Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-01-11

the same year he entered Augustine
College and Theological Seminary at
Paxton, ILL.,, from which he graduated in
the year 1875 and was that year ordained
a minister Of the gospel; his first congre-
cation was located in Hamilton county,
Iowa, where he officiated as minister
from 1875 to 1873, and at Taylor Falls,
Mimi, from 1878 to 1889; came to Da-
kota in the year 1889 and located at Bis
marck, where he lived until Aug, 1890;
now resides on q farm near Slaughter,
in Ecklund township: has never held
office up to his present election aud a
elected as a republican, representing the
Twenty-seventh Legislative district.
sTAFNE, ERICK, Of Abercrombie,
Richland county, q born IN Kennebec,
Norway, in 1848; Norwegian ancestry; is
married and engaged in farming and
general mercantile business. Came to
Eau Claire, Wis, in 1871, where he en-
gagged for q number Of years in the hotel
business. Settledin North Dakota, near
Abercrombie, in 1878, and held various
school and township offices, and has
been two terms county commissioner.
Was elected to the present house as a
republican.
SVENSRUD, ANTON, of Bottineau,
B%ottiUeau county, was bornin the county
of Worth, state OF Iowa, on the Oath day
of September, 1862; ancestry, Norwegian;
was educated at N%orthwoou high school;
settled in Dakota in the year 1884, in
Bottlneau county; is single, and at pres
emit engaged in farming: taught school
one year in Worth county, Iowa; worked
in a general store two years in North
wood, Iowa, and one year in Northwood,
Dakota; held the offices of justice of the
peace IN 1886, and county assessor in
1888; was elected to the first state senate
| of North Dakota as a republican, re-
elected to the senate of 81 on the repub-
lican ticket and was elected to the house
at the last election.
SWENSON, NICOLAI, of Coopers.
town, Griggs county, was born in Der.
gen, Norway, Dec. 81, 1854; ancestry
Norwegian; settled in Wisconsin upon
coming to the United States, and is 6
graduate of the Northwestern Business
college at Madison; came to North Da.
kota in 1873, settling first in Trail
county; moved to Grlggs county in 1881
he has been county treasurer for the past
two years; is married and engaged il
farming; was elected to the house as {
republican.
TOFSRUD, OLE T., of Rugby, Pierc,
county, was born in Norway in 1864, O
Norwegian parents. He migrated to thi
country when quite young, and is a grad
1ate of two institutions Of learning
Willmar Business College, at Willmar
| M1D, ool fh0 1nlo,o ~ D1uk1D~1 N
D. In 1882 he settled at Portland, Trail
county, and was for some time a bouk
keeper for Kelley & Hurley, contractor
for the Great Northern railway company
Afterwards he moved to Pierce county
where he was elected county treasure
in 1892, and member of the legislature a
the recent election. Mr.. Tofsrud is un
married. He was chosen to the hous
as a republican.
TWICHELL, TREADWELL, {
Mapleton, Cass county, was born i
Hastings, Mimi, Nov. 19, 1864; ancestr
> American; is married, and engaged i
; farming; has a common school educ,
: ton; worked on a newspaper for on
, year and has held various school an
!, township offices; came to North Dakot
! from Minnesota IN 1879 and settled 6
. Mapleton; was elected to the preser
> house as a republican.
TYLER, EVAN S., of Fargo, Ca'
county, was born in the county {
t Wayne, Pennsylvani, March %, 1912,
American ancestry; was educated
: Damascus Academy, Pa, and settled j
Dakota, at Fargo, in 1873; served tW
years in the war and was afterwards
: the subsistence department.; has stint
9 been engaged in general commerce,
business, farming, etc.; was public g.
: aminer Of Dakota for two years, fro
8 March 1, 1887, and was a member of tt
first session of the state legislature; W,
elected to the house as a republican.
WALKER, R. J.,of Devils Lake, Ran
D sey county, was born in Pennsylvania
1910; ancestry American; was educate
g in the common schools; moved to Oh
when Is years Of age, and engaged in tt
. milling business up to the breaking o,
Of the war, when he enlisted and serve
. three years. Settled in illinois after b
discharge, and came to Ramsey count
q North Dakota, in 1888. Is married ar
q engaged in farming. Was elected to tt
house as q republican.
: WALLIN, OLE S., of Portlan
v Trail county, was born in Norway
the Goth day of September, 1849; a
cestry Norwegian; was educated in col
d mon schools and at the University
y Wisconsin; settled in North Dakota
1879; is married, and is at present 9
n gagged in farming; came to America
the age of l year and settled in Da
} county, Wis, where he received a Gel
mon school education; attended Ms
a shall Academy and University of w
consin a couple of terms; taught in t
common schools twelve years; came
q Mayville, North Dakota, in the spring
1879; was appointed census enumerat
= for the west half of Trail county in 18s
h worked four years in a general stol
= was elected a delegate to the first sta
convention held at Fargo; has held t
"a Office of justice, clerk of civil and schc
township, ETC.; was elected to house
81, reelected to the house Of '93 as q
publican and again reelected last fall.
WINEMAN, JACOB BELMONT,
Grand Forks, Grand Forks county, "
born in Chicago, Illinois, on the 9th d
| If AnOnaf, 1870. ancoetrv Hornop. N