Papers of Emil T. Bertelsen, his wife Florence Volz, her second husband Louis Grundwick, and Florence’s son-in-law Albert A. Baker, Jr.

Emil Bertelsen, son of German immigrant Adolph F. Bertelsen, was born in 1889 and married Florence Volz in 1913. An accountant for a San Francisco lithography company, Emil died in 1923, and Florence married Louis (Lars) Grundwick, a San Francisco candy maker. Emil and Florence had one daughter, Lucille, who married candy company executive Albert A. Baker, Jr. in 1953.

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