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Eric Johannson Wicklund

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Eric Johannson Wicklund

Birth
Vaasa Municipality, Ostrobothnia, Finland
Death
9 Aug 1953 (aged 79)
Stambaugh, Iron County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Commonwealth, Florence County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
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Eric Wicklund was born Erick Johansson Widd in Kofjoki in Vörå Parish of Vaasa, Finland, the son of Johan Johansson Widd (1850-1876) and Beata Eriksdotter Simons (1850-1910). He took the name Wicklund after his 1893 immigration to Iron County in Northern Michigan where other Swedish-speaking immigrants had settled from his native Ostrobothnia.

Eric Wicklund married Ericka Hellman on February 2, 1900, in the Lutheran Church in Commonwealth, Wisconsin. He adopted her three young children from her first marriage whose last name changed from Johnson to Wicklund: her son August (born Jakob August Jansson in Finland in 1892) and two daughters born in Michigan, Mary (1897) and Amelia Victoria (1898).

Eric Wicklund was naturalized in Florence, Wisconsin on March 5, 1901.

Eric and Ericka Wicklund had seven children, all born in Commonwealth, Wisconsin: Julius, Sigrid, Emil, Agnes, Helen, Selma and Irene.
Eric Wicklund was born Erick Johansson Widd in Kofjoki in Vörå Parish of Vaasa, Finland, the son of Johan Johansson Widd (1850-1876) and Beata Eriksdotter Simons (1850-1910). He took the name Wicklund after his 1893 immigration to Iron County in Northern Michigan where other Swedish-speaking immigrants had settled from his native Ostrobothnia.

Eric Wicklund married Ericka Hellman on February 2, 1900, in the Lutheran Church in Commonwealth, Wisconsin. He adopted her three young children from her first marriage whose last name changed from Johnson to Wicklund: her son August (born Jakob August Jansson in Finland in 1892) and two daughters born in Michigan, Mary (1897) and Amelia Victoria (1898).

Eric Wicklund was naturalized in Florence, Wisconsin on March 5, 1901.

Eric and Ericka Wicklund had seven children, all born in Commonwealth, Wisconsin: Julius, Sigrid, Emil, Agnes, Helen, Selma and Irene.

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53771069/eric_johannson-wicklund: accessed ), memorial page for Eric Johannson Wicklund (25 Sep 1873–9 Aug 1953), Find a Grave Memorial ID 53771069, citing Commonwealth Cemetery, Commonwealth, Florence County, Wisconsin, USA; Maintained by TCS (contributor 49895823).