Richard Hakvin Lindgren — Uncle Dick — was born in Malmö, Sweden, on May 17, 1908. Late in life he sat down and wrote out his early memories for the family: the crossing to Canada as a four-year-old, the farms and lumber camps of Alberta, the move to Minnesota, and finally Kenosha, Wisconsin, where his father helped build the courthouse that Dick would one day walk into as County Clerk.
His words appear here just as he typed them, transcribed from the original pages. The afterword holds notes from a family visit to Malmö, where a local researcher traced the family through Swedish church records.
Contents
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Chapter One · 1908 to 1912
Malmö and the Voyage to Canada
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Chapter Two · 1912 to 1919
Beverly and the Alberta Farms
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Chapter Three · 1919 to 1924
Minnesota
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Chapter Four · 1924 to 1930
Settling in Kenosha
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Chapter Five · 1930 to 1940
Trolley Buses, Hard Times and Irene
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Chapter Six · 1940 to 1949
Nash Motors and the Courthouse
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Afterword · Family Records
Notes from Malmö