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Born 1877
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
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. Larson, namely: Agnes Alida, born October 2, 1905; Malvin Theofild, born September 11
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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