J%C3%B8rgine Boomer

Jrgine Slettede Boomer was a NorwegianAmerican businesswoman and entrepreneur, noted for her ragstoriches story as a poor immigrant who became the coowner and manager of one of the worlds largest luxury hotels, the WaldorfAstoria Hotel in New York City.

Jrgine was born into a poor family supported by the tenant farm of Utafor, under the farm of Galde nordre in Bverdalen, a valley in Lom municipality in the county of Oppland, in the Gudbrandsdalen region of Norway. In 1903, she and her older sister Mari emigrated to the United States. Their journey was long and arduous as they often were at the time They first walked 20160km to the center of Fossbergom, then on the back of a horsedrawn cart to Otta, and from there the train to Kristiania. From there they traveled by boat to Bergen, boarded a liner to Hull, England, and from there by train to Liverpool. In Liverpool, they stayed in a boarding house with twenty other women. They left for the New World on the ocean liner RMS Cedric, and arrived, with 2,800 other passengers, in New York City ten days later on June 14, 1903.

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