BIOGRAPHIES: Christ TORGERSON, Independence, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Christ Torgerson, who is engaged in the hardware business in Independence 
as a member of the firm of Liver & Torgerson, was born in Ringebo, 
Gulbrandsdahlen, Norway, Dec. 8, 1855.  His father was Torger Tulibakken, 
a farmer, who died in 1877 at the age of 65 years.  Torger married Ragnil 
Tulin, who survived him until 1912, when she passed away at the advanced 
age of 90.  Christ Torgerson in 1876, having attained his majority, left 
his native land for the United States, knowing that he should find wider 
opportunities for self-advancement.  He first located at Black River Falls, 
where he found employment and remained until 1882.  Then coming to 
Independence, he entered into business for himself, and so continued till 
1894, when he bought the interest of L. E. Danuser in the hardware and 
implement firm of Danuser & Liver.  The business has since been conducted 
under the style of Liver & Torgerson and is in a flourishing condition.  
Mr. Torgerson is also a stockholder in the Central Trading Association of 
Whitehall and the State Bank of Independence.  For three years he was a 
member of the village council.  He belongs to the United Norwegian Lutheran 
church and to the Modern Woodmen of America.  Mr. Torgerson was married, 
May 20, 1883, to Martha Nelson Bidney, of Buffalo County, Wis., whose 
father, Ole Nelson Bidney, born in Norway, settled in Dane County, Wis., 
afterward becoming a pioneer of Buffalo County, where he followed farming, 
and died in June, 1916, at the age of 84 years.  Mrs. Torgerson's mother, 
who now lives in Independence, is 75 years old.  Mr. and Mrs. Torgerson 
are the parents of nine children:  Theodore, Edward, Wren, Myron, Albert, 
Ella, Marion, Ida and Norman.  Theodore is a prominent citizen of Alma 
Center.  Edward has just completed a term as sheriff of Trempealeau County.  
Wren and Albert are employed in their father's store.  Myron, a hero of 
the Great War, enlisted from Saskatchewan in the Canadian Colonial troops 
at the beginning of the war, was sent to France with one of the first 
contingents, was there wounded, and then returned to Saskatchewan, where 
he now lives.  Ella is the wife of Ansel Everson, of Blair.  Marion is the 
wife of Peter Haugh, of Taylor, Wis.  Ida is the wife of Maurice Thompson 
of Blair.

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917", 
pages 645-646