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Anna Swenson (October 5, 1860 – June 18, 1971) was a Norwegian-American supercentenarian who is currently unverified. She was born in Eidfjord, Ulvik, Norway, as Anna Varberg. Her parents were Thormod and Gunvor Varberg.

She emigrated to United States when she was 16 years old. She was married to an active politician, Nicolai Swenson, who was also a Norwegian emigrant. The couple lived in a farm in Hannaford, North Dakota, and had seven children in total. One of them, Gladys Stowman, lived to be 105 years old. Nicolai died of tuberculosis in 1918 at the age of 63.

On Swenson’s 108th birthday, it was reported that she resided in a nursing home and was wheelchaired. She died on June 18, 1971, at the age of 110 years, 256 days.

References

Youngstown Vindicator, October 5, 1968

Times-Record, January 23, 2006

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