{"id":1520,"date":"2013-03-27T19:58:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T19:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ancestry.smars.se\/?page_id=1520"},"modified":"2013-12-15T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T15:35:47","slug":"john-magnus-gentzell-1892","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ancestry.smars.se\/?page_id=1520","title":{"rendered":"John Magnus Gentzell 2\/9 1892 – 8\/6 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cover picture: Chicago in the 1920s with buzy traffic of trams, horse carriages long before the automobiles were introduced<\/em><\/p>\n

Born in Chicago, Ill. 2 sept 1892.<\/p>\n

1910 – 18 years old he is already registered as a Clerk of Wholesale of Dental supplies<\/p>\n

24 years old he registered for WWI\u00a05th of June 1917 – his occupation is ‘Toothman’, employed by Johnson&Lund comp- making Dental supplies. A company still existing, founded in 1859. (http:\/\/www.johnsonandlund.com\/<\/a>)\u00a0 He was single and had no former military experience. He described himself as tall, medium bodysized, blue-eyed and lightbrown hair. His younger brother Gustaf Adoph is also fighting in WW I.<\/p>\n

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37 years old, being a veteran from WWI, he is registered 1930 together with his parents and brothers in Chicago. He is still \u00a0single and has picked up his former job as a Salesman of Dental Supplies.<\/p>\n

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1940 he is registered living with his sister Hilma and her husband Albert Hasse. He is now 46 years old. With them Richard Gentzell, 21 – the son of their brother August – is living.<\/p>\n

49 years old 1942 he is registered in the WWII draft. He was then employed by Chicago Dental Manufacturing. He registered his little sister Hilma C. (Haase – born 1903 = 9 years younger than him) to be the one who will always know his address.\"\"<\/p>\n

He died in Ludington<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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