Individual Notes

Note for: Olaf Kolbjornsen, - Index

Individual Note:   Possible match from SSDI:

Olaf KOLBJORNSEN
       Birth Date: 8 Sep 1888
       Death Date: Dec 1981
       Social Security Number: 090-14-9994
       State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: New York

     Death Residence Localities
       ZIP Code: 10314
       Localities: Staten Island, Richmond, New York

Individual Notes

Note for: Arne Kolbjornsen, - Index

Residence:
Place: Staten Island

Individual Notes

Note for: Alf Kolbjornsen, - Index

Individual Note:   Possible match from SSDI:

Alf KOLBJORNSEN
       Birth Date: 11 Dec 1920
       Death Date: Jul 1964
       Social Security Number: 092-16-3337
       State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: New York

       Actual Death Residence: New York

Individual Notes

Note for: Edvard Julius Kolbjornsen, - Index

Alias:   Edward /Kolbjornsen/

Individual Note:   Possible match SSDI:

Edward KOLBJORNSEN
       Birth Date: 25 Sep 1916
       Death Date: 14 Oct 1995
       Social Security Number: 098-05-3731
       State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: New York

     Death Residence Localities
       ZIP Code: 10314
       Localities: Staten Island, Richmond, New York

Individual Notes

Note for: John M. Kolbjornsen, 27 JAN 1924 - 23 MAY 2003 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Unitarian Minister

Individual Note:   Possible match SSDI:

John KOLBJORNSEN
       Birth Date: 27 Jan 1924
       Death Date: 23 May 2003
       Social Security Number: 131-16-0240
       State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: New York

     Death Residence Localities
       ZIP Code: 03458
       Localities: Peterborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire
     Sharon, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

From Harvard Class of 1946 Website:
"JOHN KOLBJORNSEN died in May at his home in Peterborough, NH, and our sympathies
go to his wife, MARGARET, who reminds us he came to the US from Norway in 1934..."

Given the corroboration of these sources, I have used the SSDI dates and locations on the family page.

From website of The First Parish Unitarian Church of Norwell:

JOHN M. KOLBJORNSEN (1964-1968)
The next minister, the Rev. John M. Kolbjornsen, began his ministry here in May 1964. He had an interesting background. He served as an Ensign in the US Navy. After doing graduate work he entered the State Department and served as vice consul and attaché in the US embassy in Copenhagen, from 1949-52. Then he studied for the ministry and served Unitarian churches in Sharon, Mass. and Williamsville, NY. before coming to Norwell.

John Kolbjornsen's ministry was caught up in the fervor of the Civil Rights Movement and the protests over the Vietnam War in the 1960's. He was one of many clergy who attended the famous March on Selma, when the Rev. James Reeb was killed. When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated he draped the door of the church in black to the ire of some upset parishioners. His strong anti-war stance from the pulpit led to divisions within the church. There was clear lack of tolerance and understanding on both sides. In the end John Kolbjornsen resigned his ministry in Norwell and accepted a call to the First Unitarian Church of Sioux City, Iowa. In his final notation in the Minister's Record Book, dated August 23, 1968, he wrote:
The circumstances leading to his resignation as minister of this church were complex and gave occasion to not a little bitterness, making the last year of his ministry here painful for many. Hopeful that the pain might be a vehicle for future good, and with gratitude for many good times of the spirit....

And from a webpage of his successor:

My predecessor in Norwell, the Rev. John Kolbjornsen, was one of many UU ministers who went to Selma in 1975 to march with Martin Luther King, Jr. You may remember that two Unitarians lost their lives in Selma--the Rev. James Reeb of Boston, and a lay leader, Viola Liuzzo, of Detroit, one beaten, the other shot. Some parishioners in Norwell objected to John K.'s going to Selma. He should attend to problems at home they said. Later when King was assassinated, he held a memorial service and draped the church entranceway in black. Some were upset at his holding the service and at least one church member resigned from the church because she did not think it was right to hold a memorial service for a black man.

John Kolbjornsen and his wife Margaret are now retired and living in Peterboro, N.H. They participated in the 350th Anniversary of the church in 1992 and were warmly received.

Individual Notes

Note for: Esther, - Index

Individual Note: Esther was Alf Kolbjornsen's wife. After Alf died, Esther married Eddie, whose wife had also died.

Individual Notes

Note for: Unknown Kolbjornsen, - Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Minister

Individual Note:   Adopted two Romanian Children. Wife left him. Source: Otto J. Olsson.

Individual Notes

Note for: Arne Kolbjornsen, - Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Dentist

Residence:
     Place:   Minnesota, USA

Individual Notes

Note for: Susan Kolbjornsen, - Index

Alias: /Susie/

Individual Notes

Note for: Kenneth George Niswonger, 29 MAY 1901 - 16 SEP 1966 Index

Occupation:
     Date:   1951
     Place:   Niswonger Chevrolet

Occupation:
     Date:   1930
     Place:   Accountant

Individual Notes

Note for: Silas William Niswonger, 5 JAN 1867 - 1953 Index

Occupation:
Place: Farmer

Individual Notes

Note for: Jean Lothman-Barrois, - Index

Occupation:
Place: Surgeon

Individual Notes

Note for: Anders Eliasson, 1831 - Index

Residence:
     Date:   31 DEC 1870
     Place:   Included in his brother Olof's Household Examination