Week Two Favorite Photo

This picture of my Dad and his brother immediately came to mind when I saw this theme, favorite photo.   The year was 1909, and Anton Irenus Akerberg, age 19, (sitting) had waited for his younger brother Eugene Constantine Akerberg (standing)  to turn 16 and  be confirmed in the Lutheran Church in Skane, Sweden, before immigrating to the United States. They were sponsored by their older brother Almar Peolot, who was already homesteading in Minot North Dakota.
They left Malmo Sweden, headed to Leeds England and then across the Atlantic on the USS Celtic.  The Celtic was part of the White Star Line, famous for its loss of the USS Titanic just four years later.  
In this picture, they look full of innocence, anticipation and hope for what lie ahead.  They would lead very different lives, one being troubled, in a troubled marriage, and dying early, the other living an adventuresome life and becoming a successful engineer on some of the major dams, bridges, railroads, roads that led to the building of America's West.  #52ancestors

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