Cornelius Trygstad Biography


	This biography appears on page 1902 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CORNELIUS TRYGSTAD, of Brookings, was born in Norway, and 
attended the national schools of his native land. At the age of twenty-
one years he accompanied his parents on their immigration to America. 
They landed in the city of Quebec, Canada, and thence removed to 
Rochester, Minnesota, from whence they came to the territory of Dakota 
and took up their abode in what is now Brookings county. Mr. Trygstad 
took up the homestead claim upon which he still maintains his 
residence, and on his claim he erected a log house, and bent his best 
energies to the improvement and cultivation of his ranch. That success 
has attended his indefatigable efforts is clearly evidenced in the 
appearance of hi; home place today. He now has four hundred and eighty 
acres in the home ranch and one hundred and sixty acres in Madeira 
township, while in Moody county he owns two hundred acres, his entire 
landed estate being conservatively estimated at a valuation of forty 
thousand dollars.

	In politics Mr. Trygstad has been a staunch supporter of the 
Republican party from the time of attaining the right of franchise, and 
he has been influential in public affairs of a local nature. He was 
married to Miss Julia Dastad, who likewise was born in Norway, and they 
have five children.