Nils Oskar Anderson

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Age 40

Born 15 September 1876 in Fredrikstad, Østfold, Norway

 Immigrated to the United States in 1902

Married with two daughters

Resided at 945 rear N. Main, Butte

Buried in the plot for the Unidentified Dead at Mountain View Cemetery in Butte

Nils Oskar Anderson was born on September 15, 1876, in Fredrikstad, Østfold, Norway1 to Anders Nilsen and Karen Lovise Johansdotter. He immigrated to the United States in 1902 and married Hulda Matilde Hansen in 1907.2

Hulda was also born in Fredrikstad on June 27, 1884,3 to Martin Hansen and Karen Oline Petersendatter4 and immigrated to the United States in 1904.5

In April of 1910, Nils and Hulda were living with their two daughters Clara, age 2, and Nellie, 4 months old, in Duluth City, Minnesota.6 Some time after April 1910 and before June 1917, Nils and Hulda moved to Butte where Nils died in the Granite Mountain Speculator Mine Fire on June 8, 1917.7 At the time of his death, his daughter Clara was 9 years old and his daughter Nellie was 7.

On June 11, 1917, Nils was still unaccounted for, as stated in a news article from The Butte Daily Post.

The Butte daily post. (Butte, Mont.), 11 June 1917

He was finally listed as one of the “unidentified dead” in the “Official List” published in the Anaconda Standard on June 28th.8

Nils’s remains are most likely buried in the plot for the “unidentified dead” in Mountain View Cemetery, located at 3910 Harrison Avenue in Butte, Montana. 9

Inscription: In Memory of the Unidentified Dead of the Granite Mountain Fire | June 8, 1917

About a year after his death, Hulda married Nils’s younger brother, Carl Anderson.10 The family relocated to Seattle where Hulda died on March 15, 1960.11

Copyright (c) 2016, Lark M. Dalin Robart

PHOTO CREDITS
  1. Flag of Norway: canstockphoto.com
  2. Mountain View Cemetery memorial: author
SOURCES

Please note that in addition to the sources listed below, some information for this short profile of Nils Oskar Anderson comes from Laura Lefkow, who is married to Nils’s great great grandson Edward Hynes.

  1. “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8Q6-T8N : 12 December 2015), Carl Anderson, 1917-1918; citing Butte City, Montana, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,684,100. ↩
  2.  “United States Census, 1920,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHNP-2CP : 14 December 2016), Carl Anderson, Seattle, King, Washington, United States; citing sheet 3B, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,926. ↩
  3. “Washington, Petitions for Naturalization, 1860-1991,” database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/search/ : accessed 13 Mar 2017), entry for Hulda Mathilde Anderson, 4 June 1941; citing Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Petitions for Naturalization, 1932–1991. Records of the District Courts of the United States, RG 21. The National Archives at Seattle, Seattle, Washington. ↩
  4. “Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960,” database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : accessed 13 Mar 2017), entry for Hulda Mathilde Anderson, 15 March 1960; citing Citing Bureau of Vital Statistics, Olympia. ↩
  5.  “United States Census, 1910,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2PG-YX8 : 29 October 2015), Hulda Anderson, Duluth Ward 7, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 186, sheet 12B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,738. ↩
  6.  “United States Census, 1910,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2PG-YX8 : 29 October 2015), Nels Anderson, Duluth Ward 7, St Louis, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 186, sheet 12B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,738. ↩
  7. “Web: RootsWeb Cemetery Index, 1800-2010,” database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/search/ : accessed 27 August 2016), Nils Anderson, June 1917, Silver Bow, Montana, USA; citing Cemetery Records. RootsWeb. ↩
  8.  “Official List of the Dead in the North Butte Fire Determined by Coroner,” Anaconda Standard (Anaconda, Montana), 28 June 1917, p. 11; image copy, Genealogybank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 14 June 2016), Newspaper Archives. ↩
  9. Lark Robart, “Find-A-Grave”, database, Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 March 2017) Nils Anderson (1877-1917) – Find a Grave Memorial #129641550. ↩
  10. “Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3QB-X1C : 7 December 2014), Carl Anderson and Hulda Anderson, 27 Jun 1918; citing Marriage, Anaconda, Deer Lodge, Montana, county courthouses, Montana; FHL microfilm 1,906,090. ↩
  11.  “Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N31R-TZ2 : 5 December 2014), Hulda Mathilda Anderson, 15 Mar 1960; citing Seattle, King, Washington, reference 5269, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Olympia; FHL microfilm 2,034,030. ↩