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Note: Conversation with daughter Jue Kern in 1982: Gust was 10 years older than Luetta. They married about 1909 in Pueblo, CO. (My attempts to find the marriage license were unsuccessful.) They separated very bitterly about 1920 and the children were told that he was dead. He worked in construction. According to Jue he was a career marine. ( I have been unable to verify this.)
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According to the 1900 census Gust Dahl was born in Sweden in Sept 1881 and immigrated to the US with his parents in 1887. The parents were naturalized in 1892. Gust was the 2nd of nine children and was working in Jefferson Co, PA as a mine laborer, as were his father and younger brother.
I could not find him in the 1910 census. His WWI draft card dated 1918 lists him working as a teamster in Flagstaff AZ. He is described as 5'8", medium build, dark brown eyes, brown hair and balding.
In the 1920 census he is living in Flagstaff Arizona listed as Gustave Dahl and working as a janitor at the Normal School. Also in the home are his wife and 4 children and his mother in law Martha Phillips, who is listed as a "lodger".
In the 1930 census, he is living with his wife Gertrude in Chicago, IL and working as a carpenter. They have one mutual child, Raymond born in 1926. She has 3 children by her former husband, Albin Dahl. (I found Gertrude and Albin in the 1920 census and they were Salvation Army workers.)
In 1936, he filled out an application for a Social Security Card in Evanston IL. He gives his birth year as 1881 rather than 1882, but otherwise the info matches him well. The signature on this card is strikingly simular to the signature on his 1918 WWI draft card filled out in Flagstaff AZ.
His social security number written on his application matches that given on his death certificate in San Diego in 1971. According to the certificate he moved back to Calif in 1941 and to San Diego in 1946. He would have turned 60 and 65 in those years respectively. His last job was as a pile driver for a construction company. His wife at the time of his death was the former Gertrude Nygard.
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