GENEALOGIES of the LOMEN [Ringstad], BRANDT and JOYS FAMILIES Compiled By G. J. £OMEN Northfield, Minneso~ U. S, A. Mohn Printing Company, Publishers 1929 THE LOMEN-BRANDT-JOYS FAMILY HISTORY JUDGE G. J. LOMEN, L. XIII (12) PUBLISHERS' NOTE On account of the circumstances under which this History of the Lomen-Brandt-Joys Families has been published, a word from the pub­ lishers ·-may be in order, in addition to the introduction by the author, Judge Lomen. The outline and much of the material, particularly that_ dealing with the early history of the three families, is the work of Judge Lomen, who had the compilation of the book well under way in the spring of 1928, when .on a visit to the States he had hoped to complete the collection of data and have the book printed. Being called back to his judicial duties in Alaska sooner than expected, he was, however, unable to finish the task, and so left his manuscript with the Mohn Printing company with directions to complete the collection of inissing data and to arrange the material according to best judgment. This situation naturally presented some difficulties, .but the publishers have nevertheless found the task a very interesting one, and their hope is that the volume which is here presented may in a measure meet the ex- pectations of Judge Lomen. · The great distance between Northfield and N om~ and the difficulties' of communications have made consultation upon the various phases of the work difficult, and the result is· that £'(jf inuch of the arrangement and some of the material the publishers must. be. held responsible. The se­ lection and arrangement of pictures, particularly, have presented some problems that might have been 'differently .solved had the author himself directly supervised the job. OnlY:: a li~ited number. of _pictures ~ould be used on account of the great expense•lmvolved, -w;htle 111 some instances desired pictures have not been available~ The shortcomings -of the book in this respect, have, however, been remedied in part by following o.ut a suggestion by Judge Lomen to leave blank pages at intervals throughout the book, on which photographs may be pasted or additional data written. The volume presented herewith -is nevertheless one which the pub­ lishers feel will meet with heartfelt appreciation from all the members of the three families concerned. In thus making available in permanent form a history of these three families, Judge Lomen has per£ ormed an invalu­ able service to their members and to genealogical history, a service which will be more and more appreciated by each passing generation. He has in this volume provided for himself a monument that will make his name known and remembered among his kindred for centuries to come. His action in making the publication of the book possible, at the cost of much painstaking work and a very considerable expense, forms an example that should be emulated by someo~e of means and ability in every family. The publishers wish to acknowledge the assistance of Dr. 0. E. Brandt, John 0. Hjelle, Mrs. Helen Lomen Austin, and Mrs. H. T. Ytter­ boe in reading the manuscript and correcting the copy for facts and dates; also the assistance of Attorney Einar Joys of Bergen, Norway, in collect­ ing data on the Joys family in Norway. MOHN PRINTING COMPANY, Publishers. PREFACE In the Report of the Eugenics Society of the United States of America, 1925, it is stated that "biological genealogy is one field of research in which every family may participate." The report emphasizes the biological viewpoint', and as to eugenics, it recom­ mends research to determine the modes in which physical, mental and temperamental traits are inherited, and the human mutations generally are effected: e. g., "differentiar selection in marriage; di f­ f erential fecundity; differential survival, .and differential environ­ n1~nt-rural an4 urban-education,: occupation, modes of life-and the effects of immigration and hybridization." "In time," the report says, "the most thoroughly prepared and most carefully preserved of all public records will not be title deeds to land, but human pedigree records." . The Genealogical Department of the Mohn Printing company recently published a brochure entitled "Your Family Name." In it I find the following: "THE NORSEMEN IN 1\MERICA" "With a racial history as brilliant as that of any _people in Europe, the immigrated Norsemen in America have yet done little in the way of .preserving the memory of the stock from which they sprung. .They have built churches and schools,. written books, and founded newspapers with the view of preserving the language for their children, yet few have done anything to hand down to their children the records that future generations will search for in order to prove their~ancestry. "The people of Norse blood in Atnerica now nun1ber about two ·million. Tru~ to the country of their adoption, they have joined with the rest of America's varied population in the upbuilding of the American nation. Like their ancestors in France, in Italy, and [ I 1 LOMEN-BRANDT-JOYS FAMILY HISTORY in B!itain, they are giving their best to the country which they have . made their own. "Upon the battlefields of the South immigrated Norsemen sac­ ~ificed their lives for the preservation of the Union. They have helped in the peaceful conquest of the great Northw,est, making it the garden spot of the world. They have entered into the cities and.have joined in the business and commerce of the nation. They have applied themselves to politics and the science of government and have contributed state legislators, governors, congressmen, and senators, and a host of lesser officers, for the conduct of the na­ tion's affairs. "They have justified the hopes and the expectations of those who in them looked for the sturdy independence, the strength .of character, the energy, the vitality, and the thrift that the race had manifested in the early days of European history. "Their achievements have been worthy of the best traditions of their race. The Norse soldiers of the Civil war and the Norse pioneers of the Northwest have plaxed a part that should be written in the annals of their families and· preserved· from generation · to generation, that the children may know-that they have sprung from no mean people, but are of stock equal to the best and oldest in the land." The genealogies presented herewith are meager as to biological data, eugenics and the human mutations, but they will serve as nu,clei on which one tnay build, ad libitum. In the following genealogies the consecutive generations, fron1. the earliest known ancestor, are indicated by Roman· numerals ( i, II, III, etc.) and the number of persons in each generation is indi­ cated by Arabic numerals ( 1, 2, 3, etc.) \Vhere known, the date of birth, death, marriage and residence: of each person is given, and the name and other data of the person. to whom married. Under some of the names more or less of bi­ ography is added; also portraits--constituting a f an1ily album. [ 2 ] PREFACE The data used were principally obtained-as to the Joys fam­ ily-through the courtesy of Col. Wessel Joys, of Bergen, Nor­ way; as to the Lomen (Ringstad) family, through the courtesy of Prof. A. A. Veblen, of East San Diego, Calif., and that of the Brandt family, through the courtesy of Mrs. Gro Teisberg, of St. Paul, Minn., who has in her possession the Brandt genealogy as prepared by Thor Odegaard of Lille Froens Vei 6, Vinderen-Aker, Norway. TRACING -THE LOlvIEN GENEALOGY Prof. Veblen in transmitting the Lomen data furnished by him wrote: 3784 Chamoune Ave., East San Diego, Calif., l\1arch 22, 1925. Judge G. J. Lomen, Nome, Alaska, 1\1 y dear 1\·1 r. Lomen : Ever since my wife received a letter, last fall, in which you expressed a wish to have a copy of an outline genealogical chart that I years ago drew up for I van and the Mohns, I have had it in 1nind, and on my conscience, to draw up such a chart and send you. *· * * * I have gained a much greater familiarity with the book "Vang og Slire" than I had when I drew up the -Mohn draft referred to above ; and now that I reverted to the matter, I set out to go over the ground again, for possible amplification ; and I soon found my­ self pursuing new clues that materially increased the information I could dig out. I have there£ ore spent no little time on the draft which I an1 now sending you. I believe that with spending more time on it I could perhaps find more data or at least gain greater certainty on some points. But I believed that the best would be to send you now what I have found, and you would at least have this. Of course you should have the book yourself, and, with the references that I have indicated, you could for yourself corroborate ( or disprove) my findings. And you could, as well as I, proceed with the research at your will. Perhaps the most good of such a search in "Vang og Slire," is the clue, or guide, it would give a pro­ fessional genealogist in his search in the Norwegian National [ 3 ] LOMEN-BRANDT-JOYS FAMILY HISTORY Archives to work out a documented genealogy for your family. Under ordinary circumstances the working out of a pedigree equi­ valent to this that I am sending you (but documented by original papers in the Archives) would take a genealogist, or a staff of such experts, a great amount of time.