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15221

Middle name also shown as Olin on one of his childrens’ birth certificates.

BERGSTROM, Ernest Owen Sr (I13421)

15222

Middle name as spelled in MHS index of birth certificates.

Graduated from Hibbing High School in 1920.

In the 1930 census, George W. Graham, 28, was living in an apartment at 209 Washington Boulevard in Oak Park, Illinois with his sister Grenith, 25, a school teacher, Fred W. Little, 28, his cousin, and George Browning, 30, a boarder. They are renting the apartment, at a rent of $90/month, and their household has a radio. All four are single. George W., Grenith, and Fred were all born in Minnesota although their fathers were born in English Canada. George W.’s and Grenith’s mother was born in Minnesota; Fred’s mother was also born in English Canada. George Browning was born in Utah, as was his father. His mother was born in England. George W. is a mechanical engineer in the “automatic stoker” industry, Grenith is a school teacher in the public schools, Fred is a civil engineer in the paint and lead industry. George Browning is a chemical engineer in the lead industry. All four are employed. None of them are veterans.

In the 1940 census, he was G.W. Graham (indexed as “Greham”), 38, living with his family in Park Ridge at 1033 Hamlin. This was not the same house that the family had lived in in 1935. He was the proprietor of a stoker company. He owned his house and it was worth $18000. George and Lillian both had four years of college. Living with the family was a servant, 26 year-old Milda Mueller from Wisconsin. She worked 60 hours per week and had earned $416 in 1939.

May have worked as the engineer for the Garland Building in Chicago in the late 1920s.

Eddy Stoker Corp. was incorporated in 1931. In 1941, he purchased the stoker business of the Whiting Corporation.

In 1944, Eddy Stoker Corporation, 4711-21 W. North Avenue, Chicago 39.

George commissioned John S. Van Bergen, once an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright, to design his house in Park Ridge. Besides the Graham home, Van Bergen designed several others in the Chicago area. Van Bergen was also the architect behind a home that Sears sold from its “Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans” catalog. That home was called #3000, “The Aurora.” Only one Aurora was ever built: 6416 Grand Vista Avenue in Cincinnati.

GRAHAM, George Wesly (I116)

15223

Middle name Bergetta on her childrens’ birth certificates, Bergitta on her death certificate.

She was of Cannon Falls at the time of her brother Ludvig’s death.

SOINE, Selma Bergitte (Sally) (I7713)

15224

Middle name from Ervan’s obit.

Odin was a veteran of the World War.

The history of the Kickapoo United Lutheran Church in Soldiers Grove records the death of an Odin Olson in 1977.

Registered for the draft on June 5, 1917. Shown as single, living in Soldiers Grove. Claimed to have been born in Clayton, Wisconsin. His occupation is carpenter for “Coney Turbine” of Soldiers Grove. (That’s probably Cornelius Turbin, a nephew of Odin’s father in the 1900 census.) Odin is described as short, slender, blue eyes, light brown hair.

Listed in the 1920 census as age 24, living in Soldiers Grove in Crawford County. He is shown as single, occupation carpenter, age 24, “stepson” living with Martin and Christiana Helgerson.

In the 1910 census, Odin is 15 and living with Martin and Christina Helgerson in Soldiers Grove. Martin and Christina had been married for two years and she had had one child, still living (who apparently was Odin). It is his second marriage but her first so she probably was not married to Odin’s father.

In the 1900 census, he is Odin B Olson, living with his mother Christina in Clayton Twp. He is the only child Christina has had.

In the 1940 census, Odin and his family lived on a rented farm in Franklin Twp on the Viroqua to Black Bottom Road, a few farms away from the Carl Nundahls. Neither Mildred nor Benetta were living at home.

In the 1950 census, he was a farmer in Soldiers Grove in Crawford County. Ervin, Robert, and Clifford were still at home.

In that census, Christina Olson, and her son Odin B. are living on a farm in Crawford County. Christina is 40 (born Feb 1860 in Norway) and is single and has had one child which is still living. Her son Odin B. is 5 and was born Feb 1895 in Wisconsin. Odin’s father was born in Wisconsin. The farm next door is that of Ingeborg Olson, 69.

According to the SSDI:

Residence: Marshall in Dane County
Last Benefit: Readstown in Vernon County

His obit noted that he was preceded in death by one son, one grandson, and one great-grandson. Odin’s obit had him and Clara marrying on February 5, 1918. But that is clearly incorrect because Odin and Clara are living at home and both single at the time of the 1920 census in January of 1920.

In a note that Dorothy McKittrick included in her 1977 Christmas card to Cora, she said, “Odin Olson died - his funeral is Monday. I talked to Benetta last night and she said he was only sick for a day and a half.”

OLSON, Odin Bernhard (I532)

15225

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

COLLINS, D.K. (I14322)

15226

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.

ANDERSON, Astrid Alfrida (Esther) (I7756)

15227

Middle name Joanne or Jo-Anne on her children’s birth certificates. Also Jo-Anne in the MOMS database.

Of Saginaw at the time of her father’s death.

Janet J. Willeck, 66, of Saginaw, died Thursday, Jan. 30, 2003, in Fairview University Medical Center, Minneapolis.

She was born on January 13, 1937, in Duluth, to Albin and Edna (Forsell) Kohs. Janet worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant for St. Louis County for 28 years until she retired.

She enjoyed when her grandchildren stayed over, the Friday 13th Gang get-to-gether, her church friends, lunch outings, and gal pal Shirley. She was involved with the women's 4-H Camp, and enjoyed trail walking. Janet also loved her weekend retreats with her best friend of 50 years, her husband Robert.

Janet was preceded in death by her father, Albin. She is survived by her mother, Edna Kohs of Saginaw; loving husband of 50 years, Robert of Saginaw; sons, Keith of Saginaw, Randall 'Randy' (Beverly 'Bev') of Brookston, and Jamie (Bonnie) of Eden Prairie; sister, Gloria (Chet) Hanson of Saginaw; brothers, Kenneth (Betty) Kohs of Saginaw, Lyle (Barb) Kohs of Bozeman, Mont.; four grandchildren, Cory, Heidi, Claire, and Grace.

Internment will be at Sunrise Memorial Park, Hermantown.

KOHS, Janet Joan (I13704)

15228

Middle name Lennus in the church record.

AMUNDSON, Gerald Dwayne (I33874)

15229

Middle name Maria in SSDI.

Edna M. Kohs, 96, of Saginaw, died Monday, April 9, 2007, in Chris Jensen Health and Rehabilitation Center.

She was born in Duluth on Jan. 23, 1911. She played on the Jackson Club Girls' Baseball Team, was a member of the ski team and a member of the 4-H Club. She worked on her father's North Star Dairy Farm in Hermantown until she married Albin Kohs in 1936, and moved to Saginaw where they made their home and farmed. Edna enjoyed 64 years of marriage to Albin and together they raised four children.

Edna loved traveling, nature and anything to do with the outdoors; her biggest passion was fishing, which she did every chance she got.

Edna is preceded in death by her parents, Fred and Hilda; husband, Albin, in 2000; her daughter, Janet Willeck; her granddaughter, Kathy McDowra; and an infant great grandson, Craig Hanson; three sisters, Agnes Wilhelm, Vera Roff, Martha Forsell; and a brother, Albin Forsell.

Edna is survived by a daughter, Gloria (Chet) Hanson of Saginaw; two sons, Kenneth (Betty) Kohs of Saginaw, and Lyle (Barb) Kohs of Bozeman, Mont.; seven grandchildren, Keith, Randy, and Jamie Willeck, Kevin and Brian Hanson, David Kohs and DeAnne Sandersfeld; 11 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.

Burial will be at Sunrise Memorial Park.

FORSELL, Edna Marie (I13702)

15230

Middle name Marian on birth certificate

TONSAGER, Floyd Marion (I279)