Adolph Frederick Heglin (1881 - 1971)

Born 15 Sep 1881 in South Dakota, United States of America

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Elin (Carlson) Heglin — married 1906 in Radville, Saskatchewan, Canada

Died 27 Dec 1971 at age 90 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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Biography

Adolph Frederick Heglin was born in 1881. He was the son of Peter Heglin and Sophia Sundström. Fred grew up in Dalesburg, South Dakota and appears to have left the U.S. in 1902 with his father, who had remarried after Sophia's death in 1898, to homestead in Saskatchewan, He immediately filed his own homestead claim on land near his father at SW 16-7-16-W2. According to his homestead files in Saskatchewan, he had a bit of bureaucratic problems with his claim because he filed under Fred A. Heglin, instead of his legal name.^[1]

Fred married Anna Elin Carlson whose family had also moved from South Dakota to homestead in Saskatchewan in 1906. Fred and Ellen moved to Montana in the United States for about 4 years and then returned to Saskatchewan to be nearer family as their own family of six children grew. Fred operated a livery stable and dray business in the town of Radville and maintained a crew for contracting other services, like graveling the streets of Radville. He also had a farm about two miles north of Radville.

Fred and Ellen moved to Regina in 1928 where Fred became a taxi driver for the Black and White Co. They left Regina in 1942 to set up Fred's own taxi business in Victoria, B.C. He operated Bluebird Taxi there until 1955 when he retired.

He passed away in 1971.^[2]

Sources

August Peterson, History of the Swedes who settled in Clay county, South Dakota, Swedish Pioneer and Historical Society of Clay County, South Dakota, 1947 p. 138-142 (Biographical entry for Heglin family)

Radville Laurier Historical Society. Radville-Laurier: The Yesteryears, 1983. p. 471, "Fred and Ellen Heglin History" Digital copy of this local history is available at ourroots.ca [2]

1906 Census of the Northwest Provinces, Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan at Library and Archives Canada, database indexed under Frederick Heylin and image [3]

1911 Census of Canada,Radville, Saskatchewan, database and image at Library and Archives Canada [4] Database has indexed Adolph Heglin under Adolph Hylin.

1916 Census of Prairie Provinces, Weyburn (town of Radville), Saskatchewan, Canada database and image at Library and Archives Canada [5]

1. ↑ Saskatchewan Homestead file 136862A, consulted July, 2008 at the Saskatchewan Archives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
2. ↑ "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database with images, FamilySearch [1] : 30 September 2015, Adolph Fredrick Heglin, 1971.