BIOGRAPHIES:  Louis TOYCEN, Sand Creek, Dunn County, WI

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Louis Toycen, farmer, P. O. Sand Creek, Dunn county, was born in Fond du Lac 
county, Wis., March 11, 1851, a son of Swen and Catherine (Larson) Toycen, 
both born in Norway.  They came to this country in 1849 and settled in Fond 
du Lac county, where they remained about nineteen months, then went to 
Winnebago county and remained about fifteen years on a farm.  Mr. Toycen 
enlisted and served during the last year of  the war of the Rebellion.  In 
1866 he removed to Dunn county and settled in Sand Creek township, where he 
lived until his death in 1882.  Our subject remained at home with his parents 
until he was twenty-one years old, and received but a meager education, as 
at the age of sixteen he was put to holding the breaking plow, and followed 
this hard work for about eight or ten years, off and on.  January 2, 1877, 
he married, in Chippewa county, Gustava La Moe.  They have five children 
living, namely: Charlotte, Sewell, Leonard, Perence B. and Esther.  
Immediately after his marriage he moved on the farm where he now resides.  
It consists of 120 acres and he has about 100 acres improved and well 
stocked.  In politics he is a republican, and belongs to the Farmer's 
Alliance.  He has been on the town board a number of years and is now serving 
his fourth term as chairman; and has been school clerk seven years.  Mr. 
Toycen was the first settler in Sand Creek valley in the northern part of 
Sand Creek township.

--Taken from "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin" Including A General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley;
Ancestral Records of Leading Families; Biographies of Representative 
Citizens, Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men.  Edited by
George Forrester.  Chicago, Illinois: A. Warner, Publisher.  1891-92
Pages 941-942