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Patty Peterson
Starting member
USA
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 Posted - 22/09/2011 : 13:30:43
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Perhaps that is where they got it from however we don't have the extra "e" in our name. The story we heard was there were too many Olsen's so they changed the name to Engstad.
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Kċarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 22/09/2011 : 14:35:58
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Hi.
Engestad was the official name in 1865 census, another local spelling was Engstad.
This photo from the Veldre Village shows Engstad to the right behind the white house with the flagpole to the right in front.
Wonder his connection to Engstad, it must have ment something special to him.
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Kċarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
5861 Posts |
Posted - 22/09/2011 : 23:32:41
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In 1865 ab. 13% of the population in Norway used Olsen /Olsdatter as last name, that caused problems among the emigrants in the US.
During the civil war in the 15th of Wisconsin Regiment, the Scandinavian Regiment, where more than 90 % of the soldiers were born in Norway, there were to many Ole´s.
They were asked to change lastname after the farm they came from or had a special meaning for them.
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 23/09/2011 : 03:48:52
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Hi,
Dr. J.E. Engstad has a listing in the Dec 1913 directory of the Tri State Telephone and Telegraph Company for Grand Forks and East Grand Forks in the regular listings but not on the Physicians and Surgeons list:
Phone number is 90 L
Address is 18 S 3rd St
Dr. J.E. Engstad home lising in the 1936 Northwestern Bell Telephone directory for Grand Forks, East Grand Forks and Larimore, page 15 is:
residence: 703 S 15th St
home phone: 808
Engstad & Muus phys. & surg. business listing also on page 15 is:
address: 501 R R Natl Bank bldg
phone: 158
Hilsen,
Jackie M.
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Kċarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
5861 Posts |
Posted - 23/09/2011 : 08:34:25
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Hi.
Seems like John used several lastnames in the US.
John Olson, John Engstad.
He also kept up the traditional Norwegian naming practice, in Norway he would have been baptized John Evensen after his father´s firts name Even (Evens son)
Here he is mentioned as John E. (Evensen) Engstad.
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 23/09/2011 : 22:20:56
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Hi,
Some other information about Dr. J.E. Engstad found in North Dakota Medicine Sketches and Abstracts by Dr. James Grassick, published 1926 by the North Dakota Medical Association:
From the list of doctors registered to practice in Dakota Territory, #59 is Dr. J.E. Engstad, registered on 15 July 1885, practicing in Grand Forks, Grand Forks County; graduated 1885 from Rush Medical College, Chicago, Il
The Medical Society was started informally in 1887 but formalized in May 1888 and Dr. J.E. Engstad was elected to serve as secretary for one year
At the annual meeting in 1889 Dr. John E. Engstad presented "Early Detection of Astigmatism"
Abstracted & translated from an obituary collected in the Rowberg Biographical File, originally published in Decorah Posten, 23 Feb 1937:
"In 1891, Dr. Engstad built St. Luke's Hospital in Grand Forks, the first hospital in the State. He sold that in 1899 to Deaconess Hospital Association."
"Dr. Engstad was survived by his wife, a daughter Mrs. Percy H. Dyste, Hollywood, California, two sisters Mrs. Mary Wallum and Miss Julia Engstad, Holmen, Wisconsin and a brother Olaf Engstad, Onalaska, Wisconsin and to grandsons, John Bruun Dyste and Neil Leonard Dyste, Hollywood, California, 4 nieces and 5 nephews. A daughter died 30 years ago in Minneapolis."
Deaconess Hospital was merged in the late 1970s or early 1980s with St. Michael's Hospital to become United Hospital which has since become Altru Healthcare.
Dr. Engstad, his wife Mathilda and their daughter Valborg are all buried at the Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.
www.lakewoodcemetery.com
There were other hospitals in Dakota Territory but Dr. Engstad may have built the first after North Dakota became a state on 2 Nov 1889.
Hilsen,
Jackie M.
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