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8011

He and/or Ida were living or would live at 2116 Cedar Avenue according to a notation in the ELCA record of their marriage.

In the 1895 census, he was a machinist living in West Minneapolis.

In the 1905 Minnesota census, he and Ida and Gladys and Elida M Boe, 24 (probably Ida’s sister), lived in Minneapolis. He was a railroad engineer.

In the 1910 census, he and Ida an their two daughters lived in Milbank, South Dakota. He was an engineer for a steam railroad.

In the 1920 census, it was the same. The family had added a lodger, a school teacher, named Barbara Elrod.

In the 1925 South Dakota census, he and Ida are shown as “Congreg” for religion. Andrew had been in the U.S. for 49 years and in the state of South Dakota for 18 years. He was a citizen.

GRØV, Andris Andrisson (I21640)

8012

He apparently was the second George H. His middle name was probably Hilmar or Helmar, like the first George H.

Adopted by Martin as shown in the 1910 census. His father was Scottish and his mother was from Minnesota.

In the 1900 census there is no mention of his being adopted. He is shown as George E. and both of his parents were born in Norway.

In the 1916, 1924, and 1929 Minneapolis city directories, he works for Armour & Co. and resides at 2547 Emerson Avenue S. In 1916, he was a clerk. In 1924 and 1929, he was a salesman.

In the 1934 and 1944 Minneapolis city directories, he is still a salesman for Armour. Dorothy I is listed as his wife and the couple lives at 2717 Colfax Avenue S.

George is single and living with the Martin Aune family in Minneapolis in the 1930 census. He’s a “specialty man” for Armour.

In the 1940 census, he and his family live at 2717 Colfax. He was a salesman for a meat packing house. They owned their house, worth $5000. Both he and Dorothy were high school graduates.

In the 1950 Minneapolis city directory, George and Dorothy lived at 4829 Colfax.

George was a veteran of WWI. He was a meat salesman according to his death certificate. He died of a heart attack but he also had diabetes. His address at the time of his death was 4829 Colfax in Minneapolis. There is no mention of his being adopted in his death certificate; his parents are shown as Martin and Mary.

George had a patent (#2210728) on a “Method of Cleaning Abrasive Sheet Material.” He applied for the patent in 1937 and it was granted August 6, 1940.

ORFALD, George H (I11877)

8013

He appears to have been entered as a 6 year-old Ole in the 1880 census.

Last listed in the 1885 census, age 14.

Not included in the count of his mother’s living children in the 1900 census.

NELSON, Helge (Henry) (I13815)

8014

He arrived as the 16 year-old Thrond Olsen in Quebec City on with his mother, Marit Andersdatter, age 55, and, father, Ole Syvertsen Ranum, in early June of 1870.

In the 1880 census, as Thrond Oleson, age 26, he and his wife, son, and sister-in-law (Anna Thostenson, age 11, born in Iowa) live in Deer Creek in Worth County, Iowa.

OLSON, Thron (I36149)

8015

He arrived in New York on 24 April 1926.

In the 1940 census, he and Ellen and Carl lived in Chicago. He was a laborer in building construction.

NELSON, Alfred Hjalmar (I30649)

8016

He arrived in the U.S. in New York in May of 1882 with his parents and siblings aboard the Bohemia which had departed from Hamburg. The family was from Prussia. Their name on the ship’s manifest appears to be “Cziok” or “Cjiok.”

In the 1910 census, he is Constantino J Czock, a roadmaster for the railroad, living with his family in Fort Dodge, Iowa. All the children are still at home.

In the 1915 Iowa census, he is a track supervisor in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

In September of 1918, when his son Lambert registered for the draft, he lived at 503 South 17th Street in Fort Dodge.

Constantine, still alive in the 1920 census when the family lived in Fort Dodge, was a supervisor for the railroad.

CHOCK, Constantine John /CZOK (I13328)

8017

He attended St. Olaf Academy starting in the year 1889-1890 but did not graduate.

Shown as a merchant in the 1905 state census at which time he and his wife lived either with or next door to her parents and siblings in the village of Dennison. John had lived in the area for only a year and three months at that time.

In the 1910 and 1920 censuses, he and his family live in Dennison where he is a merchant in general merchandise. He is probably in partnership with his brother-in-law Austin.

He is listed in “The Valdris Book”, a history of the Valdris Samband published in 1920 (available on Google Books), as J E Norsving of Dennison. His father was G K Norsving. J E was a member of the Samband in 1909.

His obit was in the Faribault Daily News:

NORTHFIELD--Funeral services for John E. Norswing, 75, former prominent businessman in Dennison and Northfield, who passed away at the Lincoln Rest Home on Sunday, October 17, following an illness which has extended over eight years, will be held Thursday, October 21, at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Schumm at 1:30 o'clock and at St. John's Lutheran church at 2 p. m. The Rev. Ivar Ramseth will officiate. Interment will be made in Oaklawn cemetery. The pallbearers will be Martin Nelson, Knute Leidal, William Swarts, Andrew Nelson, Olaf Broin and George Hagen. Friends may call at the Anderson and Veaux Funeral Home until Thursday morning and at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Schumm until the hour of the service. John E. Norswing was born in Holden township, Goodhue county, on January 24, 1873, the son of Gudmund and Brita Holien Norswing. He spent his young lifetime at the farm home in Holden township and attended Albert Lea and St. Olaf academies. He operated a general merchandise store at Dennison from 1904 until 1923. At that time the Tri-County Oil Company was organized and he became manager and operated the Northfield station from 1926 to 1940 when his health began to fail. He made his home in the Dennison and Northfield communitites throughout his lifetime. On June 6, 1903, he was united in marriage to Miss Sigrid Austinson in Minneapolis. She passed away several years ago. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. John Schumm (Inez), Northfield, and Mrs. Floyd Leidal (Bernice) of Harrisburg, Pa., and one son, G. T. Norswing of New Richland. There are also three grandchildren and one brother, O. M. Norswing of Seattle, Wash., surviving.

NORSVING, John Edward (I12330)

8018

He attended St. Olaf and St. Thomas Colleges. Navy pilot in WWII. Worked at Honeywell.

Four sons, one daughter.

HILLEREN, Richard Lowell (I41700)

8019

He attended the University of Idaho.

CARLSON, Monte Edward (I29500)

8020

He became a successful farmer and community leader. He married Ingebor Haugen in 1867 and stayed on the Bonde farm all of his life. He built a much-admired stone house in 1875 and kept a journal, written in Norwegian.

Of his 11 children, seven survived to adulthood.

The Tosten E. Bonde Farmhouse, built of locally quarried limestone in 1875, is one of the oldest structures of its kind in Wheeling Township, Rice County. The Bonde family emigrated to Minnesota in 1849 and homesteaded land in 1855. The private home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

In 1849, Einer and Berit Bonde emigrated from Vang, Valdres, Norway, with their two sons, Tosten and Halvor. Berit’s daughter, Kari, from a previous marriage, and her husband, Thomas Veblen, had immigrated to the United States two years earlier in 1847. The Veblens were the parents of famed sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen. According to family history, the Bondes “dreamed of following Kari’s footsteps to the new world.”

The Bonde family lived in Port Washington, Wisconsin, before moving to Winneshiek County, Iowa, in the spring of 1854. The following year, on June 9, the family settled on 160 acres in section 11 of Wheeling Township in Minnesota Territory. In 1866, the Veblens moved from Mount Vernon, Wisconsin, to a farm in Wheeling Township, Minnesota. The rural community of primarily Norwegian settler-colonists was composed of respected farmers and civic leaders, including Halvor Quie and Osmund Osmundson, founder of Nerstrand.

From 1855 to 1875, the family resided in a log home. In 1865, Tosten, who was described as a “very able young man,” purchased the farm from his father. His brother Halvor, a Civil War veteran, had settled in Swift County, Minnesota. Two years later, Tosten married Ingebor Hougen on April 3, 1867. They had eleven children, born between 1868 and 1887. Tosten’s family lived with his parents until the stone house was completed in the summer of 1875. His father, Einer, passed away on August 27, 1875, and Berit died on March 12, 1877.

In a diary started in 1888, Tosten Bonde noted the improvements to the farm site: a barn was added in 1870, the stone farmhouse in 1875, a machinery shed in 1883, a granary in 1886, and a milkhouse in 1887. The two-and-a-half-story, L-shaped farmhouse was built on a small rise and constructed of locally quarried limestone from the Nerstrand and Faribault area. Situated near a well-traveled highway approximately one mile from Nerstrand, the gabled farmhouse became a focal landmark in rural Rice County after its completion in 1875.

The farmstead, which is still owned by Bonde family descendants in 2020, is in many respects a “living” document to rural agricultural heritage and practices by a single family dating back to Minnesota’s territorial days. Tosten’s diary offers glimpses into late-nineteenth-century farm life with entries like: “The year, 1887, was very dry and the chinch bug destroyed all the wheat and part of the oats. The hay crop was very short.” In his entry for April 12, 1891, he wrote: “Horses are sick from distemper.” The family history noted that Oscar, a son, remarked they cured the horses by “burning rubbers and had the horses inhale the fumes.”

The family history also tells of tragedy within the farmhouse’s stone walls. When an epidemic of black measles occurred in late March and early April of 1882, three sons died in one week: Edward, who was fourteen, Ingebrit, who was six, and Albert, who was barely a year old, fell victim to the disease. According to family lore, when Ingebor worked in her garden, “she would look to Valley Grove Cemetery and long for her little ones buried there on the distant hill.”

In 1890, Tosten was elected to the Minnesota State Legislature; he was reelected the following year. By early 1895, he developed stomach cancer, and he passed away at his home on October 14, 1897. The fifty-four-year-old was survived by his wife and seven children. One obituary noted he was “a good citizen and highly esteemed and respected in the community.”

In February 1981, Britta Bloomberg’s submission for the Minnesota Historical Properties Inventory Form stated, “The Bonde Farmhouse is significant both for its association with a prominent immigrant family and for its notable limestone construction and outstanding integrity.” In April 1982, the private home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the Faribault Republican, Oct. 20, 1897, via Find A Grave:

Died at his home in the town of Wheeling on Thursday evening, last, Oct. 14, of cancer of the stomach, with which he had suffered for two and a half years. The funeral was held on Monday, with services conducted by Rev. N. A. Quammen, and the remains were buried in the cemetery connected with Valley Grove church. Mr. Bonde was born in Norway, Jan. 12th, 1843. In 1849 he came with his parents to America and first settled at Port Washington, Wis.; five years later removed to Winneshiek County, Iowa, and in 1855 came to Rice County and located on section no.11, in Wheeling, which has ever since been his home. April 3d, 1867, he married Miss Ingebor Haugen, who survives him, and to them were born eleven children, four of whom are dead, and seven are living; Thomas, Bernhard, Anna, Alfred, Oscar, Edward and Carl, all of whom are at home, except Thomas, who is in St. Paul. Mr. Bonde was a good citizen and highly esteemed and respected in the community in which he lived so long, and was honored by election to various offices in the town and as a representative in the legislature, in which he served during the session of 1891.

BONDE, Tosten Einarsen (I35358)