Hilma Tolonen Salvon OralHistory Interview 1981

Tolonen family

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Vayrynen, Else

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Polaris (Ship)

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Tolonen, Matti

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Salvon, Jalver

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Salvon family

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Finnish Brotherhood (Astoria, Or.)

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Salvon, Hilma

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Hilma Salvon was born in 1895 in Paltamo, Finland to Matti Tolonen and Else Vayrynen. Matti was a foreman for a Swedish and Finnish logging company, whose headquarters were in Rovaniemi. The family lived in Sinettä, a small village ten kilometers north of Rovaniemi. Hilma had four siblings: Matti, Kate, Paula, and Tanna. When Hilma was young, Finland belonged to Russia, which was ruled by Czar Nicolas II. All men in Finland were required to serve three years in the Finnish Army, and...

Vayrynen family

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Peace Lutheran Church (Astoria, Or.)

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Germans, Finns and Swedes; the Suomi synod, Augustana and ULCA; buildings of frame, concrete and brick – all these plus faith and hope, patience and hard work, and more than one hundred years, went into the making of what is now Peace Lutheran in Astoria. There were also leaders like veteran missionary Peter Carlson in 1880, young Seminary graduate J. J. Hoikka in 1883, and Pastor G. K. Andeen in 1929, plus many others who preceeded and prayed, organized and merged the various congregations that...