BEN ALSENE
Identification on photo: Ben Alsene
Photo taken: St Louis Gallery, Elmwood IL, circa 1900-1905
Purchased: Feb 2020 South Florida Fairgrounds Antiques Show
This is Algot Carl (or Carl Peter Algot) "Ben" ALSENE (22 Apr 1878 - 12 Oct 1932) who was the son of Samuel Peter Johansson Alsene (b. in Sweden 27 Mar 1849, d. 4 Sep 1925) and Eva Louise Johnson (b. in Sweden 1 Feb 1847, d. 27 Jan 1929). These parents are buried in Mitchell, South Dakota.
Ben Alsene married Selma C. Thorslund and had the following children:
- 1912 - Florence
- 1914 - Eleanor
- 1916 - Doris
- 1919 - Louise C.
- 1924 - Edgar Samuel
This insert from 18 Sept 1913, The Mitchell Capital (Mitchell, SD) proves that Ben lived in Illinois and that his father is S.P. Alsene of South Dakota.
AUGUST ALSENE
Identification on photo: August Alsene (there is also scratched out name Arthur Alsene, who is his brother)
Photo taken: Root Studio, unknown location, circa 1905
Purchased: Feb 2020 South Florida Fairgrounds Antiques Show
This photo was found in the same booth as the photo of Ben Alsene (above), and these two men are first cousins; their fathers are brothers.
August is found at times as ALSENE and ALSEN. His daughter Beverly appears to have used ALSEN as her surname.
I have found a tree on Ancestry which shows the male line of August W. Alsen as follows. This patronomic naming pattern is typical in Sweden.
- father - Carl Augustus Johansson Alsen (born 1854 in Sweden)
- grfather - Johan Petter Samuelsson
- gr-gfather - Samuel Danielsson
- grgr-gfather - Daniel Samuelsson
- 3xgr-gfather - Samuel Norstrom
Above is an article from The Dispatch (Moline Illinois) 2 Apr 1931, in which August Alsene is announced as the assistant cashier at the Farmers National Bank in Cambridge. It also gives more on his employment background.
August Walfrid Alsene (1885-1958) m. Grace Myrtle Rogers (1888-1990) and had daughter Beverley (1923-1981).
Beverly (shown at right, from high school yearbook) married Delmar Norman.
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