Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Trosdal, Ienar Storm 1877 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 611-612

   EINAR STORM TROSDAL. No nation has contributed to the complex composition of
our American social fabric an element of more sterling worth or one of greater
value in fostering and supporting our national institutions than has Norway. In
truth, the nation owes much to the Norwegian stock and has honored and been
honored by many noble men and women of this extraction. Savannah has no more
virile and progressive young citizen than Einar Storm Trosdal, vice-president
and general manager of the South Atlantic Steamship Line, who was born at
Christiana, Norway, in 1877.

   Mr. Trosdal was reared and educated in Christiana, and in the excellent
colleges of the capital city received the best of academic and business
training. In the manner of so many of the fine flower of young European manhood,
he answered the beckoning finger of Opportunity from the shores of the New World
and severed old associations to come in quest of American resources and
advantages. In 1898 he arrived in Savannah and became indentified with the firm
of S. P. Shotter & Company, extensive operators in naval stores, the
predecessors of the present American Naval Stores Company, which Mr. Shotter
organized. Ever since that time Mr. Trosdal has been prominently connected with
naval stores and shipping interests, and although his home and his business
headquarters have remained in Savannah, his business has taken him on many
journeys to various parts of the world. He is now vice-president and general
manager of the South Atlantic Steamship Line, which carries on an extensive
shipping business, especially in cotton and naval stores, to Europe and other
ports, and he still retains his interest in the American Naval Stores Company,
of which company he is a director.

   Since establishing his home in Savannah, Mr. Trosdal has entered in a
public-spirited way into the various activities of the city. He is interested in
the success of good government and in his daily affairs manifests a generous
regard for his fellows and as a large-hearted, whole-souled, companionable
gentleman, actuated by principles of honesty and integrity, merits and commands
the respect and good-will of all those with whom he comes into contact. He is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Cotton Exchange, the Oglethorpe Club and
other organizations.

   In the year 1904, Mr. Trosdal was married in this city to Miss Lucy Boyd, who
was born in Savannah, the daughter of Dr. M. L. Boyd. They share their charming
and well-directed home with two children, Einar Storm, Jr., and Beverly.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913


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