When Axel Ture Bergstrom was born on 31 December 1874, in Göteborg, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden, his father, Johan Edvard Bergstrom, was 44 and his mother, Inga Maria Johansdotter, was 33. He married Ida Josefina Christiansson on 16 October 1897, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Örgryte, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden for about 8 years and Civil District 7, Hickman, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 29 June 1946, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, at the age of 71.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Lars, Nels, Nils, Alf, Iver, Lennart, Thor, Anders, Bernt, Bjorn, Elof.
Swedish (Bergström): ornamental name composed of theelements berg ‘mountain, hill’ + ström ‘river’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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