Rønneberg, Trygve b. 27 Sep 1880 Stavanger, Norway d. 3 Nov 1942 Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California: The Rønneberg Family Tree

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Name	Rønneberg, Trygve
Born	27 Sep 1880	Stavanger, Norway
Christened	22 Oct 1880	Stavanger Domkirke, Stavanger, Norway
Christened		Trygve Rønneberg's Baptism This page in the Stavanger Domkirke records shows Trygve's baptism. It is hard to read but indicates Trygve was born 27 Sept 1880 and baptized 22 October 1880. He was number 124 of boys baptized in that church that year.
Gender	Male
Confirmation	4 Oct 1896	Stavanger Domkirke, Stavanger, Norway
Occupation	Ingeniør ( civil engineer-structural engineer)
Died	3 Nov 1942	Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California
Buried	Sunset Mausoleum, Kensington, California
Person ID	I4490	Ronneberg Family
Last Modified	18 Jun 2012

Father	Rønneberg, Tørres Andersen, b. 31 Mar 1845, Sola, Norway , d. 11 Dec 1913, Stavanger, Norway (Age 68 years)
Mother	Kartevold, Thomine "Zilla" Thorsen, b. 9 Mar 1847, Stavanger, Norway , d. 3 Jan 1920, Stavanger, Norway (Age 72 years)
Married	19 Feb 1874	Stavanger, Norway
Family ID	F1663	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Anderson, Wilhelmina Emelia, b. 2 May 1882, Chicago, Illinois , d. 13 Jan 1969, San Rafael, California (Age 86 years)

Married 30 Jan 1907 Chicago, Illinois

Children

	1. Rønneberg, Infant, b. 30 Sep 1907, San Francisco, California , d. 30 Sep 1907, San Francisco, California (Age 0 years)
+	2. Ronneberg, Terres Albert, b. 6 Jun 1911, San Francisco, California , d. 17 May 1985, Sonoma, California (Age 73 years)
+	3. Rønneberg, Janet Madeline, b. 31 May 1914, Berkeley, California , d. 12 Jan 2006 (Age 91 years)
+	4. Ronneberg, Warren Anderson, b. 13 Jul 1917, Oakland, Alameda County, California , d. 15 Sep 1986, Concord, California (Age 69 years)

Family ID F1660 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Photos » Slide Show		Trygve Rønneberg Grand Father of Skip and Terry Rønneberg
		Tørres Rønneberg Family Back rw: Arne, Nathal, Gyda Middle rw: Anna, Tørres, Einar, Tomine, Trygve Front middle: Carl
		The Chronicle Building SF Rebuilt Structural Engineering By Trygve Rønneberg, Ca 1907
		Mills Building reconstructed. Engineering by Trygve Rønneberg, Ca 1908 S.F. 2 years after the fire
		Rønneberg and Thostensen family photo. Pictured but not in datafile: Grethe Thorsen Gyda Thostensen Magda Thostensen Thora Thostensen Cornelia Thorsen Louis Jacobson, Photographer and Cornelia's fiancee.
		Harold Hansen, Trygve Rønneberg, Anna Rønneberg Possibly Jens Olai Hansen
		Anderson Family
		Trygve Ronneberg and Terres Lance Trygve is holding his grandson, Terres Lance, 4 months, in 1940.
		Trygve Ronneberg holding his grandson Terres Lance at 3 months. Trygve Ronneberg and his grandson Terres Lance ca 1940 at 3 months old. This picture was taken in Menlo Park where Terres' parents lived at the time.
		Trygve Ronneberg, Willa, Hilda and Terres Lance Taken in Menlo Park, this pictures shows Trygve, daugther-in-law Hilda, grandson Terres Lance and Willa, Trygve's wife.
		Trygve Ronneberg with son Warren at brother's home in Menlo Park, Ca. Taken 29 Sep 1940, Trygve, his son Warren, Terres Lance at 3 months, and his mother Hilda can be seen. Grandmother Willa is seated, but hidden behind Hilda.
		Anna Therese Rønneberg and family
		Jens Olai Hansen Anna Therese Rønneberg together with her brother Trygve and her in-laws, the Hansens.
		Ronneberg Home in Berkeley, CA A construction picture of looking at the Ronneberg Home from Oak Ridge road. Terres Albert and a Mrs Paulsen are pictured. This home was designed by San Francisco architect Willis Polk for Trygve Ronneberg.
		Willa and Trygve Ronneberg at the Claremont. claremont Hotel 1941
		Trygve and Willia Ronneberg Taken near the Clarmont Hotel in 1941

Documents » Slide Show		Ship Manifest 1905 Trygve Rønneberg sailed to the United States on S.S. Campania from Liverpool England 9 September 1905 and arrived in New York 15 Sept 1905. He was listed as a Civil Engineer from Stavanger Norway with a destination of Humbolt St Chicago, IL, the business of D.R. Reit & Co. The manifest says he was 20 years old but he really was 24 almost 25, Single, Scandinavian and he could read and write. He paid his own passage and had $250 with him. He did not have a ticket to his final destination, and it appears he had been in Chicago before in 1905. He had no medical or other problems.
		1930 US Census The circled entry is the entry for Trgyve Rønneberg and his family in Berkley CA.
		1910 Census 1910 US Census. Trygve Rønneberg and his wife in San Francisco, CA
		Trygve Ronneberg Car Accident This 10 Apr 1916 story comes from The Evening News, San Jose, CA Page 5 Vol 65.
		Trygve Ronneberg's WWII draft registration
		Trygve Rønneberg visit to America in 1902.
		Trygve Rønneberg's Confirmation record. Here is the church record of Trygve Rønneberg's confirmation. It took place4 October 1896. In the same church as the baptized, Stavanger Domkrike in Norway.
		Trygve Ronneberg's passport application, page 1 After becoming a naturalized citizen on 20 Nov 1911, Trygve Ronneberg applied for a US passport to travel to England and Norway in 1919.
		Trygve Ronneberg's passport application, page 2 This is the second page of Trygve's passport application in 1919.
		Voter Registration This page show Trygve and Willa Ronneberg's voter registration in Berkeley, CA Precinct NO. B1 in 1915.
		Trygve Rønneberg's US WWI Draft registration.
		Stavanger Museum Letter 1 Translation: 22 January, 1970 Mr. Tørres Rønneberg 38 Mariner Green Drive Corte Madera 24925 San Rafael Calif. USA The Stavanger Museum is very grateful for the mailing of the artifacts, steinblubbe and two spinnehjul, found ca 50 years ago at Rønneberg in Sola, and enclosed is a picture of the artifacts. With kind regards Ingeborg Bang Andersen
		Stavanger Museum letter 2 Translation: 21 October 1970 Mr. Tørres Rønneberg 38. Mariner Green Drive Corte Medera 24925 San Rafael Calif. USA. We send you our best thanks for the club of gneiss/granite, and 2 spinnehjul of serpentine, found at Røyneberg, gnr. 35, Sola about. 50 years ago, (also the) contribution (from) v/Mrs Mossie Nilsen, Oslo, jfr. nr. 9507 or 9508 on enclosed separate page. With kind regards for Stavanger Museum Archeology Division Ingeborg Bang Anderson
		San Francisco City Directory 1908 Trygve Rønneberg is listed
		Trygve and Willa Rønneberg Marriage Certificate
		Trygve Ronneberg 1916 accident article. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE article regarding Trygve Ronneberg's car accident.
		1940 Census listing Trygve and Wilhelmina Rønneberg
		Article about T Ronneberg's building projects Western Architect and Engineer January – December 1919 Vol 58-59 pg 119

Headstones

Ronneberg name plate
The final resting place for Trygve Ronneberg and his wife Willa. Located in the Sunset Mausoleum and Columbarium.

Histories » Slide Show		A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF TRYGVE RONNEBERG (1880-1942) Written by Terres Ronneberg on September 11, 2007 and updated on June 18, 2012
		Man Offers Life to Save Family From the Oakland Tribune, 10 April 1916 - an account of what happened when Trygve Rønneberg was visiting Mt Diablo and his car began to roll with his family still in it.
		Trygve Ronneberg worked on this project Reprinted from Architectural Resources Group, Inc Architects, Planners and Conservators Copra Warehouse, 740 Heinz Avenue, Berkeley, California Draft Historical Resources Evaluation, February 6, 2009 Page 6
		Norwegian Emigrants and Businessmen in America J Burner & Company 1927 Trygve Rønneberg Norske Utvandrere og Forretningsdrivenede I AmerikaJ Burner & Company 1927 Trygve Rønneberg Article about Trygve Rønneberg in both Norwegian and English

Albums

Trygve Ronneberg (21)
Photos of Trygve and his family

Notes

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF TRYGVE RONNEBERG (1880-1942)
Written by Terres Ronneberg on September 11, 2007 and updated on June 18, 2012

Trygve Ronneberg was born to Tørres Ronneberg (1845-1913) and Thomine "Zilla" Thorsen Kortvold (1847-1920) on 27 September 1880 in Stavanger, Norway. His baptism took place in the Stavanger Cathedral on 22 October 1880. Trygve was the fourth of nine children.
He received his primary education in his native land, Norway. Then, he attended Porsgrunn Technical School in Norway for two years. Thereafter, he continued his education in two German technical schools: first he attended technical school in Ilmenau, Thuringen, Germany, then he went to northern Germany and finished his technical schooling in Neustadt, Mecklinburg, Germany in 1902 becoming a civil engineer specializing in structural engineering.
Engineer Ronneberg immigrated to the United States in 1900 aboard the ship, St. Paul, and then he traveled to Chicago to work with his brother, Nathal Ronneberg, in the firm of D.H.Burnham Construction Company. In 1902, Trygve returned to Norway for a visit and to Neustadt, Germany where, I believe, he submitted his final drawings for his technical degree. There is a photograph, taken in 1902 in Germany, with Trygve in a large group of people who were, perhaps, members of a fraternal organization. Also, I have the drawings that Trygve submitted to Neustadt Technical School dated 1902.

The Hamburg Passenger List shows that Trygve returned to New York on 16 August 1902 aboard the ship--Blucher. His passage took him from Hamburg, Germany to Boulogne, France, to Southampton, England and finally to New York. Again, in 1905, Trygve traveled to Norway for a visit--this time returning via Ellis Island, New York on 15 September 1905 aboard the ship Campania. He returned to Chicago, Illinois with two hundred and fifty dollars in his pocket--quite a sum of money in those days.

In 1907, Trygve was sent by the firm, D.H. Burnham Construction Company ( Offices were located at 1915 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco), and he remained with the firm until approximately 1910. He worked for the Willis Polk Company to San Francisco to be the head supervisor of the twenty floor "Hobart Building" located on Market Street in San Francisco. He remained with the Polk firm until 1916. It was the Willis Polk firm who did much of the work for the 1915 Pan American Exposition in San Francisco. From 1916 to 1919, Trygve Ronneberg was the engineer and business manager for Louis P.Hobart. Sometime around 1918 he established his own business with his office located in the Crocker Building in San Francisco. Trygve was the structural engineer for the following buildings in San Francisco: the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph (a twenty-six story, 500 ft. building, built in 1924, which was the tallest building of the time in San Francisco, the Hobart Building, which has twenty stories, and is still considered one of the most handsome office buildings in the world, the Union Oil Building; the California Bank Building, the O'Connor & Moffitt Building, the Steinhart Aquarium, part of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, and the Legion of Honor Building, overlooking the Golden Gate and presented to the city of San Francisco by Mrs. Adolph Spreckles-considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. He was also the structural engineer for the Crocker Estate and Crocker First National Bank Building, as well as the Post Office in Portland,Oregon. He was the assistant architect of the Army and Navy YMCA Building (on the Embarcadero in San Francisco), and he planned the foundation and steel frame for the reconstruction of the San Francisco Chronicle Building. Trygve also helped design the unique high steel arch feature of the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City, which was also known as Penn Station. It is believed that Trygve worked with Willis Polk when he designed the Willis Polk/Sunol Water Temple in 1910.

Before leaving Chicago for San Francisco, Trygve married Wilhelmina Emilia Anderson of Chicago on 30 January 1907. They lived at 1278 Sacramento Street in San Francisco, California until approximately 1912 when the family moved to Berkeley, California. Trygve had a house built at 38 Tunnel Rd. Berkeley,which was designed by Willis Polk, the famous architect. In 1938, Trygve and Wilhelmina moved to their summer home in Inverness, California where he lived until his death.
Trygve and Wilhelmina had three children, Terres Albert (1911-1985), Janet Madeline (1914-2006) and Warren Anderson (1917-1986). Terres was born in San Francisco. Janet and Warren were born in Berkeley, California.
Trygve received his Naturalization papers on 20 November 1911 from the Superior Court of San Francisco, California.
In 1920, for a third and final time, Trygve went to Norway to visit his family. He returned to San Francisco, California aboard the ship Mauretania on 13 March 1920, which left from Southampton, England.

A pocket watch, owned by Warren Anderson (Skip) Ronneberg, was given to Trygve Ronneberg by M.H. DeYoung with an engraving on the back watch cover “M.H. DeYoung in appreciation of services as Superintendent of Construction of the Chronicle Building, 1909.” This watch is engraved with the initials “TR” on the front cover.

Trygve died in Los Angeles, California on 3 November 1942 of pulmonary edema and a cerebral hemorrhage. He and his wife, Wilhelmina, are interred in the mausoleum, which is located in the Sunset View Cemetery in Kensington, California.