L. T. Tveldt Biography


	This biography appears on page 180 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				L. T. TVEDT. 

	L. T. Tvedt, one of the venerable citizens and retired 
agriculturists of Taopi township, has been a resident of this state for 
more than three decades and is the owner of a valuable farm of one 
hundred and sixty acres in Minnehaha county and forty acres in Brown 
county. His birth occurred in Norway on the 1st of April, 1834, his 
parents being T. L. and Anna Tvedt, both of whom are deceased. The 
father devoted his attention to farming and stock raising throughout 
his active business career. 

	L. T. Tvedt acquired his education in the schools of his native 
land and after putting aside his textbooks started out as an 
agriculturist on his own account. In 1856, when a young man of twenty-
two, he wedded Miss Mary Wiflen, of Norway, and they have five living 
children. The family emigrated to the United States in 1882, locating 
in Iowa, where they remained for one year. In 1883 they came to South 
Dakota and during the first two years of their residence in this state 
lived with a sister of Mr. Tvedt. Subsequently our subject purchased 
the farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Taopi township on which he 
has resided continuously since and in the operation of which he has won 
a gratifying and well merited measure of prosperity. The property is 
splendidly equipped in every particular, modern machinery facilitates 
the work of the fields and the place has been brought to a high state 
of cultivation and improvement. Mr. Tvedt has twenty head of cattle and 
sixty head of hogs. He also owns a tract of forty acres in Brown county 
but is no longer engaged in agricultural pursuits, leaving the active 
work of the fields to his son, William L. 

	Mr. Tvedt gives his political allegiance to the republican party, 
while his religious faith is that of the Lutheran church. He is fond of 
fishing and derives therefrom both recreation and pleasure. He has 
never regretted his determination to establish his home in the new 
world, for here he has won a comfortable competence and the high esteem 
of the people of his community. Mr. Tvedt has now passed the eighty-
first milestone on life's journey and can look back upon an active, 
honorable and useful career.