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Born 1856
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
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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As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Peter Tordsen: William Tordsen (b. 1879) John Tordsen (b. 1884) Herman Frodermann (b. 1867) Wesley Worshek (b. 1860)
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