Category: Nilsson
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New York City, 1911
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the one-armed bandit
This is George Victor Johnson, born in Alameda, Contra Costa Co., Calif. on Dec. 11, 1911, to Agnes Judith Hanson and Gotlin Alfred Johnson. His father was an immigrant from Norway, and his mother was from Sweden. (I don’t think ‘Gotlin’ is the original version of his father’s first name, tho.) George was known as…
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Alice Maria Bååv Kemp (1888-1970)
Alice Maria Bååv Kemp died in July of 1970, in Chicago. She had lived in the United States since the spring of 1913, almost 57 years. Alice’s name appears alongside her husband’s on documents between their 1915 wedding and her husband’s death in 1939. After 1939 her son, Walden, is listed as the head of…
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