Paul Bernhard Rohne(left), and his brothers Magnus and Chris Rohne. photo courtesy of Tony Rohne

1891 - John Magnus Rohne is born in the Boggy Community, just south of Cranfills Gap, TX.   This community no longer exists except for as cemetery on a nearby hillside. 

1900- Even(sic) Rohne is in Meridian Precinct no.1 of Bosque Co. TX. with all of the above listed children as well as with his mother-in-law Ekeberg, Olea (age 82,widow) (sic)b.July 1817, not naturalized, and a boarder Neils Johnson (age 34)

Rohne, Evan P.     head   Sep,  1848  51 (m.20yrs)   Norway     Norway   Norway  1871  29 na(naturalized)    farmer
--------, Mary A.    wife   May, 1858  42 (m. 20yrs)  Norway     Norway   Norway   1879  21 na( "         )   
--------, Minnie      dau.   Sep,  1882   17 s                  Texas        Norway  Norway
--------, Oscar         son    Feb,  1884   16s                   Texas        Norway  Norway
--------, Cora          dau    Nov, 1885  14s                    Texas        Norway  Norway
--------, Paulina      dau    Apr,  1888  12s                    Texas        Norway  Norway
--------, Emma        dau    Dec, 1889  10s                    Texas        Norway  Norway
--------, Magus       son    July, 1891    9s                     Texas        Norway  Norway   
--------, Bernhardt  son    Jan,   1895    5s                    Texas        Norway  Norway
--------, Helen         dau   Sep,  1897    2s                    Texas        Norway  Norway
--------, Christian    son    Jan,  1899    1s                    Texas        Norway  Norway 
[U. S. Census, Bosque Co., Meridian Prect.1, enum. dist. 2. p. 15 & 16, Series: T623  Roll: 1613  Page: 170]

1911 - 12,  1913- 17 --- John Magnus is attending Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.  He graduates with an A. B. in 1917.  

1918-20 - Chris Ludvig Rohne attends Luther College. he received no degree. 

1920 - US Census, Minnesota, Ramsey, St. Paul Ward 10, Dist. 0122
John Rohne is a "lodger" in the house of Amanda Chandler, her daughter, Mahle, and her aunt Anna Peterson along with 55 other young men of a similar age. It seems to be more of a dormitory of the Lutheran College.  He seems to be a student.
        Rohne, Johan M.     lodger    m  w  28   single      Texas     Norway     Norway    no occupation

1921-  John Magnus is located at the Hartford Theological Seminary and has a Master of Sacred Theology.  [Luther College Through Sixty Years, 1861-1921]

1921 - John Magnus Rohne publishes Luther's Case Against Rome. 

1921, 21 Sept - J. Magnus Rohne marries Louise R. Jensen, a student, in Fort Wayne, Allen Co. Indiana.   Her residence is listed as Cambridge, Mass. His father's name is listed as E. P. Rohne.  Other parts of the document state that she was 33 years old and her parents were T. P. Jensen, her mother: Anne Louise.  She was born in 1899  in Albert Lea, Minn.  [Indiana Marriage records]

J. Magnus Rohne is listed in Who Was Who among North American Arthors, 1921-1939, Compiled from Who's Who among North American Authors, Volumes 1-7, 1921-1939. Two volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976. (WhNAA)

1925 - Iowa State census , 1925 Winneshiek Co., Decorah

1926 - John Magnus Rohne has a book published.  Norwegian American Lutheranism up to 1872.  The Macmillan Co., 1926,  The University of Michigan, digitized Jun 13, 2007

The excerpt below is from John Magnus Rohne's, The Historical Value of Church Records, Vol. III, page 73:

"The early Norwegian-American Lutheran church fathers belong to the Norwegian-Americans as a group, and in a broader sense to all Americans. Consequently the records of their activity are of general rather than of merely local or partisan interest. The task of the Norwegian-American historian is to have constantly wider groups view the church and other Norwegian-American institutions as integral parts of the great American life about us. The Norwegian-American skolemester did not realize that he was writing American and even world history when he, like the monk of old, bent over his papers in the bleak log hut and' wrote his records in Norwegian script. Those who are intrusted with the responsibility of keeping the church records should get some of the spirit of the old monks who were vividly conscious that they were "making" history. Let them feel that it is to the interest of generations not yet born that none of these records be lost.

1930 - US Census, Iowa, Winneshiek, Decorah, Dist 13.
Rohne, J. Magnus    head O 7000   R  no   m w 38 m 29(age at mar)    Texas   Norway   Norway teacher    college
"          , Louise R.   wife                              f w  41 m 32(age at mar)   Minn.   Denmark  Iowa  

1940 - US Census, Minnesota, Sherburne, Orrock, enum. dist 71-15, sheet 2a.  one column here lists the highest grade of education - H meaning High School with number of years. C4 means college 4 years. 

            Rohne,  Magnus J. O.    head      m  w   48  mar      C4    Texas     Minister               Country Church
            "          ,  Louise                wife      f    w   51  mar      C4    Minn    
          

Sources:

Bosque County History: Land and People, Bosque Co. Hist. Commission, 1985, Bosque Co, TX
United States Census
Wayne Rohne's records, 915 W. 7th St., Clifton, TX 76634. phone (817) 675-4329
Tony Rohne, records and photos, Another Rohne family web site by Tony Rohne

Another Rohne family web site by Tony Rohne

 Ancestor Chart #1   | Elroy's Family Index

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