Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-01-27
1897. Elected to the present house as

Forks county, Sixth district, was born
in Scotland 66 years ago. He Is mar
ried and has eight children. He came
to North Dakota from Canada in 1870
and is a farmer. Has held town and
school offices for fifteen years. Elected
to the house as a republican.
REUBEN N. STEVENS, Bismarck,
Burleigh county, Twenty-seventh dis
trict, was born in Orleans county, N.
T., A years ago; Is married. and has
three children. He came to North
Dakota from Illinois in 1882. Is a
lawyer and was a member of the con-
stitutfonal convention and of the
first house of representatives. He
has also held various county offices.
Elected to the house as q republican.
CHARLES ADDISON SANFORD,
Caurtenay, Stutsman county, Twenty
third district, is a native of Michigan
and 60 years old; is married and has
one child, adopted. He came to North
Dakota from Lansing, Mich, in 1888.
He is q farmer, stock raiser and pub
Usher of the Courtenay Gazette.
Elected to the house as q republican.
s. @. SWENSON, Portland, Trail
county, Eighth district, was born in
Jefferson county, Wis.,, 45 years ago; is
ferson county, Wis.,45 years ago; is
married and came to North Dakota
from Fillmore county, Mimi, in 1877,
and engaged in farming. Elected
to the house rs a republican.
ELBRIDGE @. SARGENT, of the
Eleventh district, Armenia. Cass
county, was born in New London, New
Hampshire, 48 years ago: He is a
wfdower and has three children. He
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in 1879. Is a builder by trade but is
at present farming. Has held school
and town Offices and was q member Of
the house in the Fourth and Fifth
legislative assemblies Of North Da-
kOta. Was elected to the house as q
republican over Walter Muir.
THOPHILUS l.. TAYLOR, Cayuga,
Thirteenth district, Sargent county,
was born in Toledo, Ohio, 48 years
He came to North Dakota from Waun-
akee, Wisconsin, in 1881. Ia q dentist
by profession. Was elected township
clerk for Kingston, Sargent county,
for the year 1897, and reelected in
1898. Elected to the house as a re-
publican.
AMI w. THOMAS, Seymour,
Rfchland county, Twelfth district, was
born in Fayette county, Indiana, Sc
years ago; is married and has nine
children; came to North Dakota from
Indiana in 1888; is an attorney and
also engaged in farming. Volun-
teered in April, 1861, in the 10Th
Indiana volunteers; commissioned as
lieutenant in the 23rd U. S. G. 1. in
1864; served in the army Of the Poto-
mac; went to Texas in 1865; mustered
out Of service Nov. 80, 1865. Elected
to the house as n republican.
JOHN THORDARSON, Hensel.
Pembina county. Second district, was
born in Iceland SO years ago; is mar
ried and has five children; he came
from Manitoba in 1878. Is now en-
gagged in grain buying. Was on the
board Of township supervisors and
school board, and is at present chair
man of the town board of Hensel.
Elected to the house as a republican.
EDGAR B. THOMSON, represents
the Twenty-second district. comprising
the counties Of Eddy, Foster and
Wells; p%ostoffice address, Sheyenne.
He was born lin Paynesviile. Lake
county, Ohio, AZ years ago; is married
and has one child. He came to North
Dakota from northern Ohio in 1880.
Is a farmer and has not held office
before. Elected to the house as a re-
publican.
DAVID EDWARD TOWLE, Park
River, Walsh county, Third district,
was born in Ontario "a years Ago.; is
married and has two children. He
came to North Dakota from Ontario
in 1880. Is a farmer and stockman
and was a member of the Fifth house.
Elected to the present house on the
fusion ticket.
WALTER WINSHIP TOUSLEY, of
the Eleventh district. western Cass
county, was born in Waterloo. Jeffer-
son county, Wisconsin, and is 90 years
old. He is married and has one son.
He came to Dakota Territory from.
Cresco, Howard county, Iowa, with
his parents in April, 1884. He is Il
printer, and publisher of the Tower
City Topics. Has never sought office
before, and held Office but once as vii
lage trustee in Buffalo, Cass county.
Received elementary education in pub
lie schools at Cresco. Iowa: came to
this territory and settled on farm with
his parents south Of Glendale in 1884;
entered employ of G.. G. Bowsield on
Glendale Commercial in the fall Of
1888, and was foreman and local editor
during the constitutional convention
and First assembly, Of which Bows
field was secretary; afterwards spent
a year in al Iowa seminary; was mar
ried in the fall Of 1891 at Aberdeen, S.
D.; came to Cass county in January,
1893, managed Buffalo Express until
fall Of 1894, and commenced publica-
ton Of Topics at Tower City. Elected
to the house as a republican.
THORSTEN E. TUFTE, Northwood.
Grand Forks county, Fifth district,
was born in Norway Al years ago; is
married and has nine children. He
came to North Dakota from Nicollet
county, Mimi, in 1870. Is a farmer.
Was president Of the school board for
seven years; held nearly all of the
various township offices and has taken
an active part in politics for ever ten
years. Elected to the house as a re-
publican.
W. J. WATTS, Hyde Park, Pembina
county, First district, was born in
London, England, 4S years ago; is
married and has three children. He
came to North Dakota from Canada in
1879. Is a farmer and has been town.
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