55 Karen Gurine Nielsdatter,

Karen Gurine Nielsdatter

aka  Caroline Jacobson (in the USA)

Our immigrant ancestor from Norway

Karen Gurine Nielsdatter

1845-1910

            1. Karen Gurine (Nielsdatter) “Caroline” “Carrie” Jacobson, daughter of Niels Hansen and Ann Olsdatter, was born 2 August 1845 at Klovholt, Solum, Telemark Norway.[1]  She died 16 February 1910 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois[2] and is buried at Mt. Olive Cemetery in Chicago.[3]  She married about 1870 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Elias “Alex” “Alleck” Jakobsen, a.k.a. Jacobson,[4] son of Jakob Olsen and Marken Halvorsdatter.[5]

            The farm known as Klovholt was (and still is) a rural suburb of Solum.  It is somewhat hilly and lies at the end of a lake called Norsjø. In 1964 Solum became part of Skein.    This is a green, mountainous area full of timber.  Like all of Norway it has impressive fjords and waterways.  Timber is a major export.  Karen was born when Norway was under Swedish rule.  She had the following siblings: Hans born 7 February 1827,[6] Ole born 28 February 1829,[7] Anna Margarethe born 21 January 1832,[8]  Johan Andreas Selmer born 30 December 1834,[9] and a sister also named Karen Gurine born 5 August 1840[10] and died 6 August 1840.[11]  Karen was baptized in the Church of Norway (Evangelical Lutheran) on 25 December 1845[12] and she received the compulsory small pox vaccine 1 September 1846.[13] 

            Scandinavians migrated to the United States as their population and life expectancy increased in the 19th century due to the three reasons the oft-quoted Swedish bishop and poet Esaias Tegne'r gave, “peace, vaccination, and potatoes.”   Norway had not been at war since 1814, the small pox vaccine reduced infant mortality, and the potato was a nutritious supplement to their diets.  With increased population, they had less farm land to inherit and support their families.  The United States was the land of opportunity luring many immigrants.  The Solum Parish records, “Udflyttede,” recorded departures from the parish including name, birth date, destination and date of departure.  On 15 April 1857 the Udflyttede shows Karen Gurine left Solum with her father Niels Hansen of Klovholt and her brother Ole Nielsen for America.[14]  This may be the only record we have of this move as Børge Solem and Trond Austheim write on their Norway Heritage web site,[15] “for the majority of Norwegian emigrants leaving from 1853 up to 1865, there are no surviving passenger lists.”  They also inform us that during this time, “most Norwegian emigrant ships disembarked the passengers at the Canadian port of Quebec.”   Quebec did not start keeping passenger lists until 1865.  The average travel time from Norway to Quebec during this time was 53 days.[16] The route of a typical immigrant from Norway was to sail from Oslo (Christiana) to Quebec.  From there they traveled by rail on the Grand Trunk Railway 673 miles through Canada to Sarnia, Ontario.  At Sarnia, they would cross the river to Port Huron, Michigan, thus entering the United States.  From there travel was typically by steamship through Lake Huron and Lake Michigan to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[17]  Later immigrants had the option of rail travel from Port Huron.[18]

            Karen, like other young single Norwegian girls, found employment as a servant, or housemaid.  Her death certificate indicates that she was a housemaid from 1857 to 1870.   In the 1860 United States Census there is a Caroline Nelson born in Norway, age 17, listed as a servant living with the George Jarvis household in Madison, Wisconsin.[19]  John A. Johnson wrote in Billed Magazin in 1869, for Norwegians considering a move to the United States, the following:

PROSPECTS FOR NORWEGIAN SERVANT GIRLS IN AMERICA

There will always be positions open for able Norwegian servant girls. They are held to be industrious and dependable, and the Yankees prefer them to servant girls of other nationalities. Wages are high: up to $100 per year and at times even higher. We know of instances where servant girls in Chicago earn six dollars per week. This is, of course, exceptional. Norwegian women are highly respected in this country, and I have as yet never heard of any one being idled by lack of opportunity for employment.[20]

Karen Gurine “Caroline” “Carrie”

(Nielsdatter) Jacobson 1845-1910

                                   

            In the United States Karen was known as Caroline or Carrie.  The 1870 census is where we see Caroline, her name as written on the census record, has begun her life with the cooper, Alex Jacobson.  Alex Jacobson was from Eidanger, Telemark, Norway, near where Caroline was from.   He came to the United States about 1865.[21]   In 1870 the young couple lived at 195 Blackhawk in Chicago.[22]  The value of their home was worth $1400.00,[23] probably a result of her saving money earned as a housemaid.  Living with them was Anna Jacobson, their daughter born in March of that year, and four year-old Louis, a relative whom they raised.  It is believed that  Louis is the son of Karen’s brother, Johan or John and that his mother died in childbirth 14 May 1866.  This home on Blackhawk Street was on the boundary of The Great Chicago Fire of October 1871.  When the fire occurred, Caroline was three months pregnant with her second child, James.  He lived only 2 ½  months.  By 1873 the family had moved west across the Chicago River to 93 W Blackhawk.   Five children were born here.  They lived at this location until 1883 when they moved to 182 Evergreen on the corner of Hoyne Avenue,[24] where three additional children were born including a son that lived only nine days.  At this point Alex became a carpenter.  They started building a brand new home at 42 Werder Street near Humboldt Park in 1891.  They lived in this home when their daughter Anna married.  It was here that Caroline’s first grandchild, Anna Matilda Finucane was born.[25]  This house number and street name changed to 500 Crystal Avenue in 1895.   By 1900 two more children, Lillian and James married.  Between Anna and Lillian there were five granddaughters.  In 1901 at 500 Crystal, a sixth granddaughter, Caroline Finucane, lived only a day.  The next decade included ten deaths, three marriages, one divorce, one stillbirth, and five more births in Caroline Jacobson’s immediate family.   The most tragic was the death of her husband Alex in a construction accident on 11 August 1905.  After this, the Jacobson family moved (in 1906) to Sawyer Avenue.  Caroline’s oldest daughter Anne died there 6 October 1906, leaving three daughters, Anna age 13, Lillian age 11, and Mae age seven.   Caroline’s daughter Lillian Anderson died five months later leaving two daughters, Carrie Alice and Pearl Mabel ages 11 and 9.  Caroline took these motherless granddaughters in her home.  The oldest, Anna, remembers her grandmother teaching her about gardening.[26]   Caroline Jacobson died of aortic insufficiency and lung congestion in February 1910.  She was 64½ years old.  She was survived by five children and eight granddaughters.

The Jacobson House in Chicago

 42 Werder Street,

address changed in 1895

 to 500 Crystal Street

The family lived here about 1892 to 1905

Today the address is 2642 West Crystal (Check for it on Google Maps)

Carrie is the woman with the white apron

It is believed the woman next to her is her daughter Lillian Nora and on the first step is her daughter, Anna Mathilda

Exactly which other family members are pictured is unknown

Karen Gurine Nielsdatter and  Alleck Elias Jacobson were parents of the following children, all born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois:

            i.          ANNA MATILDA JACOBSON, born 27 March 1870,[27] and died 4 October 1906.[28]  She married Daniel John Finucane 17 November 1892 at Saint Sylvester’s Catholic Church in Chicago.[29]  This marriage to an Irish Catholic was difficult for the Norwegian family.  The anti-Irish Catholic sentiments lingered in the family for two generations.[30]  In Chicago, Scandinavian immigrants were the “model ethnic group, eager to embrace American ways…the Irish on the other hand were described as coarse… and hard-drinking.  Rarely did Chicagoans marry across ethnic     boundaries.”[31]  Daniel Finucane was born in Chicago to Irish immigrants.  His mother, Anna (Hackett) Finucane died when he was eleven years old and his father soon remarried.  They lived in the same neighborhood, less than half a mile away from the Jacobson family.  In 1883 when the Jacobson family moved from Blackhawk to Evergreen, the Finucane family moved to Dakota Territory to homestead.  Daniel returned in 1888.[32]  He worked as a telephone operator for the police department.[33]  Their first child (a) Anna Matilda Finucane was born 17 March 1893 at the new Jacobson home on Werder Street.[34]  She married Albert Lindgren 20 Jun3 1914 in Chicago.[35]  They had six children.[36]  They divorced in California.  Anna Matilda Finucane died 11 August 1965 in Arizona.[37]  Their second child was (b) Lillian Nora        Finucane, born 26 January 1895.[38]  Lillian married Elmer Alfred Lindgren 3 August 1914.[39]  They had two children. Elmer died of tuberculosis 19 August 1919.[40]  Lillian went to work as a telephone operator.  Her sisters and father-in-law helped with childcare.  She died 3 June 1944 of heart trouble.[41] (c) Mae Florence was also born at the 500 Crystal Street home on 2 February 1899.  Her birth record states her name as Carrie Jacobsen Finucane.[42]  In June 1900, her father, the census enumerator, writes her name as Mary.[43]  Linda Garrison, a descendant of Lillian, wrote in 2009, “my Aunt Mae was named       Mary at birth, but the aunties back in Chicago didn't like the name Mary because Daniel John helped name her and he was             Catholic.  That didn't set well with them, and they convinced Anna to change the name to Mae.”[44]   Daniel had his wife and three daughters with him in Buffalo County, South Dakota in 1900.  His father had died there earlier in the year    and he and Anna inherited the land he obtained by timber culture          patent.  They sold it on 18 May 1901.[45]  On 29 June Anna was            back in Chicago at 500 Crystal where their fourth child, another daughter, (d) Caroline Finucane was born and died the same day.[46] Anna Matilda Finucane died at her mother’s house on Sawyer         Avenue 4 October 1906.[47]  Her children were with her,[48] but her husband was in South Dakota at the time.[49]

              ii.            JAMES JACOBSON, born 25 April 1872, died 7 July 1872.[50]

                iii.           JAMES NORTON JACOBSON, born 4 May 1873,[51] died 19 February 1943.[52]  He married (1) Emma Ewert 28 October 1899.[53]  They had one child, (a) Caroline Jacobsen born 8 March 1902.  She died as Jennett Jacobson 13 February 1903 of pneumonia.[54] Again, one of Karen Gurine’s children had married across ethnic bounds.  Again, there was a name change, and this time there was a divorce.[55]  James was a plumber and was on the construction site when his father was killed.[56]  He married again about 1938.[57]

                iv.           LILLIAN NORA JACOBSON, born July 1875,[58] died 25 February 1907.[59]  Lillian married Edward Anderson 21 March 1896.[60]  They had three daughters, (a) Carrie Alice Anderson, born 10 August          1896,[61] (b) Pearl Mabel Anderson, born 14 December 1898,[62] and (c) Blanche Harriet Anderson, born 6 December 1903.[63]  Harriet died 28 December 1905 of diphtheria.[64]  Lillian died at St. Anne’s Hospital of tuberculosis.[65] 

                v.            HARRY ALEXANDER JACOBSON, born July 1877, died 11 March 1904 at the 500 Crystal Street home of Pneumonia.  He was a plumber.[66]

                vi.           CLARENCE JACOBSON, born 21 May 1879, died 14 May 1911.[67]  Clarence also became a plumber.[68]  Clarence married Mollie     Schaeffer 8 June 1904.[69]  Mollie was a third generation American of German descent.  There is no sign of family ethnic friction here. Her father was an upholsterer.   Mollie and Clarence had three daughters, (a) Florence born about 1905, [70] (b) Mildred born about 1907,[71] and (c) Margaret born 4 May 1909.  Margaret died of tubercular meningitis 27 April 1911.[72]  Just two and a half weeks later Clarence died of tuberculosis leaving a 27-year-old widow and two young daughters.  Mollie moved in with her widowed mother and went to work sewing.[73] 

            vii.        CARRIE ALICE “DAISY” JACOBSON, born 22 February[74] 1881, died 13 Aug 1967 in Waupaca, Wisconsin.[75]  Carrie was a stenographer.[76]  She married an Italian immigrant, Joseph D. Antonini 31 December 1902.[77]  A stillborn son came to this couple            6 May 1904 at the home on 500 Crystal Street,[78] where they resided.[79]  There were no other children.  After her mother died in       1910, Carrie became the main caregiver to her nieces, Anna Finucane, Carrie Alice Anderson, and Pearl Anderson.[80]  Anna remembers her teaching proper etiquette.[81]

                viii.        MABEL FLORENCE JACOBSON, born November 1883,[82]  died 4 February 1963.[83]  She married Niels Andrew Engel 14 May 1910 in Chicago.[84]  He became a fireman in Chicago.[85]  They had two children, (a) Harry Charles Engel, born 7 August 1911,[86] and (b) Grace Engel, born 1915.[87]

                       

                              ix.           ALFRED REUBEN JACOBSON was born 31 January 1886 in Chicago at 182 Evergreen[88] and died there of capillary bronchitis on 9 February 1886.[89]  He was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.[90]

                x.            BURTON JACOBSON was born 6 October 1888 in Chicago[91] and died 27 February 1969 in Waupauca, Wisconsin.[92]  He married  Jesse Larson 10 July 1946.[93]  He lived with his sister Mabel until the time he married at age 57.  He worked as a shipping clerk and later as a superintendant at a department store.  He also worked at Fillies Tavern, a family business of his niece, Grace (Engel) Fillies.

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[1] The National Archives of Norway, scanned church records, Telemark, Solum: 1844-1855, parish register (official) birth and baptism records, 1845, page 16, entry 97,  Karen Gurine, <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read : accessed 4 April 2010>.

[2] Cook County (Illinois) County Clerk, Chicago Death Certificates, 1878-1915, FHL 1239864, certificate number 7945 for Caroline Jacobson.

[3] Mount Olive Cemetery Association, Chicago, Illinois to Martha Lindgren, letter, 17 June 1958, interment list for Lot #198 Section G, transcribed by Priscilla Hanlon, 2009.

[4] Alex Jacobson household, 1870 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, population schedule, 15thward Chicago, Chicago post office, page 430, dwelling 2630, family 3896; National Archives micropublication M 593, roll 208.  (Image 432 of 512 on http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed April 2009).

[5] The National Archives of Norway, digitized parish register, Telemark, Eidanger/Eidanger 1831-1858, parish register (official) births, 1841, No. 16, bottom of page 40, <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read :accessed 4 April 2010>.

[6] The National Archives of Norway, scanned church records, Telemark, Solum: 1814-1833, parish register (official) birth and baptism records, 1827, page 127, entry 16,  Hans,  <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read : accessed 4 April 2010>.

[7] The National Archives of Norway, scanned church records, Telemark, Solum: 1814-1833, parish register (official) birth and baptism records, 1829, page 144, entry 21,  Ole, <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read : accessed 4 April 2010>.

[8] The National Archives of Norway, scanned church records, Telemark, Solum: 1814-1833, parish register (official) birth and baptism records, 1832, page 170, entry 10,  Ann Margarethe,  <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read : accessed 4 April 2010>.

[9] The National Archives of Norway, scanned church records, Telemark, Solum: 1833-1843, parish register (official) birth and baptism records, 1835, page 14, entry 17,  Johan Andreas Selmer,  <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read : accessed 17 January 2013>.

[10] The National Archives of Norway, scanned church records, Telemark, Solum: 1833-1843, parish register (official) birth and baptism records, 1840, page 70, entry 56,  Karen Gurine,  <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read : accessed 6 April 2010>.

[11] The National Archives of Norway, scanned church records, Telemark, Solum: 1833-1843, parish register (official) death and burial records, 1840, page 121, entry 49,  Karen Gurine,  <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read : accessed 6 April 2010>.

[12] The National Archives of Norway, scanned church records, Telemark, Solum: 1844-1855, parish register (official) birth and baptism records, 1845, page 16, entry 97,  Karen Gurine, <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read : accessed 4 April 2010>.

[13] The National Archives of Norway, scanned church records, Telemark, Solum 1844-1855 , Parish register (official), vaccination records 1846, page 517,  entry number 46, Karen Gurine, <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read : accessed 4 April 2010>.

[14] The National Archives of Norway, scanned church records, Telemark, Solum: 1856-1864, Parish register (official), migration records 1857, page 411, entry 56, Karen Gurine, <http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read : accessed 7 November 2009>.

[15] Børge Solem and Trond Austheim, “Sources – Records to Norwegian emigrants – Time line,” Norway-Heritage, Hands Across the Sea, 2007.   <http://www.norwayheritage.com/emigration-records.htm : accessed 10 April 2010>.

[16] Børge Solem and Trond Austheim, “The Voyage, Statistics concerning the Transatlantic Crossing,” Norway-Heritage, Hands Across the Sea, 16 April 2004. <http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/voyages.asp?articleid=37&zoneid=6 : accessed 11 April 2010>.

[17] John A. Johnson, translated by C. A, Clausen, “Concerning Emigration” (from Billed-Magazin : 1869) Norwegian-American Studies, Volume 33, page 205.  Norwegian-American Historical Association <http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/volume33/vol33 07.htm : accessed 12 April 2010>.

[18] Michigan’s Internet Railroad History Museum, Timeline  <http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1850s/TimeLine1859.htm : accessed 13 April 2010.>

[19] Geo. Jarvis household, 1860 U.S. census, Dane County, Wisconsin, population schedule, 3rd ward Madison, Wisconsin post office, page 41, dwelling 310, family 316, lines 25-32; <http://www.footnote.com/image/#113|76546734 : accessed 13 April 2010>.

[20] John A. Johnson, “Concerning Emigration.”

[21] Alleck Jacobson household, 1900 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, population schedule, West Town, Chicago, enumerations district [ED] 437, supervisor’s district [SD] 1, sheet 13A, dwelling 119, family 234, National Archives micropublication T623, roll  262.  Digital image, familysearch.org <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed April 2009>.

[22] City Directories of Chicago, Illinois.  Chicago: Richard Edwards, publisher, 1868-1873.

[23] Alex Jacobson household, 1870 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, population schedule, 15thward Chicago, Chicago post office, page 430, dwelling 2630, family 3896; National Archives micropublication M 593, roll 208.

[24] City Directories of Chicago, Illinois. Chicago: The Chicago Directory Company, 1881-1923.

[25] Anna M. Finucane, birth certificate no. D S 135902 (delayed birth certificate), Cook County Clerk’s Office, copy obtained by Priscilla Hanlon April 2010, found in birth index 1871-1916, FHL #6016532 Fiche 2. [The Family History Library does not have the delayed birth certificates]

[26] Pettey, Pearl M., Daisy Mae Steed, Ross and Martha Lindgren. (1995). [Anna Matilda Finucane: Her Life Story]. unpublished manuscript, in possession of Priscilla Hanlon.

[27] birth date calculated from age given on death record.

[28] Anna Finucane, death certificate no. 4608 (1906), Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  Chicago death certificates 1878-1915, microfilm no. 1239743, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[29] Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920, license No. 192550 (1892), <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed 31 Oct 2009> FHL 192550.

[30] Linda Garrison, e-mail message to Priscilla Hanlon, February 2009.   

[31] Donald L. Miller, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (New York : Simon and Schuster, 1997),  442 and 446.

[32] Dan’l J. Finucane entry, Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, Record and index of persons registered and of poll lists of voters, northern district of Illinois, city of Chicago, 1888; (Springfield, Illinois : Office of the Secretary of State, Micrographics Division, Source Documents Unit, 1989),  Family History Library film number 1730745.

[33] Anna M. Finucane, birth certificate no. D S 135902 (delayed birth certificate), Cook County Clerk’s Office, copy obtained by Priscilla Hanlon April 2010.

[34] Ibid.

[35] Illinois, Cook County Marriages 1871-1920, digital images, <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed 26 Oct 2009>, Microfilm of original records at the Cook County courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1980). FHL1030575, license no. 667745 (1914), Mr. Albert Lindgren and Miss Anna Finucane.

[36] Albert Lindgren household, 1930 U.S. census, Los Angeles County, California, population schedule, San Antonia Township, Part of Walnut Park, enumeration district [ED] 19-1385, supervisor’s district [SD] 19, sheet 7A, dwelling 174, family 174, lines 38-45; National Archives and Records Administration, T626.

[37] Pettey, Pearl M., Daisy Mae Steed, Ross and Martha Lindgren. (1995). [Anna Matilda Finucane: Her Life Story]. unpublished manuscript, in possession of Priscilla Hanlon.

[38] Mae Finucane Pritikin, personal knowledge, handwritten vital information, circa 1950, about herself and her family; copy in possession of Priscilla Hanlon (569 N Cherry Blossom Lane: Snowflake, AZ 85937). Original held in 2009 by Martha D. Lindgren (8466 Danish Rd., Sandy, UT 84093).

[39] Illinois, Cook County Marriages 1871-1920, digital images, <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed 26 Oct 2009>, Microfilm of original records at the Cook County courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1980). FHL1030577, license no. 671824 (1914), Mr. Elmer A Lindgren and Miss Lillian N Finucane.

[40] Record of members, [1894?]-1936, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Chicago District (Illinois), FHL 1916.

[41] Cook County (Illinois) County Clerk, Chicago Death Certificates, 1916-1950, FHL 1983248, certificate number 16407 for Lillian Lindgren.

[42] Illinois, Cook County, Chicago Birth Certificates 1878-1922, digital images, <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed 26 Oct 2009>, Carrie Jacobsen Finucane, birth certificate no. 4902 (1899), FHL film1288021, microfilm of original at Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.

[43] Daniel Finucane household, 1900 U.S. census, Buffalo County, South Dakota, Eden Township, enumeration district [ED] 69, supervisor’s district [SD] 2, Sheet 3B, family 17, lines 61-65; National Archives and Records Administration, T623. [indexed as David Finucane in pilot.familysearch.org]

[44] Linda Garrison, e-mail to Priscilla Hanlon, Feb. 2009.

[45] Buffalo County, South Dakota, Register of Deeds, 29 May 1901 Warranty Deed 5-343.

[46] Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers 1871-1915, FHL 1287747 [June 1901] page 108, entry no. 5366 for Caroline Finucane.  Caroline Finucane, death certificate no.5616 (1901), Chicago, Illinois.  FHL film 1239661.

[47] Anna Finucane, death certificate no. 4608 (1906), Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  Chicago death certificates 1878-1915, microfilm no. 1239743, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[48] Pettey, Pearl M., Daisy Mae Steed, Ross and Martha Lindgren. (1995). [Anna Matilda Finucane: Her Life Story]. unpublished manuscript, in possession of Priscilla Hanlon.

[49] South Dakota Historical Society, The Dakota Chief, Gann Valley, South Dakota, 18 October 1906, page 1 column 2.

[50] Graceland Cemetery Company (4001 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois 60613) to Martha Lindgren, letter and photocopy of cemetery lot card, 15 January 1968, South ½ lot 114, Section P, area 108.  Original letter in possession of Martha Lindgren in 2009 at 8466 Danish Rd., Sandy, UT 84093.  Transcribed by Priscilla Hanlon, 569 N Cherry Blossom Lane, Snowflake, AZ 85937, 1 August 2009 [birth date calculated from age at death on interment list].

[51] “World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” digital images, Ancestry.com <http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 May 2009>, card for James Norton Jacobson, no. 3131, Chicago Draft Board 64; citing World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, National Archives microfilm publication.

[52] Cook County (Illinois) County Clerk, Chicago Death Certificates, 1916-1950, FHL 1953846, certificate.number 5405 for James Norton Jacobson.

[53] Illinois, Cook County Marriages 1871-1920, digital images, <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed 26 Oct 2009>, Microfilm of original records at the Cook County courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1980). FHL 1030303, license no. 299929 (1899), James Jacobson to Miss Emma Ewert.

[54] Jennett Jacobson, death certificate no. 7676 (1903), Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  Chicago death certificates 1878-1915, microfilm no. 1239688, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[55] Mabel Jacobson household, 1910 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, Chicago ward 27, enumeration district [ED] 1192, supervisor’s district [SD] 1, sheet 15A, dwelling 206, family 207, lines 37-46; National Archives and Records Administration, T624.

[56] Cook County (Illinois) Coroner’s Inquest, Inquest Number 34024 for Alick Jacobson, Illinois Regional Archives Depository [IRAD], Ronald Williams Library, Northeastern Illinois University, 5500 N. St. Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625-4699.

[57] Letter from Carrie Alice “Daisy” (Jacobson) Antonini to Ann (Finucane) Lindgren, March 1943; held in 2009 by Priscilla Hanlon, (569 N Cherry Blossom Lane, Snowflake, AZ 85937).

[58] Edward Anderson household, 1900 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, population schedule, West Town Chicago ward 14, enumeration district [ED] 436, supervisor’s district [SD] 1, sheet 13B, dwelling 114, family 265, lines 80-83,  National Archives micropulbication T623.  Digital image, familysearch.org <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed April 2009>.

[59] Lily Anderson, death certificate no. 108 (1907), Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  Chicago death certificates 1878-1915, microfilm no. 1239749, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. [near end of roll]

[60] Illinois, Cook County Marriages 1871-1920, digital images, <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed 26 Oct 2009>, Microfilm of original records at the Cook County courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1980). FHL 1030261, license no. 246223 (1896), Edward Anderson to Miss Lillian Jacobson.

[61] Illinois, Cook County, Chicago Birth Certificates 1878-1922, digital images, <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed 26 Oct 2009>, Carrie Alice Anderson, birth certificate no. 85 (1896), FHL film 1287998, microfilm of original at Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.

[62] Illinois, Cook County, Chicago Birth Certificates 1878-1922, digital images, <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed 26 Oct 2009>, Anderson, birth certificate no. 273 (1898), FHL film 1288017, microfilm of original at Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.

[63] Illinois, Cook County, Chicago Birth Certificates 1878-1922, digital images, <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed 26 Oct 2009>, Anderson, birth certificate no. 420 (1903), FHL film 1288054, microfilm of original at Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.

[64] Harriett Anderson, death certificate no. 464 (1905), Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  Chicago death certificates 1878-1915, microfilm no. 1239720, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[65] Lily Anderson, death certificate no. 108 (1907), film 1239749, Family History Library.

[66] Harry Alexander Jacobson, death certificate no. 7741 (1904), Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  Chicago death certificates 1878-1915, microfilm no. 1239703, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. [birth calculated from age at death]

[67] Clarence J  Jacobson, death certificate no. 8578 (1911), Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  Chicago death certificates 1878-1915, microfilm no. 1239894, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. [birth date given on death certificate]

[68] Ibid.

[69] Illinois, Cook County Marriages 1871-1920, digital images, <http://pilot.familysearch.org : accessed 26 Oct 2009>, Microfilm of original records at the Cook County courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1980). FHL 1030370, license no. 389142 (1904), Clarence Jacobson to Miss Mollie Schaeffer.

[70] Clarence Jacobson household, 1910 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, Chicago ward 24, enumeration district [ED] 1010, supervisor’s district [SD] 1, sheet 13B, dwelling 141, family 303, lines 74-78; National Archives and Records Administration, T624.

[71] Ibid.

[72] Margaret C. Jacobson, death certificate no. 9028 (1911), Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, Illinois.  Chicago death certificates 1878-1915, microfilm no. 1239886, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

[73] Margaret Schaefer household, 1920 U.S. census, Cook County, Illinois, Chicago ward 15, enumeration district [ED] 884, supervisor’s district [SD] 1, sheet 15A, dwelling 137, family 289, lines 35-41; National Archives and Records Administration, T625.

[74] Letter from Carrie Alice “Daisy” (Jacobson) Antonini to Ann (Finucane) Lindgren, March 1943.

[75] Wisconsin Death Index, Ancestry.com. [birth year calculated from age at death]

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