Lindgren Family - From Herräkra and Söraby A Family History - page 148

THE MARTA GUSTAFSSON FAMILY (continued)

(1872), Ida Kristina (1874), and Johan August (1877). At this point I can't figure out how they fit into that family.

     John, Kristina's half-brother, arrived in America in 1882, settling first in Bristol, South Dakota. He moved to Langford, South Dakota, in 1889. He apparently never did marry. He died in 1934.
     Kristina married Karl Wilhelm Lindgren, who was born in 1872 at Sodatcroft 105 Herkelocken, Betingtorp, the son of Karl Peter Lindgren of Dädesjö and Botilda Charlotta Svensdotter, born 22 Nov. 1842. Kristina's husband Karl was one of eight children. At the time of his emigration at age 16 on 3 April 1889, he was listed as a servant. He was well-known as a tailor (cutter) in Minnesota and Los Angeles. He cut suits for celebrities as Adoph Menjou (often mentioned as the world's best-dress man), Charlie Chaplin and Cecil B. DeMille. Carl would go to the homes of customers, measure them and cut their suits while at their homes.
     Kristina and Carl had seven children. I do not have Kristina's emigration date or the date of her marriage to Carl.
     Son Harry was born in 1899 and died in September 1982. He married Marjorie Reed in 1939. She was a well-known artist in the West, famous for her paintings of the Santa Fe Trail. Harry was a best known as a sound technician at Paramount Studios. He was the sound operator for all of Cecil DeMille's pictures. Before that time he was a radio ham operator, worked for station KFI. During World War II he went back to MIT and was sent to Hawaii as a Colonel to install radar equipment. In the 1960's, when work became slack in the movie industry, he went to sea as an officer in Merchant Marine as a radar and radio operator.
     [Harry was the sound man on the second "The Ten Commandments. I believe that his daughter Judy has the bound script. All of the actors autographed the script. I remember Charleston Heston's signature is there, and the notation; "Harry - you always make us sound good!"]
     Harry and Marjorie had two children, Judith [Judy] and Steven. Judith, born in 1939, married Jerry Morris and has five children. Steven has two children and lives at 15464 McAdams Creek Road, Fort Jones, CA 96032. [Steven died in 2017, Fort Jones, Siskiyou, California.]

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