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Born 1862
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)
TACOB LARSON.
Jacob Larson, who is a successful farmer of Tordenskjold township. Otter Tail county. Minnesota, is a native of Seeland, Denmark, where he was born on March 13, 1862. Mr. Larson is the son of Lars Petersen and Kirstine Larson.
Mr. Larson's parents were born in Denmark. His father, who is deceased, spent his entire life in his native land. His mother, however, is still living. Lars Petersen was a soldier in the Danish army and a laborer. He was a member of the Lutheran church, as is also his widow. They were the parents of seven children, of whom Jacob was the fourth. The others were: Karen, who married Mads Larson, and lives in Denmark; Christena, who married Anders Gregeson, and lives in Denmark; Christian, who lives retired in Underwood; Sophia, who is the widow of Peter Peterson, and lives in Tordenskjold township; Peter, who fixes in the state of Washington, and Wilhelmina, who married Christ Jeppesen, and lives in Denmark.
jacob Larson was educated in the public scfiools of his native land and in iSS; emigrated to America, settling in Otter Tail county after fiis arrival in America, fie worked oil various farms in this state and also in the state of Dakota until about [886, when fie purchased eighty acres of land in Tordenskjold township. This farm was poorly improved at the time, but Mr. Larson replaced the old buildings with substantial and modern frame structures. Onh about twenty-five acres of the farm was cleared when fie purchased the land. Subsequently, fie purchased thirty-four acres from the railroad and later sixty-four acres more in Clitherall township. Mr. Larson has made a splendid success as a general farmer and stockman.
hi [886, just a few years after coming to America. Jacob Larson was married to Karen Olson, a native of Denmark and the sister of H. P. ( Hson, referred to elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Larson have eight children: Louisa, who married Joe Schiller, and lives in Fergus balls; Albina, Erwin, Henry. Dora, Carl, Amelia and Esther, all of whom live at home with their parents.
Jacob Larson is identified with the Democratic party and, as a Democrat, has served as school treasurer of district No. 2, a position which he filled most creditably. He is highly respected in the community where he lives and where he is well known.
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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