Carl V. Nygard

Parents

• Joseph Nygard
  
• Anna Hendrickson Nygard
  

Brothers and sisters

• Mabel Nygard
  
• Joseph Nygard
  
• Uno Nygard
  
• Hilda Nygard
  
• Vincent Nygard
  
• Harold Nygard
  

Wife

• Ann Fitzpatrick Nygard
  

Children

• Jack Nygard
  
• Marie Nygard
  
• Carl Nygard
  

Census

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• View Carl V. Nygard's birth certificate
  

Notes

The picture to the right is of the opening of the Ben Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia.

Profile

Carl V. Nygard was born on April 6, 1895, Worchester, Mass. and was the first of the child of Joseph and Johanna Nygard. He worked in a local Newark button factory as a laborer as a young boy and met his future wife there, Ann Fitzpatrick. He married Ann Fitzpatrick sometime around 1915 and settled into a rented home on 141 Wilson Avenue, Apartment #74 in Newark, New Jersey. Ann Fitzpatrick's mother, Anna, lived with them at the time. She was of Welsh and Irish descent and was born around 1857.

Carl was an ironworker who worked on the Ben Franklin Bridge in the 1920's. He was also a member of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, Local Union #361, Brooklyn, New York, membership #102244.

Sometime in the 1920's his wife Ann walked out on him. There is no trace of him after 1920. Efforts to contact him were made by his grand-daughter Sandy, but little information was found. We do know that he died around 1955 in Philadelphia.

Above is a picture of the Ben Franklin Bridge, a project that Carl V. Nygard worked on in the 1920's. This photo is from the 1920's.