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Magnus Swenson
Magnus Swenson (12,4,1854 i Langesund ved Arendal -29.3.1936 i Madison, Wisconsin) var sønn av
Magnus Swenson emigrerte til Amerika 14 år gammel . He left Norway at the age of fourteen, and America was his home until his death in Madison, Wisconsin, on March 29, 1936.
When he was two years of age his mother died. The family then moved to Larvik where the father, Johann Swenson, owned and managed a large factory for the manufacture of rope. His father remarried, and as more brothers and sisters came into the world Magnus often found himself an abused and neglected stepchild.
Shortly after his fourteenth birthday a second tragedy came into his life. His father's rope factory burned to the ground. The property was without insurance. From that day, Magnus was dependent upon his own resources. It was then that he looked with longing eyes to the land of opportunity, to America, the hope and goal of Europe's poor and oppressed.