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Name: MOHR, Gustav Lous
Nee: bro of Fridtjof Georg Lous Mohr
Birth Date: 9 Sep 1898 Stavanger
Death Date: 27 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 Emilie '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
Mombasa Mbaraki 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.
https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210310448225/mohr-gustav-1898-1936 Norwegian adventurer who became well acquainted with other Norwegian and Swedish settlers in Kenya in the 1920s, also a close friend of Danish Karen Blixen in the last years of her stay on the Ngong farm. He was first manager for three years of a coffee plantation owned by H.P. Krag (Azania Ltd.): from 1926 he was given greater responsibility as farm manager at Murera Estate in Ruiru, owned by Bjarne Kopperud until he resigned in 1936. As an adventurer, Mohr had ample opportunity to go big game hunting, and was often on safari with either visiting Norwegians such as Ridley Borchgrevink or other permanent residents such as William and Sonni Krag. Gustav Mohr often visited his brother Fridtjof Mohr who had a farm at Rongai in the Rift Valley, where they hunted wild animals in the area. He was married in 1932 to Swedish Emelie (Littan) Bennich and the following year their daughter, Turid, was born. About Gustav Mohr's friendship with Karen Blixen, it is said that he was originally a friend of her brother Thomas Dinesen and that she had been impressed by Mohr's literary knowledge. Mohr was known as a good and honest storyteller, especially as a couple, which appealed to Karen Blixen where the two could discuss various literature over an evening drink, and exchange books, often in her home, where she was usually alone. Towards the end of her stay in Kenya, when she was very unhappy, Mohr came to the rescue as a true friend and sorted out all the practicalities of the move back to Denmark. Gustav Mohr himself had his life cut short in 1936 when he had just been given responsibility as manager of three sisal plantations at Tanga. In an attempt to cross a river that had overflowed its banks, he was unlucky and drowned. The funeral took place in Mombasa.
https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210310448225/mohr-gustav-1898-1936 Norwegian adventurer who became well acquainted with other Norwegian and Swedish settlers in Kenya in the 1920s, also a close friend of Danish Karen Blixen in the last years of her stay on the Ngong farm. He was first manager for three years of a coffee plantation owned by H.P. Krag (Azania Ltd.): from 1926 he was given greater responsibility as farm manager at Murera Estate in Ruiru, owned by Bjarne Kopperud until he resigned in 1936. As an adventurer, Mohr had ample opportunity to go big game hunting, and was often on safari with either visiting Norwegians such as Ridley Borchgrevink or other permanent residents such as William and Sonni Krag. Gustav Mohr often visited his brother Fridtjof Mohr who had a farm at Rongai in the Rift Valley, where they hunted wild animals in the area. He was married in 1932 to Swedish Emelie (Littan) Bennich and the following year their daughter, Turid, was born. About Gustav Mohr's friendship with Karen Blixen, it is said that he was originally a friend of her brother Thomas Dinesen and that she had been impressed by Mohr's literary knowledge. Mohr was known as a good and honest storyteller, especially as a couple, which appealed to Karen Blixen where the two could discuss various literature over an evening drink, and exchange books, often in her home, where she was usually alone. Towards the end of her stay in Kenya, when she was very unhappy, Mohr came to the rescue as a true friend and sorted out all the practicalities of the move back to Denmark. Gustav Mohr himself had his life cut short in 1936 when he had just been given responsibility as manager of three sisal plantations at Tanga. In an attempt to cross a river that had overflowed its banks, he was unlucky and drowned. The funeral took place in Mombasa.