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Title: Lowell Enoch Torgerson
Dates: 1904-1945
Collection Number: 2019-P-025
Quantity: 20 items
Abstract: Photographs and copy photographs of Tagus, Mountrail County (N.D.).
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired this collection from Lowell Enoch Torgerson (1908-1991) on January 21, 1971. Another accession was added on August 2, 1971. Originally housed in the A-E photograph collections, Sharon Silengo transferred all the Lowell Enoch Torgerson donations to 2019-P-025 on March 6, 2019. Letters to Frank Vyzralek, State Archivist, dated January 18, 1971 and July 25, 1971 document the donations.
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Biographical Sketch
Lowell Enoch Torgerson was born on May 4, 1908 in Kickapoo, Mountrail County (N.D.) to Nels and Randine Maria Haftorn Torgerson. He and his siblings Reuben Nathanael (1903-1970), Given Orlando (1905-1976), Fernando (1907-1908), Neil Miles (1910-1911), Neil Manley (1913-1995), and Fernando Gordon (1918-1989) lived with their parents on their farm until moving to Eagan, Mountrail County (N.D.). At the age of 27 in 1935, Lowell Torgerson moved to Tagus, Mountrail County (N.D.) with his parents. He died on November 14, 1991 in Minot, Ward County (N.D.) and is buried in the Sunset Memorial Gardens in Minot (N.D.)
Sources:
Bismarck Tribune, Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com
INVENTORY
2019-P-025-00001 "Main Street" Tagus (N.D.) 1904-1905
2019-P-025-00002 Big 6 threshing rig, Tagus (N.D.) 1905 Six farmers south of Tagus owned the threshing rig: Ole P. Anderson (1860-1941), Arne Otto Engen (1867-1933), Andrew Anderson (1869-1936), Niels Torgerson (1845-1922), Andrew Pederson (1872-1929), Nels Foli (1875-1947).
2019-P-025-00003 Looking north towards Tagus (N.D.) 1920.
2019-P-025-00004 Looking towards Main Street Tagus (N.D.) 1905
2019-P-025-00005 Tagus on the Glimmer Glass 1907
2019-P-025-00006 August P. Nelson Real Estate and Machinery, Tagus (N.D.) 1910
2019-P-025-00007 Great Northern Depot, Tagus (N.D.) 1910
2019-P-025-00008 North End Main Street Tagus (N.D.) 1907
2019-P-025-00009 Tourist Camp or Night camp Tagus (N.D.) 1925
2019-P-025-00010 Old fire engine with wheels, Tagus (N.D.) 1920
2019-P-025-00011 Great Northern Depot, Tagus (N.D.) 1935
2019-P-025-00012 Tagus School Tagus (N.D.) October 1968
2019-P-025-00013 Tagus Equity Grain Company elevators, Otto Engen farm Tagus (N.D.) 1940
2019-P-025-00014 Thomas Sylvester “Tom” and Bessie Flo Reed Cuddigan Tagus (N.D.) 1940
2019-P-025-00015 Great Northern Depot, Tagus (N.D.) 1960-1969
2019-P-025-00016 Tagus Fire Station, Tagus (N.D.) 1910
2019-P-025-00017 Moravian Church, Tagus (N.D.) 1920
2019-P-025-00018 Main Street Tagus (N.D.) 1940
2019-P-025-00019 Tagus Public School, Tagus (N.D.) 1940
2019-P-025-00020 Residences in Tagus (N.D.) 1940
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