Medium complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, 5'7".
| Shared note | Medium complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, 5'7". Owned outright (i.e., no mortgage) his farm in Pierce, North Dakota. Border crossing application says he was born in something like "Skotselren", Norway. -- Torger Pedersen appears on the 1865 Norwegian census as follows: family status Son. Marital status ug. B. 1863 at Eker." Municipality Ovre Eiker, #0624. Name of domicile Steffensaetre. Thom and Anne immigrated to New York in Feb 1888, settled in Washburn Wisconsin until 1896. Then moved to Barton, North Dakota, 5 miles south and 10 miles west of Rugby. On June 9, 1909 the family moved to (Carlstatd) Alderson, Alberta until 1932 when they moved for lack of rain to Wenham Valley, Alberta (near Alberta). |
| Given names | Surname | Sosa | Birth | Place | Death | Age | Place | Last change | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torger Pedersen Swanby Thomas P Swanby Thom Swanby Torger Swanby Torger Pedersen | December 10, 1863 about 1864 | 161 | Odegaarden, Bakke, Eiker, Buskerud, Norway Norway | 11 | October 5, 1945 | 79 | 81 | Canada | M | YES | Y100 | |||||