Jeannette and Swen
Swen Hendrickson came to Minnesota, Pelican Rapids, as a fifteen year old boy. We don't know why he left his country of birth or his history there. Census records describe his parents both being born in Norway. His draft records describe as medium build, medium height with dark hair and blue eyes.
Census 1900 for Otter Tail, Minn.
This record of 1900 shows a Swen Hendrickson working as Farm Laborour in Trondhjeim, Otter Tail, Minesota for Ole M Sommerness.
He must have taken a job with a farmer named Quamme after this time. It seems Mr Quamme helped Swen to go to the University of Minnesota school of Pharmacy.
Swen contracted Tuberculosis at some point after university. The time after his graduation to the time he reappears in Dunseith, North Dakota at the TB sanatorium is vague. Perhaps he was working as a pharmacist in the area nearby at the Turtle Mt Indian reservation. (Frank Phillips had worked there as an Indian Agent)
When he was released from the sanatorium he boarded in a tent at Clara Phillips boarding house. He met Jeannette Phillips there in about 1910, six years after her father Frank died.
Jeannette's mother Clara was running a boarding house and working as a seamstress to support her three children.
Swen's draft card 1918. He was then aged 34 living in Aneta with Jeannette.
We have a census from that year showing Swen living at Clara's boarding house in St John. Swen and Jeannette were married and later moved to Aneta, North Dakota. When the depression hit he and his boss/partner parted ways, Swen and Jeannette moved to Jamestown , ND where he was a pharmacist for many years. He had hoped to become a partner in that business but that didn't happen.
Census 1920 shows family living at 60 Third Steet, Ora Township, Nelson County, North Dakota.
Census Record 1930, Stutsman County, Jamestown
1930 Swen, Jeannette, their four children and lodger Anne Heck lived at 39 Third Avenue, Stutsman County, Jamestown.
To follow his dream of owning his own business, he moved his family to Wahpeton, ND where he had a pharmacy. (His granddaugher Jan Hall Brooks is not 100% sure if he owned it or worked for someone else) Janice Hall Brooks (Patricia Hendrickson Halls daughter) remembers going to that wonderful place many many times and getting ice cream sodas made by her own Grampa Swen. Jeannette was helping him with the store by managing the gift shop area.
Photo of Swen Hendrickson on the right and Connrad Hendrickson, Swen and Jeannette's son , on the left. The people in the middle were employees of the White Drug, main street North Dakota, Jamestown (photo from Jan Hall Brooks)
Swen was diagnosed in 1946 with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) better known today as Lou Gehrig's disease and died in Wahpeton 1949. The Quamme family donated the burial site at Wahpeton.
Swens cemetery details are:
Richland County, ND, City of Wahpeton - Funeral Home IndexHENDRICKSON Swen Martin 1882 1949 8-49-35 Pelican Rapids
Click here to see the details online.
Jeannette died in California of diabetes. Jeanne Hendrickson and Conrad and Hunsie Hendrickson were living in Ca at the time.
Four Generations.
Janice Hall, Jeanette Phillips Hendrickson, Clara Plante Phillips, Patricia Hendrickson Hall.
Descendants of Mary Ludovica Emelia Jeannette Phillips and Swen Martin Hendrickson
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1-Mary Ludovica Emelia Jeannette Phillips b. 4 Apr 1890, St John, North Dakota, d. , California, USA
+Swen M Hendrickson b. 1884, Norway, d.1949 , Pelican Rapids, North Dakota
2nd Generation
2-Norris F Hendrickson b. 1918, Jamestown, Stuntsman, North Dakota
2-Conrad Hendrickson b. 22 Jun 1919
+Henrietta Murack b. 28 Sep 1919, d. , California, US
3-Steve Hendrickson b. 13 Sep 1947
3-Joseph Scott Hendrickson Hendrickson b. 19 Oct 1948
3-Mark Hendrickson b. 10 Mar 1950
3-Mike Hendrickson b. 16 Dec 1951
3-Paul Hendrickson b. 26 Sep 1953
3-Mary Hendrickson b. 19 Jul 1955
+Joseph Scalmanini , par. Unknown and Unknown
4-Jeannette Jenna Scalmanini
4-John Scalmanini Twin 4-Anne Scalmanini
3-David Hendrickson b. 3 Sep 1957
3-Jeanne Hendrickson b. 9 Jun 1958, California, USA
+Richard Mariani b. 27 Jun 1954, California, USA, m. 28 Jan 1984, California, USA
4-Natasha Mariani b. 3 Sep 1986, California, USA
4-Victoria Mariani b. 30 Aug 1988, California, USA
4-Mitchell Mariani b. 29 Mar 1994, California, USA
4-Nicholas Mariani b. 29 Mar 1994, California, USA
3-John Hendrickson b. 30 Jun 1960, California, USA
+Sara Hopkins b. 3 Jul 1957
4-Conrad Hendrickson
4-Michael Hendrickson
4-Swen Hendrickson
4-Clara Hendrickson
3-Anne Hendrickson b. 24 Mar 1963
2-Jeanne Gayle Hendrickson b. 1 Jan 1923, North Dakota, d. 10 Jun 1997, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
+Reo Norton snr Carr b. 24 Feb 1920.
3-Reo Norton jnr 'Skip' Carr b. 13 Sep 1948 +Caroline
4-Sienna Carr
4-Sherie Carr
3-Julie Anne Carr b. 4 Jan 1950
+Andre
3-Cynthia Lee Carr b. 1 Oct 1958
+Gregory James Heier b. 10 Dec 1956, m. 9 May 1982, par. Donald Frederick Heier and Patricia Ann Sperry
4-Jacob Alexander Heier b. 22 May 1986
4-Whitney Lauren Heier b. 15 Jan 1989
4-Brett Michael Heier b. 14 Mar 1992
+John Richards d. , California, USA, m. California, USA (see Jeanne Gayle Hendrickson on page 1)
2-Patricia Hendrickson +Donald Hall
3-Janice Hall b. 12 Aug 1940, Devils Lake, North Dakota,
+Bruce Brooks
+Bruce Berg , m. 1962, Bismarck ND
4-Mitchell Paul Berg b. , Rugby North Dakota
+Wife
5-Daryll Berg b. , St Paul, Minnesota.
5-Sam Berg
4-Susan Karen Berg b. 1964, Jamestown ND, USA, d. 1964, Jamestown ND, USA
4-Barbara Jeanne Berg b. , Jamestown
+Jeff LeFevre b. , of Billings, Montana, USA
5-Nicholas LeFevre
5-Faith LeFevre
5-Joshua LeFevre
4-James Bruce Berg
3-Geraldine Jerri Hall b. 26 Nov 1943, Devils Lake, North Dakota
+Carl Pfiffner b. 27 Jul 1944, Glenwood, Minnesota, m. 10 Oct 1969
4-David Allan Pfiffner b. 28 Jul 1972, Houston, Texas
+Tara Hopper , m. October 26, 2002
5-Hannah Lea Pfiffner b. 10 Nov 2004, San Antonio, Texas
4-Erin Lee Pfiffner b. 19 Mar 1975, Tokyo, Japan +McAlan Duncan , m. September 1, 2000. (see Erin Lee Pfiffner on page 2)
5-William Peyton Duncan b. 31 Mar 2003, Dallas, Texas
5-Luke Patrick Duncan b. 15 Jun 2005, Dallas, Texas
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