When Gustav Emil Elm was born on 30 August 1866, in Norrköpings Sankt Olai, Östergötland, Sweden, his father, Gustaf Adolf Elm, was 40 and his mother, Carolina Johanson, was 26. He married Dora Hough Jepson on 8 April 1908, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Los Angeles Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. In 1927, his occupation is listed as worked for los angeles city parks department at exposition park planting and tending 16,200 rose bushes in rose garden. in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. He died on 21 August 1955, in Sunland, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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English (Lincolnshire): topographic name from Middle English elm(e) ‘elm-tree’, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Elm (Cambridgeshire). Alternatively, a variant of Helm , with loss of initial H-.
German: habitational name from any of various places so named.
Swedish: ornamental name from älm(e) ‘elm grove’.
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