Brief Life History of Olaf Karelius Albert
When Olaf Karelius Albert Bergersen was born on 5 April 1883, in Norway, his father, Peter George Bertram Bergersen, was 24 and his mother, Karen Sofie Bredal, was 28. He married Mary Eunice Whitney on 6 February 1930, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Bergen, Bergen, Norway for about 9 years and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 July 1957, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Olaf Karelius Albert Bergersen, "Norway Census, 1891"
- Olaf A Bergersen, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Olaf Bergersen, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Berger, Bjorn, Ove, Selmer, Sven.
Americanized form of Norwegian Bergersen: patronymic from a personal name, Berger, a variant of Birger ‘one who saves, protects, or helps’. Compare Bergeson .
Americanized form of Swedish Birgersson, a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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