Person:Axel Kraft (1)

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Name[1][2] Axel Kraft
Gender Male
Birth[1] 9 May 1884 Totontos, , , Sweden
Marriage 1909 Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United Statesto Anna Katherine Swoboda
Immigration[1] alone to USA at age 20 to avoid being sent into military training
Occupation[3][4] owner and operator of a hotel called the Norway House
Death? Y
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Newspaper article
    100th Birthday article (copy in my possession).
  2. Family Source of Data*
    Carol Phillips Berg (Jantuen): page 4, Swoboda family descendants report to Sharon Lemley.
  3. Newspaper article
    Axel Kraft 100th Birthday article (copy in my possession).
  4. The bar stayed in operation throughout prohibition, and he sold and drank a lot of moonshine in a back room. Some years after the Depression, he sold the Norway House and bought a farm.