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4 unusual facts about Swedish American


Demographics of Massachusetts

Massachusetts also has large communities of people of Finnish and Swedish descent; Armenian, Lebanese descent; and Italian descent.

Eric G. Hoyer

Eric G. Hoyer (March 3, 1898 – March 17, 1990) was a Swedish American interior designer and politician.

Gunnar Widforss

Gunnar Mauritz Widforss (1879–1934) was a Swedish American artist who specialized in painting subjects from the wilderness in watercolor.

Knute Heldner

Knute Heldner (1875 – November 5, 1952) was a Swedish American artist.


John Alexis Edgren

He was the son of Axel Edgren and Mathilda Berger and the brother of noted Swedish American linguist August Hjalmar Edgren.


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Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin

Among faculty members at this school were the famed Swedish-American naturalist, Thure Kumlien, and the Norwegian-American author and diplomat, Rasmus Anderson.

American Swedish Historical Museum

The architect, John Nydén, a Swedish-American from Chicago, combined Swedish and American elements by modeling the exterior arcades on those of Mount Vernon.

Birgit Ridderstedt

Birgit Ridderstedt was the mother of Swedish-American writer and entertainment director, Jacob Truedson Demitz.

Bishop Hill Colony

The Bishop Hill Colony was the landmark Swedish settlement in Western Illinois leading the large Swedish-American communities in Galesburg, Rock Island, and Chicago.

Candace Kroslak

Candace Kaye Kroslak (born Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, July 22, 1978) is an American actress of Slovak descent, probably best known for her role as Lindy Maddock in the Swedish-American soap opera Ocean Ave.

Chilberg

The amazing story of a Swedish-American family that came all the way from Knäred, Halland, Sweden, to America in 1846 with the boat Superb, starting their uncertain journey to the new future in Gothenburg to arrive in Philadelphia.

Emil Norlander

In the 1910s and 1920s Emil Norlander was introduced to Swedish-American audiences through recordings on the Columbia, Edison and Victor labels.

Georgia, Georgia

Georgia, Georgia is a 1972 Swedish-American drama film directed by Stig Björkman.

Långban

It is the birthplace of Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson

Ola Hanson

Ola Hanson (born June 25, 1864 in Åhus, Sweden - died October 17, 1927) was a Swedish-American missionary who worked for the Kachin people in Burma.

Penelope Plummer

After winning the Miss World Contest, Plummer appeared in The 1969 Bob Hope Christmas Show in Osan, Korea, along with Swedish-American actress Ann-Margret.

Skogie

Carl Skoglund - Swedish-American socialist and political figure.

Theodor Larsson

Sven Svenssons Sven — later recorded by the Swedish-American singers Olle i Skratthult and Charles G. Widdén — brought up the subject of temperance while De rysliga bolshevikerna (The terrible bolsheviks) was a sly piece of political satire.

Widforss

Gunnar Widforss (1879–1934), Swedish-American artist who specialized in painting subjects from the wilderness

William Henry Roberts

Roberts was followed by the Swedish-American missionary Ola Hanson, who arrived in 1890 and did much work in compiling a grammar and dictionary for their Jinghpaw language, and in translating hymns and the Bible into Jingpaw.