BIOGRAPHIES:  Amund G. TJOFLAT, Ettrick, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Amund G. Tjoflat, a contracting carpenter residing in Ettrick, Wis.,
where he is conducting a good business, was born in Hardanger, Bergen
Stift, Norway, Jan. 30, 1870, son of Guttorm and Herborg (Djonne)
Tjoflat.  The parents were natives of the same locality, Bergen, a
famous old seaport, being the nearest large city.  The father, who
was a sailor most of his life, died in his native land in January,
1912, but his wife is still living in Norway.  Neither of them ever
came to America.  Amund G. Tjoflat was the second born of eight
children.  He attended school in Norway, and at the age of 16 years
began working as a farm hand.  Two years later he commenced an
apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for three
years in his native land.  In 1891 he set out for the United States
and on arriving in this country continued west to Jackson County,
Wisconsin, locating near the Trempealeau County line.  He was at this
time unable to speak English, but for five months attended an English
school in Ettrick, where he learned the rudiments of the language and
later increased his knowledge through association with English
speaking people.  Soon after arriving here he began working at his
trade in Ettrick and continued to do so as a journeyman until 1899,
in which year he engaged in contract work, and has been thus occupied
up to the present time, his contracts having been for work in Ettrick
and the vicinity.  In 1906 he built his present residence in Ettrick.
Besides owning good property in the village, he is a stockholder in
the Ettrick Lumber Company, Ettrick Farmers Telephone Company and the
Ettrick & Northern Railroad, and is recognized as one of the
enterprising and prosperous business men of the village - a position
gained through his own unaided efforts.  June 2, 1898, Mr. Tjoflat
was united in marriage with Elenora Torkelson, who was born in
Jackson County, Wisconsin, daughter of Haldor and Breta (Grinde)
Torkelson, the parents being natives of Norway.  Mr. and Mrs. Tjoflat
are the parents of six children:  Gerold B., Berglot H., Oliver E.,
Esther V., Howard L. and Joseph Kenneth, all of whom are residing at
home.  Mr. Tjoflat belongs to the order of Beavers, being trustee of
his lodge.  His politcal principles are in the main those of the
Republican party.  He and his family are members of the Lutheran
Synod Church. 

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin,
1917," pages 553-554.

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