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Isaac Bertinus Torrison and Elisabeth Koren Torrison
Parents of Esther Torrison Nelson
Isaac Torrison, born in 1859, was one of the ten children of Osuld and Marthe Torrison, who had both emigrated from Norway. His father was the founder of the O. Torrison Company in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and the history of the company is below. Isaac was ordained as a Lutheran pastor, eventually serving at First Lutheran Church in Decorah from 1901 until his death in 1929. He married Elisabeth Koren, 1867–1914, the seventh of eight children of U.V.and Elisabeth Koren. They adopted Esther Torrison Nelson in 1899. Here are his obituaries from the Decorah Journal and Decorah Public Opinion papers. Here is the obituary for Elisabeth Koren Torrison.
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O. Torrison History.pdfPainting of Osuld Torrison by H. Gausta (1889) in Vesterheim Collection.
Caption from 2024 Gausta exhibit:
"After the death of his father, young Osuld Torrison used his own savings to pay for his family to emigrate from Norway to Wisconsin. He began to learn the mercantile business in Manitowoc County and by 1853 opened the O. Torrison & Co. Store in the city of Manitowoc. It would eventually become one of Wisconsin's largest general stores.
"Osuld and Martha Findal Torrison had ten children. All eight of their sons attended Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. I.B. Torrison attended Luther at the same time as Herbjørn Gausta, and later married one of the daughters of Rev. U.V. Koren, Gausta's friend and patron near Decorah, Iowa."
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