Updated: 2008-01-15
Josef Nathanael Blomberg

Born: 1871-02-25, Ytter Ekeby, Fellingsbro, Västmanland
Dead: 1947 (headstone)
Father: Karl Magnus Blomberg, schoolteacher in Ytter Ekeby, Fellingsbro.
Mother: Ingeborg Olsdotter
Spouse: Emilie Elmblade
Children: Eugene (1902), Joseph (1904), Ivar (1906), Margaret (1909), Robert (1911)

Josef Nathanael Blomberg was born in 1871 in Ytter Ekeby, Fellingsbro parish, Västmanland. When he was about 17 years old - in 1888 - he travelled alone from Sweden to his aunt Marit Olsdotter who lived in Cokato, Minnesota. She had emigrated already in 1864 to the US. In 1897 Josef arrived to the US for the second time. On October 8, the painter Josef arrived with the steamship SS Hekla to Ellis Island. Josef was naturalized American in 1911.

Updated: 2004-07-07
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