Olmsted-Dodge County MINNESOTA Biographies.....Richard L. Tollefson 
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File contributed for Minnesota Biographies Project by:
Mike Oiseth MOISETH@mn.rr.com March 10, 2005, 11:09 am

Author: Joseph Leonard, History of Olmsted County, Minnesota

Richard L. Tollefson was elected an alderman [of Rochester] in 1905 and re-elected
and is now serving 
his second term. He was born in Wisconsin in 1861 and came with his parents to Dodge
county in 
1868. His father was a cabinetmaker and he learned that trade. He came to Rochester
in 1882 and 
entered the furniture establishment of Peter F. Johnson, with whom he afterward went
into partnership, 
and in 1907 became the sole proprietor.

Additional Comments:
Joseph Leonard, History of Olmsted County, Minnesota: together with sketches of many
of its pioneers, 
citizens, families, and institutions. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association,
1910. Page 247.

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