EMMA EDELMAN HOGENSON JOSEFSEN was born June 23, 1902, in Kenai, Alaska, to Domnina Oskolkoff Edelman, of Kenaitze (Athabaskan) Indian and Russian descent, and Edvin (Edwin) Edelman, a Finn explorer from Porvoo. She was the sister of Nina EDELMAN Lund and sister-in-law of Arthur Kvarness. Her brother, Jack’s wife, Pauline JULIUSSEN Edelman, died in a plane crash with her daughter Jacqueline Edelman in 1951.
Emma grew up in Kenai and attended a school run by the Russian Orthodox Church there, but she lived in Seldovia most of her adult life.
She married Martin Hogenson on August 3, 1919 in Seldovia. They had no children.
About 1921, she married Simon Josefsen, and they were the parents of Gina, Cleopatra, Emma, Simon, and Lillian.
Emma died May 11, 1993 in Seldovia, and is buried in Plot #41.