Seldovia remembers
Seldovia remembers
Paul Elias Myklebust

Paul Elias Myklebust

January 15, 1894, Syvde, Norway — October 03, 1944, Seldovia, Alaska

Buried in Seldovia City Cemetery Plot #176

PAUL MYKLEBUST was born in Myklebost or Syvde Norway in 1894.

In 1913 he sailed on the Empress of Britain from Liverpool arriving in New Brunswick, Canada, proceeded to St. Albans, Vermont, and listed his destination as Tacoma, Washington.

In 1917 when he registered for the draft in WWI, he was living in Butte, Montana and working as a miner. In 1920 he was working at a logging camp in Thurston, Washington

Paul was living in Seldovia in 1930, still single and working as a fisherman for a local cannery.

In 1936 he applied for US citizenship, but he died in Seldovia October 3, 1944, before the application was complete. Records indicate he drowned.

Myklebost or Syvde is a village in Vanylven Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located at the end of the Syvdsfjorden about 12 kilometres east of the municipal center of Fiskåbygd and 16 kilometres south of the village of Rovdane.