EKENBERG, Martin

Roosevelt Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CA

EKENBERG, Martin Jules (1866-1937), born in Sweden, he arrived in San Pedro in 1885.

Martin Jules Ekenberg = [1895] Mabel Gertrude Markle (1872-1955)

• 0. Ruth Ann [dau. of Farnan Farvreau] (1893-1976)
• 1. Margori Vendla Ekenberg (1896-1986) = [1919] John Henry Slingerland (1889-1956)

1. Ida A. (1916-)

2. Marjorie Vendla (1920-1994) = [1939] William George Krog (1920- )

1. Kirsten Krog

2. Jan Krog

3. Richard Cooper Slingerland (1925-1995)

4. ?

• 2. Mable Lillian Ekenberg (1897-1952) = Earl Kuhl

1. Hugh Kuhl (b. c. 1922-)

• 3. Ralph M. Ekenberg (1898-1968)

=====In the News~</

May 1, 1920 [San Pedro Daily News]: “San Pedro man charged with making whisky. Martin Ekenberg arrested on Santa Cruz Island and apparatus taken. A fast submarine chaser from the Sub Base here returned from Santa Cruz Island yesterday with internal revenue officers who were searching the island for reported moonshine whisky stills. Prohibition Agent A. O. Kriete, head of the party, returned with Martin Ekenberg, well known ex-saloon man of San Pedro, who was arrested on a charge of violating prohibition laws. Ekenberg is the second man to be placed under arrest on the Channel Islands on charges of prohibition violations. Capt. Ira Eaton, the first man to be arrested, and Ekenberg were arraigned before United States Commissioner S. G. Long, who fixed bail in both cases at $1,000 cash. Internal revenue agents declared this morning that a third still has been found in the Santa Barbara home of Eaton. Parts of a still were also said to have been found at Ekenberg's house on Santa Cruz Island, where a set of coils and a boiler were concealed in a wooden box. After his arrest Eaton told prohibition agents that a school for moonshiners has been in operation on remote and waterless San Nicolas Island and others on Santa Cruz, San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Anacapa Islands. Graduates from the school are maintaining small distilleries on the islands, Eaton said. Ten barrels of whisky mash were seized by federal agents when they raided Eaton's lease on the island last Tuesday. Eaton offered to disclose the location of all the illicit stills on the islands if paid for his trouble, he told the agents. Eaton claims he will clear himself of all blame in the arrest. Reports were circulated here several months ago that a still was turning out moonshine whisky on Catalina Island and that fishing boats were actively engaged in transporting the whisky to San Pedro for sale. Revenue agents made a search of the island, but could find no trace of the phantom distillery.”

May 8, 1937 [San Pedro Daily News]: “Martin Ekenberg taken by death. Martin J. Ekenberg, 70, Van Camp Sea Food Co. employee, and a resident of San Pedro for the past 45 years, died at his home, 763 W. Tenth street, early this morning following a brief illness. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, Mr. Ekenberg came to San Pedro shortly before the turn of the century, married and for many years lived on South Beacon street overlooking the bay and the Park, where his widow, Mrs. Mabel G. Ekenberg maintained a studio and taught the piano. Surviving besides Mrs. Ekenberg are three daughters, Mrs. Ed Young of Long Beach; Mrs. J. H. Slingerland and Mrs. Earl Kuhl of San Pedro, and a son, Ralph Ekenberg of Wilmington, and eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at the H. R. Halverson chapel, Tuesday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Oscar J. Nurse, rector of the St. Peter's Episcopal church, officiating.”