Chilberg family

Chilberg (alternate spellings include Killberg and Kylburg) is a Swedish-American family that came from Knäred, Halland, Sweden, to America in 1846 with the boat Superb, starting their journey in Gothenburg to arrive in Philadelphia.[1] This family were early American pioneers moving west, from Sweden, to Bergholm in Wapello, Iowa, with a short period in Oregon to finally settle in the Skagit Valley at Pleasant Ridge, La Conner, Skagit County, Washington. John Edward Chilberg later moved to Seattle as a child in the early 1870s.[2]

Prominent members

The oldest known family member was Karl Killberg, a parish clerk living 1695 in Hishult, Halland, Sweden. One account of the family's migration to the US states that the family settled in Seattle and owned a grocer and a knitting house,[3][4] the very first Scandinavian businesses in Seattle.[5] The success of the grocer, which was called Childberg Brothers, led to other business ventures.[5]

The most prominent members of the American branch of the family include John Edward Chilberg, the president of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909-1910.[6] John Edward was the grandson of Carl Johan Chilberg, who had come to the United States in the 1840s.[2][1] He got into shipping and became the secretary of the Puget Sound & Central American Steamship Co. in 1898 and president of the Seattle Shipyards Co. in 1906.[3] His uncle, Andrew Chilberg, served as the president of the Scandinavian American Bank of Seattle and in 1879 he became the vice-consul of Sweden and Norway.[2] John Edward Chilberg II, the grandson of John Edward Chilberg, was a very active American production designer and art director.

From the branches still living in Sweden, there was Johan Peter Killberg, who started the Killberg Book Stores in Ängelholm and Helsingborg.

Grandson to Don Chilberg and son of Michael Chilberg, DonMichael Chilberg is an accomplished stage actor and performer, has worked as an Assistant Director and has produced a number of award winning projects. He is the writer and director of the short Film Road 253 which won top 10 in an international film competition and was screened at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood California. With the success of the film he started California Poppy Productions LLC located in Fortbragg California but it was soon discovered that his business partner and film editor (name not to be mentioned here) embezzeled money from the infant company and used her editing capacity in which she worked and doctored the credits to show she directed the film and she then embezzled the teams Go Fund Me account of nearly three thousand dollars. It was later discovered by members of the rest of the company and she was subsequently asked to resign. DonMichael left the company and continued to make award winning films with Kiara Ramirez and the rest of the members of California Poppy Productions who all left the company after finding out the theft. He continues to perform in plays at many different theatres all around Northern California and has a passion for helping aspiring young directors in film schools from Sanfrancisco Film School and New York Film Academy in Los Angeles California.


References
  1. Lindgren, Charlotte. "Halländska emigrantöden" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  2. Rochester, Junius (23 September 2008). "Chilberg, John Edward". HistoryLink.org. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  3. Williams, Greg (2017). The United States Merchant Marine in World War I: Ships, Crews, Shipbuilders and Operators. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 9781476667034.
  4. "The Killberg/Chilberg/Kylburg Family History". Sweden Genealogy Log Cabin (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  5. Norlen, Paul (2007). Swedish Seattle. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 9780738548081.
  6. Dougherty, Phil (1 February 2009). "Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle celebrates Swedish Day on July 31, 1909". HistoryLink.org. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
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