has made continuous progress in business lines and is now one of the substantial citizens of the community. With a genius for devising and executing the right thing at the right time, joined to everyday common sense, he has worked his way upward, utilizing all the advantages that have come to him and proving at the same time that success and an honored name may be won simultaneously.
JOHN TWEDT.
John Twedt is now living retired in Roland, where he erected his present residence in 1910. He is still connected with the agricultural interests of the county, however, as the owner of two valuable farms in Howard township, each comprising one hundred and sixty acres. Both are well improved and from the property he derives a substantial income. He has lived in Storey county continuously for about forty-five years, having arrived here in 1866. He was at that time a young man of twenty-one years, his birth having occurred at the old family homestead of Twedt, on the west coast of Norway, March 10, 1845. His parents were John J. and Carrie (Oldsdatter) Twedt. The mother died in Norway when the son was twenty years of age and the father afterward came to America with the subject of this review, spending his last days in Story county. He was eighty-six years of age when he passed away at the home of his son Ole A. Twedt, who at that time was a resident of Warren township. The family numbered five sons and two daughters who came to the United States, of whom three sons and one daughter, Mrs. A. Helvig are still living.
John Twedt made his home at the place of his nativity until he sailed for the new world. As a boy he worked on a farm with his father and later spent four years as a sailor. In 1866 he made the voyage across the Atlantic to the United States and for a brief period lived in Chicago, being occupied as a sailor on the lakes, and on the 24th of July of that year arrived in Story county, where he has since made his home. He had no capital at that time and, being dependent upon his own resources for a living, he secured work as a farm hand, receiving one hundred and twenty-five dollars for a year's labor. He was ambitious, however, to engage in farming on his own account, and as soon as possible he rented land on the present site of Roland. This was in 1868 and he cultivated the tract for five years. In 1873 he purchased a farm in Howard township comprising one hundred and sixty acres and resided thereon until 1910, when he retired from business and erected his present home which is one of the comfortable and attractive dwellings of Roland. In the meantime he had added to his landed possessions, having become the owner of three hundred and twenty acres of rich and valuable farm property in Howard township, divided into two farms, both of which were well improved. Year