Anton ALENIUS. Anton died at the age of two years old. Parents: Johan Oscar ALENIUS and Karin ANDERSSON of Kjosta .

Arthur ALENIUS was born in 1909 in Sweden. He died in United States of America. Came to the USA, settled in Superior, Wisc. Never married.
Parents: Gustaf ALENIUS.

Beata Lovisa ALENIUS was born in 1783 in Baggböle. She died ? in Baggböle. Beata Lovisa married a shoemaker at Umea, Sweden?. His name is unknown at this time. Parents: Vicar Andreas Anders ALENIUS and Eva-Maria FLUUR.

Brita Carolina ALENIUS was born in 1772 in Baggböle. She died ? in Baggböle. Parents: Vicar Andreas Anders ALENIUS and Eva-Maria FLUUR.

Carl Fredrik ALENIUS was born on NOV 29 1781 in Baggböle. Parents: Carl Gustaf Bernhard ALENIUS and Charlotta NYBERG .

Carl Gustaf Bernhard ALENIUS was born about FEB 16 1743 in Baggböle. He died in 1790. Parents: Vicar Anders Gustaf ALENIUS Sr. and Brita GRANLUND.

Children were: Carl Fredrik ALENIUS.

Carl Magnus ALENIUS was born in 1779 in Baggböle. He died ? in Baggböle. Parents: Vicar Andreas Anders ALENIUS and Eva-Maria FLUUR.

Carl Wilhelm ALENIUS was born in 1781 in Baggböle. He died ? in Baggböle. Parents: Vicar Andreas Anders ALENIUS and Eva-Maria FLUUR.

Catharina Charlotta ALENIUS was born in 1769 in Baggböle. She died ? in Baggböle. Probably the Aunt who raised "P.K." Per Kristian Alenius. Parents: Vicar Andreas Anders ALENIUS and Eva-Maria FLUUR.

Christian ALENIUS. Christian and his wife Clara settled in Gregory, South Dakota USA Parents: Johan Oscar ALENIUS and Karin ANDERSSON of Kjosta.

Densy ALENIUS was born on FEB 21 1945 in Åskilje, Sweden?. Parents: Enar Andreas ALENIUS and Herta Selma Maria FRANSSON .

Children were: Samuel SANSSELL, Carolina SANSSELL, Gerhard SANSSELL, Ullrik SANSSELL.

Children were: Niclas ALENIUS .

Enar Andreas ALENIUS was born on AUG 19 1909 in Baggböle. He died on OCT 4 1985 in Åskilje, Sweden?. Parents: Israel August ALENIUS and Johanna Albertina JONSDOTTER.

Children were: Densy ALENIUS, Ringvor Marie ALENIUS, Volmy Marine ALENIUS.

Erik Andreas ALENIUS was born on JUL 22 1840 in Baggböle. He died on JAN 23 1892 in Baggböle. Parents: Erik Gustav ALENIUS and Christina Magdalena CARLSDOTTER.

Children were: Israel August ALENIUS.

Erik Bernard ALENIUS was born in 1772 in Baggböle. He died ? in Baggböle. He was an Inn-Keeper ? in Nykoping, Sweden. Parents: Vicar Andreas Anders ALENIUS and Eva-Maria FLUUR.

Erik Gustav ALENIUS was born on FEB 27 1801 in Baggböle. He died on MAR 1 1879 in Baggböle. Parents: Anders Gustaf ALENIUS and Brita Margareta PERSDOTTER.

Children were: Erik Andreas ALENIUS, Per Kristian ALENIUS.

Eva ALENIUS was born in 1839 in Sweden. She died in 1921 in Sweden. She was an Operated a Hotel in Sweden. Eva never married.

Eva --- operated hotels in Vtteran and Reinklo--stately, lively and proper all of her days--never married.

The youngest of PER KRISTIAN's children was the daughter EVA. Many remember her from the time she took care of Stara Hotel in Ytteran and also Hotel Reinklo in that place. In later years EVA ALENIUS lived with relatives in Ostersund, lively, proper and stately to the end. One day it was reported that EVA, who had helped make so many homes enjoyable, but who had never had a home of her own, had suddenly passed away. She was first buried in the local cemetery, but later her remains were moved to her family's plot in Alsen's cemetery. She was the last one of the large family of brothers and sisters to join her family in its own burial lot at Alsen's church.

Parents: Per Kristian ALENIUS and Anna Kristina GODEN.

Eva Carolina ALENIUS was born in 1804. She died in 1877 in Rusele. Parents: Anders Gustaf ALENIUS and Brita Margareta PERSDOTTER.

Children were: Eva Agata ERIKSDOTTER .

Eva Marie ALENIUS was born in 1776 in Baggböle. She died ? in Baggböle. Parents: Vicar Andreas Anders ALENIUS and Eva-Maria FLUUR.

Frans ALENIUS He died from Commited Suicide in Baggböle. Frans ---a jovial Alenius in social circles--married, no children--took his own life.

The third son of the Kontingent citizen was named FRANS ALENIUS. He came as a trader to Offerdal where he had some business with the parish. He married a girl unknown to me from Matimar. He, like so many of his family, was reputed to be of a somewhat melancholy nature, but this did not keep him from being a jovial person in the social circles of the ALENIUS group. In his private life he was quite different in personality. In his struggles for survival, he sought relief by taking his own life in suicide, leaving no heirs or descendants. It has been reported several times that he found life too oppressive to continue living, but at these times of despair he thought he saw his late mother regarding her son with a dolorous expression on her face, and this made him resolve to postpone until later his suicidal intent. Parents: Per Kristian ALENIUS and Anna Kristina GODEN.

Fredrik Michael ALENIUS was born on JUL 29 1991 in Ekerö, Sweden. Parents: Michael Göte ALENIUS and Malin LINDBLOM.

Gottfrid A. ALENIUS died in 1910. Gottfrid had no children.

Gottfrid --- an innkeeper in Morsil--fine, quiet, proper--very religious. He and his wife Maria Eriksson had no children but gave generously to the church and the poor.

PER KRISTIAN ALENIUS has six sons, the youngest of which was GOTTFRID. He was reputed to be a fine, quiet, proper man who read his book of devotions on Sundays, and might have turned into a solid citizen of Alsen, but he was drawn into the "free enterprise" and came to Kvistsla during the good times there when the communications with Norway was being constructed. He married MARIA ERIKSSON of Froson who had worked with the restaurant owner Mart Hansson in the city and was well trained in the art of household economy. GOTTFRID and MARIA ALENIUS bought a farm in Bye, Morsil and operated an Inn there during the famous "Rallartiden" when the western railway line was being built. They may have left this activity for there evidence that some time later, MARIA ALENIUS rented out rooms and took care of many individuals who suffered from lung diseases. Half a century ago western Jamtland was a popular resort for tuberculous patients. Both are now dead. GOTTFRID passed away in 1910 in Nyhem, Morsil. They left no children, but their memory is held in high regard by all who knew them. They had donated the bell for the Morsil church, and, if my memory is correct, they also remembered the newborn in Alsen and Froson with gifts of money. After having lived a life of honor and generosity they were both laid to rest in the Morsil cemetery.
Parents: Per Kristian ALENIUS and Anna Kristina GODEN.

Gottfried ALENIUS was born in 1908 in Sweden. He died in United States of America. Came to the USA, settled in Superior, Wisc. Parents: Gustaf ALENIUS.

Gustaf ALENIUS Gustaf went to the USA (Superior, Wisconsin) Parents: Johan Oscar ALENIUS and Karin ANDERSSON of Kjosta .

Children were: Gottfried ALENIUS, Arthur ALENIUS, Muriel ALENIUS, Laura ALENIUS.

Gustaf ALENIUS was born in 1907 in Sweden. He died in 1907 in Sweden. He He died from Died in infancy in 1907 in Sweden. Parents: Kristian ALENIUS and Anna PERSDOTTER?.

Israel August ALENIUS was born on DEC 13 1868 in Baggböle. He died on JAN 29 1953 in Baggböle. Parents: Erik Andreas ALENIUS and Johanna Carolina ISRAELSDOTTER.

Children were: Enar Andreas ALENIUS.

Jacob ALENIUS was born in 1861 in Sweden. He Born Bretta Johansson in 1896 in Sweden. He died in 1926 or 1927 in Baggböle. Jacob and his wife Sara had no children, but they did have a Foster Daughter named Bretta Johansson born in 1896, Bretta's mother was their servant and she died in childbirth. Bretta was still living in 1978 when Alice Nichols and Shirley Nelson visited Sweden and they met her in a Pensioner's Home in Alsen, Sweden.

JACOB --- a scholar and excellent horseman--was chosen coachman to drive for King Oscar--taught at Ope Agriculture School--became quite wealthy--donated bell tower clock for Alsen Church--had a reputation as a honorable and respected man-- his house was one of hospitality and refuge--described as "soul proud, heart tender, blood hot and passionate".

The youngest of the "NILSBOYS" was JACOB. He died a few years ago. In his youth he got a scholarship from an association to attend a course in coachman training. Later he came to the Lewenhaupt estate in Sabyiund in Nerike--and later taught for a while in Ope agricultural school. It might be appropriate at this point to mention that JACOB ALENIUS was judged to be such a skillful driver that he was requested to act as coachman for King Oscar and for county Governor Asplund at the dedication of the international railway, fifty years ago. JACOB was reported to be a typical ALENIUS in his younger days, but then came the Good Templar Scociety with its blessed influence, and its activity spread far enough to include even JACOB ALENIUS. One might apply to him the ancient scaldic dictum "Soul proud, heart tender, blood hot and passionate." JACOB was a son-in-law of Color-Sergeant LUND in Alsen and lived on the Ol Nils C-ard in Hof. (My memory may be wrong and this farm might be in Vangen in Alsen). He died without issue. The clock in the tower of the Alsen church is a gift from him and his brothers (it's still there). He leaves a reputation as an honorable and respected man, and his house was one of hospitality and refuge.
Parents: Nils Gustaf ALENIUS and Kerstin PERSDOTTER RODE.

Johan ALENIUS was an a Pastor and Farmer in Baggböle. Parents: Johan Oscar ALENIUS and Karin ANDERSSON of Kjosta .

Johan Oscar ALENIUS was also known as John. Most famous of the family-big in Agriculture.

John Oscar --- the most famous of the Nilsboys--operated a large country store-- also a big operator in agriculture--a great host and had an impressive household-- "an extremely social person and a superb conversationlist".

The fifth of the brothers, JOHAN OSCAR ALENIUS was perhaps the most famous of the group. He was as many will recall, a big operator in agriculture in his day. He made frequent business trips north to Lycksele and south to Stockholm and other places such as Hedemara. OSCAR was fond of making an impression as a great host and had an impressive household. He was certainly an industrious and respectable man, but it was said that his hands were too slippery to retain money. "An extremely sociable person and a superb conversationalist" said my father of him. My father was closely acquainted with many of these ALENIUS business men. OSCAR'S wife, KARIN ANDERSSON was from Kjosta and they resided for a time on the MONTELIUS farm in Alsen. Several of OSCAR's children imigrated to America. The son, JOHAN, became pastor and farmer in his home parish. One of OSCAR's daughters, ANNA married the master builder architect TJERNSTROM from Morsil. The other daughter married the slaughterhouse manager REISER of Ostersund. Parents: Per Kristian ALENIUS and Anna Kristina GODEN.

Children were: Johan ALENIUS , Anna ALENIUS, Sigred ALENIUS , Christian ALENIUS, Anton ALENIUS , Gustaf ALENIUS.

Johanna Malin ALENIUS was born on MAR 2 1993 in Hässelby, Sweden. Parents: Michael Göte ALENIUS and Malin LINDBLOM.

Kristian ALENIUS was born between 1855 and 1860 in Sweden. Kristian and his wife Anna, had one son who died in infancy.

KRISTIAN --- who acquired property by marrying Anna and moving to a farm at Norrbyn in Alsen--his home in Alsen is now a Museum--no children.

The third of the "NILSBOYS" was KRISTIAN, who acquired property by marrying a girl from the Jo-Pers farm in Norrbyn in Alsen.. This is a fine old farm worth visiting.
Parents: Nils Gustaf ALENIUS and Kerstin PERSDOTTER RODE.

Children were: Gustaf ALENIUS .

Kristina ALENIUS. Parents: Per Vilhelm ALENIUS and Brita DILNER.

Kristine ALENIUS. Kristina --- married the superintendent of a factory in Voxna, Anders Stohlnacke they had one son.

As a young girl, KRISTINA came to Voxna factory and there she married the superintendent ANDERS STOHLANACKE, who may have come from Varmland. He lived to be more than (?) years old and is buried in Ovansjo churchyard. Some descendents survive.
Parents: Per Kristian ALENIUS and Anna Kristina GODEN.

Children were: Arthur STROHLNACKE .

Laura ALENIUS was born in 1911. Last known address... Route #1, Box 154, South Range, Wisc. USA 54874 Parents: Gustaf ALENIUS.

Lovisa Amalia ALENIUS was born in 1833. She died in 1911. Lovisa --- married a German photographer called Schmalle--people wondered about his mysterious?? background--no children.

LOVISA "Mamsell Lovisa," as she says she was called as a young girl, spent much time with relatives in Lycksele in her younger days, and she was said to have a sweetheart there--a "woodsman" she herself says, but fate had other plans, and her intended came on winter day about 1870 to Alsen. It happened that the well known home owner BENGT LARSSON in aggen, Marsil, came driving with a couple of German hatmaker apprentices that he dropped off at the ALENIUS farm in Hov. One of the called SCHMALLE but I have forgotten the name of the other one. He did not remain there very long, but SCHMALLE stayed. This German began to make woolen bedroom slippers of felt that he used to boil in the process of making the felt at the ALENIUS place. He was originally a well brought up lad, but did not manage his life too well. They say that his trousers were so tattered that he used to hide them by wearing an apron. Well, a young girl is perhaps not the captain of her own soul. Anyway, LOVISA forgot all about her woodsman and concentrated on the German apprentice. It is told that SCHMALLE, who was not at all fluent in the Swedish language, went to the provost Astrom to be taught the marriage formula,--"I GUSTAF ADOLPH SCHMALLE take you, LOVISA AMALIA ALENIUS" etc.. The wedding took place during the Franco-Prussion War of 1870-71, and consequentially SCHMALLE and his furture father-in-law got into violent arguments. ALENIUS was politically an eager partisan of the French, where SCHMALLE of course was out and out German. After their wedding the couple made their home near the Alsen church where LOVISA ran a bakery and cafe while SCHMALLE continued to felt wool for his slippers. This was a time that the later so well known Polish photographer Huczkovsky had settled in Jamtland and seems to have operated for a time in Alsen before he moved away to spend the remainder of his life in Jarpen. SCHMALLE learned from him the photography procedure, and when Ytteran developed into a popular water resort, the SCHMALLES moved there. LOVISA baked delicious cakes and SCHMALLE led an idle but enjoyable social life among the many resort guests that gathered here every summer. All of us who have spent some summers in the beautiful Ytteran will certainly remember the little cabin of SCHMALLE and LOVISA at the place where the Alsen Lake touches Ytteran, the cabin is now changed. SCHMALLE circulated and had a good time. He spoke German and LOVISA gave him frequent friendly scolding, and told involved stories about her complicated family tree. "Now I'll tell you how it hangs together" says LOVISA as she begins a long involved recitation about everybody and everything, cheerfully and exhaustingly. And SCHMALLE--even today I can recall the picture taking scene. One had to sit stiffly upright, and then SCHMALLE would say: "Faren gate, sittjen stille, fer no perges----" as he was about to snap the photo. I know what I am talking about for I lived with this old couple an entire summer. The couple had no children. LOVISA died first and the old German was left alone in a foreign land. What had he done, do you suppose that made him leave all his family in Germany to settle down up here? Why did he not send a single line about his whereabouts to his friends and family? here, in passing, a little anecdote about this. A son of the aforementioned STAHLNACKE came as a young student to visit his relatives in Alsen. He was just then making preparations to go to Germany to round out his education. LOVISA SCHMALLE who had such a strong interest in her family history must have wondered more that once about her husband's genealogy, a subject he never mentioned. She said to her nephew STAHLNACKE: "When you get to Berlin and hear about anyone who bears the name SCHMALLE , find out all about him. He may be a relative of my old man." Now, it was hardly certainty that this might happen but apparently it can occur that the needle is found in the haystack, for, sure enough. One day he came in touch with a person named SCHMALLE, and in the course of the conversation this man was found to be a brother of the photographer in Ytteran. The German then informed him that all the family of the brother in Germany believed that the one who had left was dead and gone. The brother in Germany was now a retired factory owner, and of course he was very glad to find his long lost brother. The German brother repeatedly wrote to SCHMALLE and asked him to come home to visit his family members, but he never came. Perhaps he preferred to stay with LOVISA and his idle friends in his new homeland. He was born ner Berlin and had been given a good basic education, and he had learned a trade. He had set out on an apprentice journey and happened to be in Hamburg when the war between Denmark and Germany broke out in 1864. At this time, SCHMALLE fled and finally landed in Kristiania where he remained for several years. The he moved to Trondhjem and eventually he crossed the mountains to stop in our community. Here he found a freedom, a small cottage, and LOVISA.

Parents: Per Kristian ALENIUS and Anna Kristina GODEN.

Michael Göte ALENIUS was born on SEP 18 1959 in Södertälje, Sweden. Parents: Göte EKLUND and Volmy Marine ALENIUS.

Children were: Fredrik Michael ALENIUS, Johanna Malin ALENIUS.

Muriel ALENIUS was born in 1929. Parents: Gustaf ALENIUS .

Niclas ALENIUS was born on OCT 1 1965 in Baggböle. Parents: Börje MIKAELSSON and Densy ALENIUS.

Nils Gustaf ALENIUS died in 1863 in ?. He was born ? in Jamtland, Sweden. Nils Gustaf ---was a trader in Stockholm--industrious, pleasant, quick witted (full of interesting stories)--married Kerstin Persdotter Rode, a blond nordic beauty. They had five children--but alas, he died UTFATTIC (penniless, dead broke)--his children did him proud however--all worthy citizens.

The eldest of Per Kristian's sons was NILS GUSTAF. He married KERSTIN PERSDOTTER, whose father was P. KRISTIANSON of the "Upland-Kjosta" family, as the old times expressed it. Tradition has preserved the memory of this KERSTIN'S blond Nordic beauty as she stood as a bride in the Alsen Church. NILS ALENIUS was said to be an industrious, pleasant chap--quick- witted, full of interesting stories--all in all, such an individual as only the old branch could produce. He was a trader in Stockholm, and most of the time his associate was "Erik in By" of Rodon. This "Erik in the City" was also a well-known personage in his day. Alenius is described as being an industrious and capable man of affairs, but he, too, had to a high degree the family trait of restlessness-a tendency towards melancholy, and a rash impetuosity in dealing with business matters as well as with the business of living. For some time the family lived in Alsen, and then in Ostersund or on the farm Lugnet, where the son Kristian was born. It is related that once NILS ALENIUS together with another well known man from Vangren, (later in Rodon), were locked up in the debtor's jailroom in Ostersund and that the mild tempered and forgiving wife of ALENIUS brought them food there. The family later moved to Alsen, where his brother P.V. ALENIUS helped him build a small cabin on the Montelius farm in Kjosta, and friends and neighbors gave aid to the sorely pressed family. Once again the father ventured on a business trip, but returned home broken in body and spirit. He did not recover. When his turbulent and tempestuous life ended, his family was left in difficult straits.

He left five children. The eldest was a girl who had been confirmed that same year, and the youngest was the little two-year old JACOB. It is said that the local pastor entered into the record of Alsen's Church, as he recorded the death of NILS GUSTAF ALENIUS, and additional comment that he died "UTFATTIC" (penniless, dead broke). This uncalled for entry, so mortifying and humiliating to the descendants of the deceased, was however to meet an ironic fate. One ought never pass harsh judgement on a deceased. The children of the "impoverished" man glorified the memory of him by their own highly sucessful and honorable careers, whereas the writer of the supercilious judgement of their sire ended his days in the poorhouse.
Parents: Per Kristian ALENIUS and Anna Kristina GODEN.

Children were: Nils Gustaf Hieronymous ALENIUS/NELSON, Per Victor ALENIUS/NELSON, Kristian ALENIUS, Jacob ALENIUS, Anna Kristina "Stina" ALENIUS.

Per Kristian ALENIUS⁽¹⁾ was born in 1796 in Lycksele, Lapland Sweden. He died in 1873 in Alsen Parish, Province Jamtland, Sweden. He was also known as "P.K.". There is some discrepancy as to "P.K.s" upbringing. Some articles say he was an orphan and raised by an Uncle--others say he was raised by a Sister or Aunt. We believe mistakes were made in translation and think it was his Father's Sister Catharina Alenius, wife of Bailiff N.G. Roos who took care of him from about age ten. One article says his father had 14 children.

"P.K." PER KRISTIAN ALENIUS -- an orphan reared by his father's sister--an early day Jamtland "man of affairs"--highly influential--a robust and athletic young man--married Anna Kristina Goden, stepdaughter of Johan Montelius--they had 9 children--all their sons attended Froso school and became businessmen and breeders of horses, sons known as the "Nilsboys".

It was the second child Anders Gustaf, who is the father of " P.K." Per Kristian Alenius, and beginning with "P.K." our most detailed information on the fame of our ancestors unfold.

Records state that the father of P.K. Alenius was an itinerant farmer and was very poor. There are several versions of P.K.'s childhood--but all agree he left his home in Lapland and made his journey to Alson to live with his father's sister, Catharina Charlotta. Catharina was the first Alenius to settle in the province of Jamtland near Alson.

P.K. was a hearty, robust, athletic young man--an excellent skier; and though from a very poor background, he met and fell in love with Anna Kristina Goden. Anna was the stepdaughter of Johan Montelius--a man of great wealth and intelligence--highly respected in the community. P.K. and Anna married and were the parents of nine children--and the following pages contain stories and information about their children and their childrens children and grandchildren, of whom we are all a part.
Parents: Anders Gustaf ALENIUS and Brita Margareta PERSDOTTER. Parents: Erik Gustav ALENIUS and Christina Magdalena CARLSDOTTER.

We shall have to leave them out of this account since we propose to limit our account
exclusively to the large family of the "Kontingent" PER KRISTIAN ALENIUS.

The eldest of Per Kristian's sons was NILS GUSTAF. He married KERSTIN PERSDOTTER, whose father was P. KRISTIANSON of the "Upland-Kjosta" family, as the old times expressed it. Tradition has preserved the memory of this KERSTIN'S blond Nordic beauty as she stood as a bride in the Alsen Church. NILS ALENIUS was said to be an industrious, pleasant chap--quick- witted, full of interesting stories--all in all, such an individual as only the old branch could produce. He was a trader in Stockholm, and most of the time his associate was "Erik in By" of Rodon. This "Erik in the City" was also a well-known personage in his day. Alenius is described as being an industrious and capable man of affairs, but he, too, had to a high degree the family trait of restlessness-a tendency towards melancholy, and a rash impetuosity in dealing with business matters as well as with the business of living. For some time the family lived in Alsen, and then in Ostersund or on the farm Lugnet, where the son Kristian was born. It is related that once NILS ALENIUS together with another well known man from Vangren, (later in Rodon), were locked up in the debtor's jailroom in Ostersund and that the mild tempered and forgiving wife of ALENIUS brought them food there. The family later moved to Alsen, where his brother P.V. ALENIUS helped him build a small cabin on the Montelius farm in Kjosta, and friends and neighbors gave aid to the sorely pressed family. Once again the father ventured on a business trip, but returned home broken in body and spirit. He did not recover. When his turbulent and tempestuous life ended, his family was left in difficult straits.

He left five children. The eldest was a girl who had been confirmed that same year, and the youngest was the little two-year old JACOB. It is said that the local pastor entered into the record of Alsen's Church, as he recorded the death of NILS GUSTAF ALENIUS, and additional comment that he died "UTFATTIC" (penniless, dead broke). This uncalled for entry, so mortifying and humiliating to the descendants of the deceased, was however to meet an ironic fate. One ought never pass harsh judgement on a deceased. The children of the "impoverished" man glorified the memory of him by their own highly sucessful and honorable careers, whereas the writer of the supercilious judgement of their sire ended his days in the poorhouse.

The "NILS-BOYS", as they were called, were four in number. They were employed as youngsters by their uncles to serve as errand boys and drivers, but these boys were made of good stuff. PER VICTOR, the oldest, was said to be a good looking and likable wild scamp who was the subject of many an anecdote. He married ANNA MARTA SPJUTH of Husa. The wedding was held in the home of bailiff Sunding who with Mrs. Sunding acted as hosts. An old person, still living, has a clear recollection of this wedding at which the bride attracted attention because of her beautiful face, and at which the guests sat on benches, smoking long, clay pipes. PER VICTOR left with his family for America (with his Uncle Rev. GEORGE NORBECK) and never returned. This was in 1882 and he died many years ago but his children are still living over there. GUSTAF was the name of the number two "NILSBOY". He married MARGARETA KINDLUND from Faviken in Kall. They too imigrated to America at the same time as PER VICTOR, and prospered in the new country. He later paid a visit to his home place. He is now dead, but is survived by children and grandchildren.


The third of the "NILSBOYS" was KRISTIAN, who acquired property by marrying a girl from the Jo-Pers farm in Norrbyn in Alsen.. This is a fine old farm worth visiting. The youngest of the "NILSBOYS" was JACOB. He died a few years ago. In his youth he got a scholarship from an association to attend a course in coachman training. Later he came to the Lewenhaupt estate in Sabyiund in Nerike--and later taught for a while in Ope agricultural school. It might be appropriate at this point to mention that JACOB ALENIUS was judged to be such a skillful driver that he was requested to act as coachman for King Oscar and for county Governor Asplund at the dedication of the international railway, fifty years ago. JACOB was reported to be a typical ALENIUS in his younger days, but then came the Good Templar Scociety with its blessed influence, and its activity spread far enough to include even JACOB ALENIUS. One might apply to him the ancient scaldic dictum "Soul proud, heart tender, blood hot and passionate." JACOB was a son-in-law of Color-Sergeant LUND in Alsen and lived on the Ol Nils C-ard in Hof. (My memory may be wrong and this farm might be in Vangen in Alsen). He died without issue. The clock in the tower of the Alsen church is a gift from him and his brothers (it's still there). He leaves a reputation as an honorable and respected man, and his house was one of hospitality and refuge.

NILS ALENIUS only daughter was ANNA KRISTINA ("STINA"). In her younger days she was with EUGENIA BLOM in Melen. (E. BLOM was first at Admiral Morners in the royal farm and later at Major Hartman's at Vagled on Froson). Later she became a dairywoman and is now apparently the sole survivor of the students in the first class that took the dairy training in Jamtland--organized in Morsil in the 1860's. She married the farmer ERIK PERSSON in Kjosta, Alsen (although it does not have much to do with this account it can be said about the last named that the urge to adventure and travel was in his blood, as it was in most Jamtlanders, and in order to get out to see the world he at an early age learned the shoemaker trade. Then with his hourneyman's permit in his pocket--signed by a man named Moberg--he set out. First he found employment at N. Lindquist in Ostersund, but later set out as an itinerant journeyman in Morway. I have seen a photograph of ERIK PERSSON from this period, and he loods like the typical journeyman as we children of today have pictured them, as for instance in the book " Andersson, Pettersson and Lundstrom," in the wide-awake, likable member of this time. Now the days of the journeyman are a matter of past history, a really merry and interesting bit of our cultural history. The children of this couple live and dwell both in towns and country. So much for the Kontigent citizen's eldest son and posterity.

P.K.'s second son was named PER VILHELM. He attended the Froso School, and when he was of age he bought the farm Hof of his father. He married BRITA DILLNER of Oviken. Their only daughter, KRISTINA, was married to, if I remember correctly, OLAF OLSSON JR. of Ol- Persgarden in Valne.

The third son of the Kontingent citizen was named FRANS ALENIUS. He came as a trader to Offerdal where he had some business with the parish. He married a girl unknown to me from Matimar. He, like so many of his family, was reputed to be of a somewhat melancholy nature, but this did not keep him from being a jovial person in the social circles of the ALENIUS group. In his private life he was quite different in personality. In his struggles for survival, he sought relief by taking his own life in suicide, leaving no heirs or descendants. It has been reported several times that he found life too oppressive to continue living, but at these times of despair he thought he saw his late mother regarding her son with a dolorous expression on her face, and this made him resolve to postpone until later his suicidal intent.

ANDERS ALENIUS was the fourth of the brothers. He came to Lycksele on business, and later became a dealer in farm products and was present at all market days. He had the reputation of being an expert on horses, but was otherwise a man of peculiar disposition. He died at this brothers' place in Alsen--unmarried as far as I know.


The fifth of the brothers, JOHAN OSCAR ALENIUS was perhaps the most famous of the group. He was as many will recall, a big operator in agriculture in his day. He made frequent business trips north to Lycksele and south to Stockholm and other places such as Hedemara. OSCAR was fond of making an impression as a great host and had an impressive household. He was certainly an industrious and respectable man, but it was said that his hands were too slippery to retain money. "An extremely sociable person and a superb conversationalist" said my father of him. My father was closely acquainted with many of these ALENIUS business men. OSCAR'S wife, KARIN ANDERSSON was from Kjosta and they resided for a time on the MONTELIUS farm in Alsen. Several of OSCAR's children imigrated to America. The son, JOHAN, became pastor and farmer in his home parish. One of OSCAR's daughters, ANNA married the master builder architect TJERNSTROM from Morsil. The other daughter married the slaughterhouse manager REISER of Ostersund.

PER KRISTIAN ALENIUS has six sons, the youngest of which was GOTTFRID. He was reputed to be a fine, quiet, proper man who read his book of devotions on Sundays, and might have turned into a solid citizen of Alsen, but he was drawn into the "free enterprise" and came to Kvistsla during the good times there when the communications with Norway was being constructed. He married MARIA ERIKSSON of Froson who had worked with the restaurant owner Mart Hansson in the city and was well trained in the art of household economy. GOTTFRID and MARIA ALENIUS bought a farm in Bye, Morsil and operated an Inn there during the famous "Rallartiden" when the western railway line was being built. They may have left this activity for there evidence that some time later, MARIA ALENIUS rented out rooms and took care of many individuals who suffered from lung diseases. Half a century ago western Jamtland was a popular resort for tuberculous patients. Both are now dead. GOTTFRID passed away in 1910 in Nyhem, Morsil. They left no children, but their memory is held in high regard by all who knew them. They had donated the bell for the Morsil church, and, if my memory is correct, they also remembered the newborn in Alsen and Froson with gifts of money. After having lived a life of honor and generosity they were both laid to rest in the Morsil cemetery.

There was also three daughters in this family--KRISTINA, LOVISA and EVA. As a young girl, KRISTINA came to Voxna factory and there she married the superintendent ANDERS STOHLANACKE, who may have come from Varmland. He lived to be more than (?) years old and is buried in Ovansjo churchyard. Some descendents survive.

LOVISA "Mamsell Lovisa," as she says she was called as a young girl, spent much time with relatives in Lycksele in her younger days, and she was said to have a sweetheart there--a "woodsman" she herself says, but fate had other plans, and her intended came on winter day about 1870 to Alsen. It happened that the well known home owner BENGT LARSSON in aggen, Marsil, came driving with a couple of German hatmaker apprentices that he dropped off at the ALENIUS farm in Hov. One of the called SCHMALLE but I have forgotten the name of the other one. He did not remain there very long, but SCHMALLE stayed. This German began to make woolen bedroom slippers of felt that he used to boil in the process of making the felt at the ALENIUS place. He was originally a well brought up lad, but did not manage his life too well. They say that his trousers were so tattered that he used to hide them by wearing an apron. Well, a young girl is perhaps not the captain of her own soul. Anyway, LOVISA forgot all about her woodsman and concentrated on the German apprentice. It is told that SCHMALLE, who was not at all fluent in the Swedish language, went to the provost Astrom to be taught the marriage formula,--"I GUSTAF ADOLPH SCHMALLE take you, LOVISA AMALIA ALENIUS" etc.. The wedding took place during the Franco-Prussion War of 1870-71, and consequentially SCHMALLE and his furture father-in-law got into violent arguments. ALENIUS was politically an eager partisan of the French, where SCHMALLE of course was out and out German. After their wedding the couple made their home near the Alsen church where LOVISA ran a bakery and cafe while SCHMALLE continued to felt wool for his slippers. This was a time that the later so well known Polish photographer Huczkovsky had settled in Jamtland and seems to have operated for a time in Alsen before he moved away to spend the remainder of his life in Jarpen. SCHMALLE learned from him the photography procedure, and when Ytteran developed into a popular water resort, the SCHMALLES moved there. LOVISA baked delicious cakes and SCHMALLE led an idle but enjoyable social life among the many resort guests that gathered here every summer. All of us who have spent some summers in the beautiful Ytteran will certainly remember the little cabin of SCHMALLE and LOVISA at the place where the Alsen Lake touches Ytteran, the cabin is now changed. SCHMALLE circulated and had a good time. He spoke German and LOVISA gave him frequent friendly scolding, and told involved stories about her complicated family tree. "Now I'll tell you how it hangs together" says LOVISA as she begins a long involved recitation about everybody and everything, cheerfully and exhaustingly. And SCHMALLE--even today I can recall the picture taking scene. One had to sit stiffly upright, and then SCHMALLE would say: "Faren gate, sittjen stille, fer no perges----" as he was about to snap the photo. I know what I am talking about for I lived with this old couple an entire summer. The couple had no children. LOVISA died first and the old German was left alone in a foreign land. What had he done, do you suppose that made him leave all his family in Germany to settle down up here? Why did he not send a single line about his whereabouts to his friends and family? here, in passing, a little anecdote about this. A son of the aforementioned STAHLNACKE came as a young student to visit his relatives in Alsen. He was just then making preparations to go to Germany to round out his education. LOVISA SCHMALLE who had such a strong interest in her family history must have wondered more that once about her husband's genealogy, a subject he never mentioned. She said to her nephew STAHLNACKE: "When you get to Berlin and hear about anyone who bears the name SCHMALLE , find out all about him. He may be a relative of my old man." Now, it was hardly certainty that this might happen but apparently it can occur that the neddle is found in the haystack, for, sure enough. One day he came in touch with a person named SCHMALLE, and in the course of the conversation this man was found to be a brother of the photographer in Ytteran. The German then informed him that all the family of the brother in Germany believed that the one who had left was dead and gone. The brother in Germany was now a retired factory owner, and of course he was very glad to find his long lost brother. The German brother repeatedly wrote to SCHMALLE and asked him to come home to visit his family members, but he never came. Perhaps he preferred to stay with LOVISA and his idle friends in his new homeland. He was born ner Berlin and had been given a good basic education, and he had learned a trade. He had set out on an apprentice journey and happened to be in Hamburg when the war between Denmark and Germany broke out in 1864. At this time, SCHMALLE fled and finally landed in Kristiania where he remained for several years. The he moved to Trondhjem and eventually he crossed the mountains to stop in our community. Here he found a freedom, a small cottage, and LOVISA.

The youngest of PER KRISTIAN's children was the daughter EVA. Many remember her from the time she took care of Stara Hotel in Ytteran and also Hotel Reinklo in that place. In later years EVA ALENIUS lived with relatives in Ostersund, lively, proper and stately to the end. One day it was reported that EVA, who had helped make so many homes enjoyable, but who had never had a home of her own, had suddenly passed away. She was first buried in the local cemetery, but later her remains were moved to her family's plot in Alsen's cemetery. She was the last one of the large family of brothers and sisters to join her family in its own burial lot at Alsen's church.

Many are they who have come to our area, but few have filled such a large bit of place and time as did that little kid from Lycksele--PER KRISTIAN ALENIUS and his posterity.



by Anna Werner



ALENIUS OF ALSEN

A PROMINENT JAMTLAND FAMILY OF THE 1850'S

We have frequently had occasion to concern ourselves with the nobility and the clergy families of our province and even with the broad general masses of people who have resided in the Ostersund area. Today, I am going to tell about an old family that is now approaching extinction in the Alsen locality, but is known far and wide--namely the ALENIUS family. I have the feeling they are less numerous than they used to be, but at any rate we can not afford to forget this genial and capable element in our personal history.

In outer Kjosta in Alsen there was in former times an estate occupied by the District Judge of the county. This bit of royal property was apparently sold by the crown and became a farm. In the late 1700's this place was the residence of a rural Bailiff named ROOS (Ros), whose wife was Christina Alenius, a Pastor's daughter from Lycksele. This Mrs. Roos was the first Alenius known to have taken up residence in Jamtland. There was no surplus of this worlds goods in her home--the Lycksele parsonage with its' 14 children. In order to offer her parents a measure of relief in carrying their heavy economic burden, Mrs. Roos offered to take care of one of her younger brothers (nephews) a lad who was ten years old at the time. Money was scarce and means of transportation was extremely primitive, with roads and highways almost nonexistent, so this little tyke set out on foot to walk the long way--Lycksele to Alsen. Many a time I have in my imagination accompanied the little fellow on his lonely journey to our community here as he trudged along--cold, wet, and most likely hungry--mile after mile. Eventually, this cold little kid became the financier and the eminent citizen who was so well known in the business life of Jamtland. PER KRISTIAN ALENIUS, of Alsen. He was born in 1796 in Lycksele, and died 1873 in Alsen.

PER KRISTIAN grew up in the home of his sister (aunt?) in Kjosta, but as an adult he became a KONTINGENT citizen, and as such had the right to transact business both in town and country, wherever he might want to do so. He became a highly influential personage in this day. He rented the Aberg manorial estate for several years, and also the Vangen residence; and he was remembered by his posterity as a very active and enterprising fellow. He was an eager hunter and in every way he represented a fine example of the early-day Jamtland "man of affairs" at his best. PER KRISTIAN became the son-in-law of the District Governor Montelius in Kjosta by marring this step-daughter, KRISTINA GODEN. she was the daughter of Mrs. Montelius, in her previous marriage to Lieutenant Goden of Jamtlands regiment. This marriage may well have been the source of the aristocratic upper-class air and bearing that always characterized the members of the Alenius family, including those who by marriage to individuals from the farmer class might--so to speak--have stepped out of their original superior social levels to become "plain ordinary farmers," as the saying goes.


PER KRISTIAN ALENIUS union with Kristina Goden was blessed with many offspring and it is the fate and fortune of these people that we shall now in brief conciseness discuss. Before we make a closer acquaintances with each of them, it may be well to mention that a sister of PER KRISTIAN and Mrs. Roos also came to Alsen, and she served for some time as housekeeper for the Montelius. She later married a cotter from the local parish and thereby excludes herself from this history. Two more youngsters from the Lycksele family group were also taken into the Alenius household at Alsen, and they served as laborers on the Vangen property. To the best of my knowledge these two married into Offerdal.


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Children were: Nils Gustaf ALENIUS, Per Vilhelm ALENIUS, Frans ALENIUS, Anders ALENIUS, Johan Oscar ALENIUS, Gottfrid A. ALENIUS, Kristine ALENIUS, Lovisa Amalia ALENIUS, Eva ALENIUS.

Per Vilhelm ALENIUS Per Vilhelm --- attended Froso school--an enthusiastic horseman and veterinarian he and wife Britta Dilner had a farm--they had one son.

P.K.'s second son was named PER VILHELM. He attended the Froso School, and when he was of age he bought the farm Hof of his father. He married BRITA DILLNER of Oviken. Their only daughter, KRISTINA, was married to, if I remember correctly, OLAF OLSSON JR. of Ol- Persgarden in Valne.


Parents: Per Kristian ALENIUS and Anna Kristina GODEN.

Children were: Kristina ALENIUS .

Ringvor Marie ALENIUS was born on JUL 21 1935 in Åskilje, Sweden?. Parents: Enar Andreas ALENIUS and Herta Selma Maria FRANSSON.

Children were: Per-Erik NILSSON , Johanna NILSSON.

Sara Sofia ALENIUS was born in 1778 in Baggböle. She died ? in Baggböle. She was a Housekeeper in Baggböle. Sara Sofia was a Housekeeper for the Montelius family. Parents: Vicar Andreas Anders ALENIUS and Eva-Maria FLUUR.

Sigred ALENIUS. Parents: Johan Oscar ALENIUS and Karin ANDERSSON of Kjosta.

Volmy Marine ALENIUS was born on MAY 30 1938 in Åskilje, Sweden?. Parents: Enar Andreas ALENIUS and Herta Selma Maria FRANSSON.

Children were: Michael Göte ALENIUS.

Children were: Christer Bo RAWET.

Betty Louise ALENIUS/NELSON was born est 1930's. Parents: Nils Erik ALENIUS/NELSON and Zelta Zephry RAGAN .

Harold Ellsworth ALENIUS/NELSON was born in 1908. Parents: Nils Erik ALENIUS/NELSON and Zelta Zephry RAGAN .

Howard James ALENIUS/NELSON was born in 1909. Parents: Nils Erik ALENIUS/NELSON and Zelta Zephry RAGAN.

Kersten ALENIUS/NELSON was born on MAY 30 1880 in Kosta, Sweden. She died on JUL 10 1957 in United States of America. Parents: Nils Gustaf Hieronymous ALENIUS/NELSON and Margreta Nilsdotter KINDLUND.

She was married to John Febuel NICHOLS on AUG 3 1898 in Wheeler, South Dakota USA. Children were: James Kingsley NICHOLS, Helen NICHOLS, Ray Alenius NICHOLS, Alyce Marie NICHOLS, Gladys NICHOLS, Norma NICHOLS, Donald Miles NICHOLS, John Febuel NICHOLS Jr. , Winston W. NICHOLS.

Marie Osa ALENIUS/NELSON (twin) was born in 1916. Parents: Nils Erik ALENIUS/NELSON and Zelta Zephry RAGAN .

Maurice Vale ALENIUS/NELSON was born in 1910. Parents: Nils Erik ALENIUS/NELSON and Zelta Zephry RAGAN.

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