Jonas Lien f 21.2.1877 i Lesjaskog- 13.7.1959 i New York

[Jan Åge Habberstad]

Jonas Lien (21.2.1877 i Lesjaskog- 13.7.1959 i Port Washington, New York) var sønn av Paul Olsen Molmen Lien (22.12.1838- 13.6.1900 ) og Marit Jørgensdatter Brandli () ?

Jonas Lien ble utdannet ved Kristiania tekniske skole 1901. Han emigrerte til USA 1902.

Gift 18.5.1905 i Brooklyn, New York med Erika Pernille Doblaug (10.7.1879 i Tusnes? Hedemarken-1965 i New York), datter av Anders Johanneson Doblaug () og ?

Barn; Paul Lien (1907-), Marie Lien (1911-), Georg Erik Lien (23.6.1918 i Delaware County, Indiana, - 1.3.1999 i Washtenaw County, Michigan).

Fra 1920 til 1942 fikk Jonas Lien ansvar for modernisering av mange av the American Gas and Electric Company sine anlegg i USA.

Kenneth Bjork;

Lien first found employment as a draftsman with an engineering and contracting firm in New York, then worked with several steel and bridge companies before from 1920 to 1942 was with the American Gas and Electric Company. He was assigned to plan a new coal-handling system conveying the coal buy belts directly from the mine to the overhead bunkers in the power house, the system was linked with rail and barge unloading facilities as well as with facilities for discharging surplus coal into a 120.000 tonn reserve storage.

Lien states that he had the opportunity during a periode of over ten years (until the depression in early thirties) to employ many experienced as well as younger Norwegian engineers.

Lien obtained patents on several of his many original ideas.

Biografi; https://www.strindahistorielag.no/wiki/ ... Jonas_Lien

[Carsten Henrik Schanche]

Erika Pernilles dåp i Furnes

SAH, Vang prestekontor, Hedmark, H/Ha/Haa/L0013: Ministerialbok nr. 13, 1855-1879, s. 59
Brukslenke for sidevisning: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20070110610066

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Jonas eide en gard på Lesjaskog https://www.nb.no/items/8e238b3c93fae7f ... Text=lesja

[Jan Åge Habberstad]

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