Gordon Alvin Northup ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

   Cause of his death was Brain Tumor.³

  General Notes:

Name: Gordon Northup
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 24 Apr 1945
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Event Place: Ft Snelling, Minnesota, United States
Race: White
Citizenship Status: citizen
Birth Year: 1915
Birthplace: MINNESOTA
Education Level: 4 years of high school
Civilian Occupation: Skilled cranemen, derrickmen, hoistmen, and shovelmen
Marital Status: Married
Military Rank: Private
Army Branch: No branch assignment
Army Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source Reference: Civil Life
Serial Number: 37795690
Affiliate ARC Identifier: 1263923
Box Film Number: 12656.31

Citing this Record

"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8PK-JWK : 5 December 2014), Gordon Northup, enlisted 24 Apr 1945, Ft Snelling, Minnesota, United States; 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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  Birth Notes:

name: Gordon Northup
gender: Male
birth date: 21 Dec 1915
birthplace: Winona Co., Minn.
name note: first child of mother
race: White
father's name: Morris Gilbert Northup
father's birthplace: U. S.
father's age: 47y
mother's name: Minnie Kramer
mother's birthplace: Minn.
mother's age: 35y
indexing project (batch) number: C75171-9
system origin: Minnesota-EASy
source film number: 1377832
reference number: 1900-1920

Citing this Record
"Minnesota, Births and Christenings, 1840-1980," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FDQT-FD4 : accessed 25 Sep 2012), Gordon Northup, 21 Dec 1915.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1920 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 19 January 1920. ⁴

1920 US Census
Sheet 5B, District 219, Family 138, Roll 2018
Trempealeau, Trempealeau, Wisconsin
Main Street; Home owned, no mortgage
Gordon Northup..Son..4..MN

(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1930 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 17 April 1930. ⁵

1930 US Census
Sheet 6B, District 23, Family 125, Roll 2614
Trempealeau, Trempealeau, Wisconsin
Home owned
Gordon Northup..Son..14..WI

(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1940 US Census in Minneapolis, MN on 9 April 1940. ¹

1940 US Census
Sheet 11B, District 89-276, Family 204, Roll 1986
Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota
1535 Washington Street; Home rented $19
Gordon Northup..Head..24..MN..12th grade..boiler maker, steam railroad..earned $1200 in 1939..Residence in 1935: Trempealeau, Wisconsin

(Living with wife.)
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• He served in the military :Enlistment on 24 April 1945 in Fort Snelling, MN. ⁷ Name: Gordon Northup
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 24 Apr 1945
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Event Place: Ft Snelling, Minnesota, United States
Military Rank: Private
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• He was buried after 26 June 1963 in the Sunset Memorial Park in Minneapolis, MN.

Block 22 (m4)
Find A Grave Memorial 120756128
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• His obituary was published on 3 July 1963. Funeral services for Gordon Northup (sic), 47, former resident here, were held in Minneapolis following his death last week in Veterans Hospital, Minneapolis. He had been a patient six months.

He was born in Winona in 1915 to Mr. and Mrs. Norris Northup (sic), moving with them to Trempealeau as a boy. He was graduated from Trempealeau High School and married the former Agnes Larson in 1938 at Colfax. Following their marriage the couple lived in Minneapolis where he was employed in the maintenance shops of the Soo Line Railroad. He was a veteran of European service in World War II.

Survivors are: His parents, living in Trempealeau; his wife; a son, John, and a daughter, Velma, Minneapolis, and two half-sisters, Mrs. Blanch Reichert, Prescott, and Mrs. Dena Leadstrom, Eau Claire.

(Source: (unknown newspaper, July 3, 1963)
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Gordon married Agnes Bergetta Larson on 5 February 1938.¹ (Agnes Bergetta Larson was born on 12 April 1917 in Wisconsin,^{1 8} died on 12 January 2007 in Minnesota and was buried after 12 January 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1940 US Census in Minneapolis, MN on 9 April 1940. ¹

1940 US Census
Sheet 11B, District 89-276, Family 204, Roll 1986
Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota
1535 Washington Street; Home rented $19
Gordon Northup..Head..24..MN..12th grade..boiler maker, steam railroad..earned $1200 in 1939..Residence in 1935: Trempealeau, Wisconsin
Agnes Northup..Wife..22..WI..12th grade..Residence in 1935: Dunn, Wisconsin
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