"The Other Swedes"
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Lindsborg Swedes, Their Neighbors & Friends ~
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Lindsborg Swedes, Their Neighbors & Friends ~
Mr. and Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg
~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop”
of 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden
(1946-2011)
- containing the finest quality of Swedish goods -
A testament to carrying on Swedishness in Lindsborg is found with late Swede descendants Hilding Arnold Jaderborg (1921-2011) and his wife Esther Marie Dahlsten Jaderborg (1931-2017). They had three children: Kathy, Paula, and Thomas, and the family worshipped at the Bethany Lutheran Church, a member of the Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod.
Mr. Hilding Jaderborg's mother was Swede Ella Justine Lindstrom and father was Swede Thure Olof Jaderborg, Sr, (1877-1954) who was a gifted voice professor at Bethany College and well-known soloist in Messiah performances and was recognized for his 50 plus years distinguished career. He was good friend and colleague to renown Bethany College Messiah conductor and professor Dr. Hagbard Brase and to Bethany College Biology and Geology Department head Dr. Emil O. Deere (1877-1966) the Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences. It was Deere who loaned his son Hilding enough money to establish the beloved "Swedish Crafts" in 1946. This was a fact that Hilding's son Tom Jaderborg of Jaderborg Photography told me at Eastertime in 2011on Main Street near the Swedish Crafts.
This wonderful Swedish establishment of Lindsborg was destined to be a leader in the sale of fine authentic Swedish merchandise in the community, in the Smoky Valley and beyond Lindsborg for over 65 years. Mr. Jaderborg, many times accompanied by Mrs. Jaderborg, made over 50 trips to Sweden for their shop.
The Swedish Crafts was a Swedish trendsetter by being the first to display the "Dala Horse" in front of their shop.
With the passing of Mr. Hilding Jaderborg in 2011, their beautiful Swedish Crafts shop eventually closed and a wonderful chapter of these Lindsborg Swedish merchants was sadly over but not forgotten among the Swedes of Lindsborg. For their reputation of humility and kindness and sharing the essence of Sweden through their former Swedish Crafts is a legacy to be remembered always by the last-living-links to this history, who have to conclude that there will never be such a beautiful store that will grace the Main Street of Lindsborg like this Swedish one!
Mr. Hilding Jaderborg's mother was Swede Ella Justine Lindstrom and father was Swede Thure Olof Jaderborg, Sr, (1877-1954) who was a gifted voice professor at Bethany College and well-known soloist in Messiah performances and was recognized for his 50 plus years distinguished career. He was good friend and colleague to renown Bethany College Messiah conductor and professor Dr. Hagbard Brase and to Bethany College Biology and Geology Department head Dr. Emil O. Deere (1877-1966) the Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences. It was Deere who loaned his son Hilding enough money to establish the beloved "Swedish Crafts" in 1946. This was a fact that Hilding's son Tom Jaderborg of Jaderborg Photography told me at Eastertime in 2011on Main Street near the Swedish Crafts.
This wonderful Swedish establishment of Lindsborg was destined to be a leader in the sale of fine authentic Swedish merchandise in the community, in the Smoky Valley and beyond Lindsborg for over 65 years. Mr. Jaderborg, many times accompanied by Mrs. Jaderborg, made over 50 trips to Sweden for their shop.
The Swedish Crafts was a Swedish trendsetter by being the first to display the "Dala Horse" in front of their shop.
With the passing of Mr. Hilding Jaderborg in 2011, their beautiful Swedish Crafts shop eventually closed and a wonderful chapter of these Lindsborg Swedish merchants was sadly over but not forgotten among the Swedes of Lindsborg. For their reputation of humility and kindness and sharing the essence of Sweden through their former Swedish Crafts is a legacy to be remembered always by the last-living-links to this history, who have to conclude that there will never be such a beautiful store that will grace the Main Street of Lindsborg like this Swedish one!
And, their trendsetting example of a "Dala Horse'' in front of their shop, spread throughout Lindsborg in another form due to the "Hemslöjd" shop established in 1984, directly across the street from their Swedish Crafts, where only in Lindsborg on-the-spot handcrafted Dala horse signs for homes are produced for sale in the United States and around the world.
(Hilding, with his brothers, Thure, Jr., Emrick, and Einar lived with their parents in a most magnificent home in Lindsborg located on a slight hill that was first owned by their grandfather Swede Lars Olafsson "Olof" Jaderborg, a retired farmer from Enterprise (50 miles northeast of Lindsborg), who hired the Swedish Palmquist Brothers of Lindsborg to build the home in 1908, 50 years after he arrived in Kansas, in 1858 from Gävle Gästrikland, Sweden.)
(Hilding, with his brothers, Thure, Jr., Emrick, and Einar lived with their parents in a most magnificent home in Lindsborg located on a slight hill that was first owned by their grandfather Swede Lars Olafsson "Olof" Jaderborg, a retired farmer from Enterprise (50 miles northeast of Lindsborg), who hired the Swedish Palmquist Brothers of Lindsborg to build the home in 1908, 50 years after he arrived in Kansas, in 1858 from Gävle Gästrikland, Sweden.)
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"Let Us Celebrate Them"
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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"Let Us Celebrate Them"
* * *
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
* * *
All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.