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John Edward Winblad
(1856–1914)

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John Edward Winblad was a ship's mate and later a longshoreman. He ran away from high school in Härnösand, Sweden in 1871 to be a mate on a ship, rather than train as a Lutheran minister like his maternal grandfather. He didn't see his family for 5 years, until 1876. He moved from Sweden to Norway in 1879, then he moved to the United States in 1884 or 1885. He lived in Cuba from 1910 to 1914 and two of his grandchildren were born there. He died of cancer in Norway on a trip to visit his in-laws when his father-in-law was dying in 1914. (b. May 14, 1856; Prästbordet (church house), Ytterlännäs, Västernorrland, Sweden - d. September 24, 1914; Klungeland farm, Farsund parish, Farsund, Vest-Agder, Norway)

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Freudenberg (1987)

Death of his daughter. "Maria (Mae) (nee Winblad) of Jersey City March 7 1987 wife of the late Arthur O., beloved mother of Mrs. Naida Van Deusen, Mrs. Sally Norton and Mrs. Helen Brindley; sister of the late Anton and Otto Winblad. Also survived by 14 grandchildren and 17 greatgrandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren."

Freudenberg, Arthur Oscar (1923)

His son-in-law's biography. "Arthur O. Freudenberg married, February 28, 1914, Maria Elizabeth Winblad, daughter of John and Salmine (Pedersen) Winblad, both now deceased, her father during his lifetime being associated with an ocean steamship line."

Salmine Winblad (1914)

Death of his wife. "Announcements. Deaths. Our dear Mother and our Sister. Salmine Winblad, died on 18 December at St. Joseph's Hospital in Kristianssand. Farsund on 19 December 1914. On own and absent children and Siblings' Behalf. Otto Winblad. Sophie Nilsen. Burial Tuesday 22nd at 2 from Stoples Gaard."

Wedding Deferred (1910)

His son's fiancé commits suicide. "The postponement of the date set for her marriage to Anton Winblad, with whose parents she lived at 437 Wayne Street, caused Clara Minnie Olsen, 22 years old, to commit suicide by inhaling illuminating gas in her bedroom yesterday afternoon. The woman who is barely 22 years of age was discovered by Mrs. Selmine Winblad who detected the deathly fumes of gas coming from the bedroom. The girl was lying one the bed with one end of the gas tube fastened between her teeth and the other was connected to the gas jet over her head. Mrs. Winblad terrified at the sight of the body of the young girl ran out to the street and found Patrolman Johnson of the Seventh Precinct, whom she sent for a physician. When he examined the body the doctor said that the girl had been dead for some time. Six years ago at the death of her mother, when the suicide was left with a younger sister and brother an orphan, the Winblads took Minnie Olsen into their home. Her sister Julia, who is now 17 years of age, was sent to a home for orphans and her brother John became an apprentice in the navy. The girl was treated as a daughter by their friends and during the course of her stay at the home of the good people she fell in love with Anton, the only son of the Winblads, The couple were engaged to marry and the date was agreed upon, but Anton left the home of his parents and went to Cuba, where he is now. Since his departure from her side the young woman began to grieve for Anton and then, too, the news which she received through various sources that all was not well with her brother and sister, completely unnerved her and her suicide was the consequence. The funeral services will be conducted by I. L. P. Dietrichson, pastor of Trinity Scandinavian Lutheran Church at Monmouth and Colgate streets, who knew the girl as one of his own children. Miss Olsen was a teacher in the Sunday School of the church."

Powder Exploded When He Moved It (1905)

Explosion at his home, 437 Wayne Street. "Anthony Winblad, the young man who was badly burned about the face, neck and upper extremities by an explosion of powder in the cellar of his home, 437 Wayne street, Jersey City, Saturday afternoon, will, the physicians at the City Hospital say, probably be disfigured for life as a result of the accident, which happened in a peculiar manner. He was clearing a room in the cellar and unconsciously threw something out of his way to one side. It struck a can of powder and before he realized what had happened there was an explosion which was heard a block away. He tried to escape but his effort was fruitless and, when his parents and little sister, who were upstairs at the time, hurried into the cellar to learn the cause of the terrible noise, there lay Anthony almost unconscious from the burns he had received. His cries of pain were so pitiful that his father ran to the City Hospital and notified Warden McAndrew. The latter sent the ambulance to the scene and, after temporarily relieving his patient, the surgeon placed him in the vehicle and hurried him off to the institution, two blocks away."

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