August Ekengren

[2] Ekengren graduated from Uppsala University in 1895 and began his diplomatic career in 1896.

[1] Ekengren was vice consul in New York City from 1899 to 1900 and from 1902 to 1903.

[3] He was second secretary at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1905 and legation secretary in Washington, D.C. in 1906 (thereunder serving longer periods as chargé d'affaires).

Funeral services was held at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.[1] Ekengren's remains were then brought to Sweden on the American battleship USS New Hampshire which arrived in Stockholm on 15 February 1921.

[3] He was buried at Norra begravningsplatsen in Solna Municipality.