shovel

Group:
Gustaf Anderson + wife gravestone
Gustaf Anderson + wife gravestone

Gustaf Ludwig Anderson was born on October 19 1869 in Mölndals kommun, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. Gustaf is my great great grandfather on the paternal side of my family. Gustaf arrived in Boston on December 9th, 1887. On May 11th of 1896, he went to court to become a citizen of the United States of America. The Ames family in Easton Massachusetts needed laborers for their shoveling enterprise, they petitioned Sweden to select individuals with the promise they had a residence and job in this country, in Easton Ma. The job that Gustaf was given was a shovel maker. These shovels had been used to make railroads to allow for expansion westward  

Place(s): Sweden, Boston, Easton

– KS

Relationship:  Great-grandchild of im/migrant or more Great-grandchild of im/migrant or more