Anders Olsen Tenold

TENOLD

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 8/24/2005 at 21:03:49

A. O. Tenold emigrated to Worth County in 1866. He bought 120 acres on section 21, eighty acres on section 26, eighty acres on section 27, Hartland township. He was born in Norway Sept. 15, 1824. In 1846 he emigrtated to America. He went at once to Boone Co., Ill., by way of Chicago, made his home there twenty years. He then moved to Iowa, He raises grain and stock. He married Feb. 29, 1859, Emily Lee, born in Norway, September, 1833. They have seven children - Ole, John, Elling, Gilbert, Hanna, Emma and Andrena, They belong to the Lutheran Church. He is a republican.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 775.