Birger Alexander Lindqvist
From the obituary published in the Österbottningen newspaper, Karleby, Finland, October 28, 2003. Translated by June Pelo. Edited for use in The Quarterly. One of Finland’s respected…
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Birger Lindqvist’s Unique Mora Clock
By June Pelo. Birger Lindqvist has made several Mora clocks that are in his home in Gamlakarleby, Finland, and his most prized clock required 1000 hours…
Aimo Björklund Saw the Remains of Sorjos Village
By Ole Granholm. Translation by June Pelo. Only the house foundations remain. The birch trees have rotted away. The years 1867 and 1868 were troubled years…
Anders Chydenius
June Pelo reposted various works she found on the internet. Specifics not cited. The Swedish Finn Anders Chydenius was one of the most notable politicians of…
Charly Backa – Bäckman
By June Pelo. Folke Johansson of Karleby, Finland, asked for help in locating information of his grandmother’s brother’s children in America. Matts Leander Mattsson Backa-Bäckman, was…
Albert Båsk
By Rainer Långstedt, Spencer, NY.Norden, 13 Aug. 2009. Translated by June Pelo. Albert Båsk, as of 2009, lived in Van Etten, New York. He said his life…
Alexander Larsson Warg/Wargstrom (1847-1906)
By June Pelo My grandfather, Alexander Larsson Warg/Wargstrom, was born to Swedish-speaking parents, Lars Mattsson Warg and Brita Magdalena Eriksdotter Kallis in Karleby parish, part of…
Åbo Cathedral
From The Leading Star, November 2000. June Pelo. Finland’s first bishop was an Englishman named Saint Henry. It is mistakenly claimed that he baptized Finnish pagans into…
Caino and Torp Families in Vetil
By Marjatta Pulkkinen. Translated by June Pelo. Toward the Vetil River Valley A solitary wanderer shuffled through the backwoods with his knapsack. Along the shore of…
Ancestral Farmhouses in Kauhava Parish, Finland
Excerpts from an article by Jorma Kalliokoski in“A New Journey For North American Finns”, July 1999.June Pelo. One wonders what the first farm house looked like…
Anders Brännkärr, Finland’s First Medalist at Holmenkollen
From Historisk Nedslag, Österbottningen 125 År. English translation by June Pelo. On 11 December 1891 a boy was born in Nedervetil who was named Anders by…
Back Home Again
By Donald Widjeskog.Norden, 30 May 2010.English translation by June Pelo. When the cold winter is a mere memory, we all set our sights on the coming…
