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Volume XXIX No. 2 June 2009 (ISSN 0275-9314) A journal devoted to Swedish American biography, genealogy, and personal history Volume XXIX June 2009 No. 2 CONTENTS Joseph B. Oakleaf’s journey ................................ 1 by Steve Cox Copyright © 2009 (ISSN 0275-9314) Else Andersdotter – a model for Kristina? ....... 5 by Elisabeth Thorsell Swedish American Genealogist The 2009 Olsson scholar ........................................ 7 Publisher: By Erika Jackson-Eckerly Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center Augustana College, Rock Island, IL 61201-2296 Those mysterious words, part 2 .......................... 8 Telephone: 309-794-7204. Fax: 309-794-7443 By Elisabeth Thorsell E-mail: [email protected] Bits & Pieces ............................................................ 9 Web address: http://www.augustana.edu/swenson/ AHA Gathering ...................................................... 10 Editor: Elisabeth Thorsell Hästskovägen 45, 177 39 Järfälla, Sweden A couple of new CD databases ........................... 11 E-mail: [email protected] By Elisabeth Thorsell Contributing Editor: A Swede in Joliet prison ..................................... 13 Peter S. Craig. J.D., F.A.S.G., Washington, D.C. by Elisabeth Thorsell Editorial Committee: Finding Sissa (and much more)......................... 14 H. Arnold Barton, Carbondale, IL by Lisa Lindell Dag Blanck, Uppsala, Sweden The Swedish Colonial Society ............................ 18 Dennis L. Johnson, Pottstown, PA by Herbert R. Rambo Ronald J. Johnson, Madison, WI Christopher Olsson, Stockton Springs, ME The Old Picture ..................................................... 19 Priscilla Jönsson Sorknes, Minneapolis, MN Handwriting Example XXI .................................. 20 Swedish American Genealogist, its publisher, editors, and editorial committee assume neither responsibility Volunteers to index Swedish records ............... 21 nor liability for statements of opinion or fact made by A little boy was killed .......................................... 22 contributors. by Elisabeth Thorsell Correspondence. Please direct editorial correspon- The solution to the Handwriting example ...... 24 dence such as manuscripts, queries, book reviews, announcements, and ahnentafeln to the editor in Book Reviews ........................................................ 25 Sweden. Correspondence regarding change of address, back Interesting Web Sites ........................................... 30 issues (price and availability), and advertising should be directed to the publisher in Rock lsland. Genealogical Queries ........................................... 31 The Last Page ......................................................... 32 Subscriptions. Subscriptions to the journal are $28.00 per annum and run for the calendar year. Single copies are $8.00 each. Swenson Center Associates are entitled to a special discounted subscription price of $15.00. Cover picture: Direct all subscription inquiries to the publisher in Rock Per (Peter) Svensson Lundin with his railroad crew in Colorado. Island. Peter is third from the left. Photo around 1900. (Lisa Lindell In Sweden the subscription price is 250.00 Swedish collection). kronor per year for surface delivery and 275.00 kronor See article on page 14. per year for air mail. This subscription fee may be deposited in our plusgiro account: 260 10-9, Swedish American Genealogist, c/o Thorsell, Hästskovägen 45, S-177 39 Järfälla, Sweden. Joseph B. Oakleaf’s boyhood journey to Kansas – a sequel to B.P. Oakleaf’s reflections in SAG 1/09 BY STEVE COX In 1869, when Joseph B. Oakleaf was daughters to make the trek to Kan- 1870s, about half of Moline (popula- not quite eleven years old, his Swed- sas: Charlie (born 1856), Joseph tion 7,800 in 1880) was Swedish.6 ish immigrant family left their home (1858), Junia (1862), Lydia (1866), Moline was a compact, lively in- in Moline, Illinois, to make a fresh and Emanuel (1868). Two children dustrial city, full of things for child- start farming virgin land in south- had died in Moline, and the last ren to see and savor – steamboats on eastern Kansas.1 Oakleaf child, Stephen, was born in the Mississippi, the railroad carrying Joseph Oakleaf remembered that 1871, two years after they arrived in goods and people to the West, the fire trek to the end of his days. Kansas.4 and smoke and bustle and rumble of His parents, Benjamin Peter (B. P.) workers and machines in the fac- Oakleaf (1827-1893) and Mary Oak- Neighbors tories: when the John Deere plow leaf (1830-1905), were among the few Just next door to the Oakleaf family shop worked late, the constant Swedes – no more than 1,400 of them in Moline lived Peter and Johanna pounding of the drop hammers rat- 2 – who came to America in 1854. Swanson, who had emigrated from tled the windows of the town far into 7 B. P. Oakleaf was twenty-seven Sweden in 1855, the year after the the night. years old and Mary twenty-four, Oakleafs, and their five daughters. In when, with two young children in tow, age, the Swanson sisters fit with the The Civil War came they sailed for America. Leaving Oakleaf children like cards expertly The Civil War added to the excite- their home near Melbystrand, on the shuffled. Augusta or Gustie Swanson, ment. Moline was far from the front, southwestern coast of Hallands län, the eldest, was born in 1855; she was but Gustie Swanson remembered, as they sailed from the port of Göteborg a year older than Joseph’s elder an eight-year-old girl, watching Con- on June 25, 1854. Their son Chris- brother Charlie Oakleaf. Then came federate prisoners, captured at the tian, two and a half years old, died at Lottie Swanson (1857), a year older Battle of Chattanooga of November sea. They landed in Boston forty-five than Joseph, and Nell Swanson 1863, being marched to the military days later and, along with other (1859), a year younger than Joseph, prison on Rock Island, visible from Swedes who had come on the same and Jenny Swanson (1862), the same Moline across a narrow channel of ship, the Oakleafs went directly to age as Joseph’s sister Junia, and Pau- the Mississippi River. Moline. A few days later, their seven- line Swanson (1869), the youngest The brick schoolhouse, built in teen-month-old daughter, Christina, Swanson, born in January 1869.5 1843, was a short three-block walk 3 also died. The Oakleafs and Swansons were from the Oakleafs’ home. The paper B. P. found a steady job in the S. W. among the few Swedes in Moline mill where B. P. worked was down- Wheelock paper mill, in Moline, and when they arrived, but more and town, six blocks away, and just five the Oakleafs started a new family. By more Swedes came until, by the blocks east and around the corner 1869, they had three sons and two was the home of Moline’s most pro- One of the early factories in minent citizen, John Deere, whose Moline. plow factory was the anchor of This is the wagon factory, Moline’s industry. but the others probably B. P. Oakleaf was an orphan who looked much the same. had made his way in Sweden as a The Swedish population soldier and had acquired, according grew from about 360 in 1860 to one chronicler, “a sound English to about 4100 in 1900, com- pared to the total population education.” Within six years of arri- of 19,700. ving in America, he held a personal Swedish American Genealogist 2009:2 1 estate of $1,600 and real estate stat line some 140 miles directly valued at $600. His neighbor Peter south from Kansas City to the Swanson, a farmer in Sweden, had southeastern corner of Kansas, and worked in a sawmill for all of his from there almost directly west 40 fourteen years in Moline.8 miles to Mound Valley. Joseph re- membered the names of a string of The Oakleafs go west towns along the route, perhaps the B. P. Oakleaf was capable of better locations of inns where the party things than working at the paper stayed rather than making camp mill. And breathing the chemical each evening and breaking camp 11 fumes of the paper plant made him every morning. ill. He had once taken a three-year break from the paper mill and its The journey to Kansas fumes to try farming in the Rock Riv- In his reminiscence, Joseph wrote: er valley. Finally, his doctor recom- “Father could have purchased land mended that he go west for his around Kansas City for $10 an acre, health. but it was hilly and rough and he Joseph B. Oakleaf as a young man. After the Civil War, land in the didn’t think it was very good for West was opening up. Late in May farming. He wanted government short distance from the wagon road, 1869, B. P. Oakleaf and Peter Swan- land so he continued on south and and then we started up towards the son, both in their forties, quit their finally reached the quarter section on house. It was a little bit uphill all the factory jobs, left their families in which he lived when he died. way, and the light shone brightly. Moline, and went to Kansas, lured by “He reached there [Mound Valley, the prospect of good, cheap land.9 Kansas] about the first of June, 1869, Joy at meeting By riverboat, train, and wagon, and built a house. We ran ahead of Mr. Swensson and finally on foot, the two men made “Mother and we children left for [Swanson] and pounded on the door their way to Labette County in Kansas on the 20th day of September, and called “Papa, Papa, Papa.” He southeastern Kansas. By June 10 1869, and there were several immi- had gone to bed, for he didn’t know they had staked claims on Osage In- grants who had just come from when we were coming. He was dian land in the valley of Pumpkin Sweden who went with her. She had overjoyed to see us and we just hung Creek. About two miles from their to be the spokesman for all of them. onto him as though we could never claims, settlers were organizing a “We went to Rock Island [IIl.] and let go.
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