Peter Tordsen was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, on January 19, 1856, and his father, Jacob Tordsen, died there when Peter was nine. Peter came to America in 1872, worked ten years as a farm hand around Davenport, Iowa, and then farmed rented land near Holstein in Ida County for eleven years before settling in 1893 on a Rost Township farm he had bought the year before. By 1910 he owned 653 acres in Rost and Hunter townships, sat on the township board of supervisors, and had done much of the work of organizing the Rost Cooperative Dairy association. He married Christina Hendrickson in Scott County, Iowa, in 1876, and after her death in 1888 he married Annie Lamp at Ida Grove in 1889; the two marriages produced fourteen children. His sons William and John were farming in Rost and Hunter townships in 1910, John on a quarter section his father owned. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Jackson County history.
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Farmer and stock raiser, Rost Township
PETER TORDSEN (1893) is one of the large land owners of Rost town.ship and one of the township's most successful farmers and stock raisers. He owns 6.53 acres of land in Rost and Hunter townships. He farms 400 acres of his possessions, while the rest is farmer by his sons.
Mr. Tordsen is a native of Schleswig-Holstein. Germany, and was born.January 19, 1856. His father, Jacob Tordsen, died in Germany when Peter was nine years of age; his mother, Annie (.Struwe) Tordsen, died in Scott county, Iowa, in 1901, having reached the age of eighty years.
In his native land the subject of this biography lived until he was sixteen years of age, receiving his education in a little village and working most of the time on the farm. When he was ten years of age he began working at the weaver's trade r.nd worked nights at that trade for two years. Mr. Tordsen came to America in 1872 and located at Day- BIOGTfAPITICAL HISTOIJY.
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Farmer and thresher, Rost Township
WILLTAM TORDSEN (1803) owns and farms the northeast quarter of section 22. Eost township. He is the son of Peter Tordsen, of Iost township, and Christina (Hendricks) Tordsen, who died in Tda county, Iowa, January 20. 1888.
William Tordsen was born in Scott county. Iowa. January 14, 1870. and when two years of age moved with his parents to Ida county, Iowa. There he was brought up on his father's farm and received his primary education. Tie accompanied his parents to Jackson county in 1893 and completed his education in the district school in Rost township. He made his homo with his father until 1001. That year he engaged in the threshing business in partnership with John Huscn until 1003. and two years later sold a half interest to his brother, and has been so engaged ever since. In 1003 he also engaged in farming, renting the Julius Meyer farm in Rost. In the spring of 1!09 he moved onto his present farm, which he had bought in 1008. Besides his other interests Mr. Tordsen has stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Lakefield. He is treasurer of school district No. 109.
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Farmer, Hunter Township
JOHN TORDSEN (1892), farmer of Hunter township, is a son of Peter Tordsen, of Rost township, and Christina (Hendricks) Tordsen, who died in Iowa January 26, 1888,
John was born in Ida county, Iowa, April 3, 1884, and accompanied his father to Jackson county in 1892, He was brought up on his father's Rost township farm and was educated ill the district schools. He resided at home until 1907, Then he went to McLean count.v. North Dakota, resided there one year, and then returned to Jackson county. He was married in 1008, and since that time has been engaged in farming the northwest quarter of section 18, Hunter township, which is owned by his father, ilr, Tordsen was married in Jackson Novemlier 2." 1908.
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