Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Sendeno, Torros T 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com May 13, 2006, 8:00 pm

Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Sendeno, Torros T., who now lives retired at Gardner, owns 120 acres of 
fertile land in Garfield Township, and is one of the best examples Grundy 
County has of the intelligent Norwegian agriculturist who has attained to 
prosperity in this section, not because of inherited wealth or public favor, 
but through unaided labor and strength of purpose. Mr. Sendeno was born in 
Norway, in May, 1844, a son of Thomas and Bertha Sendeno, farming people of 
Norway. The father died in his native land in 1870, following which the oldest 
son, Gunder T., who was a sergeant in the Norwegian army, took charge of the 
farm and still lives on it. The mother died there in 1892. There were the 
following children in the family: Gunder T.; Torros T.; Sarah, who is 
deceased; Nels, who is deceased; Ingero; Serena; Thomas; and Osman, who died 
in infancy.

Torros T. Sendeno was educated in his native land and brought up as a farmer. 
When he was twenty-two years old he entered upon his military service, but 
within two weeks was so badly injured that he was honorably discharged. In 
spite of this he managed to put in the following two years at farm work, when 
he secured employment on the ship wharf at Vikedal. In 1870 he came to Kendall 
County, Ill., and worked as a farm laborer there for four years. Having saved 
a little money therefrom he began renting land and continued until 1893, when 
he bought his present farm, which he materially improved. During the past few 
years he has lived retired, his sons conducting the property for him.

In 1870 Mr. Sendeno married Susan Johnson, who came to America on the same 
ship as he. They had four children: Thomas, who married Gertie Chally; Anna, 
who is deceased; William, who married Anna Tofte; and Torros, who married 
Carrie Roe. His second marriage was on November 6, 1913, to Mrs. Bertha 
(Hangland) Thompson, a resident of Grundy County. She had two children, 
Elizabeth; and Oliver, who married Berdie Kenyon. The Norwegian Lutheran 
Church holds Mr. Sendeno's membership, and he has belonged to it for twenty 
years, now serving it as a deacon. Politically he is a Republican, but has 
never cared for office. Staunch in his friendships, honorable in his dealings, 
Mr. Sendeno has proved a very desirable citizen of the land he adopted so many 
years ago.  He made a trip in 1913 to Norway.

page 898

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/sendeno993nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 3.0 Kb