"The Other Swedes"
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Lindsborg Swedes, Their Neighbors & Friends ~
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~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Lindsborg Swedes, Their Neighbors & Friends ~
<> Their Legacy Art Community <>
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 -
[Mr. Jaderborg's grandparents arrived in Lindsborg to retire in 1908
and to build unknowingly the city's most elegant home.]
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. The family worshipped at the Bethany Lutheran Church of the Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod.
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 at Bethany College. 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, the Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences Emil O. Deere (1877-1966) 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.
(Hilding, with his brothers, Thure, Jr., Emrick, and Einar lived with their parents in the most magnificent home in Lindsborg located on a slight hill that was first owned by their grandfather Swede Lars Olafsson "Olof" Jaderborg, a retired well-to-do 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 arriving in Kansas in 1858 from Gävle Gästrikland, Sweden.)
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. Hilding 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!
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 at Bethany College. 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, the Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences Emil O. Deere (1877-1966) 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.
(Hilding, with his brothers, Thure, Jr., Emrick, and Einar lived with their parents in the most magnificent home in Lindsborg located on a slight hill that was first owned by their grandfather Swede Lars Olafsson "Olof" Jaderborg, a retired well-to-do 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 arriving in Kansas in 1858 from Gävle Gästrikland, Sweden.)
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. Hilding 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!
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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.
Friends of the Jaderborgs, Lindsborg Swedish descendants Kenneth and Marilyn Sjogren with great Lindsborg supporters Kenneth and Virginia Swisher established Hemslöjd as a Swedish import and woodworking shop where skilled local woodworkers and Swedish folk artists produced lovely Swedish gifts for the shop.
Thus, the Swedishness continues to this day at "Hemslöjd" which in Swedish means "handicraft." Advertised as "the leading Swedish store in the United States specializing in Swedish imports and Scandinavian gifts of all type," it also offers traditional Dala Horses directly from Sweden.
Go HERE to learn about this little Hemslöjd shop, and HERE to discover the history of the Dala Horse by Joyce England!
*Source for text: Hemslöjd website
Friends of the Jaderborgs, Lindsborg Swedish descendants Kenneth and Marilyn Sjogren with great Lindsborg supporters Kenneth and Virginia Swisher established Hemslöjd as a Swedish import and woodworking shop where skilled local woodworkers and Swedish folk artists produced lovely Swedish gifts for the shop.
Thus, the Swedishness continues to this day at "Hemslöjd" which in Swedish means "handicraft." Advertised as "the leading Swedish store in the United States specializing in Swedish imports and Scandinavian gifts of all type," it also offers traditional Dala Horses directly from Sweden.
Go HERE to learn about this little Hemslöjd shop, and HERE to discover the history of the Dala Horse by Joyce England!
*Source for text: Hemslöjd website
The Deere House Dala Horse
Former students of Dean Deere, Rev. Perry and Alice Carlson, owners of Deere House
had Hemslöjd inscribe Deere House on their Swedish Dala Horse and 1940, the year the home was built.
Former students of Dean Deere, Rev. Perry and Alice Carlson, owners of Deere House
had Hemslöjd inscribe Deere House on their Swedish Dala Horse and 1940, the year the home was built.
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