After a brief illness, schoolteacher Eilert Wulff of Hammerfest died on 22 October 1904. He was survived by his wife Dorothea Sæther, 28, and son Aksel, 2.
Remembering schoolteacher Eilert Wulff | Norway AD 1904
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