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About Tollef Kilde
- Tollef Hansen Kilde (17 July 1853 – 2 January 1947) was a Norwegian forest owner, business founder and politician. He was born in Åmot as a son of forest owner Hans Tollefsen Kilde (1822–1882) and Oline Grini (1827–1871).
- He attended Sagatun Folk High School, the Norwegian College of Agriculture and the Forestry Academy in Tharandt.
- In 1878 he took over the family farm, Kilde.
- It fell out of use in 1927 because of economic problems, but was inherited by his son in 1938.
- He was married twice; first from 1880 to Pauline Iversdatter Arnestad (1858–1917), but the marriage was dissolved; then from November 1903 to Hanna Fredrikke Hansdatter Arnestad (1877–1955).Kilde was an active politician.
- Locally he was a member of Ã…mot municipal council from 1881 to 1925, serving as mayor from 1890 to 1893 and 1905 to 1910.
- For the Liberal Party, he was a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway during the term 1891–1894.
- In the 1909 election he was fielded as the Liberal candidate in the single-member constituency Søndre Østerdalen, but ended a distant fourth behind the Labour Democrat, Liberal Left and Conservative candidates.
- He later joined the Liberal Left Party, and in the 1921 election he was a minor ballot candidate for the Norwegian Agrarian Association, which had now entered politics (from 1922 as the Agrarian Party).
- Kilde had chaired Hedemark Agrarian Association, and served as deputy chairman of the Norwegian Agrarian Association, already from 1905 to 1907.
- He was a central board member from 1904 to 1908 and 1913 to 1934.Kilde's main endeavor was to develop Østerdalen in general, and Rena in particular.
- He was a financial, political and administrative contributor to the foundations of Osfallet Power Plant, Rena Kartonfabrik and Rena Træsliperi to continue local hydroelectricity and refinery of the region's rich forest resources; two bridges over the local rivers Glomma and Rena (1890); and the inclusion of a Rena Station in the Norwegian railway network.
- He also contributed to the foundation of the school in Rena, which is now a campus of Hedmark University College, the fire insurance company Aamot Brandkasse and the local co-op.A failed endeavor, however, was the construction of a channel in Glomma, all the way from Nedre Glomma to Storsjøen.
- Østerdalen would be "the furute Canada", wrote Kilde, if the plan were to come to reality.
- A separate Trysil Line on the railway network was never materialized either.Kilde was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St.
- Olav in 1897, received the Medal for Outstanding Civic Service in silver in 1933 and the Norwegian Agrarian Association honorary medal.
- The main street in Rena is named after him, and a bauta has also been erected in the town.
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