My Trails into the Past

Nelle Olivia Lundquist, daughter of John G. Lundquist and Anna G. Johnson, was born on 16 April 1883 in Montgomery County, Iowa. [1] Her father had a farm outside of Stanton in Scott Township, and the schoolhouse was located on their property. [2] She attended Still College of Osteopathy in Des Moines, Iowa, and graduated on 11 January 1911 in a class of thirteen men and women. Her classmates who graduated mid-term included Sidney E. Cresswell, R.H. Simpson, Ed. C. Galsgie, Hulda Frandson, J.G. Connolly, Eleanor L. Harvey, Christine Ostrem, Roy F. Desart, Maud Tupper, Peter F. Kain, Helga Christensen, and Mabel Cleveland. [3]   She practiced primarily in Missouri and Montgomery County, Iowa. [4] In 1934, she attended a reunion breakfast of her class on 25 July at the Allis Hotel during the Wichita convention. [5] However, she was the only one in her class mentioned as attending. It must have been a reunion of any graduate of the school. [1] Fremont Lutheran Churc...

The Nilsen family of Hilmar, California, have had yearly reunions for many years. I am not sure of the date of the first of the yearly picnics, but they started probably in the 1950s or 60s. The Nilsen Family historian has a photo album depicting most of the reunions. The reunions likely started with the grandchildren generation of the Nilsen ancestor, Rev. Nils Malkom Nilsen, who had settled in Hilmar in 1905. Besides farming, he was the pastor of the Swedish Mission Church in Hilmar. Nils Malkom and his wife, Hulda, had six children. Four of them continued living in Northern California and two lived in Southern California, having turned adult while Nils Malkom was serving as pastor at a church in San Pedro. In the beginning, the reunions alternated between a location in Northern California and a location in Southern California. However, in the last twenty years, the reunions have been held in Northern California locations, as the majority who attend live up north. The picnics...