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In 1935, my maternal great-grandfather Robert Johnson, at the age of 60, opened a new Dance Pavilion & Beer Hall at 4639 Excelsior Boulevard, St. Louis Park, MN. Prohibition had ended, and although it was the height of the Great Depression, perhaps happy days were here again. Or perhaps great-grandpa Robert liked music and dancing… Continue reading Grandpa Robert Johnson’s Dance Pavilion
Grandpa Gus Burton immigrated from Sweden in 1890, when he was 22 years old. He was the eldest of seven children born to Jonas Peter Svensson and Carolina Johannesdotter. At that time, the family was living in a small village in Sweden called Hvetlanda. According to the patronymic naming convention used in Sweden at that… Continue reading Grandpa Gus Burton
(This article was a winner in the Minnesota Genealogical Society 2020 Family History Writing Competition and was published in their Winter 2020 Quarterly Journal. A link to the PDF copy of the article is here: Christine Johnson-MGS2020.) Christine Johnson, nee Kingström, was born 23 December 1881, in Nordåker, Gagnef, Dalarna, Sweden. Her parents may have… Continue reading What’s in a Name? Christine Kingstrom Johnson
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