Harley Knute Hallgren

Harley Knute Hallgren (b. 1892 Henning, Otter Tail, MN - d. 1976 Portland, OR), 1900-1910 @ St. Paul, Ramsey, MN. At the age of 17, in 1910, he was employed as a clerk at a railway office, then as an accountant for a railway office in Portland, OR, thru the 1940's, which in the early 1940's was the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway. He was a son of Gustave Hilmer Hallgren (b. 1858 Sweden - d. 1948 Portland, OR) & Alfrida Matilda Larson Hallgren (b. 1858 Sweden - d. 1955 Portland, OR). Harley's wife was Louie Marie Tjernlund Hallgren (b. 1891 Cambridge, MA - d. 1956 Portland, OR).

Louie was the daughter of the Rev. Axel Tjernlund (b. 1854 Galtstrom, Sundsvalls kommun, Västernorrlands län, Sweden - d. 1920 Portland, OR) & Sigrid Albertina Engstrom Tjernlund (b. 1864 Trelleborg landsförsamling, Skåne, Sweden - d. 1948 Portland, OR). In 1890, the Tjernlund family resided in Boston, MA, then Worcester, then by 1900 in St. Paul, MN, and by 1912, in Great Falls, MT. Axel was employed as a Swedish Baptist pastor in St. Paul, Great Falls, Cambridgeport, etc. Axel & Sigfrid were married at Boston in 1886, Axel was living at that time in St. Paul pastoring a church at the age of 32, and Sigfrid lived at Cambridge, MA and was 22.

Harley was recognized in a PB (EB-TW) children's publication based in St. Louis, Messages of Love, in 1904 & 1905 for correctly answering Bible questions. Also see Messages of Love Around the Globe, and was one of the first in Minnesota to do so.

Sources

• MoL 1904-1905
• Ancestry.com