By Dianne Kilback
Hulda Wilhelmina Lindgren was born March 30, 1892 in a village called Myllymäki in Finland. The village was on the shore of a small lake. She was the second oldest of ten children. Shortly after she was born, the family moved to a place called Salmi, about 50 kilometres from Helsinki. The Lindgren family made their living farming and fishing.
Hulda, being one of the older children, helped her father mend and make nets for fishing and sold fish from a market stall in Helsinki. When the oldest son left for America at age seventeen, she also helped with shoeing the horses, a chore her brother normally performed.
