The Larson Families of Jackson County, Minnesota

JOHN S. LARSON (1872), Delafield township farmer, has spent his entire life in Jackson county, having been born in a dug-out in Weimer township March 6, 1872. He is next to the youngest in a family of five living children, named as follows: Lena, Annie, Louis, Ludwig and John S. His parents, Segar and Isabella (Johanstadter) Larson, were born in Norway, were married there January 8, 1800, came to America in 1869, resided two years in Boone county, Illinois, and located in Jackson county in the fall of 1871. A homestead was taken on section 10, Weimer township, and there the father of our subject still live* his mother died May 8, 1906, aged 72 years.

John Larson resided on the old homestead with his parents until he was of age, working for his father and attending school. After completing the common school course, he entered the Breck school of Wilder, being a student of that school two terms. When he reached his majority he started in life for himself, working as a farm laborer for a few years. In 1896 he bought his present farm, the south half of the southeast quarter of section 6, Delafield township, moved onto the place the next year, and that has since been his home. In addition to his own land he farms an eighty acre tract adjoining, the property of his brother, Louis. Mr. Larson is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and of the M. W. A. lodge.

At St. James, Minnesota, on July 6, 1897, Mr. Larson was united in marriage to ITelcn Grinager, who was born in Norway November 14, 1875, and who came to the United States with her parents when twelve years of agk. Her father, Thomas Grinager, died in 1908; her mother, Andrena Grinager, lives in Delafield township. To Mr. and Mrs. Larson have been bom five children, of whom the following three are living: Myrtle, bom October 20, 1899; Tilden, bom Febmary 10, 1904; Alf, bom May 24, 1907. Two children, Inga and Palmer, died in infancy.

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OLE L. LARSON (1882) is a Wcimer township farmer residing a short distance south of I he village of Heron Lake. He is a native of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, and was born Dereniber 2, 1880. At there of two years he accompanied his parents to Jackson county, (he family home being made on the place now farmer by our subject, the west half of the southwest quarter of section 30, Wcimer. With the exception of the years 1002 and 1003, when he was in Dakota, Jlr. Lar.son has ever since lived in the county.

In 1004.Mr. Larson began farming for himself, lie rented farms in the vicinity of Ueron Lake until 1907, when he took charge of the home place, where he has since resided, making his home with his mother.

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01c received his education in the Heron Lake public schools, lie is unmarried. During the year 1008 he served as road overseer of his district. He holds membership in the Yeomen lodge.

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OSCAR A. LARSON (1893) is one of the extensive and successful farmers of Delafield township. He rents 640 acres of land on sections 20, 19 and 30, all except forty acres of

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Mr. Larson is a native of Sweden and was born August 21, 1873. His father, Lars Erick Erickson, lives on a farm in the old country; his mother, Ingcborg Katharina (Nelson) Erickson, died in Sweden in December, 189.3. Oscar was brought up on a farm and was educated in the country schools of his native land, where he lived until he was nineteen years of age. He emigrated to America in the spring of 1803, and for a few months lived in Carleton county, Minnesota. In the fall of 1893 be came to Jackson county. The first two and one-half years of his residence in this county were spent working on the farm of his future father-in-law, John Esklund, in Delafield township. During the next few years he worked as a farm band in the vicinity of Wiiulom. He made a six months' visit to his old home in.Sweden in IHOS, and returning began working at the painting and pa)erbanging trade in Windom and was so engaged three years. In the spring of 1902 Mr. Larson rented John Esklund's farm and has since conducted it.

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AUGUST LARSON (1902), a farmer of Delafield township, was born in Sundsvall, Sweden, October 12, 1877, the son of Lars Erick Erickson and Ingeborg (Nelson) Erickson. His father still lives in Sweden; his mother died in Sweden in 1893.

August lived in his native land until 1902. He received a public school education and was raised on the farm. After becoming old enough to work he spent the summer months working on the farm for his father and the winter months working in the woods. He arrived in Windom, Minnesota, direct from Sweden on May 31, 1902, and since that time has been a resident of Jackson county. For three years he worked for his brother Oscar on the farm south of Wilder. Then he rented Mrs.

Peter J. Johnson's farm in Delafield, farmer it three years, and in the spring of 1908 rented his present farm, the southwest quarter of section 26 Delafield. He owns a 160 acre farm in Saskatchewan, Canada, which he bought in

1904. Mr. Larson has been ill much of the time in recent years — to such an extent that he was unable to work at times. A serious operation was performed in the winter of 1908-09.

Mr. Larson was married in Jackson April 17,

1905, to Emma Johnson, who was born in Delafield township March 20, 1874. She is the daughter of Peter J. and Majlen Johnson. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.

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JOHN LARSON (1902) is a Belmont township farmer. He is a native of Sweden and was born May 8, 1858, the eldest of a family of six children born to Gustav and Mary (Anderson) Larson. The other children of this family are Oscar, Augusta, Hannah, Sophia and Tillie Nelson.

Mr. Larson resided with his parents in Sweden until fourteen years old; then he worked out for a few years and in 1875 crossed the water to America. The first seventeen years of his life in the new world were passed as a resident of Bureau county, Illinois, where he worked out for a few years and then engaged in farming. From 1892 to 1902 he lived in Emmet county, Iowa, where he bought land and engaged in farming. He came to Jackson county in the year last mentioned, bought his present farm of 160 acres on sections 9 and 15, Belmont township, and has since made his home there. He is a director of school district No. 123 and has served as road overseer. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge. In Bureau county, Illinois, our subject was married on June 17, 1885, to Clara A. Larson, fl native of Sweden. To this union have been born nine children, named as follows: Jolin (deceased), Susie, Willie, Esther, Ivan, Mary, Lewis, Ivi and Vernie.

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