Thorvald Thorson
Mosvik, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway Excerpted from "Dunn County (Wisconsin) History", by the Dunn County Historical Society, Dallas: Taylor Publishing Co, abt 1980, p. 360.
Thorvald Thorson (1848-1920) was the son of Thore and Andrea (Nakstad)
Hesthaven, Mosvik, Norway. Thorvald married Hannah Norby
(1863-1952) and lived on Tainter Street in North Menomonie before
moving to a farm in the Town of Sherman. They had four children:
Laura, Hulda, Alfred, and Edna.
Thorvald's brother Anton (1851-1903) joined him in Menomonie in 1887 and in 1889 married Julia Strand, also from Mosvik. They had children: Axel, Arthur, Inga, and Vigdis. (There is more information on the family.) |
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