Alfred Tenneson Biography


	This biography appears on page 1206 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ALFRED TENNESON, late member of the firm of Tenneson & O'Leary, 
dealers in general merchandise in the village of Albee, is a native of 
Norway, where he was born on the 1st of January, 1873, being a son of 
Tennes and Johannah Tenneson, who became the parents of five sons and 
two daughters, six of whom are living. The subject secured his early 
educational training in the schools of his native place, his father 
having there been engaged as a merchant and ship owner. and when he was 
a lad of ten years he accompanied his parents on their emigration to 
America, the family locating in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 
where he attended the public schools and later completed a course in the 
Archibald Business College, in that city, being graduated as a member of 
the class of 1887. In the following year he came to South Dakota and 
located in Grant county, where he was employed in the lumber and 
hardware business of his brother, A. T. Tenneson, until 1892, when he 
returned to Minneapolis, where he was employed for one year as 
bookkeeper for the Standard Sash and Door Company. In 1894 he returned 
to Grant county and became associated with his brother, A. T., in the 
general merchandise business in Albee, the firm having erected a 
commodious store building in 1896, in which. year he purchased the 
interest of his brother in the enterprise and forthwith formed a 
partnership with Daniel O'Leary, under the firm name of Alfred Tenneson 
& Company. They continued to be thus associated, J. E. Turback becoming 
a partner under the name of Tenneson, O'Leary & Company, until January 
1, 1904, when the firm was dissolved. Mr. Tenneson also had the 
distinction of being postmaster of the town, having been appointed to 
the office in 1894 and having remained incumbent of the same ever since 
that time. In politics he is a staunch Republican. Fraternally he is 
identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, in Albee. 

	On the 21st of July, 1895, Mr. Tenneson was united in marriage to 
Miss Amanda Petrick, who was born in Wisconsin, being a daughter of 
William Petrick, who was a successful farmer of Grant county, this 
state, at the time of his death, which occurred July 11, 1902. Mr. and 
Mrs. Tenneson have one child, Francis A.