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Swen Toycen (Terjesen)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sageneset, Øyestad, Aust-Agder, Norway
Death: August 30, 1882 (60)
WI, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Terje Knudsen Omholt-Sageneset and Gunild Svendsdatter Sageneset
Husband of Cathrine Larsdatter
Father of Terje Toycen; Lewis (Louis) Edward Toycen; Julia Toycen; Charles "Charley" Olous Toycen; Laura Emelia Toycen and 5 others
Brother of Knud Terjesen

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About Swen Toycen

Svend Terjesen came to the US with his wife, son and mother on the brig Juno, arriving in New York on August 18, 1849. On Juno: http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=junob

They were among the first settlers in Sand Creek Wisconsin.

Swen enlisted in the Union Army in Frebruary 1865 and served as a Private in Company A 47th Regiment Wisconsin Infantry.

Swen was a carpenter and shipbuilder.

Emigration. Church record for Øyestad, Norwegian digital archives: https://urn.digitalarkivet.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20060113040945.jpg

Baptism. Church record for Øyestad, Norwegian digital archives: https://urn.digitalarkivet.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20070703610058.jpg and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWPY-L57

United States Census 1880: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN4F-C4J

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Swen Toycen's Timeline

1822
April 19, 1822
Sageneset, Øyestad, Aust-Agder, Norway
1848
April 14, 1848
Froland, Aust-Agder, Norway
1851
March 11, 1851
WI, United States
1853
March 11, 1853
WI, United States
1855
January 21, 1855
WI, United States
1857
January 17, 1857
WI, United States
1858
December 2, 1858
WI, United States
1861
June 26, 1861
WI, United States
1863
July 27, 1863
WI, United States