Death Certificate: 71-10770

Notes:

Or Johanne G.

He registered for the draft in Union County, Oregon, on June 5, 1917. Although his birthdate is given as February 4, 1890, his age is 28 so the draft registrar fumbled the subtraction. John E Anderson lives at 2108 Adams in LaGrande, Oregon, where he owns an auto garage. He is married with a wife and three children. He is described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair. (His brother Herman must have been living with him at that time. Herman used the same address.)

In the 1920 census, he is the 28 year-old John E Anderson, an automobile salesman living at 1808 First Street in La Grande in Union County, Oregon.

In the 1930 census, he is the 40 year-old John E Anderson, a wholesale and retail butcher living with his family in Coos, Coos County, Oregon. He is not a veteran.

In the 1940 census, he and Catherine live in Salem with their son Eugene and his family. John was an automobile salesman working 60 hours a week.

He registered for the World War draft in 1942 as John Edward Anderson. At that time, he and Catherine lived at 270 W. Miller in Salem, Oregon. He was employed by the Armsberger Motor Co. of Salem.

Birth:
other sources say 1889, SSDI says 1890

Died:
shown in Oregon Death Index as 80 years old, born February of 1891. Wife “Cather.”

Family/Spouse: Catherine Rosenda CRANE. Catherine was born on 26 Oct 1894 in Pierce County, Washington; died on 15 Oct 1958 in Sacramento County, California; was buried in Belcrest Memorial Park, Salem, Marion County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown as age 18 in the 1910 census, at which time he was living at home in Pike Creek Twp with his widowed mother.

In the 1915 Iowa census, he lived in Swea City, Harrison Twp, Kossuth County. He was married and was a laborer in a paper mill. His total earnings in 1914 from that occupation was $480. He had been in Iowa for one year. He had had 8 years of education.

He registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, in Kossuth County, Iowa, as Harry Waldemore Anderson. He was a self-employed farmer living with his wife and children in Swea City, Iowa. He was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, on 3 May 1892. He was described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and light hair.

In the 1920 census, he and his family lived in Eagle Twp, Kossuth County, Iowa, where Harry was a farmer.

In the 1925 Iowa census, he and his family lived in Otho Twp, Webster County. Kenneth was listed as age 4 and Viola as age 2.

In the 1930 census, Harry and his family lived in Otho Twp, Kossuth County, Iowa, where Harry was a laborer at a clay products company. He was not a veteran.

In the 1940 census, he and his family lived in Otho Twp, Kossuth County. Harry was a loader at a brick and tile plant.

Died:
SSDI last residence

Harry married Inga PETERSON about 1914. Inga was born on 2 Oct 1894 in Illinois; died on 27 Apr 1977 in Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa; was buried in Fort Dodge Memorial Park, Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Oregon Death Certificate: 9546

Notes:

Called Vernier H. in the 1895 state census.

He registered for the draft in Union County, Oregon, on June 5, 1917, as Herman V Anderson. He was single and was an automobile mechanic employed by John E Anderson of LaGrande. He was described as tall and of medium build with blue eyes and light hair. He claimed his mother as solely dependent upon him for her support. He claimed exemption from the draft for a physical disability. He gave his birth date as August 17. He lived at 2108 Adams in LaGrande, Oregon (the same address as his brother John).

In the 1920 census, he may be the 25 year-old Herman Anderson rooming in St. Paul. He is single and is a clerical worker for the railroad.

In the 1930 census, as Vern Anderson, he and his family lived in Salem, Oregon. Vern was an automobile salesman. He was not a veteran. They own their home, at 1020 Madison Street, but they do not have a radio. The home is worth $3000.

In the 1940 census, he and his family lived at 3569 S W Dakota Street in the Hillsdale precinct of Multnomah County, Oregon. Five years earlier, they had lived in Portland. Herman is a collector for a mortgage company.

He registered for the World War II draft in 1942. At that time, he and his wife Katherine lived at 3569 S.W. Dakota in Portland, Oregon. Herman worked for the Oregon Shipbuilding Cor. in St. Johns. (This is the same work location as Anton Haugen, #14093, and Hiram Mousseau, #5540.)

His entry in the Oregon Death Index indicates that his wife was Katherine.

Herman married Katherine about 1924. Katherine was born on 16 Jan 1893 in Wisconsin; died on 14 Sep 1972 in Clackamas County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living with the McCallums and her mother in Minneapolis at the time of the 1920 census. Their address was 711 26th Avenue, N.E. Ethel, shown as Ethel R., age 22, was a public school teacher.

Inthe 1930 census, she and Olaf and, supposedly, Olaf’s sister Marjorie, live in Sioux City.

In the 1940 census, Ethel Jackson, age 42, lives in Sioux City with her husband Olaf and two daughters.

Birth:
This is the date in the SSDI. The 1900 census has her born Jan 1896 and shows her as age 4. She is shown as age 13 in the 1910 census.

Died:
last residence

Ethel married Olaf A JACKSON on 22 Sep 1928 in Morrison County, Minnesota. Olaf was born on 2 Sep 1898 in Norway; died on 5 Apr 1991. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1900-14367

Notes:

Was not listed with the family in the 1900 census. However, the census-taker visited the Andersons on June 27th. Although only 7 children were listed, Anna is shown as having had 8 children. Olive was probably omitted in the listing because she was an infant.

Shown as male on birth certificate.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 1878

Notes:

In the Swedish Birth Records, he is shown twice, once (Thorup) as the son of Fredrikka Lundberg, once (Tvååker) as the son of Emelie Wilhelmina Landberg. In neither case was there a father’s name. The 1877-1881 H.E. shows his birthplace as Träslöf which probably refers to Träslövsläge in Varberg Municipality, Halland. It’s a fishing village about 40 miles south of Gothenburg and a few miles west of Tvååker.

Although not the son of Salomon, he is listed as Johan Gottfrid Salomonsson in the 1877-1881 Kånna Household Examination.

Emigrated May 18, 1880, as Johan Gottfrid Salomonsson according to the out-migration record for Kånna. May be the John Godfridson, 18, servant, living with the Andrew Anderson family in Cannon Falls in the 1880 Goodhue County census. He may be the Johan Carlsson, born about 1862, who left Sweden on 8 April 1880 bound for New York. His place of origin was Torpa Halland län, Sverige, and his port of departure was Göteborg.

A different John Gotfried Carlson married Martina Malin in Douglas County, Wisconsin, on 29 Jul 1899. This couple, as Gottfreid and Martina, and three of their children, lived in Duluth in the 1930 census.

The oldest ... lived in Canada and supposedly never married.

DHC believes that John died in Canada and that his sister Ida had his body transported to Minneapolis for burial.

Identified as John Quist in Sandy’s obituary.

May be the John Quist identified in the 1911 Canadian census as a pipe line worker in New Westminster, British Columbia.

Bob recalls that John lived in one of Ida’s houses (across from the current Burger King) at 98th and Nicollet in Bloomington in the late 1930s. He lived there for only a few months before returning to Saskatoon, Canada. Bob recalls that John would carve linked chains 4-6 feet long out of blocks of wood.

Birth:
In one of his birth records is something like “an unmarried Lundberg girl from Övregård.”

Buried:
Cora’s diary mentions only “Maurice’s uncle.” Because Oscar’s death is noted in 1950, the 1946 funeral must be John.

Notes:

Shown in the Swedish Indexed Birth Records as the child of Aron Carlsson and Wilhelmina Lundberg.

The 1861-1866 Household Examination for Torup, Öfregårds Nybygge, p. 95), for Johan’s family, shows that Emeli had another child between Johan Gottfrid and Josefina.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 1880

Notes:

In the födelsbok, only her mother’s name is given, no father.

Probably not the daughter of Salomon. Called Josefina Carolina Albertine in the 1861-1866 Torup Household Examination (p. 95).

Emigrated May 16, 1881, according to Jan Webb. The portion of the family leaving Sweden at that time were Emma, Josephine, Charlie, Ida, and Hedda Sofia. Carl Oscar and Johan Alfred stayed behind in Sweden. The oldest, John, emigrated the year before.

A Josephine Carlson married a Charles Smith in Hennepin County on 4 Jun 1883 (#00210435).

From the Emibas CD:

Lundberg, Josefina Karolina
Dotter (unmarried woman)

b. 7/11/1865 in Torup, Hallands län (Halland)

Emigrated 5/16/1881
from Berghem Westregård, Kånna, Kronobergs län (Småland)
to Nordamerika

Source: Emibas migration file ID: Kånna G 1881 016

A Josephin Carlson, age 16 (b. ca 1865 in Sweden), spinster, arrived in New York aboard the City of Berlin on 5 Sep 1881. That is the best match for Josephi* or Josef* arriving from Sweden in 1881.

A Josefina C Carlsson, b. 1865, kvinna, from Stamnared Halland län, destination “Lemont”, is in the Swedish emigration records (EmiHamn) as departing from Göteborg on 19 August 1881. The handwriting on the original manifest, for the Romeo bound for Hull, is not clear so “Stamnared” and “Lemont” are best guesses but probably not correct. (The Gothenburg index interprets birth place as “Stainnand.”) Halland is quite clear, however.

From Jan’s research, this is probably the record of Josephine’s death:

Indexing Project (Batch) Number:
B53040-2
System Origin:
Minnesota-EASy
Source Film Number:
1309404
Reference Number:
P101

Birth:
no father’s name in her birth record

Died:
per Jan

Josefina married Charles Cady SMITH on 4 Jun 1883 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Charles (son of Seagrave SMITH and Susan Almira CADY) was born about 1856 in Connecticut; died on 10 Jul 1898 in Spokane County, Washington; was buried in Fairmount Memorial Park, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1926-MN-022069
• Occupation: Laborer
• Burial: 9 Jun 1939, Crystal Lake Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota

Notes:

Emigrated May 16, 1881, according to Jan Webb. The portion of the family leaving Sweden at that time were Emma, Josephine, Charlie, Ida, and Hedda Sofia. Carl Oscar and Johan Alfred stayed behind in Sweden. The oldest, John, emigrated the year before.

From the Emibas CD:

Post 244732

Lundberg, Karl Johan August
Son (unmarried man)

b. 10/20/1867 in Annerstad, Kronobergs län (Småland)

Emigrated 5/16/1881
from Berghem Westregård, Kånna, Kronobergs län (Småland)
to Nordamerika

Source: Emibas migration file ID: Kånna G 1881 017

Changed his last name to Smith.

Occupation of laborer was described as “house” for “Industry, Business, or Establishment in which at work.”



In the 1885 Minnesota state census, he may be the Chas Fogelquist, age 18, born in Sweden, living in Stanton Twp, Goodhue County. Or he may be the 16 year-old “Carl” Fogelquist living with Frank and Emelie in Cannon Falls.

At the time of the baptism of their daughter “Maimee” in the summer of 1892, he and Amelia lived at 1200 Franklin.

In the 1895 state census, he may be the Chas Smith living at 362 Cedar in St. Paul. That person was 27, was born in Sweden, and had been in Minnesota for 14 years. He was a hostler and had been in St. Paul for 2 months.

A Charles J. Carlson was issued a marriage license (to Helga Josephine Peterson) in Minneapolis in March of 1897.

In the 1897 Superior city directory, he is Charles Fogelquist, a laborer, boarding with Frank and Emelie and Sandy at 416 Fisher Avenue.

In the 1899 Superior city directory, he is Charles Fogelquist, a laborer, boarding with Frank and Emelie and Sandy at 912 Baxter Avenue.

In the 1901 Superior city directory, he is Charles Fogelquist, a laborer, boarding with Frank and Emelie and Sandy at 1209 Winter.

There were at least four possibilities for Charles Smith in Superior in the 1900 census but none of them are a perfect match for other information.

He applied for his marriage license (as noted in the St. Paul Globe, 29 Jan 1902) as Charles J. Smith, marrying Amanda Davidson.

In the 1905 Minnesota state census, he was C. J. Smith living with Amanda, Melvin, and Eva at 1807 6th Street South in Minneapolis. He is a day laborer. He has been in the state for 25 years and in the present enumeration district for 2 months. Amanda had been in the state for 3 years and 11 months. Apparently, the family had moved to Minneapolis from Superior in April of 1905.

In the 1909 city directory, he was Charles Smith, bicycle repairer, doing business at 1921 East Franklin and living at 1917 East Franklin.

In the 1910 census, Charles Smith, 43, and his wife Amanda, 34, were living at 1915 E. Franklin in a rented apartment in a multi-family dwelling. Charles and Amanda had been married for seven years and Amanda has had two children, both still living. The children are Melvan, 7, and Eva, 5. Both children were born in Wisconsin. Charles’s occupation is bicycle repairer at a shop. Charles came to this country in 1880 and Amanda in what looks to be 1908. (?)

The 1919 Minneapolis city directory has him as Chas J Smith, grocer, 3853 41st Ave S. Charlie’s store was lot 17, block 1 of the Lawndale subdivision. It, and the corner house next to it at 3857 41st Avenue, existed in 1914. The Hennepin County Interactive Maps shows that 3853 was built in 1900 and 3857 was built in 1912.

At the time of the 1920 census (January 5th), the family was living at 3853 41st Avenue S. in a house he owned without mortgage. The family consisted of Charles J., 53, Manda, 42, Melvin, 16, Eva, 15, and Lillian, 1 and a few months. From a photograph supposedly taken in October of 1917, this building was Charlie Smith’s grocery store. Charlie is shown in the census as having immigrated in 1880 but the year is hard to read. Also shown as “Pa” for the question “Naturalized or alien?” so at time of census appears to have been not a citizen. Manda came to the U.S. in 1901. Charles’s occupation is shown as laborer in the house industry. Manda was a retail merchant in the grocery industry. Melvin was a laborer in the general store.

The family lived at 3418 Bryant at the time of Lillian Isabel’s death in 1921.

His obituary was in the Sunday, October 31st edition of the Minneapolis Journal. Charles J. Smith passed away on Saturday, October 30th. He is survived by one daughter and one son. Services will be held Monday, November 1st, from the Sundseth Funeral Home, Lyndale at 21st Avenue North, at 2:30 PM. Interment at Crystal Lake.

His death certificate shows he had been living in Princeton for 4 months before his death.

Burial:
reburial by Ida Deiters

Died:
7:25 AM according to the death certificate

Carl married Amelia ISAACSON in Jan 1890 in Minnesota. Amelia (daughter of Isaac PETTERSSON and Brita JACOBSDOTTER) was born on 2 May 1869 in Kappebo, Dalskog, Älvsborgs läns, Sweden; died on 17 Jan 1902 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Carl married Amanda A DAVIDSON on 30 Jan 1902 in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota. Amanda was born on 22 Oct 1876 in Sweden; died on 20 Feb 1926 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 22 Feb 1926 in Crystal Lake Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1950-MN-022458
• Confirmation: 1882

Notes:

Known as Oscar. He was left behind with his brother Alfred when his mother and the rest of the family went to the U.S. in 1881. Oscar went to the U.S., or at least left West Berghem in November of 1886 according to the Kånna Household Exam (p. 30, 1882-1891). A later entry (p. 161) in that same Household Examination seems to indicate that Karl Oscar Salomonsson left for Amerika 21 September 1887. Nevertheless, he seems to be the 16 year-old “Carl” living with Frank and Emelie in Cannon Falls in the 1885 Minnesota state census.

In the 1895 state census, he may be the 19 year-old Oscar Fogelquist living with his mother and step-father in Cannon Falls.

Apparently married to a Lina and living in the city of Superior at the time of the 1900 census. Sandy Fogelquist, listed as “brother” was living with Oscar and his wife and two “roomers” named Frank Fogelquist and Gust Carlson. In that census entry, Oscar and his wife are both shown as having been born in Sweden and having come to this country in 1879. Oscar is a day laborer born in Sweden in August of 1869. Lina was born in June of 1875 in Sweden and is a domestic. She and Oscar had been married for one year and had no children.

A different Carl Oscar Carlson married an Alma Justine Abrahamson in Douglas County, Wisconsin, on 7 Feb 1903.

The best match in the 1910 census is a 43 year-old Carl O Carlson living on Washington Avenue in Minneapolis, single, and working as a hotel porter.

The best match in the 1920 census is the 50 year-old Carl Carlson living on Upton Avenue South in Minneapolis, single, and working as a “plate shop” for a steel company.

The best match in the 1930 census is the 61 year-old Carl Carlson, widower, living with the David Tapper family in Minneapolis. That Carl was a widower, came to the U.S. in 1888, and was an iron worker in the bridge industry.

His application for a license to marry Nellie Shallman was noticed in the Star Journal in its 27 Apr 1944 edition, p.10. He was 75 and living at 4336 40th Ave. S. and she was 65 and living at 2503 Portland Avenue.

CARLSON, CARL OSCAR 
Minnesota Death Certificate ID# 1950-MN-022458   
Date of Death: 08/09/1950
County of Death: HENNEPIN

The 1950 census has an 82 year-old Carl O Carlson, a widower born in Sweden, living at 4245 18th Avenue in Minneapolis. He was a naturalized citizen.

Oscar’s brief obituary appeared in the Friday, August 11th edition of the Minneapolis Tribune. His obit in the StarTribune (as Oscar Carlson) mentions only that he was survived by his sister Ida and brother Alfred.

Oscar’s last residence was 4245 18th Avenue South in Minneapolis. His funeral was at the Barney Anderson & Son funeral home; the services were at 2 PM on Saturday, August 12th.

The informant for his death certificate was his sister Ida Deiters who knew that their parents were Solomon Carlson and Emma somebody. Oscar’s residence was 4245 18th Avenue South in Minneapolis. He was a widower, his wife had been named Nellie. Oscar was an iron worker in the building construction trades. He died of pneumonia and heart disease.

In the 1946 Minneapolis city directory, he is Carl O Carlson, wife Nellie S, living at 4346 40th Avenue S. He has no occupation.

In the 1948 Minneapolis city directory, he may be the Oscar Carlson residing at the Minnesota Soldiers Home. There is a similar listing in the 1950 city directory.

The best (only) match for him in the 1950 census is for an 82 year-old Carl O Carlson, born in Sweden, living at 4245 18th Avenue.

Birth:
Födelsbok

Died:
died at 7:15 PM according to Cora’s diary; died at Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis according to his obit

Buried:
Maurice and Cora attended his funeral

Carl married Lina in 1899. Lina was born in Jun 1875 in Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Carl married Nellie PETERSON on 6 May 1944 in Hennepin County, Minnesota, and was divorced about 1948. Nellie (daughter of GUSTAFSON) was born on 4 Nov 1875 in Sweden; died on 11 May 1964 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1952-MN-021101
• Occupation: Tailor, Real estate speculator
• Confirmation: 1886, Kånna, Småland, Kronobergs län, Sweden

Notes:

Seems to be child #5 according to his birth record, which is incorrect, at least for Salomon’s children. However, Ida Mathilda also seems to be shown as child #5 which is correct.

According to the Kånna Household Exam, Al left for the U. S. on 25 February 1890, having first left Berghem Westregard -- where he had remained since his mother and siblings emigrated in May of 1881 -- for Kalinstad in September of 1889. A notation in the 1882-1891 Kånna Household Exam (p. 30), in which he and Oscar are listed as Salomonssen, indicates for both men “mother widow Emeli Lundberg in America.”

A Johan Alfred Carlsson departed Malmö, destination Boston, on 2 Oct 1890. His place of origin in Sweden was Urshult, Kronobergs län.

Alfred supposedly took the middle initial Z to distinguish himself in the telephone directory. At least through the 1925 Minneapolis City Directory, Al never was listed with a middle initial. However, from the 1932 city directory on, he did use the Z. The notice of his application for a marriage license (to Meta) in the 30 Apr 1933 edition of the Star listed him as Alfred Z. Carlson.

According to Cora: “Al's mother left him in Sweden at age 3, apprenticed to a tailor, when she emigrated with Fogelquist. Al learned his future trade sitting cross-legged on a table. He emigrated to the US in 1886 at the age of 14. He stayed with a cousin for a year in New York City before taking the train to Winona or Hastings and then walking to Cannon Falls where his mother lived.”

Al became a citizen before 1916 (when Cora came into the family); he had to send back to Sweden for his birth certificate.

According to Cora: “Al was about 5' 8" or 5' 9" tall. He got in fist fights and won. He didn't drink or smoke. He liked clothes and dancing, so much so that he went to dances with other women. Al was an extreme male chauvinist. He didn't believe that women should eat with the family. He didn't believe that a husband needed to clothe his wife. He didn't believe that a husband needed to stay with his wife.

“Al mostly was a real-estate speculator, buying and selling property, but eventually went back to tailoring. He bought an apartment across from Honeywell on 28th (street?). In about 1917, Al bought 10 acres with a big house on the east side of Highway 100 at 63rd Street near the country club. (Maurice didn't buy there because the water was too far down.)” [When Cora related this in the 1970's, she said that now there is probably another row of houses between Hwy 100 and the old house.] [The construction of the Crosstown Highway, Hwy 62, would have obliterated Al’s old place if Cora was correct about the location. It’s exactly at the modern-day intersection of the Crosstown and Normandale Road.]

Bess and Al had trouble getting to Maurice and Cora's wedding and had to ask directions from a farmer on how to get to La Crosse. They also had trouble negotiating a hill with their car and their radiator overheated. Al complained that Maurice should have married a girl from Minneapolis.

Cora remembers that Al especially liked Vivian.

In the 1895 (July 12th) Minnesota state census, Al (as “J.A.”), 23, and Bessie, 17, were living in Wabasha where Al was a tailor. They had been living in Wabasha for 2 months. Al claimed to have been in the state of Minnesota for 6 months but that may mean 6 years.

At the time of the 1900 census (June 9th), Alfred, 28, Bessie, 22, and Morris E., 4, were living on 28th and Riverside (perhaps #2824) in Minneapolis. Al and Bess had been married for 5 years. Bess had had one child, still living. Al’s occupation is “tailor.” Living with them, as a boarder, was an 18 (born December 1881) year old girl named Annie, born in Sweden, whose occupation is shown as servant. The census-taker did not enter a last name for her, implying that it was also Carlson. Al is shown as having emigrated in 1890, Bess in 1883. They are renting the house that they live in.

In the 1905 Minnesota state census, the family is living at 520 17th Avenue S. in Minneapolis. They had lived there for 6 months. Al had been in the state for 15 years, Bess for 20. The household consisted of Al, 33, Bessy, 27, Morris, 10, and Mamie Smith, 13. Al was a tailor.

At the time of the 1910 census (April 27th), Alfred, 38, Bessie, 32, and Morris, 14, were living at 38th and Chicago in a duplex that Al and Bess owned. (The tenants were a family named Jenson.) Al is a tailor of or in an outfitting establishment. Al emigrated in 1883 (?) and Bessie in 1884.

The 1914 Minneapolis plat map shows two buildings, with a common wall, on the lot that must have been 3805 Chicago Ave. The southeast corner of 38th and Chicago was the northwest corner of a four block subdivision (bounded by 11th Avenue, Chicago Avenue, 38th Street, and 40th Street, known as Chicago Avenue Park.

On January 5, 1920, the census enumerator found the Carlsons living at 3716 Elliot Avenue South. (Minneapolis enumeration district 127, image 5 of 36.) Al and Bess are living with Morris and Cora as Alfred, age 47, and Bessie, age 42. The dates of immigration and naturalization for Alfred and Bessie are listed but are not legible. Alfred is listed as a tailor employed for wages at a tailor shop.

At the time of the 1930 census, Al was living with Sandy, 48, and Clara, 38 (who, apparently, weren't married) at 3901 13th Avenue in a house worth $4500. Thus, Al and Bess were divorced by the time of the census. Al has no occupation listed. Al was a naturalized citizen; he emigrated in 1887. Al is shown as widowed. (?) Al was first married at age 23.

The following is from the Minneapolis city directories:

In the 1892-1893 directory, there is an Oscar Carlson, laborer, living at 1323 s 2d and an Alfred Carlson, laborer, living at 1311 s 2d.

In 1896, Alfred is a tailor for Isaac Kurtzman and was living at 435 27th Avenue South in Minneapolis. In the 1897 Minneapolis directory, he is probably the Alfred Carlson living at 2301 Riverside Avenue. In the 1898 directory, Alfred, tailor, is living in the rear of 1417 South 3rd Avenue. This is the address of Daniel Erickson for the two years previous so apparently Al and Bess moved into the Erickson apartment after Daniel and his family moved to the farm in Anoka County.

In 1899, there is no Alfred listed in the directory but there is the cryptic entry for Alfred Carlson: “moved to West Superior, Wisconsin.” By 1900, Al and Bess are shown at 2824 Riverside as the 1900 census entry also indicates. In 1901, Alfred, tailor, is shown to be living at 514 15th Avenue South. In the 1902, 1903, and 1904 directories, there are no entries for our Alfred. In the 1903, 1904, and 1905 directories, there is apparently another Alfred Carlson, tailor, this one living in North Minneapolis and working for F E Tallant.

Our Alfred shows up again in the 1905 directory at 520 17th Avenue South. He remains at that address in the 1906 directory. In the 1907 directory, Alfred has opened a tailor shop at 823 Cedar Avenue although he resides at 2120 Riverside Avenue. In the 1908 directory, the only Alfred, tailor, is at 1106 24th Avenue North so that is probably the other Alfred.

By 1909, our Alfred lives at 3115 Stevens Avenue South and has a tailor shop in the “55 Eastman Block.” In the 1910 directory, consistent with the 1910 census entry, Alfred has a business at 3805 Chicago although he apparently lives at 3113 Stevens. (That part does not agree with the census entry.)

In the 1911 directory, Alfred is shown as working as a tailor for Webster Tallant and still resides at 3805 Chicago. The 1912 directory does not mention the Webster Tallant affiliation. In 1913, Alfred has a tailor shop at 3411 Chicago although he still resides at 3805 Chicago.

In 1914, consistent with Cora’s writings, Al now has a hardware store at the 3805 Chicago location and also resides there. Alfred is back to tailoring in 1915 and still lives at 3805 Chicago.

In the 1916, 1917, and 1918, Alfred is still tailoring but in these three years goes by the name of Albert instead of Alfred. This may simply be a mistake on the part of the person preparing the directory. It may be an attempt by Alfred to distinguish himself from the other Alfred Carlson, tailor. Or it may even be a reaction to the German phobia during the war years: perhaps Albert sounded less Germanic than Alfred. Alfred’s address in 1916 and 1917 remains at 3805 Chicago but by the 1918 directory he is at 3720 Elliot Avenue. (There is an Albert, tailor, living at 3720 Elliot and an Alfred, no occupation, living at 3716 Elliot.)

The modern-day 3716 Elliott Avenue South is the correct building. In 1914, this was lot 5, with a house already on it, of the 3700 block of Elliott. This was part of the Chicago Avenue and Lyndale Addition subdivision bounded by 37th Street, 38th Street, Chicago Avenue, and the alley between 10th and 11th Avenues.

That address has become 3716 Elliot at the time of the 1919 directory. He is still a tailor. By 1920, Al and his son have moved to 1535 E. 39th Street. In 1920, Al is a tailor; in 1921, still at that address, Al’s occupation is listed as electrician. (At that point, he may have joined Maurice in the ill-fated Twin City Chandelier Manufacturing Company.)

Al was the informant for his mother-in-law’s death certificate. At that time, May of 1921, he was living at 4016 11th Avenue S.

In 1922 and 1923, the only entry for Alfred, tailor, resides at 4016 11th Avenue. This would be either next door to, or within a few houses of, Charles Hendrickson and Martha. The 1922 entry shows Alfred working as a tailor for A J Lofgren & Co. The 1923 entry does not show that affiliation. In 1924 and 1925, Alfred, tailor, is living at 4228 Minnehaha Avenue.

In the spring of 1931, Alfred Z Carlson was assessed for a lot he owned (east 24 41-100 feet, lot 7, block 17) in the Camden Oaks Addition to Minneapolis.

DHC’s research of the city directories shows the following for Al:

1926 Al’s occupation is real estate, his residence is 4228 Minnehaha.
1927 Still at 4228 but no occupation.
1928 Still at 4228, tailor.
1929 No entry for him or Bessie.
1930 Resides at 3901 13th Ave. S., no entry for Bessie.
1931 Resides at 4651 15th Ave. S., Bessie at 4228.
1932 “Alfred Z.” resides at 4651 15th Ave. S., Bessie at 4228.
1933 “Alfred Z.” still resides ar 4651 15th, now with a wife Maida (Meta L).
1934 “Alf Z” is a tailor at 4301 Chicago. Wife Meta.
1935 “Alfred Z.” is still at 4301 Chicago. Bessie is shown at 4230 Minnehaha.
1936 “Alfred Z.” is still at 4301 Chicago. Bessie is shown at 4228 Minnehaha.
1937 “Alfred Z.” is still at 4301 Chicago. Bessie is shown at 4228 Minnehaha as the widow of Alfred.

In the 1940 census, for which the 42 year-old Meta was the informant, Al and Meta live at 4301 Chicago, the same house in which they had lived in 1935. Al had no occupation shown in the main part of the schedule. However, he was one of the two form entries to be asked Supplementary Questions and in that he was shown as having been a tailor in a retail shop. Al had a sixth-grade education, Meta an eighth-grade education. Al did not have a social security number.

In the 1941 and 1942 city directories, Alf Z Carlson, wife Meta L, resides at 4220 12th Ave S.

In 1942, when his nephew Fred Jay Smith registered for the World War II draft, Fred gave Al as the “person who would always know your address.” Fred gave Al’s address as 4212 S. 12th Avenue, Minneapolis.

An article in the 6 Apr 1943 edition of the Minneapolis Star describes a hearing on divorce proceedings filed by Al against Meta. Al is described as a 70 year-old real estate dealer. He and Meta lived at 4220 Twelfth Avenue S. “Both husband and wife charge inhuman treatment. Mrs. Carlson said her husband not only had ordered her to leave the home several times under threat of physical violence but had shown a liking for younger women. ‘He told me plainly he thought a woman over 40 was just too old and that he intended to go out and pick up younger women,’ Mrs. Carlson testified. Carlson said that since the marriage in May, 1933, he had transferred property to his wife and had given her cash because of threats she had made to kill him. ‘It seems like all she was interested in was money,’ Carlson said. ‘A month after we were married she tried to get me to transfer all my real estate to her. One time she told me a fortune teller told her I was going to die shortly. Using that as a plea, she got me to transfer the house to her.’ Al’s niece, Eva Munn, testified at trial that when she and her husband went to taverns with the Carlsons, Carlson did not dance with younger women. The court held Mrs. Munn’s testimony was not material and remarked that if Carlson did dance with younger women, that was to be expected.

He lived at 3406 E 40th in the 1944 city directory, no wife or occupation listed.

In the 1948, 1950, and 1952 city directories, he and Emily reside at 3406 E 40th.

In the 1950 census, he was listed as Alfred Z. Carlson. He and his wife Emily C. lived at 3406 E. 40th Street.

Al had $28,000 when he died, mostly as real estate.

His obituary (June 9th Tribune), as well as his death certificate, listed his address as 3406 E. 40th St. Funeral services were through Barney Anderson & Son. His death certificate, according to Dr. Elvin Englund, says that he died from uremia complicated by arteriosclerotic renal disease and arteriosclerotic heart disease. Al had apparently been in the hospital for about 7 days. (Cora’s diary says that he went into the hospital on Sunday, June 1st.)

His son was the informant for Al’s death certificate. Al had been in the city for 65 years (implying that Maurice believed Al had come to Minneapolis in 1887) and left a widow named Emily. He died of uremia and renal disease.

DHC recalls that Al didn’t like children and that Vivian was the only kid that he liked. According to DHC, in the mid-to-late 1920s, Al and Bess had a farm cottage on Minnetonka Boulevard, the main road between Excelsior and Lake Minnetonka. That cottage was “mostly before” DHC’s time.

Al and Bess also had a cottage on Lake Minnetonka next to Maurice and Cora. DHC believes that Al may have brought his girlfriends out to the Lake Minnetonka cottage.

Birth:
His parents were S Carlsson and E Lundberg of Berghem. They had been married ten years.

Died:
Died in early afternoon according to Cora’s diary. Died at 1:10 PM at Fairview Hospital according to the death certificate.

Buried:
His obit was in the 9 Jun 1952 edition of the Minneapolis Star.

Johan married Brita (Bessie) ERICKSON on 31 Mar 1895 in Nelson, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, and was divorced in Dec 1929 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Brita (daughter of Daniel ERICKSON and Brita (Betsy) JONSDOTTER (JOHNSON)) was born on 12 Sep 1877 in Rättvik, Dalarnas län, Sweden; died on 22 Feb 1965 in Hopkins, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 24 Feb 1965 in Sunset Memorial Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johan married Meta Lenore KORNDER on 5 May 1933 in Hennepin County, Minnesota, and was divorced in Apr 1943 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Meta (daughter of John Matthew KORNDER and Babetta M KAMLEITER) was born on 30 May 1897 in Bloomington, Hennepin County, Minnesota; died in Jan 1983 in Arapahoe County, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johan married Emily Cecelia HOLT on 8 Aug 1947 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Emily was born on 31 May 1896 in Minnesota; died on 19 May 1971 in Yakima County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1964-MN-023798

Notes:

Her death certificate says, erroneously, that her year of birth was 1870.

Emigrated in 1881 according to the 1930 census. May 16, 1881, according to Jan Webb. The portion of the family leaving Sweden at that time were Emma, Josephine, Charlie, Ida, and Hedda Sofia. Carl Oscar and Johan Alfred stayed behind in Sweden. The oldest, John, emigrated the year before.

An Ida Carlsson, “barn”, b. ca 1872 in Sweden, bound for New York, emigrated from Sweden according to EmiHamn on 1 September 1881, departing from Köpenhamn, bound for New York.

She was apparently the 14 year-old Ida living with Frank and Emelie in Cannon Falls in the 1885 census.

Terry says that Gus’s family remembered Ida as coming from St. Louis County. The Duluth/Superior directory does record an Ida M Carlson, “ironer”, working at 1808 Broadway in Superior in 1891/92 and “boarding” at “John avenue between 1st and 2nd.”

Terry says that one of Gus’s nieces (most likely grand-nieces) said that Ida was not liked by the family. She was not well educated and I suppose the German Deiters family were like the Germans here in Canada who look down on people not of German descent. This niece also said that Ida had vistors from California whose young son was a child movie star and they had much money as well. She did not remember the last name but the lady from California was called Mildred and had a fancy car and well dressed friends when they came to visit Ida in Minneapolis at her house.

According to Cora, Ida was a sturdy woman who was able to climb poles and string wire when her husband started an electric company in North Dakota.

According to Jan Webb: My brother was told that Ida and August Dieters came up to Naicam/ Spalding once. I guess it was in the depression and they really wanted to have children. They had made some enquiries at that visit to try to adopt some children in town but I guess were unsuccessful at that time.

Ida and Gus moved into their home on the west side of Lake Nokomis after 1930. At the time of the 1930 census, they were renting at 3407 Lyndale Avenue. DHC said that Ide and Gus had two servants at the Lake Nokomis house. Gus and Ide may have lived on Park Avenue before the Lake Nokomis house.

In the fall of 1938, Ide had a lake cottage, apparently on Lake Minnetonka. That is probably the house described in this article which appeared in the Star on 3 Sep 1943:

Fire Razes ‘Tonka Home

Knowlton Residence Destroyed

Fire roared through the old David Knowlton residence on Sunrise Point, Tonka Bay, late yesterday, burning to the ground in less than an hour despite efforts of the Excelsior fire department.

The Richard A. Peterson home next door was damaged by the flames.

The Knowlton residence was a landmark of the Lake Minnetonka area and was one of the first built on Sunrise Point. It was a two-story frame dwelling with five bedrooms.

Damage to the Peterson home, which is of concrete construction, was confined to window frames and woodwork near the windows.

A group of children discovered the fire and turned in the alarm. Present owner of the Knowlton residence, A. H. Deiters, 5244 W. Lake Nokomis Parkway, who used it largely for weekends, was not at home at the time, nor were the Petersons.

In the 1940 census (indexed as Beiters), Ida and August live at 5240 Lake Nokomis Parkway, the same house in which they had lived in 1935. The house was worth $10000. Gus had had a 7th grade education, Ida a 6th grade education. Living with them was a live-in servant named Elvie Manville, age 27.

DHC claimed, in an interview in which his memory was suspect, that he remembered visiting Ide and Gus in North Dakota. If so, he would have been less than six years old.

Ida sued Gus for her maiden name back in the late 1940s. At the same time, or near that time, Ida sued Gus for divorce, a story which made the Minneapolis newspaper (the first page of one of the sections).

The Minneapolis Star had this article in its 22 Sep 1947 edition, front page:

Wed 55 Years, Divorce Asked

Charging the associates with other women and has even bought automobiles for them, Mrs. Ida M. Deiters, 74, filed suit for divorce today against her husband, August Henry Deiters, 81.

The have been married 55 years and live at 5244 W. Lake Nokomis Parkway.

Mrs. Deiters also charges in her complaint that she was unable to keep women employes in their large house because of her husband’s attitude toward them.

She adds that while he was free in spending money on other women, he was not lavish with her.

Deiters is worth “several hundred thousand dollars” and has an income of $6,000 a year, she claims.

Deiters’ answer has not been filed.

The Minneapolis Tribune had this article in its 27 Sep 1947 edition:

Wife, 74, Is Denied Alimony, Court Costs

A request by Mrs. Ida M. Deiters, 74, 5244 W. Lake Nokomis Parkway, for temporary alimony and payment of court costs, was denied Friday, by District Judge William A. Anderson.

Mrs. Deiters has filed suit for divorce from August Henry Deiters, 81, her husband for 55 years. Deiters filed an affidavit pointing out he now provides his wife a monthly income of $250. Deiters also stated in the affidavit that he has given his wife $10 a week for “her housekeeping services.”

Hospitalized for apparent surgery in late March of 1953 according to Cora’s diary.

Although she died in April of 1964, her estate was not settled until October of 1966. Terry says that some of the Oscar Johnson kinfolk in Saskatchewan, Canada, said they were contacted by lawyers from Minnesota offering money from her estate but they never replied.

She enjoyed building "playhouses" around Minneapolis. They all had the same floor plan. (One is on the southeast corner of 86th Street and Portland Avenue in Bloomington. I remember visiting there when I was very little.) She also built one on 43rd (40th?) Avenue and 42nd or 43rd Street that had air conditioning. Bill and Viv bought that house when they came back from Wilmington in the early 1940's. She bought or built another house at Oakland and 45th or 46th which she gave to her niece Eva Carlson Smith. In a later interview, when his memory was suspect, DHC said that there were two houses at “44st and 40th”, one had an air conditioner. He also said in that interview that Bill and Viv were at 43rd and 43rd near Hiawatha School. Ide also had a house near/at 98th and Nicollet in Bloomington.

Ida had an advertisement in the Tribune on 8 Nov 1941 attempting to sell her _two_ houses near 98th Street and Nicollet. She called them “two 5-rm mod. houses, ea has 1 acre land.”

In an ad in the Tribune on 25 Feb 1940, she advertised a “fresh milk cow and calf” and “1full blooded Poland China boar.” The animals were available at “Valley View Ranch” at 98th and Nicollet.

She built the house at 4321 43rd Ave. S. in 1932 according to a building permit announcement in the 18 Jun 1932 edition of the Tribune (and 17 Jun 1932 in the Star). The house was to be a 1 story stucco dwelling and garage built by the owner. The cost of the project was to be $3,000. The lot was “L 9, B 3, Thorpe Bros Minn Ad.”

I remember going with Elaine and Cora to visit Id and Gus at their home on Lake Nokomis when I was very young - young enough to spend most of my time crawling behind the sofa. I remember a floor lamp that lit up at the base. Gus and Id were very old at that time.

Ida’s obituary appeared in the Friday, April 3rd edition of the Minneapolis Tribune. Funeral services for Ida M. Deiters, 93, 5244 West Lake Nokomis Parkway, who died Thursday will be held at 2:30 PM Saturday at the Barney Anderson-Leland Mortuary, Chicago at 37th, with burial in Crystal Lake Cemetery. Survivors include her husband, August H. The body will be at the mortuary from 7 PM today.

Another death announcement in that same paper said that she was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene.



Mrs. H.S. Munn was the informant for her death certificate. She knew nothing other than that Ide had been born in Smoland. Ida died at home, 5244 West Lake Nokomis Parkway, of coronary insufficiency.

The probate of Ide’s will was initiated by Eva Munn through the law offices of Cronin, Mitchell & Spooner in Minneapolis. The first hearing for the probate was held on May 13, 1964. The First National Bank of Minneapolis was named the executor. The probate judge was Melvin A. Peterson and the Probate Number for the case was 103669.

We don’t know how all of the initial, and largest, disbursements from Ida’s estate were made. We do, however, have the record of the final disbursements of what was left of her estate. This final resolution of Ida Mathilda Deiters’ will was completed January 30, 1967, with those final disbursements (which totaled about $20,000) handled by the First National Bank of Minneapolis. After taking off half for August H. Deiters, the will provided distributions of the remainder as follows:

One-fourteenth to Eva Munn
One-fourteenth to Mamie Carson
One-fourteenth to Melvin Smith
One-fourteenth to Josephine Peterson, deceased
One-fourteenth to Darlene Sicora
One-fourteenth to Robert Smith
One-fourteenth to Donald Smith
One-fourteenth to Vivian Carson Kincaid
One-fourteenth to Dorothy Carson Casad
One-fourteenth to Ted Eberts
One-fourteenth to Donald H. Carlson
One-fourteenth to Duane Dawson
One-fourteenth to Daryl Dawson
One-fourteenth to Vivian Marsh

This proportion of distribution may not have been the same for the initial disbursements from the estate and disbursements were made to heirs other than the 14 receiving a share of the final distribution.

We don’t know who Josephine Peterson was but apparently she died between the time that Ide finalized her will and January 30, 1967. All of the people listed were blood relatives so we must assume that Josephine Peterson was too. Perhaps Josephine Peterson was a descendant of John or Oscar.

The families of Ide’s siblings benefited as follows, at least by the proportions in the final disbursement:

Alfred Carlson: 2 shares
Charles Smith: 8 shares
Josephine Smith: 1 share
Sandy Fogelquist: 2 shares
Unknown: 1 share (Josephine Peterson)

Died:
“Id died at 4:15 this afternoon.”

Buried:
Estate settlement papers; confirmed by death certificate

Ida married August Henry (Gus) DEITERS on 13 Apr 1892 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. August (son of Henry F DIETERS and Louisa REESE) was born on 26 Mar 1866 in Minnesota; died on 11 Nov 1969 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She would have been born 2 weeks before her father died.

Emigrated May 16, 1881, according to Jan Webb. The portion of the family leaving Sweden at that time were Emma, Josephine, Charlie, Ida, and Hedda Sofia. Carl Oscar and Johan Alfred stayed behind in Sweden. The oldest, John, emigrated the year before.

From the Emibas CD:

Post 244733

Lundberg, Hedda Sofia Linnea
Dotter (unmarried woman)

b. 12/9/1876 in Annerstad, Kronobergs län (Småland)

Emigrated 5/16/1881
from Berghem Westregård, Kånna, Kronobergs län (Småland)
to Nordamerika

Source: Emibas migration file ID: Kånna G 1881 018

Not listed in the 1885 state census so she had apparently died by then.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1939-MN-005121
• Occupation: Tinner At Bakery
• Baptism: 2 Sep 1881, Cannon Falls, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

His birth is listed as #22, on p. 2, of the Goodhue County Birth Register, 1881-1893, Vol. 2, as Emil Alexander Fogelquith. His parents are simply shown as F. and Emilia L., both born in Sweden, F. is a farmer. Two lines down is the entry for his cousin Josie Lundberg.

Lived in Superior, Wisconsin, where they had a hardware store. Were living there when Cora came to Minneapolis. She said her dad was up to see them and she was up to see them and "they were very nice people." She adds, "even Grandpa Al couldn't find any fault with them. In fact he was rather proud of them." {Cora must have been referring to Frank Fogelquist who was nominally Sandy’s father. Frank is shown in the 1900 Superior city directory as being a tinsmith and owning a business as a bicycle builder and repairer. But Sandy and his family were clearly in Minneapolis by 1905.}

{Frank Fogelquist may have been Sandy’s father although that is doubtful unless Frank was in Kånna in late 1880. Frank is shown in the 1900 city directory for Superior, Wisconsin, as “tinsmith, bicycle repairer and builder, 1123 North 5th, residing at 1209 Winter.”} There were no Fogelquists in the 1891-1892 Superior City Directory.

Alexander Fogelquist is shown in the 1896 Superior city directory as “feeder, Superior Wave, b 911 n 5th.” The address is the home of his father and also the address of his father’s business.

In the 1897 city directory, Alexander Fogelquist and Charles Fogelquist reside at 412 Fisher Av, the home of Frank Fogelquist.

In the 1899 Superior city directory, he is Alexander Fogelquist, “repr F Fogelquist”, residing at 912 Baxter Av, the home of Frank Fogelquist. Charles Fogelquist, a laborer, also resides there.

In the 1900 census, Sandy was living in Superior in, apparently, a large dwelling at 1209 Winter Street in Superior that is owned by his mother’s husband. Everyone in the household had been born in Sweden (except Sandy, who is shown as having been born in Wisconsin) and had come to this country in 1879. The heads of the family were Francis and Emily Fogelquist. Francis, born in April of 1853, was a bicycle repairer. Emily was born in October, 1844. Emily and Francis had been married for 21 years and Emily had had 13 children, seven still alive. Living with Emily and Francis were two single men listed as “son” but, because of their ages, must have been Frank’s or Emily’s sons from a previous marriage. The two sons were Gostfred (sp?), born in November of 1867 and Carl, born in February of 1870. Also residing in the dwelling was Oscar Carlson, born in August of 1869, and Oscar’s wife Lina, born in June of 1874. Oscar and Lina had been married for one year and had no children. Living with Oscar and Lina were Frank Fogelquist, born in May of 1857, a “roomer”, Gust Carlson, single, a “roomer” born in June of 1873, and Sandy Fogelquist, single, shown as “brother” and born in August of 1879. All the men were shown as “day laborer” for occupation except Francis and Lina, who was shown as “domestic.”

Although Sandy is shown as divorced in the 1900 census, the census-taker must have been confused. Charlie was divorced, not Sandy.

The 1900 Superior city directory lists an Alexander E. Fogelquist as a machine operator for Doud & Co. and with a business address of 1209 Winter which is the residence of Frank Fogelquist. Alexander is listed in the 1905 Minneapolis city directory as Alexander E. Fogelquist, tinner, residing at 506 Cedar Avenue. He is listed in the 1908 Minneapolis city directory as Alex E. Fogelquist, tinner, residing at 607 20th Ave. S. He is listed in the 1910 Minneapolis city directory as Alex E. Fogelquist, tinner, still residing at 607 20th Ave. S. He is listed in the 1914 and 1915 Minneapolis directories as Alex E. Fogelquist, tinner, residing at 3905 11th Avenue S. He is listed in the 1917 Minneapolis city directory as residing at 3900 12th Avenue S., with “foreman, N W Bakers Supply Co.” as his occupation. He is listed in the 1919 Minneapolis City directory as “tinner, N W Bakers Supply Co.” and residing at 3901 12th Ave. S. He is listed in the 1920 Minneapolis city directory as “foreman, N W Bakers and Confec” and residing at 3901 13th Avenue S.

In the 1901 Superior city directory, he is Alexander Fogelquist, tinner Frank Fogelquist, b 1209 Winter.

Veteran of Spanish-American War.

Could not find Sandy and family in either the 1905 Wisconsin state census or the 1905 Minnesota state census.

In the 1905 Superior city directory, Sandy is Alexander E Fogelquist, “repr” at Bingham Hardware Co. He resides at 806 Hughitt Ave.

In the 1905 Minneapolis city directory, Sandy is Alexander E Fogelquist, tinner, residing at 506 Cedar Ave.

The 1906 Superior city directory lists him as “repr” for Frank Fogelquist.

The 1907 Superior city directory lists him as a tinner for Bingham Hardward Co. He resides with his father at 1209 Winter.

In the 1909 Minneapolis city directory, Alex E Fogelquist resides at 607 20th Avenue South. He is a department manager with Northwest Bakers Supply Co.

In the 1910 census, the family resided at 601 20th Avenue in Minneapolis in a rented apartment. Irene, 6, as well as both of her parents are all shown as having been born in Minnesota. Alex, 28, and Mary, 24, had been married for 7 years and this was the first marriage for each. Alex was a tinner at a bakery supply company.

In the 1910 Minneapolis city directory, Alex E Fogelquist is a tinner and lives at 607 20th Avenue S.

Sandy, as Alexander E. Fogelquist of Minneapolis, had a patent issued to him on June 14, 1910, for a “ventilated receptacle for cooking utensils.” The patent was #961291.

In the 1911 city directory, Alex E Fogelquist, tinner, lives at 3937 14th Ave S.

In the 1915 city directory, Alex E Fogelquist, tinner, lives at 3905 11th Ave S.

In the 1916 city directory, he is at the same address and his employer is Northwestern Bakers Supply Co.

In the 1918 city directory, his address is 3901 12th Ave S.

Sandy registered for the WWI draft on September 12, 1918, at “Local Board for Division No. 7” in Minneapolis. His birthday is shown as August 2, 1881. He is living at 3901 13th Avenue South and is employed by F.A. Watson, 521 3rd Street South, as a sheet metal worker. He lists his nearest living relative as his wife Mary Fogelquist. He is described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair. The form did not ask for information about previous military service.

DHC said that Maurice learned to work with sheet metal from Sandy and that Sandy got Maurice a job at the bakery company.

In the 1920 census, Alex E. Fogelquist is living with his family at 3904 or 3901 13th Avenue S. in Minneapolis in a home that he owns. He is 38, his wife Marie is 34, and his daughter Irene E. is 15. Marie was born in Norway and came to this country in 1886. She was naturalized in 1891. Irene was born in Wisconsin. Sandy is a tinsmith with a baker supply company.

In the 1920 city directory, Sandy is a foreman at N W Bakers & Confectioners Co. and he resides at 3901 13th Avenue S.

In the 1921 city directory, everything is the same except he is called Alex C Fogelquist.

Sandy, as Alexander E. Fogelquist, had a patent issued to him on November 8, 1921, for a “flexible door.” The patent, #1396414, was assigned to Northwestern Bakers Supply Co. of Minneapolis.

Sandy, as Alex E Fogelquist, had a patent granted to him on June 6, 1922, for a pie cutter “by means of which a pie can be easily and quickly cut into a plurality of pieces preferably of the same size.” The patent’s publication number was US1418868 A.

In the 1924 city directory, he is Alex E Fogelquist, foreman, N W Bakers and Confectioners Co., and lives at 3901 13th Avenue S.

The 1927 city directory gives his address as 3901 12th Ave S.

In the 1929 city directory, he is listed as “Aug E” Fogelquist, helper, N W Bakers & Confectioners Co, living at 3900 13th Avenue S. Wives don’t seem to be listed in this directory so we don’t know whether Marie is still living with him.

In the 1930 census, as Alexander E. Fogelquist, Sandy, 48, was living at at 3901 13th Avenue in a house worth $4500. Living with him was his brother Al and “servant” Clara Lynch, 38, divorced. Sandy was the head of household and owns the house. Sandy was a "tinner" at a bakery and Al has no occupation listed. Sandy was a veteran of the Spanish American war. Sandy is shown as still married, Clara is divorced, and Al is shown as widowed (?). Sandy was first married at age 22, Clara was first married at age 30, and Al was first married at age 23. Sandy is shown as having been born in Minnesota.

If Sandy was a veteran of the Spanish American war, he may have been the person called Emil Carlson in the muster rolls for that conflict that are available on Ancestry.com.

In the 1934 Minneapolis city directory, he is Alex E Fogelquist, wife Clara R, foreman at N W Bakers and Confectioners Co. He and Clara lived at 4528 Oakland Avenue.

In the 1935 and 1936 and 1938 city directories, Clara is not listed with his entry. He is Alex E Fogelquist, sheet metal worker at 521 S 3d, resides at 4346 40th Ave S.

He was a bowler in the Masonic League according to articles in the Star in 1931 and 1935. His teams were called the Zarathans and the Harriets.

He is not listed in the 1939 city directory.

Sandy’s obituary appeared in the Minneapolis Tribune on Wednesday, May 17, 1939. This was a paid obituary, presumably written and paid for by Sandy’s half-sister Ide. The obit says that he died at his home at 98th and Nicollet. {This was one of Id’s houses. DHC remembers it as a farm. This is probably where John Carlson lived for a brief period of time in the late 1930s.} The funeral was to be at 2 PM on Thursday, the 18th, at the Barney Anderson & Son funeral home. The obit says that Sandy was born in Vasa, Minnesota. Sandy was a member of the Zarathian Lodge AF & AM (presumably, a Masonic lodge) “and of the Scottish rite.” The lodge was to be in charge of the funeral services. Indicated as surviving him were “a daughter”, Ide, three brothers: John Quist of Canada, Al Carlson, and Oscar Carlson “and a grandson.”

According to his death certificate, for which Ida Deiters was the informant, Sandy was divorced, wife was Mary. He had been a sheet metal worker at a baker supply company for 35 years and had last worked in 1938. He died of coronary heart disease. Ida gave his father as Frank Fogelquist and his mother as Emma Lundberg.

Birth:
born in Vasa according to his obituary; August 20 according to the records of the First Covenant Church of Superior

Buried:
listed in the burial register of St. Luke Lutheran Church of Minneapolis

Alexander married Marie (Mary) RASMUSSEN about 1903, and was divorced about 1930. Marie (daughter of Peder (Peter) Rasmussen RØD and Ellen Eriksdatter GUSTAD) was born on 12 Mar 1885 in Bremsnes, Kvernes, Møre og Romsdal, Norway; died on 12 Apr 1957 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried on 15 Apr 1957 in Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Clara THORSON. Clara (daughter of Ole THORSON and Gunia PAULSON) was born on 20 May 1891 in Minnesota; died on 4 Jul 1984 in Mora, Kanabec County, Minnesota; was buried on 6 Jul 1984 in Crystal Lake Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
or 17 April (Diana)

Teodor married Helga Vilhelmina Carlsdotter VIDEGREN in 1905. Helga was born in 1885 in Jönköpings län, Sweden; died in 1978 in Växjö, Kronobergs län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1920s, Birger and Fritjoff Lundberg (sons of Johan Alfred and Leander Lundberg) killed their two cousins, Alfred and Hjalmar Gabrielsson-Lundberg, and also tried to kill their mother and rape their sisters. After that murder, Fritjoff and Birger were sent to jail for many, many years.

Notes:

The Ancestry tree Dis stand, managed by forens, has an incorrect photograph for this person.

Birth:
per Lars Johansson

Died:
per Lars Johansson

Karl married Amanda Olivia WIDEGRREN on 29 Nov 1895 in Hallands län, Sweden. Amanda was born on 30 Nov 1877 in Gislaved, Jönköpings län, Sweden; died on 7 Sep 1960 in Södra Unnaryd, Hallands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His birth record includes indication of his death.

Notes:

Her birth record includes an entry on her death.

Notes:

There are two entries for Gottfrid’’s birth: once in Annerstad and once in Kånna. The Annerstad entry mentions his death.

Notes:

Indicated as the 6th child.

Notes:

She married her first cousin.

Born in Björkelund, Berghem Andersgard. (The Berghem south of Ljungby.)

Lived in Naicam, Saskatchewan.

Her birthdate is shown as Jan 1871 in the 1900 U.S. Census. Shown as having come to this country in 1875.

Britta, Tilda, and baby Emma arrived in New York from Liverpool on October 14, 1881, on the City of Paris.

A Tilda Lundberg, of legal age, married Andrew J Swanson in Red Wing on 20 Nov 1891. The witnesses were John Lundberg and Ann Anderson. The “M.G” who performed the ceremony, Gustaf Rast, also performed the Blixt marriage.

Her father “Charles Lumberg”, had to give his consent for her marriage to Oscar Blixt in 1892. That consent form said that “Tilda Marie Lumberg” was 17 although actually she would have been still 16.

In the 1895 Minnesota state census, Tillie is 21 and living with her parents and siblings in Athens Twp, Isanti County.

Jan says: Oscar Johnson and wife Thilda Maria lived in West Superior in year 1900 for a while as some of his children were born there in Wisconsin.

In the 1900 census, Oscar and Tilda and their family are living at 1205 Third Street in Superior. The family consists of Oscar, Tilda, Ester, and Alfreda. These are the only two children Tilda had had at that time. Also living with them is Charlie Johnson, still single, and relatively recently arrived in the U.S. in 1898. Both men are shown as day laborers. Charlie may be Oscar’s brother Karl.

In the 1910 census, Tillie is shown as having had 5 children, all 5 still living. That seems to exclude Josephine who was not listed with the five daughters in the 1910 census.

Perhaps there was an earlier marriage. Family sources also have 27 May 1896 or 27 May 1894.

Birth:
her gravestone says 1874

Died:
Terry says Tillie died in Saskatoon

Thilda married Oscar BLIXT on 19 Jan 1892 in Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thilda married Carl Oscar JOHNSON LUNDBERG on 4 Sep 1907 in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Carl (son of Johan August (Gus) LUNDBERG and Albertina Josefina Wilhelmina ROSENGREN) was born on 18 Dec 1873 in Torup, Hallands län, Sweden; died on 6 Mar 1962 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried on 9 Mar 1962 in Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Roy shows the name as John Algot.

Or 24 May 1878.

Born in Björkelund, Berghem Andersgard. Died in Berget, Berghem Sodregard.

Notes:

Born in Berget, Berghem Sodregård.

The Anbytartforum entry for her indicates that her birth year was 1879. So does the Kånna 1877-1881 Household Examination (p.20).

Britta, Tilda, and baby Emma arrived in New York from Liverpool on October 14, 1881, on the City of Paris.



She and her husband and children were living at 709 Jackson Street in Minneapolis at the time of the 1900 census. Annie had had two children, both still living (Mary Katherine and Margaret Julia).

In the 1905 Minnesota state census, the family was living with the rest of the Quaids in Foreston. John was a painter, had been in Minnesota for 21-and-a-half years and had been in Foreston for 5-and-a-half years. That may be incorrect: Josephine and the three girls had been in Foreston for only 3 years and 9 months.

In the 1910 census, the family was living on a farm that they owned with mortgage in Milaca Township. The family consisted of John J., 40, Annie R., 38, Mary K., 13, Margaret J., 10, and Annie J., 7. Annie is shown as having had 6 children, only the still living. (On the day the census-taker appeared at their farm, Annie would have been 8 months pregnant and two weeks away from giving birth to her 7th child.) Not too far was the farm of her father and his 2nd wife.

Lived in Naicam, Saskatchewan. In a Naicam history, Claudia Ponath contributed this on the Quaids:

“Mr. and Mrs. John J. Quaid and family came by train to Watson from Foreston, Minnesota, U.S.A., homesteading in the Byng District in approximately 1910. A year later, Mrs. Quaid’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Lundberg, settled on the same quarter with them. Mr. Quaid was one of the first Municipal Councillors and was one of the first who initiative to build a school so was elected to the school board the first year. Their family consisted of three daughters and one son - Mary, Margaret, Josephine, and Francis.”

Could not find the Quaids in the 1911 Canadian census.

Roy lists her birth location as Bergham Sodregard Berget, Sweden.

Terry says: “Incidentally, the Quaid house was the original town jail in Naicam. Very few people know that little fact. I was told by a previous owner that the walls are about two feet thick as he had tried to drill through it for some reason.”

Her obituary:

Mrs. J. J. Quaid Laid to Rest

The death of Mrs. J. J. Quaid occurred at her home early Monday morning, February 3rd. Mrs. Quaid had been in ill health for some time but on Sunday suddenly took a turn for the worse and quietly passed away in the early hours of Monday morning. The many friends are comforted in the thought that the family was at her bedside when the end came.

Mrs. Quaid was 57 years old and was born in Sweden. She immigrated to the United States and later married J. J. Quaid. They came to Canada 23 years ago and settled on a homestead in the Byng district west of Naicam. She is survived by her husband, three daughters, and one son, Mrs. R. (Dick) Sharp, Mrs. Paul Jestin, Mrs. Fred Jestin, all of Byng district and Francis at home.

The funeral service was held at the home by Rev. Fr. Chrysostom. Burial took place in the municipal cemetery.

Pall bearers were Messrs. Fred Jestin, Paul Jestin, Dick Sharp, and Francis Quaid.

Nanny married John Joseph QUAID on 23 Feb 1896 in Foreston, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. John (son of William QUAID and Catherine FITZGIBBON) was born on 4 Dec 1869 in Crean, County Limerick, Ireland; died on 15 Mar 1943 in Naicam, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Dec 1881, Cannon Falls, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

Her birth, on December 16, 1881, in Cannon Falls, is recorded on line 24, p. 2, of the Goodhue County Birth Records. Her entry, as Josefina Laurina Lundberg, is two lines down from her cousin Alexander Fogelquist’s. Her parents are listed as Carl Gustaf and Brita Maria, both born in Sweden. Carl Gustaf is a farmer.

The church birth records erroneously suggest that Josefina Laurina was born on December 16, 1880, and was baptized December 22, 1880. Her birth and baptism record seems to be recorded out of order in the midst of children born and baptized in late 1881. No baptismal sponsors are listed in her entry.

She and her husband moved to Preeceville, Saskatchewan, which is 80 miles east of Naicam.

According to information supplied by Roy Carlson:

Ole and Josie and family moved to the Ketchen district in 1910. They shipped their machinery, household furniture, cattle, and horses by rail to Canora where it was unloaded and taken to their homestead. There were no buildings so they had to start from the beginning. They lived in this district for many years. They adopted Norman Myhran when he was four years old and he was with them until their death. In April, 1915, Eunice married Nels Nelson. They had 8 children. In 1921, Emma married Adolph Anderson. They had three children. They retired and moved to Preeceville. Ole Peterson died November 8, 1960, at the age of 86. Jose died June 7, 1964, at the age of 82.

According to Charley Lundberg’s obiturary, Josie and Ole and family were living in Nelson, B. C., at the the time Charley died as was Tillie and her husband. Charley may have been staying with one of the daughters at the time he died.

Josefina married Ole PETERSON on 2 Nov 1897 in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Ole was born about 1873 in Norway; died on 8 Nov 1960. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born as Johan Walfred in Cannon Falls on March 26, 1884. Baptismal sponsors O. and Maria Backman. Maria Beckman, and her apparent son Oskar, were shown as Charles Lundberg’s neighbors in an 1885 census.

Shown as “Alfred” in that 1885 census.

Died:
Not listed in the MHS death index

Family/Spouse: Helen. Helen died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not listed with her family in the 1885 census.

Single and living with her parents and brother in Barton, North Dakota, at the time of the 1900 census.



Roy Carlson says (in a letter to DRC dated October 6, 2005):

Gramma Johnson visited us on the farm many times and stayed with us quite often to help Mother (her daughter Betsy) raise seven boys and one girl, Ida. She also spent many months during the winters housekeeping and cooking for a family in Nelson, B.C.

Ida married Karl (Charlie) JOHNSON on 24 Aug 1900 in Barton, Pierce County, North Dakota. Karl (son of Johannes JOHNSON and Lena) was born on 2 Dec 1875 in Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota; died on 2 Apr 1966; was buried in Preeceville, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His birth, as Albin Lundberg, is recorded on p. 172 of the Goodhue County Birth Records, 1881-1893, Vol. 2 (image 173), as February 5, 1888, in Cannon Falls. His parents are shown as Carl Gustaf and Brita Maria, both born in Sweden.

He is not listed with the family in the 1900 census.

An Albin T Lundberg, b. 1886, married Edith G Dahlen in Hennepin County on 22 Sep 1911.

An Albin Carlson, born 5 Feb 1888 in Sweden, died 12 Feb 1957 in Inguadona, Cass County, Minnesota (1957-MN-002499). That Albin was a pulp wood cutter. He died from a cerebral hemorrhage.

Notes:

Supposedly lived in Boston.

Emibas says: Lundberg, Emma Vilhelmina, Piga (unmarried woman), emigrated 4/29/1889 from Segelsbo, Långaryd, Hallands län (Småland) to Amerika.

She seems to be referred to as Emma Miller of Boston on her parents’ and siblings’ arrival manifest in 1896.

If we believe the 1910 census entry for Albertina, in which she is shown to have had 6 children, 4 still living, then either Emma or Karl Johan, but not both, were dead by 1910.

In the 1916 Canadian census, William and Emma were living with her parents in Humboldt, Saskatchewan.

Shown in Albertina’s probate records as Mrs. Ed. Berven of Annaheim, Saskatchewan.

Canadian immigration records show a 45 year-old Mrs. Edward Berven, last permanent address, Orr, Minnesota, once had lived at Annaheim, Sask., crossing from the U.S. into Canada with her husband at Fort Francis, Ontario, on April 21, 1922. Although she was born in Sweden, she was a Canadian citizen. She was Lutheran and was able to read English. She had left Canada, through Fort Frances, in May of 1920 “on account of health.” At this time (April, 1922) she and her husband were destined for “Necombe,” Sask. (probably Naicam), and were en route, via a railroad, from Orr, Minnesota, to Winnipeg.

There is an Emma Berven, wife, and later widow, of Sigurd, living in Oregon in the 1930s. That seems to be a different woman than our Emma.

Family/Spouse: Martin MILLER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married William P GRIFFIN on 17 Oct 1905 in West Springfield, Massachusetts. William was born about 1884 in Manchester, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 30 Oct 1918; was buried in North Battleford Cemetery, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married Edward O BERVEN about 1919. Edward was born on 24 Mar 1884 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He married his first cousin.

Supposedly had relatives living in Boston. On the ship’s manifest, he is referred to as “son Carl O. Lundberg, Boston” as the relative that his parents and three youngest living siblings were to meet in Boston. His sister Emma is also mentioned as meeting the family in Boston.

The Södra Hestra Household Examination for 1891-1897 (p. 209) shows him leaving for N. Amerika on October 6, 1891.

Terry says: I found Oscar Johnson leaving Sweden in year 1892 and arriving finally in Foreston, Minnesota, where my family lived and my grandmother Annie Josephine was born. It is near Milaca, Minnesota.

In the 1899 Superior city directory, and going by the address shown for him and his family in the 1900 census, he is Oscar Johnson, laborer, 1205 N 3d. In the 1900 city directory, he is shown as still at the same address and working as a laborer for the “St P and W Coal Co.” He is probably then the Oscar C. Johnson in the 1901 city directory who is a laborer for the St P & W Coal Co and lives at 510-1/2 Bay.

Shown in the 1900 census, and the 1910 census, as having come to the U.S. in 1890.

In the 1905 state census, he and his family were farming in New London Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. He was Oscar J. Lundberg, 30. His household was Mrs. Tilda Lundberg, 28, Esther, 8, Sophie, 4, and Nellie, 9 months. The family had been in the present location for 2 years. Oscar claimed to have been in Minnesota for 20 years and Tilda for all 28.

In the 1910 census, he and his family were farming in Grove City, Swede Grove Twp, Meeker County, Minnesota.

Terry’s check of the border crossing records: On June 14, 1911, Oscar Johnson and his father Johan August Lundberg cross the border {going from the U.S. to Canada} at Emerson, Manitoba by train. Their destination: Englefelt, Saskatchewan, which is the closest railway station to the Naicam area at that time. On the same train is J. J. Quaid, husband of Annie Rebecka Lundberg but his destination is Edson, Alberta. At that time it was a small town.

In the 1916 Canadian census, as Oscar Johnson, he, Tillie, and family were in St. Peter in Humboldt, Saskatchewan (39, 19, 2, St. Peter). The household consisted of Oscar, 45, Tillie, 43, Esther, 19, Frieda, 17, Sophia, 15, Emma, 12, Josie, 9, Myrtle, 6, and Charley, 5. They had come to Canada in 1910. (Although we know that Carl was born in Minnesota in March of 1911.)

Terry says that Oscar was denied Canadian citizenship but no reason was given. The 1916 census shows that Oscar became a Canadian citizen in 1915.

Terry says: Oscar Johnson and Tilley homesteaded west of Naicam about ten miles and moved into Naicam later. They had the cafe and rooming house above across the street from the railway station near the bank on the corner. (The cafe was on Railway Avenue according to Claudia.) They moved east of Naicam in the country later and had some land there. In later years they moved to the City of Saskatoon, Sask., where Tilley died and was buried in the Naicam Cemetery. Oscar Johnson also died in Saskatoon, I think.

According to his obit, Oscar had resided in Saskatoon for 15 years when he died in 1962.

According to Terry, Harlen Vollum, Oscar’s grandson, remembers Oscar Johnson arriving by bicycle from central Saskatchewan for a visit to his North Dakota daughter and family at age eighty plus.

Carl married Thilda Maria (Tillie) LUNDBERG on 4 Sep 1907 in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Thilda (daughter of Carl Gustaf (Charley) LUNDBERG and Britta Maria (Mary Or Mare) SVENSDOTTER) was born on 20 Mar 1875 in Kånna, Småland, Kronobergs län, Sweden; died on 7 Dec 1941 in Naicam, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried on 12 Dec 1941 in Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery, Naicam, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arrived with his parents and younger sisters in Boston in 1896.

He may be the Charles Johnson who was living with Oscar and Tillie in Superior in the 1900 census.

In the 1899 city directory for Superior, Charles Johnson, laborer, lived at 1205 N 3d, the address of Oscar Johnson. That Charles is still at the same address in the 1900 city directory. In the 1901 city directory, when Oscar lives at 510-1/2 Bay, there is a Carl Johnson, who also works at the St P & W Coal Co., who lives at 500 Bay.

There is a death record for a Charles Johnson, a single man who died 31 Aug 1900 in Douglas County, Wisconsin. That Charles was 23 when he died and was born in Sweden in 1877. His father was listed as August Sandberg. This Charles Johnson was buried in Pine City, Minnesota, according to that same death record in the “Wisconsin Deaths and Burials, 1835-1968.”

If we believe the 1910 census entry for Albertina, in which she is shown to have had 6 children, 4 still living, then either Emma or Karl Johan, but not both, were dead by 1910. That would be consistent with the death of Karl Johan, as Charles Johnson, in August of 1900.

The Charles Johnson who died in Superior on 31 August 1900 died of typhoid fever.

Notes:

Arrived with her parents and siblings in Boston in 1896.

In the 1900 census, she was a servant in the Nils Pearson household in Brockton, Massachusetts.

In the 1910 census, she and Elmer lived at 155 Warren Avenue in Boston in a house that he owned with a mortgage. It was a large enough house to hold several lodgers. An article in the 25 Jan 1911 edition of the Boston Globe describes a fire at the lodging house.

In the 1920 census, she and Elmer and Olga rented living quarters at 14 Magnolia Street in Arlington in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In that census, for some odd reason, she is shown as having been born in France, to French parents.

In the 1923 Arlington, Massachusetts, city directory, Elmer E and Jennie live at 24 Edgerton. Elmer’s occupation is master mariner.

In the 1930 census, she and Elmer and Olga lived at 24 Egerton Road in Arlington in a home that they owned (worth $12,000).

In the 1933 Arlington, Massachusetts, city directory, Elmer E and Jennie lived at 78 Cleveland. Elmer’s occupation was master mariner.

None of our three McFarlands were listed in the 1935 Arlington, Massachusetts, city directory.

In the 1936 Boston city directory, Elmer E MacFarland, wife Jennie, master mariner, lives at 148 W Canton.

In the 1940 census, she is probably the Jenne McFarland, a 62 year-old widow, born in Sweden, living as a lodger at 696 Tremont Street in Boston.

The Boston Voter Registration shows that there was another Jennie McFarland living in Boston during the period that Laurentia lived in Massachusetts. This different Jennie McFarland, shown as Jennie A McFarland, wife of Daniel McFarland was born in New Hampshire and lived at 174 Stratford Street.

Birth:
She claimed to be 28 when she married.

Laurentia married Elmer E MCFARLAND on 13 Apr 1909 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Elmer (son of Oliver MCFARLAND and Clara HINCKLEY) was born about 1869 in Maine; died on 21 Jul 1936 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His birth entry in the Torups parish record indicates an infant death but does not give a date.

Not listed with the family in what appears to be an 1890 census or church record. Nor is he listed with his family in the 1891-1897 Household Examination for Södra Hestra (p. 209).

According to Jan’s Swedish genealogical source, Johan died of “slag.” That source found Johan’s death record, which showed his age at death as 8 months and 23 days.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Oregon Death Certificate: 10916

Notes:

Her birth date of 5 January 1882, the birth date on her gravestone, is not possible, given her brother Johan’s birth date which we have confirmed. She is shown as 29 in the 1910 census, 38 in the 1920 census, 48 in the 1930 census, and 58 in the 1940 census. None of these ages suggest a birthdate that would be consistent with Johan’s. Not included in the Swedish birth index of 1880-1920. Mathilda Charlotta may have been adopted.

Not born in Torup. Seems like, in Jan’s source of an 1890 census, “Laijerge.” That also seems to be the family’s home parish at the time.

Could not find her in the 1900 census.

Shown in the 1910, 1920, and 1930 censuses as having come to the U. S. in 1896.

Jan found a border-crossing record for Johan August Lunberg visiting his daughter Mrs. Charles Okman in April of 1928. At that time, Gus was living in Naicam and was crossing at Eastport, Idaho. He expected to spend six months in “Salmon”, Oregon.

In the 1930 census, she and Laverne were living on Route #3 in the Liberty election precinct of Marion County, Oregon. By then, she was a widow and was living in house that she owned that was worth $2500. Neither she nor Laverne are shown as having an occupation.

In the 1940 census, Mathilda lives alone in the Liberty precinct of Marion County in a house that she owns that is worth $800. She had an eighth-grade education and no occupation.

Died:
This is the date on her gravestone and in the Oregon death index. Another source says 30 January 1950.

Buried:
Charles and Mathilda share a gravestone.

Mathilda married Charles W OAKMAN on 28 Jan 1903 in Pine County, Minnesota. Charles was born on 29 Apr 1867 in Sweden; died on 1 Dec 1926 in Marion County, Oregon; was buried in City View Cemetery, Salem, Marion County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alexander August KINDBERG FÄRNING. Alexander was born on 10 May 1877 in Älvsborg, Sweden; died on 1 Mar 1961 in Älvsborg, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The indication is that he’s the third child.

Family/Spouse: Julia Maria Viktoria Johansson DELFIN. Julia (daughter of Otto Alfred Johansson DELFIN and Christina Charlotta ROSENGREN) was born on 27 Dec 1897 in Ullasjö, Älvsborgs län, Sweden; died in Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Another source has his birthday as August 9, 1898.

Fritjoff married Astrid Eufemia Hildegard JOHANSSON on 20 Dec 1922. Astrid was born on 27 Aug 1904 in Allerum, Skåne läns, Sweden; died on 20 Jul 1936. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johan married Hulda Vilhelmina ANDERSSON on 15 Apr 1922. Hulda was born in 1901 in Kronobergs län, Småland, Sweden; died on 8 Oct 1936. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married Karl BJÖRK about 1905. Karl died in Assumed. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1920s, Birger and Fritjoff Lundberg (sons of Johan Alfred and Leander Lundberg) killed their two cousins, Alfred and Hjalmar Gabrielsson-Lundberg, and also tried to kill their mother and rape their sisters. After that murder, Fritjoff and Birger were sent to jail for many, many years.

Birth:
the death index says he was born in Torup; other sources say Pjatteryd, Kronobergs län, Sweden

Notes:

He may have died 3 November 1891. There is an indication of such in his Härlunda birth record. He also has a birth record in Torup in Hallands län that has no such indication. The Torup birth record suggests he is the fourth child.

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