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Born 1864
From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
HANS LARSON.
Hans Larson, well-known farmer and highly-respected citizen of Amor township. Otter Tail county, Minnesota, was born in Sweden, on August 10. 1X64. the son of bar-, and Hannah (Olson) Hanson, both of whom were born in Sweden. Lars Hanson came to America in 1889, and located in Otter Tail county, where he joined his son, Hans, who had preceded him a short time. Lars Hanson now lives at Battle Lake, having retired from more active life, bars and Hannah Hanson were the parents of four children, Lewis, Xels. Olef and Hans. Hannah, the wife of Lars Hanson died on September 7. 1014. Hans Hanson is one of the well and favorably known citizens of his community, taking an active interest in all useful matters for the promotion of the life and interests of his locality. The elder Hanson is especially interested in the Swedish Lutheran church, of Amor, of which he is a leading member.
Hans Larson was educated in the common schools of Sweden, after which he came to America, in 1888. and located in Otter Tail county, following a short time in St. Paul. Minnesota. In the year 1891, Mr. Larson bought a farm in Amor township, a place to which he later added forty acres of land, and a farm on which he now lives as a general farmer.
On July 12, 1893, Hans Larson was married to Emily Lundstrom, who was born in Otter Tail county, on August 8, 1874, the daughter of A. O. Lundstrom and wife, natives of Sweden, who came to America and homesteaded a farm in Clitherall township, Otter Tail county, where they now live. To the marriage of Hans and Emily Larson have been born three children, Amy, Lawrence and Edith, the former of whom is married to Rex H. Sanders, of Bismarck, North Dakota. Hans Larson and his family are members of the Swedish Lutheran church, in which he is a prominent member, he for many years having been teacher of the Sunday school of this church.
As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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