Rydholm/Williams photographs, circa 1860-1971

Title: Rydholm/Williams photographs, circa 1860-1971
Identifier: NAHA 2019/045
Date: circa 1860-1971
Description: Photographs of the Williams and Rydholm families from Illinois.

Dr. Jacob Larsen Urheim (born 1855 April 24 in Ullensvang, Norway) came to America in 1876. He first went to Minnesota and worked as a pharmacist. He then went to Chicago and entered Bennett Medical School. He graduated in 1891. From 1900 to 1905, he was the attending physician at Cook County Hospital. He opened a private practice and taugted at Bennett Medical School. His first wife Tilda Laugen passed away in 1891, leaving two children Olaf and Alice Henriette. On Arpil 23, 1893 he married his second wife Malena "Lena" Sarah Williams (1867-1948), daugther of Wick Williams of Lee, Illinois.

Wick Williams and Julia Williams (Lee County, Illinois). He was born on July 9, 1931 in Bergensteft, Norway, son of Wicking Jassendal. The Williams' had four children: Julia Cecilia Williams (Sandberg), Malena "Lena" Williams (Urheim), William Lewis Williams, and Dr. Rasmus Volland Williams. A "Portrait and biographical record of Lee County, Illinois" is available online via the Internet Archive and includes a detail biography of Wick Williams.

Julia Cecilia Williams (1874-1954) married Frank Victor Sandburg (1878-1902) of Chicago, Illinois.

William Williams married Hannah Johnson (1868-1950) and together they had two children, Helen Winifred Williams (1910-1991) and Vivian Constance Williams (1897-1970). Their daugther, Vivian, married Thor Gabriel Rydholm (1895-1984). Thor and Vivian Williams Rydholm had a daughter, Helen "Virginia Rydholm (Grimes) on November 18, 1929 in Dixon, Illinois.

Includes many photographs of the Willliams and Rydholm families of Illinois, Maple Knoll farm (Lee, Illinois) photographs, postcards, family histories, and handbeaded Bible of Hannah Johnson. Quilts made in the 1880s by Hanna Johnson Williams while living in a log cabin when she was a small child. The two quilts are an orchid pattern and a double irish chair pattern. Various textiles including seat pads and doilies. A painted rock from 1908 travels in Norway that says "Hilsen fra Nordkapp."
Extent: 3.0 cubic feet (5 archives boxes and 1 record center carton) and 2 oversized flat boxes
Language: English
Subject: Illinois; Lee (Ill.); Chicago (Ill.)
Type: Photographs; Photographic postcards; Family trees; Correspondence

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“Rydholm/Williams photographs, circa 1860-1971,” Norwegian-American Historical Association, accessed September 20, 2024, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/9769.

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