Theodore S. Anderson

Born in 1876 in Hammond, Wisconsin, Theodore S. Anderson came to Barnes County and rented and purchased land in Laketown Township.

He married Inga Mickelson in November 1903. She was born in 1879, and had come from Norway in 1883.

To this union were born eleven children:

  1. Sadie,

  2. Alice,

  3. Esther,

  4. Leon,

  5. Inga,

  6. twins Dorothy and

  7. Donald,

  8. Evangeline,

  9. Norman,

  10. Nordmon and

  11. Isadora.

Sadie married Frank Smith of Wichita, Kansas, they have five children;

Alice, (Mrs. Hansen) of Fargo has three children;

Esther (Mrs. Bill Weller - Deceased) of Hannaford, North Carolina;

Leon married Mary Ann Schwehr and they have two children;

Dorothy (Mrs. Ernest Lausch) Valley City, has five children;

Donald married Rose Odegaard and they have eight children;

Nordmon married Mary Musch. They have three children;

Isadora (Mrs. Erling Grotting) has seven children and lives in Fargo.

Inga, Evangeline and Norman are deceased.

Theodore died in 1948 and Inga, his wife, died in 1940.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 19