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Name: MOHR, Gustav Lous
Nee: bro of Fridtjof Georg Lous Mohr
Birth Date: 9 Sep 1898 Stavanger
Death Date: 28 Dec 1936 Kwale District, Mombasa, drowned crossing a river
Nationality: Norwegian
First Date: 1920
Profession: Farmer
Area: Njoro, 1925 Kanga Rongai, 1937 Kanga Est. Sabukia, Ruiru
Married: In Nairobi 1932 Littan Bennich b. 1900, d. 1985
Children: dau. Turid (1933)
Book Reference: Nellie, Shadows, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Titania, Aschan, Rift Valley, Red 31, Barnes
General Information:
Nellie Grant went to lunch at the Mohrs' in Jan. 1935 with Ingrid Lindstrom.
Titania - Gustav Mohr, a Norwegian colonist who was famished to the point of frenzy for serious conversation. ..
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 19 May 1925 - G.F.L. Mohr
Barnes - Mombasa Cemetery - Mr G.L. Mohr, died 28 Dec 1936, died in Kwale District, Swede
Hut has G.L. Moir 1931 Ruiru. Hut has George
Gazette 23 Dec 1937 probate - says he died at Nairobi
Klas Mohr: Gustav arrived in Kenya in 1920 to join his brother on Kanga farm. He worked together with his brother for some months after which he worked in different farms.He was general manager at Murera, Ruiru in 1925. He left Murera in 1936 for another job in Tanga, Tanganyika, in order to take care of three farms owned by an English company.
Turid Mohr: My father wrote a book about his adventures in America: Adventurous and Penniless. My father was a close friend of Karen Blixen and they continued their correspondence when she had left Kenya until he died. He helped her with the move back to Denmark and already in Kenya he tried to get her first novels published.