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- 6c AUGUSTINUS JENSENIUS TORGERSON, b. November 27, 1870, Worth Co., Iowa, (wf) Ingeborg Magdalena Pedersen, b. January 6, 1873, Indianapolis, Ind. Married July 4 1895, at Somber, Worrh county, Iowa. August was born and grew to manhood on a parsonage farm in Bristol township, Worth county, Iowa. He received private instrucrion at home and attended Luther College and Valparaiso University, Ind. Candidate from the theological seminary of the Norwegian Synod in 1894. He served 45 years in the ministry, with the exception of one and a half years in Renville, Minn. These years were spent in Worth county, Iowa, as assistant to his father, and later as his successor in office. He retired in 1939 and moved with his wife and son Adolph to Florida. He engaged in various enterprises in Orlando, and Lakeland, Fla., and then moved to Albert Lea, Minn., in 1945. Since his wife departed this life he has lived with his daughter, Dagny. Address: 703 South Grandview Avenue, Yakima, Wash. Ingeborg was the daughter of Danish-American parents, Rev. Nils Pedersen and wife Julia, the firstborn in a family of 12 children. She was a capable musician and besides her duties as an efficient and hospit-able housewife she served many years as organist in the home congregation and assumed a leading role in the church choir and other church activities. She died in Albert Lea, December 30, 1947, and was buried in the Somber cemetery, Worth county, Iowa. Children born to this couple are,;Alfred (6cl), Walter (6c2), Frithjof (6c3), Agnes (6c4), Ralph (6c5), Reuben (6c6), Dagny (6c7), Dina (6c8), Adolph (6c9), and Walter (6cl0). [1]
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