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John M. Lundgren

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at Enlist

John M. Lundgren

Birth Name
Other Names

Lundgren; Lindgren

Lived

15 Dec 1845 – 9 Apr 1908

Birth Place

Grønhoug farm, Skåre parish, Rogaland fylke

Birth Country

Norway

Resident of Muster-In

Chicago, Cook County, IL

Company at Enlistment

I

2nd Company

A

Rank at Enlistment

Private

Muster Date

2 Dec 1861

Cause of Death

Dropsy

Death Location

Saugatuck, Allegan County, MI

Burial Location

Riverside Cemetery, Saugatuck, Allegan County, MI

Mother

Severine “Sarah” Elisabet Eriksdtr

Mother Lived

2 Mar 1819- 14 Apr 1888

Father

Herman Lundgren

Father Lived

ca. 1811- 26 Apr 1874

Immigration

6 May 1857

Spouse

Marion Johns

Spouse Lived

21 Dec 1853- 22 Nov 1922

Married On

ca. 1874

Marriage Location

Michigan

John M. Lundgren was born in Grønhoug farm, Skåre parish, Rogaland fylke, Norway to Herman Lundgren and Severine “Sarah” Elisabet Eriksdtr on December 15, 1845. In 1851, they moved to a farm near Stravanger. On May 6, 1857, they came to America.

Lundgren joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company A. His father also served in the WI 15th. The men of the company called themselves the “St. Olaf’s Rifles.” They were also known as the “Sailor Company” because of the large number of seamen in its ranks, and as the “Chicago Company” because so many of its members were residents of that city. The army listed him as living in Chicago, IL, age 17, and unmarried. He had blue eyes, light hair, light complexion, and stood 5’8”. Lundgren enlisted for three years on November 25, 1861 at Chicago and mustered on December 2, 1861 at Madison, WI as a Private (Menig). Lundgren was assigned first to WI 15th Infantry Company I, but transferred to Company A on April 7, 1862. He was wounded, shot through his left arm, at New Hope Church on May 27, 1864. Lundgren was sent to a hospital and then transferred north. He was discharged from the service from Harvey hospital in Madison, WI on December 17, 1864, due to his wounds.

After the war, Lundgren moved to Saugatuck, Allegan County, MI. In about 1874, he married Marion Johns. She was born on December 21, 1853 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She and her family settled in CT before moving to a farm north of Saugatuck. Together, John and Marion had thirteen children, including Emma #1 (1873), Louisa (1875), Marion (1877), John (1879), Herman (1881), Anna (1882), Emma #2 (1884), Ellsworth (1886), Oscar (1888), Gertrude (1890), and Helena (1899).

The family continued to live in Saugatuck, and Lundgren worked as a fisherman. He died on April 9, 1908 of dropsy (now called edema). Marion lived until November 22, 1922. They are both buried in Riverside Cemetery in Saugatuck. His parents also lived in Saugatuck and are buried in Riverside.

 

Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-3; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.20, 132; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.361; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.293; Nordmaendene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, page 308; Rogaland fylke, Skåre i Torvastad, Ministerialbok nr. A 6 (1836-1847), Fødte og døpte [Births and baptisms] 1845, page 75; Rogaland fylke, Skåre i Torvastad, Ministerialbok nr. A 11 (1857-1866), Inn- og utflyttede [In and out migration] 1857, page 228; Civil War Pension Index, Roll #T288_291; 1880 Census, Roll: 569, Family History Film: 1254569, Page: 159D, Enumeration District: 007, Image: 0322; 1900 Census, Roll: 698, Page: 4A, Enumeration District: 0027, FHL microfilm: 1240698; Michigan Deaths and Burials Index, FHL Film #1017873; findagrave.com.