BIOGRAPHIES: Cornelius O. TVEDT, Barron Township, Barron Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Transcribed by Kate Wilson. Edited and submitted by Vic Gulickson 7 January 2004 ************************************************************************ Cornelius 0. Tvedt, a well-to-do farmer of Barron Township, was born in Stavanger, Norway, Dec. 9, 1870, the son of Ole 0. and Kari (Natland) Tvedt. He was reared in his native land and there received a limited education. When he was twenty-two he felt an ambition to follow his brothers, Ole 0., Nels 0. and Gunder 0., to America. Borrowing the money from Nels 0., he started on his journey, and in due time landed at Stoughton, Dane County, Wis., with just ten cents in his pocket. It was in the spring of 1892, and he worked a few months in the tobacco fields for Carl Busta, in the fall being employed in grubbing land. The winter was spent in sizing and stripping in a tobacco warehouse, and in the spring of 1893, with his brothers, Gunder 0. and Nels 0., he put in a crop of tobacco on shares for Ole Lunde, with whom he remained for six years. In the winter of 1898-99, while still working in Dane County, he purchased 80 acres of wild land in section 16, Barron Township, this county, in partnership with his brother, Gunder 0. The two brothers moved onto the farm in the spring of 1900. They cleared and broke the land, erected good buildings, and gradually developed a good farm. To the original purchase they added another forty, so that the property now consists of 120 acres, of which about 80 are under the plow. The brothers continued together until 1917, when Cornelius 0. bought out his brother, and became sole proprietor. Since that time he has continued the improvements, and to the other buildings has added a poultry house, tobacco sheds, garage, pump house, and other outbuildings, and has purchased new equipment. He has running water and electric light in his house and barn. He carries on general farming, and makes a specialty of dairying and tobacco raising, which last named industry he believes has an especially bright future in this county. Mr. Tvedt was married June 6, 1917, to Tena Josephine, daughter of Ben and Caroline H. (Jacobson) Thorsen, of Barron City, and this union has been blessed with two children: Bertina C., born June 6, 1919, and Cora 0., born June 17, 1921. Mrs. Tvedt was born Nov. 3, 1886, graduated from the Barron High School in 1905, and taught rural school in this county for several years. --Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 135-136. © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm