Returned from war

C3b: Gustafson i Minnesota
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Hulda Gustafson & Paul Engen

  Hulda M. Gustafson (1903 – after 1940)
  C3b branch [1.2.10.3.4.2.13]
  Daughter of John Gustafsson & Signette Halvorson
  Viking, Marshall, Minnesota
  Teacher in a public school

  Paul Gerhart Engen (8/3 1897 – 5/11 1957)
  Viking, Marshall, Minnesota
  Janitor of a bank building; welder
  At least 2 children

  Primary sources
  28-02-2021

Hulda grows up at her parents’ farm in Viking townshipicon-map-marker, Minnesota. In 1920, she is no longer at home with her parents, and neither is she with her brothers and sisters at her brother’s farm. In 1930, however, she has returned home.

Around 1935 she marries Paul Engen, who is also from Viking. He has returned alive from two months of service in WWI 1918-1919 and has worked as a welder in Detroit, but now finds work as a janitor at a bank building.

Paul’s signature in 1918.

They have at least two sons, but the first is stillborn.

  • 1.   (1/12 1935)
  • 2.   John Bruce Engen (16/3 1938 – 28/12 2014)

Paul’s grave at Renton, Washington. Source: findagrave.com.

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Research data

  •  name (others’ spellings): Hulda Gustafson (1905-1910); Hulda M. Gustafson (1930); Margaret Engen (1940)
  •  signature: Paul Gerhart Engen (1918)
  •  name (others’ spellings): Paul Gerhart Engen (1918-1919); Paul Engen (1940)
  •  cens. 1905-1910;1930-1940 Viking: 1905; 1910; 1930; 1940
  •  cens. 1940
  •  milit. WWI: 1918; Veteran WWI: 1919