History of Swedish Immigration in the Puget Sound, pp. 108-213
Part of Manuscript Collection
History of Swedish Immigration in the Puget Sound, by Stephen Forslund, pages 108-213.
This portion of the manuscript covers Swedes who immigrated to Pierce County in the late 1890s to 1972. It also talks about the Finnish-Swedes.
History of Swedish Immigration in the Puget Sound, pp. 1-107
Part of Manuscript Collection
History of Swedish Immigration in the Puget Sound, by Stephen Forslund, pages 1-107.
This manuscript was written in Tacoma, Washington, in 1973 about the Swedish immigrants to Tacoma, Pierce County, and adjacent territories. It was completed after years of research for the proposed Swedish Archive at the University of Washington. This portion of the manuscript covers the first Swedish emigrants around 1638 through the Swedes in Pierce County in the 1890s.
Part of CHOICE Records
Part of Manuscript Collection
Assortment of 119 index cards, 17 smaller cards and 2 notebook pages on Swedish settlement history, primarily Washington.
Subjects included in these index cards
1859 Census
History book references
Indian Cemetery burials
Mscl. notes on Swedish information
Notes on settler’s life
Park Hotel
Scandinavian Corps of Salvation Army
Steilacoom/Chambers Creek
Swedish Churches –Tacoma
Swedish Male Choruses
Swedish Order of Valhalla
Swedish Pension,dyes, poetry,ombudsman
Vasa Lodge
Wright Park, Tacoma
Names included in these index cards
Bernhard Anderson
Carl Anderson
Gustaf Anderson
Gunner Anderson
Maja Lisa Benson
A.F.Berg
Emil Julius Bertle
Bloom/Johnson/Swanson Families
Hjalmar Branting
Nicholas Delin
Joel Emanuel Hägglund
Andrew Emil Jacobson
Ole S. Larsson
Karl Lövkvist
Peter Sandberg
H.P. Stenberg
Alfred Stenstrom
Svensson Family
Albin Swanson
August Swanson
Oscar Swanson
Axel Uddenber
Karl Winblad von Walter