Ingemar Michaelson (1837-1927)
Ingemar Michaelson was born on 18 June
1837 in Carlang, Sweden. Other references to Ingemar's birthplace
point to Attmar, which is a parish in the south of Västernorrlands
län in the old landscape or province of Medelpad. Attmar
is on the Ljungan which might be described as a river valley connecting
several bodies of water in a chain fashion. This river valley
is home to many of the Kiron immigrants. His parents are presently
unidentified.
He married Anna Pehrsdotter in 1862. Anna was born on
3 June 1840 in Hassela parish in Helsingland, a short distance
south of the parish of Attmar. Ingemar and Anna had two
children in Sweden. They were Per Michael and Andretta Sigrid.
The family of four immigrated in 1867 to Iowa from Sweden coming
to the port of New York on 29 Jun 1867. From there they
came by rail to Chicago and on to Boone to join up with the Swedes
at Swedebend. They came with the group in the third week
of August to Denison to buy land. The land records in Crawford
County show that Ingemar Michaelson contracted for purchase on
27 August 1867 from the Providence Western Land Company, the 40
acres in the south west part of the south west quarter of the
section now known as Stockholm section 7. Ingemar made later
purchases of the 40 acres adjoining to the north and Sven Johnson's
80 acres to the east when the latter family left.
On 16 August 1868, Ingemar Michaelson was one of the eighteen
founders of the Swedish Baptist Church of Kiron, Iowa. In the
beginning he assumed joint pastorial duties with Carl Frodig.
He remained an active member of the church his entire life.
He appeared on the census on 30 June 1870 in Jackson Twp, Boyer
River Post Office, Crawford Co, Iowa. Recorded on page 3 of the
census schedule for dwelling 24 is the family of Ingamar Michaelson,
age 33, male, white, a farmer, born in Sweden, and a real estate
value of $1500 and personal estate of $580; his wife Anna, age
30, female, white, keeping house and born in Sweden; Peter, age
6, male, white, at school and born in Sweden; Annett, age 5, female,
white at school, and born in Sweden; and Victor, age 7 months,
male, white, at home and born in Iowa.
He appeared on the census in June 1880 in Stockholm Township,
Crawford Co, Ia. The Michaelson family were residing in the south
west quarter of Stockholm section 7 when their neighbor to the
east, Charles J. Johnson, came to collect census data. This is
the information he wrote down. Ingemar was 43 years old and doing
the farming. His wife Anna was 39 and keeping house. They were
both born in Sweden. Their children born in Iowa were listed as:
Victor age 10 and at school, daughter Christina age 3 and at home,
and daughter Amanda age 1 at home. (Son Peter had died in 1870
and three of the older Michaelson daughters had died during the
diptheria epedemic in 1877.) On the Michaelson property
was a second house on the east 80 acres of the SW quarter that
had been owned by the Sven Johnsons from 1867 to 1874 when the
Michaelsons added it to their original 40 acres. At the time of
the census, this house was occupied by a Mrs. Sophia Christianson,
a 47 year old widowed lady who performed yeoman service to the
community in her mid-wife capacity. The Michaelsons deeded her
the acre surrounding the house in 1880 which Sophia lived in until
1907 when she deeded it back. (Sophia died in 1914 at the age
of 81.)
He appeared on the Iowa census in 1885 in Stockholm Twp, Crawford
Co, Ia. The data for the family at the Ingemar Michaelson home
in the SWSW of section 7 lists: Ingemar Michaelson, age 48, male,
married, farmer, born in Sweden; his wife Anna, age 44, female,
married, born in Sweden; his son Victor E., age 15, male, born
in Iowa; his daughter Christin E., age 8, female, born in Iowa;
daughter Nettie A. , age 6, female, born in Iowa; his daughter
Anna A., age 4, female, and born in Iowa.
He appeared on the Iowa census in 1895 in Stockholm Twp, Crawford
Co, Ia. The record for included:
Family #7. Ingemar Michaelson, age 57, male, married, born in
Sweden, farmer, Sw. Baptist, entitled to vote; his wife Anna,
age 54, female, married, born in Sweden, keeping house, Sw. Baptist;
son Victor, age 25, male, single, born in Crawford County, farmer,
subject to military duty, entitled to vote; daughter Christine,
age 18, female, single, born in Crawford Co, Sw. Baptist; daughter
Manda, age 16, female, single, born in Crawford Co, Sw Baptist;
daughter Emelia, age 14, female, single, born in Crawford County,
Sw. Baptist.
The family also appeared on the census in June 1900 in Stockholm
Twp, Crawford Co, Ia.
Ingemar was a farmer in Stockholm Township, Crawford Co, Iowa
until he retired and moved to Kiron in 1908. Anna Amelia,
their youngest daughter, moved with them and cared for them.
Son Victor E. Michaelson bought the homestead when his parents
retired and lived there until his death in 1943.
Ingemar died on 25 May 1927 in Kiron, Iowa. He was 90 years,
4 months, and 7 days old when he died. Dr. W. A. Garner
reported he died from terminal septecemia following catarrh and
bronchitis. He was buried about 28 May 1927 in Kiron Cemetery,
Kiron, Iowa. He is the 451st decedent to be buried there
and his grave is in lot 25 where several members of his family
are buried.
Descendants of Ingemar Michaelsonand
Anna Persdotter
1-Ingemar Michaelson (18 Jun 1837-25 May 1927)
sp: Anna Pearson (3 Jun
1840-9 Feb 1922)
2-Peter Michaelson (9 Jan 1864-2 Nov 1870)
2-Andretta Michaelson (3 Apr 1865-1 Jan 1877)
2-Petronella Michaelson (1 Feb 1867-2 Aug 1868)
2-Victor E. Michaelson (1869-8 Feb 1943)
sp: Anna A. (Annie E.) Schultz (-)
2-Julia Amanda Michaelson (1 Jul 1872-2 Jan 1877)
2-Beda Michaelson (2 Dec 1873-1 Jan 1877)
2-Anna Christine Michaelson (1876-1911)
sp: Aaron F. Johnson (-1911)
3-Florence Johnson (abt 1901-1911)
3-Fern Johnson (1903-)
sp: James Gallagher (-1963)
3-Dorothy Johnson (abt 1905-1911)
2-Nettie Amanda (Maude) Michaelson (1878-1936)
sp: Harry O'Donnell (-)
2-Anna Amelia Michaelson (8 Jan 1881-27 Feb 1932)
sp: Frank J. Lilleholm (2 Dec 1868-19 Jan 1936)
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