When Torsten Johnsen Tuset was born on 16 August 1876, in Selbu Prestegjeld, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, his father, John Sakkariassen Tuset, was 49 and his mother, Ingeborg Pedersdatter Hegset, was 43. He married Ingeborg Jensine Oline Larsen on 4 September 1904, in Selbu Prestegjeld, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 14 April 1963, in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, at the age of 86.