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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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Copyrights: Copyrights to materials in this collection remain with the donor, publisher, author, or author's heirs.  Researchers should consult the 1976 Copyright Act, Public Law 94-553, Title 17, U.S. Code and an archivist at this repository if clarification of copyright requirements is needed.
               
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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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