| Summary: | ELMER and ANNA LUNDMARK Elmer Lundmark was born in Longviken Skelleftea, Sweden (up near the Arctic Circle) on May 22, 1886. He entered the military service at Boden as a young man. When he had received his training, he returned home and found his mother had died of tuberculosis and his home and all his personal belongings had been burned because it was so contagious. He had two older sisters who had found work in Sundsvall, a long way from home. He made his home then with an uncle, Otto Lundmark in Longviken and found work at a saw mill in Burea. In 1910 his cousin, Carl Lundmark of Blabon returned to Sweden for a visit and Elmer accompanied him back to the United States to start a new life there. First he worked at Blabon on the construction of the railroad. Then he worked on several large farms around Blabon in the summer and in the winter worked at sawing timber in the woods of Eli, Minnesota. Later he farmed in partnership with Trygve Tranby on the Borstad farm near the Pickert corner on 32. Anna Nilsson was born in Branstad near Sjobo Skane, Sweden to Hannah and Nils Persson, December 15, 1882. In Sweden it was the custom for the children to take their father's first name and add son to it for their last name. When Anna was nine years old her father died and her mother with the help of the children carried on with their little farm. She had two younger sisters and two older sisters and the brother was the oldest. They raised many geese and one of Anna's memories of childhood was herding the flock of geese out in the meadows, having many ponds of water for the geese to swim in. When grown, Anna started a knitting shop in Sjobo, where she taught girls to knit by machine. In 1913 she and three of her girl friends and a brother of one sailed to America. They came to St. Paul, Minnesota where Anna worked in a boarding house for sometime. At night she attended classes in English. From there she went to Belmond, Iowa where she worked for a wealthy family as nursemaid for their little boys. In 1916 she read of an ad in the paper by Frank Johnson of Blabon, who needed a woman to work in his restaurant and care for his motherless daughter, Hapel, who was seven. She answered the ad and came to Blabon in spite of the warning of her employer of North Dakota being a wilderness. She worked there for awhile. Here she met Elmer, who came in right often to drink coffee. In 1918 on December 27, Elmer and Anna were united in marriage and continued living on the Borstad farm for three years. A daughter, Ethel Hanna Linnea, was born to them September 24, 1919. They then moved to the John Lynn farm in Hugo and lived there until 1925 when they moved to the Colgate area. They always farmed diversified, with cattle, horses, poultry and Anna's favorite, geese. Ethel attended the Colgate School all twelve years, graduating in 1938 with a scholarship, but because of the depression years of the thirties, there was no money for college. She worked various places doing housework. She worked several months for Peter Satrom who had lost his wife in death and had two small children, Ellen, nine and Arne, five. Elmer and Anna had moved in the spring of 1938 to the Galesburg area on Section 36 of Broadlawn Township and lived neighbor to Peter Satrom and the Lostegaards. Ethel was their only child and married Art Rosenius on January 1, 1940 and live in the Hope area. They have no children. Elmer and Anna had moved to the Langer farm in Broadlawn Township in 1950 and they farmed there until Anna died in 1953 on February 21 of cancer at the age of seventy. They had bought a little home in Hope where they planned to retire, so Elmer moved there after Anna's death. In 1956 Elmer became sick and came to live with Art and Ethel. In 1965 he became seriously ill and could not be cared for at home, so was moved to the Luther Memorial Home in Mayville. He died in 1968 on January 21 at the hospital. They were both members of the Presbyterian Church at Colgate and Anna was a member of the Ladies Aid, first at Colgate and then at Galesburg. In early years Elmer was known as the neighborhood barber. He could also play a pretty fair polka or schottische on the harmonica. Anna's favorite hobby was crocheting, giving away most every piece she crocheted. She also helped Elmer with the farm work, in spite of her small stature (she was only 4' 11") as long as she was able. REVEREND and MRS. O.J. MALKEWICK Reverend and Mrs. O.J. Malkewick The Rev. and Mrs. O.J. Malkewick and sons Caspari and Samson arrived in Galesburg in October 1904. Pastor Malkewick had been called to serve three Hauges Congregations: Trefoldighte (Trinity), Rosville, and Stordal. Later a congregation was organized at Blanchard. Since all the members were Norwegian the services were conducted in that language. During this time he was a supply pastor in many of the Hauges congregations throughout the eastern part of the state, often traveling on a railroad hand car to reach his destination. Some of these were Horace, Christine and Oslo in Minnesota. There was a Presbyterian Church in Galesburg that had been without a pastor for sometime. The church council asked 273 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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