Gustav Simon Simonson Oral History Interview 1981

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...

Larsen, Vilhelm (Bill)

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Simonson, Sonja

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Simonson, Elaine

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Jacobson family

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Røyksund family

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Simonson, Helen

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Simonson, Gustav

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Gustav Simonson was born on December 3, 1905 in Røysund, Norway, which is located on the island of Bømlo to the south of Bergen. His parents were Simon Røyksund and Gustava Olsonstensland, and he had four siblings: Simon, Ola, Britta, and Alfred. Gustav attended school for seven years, and at the age of fifteen, he was basically on his own and began fishing. In 1923, he decided to immigrate to America with his friend Vilhelm (Bill) Larsen. Gustav had a cousin in Sandstone, MN, and V...

Stensland, Britta

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Stensland family

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Simonson, Conrad

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Røyksund, Karina

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Simonson, Stanley

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Simonson, Glenda

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Bethany Lutheran Church (Spanaway, Wash.)

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Bethany Lutheran had its beginnings when a small group of settlers met to organize the First Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Muck in October of 1898. They purchased an 18-acre tract of land and had a church completed in the fall of 1900. The church was dedicated June 8, 1902. The services were first held in Norwegian, but later this practice was discontinued. The property was transferred to Bethany English Lutheran Church of Muck Valley, organized in 1916. During the 1940s services w...

Olsonstensland, Gustava

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Jacobson, Jennie

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Røyksund, Simon

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Olympic (Steamship)

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Simonson family

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Simonson, Jon

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