Toensing, and the Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1876 list his first name as Ole. The Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1883 lists H. The Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1881, lists H. and O. The Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1877, and Biographical Sketches of the Officers of the State Government of Minnesota and of the 19th Minnesota State Legislature by C.L. Hall, 1877 list O.
This led to some confusion about the two brothers. A family member helped to make the distinction.
Toensing, Biographical Sketches of the Officers of the State Government of Minnesota and of the 19th Minnesota State Legislature by C.L. Hall, 1877, and the Minnesota Legislative Manuals, 1876 and 1877 list his middle initial as P. The Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1881 lists B.
He came to Minnesota in 1861.
He was "a Republican." (Biographical Sketches of the Officers of the State Government of Minnesota and of the 19th Minnesota State Legislature by C.L. Hall, 1877, p. 40)
Biographical Sketches of the Officers of the State Government of Minnesota and of the 19th Minnesota State Legislature (by C.L. Hall, 1877, p. 40), lists his birth year as 1842, but his gravestone and records from the Evangelical Lutheran Church list 1841.
Religion provided by Biographical Sketches of the Officers of the State Government of Minnesota and of the 19th Minnesota State Legislature by C.L. Hall, 1877.