Husband: Gustaf Robert ENGLIN
Birthdate: 5 June 1867
Birthplace: Österfärnebo Parish, Gävleborgs Län, Sweden
Death date: about 1906
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Father: Erik Larsson ENGLIN
Mother: Anna OLSDOTTER

Marriage date: 17 June 1890
Marriage place: Rock Island County, Illinois

Wife: Mary J. FREE
Birthdate: June 1868
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Death date: about 1906
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Father: Theodore FREE
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Child No. 1: Maureen ENGLIN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 18 August 1891
Birthplace: Illinois
Death date: February 1979
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Child No. 2: Gustaf R. ENGLIN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 22 April 1893
Birthplace: Illinois
Death date: I June 1964
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Child No. 3: Theodore John ENGLIN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 6 September 1897
Birthplace: Illinois
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Spouse's name: Ruby HALLGREN

Child No. 4: William L. ENGLIN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 19 October 1901
Birthplace: Illinois
Death date: 4 February 1950
Place of death: Santa Cruz, California
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Documentation:
* Left for North America 28 August 1886. Listed as age 19, he left Göteborg harbor on 3 September 1886, bound for Rock Island.
* US records show he arrived in NY:
Name Age Gender Place of Origin Destination
Gustaf R Englin E524 18 Male Sweden United States of America
Ship Name: Baltic Arrival Date: 18 Sep 1886
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland
Source: NARA microfilm M237, roll 498, list 1132, line 15
* Rock Island directories 1882-1892 show:
G.R. Englin, r. 329 20th St, tailor, business name - F.C. Hoope
Gus Englin, loc. 1 225-17th St, r. 1310 8th Ave, merchant tailor
Gus R. Englin, loc 1 -1709-2nd Ave, r. 1310 8th Ave, merchant tailor
(note - directories found on Ancestry.com. Specific years not noted in source except last entry, which was 1891, 1892)
* 1900 census, enumerated 9 June 1900; Rock Island, Ward 3, Dist 114, Rock Island, County, IL 15th street (house# 3,, Dwelling # 162, family # 188)
Englin Gus, head, b. June 1867, age 32, b. Sweden, parents b. Sweden, tailor. Immigrated 1887
Mary J., wife, b. June 1868, age 31, b. Wisconsin, parents b. Germany, Wisconsin
Maurin, daughter, b. Aug 1891, age 8, at school
Gustaf, son, b. April 1893, age 7, at school
Theodore, son, b. Sept 1897, age 2
* 1910 census, Rock Island, Ward 5, Dist 122, 22nd Street, house#909, dwelling#212, family #221. Enumerated 23 April 1910.
Theodore Free, head, age 64, b. Germany, own income
Theresa M. Free, wife, age 61, b. PA
Theodore C. Free, son, age 23, b. IL, parents b. Germany, PA, commercial traveler photo supplies
Gussie R. Englin, grandson, age 17 b. IL parents b. Sweden, Wisconsin, clerk plow co.
Theodore J. Englin, grandson, age 12, b. IL, parents b. Sweden, Wisconsin
William L. Englin, grandson, age 9, b. IL parents b. Sweden, Wisconsin
* Notes for Maureen ENGLIN: NY passenger lists show her as arriving 5 September 1927 on ship Hamburg from Southampton. Record says she was born 18 Aug 1891 in Rock Island, IL and her address was N.V.A. Club, 229 W. 46th Street, NYC.
* Notes: The N.V.A. Club was a club for vaudevillians. A June 8, 1931 article from Time magazine says in part:
"For the past 15 years, headquarters for vaudevillians in Manhattan has been the National Variety Artists' Club in West 46th Street. Many a legend surrounds the place. One is that a policeman, passing late one night, spied a group of men hanging around the front door. Thinking them loafers, he ordered them to move along. To the constable's surprise, one member of the group, a tumbler, complied by doing a series of back flips all the way up the sidewalk to Broadway. Last week the N. V. A. clubhouse itself entered legend. A $150,000 deficit closed its doors."
The end of the article states:
"Recalling the financial distress of the Lambs Club last summer (TIME, July 7) pessimists might see in the N. V. A. club-house's closing another indication of the paupery of the theatrical profession. Bu the N. V. A. club has always run an annual deficit. For years Edward Franklin Albee variety tycoon (Keith-Albee), footed thi losses until his death in 1930. A recent drive to get members to pay their bad bills amassed some $60,000, insufficient to keep the place open. It will probably be turned into a hotel.
N. V. A. will continue to operate it sanatorium for tuberculous professional at Saranac Lake, N. Y. But 8,000 of th nation's jugglers, dancers, animal trainers blues singers, acrobats have lost their metropolitan gathering place."
* Nov 20, 1927 article in Davenport Democrat & Leader about a performance that day at Fort Armstrong Theatre by Casey Jones and the Jazz Jesters of a show called "Comedy Capers." "Featured in the new show is Maureen Englin former Rock island girl who has just returned from a very successful tour of Europe."
* Several articles from various US newspapers from the 1920's referred to her as "The Scintillating Songstress." An article in the Appleton, WI Post Crescent from September 24, 1932 stated she was a popular star of radio station WCFL in Chicago.
* Social Security Death Index says she was born 18 Aug 1891 and died January 1979, last residence being Moline, IL.
* She is evidently the Maureen Englin, roomer, single, age 18, b. IL who shows up in the 1910 census, Duluth, Ward 4, District 171, St. Louis County, MN - enumerated 21 April 1910. Her parents were born in Sweden and Wisconsin.
Also in household was a Theodore C. Frie, age 23, b. IL, single, roomer, parents b. PA, , clerk, wholseale groc.
* An article she wrote that appeared in a Minneapolis newspaper on 12/7/1958 (copies obtained from Duluth, MN Public Library) said she left Rock Island in the fall of 1908 to live with an aunt & uncle in Duluth -the aunt having been a vaudeville trouper. She goes on to say one year later, at age 18, she got a job with Korby Piano Co., soliciting piano prospects door to door. "After a winter of frost-bitten fingers and toes" she changed jobs and took over the sheet music department at Westergaard's Music Store. At Westergaard's she met George L. Tyler (known in Duluth as Signor Taglieri - or as his voice pupils called him "Tag"). Thru him she got her first break in show business, doing a one week singing stint at the Sullivan and Considine vaudeville theater. At the conclusion of that engagement, she was engaged to sing illustrated songs "in the leading picture house in town." After this, she took off for St. Paul "and another aunt and uncle" took voice lessons from Lewis Shaw and piano from Frederick Bonney. Then, in the winter of 1910 she worked for Carling's Restaurant, singing to the accompanyment of symphony musicians who used to play there. In 1911, she came "under the guidance" of S.L. Rothchapfel ("Roxy") in his first experiment with stage presentation shows. She says "After a summer at the Lyric Theater, Minneapolis, I was well on my way to becoming a professional." She then was a headliner with her own signing act on the R. F. Keith vaudeville circuit and later "as soloist with name bands in the leading picture houses of the country." In 1925 she headlined the Pantages vaudeville bill in Minneapolis and also did radio shows and made recordings. After her career ended, she moved back to Rock Island and taught voice, piano and was a professional organist.
* Davenport Democrat and leader of 7 January 1924 has an announcement of the recent marriage of Maureen Englin and Sidney Mitchell, "well known Philadelphia hotel man."
* The family also indicated she was married to an "Alex" who was British and was supposedly a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during worl War I.