BIOGRAPHIES:   Henry THORSGAARD, Blair, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Henry Thorsgaard, shipper of agricultural products at Blair, was born in 
Gulbrandsdalen, Norway, Dec. 10, 1845, twelfth of the twenty-four children 
of Lars and Ingebor (Hembrom) Thorsgaard, who brought their family to America 
in 1854, and located in Coon Prairie, Vernon County, Wis., where they lived 
until their death in 1886.  As a young man, Henry worked in the pineries in 
the northern part of the state, learned the miller trade at Black River Falls, 
and for a time operated the mill at Ettrick.  It was in 1873 that he came to 
Blair, and with John and Orrin Van Ness built the Blair mill.  Two years later 
he bought out his partners, and then continued to operate the establishment 
until in the early eighties.  Then for a number of years, with the exception 
of a period of four years from 1887 to 1891, when he was county treasurer, he 
farmed near Blair, until 1895, when he engaged in his present business.  He 
ships all kinds of farm products, and makes a specialty of hay, grain, seed 
and potatoes.  He also deals in flour.  Mr. Thorsgaard has been a member of 
the village council for ten years and ha served as treasurer of the school 
district.  He was married March 1, 1880, to Annetta Olson, who was born in 
Norway, came to American in 1876; and died in 1898 at the age of 42 years.  
Mr. and Mrs. Thorsgaard had four children:  Ida Paulina, Louisa, Hannah and 
Christina.  Ida Paulina died in 1898 at the age of 18 years.  Louisa died the 
same year at the age of 16 years.  Hannah married Solomon G. Gutherie, railroad 
station agent at Sidnaw, Mich., and they have three children:  Ralph, Mack and 
Helen.  Christina has been a school teacher.  She now lives at home.  

- Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," 
pages 336-337


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