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Many families in the greater Kiron community have old family albums. In the collection presented here, the Lindbloms are sharing pictures of their ancestors. The Lindblom name first appeared on the Kiron scene when the John Olof Lindblom family arrived in 1870. John came from the village of Klapp in Attmar parish where he was born in 1834. His birth name in Sweden was Johann Ersson. Attmar is in the province of Medalpad in Sweden. His wife, Helen Danielsdotter, was born in 1838 in the nearby parish of Hassela in Hälsingland Sweden. They emigrated from Sweden in 1862 with Isanti County, Minnesota as their destination. John joined the Union Army and served in campaigns along the Mississippi River. As was common practice for the emigrants, the Lindbloms proceded with the homestead law provisions for a claim to land in the area around Taylor Falls, Minnesota.
A number of the Swedish people in Minnesota who had known each other in Sweden heard about the new community some Swedes were trying to establish in the Otter Creek valley in Iowa. Several of these families migrated from Minnesota. The Lindbloms sold their Minnesota homestead in fall of 1869 and came overland in the spring of 1870. They were able to buy 160 acres of land from one of the railroad land companies in Stockholm section 5. This was in close vicinity to their friends: the Norelius, Buller, Erickson, Mikaelson, and Swede families among others.
The Lindblom family was one of the families hardest hit in the diptheria epidemic of 1876-77. They had 8 children at the time - 4 boys and 4 girls. All 4 of the boys died within 3 months of each other, from January 25 to April 4, 1877. They ranged in age from 15 years to about 10 weeks. All 4 dotters survived.
Like so many of the Kiron Swedish emigrants, the Lindbloms got the itch to move and in February of 1883 the farm was sold. The family of John and Helen with dotters Hannah, Lydia, Christina, Elizabeth, and Amy and young son Alfred John picked up and moved to LaCenter in Clark county in the state of Washington. John and Helen both lived the remainder of their lives in that area.
May 2001: Pictures in this collection were furnished by Pat LaRock.