childrenStephen Steenson · Tilda Steenson · Thomas Steenson · Carl Steenson
Source: Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota (1900)
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Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota (1900).
Born May 19, 1856, youngest of four children.
Family emigrated to Mitchell County, Iowa in 1860.
Educated at Cedar Valley Seminary, Osage, Iowa and became a teacher.
Early settler and diversified farmer in Eldorado township, Traill County.
Filed claim 1878, permanent settler 1879, taught the township's first school (Oct 1879).
Township clerk 1881-1894, county commissioner 1890, county treasurer elected 1894.
Married Gunel Pederson Jan 1882.
Republican, Lutheran.
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