the soldier Karl Johan Karlsson Stål (1867 – 1942) Högsby, Kalmar, Sweden emigrated to the USA on May 3, 1886, only 19 years old. The trip went to Hutchinson Kansas and his older brother who had emigrated a year earlier.

the homesteader from Lysvik, Värmland, Nils Olsson Löfgren born in 1853 and his wife Karolina Nilsdotter born in 1857 had several children including a son August Hilmer Löfgren born on December 1, 1892.

The sugar mill worker, foreman and later carpenter Per Nilsson (1858-1942) born in Nordviddinge Skåne Sweden and his wife Anna Jönsson (1860-1939) born in Linneröd Skåne Sweden had several children, among them the daughter Anna Quirentia Nilsson in Ystad in 1888. She would be the first really big movie star in Hollywood.

Ernst Otto Johansson was born on 24 December 1884 in the village of Persnäs on Öland, Sweden. During the interrogation, the family stands as "poor couple" in a property that was owned by the village.

Indian Motorcycle was founded by the Swede Carl Oscar Hedström together with the American George M. Hendee in 1900.