Wandering Around The Family Tree

  I'm very lucky to have several of my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call's (1895-1962) photo albums. And perhaps even luckier that she labeled many of the photos - so I know roughly when and where they were taken, and who was in the photos.  My grandmother attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1915-1916, and then Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1916-1919. Pages 182-183 contain photographs of Wells College in Aurora, New York where Evelyn worked after graduating from Cornell Page 182 Main Building, Wells College Aurora-on-Cayuga, N.Y. 1919 Page 183 Dining Room at Wells College October, 1919 My grandmother, Evelyn Clara Call (1895-1962), worked at Wells College in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York in 1919-1920 after graduating from Cornell University with a degree in Home Economics.  It's not exactly clear what her job at Wells College was. A September 1919 newspaper article reports that she was the Superintendent of the dormitory at Wells College. [

According to his 1907 petition for naturalization, Christen Christensen was born in Lolland, Denmark on 28 September 1878, and arrived in New York on the ship Hekla in May 1891.  [1] However, no male aged about 12 years old named Christen Christensen is listed on the ship ’s passenger list. [2]  Christen ’s sister Kristine and her husband Hans Jensen immigrated to New York on the Hekla in May 1891. Traveling with them was an eleven-year-old child, Kristen. [3] Are Christen Christensen and Kristen Jensen the same person?   Family Background Kirstine and Christen Christensen were children of Lars Christensen and Karen Jensdatter of Radsted, Maribo, Denmark. [4]  Within a few years of their father Lars’ death in 1886, [5]  members of the family began to emigrate to America. Hans, the oldest son, arrived in New York in August 1890. [6]  Kirstine and Christen followed in May 1891. Their sister Cecilie immigrated by 1895 when she married in Brooklyn. [7] Hans Jensen (born 14 December