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Born 1886
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
GEORGE O. LARSON (1896) farms the northwest quarter of section 13, Nordland township. He was born in Woonsocket, South Dakota, July 22, 1886, a son of Andrew and Metsey (Hauge) Larson. The father was born in Denmark and the mother in Iowa. For a number of years Andrew Larson operated a bus line in Woonsocket. In 1896 he moved with his family to Lyon county and farmer rented land in Eidsvold township ten years.
George began his schooling in Woonsocket and completed his education in the schools of Minneota. In 1904 he began to work out at farm labor and in 1905 and 1906 he worked in the railroad shops at Brainerd and Two Harbors, Minnesota. In the fall of the year last mentioned he and his brother Louis bought eighty acres of timber land in Todd county, Minnesota, and spent the following winter there. He returned to Lyon county in the spring of 1907, worked as a farm hand two years, married in 1909, and commenced farming. He now makes his home with his mother-in-law and farms the northwest quarter of section 13. He and his wife are members of the Free Norwegian church.
Mr. Larson was married in Minneota July 15, 1909, to Josephine B. Bjerkan. She was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, November 3, 1873, was educated in the Appleton High School and in the Minnesota Business College at Minneapolis, and for nine years taught Lyon county district schools. Mr. and Mrs. Larson have one child, [name withheld], born March 4, 1911.
Mrs. Larson's father was Ole J. Bjerkan. He was born in Trondhjem, Norway, June 5, 1826, came to the United States in 1865, and to Lyon county in 1878. He bought the northwest quarter of section 13, Nordland township, and engaged in farming it until his death on May 13, 1905. Mrs. Larson's mother is Karen (Larson) Bjerkan. She was born in Nanestad, Norway, June 25, 1844, and came to America and located in Rushford, Minnesota, in 1869. She still makes her home on the old farm in Nordland.
As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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