Paul Mikkelsen Smebak ²⁸⁴

   Other names for Paul were Pal Smedbak and Smedbakken.

  Research Notes:

1. source: www.worldconnect.rootsweb.com; contact: Linda Penland; Lpenland@qwest.net; 26 March 2005

2. Emigrants from Trondheim; date of registration: 16 May 1888

- gives Paul Smedbak and wife Mathea (age 32; <1856> and sons Melkior, Ole, and John; residence as Tolgen; destination as Lake Park, MN


++ ??? 1930 US Census, Highgrove Twp, Clay Co, ancestry p 7

- Palmer Smedback, wife Clara, daugther Dagney, son Dwight



3. US Census info

a. 1895 MN State
- Paul, Mathea, Melker age 13 attending school; resident of State, 7 yrs; resident of this enumeration district, 6 years

b. 1905 MN State ;; Atlanta Twp, Becker - sheet 2 (ancestry.com p 227)
- Paul Smebak, age 43 --- only one listed; sheet 3, next page - others not there

c. 1900 US, Atlanta Twp, Becker

- Paul Smebak, age 38 born Jul 1862 in Norway; emigrated 1888, married 19ys <1881>, na; farmer
- Mathea, wife, age 44 born Nov 1855 in Norway; emigrated 1885, married 19 ys; mother of 7 children, 7 living
- Joe, son, age 13 born June (Jan ?) 1887 in Norway, at school
- Emma, daughter age 11 born in Oct 1888 in MN
- Kaya, daughter, age 10 born in Mar 1890 in MN
- Palmer, son, age 6 born in Jul 1893 in MN
- Marvin, son, age 4 born in Jan ? 1896 in MN






.. there are a number of public member trees on ancestry -- search Paul Sme* born 1862 +-1, Norway

. Marthea Olsdatter Berg; see http://www.dxhansen.com/project2010/p2.htm#i1480 [ 18 Nov 2012 ]
- information on descendants; very little about her parents

also
- Paul and Marthea Smedbak were charter members of an US organization of immigrants, Østerdalslaget that had it's first meeting in 1910 in Fergus Falls, MN; died off in the mid-1900's
- organization somewhat renewed in 1995 and changed to Nord Hedmark og Hedmarken Lag, however, unclear if it is still in operation.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Emigration - 1888, 16 May 1888, Trondhiem, Norway to Quebec, Quebec, Canada. ¹⁵⁷³

2. Residence - 1895, 1895, Altanta Twp, Becker Co, Minnesota, United States. ¹⁵⁷⁴

3. Residence - 1900, 1 Jun 1900, Atlanta Twp, Becker Co, Minnesota, United States. ¹⁵⁷⁵ Enumeration 16 Jun 1900

Paul married Matea Olsdtr Berg, daughter of Ole Jonsen Berg and Elia Embretsdtr Os, about 1881.¹⁰⁷² (Matea Olsdtr Berg was born about 1855 in Berg, Tolga, Hedmark, Norway ¹⁰⁷².)