Brief Life History of Carl Gustave
When Carl Gustave Carlson was born on 27 February 1877, in Värmdö, Stockholm, Sweden, his father, John August Carlson, was 37 and his mother, Anna Carolina Lundahl, was 32. He married Emma Anderson on 7 February 1910, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Union, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 30 September 1954, in Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Sandy City Cemetery, Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Carl Carlson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Carl G. Carlson, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Carl Gustave Carlson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1884 · Fredrika Bremer Association is Founded
Fredrika Bremer Association was founded in 1884 and is Sweden's oldest women's rights organization.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Lennart, Nils, Sven, Helmer, Iver, Berger, Erland, Lars, Anders, Evald.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Carlsson or Karlsson . This is also an Americanized form of the Norwegian and Danish cognates Carlsen and Karlsen . Compare Charlson .
German: variant of Karlson and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. This surname is also found in Britain, possibly to be associated first with immigration of German miners into Cumberland in the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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