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About Johan Viktor Lundholm
Apotekare.
Farm.stud.-examen den 7 dec. 1876. Apotekarexamen den 17 maj 1883.
Emigrerade den 15 mars 1887 från Göteborg till Amerika.
"Came to America. Became a registered pharmacist and owned a drug store in Rockford, IL.".
After schooling in Kalmar, he became an apprentice in the Högsby pharmacy nearby. He passed the preliminary examinations and proceeded to Stockholm, where he took the examination as a registered pharmacist 1883. He left Sweden for the U.S. 1887 and had positions in several pharmacies in Paxton, IL, and Chicago, before moving to Rockford, IL, where he purchased a Swedish drugstore with the name Nordstjärnan (The North Star). He married twice. His first wife was Alfrida Wirstedt of Chicago, who died there 1895 and with whom he had two children, who survived - Sonja Alfrida and Joseph Sebastian. On 19 June 1901 he remarried Hilma Esterquist of Chicago, with whom he had two children - Stanley Victor Emanuel, born 1902 and Camilla Ruth Ingeborg, born 1904.
Source: Olsson, The History of the Swedes of Illinois, III, pp. 151-152.
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Johan Viktor Lundholm's Timeline
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September 11, 1856
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Hultsfred, Mörlunda , Kalmar län, Sweden
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| 1889 |
1889
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January 4, 1891
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1893
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1902
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1904
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| 1924 |
March 24, 1924
Age 67
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Rockford, Winnebago county, Illinois, United States
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Scandinavian cemetery, Rockford, Winnebago county, Illinois, United States
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