Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Thorp, Bersvend S. 1841 - 
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   BERSVEND S. THORP is one of the many thrifty and substantial farmers of Acton
township. He was born in Norway on the 18th of January, 1841, and is the son of
Severt and Brynnil Thorp. He came to the United States in 1866, and settled first in
Goodhue county, Minn., where he remained for a short time at work for different
parties; then went to Minneapolis and drifted around from one business to another,
and from place to place, until 1868, when he came to Meeker county and took a
homestead of eighty acres on section 8, in Acton township, where he has since lived.
He has added to his homestead, and now has a farm of 270 acres, well stocked and
improved, and has fine farm buildings. Mr. Thorp was a poor man when he came to
America, but the industry and economy, so characteristic of his countrymen, have
been successful in his case, and he is now well-off.

   Mr. Thorp was married in July, 1869, at Acton, to Miss Bereth Malvig. They have
had the following children— Ole, born August 23, 1870, died same day; Regine, born
December 9, 1871, died March 11, 1877; Severt, born August 17, 1873, died in
October, 1877; Severt, born August 5, 1874; Pauline, born December 18, 1876, died
same day; Bertha, born April 12, 1879, died in September, 1879; and Olena, born
January 31, 1884. In political matters, Mr. Thorp is a republican, and in religious
affairs the family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. Mr. Thorp devotes
his attention to diversified farming and stock-raising. He has met with some
reverses, but nothing of a very serious character, except during the grasshopper
raids, when he lost about half his crops.


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Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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