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Morten Mortenson
Jeremy Anderson2021-05-15T15:14:51-05:00
- Name: Morten Mortenson
- Location of Birth: Sweden
- Date of Birth: October 7, 1887
- Date of Death: January 18, 1972
- Parents: Andrew Mortenson & Elna (Håkinson) Mortenson
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- Highest Rank: Pvt (Private)
- Branch: Army
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- Date of Discharge: April 26, 1919
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World War I Registration Card
Name: Morten Mortenson
Age: 29
Home address: Westby, Montana
Date of birth: October 7, 1887
Citizenship: Naturalized citizen
Place of birth: Sweden
If not a citizen, what country: -----
Present occupation: Bartender & agent
By whom employed: Minneapolis Brewing Co. & Kelley Gordon
Where employed: at Westby Montana
Dependents to support: No
Marital status: Single
Race: Caucasian
Prior military service: None
Claim exception from draft: No
Tall, medium, or short: Tall
Slender, medium or stout: Slender
Color of eyes: L. Blue
Color of hair: L. Brown
Bald: No
Disability: Not disabled
Date of registration: June 5, 1917
Place of registration: Sheridan, Montana
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World War I
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Morton Mortenson lived in Litchfield, Minnesota after his discharge from service. He served as the village recorder there for sixteen years. He married Anna Olson in 1922. In the late 1930s he moved to Marble, Minnesota and was employed as a carpenter for the Cleveland Cliff Mining Co., retiring in 1954. He was an honorary member of the Marble/Calumet Poppe-Smuk-Appelget Post 327, the Nashwauk Lutheran Church, and the Golden Fleece Masonic Lodge 89 of Litchfield and had received a fifty-year emblem and certificate by the Grand Lodge.
Morton died at Fort Snelling Veteran's Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is buried in the Litchfield Cemetery, Litchfield, Minnesota (Div. 1, Sec. 22, Block 9, Lot 2, Grave 4). He is survived by his wife, Anna; three sons, Warren, Donald, and Archie; two daughters, Dorothy (Wayne) Holum and Shirley (Richard) Erickson; two sisters, Emma (Emil) Nelson and Sara Olander; and twenty-two grandchildren.
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