#M6b ROCINE (LUNDQUIST) Victor Gabriel and CLAUSSEN, Bertha Christiana
ROCINE, (LUNDQUIST), Victor Gabriel
Born: 6 Sep 1859
Died: 25 Feb 1943
Father: #M12 Carl Gustav (LARSSON) LUNDQUIST
Mother: #M13 Karin (Carolina) ERRSON
Married: (1) Emily H. Rocine (maiden name and dates unknown.) They had one child, Vera. (2) Bertha Christiana CLAUSSEN. They had two children.
CLAUSSEN, Bertha Christiana
Born: 25 June 1883, Lake Town, Chicago, Illinois
Died: 20 Apr 1964
Father: Juergen Henrich CLAUSSEN (born 1844 in Weddingstedt,
Holstein, Germany. Died 23 Oct 1893.)
Mother: Elisabeth Samanda WOLFRAM (born 10 Jul 1848 in Catonsville,
Baltimore, Maryland. Died 21 Oct 1910 in Paulina, Iowa.) They were married in 1919.
Children:
1. (M) DeVon ROCINE (13 Feb 1921-Mar 1981)
2. (M) #M3j Rex ROCINE (b. 1 Jan 1928, living) Md. (1) Louise DEL
GATTI on 21 Sep 1946. They had three sons. Louise died Sep 1972. Md. (2) Frances LIPMAN on
16 Oct 1977.
(Source of above information is from biography below.)
Biography of The Rocine,
(Lundquist) Claussen FamilyBy Rex Rocine (Written March 6, 2000)
Little is known of Victor Gabriel Rocine, (Lundquist), during the period from his birth until 1920. One place it is said he landed on American soil in 1867. Another place it is said he and a friend, or relative, (A. W. Cureo), spent two years in Utah around 1873. There is definite evidence he joined his brothers and sisters in Hyde Park, Utah in late 1881, plus his brother Emanuel speaks of some experiences with Victor, perhaps around 1882 to 1884, and again 1889. [For another version of Victor's coming to the United States, see Karin (Carolina) ERRSON. and see statement at the end of this biography regarding the siblings of Victor.] A. W. Cureo mentions meeting him again in Denver in 1885. He also said Victor received a PhD from Haddock & Holt in San Francisco. To be realistic, it must be remembered that in many of the papers saved by Victor, the wording, "took a course", "studied under", and similar wordings were common, and seldom meant a formal course of study at a university. He was frequently referred to as Dr. V. G. Rocine, but in no place is there evidence he completed a formal university program, though he did take a couple courses at two different medical schools in the Chicago area.
Some facts about Victor Rocine are certain. He was married to Emily H. Rocine, and they had a daughter, Vera. Dates of either are unknown. He was a lecturer and writer on the subjects of mind and health. He took a course in Phrenology from Professor L. A. Vaught in Chicago, whose book he sold in later years. His writing appears to have started in Chicago around the turn of the century. One source says the Rocine School of Human Nature Studies was founded in Chicago in 1893, which might mean he and Emily were married by then, since that business was going well into the ‘30’s. From the turn of the century into the ‘20’s there are several activities he was involved in: he received a diploma in 1908 for passing an examination in high school subjects which entitled him to enter a medical or dental college in Illinois; he completed his notes on the 20 Chemical Types of People during this period; he formally changed his name to Rocine; he completed and placed on sale the five volumes which make up the Chemical Diagnosis, Bio Chemistry; he lectured regularly in Chicago every year through at least 1927.
Bertha Christiana Claussen (Rocine) was born June 25, 1883 in Lake Town, (Chicago), Illinois, the seventh of ten children to Juergen Henrich Claussen, born 1844 in Weddingstedt, Holstein, (Germany). In 1871, Juergen Henrich married Elisabeth Samanda Wolfram, (born July 10, 1848 in Catonsville, [Baltimore], Maryland), who had come west to Chicago about 1868. Later, in 1884, Juergen and Elisabeth resettled with their children, along with her widowed mother Christina Erdmuthe Knupfer Wolfram, and her unmarried sister Adolphine Wolfram, near Germantown, O’Brien County, Iowa. Juergen died October 23, 1893 and Elisabeth, October 21, 1910 in Paulina, Iowa. The Claussen family has been traced to 1800 in Holstein and the Wolfram family is descended from a long line of Lutheran ministers dating back as far as the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries in Saxony, which was Eastern Germany.
Bertha graduated with her sister Pauline from Des Moines Still College on May 29, 1812, and interned at Des Moines General Hospital in 1913. After, she and her sister practiced for some years in Indianola, Iowa.
It is not known exactly when or where Victor and Bertha Claussen met. It is known that she was in San Bernardino, California in 1919, and that they were married in 1919. It is also known that their first son, DeVon was born February 13, 1921. Their second son, Rex, was born January 1, 1928, at Marysville, Washington. There is evidence they were living in the general area of Marysville in 1928 through 1931. He lectured at San Jose and Oakland, California in late 1930 and the first half of 1931, as well as Tacoma, Washington in July 1931.
On November 7, 1931, the Rocine’s purchased their home in Portland, Oregon. They continued to have business interests near East Stanwood, Washington, plus he continued to lecture in California and Portland through most of the ‘30’s. He also continued to write and publish books, authoring a total of some 96 books, booklets, and maps during his lifetime, in addition to many individual diet plans for several of their patients. They also manufactured a product called Food Blend, made from goat’s milk. He died February 25, 1943. Bertha continued the business through the rest of her life, passing away April 20, 1964.
Their son DeVon was mentally retarded. While he completed most of his elementary and high school education by the time he was 20, a short time in the shipyards during World War II was apparently too much for him and his Mother had him committed to the State Hospital in about 1944, where he spent the rest of his life, passing away around 1975.
Their second son Rex went into the Navy in 1945 where he met Louise Del Gatti whom he married at Rochester, New York on September 21, 1946. They had three boys, Victor, born August 5, 1948; Kevin born, January 16, 1952; and Bryan, born March 17, 1958. Louise died in September 1972, and in 1975, after getting Bryan settled in Syracuse University, Rex moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to start a new life. Rex is proud to say that all of his boys have a college education, and two have Masters degrees. All are married and with their own families. Rex has since married Frances Lipman on October 16, 1977, and they are living happily in St. Louis.
(Rex adds the following information in an e-mail to Wallace F. Gray on March 6, 2000, about his father and mother and family: " They frequently took a Sunday drive, he spent a lot of time and money fixing up the place, building a barn where we raised goats, had a garden, our own well, an orchard, berries, nuts, built his own vault for his books, Mother carried on her own limited practice, they usually had a maid or family friend stay with us boys when they traveled, etc. Also interesting stories: he always tried to make out like he was older than he really was, and one day a reporter came to the house to interview "the doctor who was 106" - but of course he wouldn't talk to him; or like he had the name of Cuveau in Washington, and I went to school initially as Rhymer, all because he wanted to protect his privacy.")
Note this statement telling of Victor's (and siblings's) early experiences with their family: It was in 1880 that the family first heard of the Gospel by Olaf Olafson, a farmer living some 12 miles south of them. He would stop by and discuss Mormonism and Utah. Carl's wife Karin seemed to be the only one in the family who was interested. About a year after the death of Carl, Emanuel Lundquist reports, Karin sold the farm and with 4,000 Krawns from the sale, left for Utah with her children. According to a copy of the Skarsburg Co.1881 emmigration (Family History Library Microfilm #083159) the family consisted of "Karin Ersdotter, Axel Lundquist, Emanuel Lundquist, Carl Emil Lundquist, Erick Benjamin Lundquist, Hilma Augusta Lundquist, Hulda Maria Lundquist and Viktor Lundquist." This means all eight surviving children accompanied their mother to the States. Most of the family went to Logan, Utah, but apparently Victor, Aaron and Alex went to the East. Emanuel's autobiography indicates that they joined the family in Logan about a month later. (Taken from information in Karin Ersson site.)
For origin of the Lundquist and Rocine names, see The Lundquist Family
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