Margit Carlsen Johnson OralHistory Interview 1982

Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)

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Ellis Island is a former immigration inspection station. As the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954, it processed approximately 12 million immigrants to the United States in New York Harbor, within the states of New York and New Jersey. Prior to the immigration station it was owned by the Ellis family before the US government used it as a fort and a naval magazine. Between 1905 and 1914, immigration officials reviewed about 5,000 immigrants per day during peak times a...

Bergensfjord (Steamship)

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Bethlehem Lutheran Church (Tacoma, Wash.)

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Carlsen, Margit

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Johnson, Margit Carlsen

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Margit Carlsen Johnson was born on June 5, 1901 in Leines, Norway, a small town twenty-eight miles north of Bodø. She is one of seven children by Bergitte Danielsen and Ludvik Carlsen, who was a farmer and fisherman. Margit went to school until she was confirmed at age 15 and then stayed with a neighbor and worked until she was 18; she had gone to work on neighboring farms since she was 13. She then went to Bodø and worked in the canneries. An uncle had emigrated and while he was vi...

Carlsen family

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Carlsen, Ludvik

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Carlsen, Bergitte Danielsen

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Johnsen, Earl

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Johnsen, Einok

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Johansen family

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Johansen, Einok

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Danielsen family

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Daughters of Norway (U.S.) Embla Lodge #2 (Tacoma, Wash.)

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Johnsen family

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Johnsen, Margit

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