SUNDRY, Tollef O. b: 1864

SUNDRY, NEWHOUSE, THORESON

Posted By: K. L. Kittleson
Date: 5/14/2008 at 23:10:17

Tollef O. Sundry, of Roscoe township, was born in Norway, March 4, 1864 son of Ole and Aagot (Newhouse) Sundry, natives of Norway.

The father came to America in 1880, with his son, and located in Saint Ansgar, Iowa. The father died May 22, 1894, and the mother August, 1872.

Tollef came to America in 1880, located in Iowa, attended the public schools and also the high school at Saint Ansgar. After school days were over he took up farming until 1886, when he went to North Dakota and was employed as car inspector for the Great Northern railroad at Minot for five years.

While in North Dakota he took up a homestead of 160 acres, and in 1892 he removed to Roscoe township and purchased 160 acres in section 19, which he improved, erecting a new barn in 1897 and a new house in 1907. He now follows general farming and stock raising.

January 26, 1890, Mr. Sundry was married at Zumbrota to Emma Thoreson, daughter of Otto and Sigrid Thoreson.

They have six children: Orrin E., born February 12, 1891; Sigrid O., born June 15, 1892; Thurlow E., born February 21, 1894; Archie V., born May 7, 1896; Roy M., born July 7, 1901; and George J., born February 9, 1903, all living at home.

Mr. Sundry is a Republican in political views, and fraternally affiliates with the Masons of Zumbrota and the Modern Samaritans. He has been assessor of the township for a good many years, is now clerk of school district 81 and has been employed in the House of Representatives as doorkeeper and telephone messenger. He is also a stockholder in the Farmers' Elevators of Zumbrota and Wanamingo, and in the Minneola Creamery.

He and his family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY, (Minnesota) 1909.