Peter Erickson Bolander was born March, 1865 in Sweden. His first child was supposedly born in Escanaba, Michigan in December, 1890. He filed his Declaration of Intention in Escanaba in April, 1890. He then settled in Two Harbors, Lake County, Minnesota. He was naturalized in Two Harbors in April 1897. He is listed in Two Harbors with family in the 1895 Minnesota State Census. According to the 1900 US census for Two Harbors Peter Bolander immigrated in 1888. The census gives his birth date and states that he married in 1888. He married Anna Elizabeth Liljegren, born 1869 in Ljuder, Kronobergs, Sweden. (Her ancestry has been traced.) In the passenger list from Goteborg, Sweden in 1888 Anna is listed as a single woman, with destination Escanaba, Michigan. Her brother had settled there earlier. Where in Sweden was Peter Erickson Bolander born? Where did he and Anna Liljegren marry in 1888? Their marriage was not found in Michigan records. They did not marry in Sweden.