Ingeborg Sofie Svendsen Borgos

Biography

Ingeborg Sofie Svendsen Borgos was born on February 23, 1974 in Oksnes, Vesteralen, Nordland, Norway. She was the second of four children. Her parents were well-off financially and she had many educational opportunities growing up. She was a gifted musician and singer and excellent at needlework and embroidery. While living in Bergen with her favorite aunt, she met Herman Edward Hansen Klingenberg, a homeopathy practitioner. He was also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When Ingeborg Sofie married him on October 11, 1903, she was disinherited by her father.
Ingeborg and Herman had two daughters, called Sissie and Kitty, in Norway. On November 16, 1904, they left Oslo for Liverpool, where they boarded the S. S. Cedric for New York City. After arriving in America, they spent three months traveling to Salt Lake City, stopping to visit Ingeborg's sister Mary in North Dakota. Once they made it to Utah, the family settled in North Salt Lake, where they had three more children, a daughter and two sons, one of whom passed away a few months later.
Herman was discouraged by the lack of employment he found in Utah and turned to alcohol to drown his disappointments. He struggled to work and adjust to life in the new country. Ingeborg seems to have planned to return to Norway and her family with her children, but she developed a fatal case of appendicitis that her husband did not let her get treatment for soon enough. When she was finally rushed to the hospital, it was too late. She passed away on March 2, 1909 in Salt Lake City and was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery through the charity of her neighbors and friends. She was only thirty-five years old and left behind four children with no family to support them.