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Ancestors of Hilda Katarina Wiippola Generation No. 1 1. Hilda Katarina Wiippola, born 28 Oct 1891 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; died 21 Jun 1979 in Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan. She was the daughter of 2. Abram Aronsson Wiippola and 3. Kaisa Greeta Junttila. She married (1) Matt Korpi 03 Jul 1915 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan. He was born 27 Aug 1884 in Oulainen, Oulun Laani, Finland, and died 02 Dec 1970 in Negaunee Township, Marquette, Michigan. He was the son of Johannes Korpela and Hilma Tanelintr Waicko. Notes for Hilda Katarina Wiippola: Married Matt Korpi in 1915 at age 23, and they resided at Fire Center about two miles from the Wiippola home. More About Hilda Katarina Wiippola: Burial: Ishpeming Cemetary, Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan Notes for Matt Korpi: Matt Korpi's given name at birth was Matti Korpela. The name Korpela means backwoods or wilderness. He grew up in the village of Petajaskoski, which is in the municipality of Oulainen, Oulu Province (aka Oulun Laani), Northern Ostrobothnia Region of Finland. Neighboring municipalities include Pyhajoki and Raahe, also in Oulu Province. The name Pyhajoki means Sunday River. This area is in western Finland near the Gulf of Bothnia. Matti's brother Joonas and his family lived in Raahe. His nephew Tauno's wife Meimi still lives (2008) in the house where Matti grew up in Petajaskoski, and their son Jouni built a house nearby in Petajaskoski. Matti's grandmother Maria was from the neighboring community of Pyhajoki. Matti emigrated to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada in 1905. Sudbury had a sizable population of Finnish immigrants and was a mining community. After becoming a naturalized British citizen in Canada in 1912, he immigrated to the USA in the same year. The Canadian immigration record shows Matti entered the USA at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan with his initial destination being Rudyard, Michigan. By 1915 he had relocated to the Ishpeming area. Matti's aunt (his mother's sister) Maria Serafia Waicko had immigrated to the USA in 1900 and married Aate Ollila. Aate and Maria resided at Fire Center Location, north of Ishpeming, which may be the reason Matti located in the same area. He met Hilda Katarina Wiippola of Fire Center and they were married in 1915. In 1918 they bought 80 acres of land from Braastads, where they built their home, farmed, raised their family, and lived the rest of their lives. Matti changed his name to Matt Korpi after immigrating to the USA. His marriage license dated July 2, 1915 still shows his name as Matti Korpela, but his first son, born June 19, 1916, was named Arvid Daniel Korpi. The paternal ancestry of Matt Korpi is as recorded at the Parish Registry of Oulainen, Finland - date of research January 27, 1982. The maternal ancestry of Matt Korpi is as recorded at the Parish Registry of Oulainen, Finland - date of research February 22, 1982. Matt died at the Morgan Heights Sanatorium in Negaunee Township, Michigan. More About Matt Korpi: Burial: Ishpeming Cemetary, Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan Immigration: 1905, From Finland to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Naturalization: 26 Apr 1912, As a British subject in Canada Generation No. 2 2. Abram Aronsson Wiippola, born 11 Dec 1848 in Niemis, Hietaniema Parish, Sweden; died 05 Oct 1926 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan. He was the son of 4. Aron Isaksson Viippola and 5. Katarina Isaksdotter Kuoppala. He married 3. Kaisa Greeta Junttila 24 Oct 1893 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan. 3. Kaisa Greeta Junttila, born 10 Aug 1863 in Kemi, Lapland, Finland; died 06 Apr 1922 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan. She was the daughter of 6. John Junttila and 7. 1 Unknown. Notes for Abram Aronsson Wiippola: Niemis is a village in Hietaniemi Parish, Sweden, on the west side of the Tornio River in the Tornio Valley. The people in this area are ethnic Finns and speak the Finnish language. When Sweden lost control of Finland to Russia in 1809, the border between Swedish and Russian territory was drawn down the Tornio River, so the people on the west side of the river were within Sweden, while those on the east side were within Finland. The Finnish spelling of the last name is Viippola. In this area the people spoke Finnish, and it was only the prominent who spoke Swedish, therefore all the church records and national records for these areas were in Swedish. By tradition, one was called by the father's (or sometimes the mother's) first name. While in Finland Abram Viippola was also used the names Aaron Aapo or sometimes Viippolan Aapo. Aapo is the Finnish word for Abraham. Parish records in Niemis describe him as "backstugusittare," meaning he lived in or owned a small cabin or cottage, possibly a "crofter's holding", or he may have been a sharecropper. He was born in the southern part of Niemis, but it's not known which part of the village he lived in while he was married with his family there. He had a wife and family in Niemis. He left his family without official moving papers about 1880/1881. He is recorded in the Hietaniemi Parish Household Examination Book as having left his family and thereafter no one has heard anything about him. He emigrated to the United States about 1881. Abram immigrated to the US at about age 31 and settled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan about 8 miles north of the city of Ishpeming in the little community of Fire Centre near the Dead River. This area received its name from The Fire Centre Mining Company, which mined igneous rock in the Dead River Range for several years in the early 1800s. Igneous means fire, therefore the name Fire Centre (later changed to Center.) Abram and his wife Kaisa got a 160 acre plot of land under the Homestead Act of 1862, build a house, farmed the land and received a patent of ownership signed by President Theodore Roosevelt March 12, 1906, after "proving up" for five years. Abram died in Dr. Talso's "Grace Hospital" in Ishpeming, Michigan. According to his son Otto's diary entry of September 28: "Pappa was brought to Dr. Talso's hospital. This was the last time Pappa was taken away from home." Entry of October 5: "Pappa died at 7 a.m. at age 77 - was buried on the 7th." (Diary translated from Finnish to English by Ellen Tippett). His cause of death was listed as "paralysis" as per a paper written by his son Frans Emil. Quote from an article by Sture Torikka about the Tornio River Valley, on the Swedish side of the Tornio River, across from Tornio, Finland: "I have done some drafts about emigrants from two villages (Niemis and Armasjärvi) in Hietaniemi parish, Norrbotten, Sweden. It's located about 50 km up north the Bothnian Bay, just on the Tornio river shore. The Tornio river is also the borderline between Sweden and Finland. Nearly everybody here is Finnish by origin, but our nationality is Swedish. The language has always been Finnish, and they have been called "Finns" everywhere else in Sweden. The first people from this area who emigrated directly from their valley homes to America, started their trips and Atlantic crossings in the spring of 1865. But there had already been Tornio valley people - both from the Swedish borderside and the Finnish too - who had gone from North Norway already in 1864. Unfortunately these emigrants are not always that easy to find in Norwegian records. However; from Norway the rumors about the amazing North America reached the Tornio river valley, and then the valley inhabitants were ready to leave all their historical family security and go to America themselves." More About Abram Aronsson Wiippola: Also Known As: Abraham Wiippola Burial: 07 Oct 1926 Immigration: Abt. 1881, To United States Notes for Kaisa Greeta Junttila: Kemi is a town in the province of Lapland, Finland. It is situated very close to the town of Tornio. Kaisa was born in Kemi and immigrated to the United States Jun1, 1887 at age 24, seven years after Abram Wiippola. 2 The cause of her death at age 58 was tuberculosis. The entry in her son Otto's diary for March 26, 1922 says: Went to Aate's and Eli's for the last time while mother was still alive. Mother's last words were "Lord Jesus, lift me up high." More About Kaisa Greeta Junttila: Immigration: 01 Jun 1887, To the USA Children of Abram Wiippola and Kaisa Junttila are: 1 i. Hilda Katarina Wiippola, born 28 Oct 1891 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; died 21 Jun 1979 in Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; married Matt Korpi 03 Jul 1915 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan. ii. Otto Abraham Wiippola, born 05 Jan 1893 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; died 07 Feb 1958 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan. Notes for Otto Abraham Wiippola: His name is shown as Otto Abram Wiippola in the 1927 Probate Court Record after his father's death. He was known as Aapo, which is the Finnish translation of Abraham. Otto remained single. He lived his life in the Wiipola family home in Fire Center. More About Otto Abraham Wiippola: Burial: Ishpeming Cemetery, Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan Known as: Aapo, which is Finnish for Abraham iii. Frans Emil Wiippola, born 01 Sep 1896 in Fire Center Location, Ishpeming Township, Marquette, Michigan; died 11 Jan 1980 in Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan. Notes for Frans Emil Wiippola: Remained single. Lived his life at the Wiippola family home in Fire Center. Emil lived there alone after Otto's death in 1958 until he died in 1980.