Nils Andreas Carlsen Kjennerud

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1900 - Drammen to Oslo (left Oslo 27 apr.1900 on the Anglo) to Liverpool (left Liverpool 2 may 1900 on the SS Oceanie / Oceanic) to Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA.

1900 - Nils Kjennerud (25yr – Electrician) arrived in NY on the “Oceanie” on 2 may 1900 (13 may 1900 arrived in Chicago) – listed as going to Chicago & sister’s in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA.

1900 census Nils Kjenrud (27yrs - Norway) is living in Precinct 26 Chicago city Ward 14, Cook, Illinois, United States - he is a boarder, living with the Edward & Hilga Iverson family.

1910 census there was a Emil Pearson (b. abt. 1882) with wife Hannah M.(b. abt. 1877) living in Cook County, Illinois, USA. Living with them are Nils A Kjermernd, Hans R Kjermernd, Carl E Lindgren & Bertel H Pearson.

1917-18 Nils Andreas Kjennerud (23 Nov., 1874) received a draft card at Cook Co, Illinois, USA.

1920 census Nils Kjennererud (44yrs) living at Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA, with Emil, Hannah & Lawrence Pearson.

1930 census Nels Kjennerud (brother-in-law) is living in Chicago with Emil J. Pearson (b. 1882), Hannah Pearson b. 1877) & Laurence Pearson b. 1916)

Nils was a machine worker at the Pressed Steel Car Company, Hegewisch, Chicago, Illinois. The company built passenger & frate railroad cars until 1940, then began producing Sherman Tanks for the war. See media tab for family history.

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See Agnes Charlotte Wild (Nelson) & Karoline Martine Karlsdatter Olafsen (Kjennerud) profiles for letters exchanged in 1966, containing family history.