Olmsted County MINNESOTA Biographies.....T. B. Isaacson Tvedt January 3 1837 - 
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Mike Oiseth MOISETH@mn.rr.com March 10, 2005, 11:18 am

Author: Joseph Leonard, History of Olmsted County, Minnesota

T. B. ISAACSON TVEDT, a well known and prominent citizen of Salem
township, was born in Norway January 3, 1837, and is a child of Isaac
Tvedt, of that country. It was in 1853 that T. B. crossed the Atlantic
ocean and came to America in company with his brother Jacobson Tvedt.
Both first located in Dane county, Wisconsin, but after one year they
came to Olmsted county, where the brother pre-empted 160 acres and made
his permanent home. T. B. continued to do farm work by the day or month
until the fall of 1854, when he went to Decorah, Iowa, and worked first
in a blacksmith shop, but later drove a team from Olmsted county to
Decorah, continuing until 1856, when he again came to this county and
bought 80 acres in section 8, Salem township, and in the fall of 1857
bought 16o acres in section 7, same township. Here he has resided and
made his home ever since. T. B. in his youth secured only a limited
education in Norway, but by reading and observation he has become well
posted on the leading public questions. His financial progress for many
years was due to the enormous crops of wheat which he raised and
marketed. In later years he has done well with hogs and cattle. He is
considered one of the best agriculturists in this part of the state. He
is abreast of the times with modern scientific methods and the latest
machinery and devices. He has fine farm buildings and a beautiful
residence, and is prepared to enjoy life. On January 12, 1858, he
married, in Salem Corners, Miss Christina Maria Hanson, and to this
union ten children were born, nine of whom are yet living: Isabel, who
married B. S. Bale, she was born April 15, 1858; Caroline, born April
25, 1860, married Henry Hellickson; Isaac, born November 16, 1861,
married and has four children; Ella, born July 27, 1868, married Ole
Leqve, and has five children; Alfred, born February 1, 1870, married and
has four children; Edward, born June 27, 1872; Laura, born in 1880
(deceased); Henry, born December 2-9, 1884, married Mathilda Lee
February 23, 1909, has one child; Leaffie, born December 6, 1885;
Julius, born May :23, 1887, married, February 23, 1910, Clara Jensen.'
In politics Mr. Tvedt is independent, He and wife are members of the
Lutheran church.

Additional Comments:
Joseph Leonard, History of Olmsted County, Minnesota: together with sketches of many
of its pioneers, 
citizens, families, and institutions. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association,
1910.

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