BIOGRAPHIES:  Nels L. TOLVSTAD, Whitehall, Trempealeau Co., WI

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NELS L. TOLVSTAD, County Sheriff of Trempealeau County; P. 0. 
Whitehall; was born in Norway, March 25, 1850; came to America 
with his parents in 1861, first going to Dodge County, where he 
lived on a farm with them until 1864, when they moved to the town 
of Ettrick, Trempealeau County, and bought a farm of 120 acres. 
The subject of this sketch received a common school education and 
attended the Galesville University for two terms; held the office 
of Town Clerk, in the town of Ettrick, during the years 1873-74, 
and was chairman of Town board for the year 1879, being elected 
County Sheriff in 1880; is a member of the Lulheran Church and was 
married in 1874 to Miss Antoinette Lorson, she being born in Norway. 
They have three children-Ludvic, Martha and an infant daughter.

--Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 1042

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