Notes for Alfons Axel Andreas Anderson Bonde, Sr./Johanna Marie Möllergren

"The Cook County Clerk issued permit to wed to numerous couples yesterday, the parties living in Chicago where no place of residence is given: Alfred Bonde, Johanna Möllergren 33-32" This was reported in the Chicago Daily Tribune on Thursday July 21, 1898 on page 5.

The same information appeared in The Daily News of Chicago on Thursday July 21, 1898 on page 18 but added marriage license as No. 279,676 This newspaper for each day had complete statistics of issuing of marriage licenses and official records of births and deaths in Chicago. Occasionally, records of marriages performed and engagements announced were also listed.

Founded in 1849, St. Ansgarius Church was first located at Illinois and Franklin Streets, Chicago, IL. It was founded by Gustav Unonius, a convert to the Episcopal Church who previously led a group of Swedish immigrants to settle at Pine Lake, Wisconsin. At the end of the century, St. Ansgarius was located on Sedgwick Avenue, one block north of Chicago Avenue, in Chicago. The church remained at this location until 1920, at which time the church effectively closed due to the departure of the rector, Carl August Nybladh and the majority of the congregation. However, in 1924, the bishop of Chicago re-opened St. Ansgarius at a temporary location on Lincoln Avenue, and later built the Jenny Lind Memorial Chapel at 2514 West Thorndale Avenue, Chicago. In 1940 the church was re-dedicated as St. Francis Church, and this congregation survived into the 1990’s. (Information courtesy of Richard R. Seidel, Historiographer, The Diocese of Chicago, 1999).

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