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? ? Andreas Splidsboel Mattie K. Splidsboel
? - ? ? - ? 1857 - 1918 1864 - 1915
Carl Ludvig Rasmussen Annie Marie Splidsboel
Født: 1884 Født: 1889
Død: 4. februar 1951 i Oregon Død: 27. august 1953 i Oregon
Gift: 1913 i Portland, Oregon
Børn: Carl A. Rasmussen og Dorothy E. Rasmussen

     

Thirteenth Census - 1910 - Population of Portland, Oregon, enumerated on the 20th. day of April 1910; 935 Sandy Road:
Rasmussen, Carl, boarder, 26 y old, single, born in Denmark, Danish parents, immigrated in 1901, naturalized, teamster.
Thirteenth Census - 1910 - Population of Portland, Oregon, enumerated on the 22th. day of April 1910
Andrew Splidsboel, head of family, 52 y old, married for 23 y, immigrated in 1884, naturalized, baker, shop, owned house free of mortgage.
Mattie K. Splidsboel, wife, 46 y old, maried for 23 y, 5 children, immigrated in 1884
Annie Splidsboel, daughter, 21 y old, single, born in Oregon, clerk af Balmay.
Andrew Splidsboel Jr, son, 19 y old, single, born in Oregon, baker at Buad
Frank Splidsboel, son, 17 y old, single, born in Oregon, laborer at Pipe Works
Albert Splidsboel, son, 13 y old, single, born in Oregon.
Hope Splidsboel, daughter, 5 y old, born in Oregon.

Fourteenth Census: 1920 - Population of Portland, Oregon, enumerated on the 10th. day of January 1920
Rasmussen, Carl L., head of household, rented house, 36 y old, married, immigrated in 1906, naturalized in 1919, born i Denmark, mechanic, automobiles
Rasmussen, Annie M., wife, 31 y old, born i Illinois, Danish parents
Rasmussen, Carl A., son, 6 y old, single, born in Oregon
Rasmussen, Dorothy E., daughter, 2 y old, single, born in Oregon

Fiftteenth Census: 1930 - Population of Portland, Oregon, enumerated in April 1930
Rasmussen, Carl L., head of household, owned house, value of house: $7.000, 47 y old, married at age 30, born in Denmark, immigrated in 1903, owner of blacksmith shop
Rasmussen, Annie M., wife, 41 y old, married at age 24, born i Illinois, Danish parents
Rasmussen, Carl A., son, 16 y old, single, born i Oregon
Rasmussen, Dorothy E., daughter, 12 y old, single, born i Oregon.


Carl Ludwig Rasmussen - Blacksmith

Carl Ludwig Rasmussen, while in his first job in Portland working on a riveting crew building the Broadway Bridge, looked down at the Willamette River and observed that it was so clear he could see the bottom. That was in 1908. He had come to Northwest that year from Canada where he had immigrated from Copenhagen five years earlier.

Desirous of having a business of his own, Rasmussen opened a blacksmith shop at northwest 17th and Raleigh Streets later that same year, 1908, and managed it until he died in 1951 at the age of sixty-seven.

After the first World War, in 1918, he took a night class in auto repairing at Benson Polytechnic School, and for ten years thereafter he specialized in making truck parts, metal parts for boats, and slings for loading and unloading ships' cargo.

Repairing wooden wheels with metal rims became another common task.

In 1911 Rasmussen married Anna Marie Splidsboel, a young lady of Danish descent, who had come West from Chicago with her parents when only one year old. Her father, Andreas Splidsboel, started a bakery called Consumers Bakery and Grocery , located at 24th and Nikolai Streets. His nephew, Chris Splidsboel, worked in the bakery when he first came to Portland from Denmark.

The Splidsboel family lived next to the bakery for a time, quite close to the Rasmussen family. This area of Portland was called Slabtown, so named because the sawmill was located there and slab sidings sawed from the logs were used to build houses for the sawmill workers. The Rasmussen's later moved to 65th and Sandy in the Rose City area of Portland. Carl and Anna Marie Rasmussen had two children: Carl Andrew, born in 1913, and Dorothy, born in 1917.

Son Carl worked in the research and development division of the Western Pine Association for the Western States, finding new ways to season lumber and to increase its production. He was Commodore of the Portland Yacht Club in 1956. Now retired, he and his wife live in King City in Tigard, Oregon. They have two daughters, Suzanne and Linda, both interested in everything Danish.

The senior Carl Rasmussen had several hobbies or pastimes. He enjoyed fishing, riding in an open touring car, and playing cards every Wednesday evening with friends in Dania. He was an active participant in that organization, and a member of the Danish Brotherhood Lodge, as well.

Carl Ludvig Rasmussen, blacksmith in Portland, Oregon Annie Splidsboel Rasmussen, Portland, oregon
Carl Ludvig Rasmussen, blacksmith Annie Splidsboel Rasmussen

Kilde: Ingeborg Nielsen MacHaffie: Danish in Portland Past and present (1982)

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