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Edward H. Bohlin or Emil Helge Bohlin, lost in the U.S.

Edward H. Bohlin or Emil Helge Bohlin, lost in the U.S.

Judy_Baouab (View posts)
Posted: 17 Apr 2006 9:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Aug 2009 12:41PM GMT
Surnames: Bohlin
Hi everyone,

A Swede has asked me for help with a problem of hers. I don't have the resources so I hope that someone on this board might be able to provide some information for her since he worked in a Wild West Show.

Her first note said:
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"Edward H. Bohlin, born 1895 May 12 in Sweden, came to the U.S. around 1915 or so and started out as a cowboy in Wyoming. Around 1921 he got a part in a Wild West show and moved to Los ageles, where he is supposed to have stayed. He died there in 1980.

He became a very famous saddler and silversmith, there are scores of pages on the net on his work, but I can't find anything about if he was married, but supposedly he had a daughter, who was living in Washington State in the late 1940s.

I have tried all the ways I can think of to find him in the 1920 and 1930, but have come up with nothing, and then I thought of you..."
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I checked a few things, including Emibas (a Swedish cd made from registrations in the Swedish parish to go to a foreign country), and found a man with the right birthdate but not exactly the same name. (Apparently he is the same person. See her next note.)

Post 892242

Bohlin, Emil Helge
Metallarbetare (unmarried man)

b. 5/12/1895 in Vintrosa, Örebro län (Närke)

Emigrated 2/4/1913
from Kungsgatan 4, Örebro Nikolai, Örebro län (Närke)
to Canada

Source: Household Examination Roll, p. 334

Emibas migration file ID: Örebro Nikolai T 1913 005


This is her next reply.

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"Thanks for your speedy reply, and I am pleased if you could help me find some info on Edward H. Bohlin, who indeed is the same as the Emil Helge you found in the Emibas. He seems to have changed his name in the U.S., but his brother's descendants here call him "uncle Helge". He is the topic of an article for SAG...and they don't know anything about him after 1947. (SAG is "Swedish American Genealogist", a journal for the Swenson Center; comment added by Judy.)

I found him in the California Death Index, as having died in Los Angeles 1980 May 28, also in the SSDI, but have not been able to find any on-line obits for him."
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She wants to find if he had children and hopefully find some living descendants, but one step at a time. :-) If anyone can help, especially with an obituary or finding him in the 1920/1930 census (perhaps under a very misspelled name or perhaps one of the names from the Emibas lookup was used), she would greatly appreciate that help. She seems to have done quite a thorough search from overseas but now she needs U.S. help.

Judy

Re: Edward H. Bohlin or Emil Helge Bohlin, lost in the U.S.

Posted: 24 Jun 2007 12:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bohlin, Freeberg
Hello Judy, My grandmother was a sister to Edward Bohlin's wife Leanna Marie Freeberg. A cousin of mine in Sweden and I have been tracing the Freeberg family tree for a couple of years now and have a little information information. We have been able to trace some of the direct family members journey from Montana, Washington, Wyoming, and ending in Oregon. If you or your friend would like to exchange more information I would enjoy it very much. One of the replies I saw said that Lillian was living in Seattle. That is correct. It was her mothers sister that took Lillian in when Leanna died in Wyoming of Influenza. I will have to double check but I am sure I have a picture of Lillian and many of the other family members at a family reunion in Seattle, Washington. Another wonderful source of information is the following web site: http://www.leighlarson.com/ Leigh is of Swedish decent as well and I have spoke with him in the past. The best way to contact me is via e-mail at stevencain@ec.rr.com. If I can be of any assistance please feel free to drop me a line!

Re: Edward H. Bohlin or Emil Helge Bohlin, lost in the U.S.

Posted: 2 Aug 2009 12:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bohlin
Hello all. I realize this post is a little old, but I have been trying to determine if Emil Heldge (Edward H) may be a distant relative of mine. My immediate family has a long list of artists and creative folks and I thought it was curious how many creative Bohlins are out there. The earliest Bohlin I'm able to identify in my line is Eugene S Bohlin (1896-1994) who immigrated from Sweden and ended up in Chicago. There is word-of-mouth history in my family that Bohlin was an acquired name and our original name is Anderson. (long story) Thanks for any help!

Re: Edward H. Bohlin or Emil Helge Bohlin, lost in the U.S.

Posted: 8 Sep 2014 5:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
I realize this is an old post but here goes. Emil Helge Bohlin ( Edward H) was my grand father by his second wife Harriet Martin Sween Bohlin. They are difficult to research because he was married at least 3 times, she 5. Their marriage was short lived they had one son Orville Stephen Bohlin(deceased) whose name was changed to Davis ( the name of two of his stepfathers) He was big band and studio musician before joining the Army Air Cops after Pearl Harbor. He was sent to Liberty Field, Georgia for training (later Ft. Stewart). He met my mother Etolia Bradham Davis in Savannah. They were married on March 3rd, 1946. They divorced in 1972. I was born September 24th 1951.

I know my father had half siblings and that his father also had other children.

I also know that my grandfather immigrated from Brymerhaven, Germany landing in Newport News Virginia in 1912.

That is pretty much the some total of my knowledge of him. He and my father were estranged and he never knew of my birth so I have no connections with any of my Bohlin relations.
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