Harvey Jr. was born in Michigan, where his mother Eleanor was born. His father was from Wisconsin.
At the time of the 1920 census, when Harvey was three-years-old, the family was in Chicago. The household included his parents, his newborn brother Robert, and his aunt Aggnes Nelson.
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At the time of the 1930 census the family is in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
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He enlisted for military service in the US Army Air Corps on 17 Aug 1942. At the time, he had already graduated from college with a four year degree, where he trained to be an accountant.
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He's buried in the Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee.
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Sources
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"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ38-K6T : accessed 12 July 2019), Harvey C Strand Jr. in household of Harvey Strand, Chicago Ward 8, Cook (Chicago), Illinois, United States; citing ED 523, sheet 12A, line 4, family 355, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 318; FHL microfilm 1,820,318.
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"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9QW-CJ9 : accessed 12 July 2019), Harvey Ostrand Jr. in household of Harvey Ostrand, Sturgeon Bay, Door, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 7A, line 5, family 163, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2569; FHL microfilm 2,342,303.
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"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8L6-VHB : 5 December 2014), Harvey C Jr Ostrand, enlisted 17 Aug 1942, ; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
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"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JRPC-YM5 : 20 May 2014), Harvey Ostrand, Mar 1974; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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