Photo Number 2058

This is a photo from the antique shop in Crookston Minnesota.

1887 –1937  Their Golden Anniversary

Benson at Crookston Minnesota was the photographer.

Mr & Mrs Hans Johnson   Hans 1860-5/28/40

Christine Steen 1856 – 4/9/40  I believe this should be Stone not Steen

Above in pencil someone wrote Mr and Mrs -----  Johnson

Golden Wedding

I featured their family photo a few days ago.

Photo Number 2056

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Photo Number 2057

This is a photo from the antique shop in Crookston Minnesota.

Wales is the photographer at 121E. 3rd St. Davenport Ia.

Gustav Henderson

I have always hoped to find a relative.  Possibly this is a cousin of my husband…who knows.  But Davenport is all the way across the State of Iowa from Logan Iowa where my husbands Great Grandparents settled…but you never know.

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Update from Iggy:

Gustav Henderson born May 10 1873 in Sweden.  He died September 26, 1960 in Hennepin County Minnesota.  He is buried at St John's Cemetery Norman County Minnesota.

He married  Ida Sophia Johnson 1882-1970

He had several siblings; Berhardina Henderson Stone  1868 -1964, Carl Henderson 1871 -1889 and Oscar Henderson 1875 -1940.

Gustav's sister Berhardina Henderson Stone was married to Eric Stone a brother of Christine Stone Johnson in yesterdays photo.

Update from Debby and Roger:
My cousin Roger Agartsson in Sweden wanted me to add this to the blog for Gustav Henderson:
His parents would be Karl Peter Henriksson b. May 3 1842 in Hällefors Örebro Sweden
Maria Katrina Ersdotter b. Dec 17 1837 in Gåsbom Värmland Sweden.
Their children are Bernhardina b. Dec 25 1868 in Hällefors
Karl Johan b. July 19 1871 in Hällefors
Per Gustaf b. May 10 1873 in Hällefors
Oskar Fredrik b. Jan 1 1875 in Hällefors
The family left Skålen Långnäs Hällefors for North America in June 1883. Hope this helps? Debby

Photo Number 2056

This is a photo from the antique shop in Crookston Minnesota.

Hans Johnson Family

I almost didn’t purchase this photo but then I saw other names on the back!

Uncle Hans Johnson Family

Eugene          Alfred         Edward

Alex    Hans   Christine    Oscar

The photographer was C.S. Highness at Fertile Minn he was there in 1914.

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Update from Iggy:

1910 US Census shows:

Hans Johnson
Age in 1910: 49
Birth Year: abt 1861
Birthplace: Sweden
Home in 1910: Garden, Polk, Minnesota
Immigration Year: 1880
Spouse's Name: Christina Johnson
Father's Birthplace: Sweden
Mother's Birthplace: Sweden

Household Members: 
Name and age in 1910
Hans Johnson 49
Christina Johnson 53
Carl E(ugene) Johnson 22
Edward Johnson 20
John A(lfred) Johnson 17
Alexander Johnson 15
Oscar C(onstantine) Johnson 9 

From Find A Grave Memorial# 88080380

Parents:
Hans Johnson (1860 - 1940)
Christina Stone Johnson (1856 - 1940)

Siblings:
Carl Eugene Johnson (1887 - 1979)*
Edward Johnson (1889 - 1982)*
John Alfred Johnson (1892 - 1963)*
Alexander Johnson (1894 - 1918)*
Oscar Constantine Johnson (1900 - 1939)

This photo went Full Circle 150 on August 29, 2016

Photo Number 2055

This is a photo from the antique shop in Brainerd Minnesota.

A unidentified couple most likely posed for this photo in the 1920’s.

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Photo Number 2054

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Brainerd Minnesota.

A wonderfully huge old home with porches, one open and one with screens and a fenced yard.   I wonder who lived there and is it still standing?

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Photo Number 2053

This is a Cabinet Card from the antique shop in Brainerd Minnesota.

Platt was the photographer from 17 Douglas Ave. Elgin, Ill.

The back of the Cabinet Card gives us a date 1890. 

Works of the Elgin National Watch Company

S.L.Platt

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Photo Number 2052

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Brainerd Minnesota.

Looks like a good day to sit out on the front step.

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Photo Number 2051

This is a Cabinet Card from the antique shop in Brainerd Minnesota.

Mr. Aug Behrens Behrens

Newhartford Iowa New Hartford

Recd 5/8/06

Looks like four older people and two children in front of the house and a man and a team of horses with a carriage.

The little boy in front of the fence has a bicycle, and it looks like there is a pram in front of one of the men.

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Photo Number 2050

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Brainerd Minnesota.

A celebration!

I know they don’t look real happy…this must be pre~celebration…and I am not sure what they are drinking.

Not sure what they are celebrating BUT this is photo 2050 and we begin another year on this blog.  It has been six years!  Hardly seems that long to me.  I have returned, with your help 245 photos to family.  Photos that were Forgotten for a time…but now are home with relatives.

Recently I sent 103 photos to a Gentleman and when he reports back to me I will write the Full Circle Post…it was a search I undertook myself after discovering a wedding book on my second trip into a Brainerd Antique Shop…suddenly I had names…and from there I tracked down a few names of living relatives…I sent out two letters and one gentleman called me on the phone and we had a delightful chat about his relatives.  Many of those 103 photos were featured on the blog but some were not…I was happy to send them off in the mail.

Thank you dear readers and researchers, without your input this blog would not be possible.

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Photo Number 2049

This is the last of the Halverson Photos.

Lillian and Aunt Lena

I cannot find a Lena on the Stephenson side of the family perhaps it she is on the Halverson side of the family.

Front: Anna Stephenson, Ella Halverson, Johanna Halverson

Back:  Lillian Halverson and Lila Solum Walker

I will guess that this photo was taken about 1912 or 1913 (Ella the littlest girl was born in 1909.)

Ole and Marie (Person) Stephenson immigrated  from Sweden in 1884 to Sundahl Township in Norman County.  They were the parents of ten children, but only five survived infancy.

Ellen

Erick/ Eric married Augusta Groberg they had at least five children; Arthur, Clarence, Elsie, Lewis and Hazel.  Augusta’s brother Gustaf A Groberg (1867 – 1909) married an gal by the name of Anna Mathilda Kyllander. When Gustaf died in 1909 she married Erick’s brother August

Louis

August  Married Anna Mathilda Kyllander Groberg sometime after 1909.

Johanna Married Lewis H. Halverson.  Children Lillian, Ella and Jeannette

So I think the lady in the photo is the Anna Stephenson who is married to August Stephenson. I have no idea who Lila Solum Walker is.

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Photo Number 2048

These are  photos of the Halverson Family.

Johanna Halverson

Lewis H. Halverson

Sometime before 1920, the Halversons: Lewis, Johanna, Lillian and Ella moved to Gary Minnesota.  Gary is in Norman County.

More photos were taken, after all if your father is a photographer…

Lillian Halverson

 

Ella Halverson

On the folder is the Imprint surrounding an H  L.H. Halverson Gary Minn

In the 1920 Census the family is found in Norman County Minnesota with Lewis age 45, Johanna age 39,  Lillian age 14 and Ella age 10.

Jeannette Louise Halverson was born April 24 1920 in Norman County.  She married Roland Emmet Erickson (1920-2002) sometime before 1950.  They had one child James Brady Erickson  March 28 1950 – April 2 1950.  Jeannette died in Hennepin County April 10 1992. She is also buried at St Johns Cemetery Norman County along with her husband and son.

There is one photo of Jeannette.

Jeannette Halverson

Census Info:

In the 1930 Census they are all found in Minneapolis in Hennepin County.  Lewis is 55, Johanna is 49, Lillian is 24, Ella is 20 and Jeanette is 9.

In the 1940 Census they are found in Minneapolis in Hennepin County Johanna is 60, Lillian is 34, Ella is 30 and Jeannette is 20. 

 Lewis died  April 15 1930.

Johanna died June 30, 1967 

This whole family seems to be gone.  The strong tie to Norman County and St. Johns Cemetery seems to be Johanna’s parents Olof and Maria.

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Photo Number 2047

More photos of the Halverson Family.

Mrs. Halvorson/Halverson

Black Duck Minn

Johanna Stofenson/Stephenson

Johanna and Lewis Halverson welcomed their first daughter.

Lillian Magnhild Halverson

July 13 1905

I can report that Lillian was born in Beltrami County July 13 1905 and she died September 8 1999 in Golden Valley Minnesota.   She married someone with the last name of Kjorlie.  She is buried in Norman County Minnesota.

This is the Photographers info that appears on several of the older photos.  The Pioneer Studio Blackduck, Minn.

The Minnesota Historical Society has no record of this Studio.  They do have a record of L.H. Halverson being in business in Blackduck Minnesota in 1914 and later in Gary, Minnesota in 1920.

I think that perhaps Lewis left Wisconsin for Northern Minnesota about 1900.   He probably travelled by Ox cart especially if he was carrying his photographic supplies.  I think he met Johanna during his travels.   They met sometime before 1905 and married.   Blackduck was organized as a village on December 29 1900, and in 1905 the train made it’s way to Blackduck which was a logging area.

Johanna and Lewis with Lillian about age three…about 1908. One gold seal says Halverson Blackduck Minn and the other says Special Portrait.

Ella Geneva Halverson joined the family on October 8, 1909 in Beltrami County she died December 28 1957 in Hennepin County Minnesota and is buried in Norman County.

Ella Halverson

Ella and Lillian Halverson

Lillian Halverson

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Photos Number 2046

One day I purchased a number of photos at an Antique Shop at Kabekona Corners…better known as Dave’s Place/ The Peddler.  He said he purchased them at a church rummage sale in Park Rapids Minnesota.

There are eighteen photos in this bunch….all related.

We will start with the oldest.

A very large two story house.

 

Halvorson? Halverson  Home in Mt. Horeb , W  1898

A photographer met a young lady by the name of Johanna who was born in Sweden..

The photographer Lewis Halverson born in Wisconsin..

Johanna and Lewis Halverson’s Wedding.

I know from a census record that Johanna came to the United States when she was three years old in 1884.  So she was born about 1881….April 12, 1880.  Lewis H. was born about 1874 in Wisconsin.

Halverson is sometimes spelled Halvorson in census records..

Johanna’s maiden name was Stephenson, her parents were Olof and Maria.

Lewis H. and Johanna had three daughters and we will see photos of them tomorrow.

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Photo Number 2045

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Brainerd Minnesota.

A beautiful farmstead.

This gives you a view of all the buildings on the place where Raleigh’s folks now live.

Gingrich Iowa  I had no luck finding a Gingrich Iowa perhaps it was an early settlement.

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Photo Number 2044

This is a large photo from the antique shop at Brainerd Minnesota.

I am not sure what the inset of smaller photos means…I think it may be siblings that could not be there for the photograph….eight boys and four girls…a family of twelve….some may have been deceased.

The photograph was taken by Gordon Guy of Little Falls Minnesota, he was in business in the 1950’s.

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Photo Number 2043

This is a photo from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Unknown gal with a bouquet of flowers, she might be a bride..or maybe just a bridesmaid…or just a gal with flowers.  This photo is probably from the 1920’s. Denninger of Watertown Wisconsin was the photographer.

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Photo Number 2042

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Winnie Gilbert South Shore So.Dak.

Mary Berkey  Ashton S.D.

Martha Brown Sherman  Rt #1  S.D.

Anna Weber Farmer Rt.1 S.D.

This is a Cyko Postcard commonly used from 1904 into the 1920’s.  I will guess that this photo was taken around 1910.

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Photo Number 2041

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

I arrived Dec 30 1908 6PM too late for Santa Claus.  I have dark hair and eyes and weigh eight pounds.

  Martha Loomise Mc Cullueh

Can you see the postcard was marked received in Ottertail Jan 5  1909 ?

The postcard was mailed from Atlanta Georgia on Jan 3 1909.  It was mailed to Mrs. Fred  Seake 216 Minn Ave N Fergus Falls, Minn

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