Lovoll, Alf Lowell.
Biographical notes:
Alf Løvoll was born on October 9, 1901 on a farm in Koparnes, Søvde, on the West Coast of Norway. His parents were Martin Løvoll and Birta Bjørlykke, and there were ten children in the family. Alf was the oldest son, but he left home and became a fisherman. He emigrated in 1920 with an aunt and an uncle, John Lowell, who owned a fishing boat and fished in Alaska. Alf worked with this uncle in Alaska and also was a whaler in the Antarctic with the Union Whaling Company of South Africa; his job was kokeri, cooking whale bones. He married a Norwegian woman, Astrid Aase Løvoll, and bought a farm. They had three children; Magnar, Odd, and Svanhild, born in 1931, 1934, and 1937, respectively; all were born in Bjørlykke, Sande, Norway. Alf continued fishing halibut, tuna, and crab off the West Coast of the U.S. until he retired in 1966.
From the description of Alf Lowell Løvoll Oral History Interview 1984. (Eugene Public Library). WorldCat record id: 182761344
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- Emigration and immigration
- Whaling
- World War, 1939-1945
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- Antarctica (as recorded)
- South Africa (as recorded)
- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Juneau (Alaska) (as recorded)
- Madagascar (as recorded)
