Lydia Savolainen Christenson Oral History Interview 1982.

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Lydia Savolainen Christenson Oral History Interview 1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184737015

This interview was conducted with Lydia Christenson on May 17, 1982 in Seattle, Washington. It contains information on family background, emigration, marriage and family, and Finnish heritage. Lydia's oldest son wife speaks on the tape also. The information was conducted in English.

1 sound cassette.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6947139

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Christenson, Lydia.

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Christenson, Elaine.

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Christenson, Amund.

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Christenson, Arthur.

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Christenson, Enoch.

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Christenson, Arnold.

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Christenson, Ray.

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Kerurolaine, Hilma.

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Christenson, Lydia Savolainen.

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Lydia Christenson was born on February 12, 1891 in Laukaa, Finland to Otto Savolainen and Hilma Kerurolaine. Her father was a businessman, and there were four other children in the family. Lydia attended school for four or five years, but attendance was not mandatory, and the children were taught how to read and write at home also. Lydia immigrated to the United States when she was eighteen years old. She came with a group of teenagers from her neighborhood and planned on returning to Finland. U...

Savolainen, Otto.

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