WI Lt Arty 4th Battery. Born in Norway. Civil War: Farmer. Age 32. Hazel eyes, light hair, fair complexion, 5’6½”. Enlisted for one year on 1 Oct 1864 at Janesville, Wisconsin, as a substitute for John Christianson of Deerfield, Dane County, Wisconsin. Mustered the same day. Private. Sources: (WHS Series 1200 box 233-2; red book vol 5) “Thorbenson, Thorson”
