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02 January 2023

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VICTOR ERNEST KLEVEN

Victor Ernest Kleven was born on 23 March 1894 in Faribault, Rice, Minnesota to Christian O Kleven (b 1851) and Anna Rue (1858-1925). His siblings were: Chester E (1884-1913), Eva Ruth (b 1891) and Esther Clara (b 1897). Census records for the Kleven family placed them in several different locations: Faribault, Minnesota (1895), Glenville, Freeborn, Minnesota (1900) and Northwood, Grand Forks, North Dakota (1910). Victor's father died between 1900 and 1910.

Victor immigrated to Canada on 6 June 1911 via North Portal, Saskatchewan and gave his destination as Herbert, Saskatchewan. The 1911 census placed Annie, Eva, Victor and Esther on a farm on 13-10-W3, Saskatchewan. Mrs Annie Rue Kleven had homesteads filed on SE and SW-32-13-10-W3 in the RM of Coulee #136. Grants were issued on 13 May 1916 and 23 Sept 1914, respectively. Victor Ernest Kleven had a homestead grant issued on NE-6-14-10-W3 in the same RM on 2 June 1917.

By 1916 Annie, Victor and Esther were living at 510 8th Street in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Victor was a law student. They were living at 658 University Drive in 1921 and Victor continued his studies. Between 1916 and 1921 Esther had married a man with the surname Sparks, but was already a widow by 1921. Travel documents indicated that Victor was in Oxford, England on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1922. He was still single when he returned to Canada in 1924. In 1925 he was living at 402 247 3rd Ave South in Saskatoon and was a barrister with Bence, Stevenson and McLorg. His mother died on 19 March 1925 in Saskatoon and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Sometime before 11 May 1926 Victor married Marion Florence Jones who was born in Calgary, Alberta circa 1906. Travel documents to England in 1926 have them traveling together as husband and wife and living at 108 Saskatchewan Crescent in Saskatoon. In 1926 Victor was a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan. It is likely that Marion's parents were Clifford T Jones (b 1874) and Elizabeth J (b 1879), but her linage could not be proven. If these were her parents, she had the following siblings: Myrtle E (b 1901), Ralph J (b 1903), Nora C (b 1908), Lillian A (b 1910) and Eleanor (b 1914). In 1930 Victor and Marion were living in San Francisco, California.

Marion died in 1940 and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Victor married Concha Ortiz y Pino in December of 1943 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1952 he was vice president and professor at the University on the Rio Grande. He died in New Mexico in June 1956 and was buried in Rosario Cemetery in Santa Fe. Concha was born on 20 May 1910 in Galisteo, Santa Fe to Jose Ortiz Y Pino II (b 1918) and Pabita D Pino (1880-1963). She died on 30 September 2006 in Santa Fe and was also buried in Rosario Cemetery. The FindaGrave site has a very interesting write up of her life. See also Las Cruses Sun-News.

This family tree can be found on Ancestry under the title 3rd Ave Kleven Tree.